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You Must Be Born Again

You Must Be Born Again

Why This Series and Where We Are Going

The new birth produces new desires and new behaviors. An unchanged life is not a born-again life.

What Happens in the New Birth? Part 1

What Happens in the New Birth?

Part 1

In the new birth, God takes dead souls and resuscitates them to new life in Christ. This is not a work of our own, but the grace of God.

What Happens in the New Birth? Part 2

What Happens in the New Birth?

Part 2

Being born again is not the improvement of your old nature, but the creation of a new one.

Why Do We Need to Be Born Again?

Why Do We Need to Be Born Again?

If God did not make us alive to his grace and glory, we would remain dead — completely enslaved to our sins.

Free at Last: The Miracle of New Birth

Free at Last

The Miracle of New Birth

Dead men need one thing before anything else can happen: They must be made alive. They must be born again.

The Reason the Son of God Appeared Was to Destroy the Works of the Devil

The Reason the Son of God Appeared Was to Destroy the Works of the Devil

If any human is to be saved from their sin and from the righteous wrath of God, the Son of God had to become human for our regeneration.

Born Again Through the Living and Abiding Word

The new birth does not give us a mere temporary resuscitation. It gives indestructible, imperishable life.

Through the Washing of Regeneration

New birth is God's kindness, philanthropy, and mercy to us. It has nothing to do with even our best deeds.

What Man Does in the New Birth

Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.

Faith: Unique and Fruitful Effect of the New Birth

The Gospel is news and we are born again by believing that it is true and embracing it.

Everyone Who Has Been Born of God Overcomes the World

A Wide-Angle View of John’s First Letter

Newborn believers obey God's commandments, knowing that even when they fail they will never ultimately fall away.

Regeneration, Faith, Love: In That Order

Faith must come first and be the root of love. Otherwise, love will be destroyed.

No One Born of God Makes a Practice of Sinning

No One Born of God Makes a Practice of Sinning

Being born again doesn't mean being sinless. It means coming to Jesus as your advocate.

The New Birth Produces Love

By nature, those who are born again love others like God who gave his Son for them.

You Are God's Midwife for the New Birth of Others

When God gives new birth, he does so through us speaking his word, the gospel.

I'm Sending You to Open Their Eyes

10 practical encouragments to evangelize.