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October 6, 2007
THE BENT OF REGENERATION
When it pleased God . . to reveal His Son in me.
Galatians 1:15,16
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=ga+1:15,16&sr=1
If Jesus Christ is to regenerate me, what is the problem He is up
against? I have a heredity I had no say in; I am not holy, nor likely
to be; and if all Jesus Christ can do is to tell me I must he holy,
His teaching plants despair. But if Jesus Christ is a Regenerator,
One Who can put into me His own heredity of holiness, then I begin to
see what He is driving at when He says that I have to be holy.
Redemption means that Jesus Christ can put into any man the
hereditary disposition that was in Himself, and all the standards He
gives are based on that disposition: His teaching is for the life He
puts in. The moral transaction on my part is agreement with God's
verdict on sin in the Cross of Jesus Christ.
The New Testament teaching about regeneration is that when a man is
struck by a sense of need, God will put the Holy Spirit into his
spirit, and his personal spirit will be energized by the Spirit of
the Son of God, "until Christ be formed in you." The moral miracle of
Redemption is that God can put into me a new disposition whereby I
can live a totally new life. When I reach the frontier of need and
know my limitations, Jesus says - "Blessed are you." But I have to
get there. God cannot put into me, a responsible moral being, the
disposition that was in Jesus Christ unless I am conscious I need it.
Just as the disposition of sin entered into the human race by one
man, so the Holy Spirit entered the human race by another Man; and
Redemption means that I can be delivered from the heredity of sin and
through Jesus Christ can receive an unsullied heredity, viz., the
Holy Spirit.
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