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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Have You Seen Regeneration in Galatians 4:5-6?

   

       Have you ever heard that there is no greater miracle than regeneration? When I read that sentence, it made me go wow inside.  I think when you read the paragraph from Chapter 32 of the Life Study of Galatians that this sentence comes from, I think you will say wow, too.
Being cleansed is not the highlight of God's salvation.  The highlight is that God has regenerated us, that He has actually imparted His life and nature into us to make us His sons.  Now we are not God's sons-in-law--we are the sons of God in life. Certainly there is no greater wonder in the universe than that sinful men by being regenerated can become sons of God.  Many today are seeking wonders and miracles.  But they do not realize that there is no greater miracle than regeneration.  By regeneration fallen people become sons of God (Lee, Witness. Life Study of Galatians. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1980, Print).
      This sharing was given on Galatians 4:5-6 at a conference following the summer Life-Study training on Galatians.  In these verses the apostle Paul speaks about the divine sonship. The biblical truth is when we were regenerated, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our spirit causing us to be born of God!  Look at these verses:  That He might redeem those under law that we might receive the sonship. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father! Whenever I hear a word about regeneration, I go back in my mind to John 3 where the Lord talked with Nicodemus. Here is the part in John 3:4-7 on this: 

   Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God (the footnote says, "It is a divine realm to be entered into, a realm that requires the divine life").
   Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old?  He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?
   Jesus answered, Truly, truly I say to you, Unless one is born of water (baptism in the footnote of the Recovery Version) and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
   That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
   Do not marvel that I say to you, You must be born anew.
  
Doesn't this make you want to pray, Lord keep my regeneration always fresh and new? May it always be the greatest miracle of all to me! Don't ever let me lose that sense of wow!

 Blog update 11/3/13:  Program 22 on Life Study of the Bible with Witness Lee is on the Spirit of Sonship.
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