A Cleansing Birth
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When God regenerates us, He washes away our moral and spiritual filth to create something beautiful. Today, Steven Lawson contemplates the profound spiritual cleansing that people experience at the new birth.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Steven Lawson is founder and president of OnePassion Ministries in Dallas. He is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, professor of preaching and dean of D.Min. studies at The Master's Seminary, and teacher for the Institute for Expository Preaching. He is author of many books, including The Passionate Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Knox: Fearless Faith, and The Moment of Truth.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | There is the cleansing power of God by His grace in the act of the new birth. |
| 0:08.0 | He never puts a new heart into a dirty soul. |
| 0:11.8 | He puts a new heart into a sanitized, cleansed soul. |
| 0:17.8 | And the result is he makes something beautiful of our lives. |
| 0:27.5 | Isaiah 118 says, |
| 0:29.9 | Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. |
| 0:34.4 | Though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. What a beautiful and grace-filled |
| 0:40.3 | promise for all those who trust in Christ alone. And it's that cleansing work of God that will be |
| 0:46.1 | our focus today. This is the Wednesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 0:57.2 | All true Christians have experienced the new birth, |
| 1:01.5 | and this week Stephen Lawson has been helping us see the scope of this work, |
| 1:06.7 | approaching the new birth from different angles to lead each of us to doxology, |
| 1:13.3 | praising God for his kindness and mercy toward his people. And today, he'll consider the reality that regeneration, the new birth, is a cleansing birth. Here's Dr. Lawson. |
| 1:20.9 | What we want to address in this time together is that the new birth is a cleansing birth. |
| 1:29.4 | This presupposes really the doctrine of total depravity, that our entire inner person has |
| 1:35.7 | been polluted by sin and needs cleansing, that we have been marred by wickedness, and we need |
| 1:43.3 | for regeneration to wash us and to cleanse us. |
| 1:48.8 | Before we address John Chapter 3 and the cleansing nature of regeneration, if we could just pause for a moment |
| 1:56.9 | and think yet again about total depravity, When we say total depravity, what we mean |
| 2:02.6 | is not that every person is as depraved as they could possibly be, but that depravity has |
| 2:10.9 | extended to the total person, the mind, the heart, every inch and every ounce of us. It's like a drop of cyanide into a glass of |
| 2:21.6 | water. It permeates the whole, such that when we read, for example, in Romans chapter 3, we see |
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