A Comprehensive Birth

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

God has done more than pardoned His people. We're no longer the men and women we used to be. Today, Steven Lawson discusses the full extent of the change that occurs in a person when he is born again.

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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	He's given us far more than pardon, as wonderful as that is.
0:04.0	He's given us more than the righteousness of Christ, glorious as that is.
0:10.0	He's made us new people in Christ. We're not the man, we're not the woman that we used to be.
0:18.2	We now are headed in a new direction. We have new appetites, new hungars, and they are God-given. It's the result of the new birth. If you were converted later in life, perhaps even as a teenager, you likely can remember what your life was like outside of Christ.
0:44.4	But regardless of whether you can recall a time before you were a believer,
0:49.0	the regenerating work of God in your life
0:51.3	through the new birth was comprehensive.
0:54.7	And that's our topic today on this Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind as Stephen Lawson continues
1:00.2	his series on the new birth.
1:03.0	Although not everyone in a church building on a Sunday morning is a Christian,
1:08.0	every Christian has experienced the new birth,
1:10.0	and so it does us well to consider the Bible's description of regeneration in order to further
1:16.1	praise God for his gracious work in our lives.
1:19.9	Here's Dr. Lawson on the comprehensive nature of the new birth.
1:26.4	Last time together we considered that the new birth is an instantaneous birth. I want to build on that now in this session and I want us to talk about that the new birth is a comprehensive birth.
1:39.8	Some would say it is a radical birth.
1:44.0	Before we look at this, I want to bring to your attention
1:47.0	that the noted theologian John Murray,
1:50.0	the great Scotchman who served at Westminster Seminary calls John 3 the most relevant
1:57.2	and explicit episode in the teachings of Jesus.
2:01.8	That's a remarkable statement because Jesus said many relevant
2:05.7	things and he had many explicit teachings. But Murray says that it can be argued that the most relevant and the most explicit
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