A Sovereign 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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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

By describing regeneration as being "born again," Jesus makes clear that the initiative in salvation comes solely from God. Today, Steven Lawson asserts that no one can obtain spiritual life by his own power or will.

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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.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

Transcript

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0:00.0	Our wills were dead and trespasses in sin.
0:03.7	They were in operative, they were in bondage to sin.
0:07.0	The freedom of the will that we had was only in one direction and was towards sin.
0:10.7	But notice how he says we are born again, not of blood, not by human descent or
0:16.4	lineage, it's not by your family tree, it's not of the will of the flesh, it's not by
0:21.5	all of our efforts to work our way into the kingdom, and then the final
0:25.6	death blow, it's not even of the will of man, but of God, meaning it is by the will of God,
0:32.2	the sovereign electing, predestinating, gracious, loving, merciful
0:39.6	will of God. Humans can do incredible things.
0:47.0	Humans can do incredible things.
0:49.4	We build things.
0:50.6	We invent things.
0:52.0	We send rockets into space. But something that we cannot do is make ourselves born again.
0:58.0	You're listening to the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host Nathan W Bingham.
1:04.8	For the final time this week you'll hear a message from Stephen Lawson's series on
1:10.2	the new birth and today he'll demonstrate from scripture that this glorious
1:15.4	and gracious work of regeneration is a sovereign birth. But let me remind you that
1:20.9	if you'd like to work through the entire 12 message series and use the
1:24.6	study guide with its message outlines, quotations, and study questions, you can request this
1:30.8	resource when you give a donation of any amount at renewing your mind
1:34.8	dot org before midnight tonight.
1:37.8	Well here's Dr. Lawson on the sovereign nature of the new birth.
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