An Instantaneous Birth
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Just as there is a point when God brings us into this world, there is a moment in time when He brings His people to spiritual life. Today, Steven Lawson considers the instantaneous nature of 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 | Someone can walk into church lost, dead and trespasses in sin. They can leave church, |
| 0:08.0 | having heard the gospel and the word of God, and leave a new creature in Christ Jesus. |
| 0:14.7 | If you listen to yesterday's edition of Renewing Her Mind, which you can go back and listen to simply by searching for Renewing Her Mind wherever you listen to podcasts, |
| 0:30.0 | you heard R.C. Sprawl preach on the conversion of the Apostle Paul. |
| 0:34.4 | But what made Paul go from a persecutor of the church to a follower of Christ? |
| 0:40.0 | Paul was born again. He experienced the new birth. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm your host, Nathan W Bingham. |
| 0:50.0 | The new birth experienced by Paul was a work of God by his spirit and over the next few days |
| 0:57.4 | Ligner teaching fellow Stephen Lawson will help us see more clearly what takes place when we are born again. |
| 1:04.6 | This week's messages are from his 12 message series, The New Birth. |
| 1:09.4 | And until Thursday, you can request the entire series with your donation of any amount at renewing your mind |
| 1:16.4 | dot org. Unlike our growth in holiness as Christians that is lifelong and is a process. The new birth is instantaneous. |
| 1:26.2 | Here's Dr. Lawson to start this week's study. |
| 1:29.2 | In this series we want to address the aspect that it is an instantaneous |
| 1:37.8 | birth. One of the most important and dramatic conversions to ever take place in the history of the church |
| 1:46.5 | was that one which was experienced by the man who is regarded to be the greatest theologian in the first 1500 years of church history. |
| 1:57.0 | That man is Augustine. |
| 2:00.0 | Augustine was born in 354 in North Africa, what is today Algeria, near Carthage. |
| 2:09.5 | And when Augustine was 16 years of age, of course he was unregenerate at this point his father died. |
| 2:17.2 | And in the vacuum of his father leaving he fell into gross sexual sins, so much so that he ended up moving in with a woman who bore |
| 2:30.5 | him a son out of wedlock and for the next 15 years |
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