Regeneration is eternal in reality, eternal inexperience.

Why?

Because the reality is a reality of total transformation.

Born of God, we cannot continually sin.

If you see victory over sin in your life, if you see righteous motives, righteous desires,

righteous words, righteous deeds, and not all you ought to be, but you certainly aren't

what you used to be, and you have

eternal life.

Welcome to Grace to You with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

The story is told of a man who rather mockingly asked a preacher,

how much does sin weigh, adding, I don't feel any weight on me? Well, that preacher had a blunt reply.

Just as a corpse doesn't feel a heavy load, neither does an unbeliever. The point is this, only Christians

have the capacity to feel the weight of sin because only Christians are spiritually alive and

sensitive to sin. Today, you'll see how being sensitive to sin plays an important part in

having assurance of your salvation. We're continuing John MacArthur's helpful study called Myths About Salvation.

And now here's John with today's lesson.

Open your Bible, if you will, the 2nd Peter chapter 1.

And as we are going through this first chapter,

we're studying under the general topic, our precious faith,

our precious faith. We have come to the section from verse 5 through 11, 2 Peter 1, 5 through 11.

This section deals with the assurance of salvation. Now he says, having already discussed matters of salvation in the first

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