When we look at the work of the Trinity God creates God, initiates the plan of redemption,

Christ performs all that is necessary to affect our redemption,

and then that objective ministry of Christ is made ours, subjectively,

through the application of God, the Holy Spirit.

And one of the chief works by which that occurs in the New Testament is the New Genesis.

The impartation of new life to dead souls.

Famously, Nicodemus visits Jesus at night, and as I'm sure you recall,

Jesus says to him, that in last one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

Jesus then tells him, don't marvel that I told you, you must be born again.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us for this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

What does it mean to be born again? And how does that take place?

Each Saturday, we're working through our C. Sproul's Foundation series,

which is his complete overview of theology, and we're in a particular section looking at the person and work of the Holy Spirit.

Last week, we considered the work of the Spirit in the Old Testament.

Today, we turn to the New Testament and consider his role in granting us new life.

Here's Dr. Sproul.

One of the most beautiful pictures that we find of God in the Old Testament is not only in his work of the creation of the universe,

but in the narrative of the creation of the human species.

Where we are told that God scoops up clay from the ground, and he shapes it, and he molds it much as a sculpture would.

But when God creates human beings, he doesn't simply create an inert statue,

or an idol, or an icon, or an empty piece of sculpture as an artist may be able to do by rearranging stone or clay in our days.

But when God finishes shaping and forming this figure that He makes out of the dust,

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