New Testament Picture of Our New Birth
The Work of God Comes off Folly To The World
I've encountered many Arminians that hold strong to their belief that they have the choice to choose God. However, there are many passages that teach us that God does the work. The great role of the Holy Spirit is that he reveals Christ to us. The Holy Spirit is the divine guide, who takes you from room to room, revealing the riches of Christ to your soul. The Christian manual of operation is unique because it reveals "the things of the Spirit of God"—things from God that man can't find out on his own, things that are often very foreign to our way of thinking. For a natural man the things of God are folly and foolish (1 Corinthians 1:18). So, how is it possible for a natural man to choose God? This defeats the divine work of God.
God Did the Work
God did it. And God will get the glory for it. 1 Corinthians 1:29, tells us clearly that it was God's choosing. "God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. Vs 30, And because of Him you are n Christ Jesus.." I personally cannot sit here and say that I chose God, I chose to follow him, because when I was an agnostic there was nothing a man can do or say to me to prove God exists. But when God does a divine work in us and revealing his truth through the Holy Spirit, your whole being cannot resist. It's called an unresistant grace and the Spirit of God draws you to Christ.
To help us better understand the uniform New Testament picture of what happened to us (New birth), I put together another info-graphic with 8 Bible Verses outlining how we went from being spiritually dead to spiritually awoken.
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The Benefits
-Know your stance of the New Birth
-Reference Bible Verses to share and memorize
-Grow your Adoration of the Creator (by knowing what happened to us through the New Birth, HE PROVIDED)
-Share With Friends and Family
Be blessed, Vessels.
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