Regeneration

doctrine · 10 episodes

217The Early Days of Christ's Ministry 26 May 2025 18:10¶ 53 “He comes and tells Jesus, “We know you are a teacher sent from God because no man can do these things except God be…” 18:36¶ 55 “Do you really? You know? Your friends out there know that I’m from God? Do you know what’s going to happen in three years?…” 18:49¶ 56 “He is tackling Nicodemus directly, and it’s in this context we get his sermon on the new birth and the necessity for spiritual transformation,…”

212The Best and Worst of Christmas Carols 10 Mar 2025 42:45¶ 144 “And you could find verses that kind of maybe justify some of that, but here’s a problem with this. We’re singing to be born…” 43:18¶ 145 “There are a couple hymns that are like this where we’re asking Jesus to do what he must have already done if we’re even…”

151A New Heart 2 Jan 2023 45:25¶ 176 “The Bible is talking about heart transplants, about a radical alteration of who we are at the center of our being.” 45:32¶ 177 “There used to be a slogan – “Come to Jesus. He doesn’t want to change you.” Yes, he does. That’s kind of the point.…” 46:03¶ 181 “Probably not so much, but you know, there’s no promises here. There’s no promises that you get to keep what you think is so…”

150Doing the Right Thing 26 Dec 2022 11:29¶ 38 “So coming to Christ, conversion, regeneration, is not a change of nature because we don’t have a nature to change. It is a decision…” 16:34¶ 50 “That’s it. There’s nothing supernatural. Whatever the Spirit does, he does not change nature because again man doesn’t have a nature. He does not…” 16:50¶ 51 “He provides additional argument on a different level, but man is still left with his natural faculties, his natural rationality, his hearing, his sight,…”

144Broken Cisterns 14 Nov 2022 10:40¶ 30 “And that’s really key, isn’t it, that God has to make the change. Speaking theologically, there’s a binary. You’re either oriented in enmity toward…” 10:09¶ 29 “Yes, so you can in a very true sense say they are closer than anyone else is, but unless there is faith that is…” 33:48¶ 112 “The one thing he will not do is lay down his rebellion, until the Holy Spirit changes his heart through the gospel.”

120When the Fire Falls 30 May 2022 18:22¶ 66 “Nicodemus was naïve. He thought that because there was a general consent to a proposition that that meant there was a real acceptance of…” 17:49¶ 62 “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of…” 24:24¶ 90 “It takes the work of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit works through the gospel, so you have to explain the gospel, but…”

71What Is Faith? 6 Jun 2021 35:11¶ 129 “Yeah, that would still put us back in the driver’s seat where we get to control salvation, we get to control grace, we get…” 35:54¶ 130 “Now, having said that, the listener’s other question is, “Is it something we do?” Yeah, it’s something we do. We believe. God doesn’t believe…” 36:47¶ 132 “If faith is not a work and it’s not meritorious, then how in the world does it save us? Well, in a sense, it…”

49Social Vision and the Ten Commandments (Part 2) 6 Dec 2020 39:12¶ 145 “Don’t covet.” The law forbids lust, greed, and envy, and demands a radical heart change. It speaks directly to the hearts of men, but…” 39:28¶ 146 “We can’t ever expect men to be different. We can’t ever expect men to do the right thing, to be truly self-less. Now, that…” 42:15¶ 158 “There is no way of touching the heart and no conception that the heart can ever be touched, so whereas in some places like…”

3Chaos, Order, and Origins 19 Jan 2020 38:14¶ 99 “We are told that, “As many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become the sons of God, even to those…” 39:16¶ 101 “The other side, of course, is that this is the sovereign work of God. You can’t make someone a Christian by simply giving natural…” 39:35¶ 102 “You can’t make someone a Christian. There are no wands of conversion where you smack somebody and, wow! They’re a Christian. It is a…”

2In The Beginning 12 Jan 2020 44:20¶ 155 “This is the work of God. This was not because he was so smart or because he’s had some kind of intellectual beliefs the…” 44:43¶ 156 “If we believe in a God who creates out of nothing, then we believe in a God who can take a black and dead…” 45:46¶ 159 “Once we’ve established that it is God who’s the hero, God the chief actor, God the creator, God who moves the story along, then…”