{"id":7301,"date":"2013-02-09T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=7301"},"modified":"2013-02-11T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:50:14","slug":"ye-must-be-born-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2013\/02\/09\/ye-must-be-born-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ye Must Be Born Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <strong>John 3:7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regeneration is a subject which lies at the very basis of salvation, and we should be very diligent to take heed that we really are &#8216;born again,&#8217; for there are many who fancy they are, who are not. Be assured that the name of a Christian is not the nature of a Christian; and that being born in a Christian land, and being recognized as professing the Christian religion is of no avail whatever, unless there be something more added to it-the being &#8216;born again,&#8217; is a matter so <em>mysterious<\/em>, that human words cannot describe it. &#8216;The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.&#8217; Nevertheless, it is a change which is <em>known and felt<\/em>: known by works of holiness, and felt by a gracious experience.<\/p>\n<p>This great work is <em>supernatural<\/em>. It is not an operation which a man performs for himself: a new principle is infused, which works in the heart, renews the soul, and affects the entire man. It is not a change of my name, but a renewal of my nature, so that I am not the man I used to be, but a new man in Christ Jesus. To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: man can do the one, God alone can do the other. If you have then, been &#8216;born again,&#8217; your acknowledgment will be, &#8216;O Lord Jesus, the everlasting Father, Thou art my spiritual Parent; unless Thy Spirit had breathed into me the breath of a new, holy, and spiritual life, I had been to this day &#8216;dead in trespasses and sins.&#8217; My heavenly life is wholly derived from Thee, to Thee I ascribe it. &#8216;My life is hid with Christ in God.&#8217; It is no longer I who live, but Christ who liveth in me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>May the Lord enable us to be well assured on this vital point, for to be unregenerate is to be unsaved, unpardoned, without God, and without hope.<\/p>\n<p>3.6a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon From John 3:7 Regeneration is a subject which lies at the very basis of salvation, and we should be very diligent to take heed that we really are &#8216;born again,&#8217; for there are many who fancy they are, who are not. Be assured that the name of a Christian is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spurgeon-saturday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7302,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}