"I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD. O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle."

Psalm 140:6-7

What Then Is The New Birth?

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3:6).

What then is the new birth? It is not the removal of anything from the sinner, nor the changing of anything physical or fleshly in the sinner; instead, it is the communication of something to the sinner. The new birth is the impartation of a new nature. When we were born the first time we received from our parents THEIR NATURE; so when we are born again, we receive from God HIS NATURE. The Spirit of God begats within us a spiritual nature (2 Peter 1:4; Gal. 5:17). That which is born of man is human; that which is born of God is Divine and spiritual.

Pastor Henry T. Mahan

Regeneration makes no alteration on the flesh, but the spirit. There is nothing in the flesh made holy. And there is nothing in the spirit left unholy. Robert Hawker

I Am A Man With Two Natures

“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” (Gal. 5:17).

Like all believers in this world, I am a man with two natures, two principles, warring against one another continually; and those two natures are the flesh and the Spirit. The flesh is evil, only evil, and ever seeks evil. The Spirit is righteous, only righteous, and ever seeks righteousness.

This constant warfare between the flesh and the Spirit makes me do three things: (1) I denounce all personal righteousness, for I have none, and confess my sin. (2) I trust Christ alone for all my righteousness before God. And (3) I live in hope of that day when I shall drop this robe of flesh and be like my Savior, holy, blameless and unreproveable before God.

Pastor Don Fortner

LIFE

“ I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

I can attempt to lay the guilt of the law on a dead man- but he will not feel the burden and run to Christ, unless God gives him life. I can shoot the barbed arrows of the truth of the Gospel into a dead man's chest- but he will not flinch nor shed a tear and cry out to God for mercy, unless God gives him life. I can try to comfort a dead man with the salvation accomplished by our Lord Jesus Christ but he will not rejoice in the Savior's victory, unless God gives him life. Lord, come to us, that we may live and rest in you in abundance!

Pastor Kevin Thacker

WHO CAN CHARGE US?

Here is what every believer knows from the testimony of scripture and from the experience and conviction of his own heart (John 16:8-11). We know, recognize and confess the problem and plague of our own heart, is sin (Rom. 3:9-12; 5:12). But thank God, we also know the solution for sin, Christ and Him crucified (1Cor. 2:2), Christ our propitiation for our sin (Rom. 3:25). Christ Jesus crucified (Rom. 4:25), the Substitute (2Cor.5:21), Surety (Heb.7:22), Satisfaction (1John 4:10) and Saviour (Matt. 1:21) is our only answer to every just charge against us, “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” (Rom. 8:33-34).

WHERE SIN ABOUNDED,
GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND

In Rom. 5:19 Paul describes to us the TERRIBLY EFFECTUAL results of Adam's sinful disobedience; "Many were made sinners." This is the awful truth that thunders through this chapter and all the word of God; "Sin hath reigned unto death." We had absolutely nothing to do with becoming a sinner; we are born that way by nature. Because of Adam's disobedience, we inherited all his sinful traits.