"...we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction."
(1 Thess 1:4, 5)
You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God... (1 Peter 1:23,25)
As in the above passages, note that the Holy Spirit does not save people in a void, but, as we cast forth the seed of the gospel, He quickens people through the Word of truth. The Holy Spirit, germinates the seed, so to speak, making us alive in Christ though the Word. The seed of the gospel does not work on its own, it requires the prior blessing of God applying the benefits of Christ to the hearers.
"Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God" (1 John 5:1 )
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive [quickened us] with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions it is by grace you have been saved. Ephesians 2:4-5
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me [i.e. believe in me] unless it is granted him by the Father." John 6:63-65
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Notes |
Is Being Born Again Up To Us?  |
John Piper |
Augustine on the New Life in Christ  |
N.R. Needham - These are must-have quotes in any discussion showing Augustine's soteriology to be monergistic (the work of God alone), not synergistic (a cooperation between man and God). |
Regeneration  |
Abraham Kuyper |
The Spiritual Resurrection of Believers - Ephesians 2:4-5  |
Geerhardus Vos - Kerux Journal |
The Reformed View of Justification  |
John Girardeau from his book Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism |
Regeneration: The Key to Believing the Truth  |
Gordon H. Clark |
The Life of Abraham and Justification  |
GospelPedlar |
Regeneration by Monergism or Synergism?  |
J.W. Hendryx |
Erroneous Views of Regeneration  |
Archibald Alexander, 1844 |
Regeneration & the Regenerate Man  |
David Dickson |
Alive or Dead?  |
J. C. Ryle |
The Great Change  |
Arthur W. Pink |
Regeneration and Sovereignty of God  |
Sam Storms |
Regeneration (part 2)  |
J.C. Ryle |
Regeneration (part 3)  |
J.C. Ryle |
Regeneration (part 1)  |
J.C. Ryle |
Which Came First? Faith or Regeneration  |
Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III |
Responsibility, Inability, Monergistic Grace  |
@Monergism.com |
Essays on Monergism  |
@Monergism.com |
The Believers Delight In the Beauty of Divine Things  |
Jonathan Edwards |
Word & Spirit, Mind & Heart  |
John Calvin |
The Necessity of the Spirit's Work  |
Charles Spurgeon |
Ye Must Be Born Again  |
Thomas Boston |
Regeneration, Justification and Sanctification  |
Lehman Strauss |
Are You Regenerate?  |
J.C. Ryle |
A Biblical Understanding of Conversion  |
Mark Dever - Mark 4 of Dever's 9 Marks of a Healthy Church |
The Wind of the Holy Ghost Blowing upon the Dry Bones in the Valley of Vision  |
Ebenezer Erskine |
New Birth  |
Sinclair Ferguson |
Thoughts on Religious Experience  |
Archibald Alexander |
What We Believe  |
Peter Toon |
Born Again: A Biblical and Theological Study of Regeneration  |
Peter Toon |
The Language of Regeneration  |
Gene Bridges |
The Two Resurrections  |
Grover Gunn |
How May We Know We are Born of God  |
B.B. Caldwell |
Does 1 John 5:1 Prove Faith Before Regeneration?  |
Jim Bublitz |
The Holy Spirit, Regeneration, and Sanctification  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
A New Impulse? A Nobler Bent?  |
Hannah More |
The Holy Spirit's Work of Regeneration  |
Van Lees |
How Can I Hope? New Birth!  |
John Piper |
That Which Is Born of the Spirit Is Spirit  |
John Piper |
God's Great Mercy and Our New Birth  |
John Piper |
Those Whom He Predestined He Also Called  |
John Piper |
A Divine and Supernatural Light Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God  |
John Piper |
The Nature, Causes and Means of Regeneration  |
John Owen |
Regeneration - Biblical Propositions, Partly Applied to a Missionary Context  |
Andrew Johnson |
Charles and Bob L. Ross Vs. Scripture and the Confessions  |
Gene Bridges |
John 3:1-10, and the Regeneration of the Spirit  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
Regeneration and Conversion  |
James Petigru Boyce |
The Heavenly Birth and its Earthly Counterfeits  |
Joseph Philpot |
From Grace to Glory or Born Again  |
Octavius Winslow |
Who Opened Lydia's Heart?  |
Geoff Thomas |
Regeneration  |
Andrew Johnson |
A study of the Greek word "gennao"  |
Multiple Lexicons |
Regeneration and Conversion  |
Samuel Hopkins |
Salvation an Inward Work of the Holy Spirit in the Heart of the Sinner  |
L.R. Shelton, Sr. |
The Work of the Spirit in Enlightening the Mind  |
James Buchanan |
Poor, Naked, Penniless, Worthless?  |
Octavius Winslow |
Doctrine 101: Regeneration  |
Edward N. Gross |
Regeneration and Conversion  |
Samuel Hopkins |
The Leaven of Synergism  |
Arthur C. Custance |
Once Saved Always Changed  |
Steven Fernandez |
Regeneration and Faith: Which Comes First?  |
Brian G. Hedges |
Regeneration and Conversion  |
W.E. Best |
The Born-Again Phenomenon  |
W.E. Best |
The Necessity of the Spirit to Give Effect to the Preaching of the Gospel  |
Thomas Chalmers |
Do You Need to be Born Again?  |
O. Palmer Robertson |
The Temporal Priority of Regeneration to Faith (Part 1)  |
Michael Sudduth |
The Temporal Priority of Regeneration to Faith (Part 2)  |
Michael Suddoth |
The Temporal Priority of Regeneration to Faith (Part 3)  |
Michael Sudduth |
Regeneration and the Spirit  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Overwhelmed By His Grace (Chapter 5): Regenerating Grace  |
Brian Anderson |
Studies on Saving Faith - Its Communication  |
A.W. Pink |
The Necessity of Regeneration  |
A.W. Pink |
The Nature of Regeneration  |
A.W. Pink |
The Holy Spirit's Work in Salvation  |
A.W. Pink |
Nature of Saving Religion  |
Ernest C. Reisinger |
Regeneration  |
Tom Ascol |
Regeneration (section 4)  |
John L. Dagg |
Regeneration - Outline  |
Derek Gentle |
Regeneration  |
Herman Hoeksema |
Do You Know the Truth About Being Born Again?  |
Stephen Pribble |
A Discourse of God's being the Author of Reconciliation  |
Stephen Charnock |
A Discourse of the Efficient of Regeneration (Part 1)  |
Stephen Charnock |
A Discourse of the Efficient of Regeneration (Part 2)  |
Stephen Charnock |
A Discourse of the Word, the Instrument of Regeneration  |
Stephen Charnock |
A Discourse of the Nature of Regeneration  |
Stephen Charnock |
The Necessity of Regeneration  |
Stephen Charnock |
Observations on Regeneration  |
John Blair |
The Heavenly Birth and its Earthly Counterfeits  |
J.C. Philpot |
The Stony Heart Removed  |
Charles Spurgeon |
Subdued by Sovereign Love  |
Charles Spurgeon |
Christ's Teaching on the New Birth  |
L.R. Shelton, Jr. |
Reasons Why Some Will Not Come to Christ  |
Albert N. Martin |
Myth of Free Will  |
Walter Chantry |
God's Great Mercy and Our New Birth  |
John Piper |
The Dead in Sin Made Alive  |
Edward Payson |
Marred Vessels: The New Birth  |
Wayne Cox |
Regeneration  |
P.G. Mathew |
Doctrine 101: Regeneration  |
Edward N. Gross |
John 3:1-10, and the Regeneration of the Spirit  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
What Does It Mean To Be 'Born Again'?  |
Bernie L. Gillespie |
Work of the Holy Spirit  |
Abraham Kuyper |
Regeneration  |
P.G. Mathew |
Calvin And Calvinism  |
Arthur C. Custance |
Preparatory Grace - What Is It?  |
Abraham Kuyper |
The Calling of the Regenerate  |
Abraham Kuyper |
Preparations Before Conversion  |
Samuel Rutherford |
The Corruption of Man, His Conversion to God, And the Manner in Which it Occurs  |
C. Bouwman |
The Corruption of Man, His Conversion to God, and the Manner Thereof  |
H.J. Meijerink |
The Circle of Faith  |
Charles Buntin |
Salvation and Regeneration: The New Birth  |
William Webster |
Salvation an Inward Work of the Holy Spirit in the Heart of the Sinner  |
L.R. Shelton, Sr. |
God's Part and Man's Part in Salvation  |
John G. Reisinger |
The Work of the Trinity in Monergism  |
J.W. Hendryx |