"...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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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). |
Is Being Born Again Up To Us?  |
John Piper |
Regeneration  |
Abraham Kuyper |
The Spiritual Resurrection of Believers - Ephesians 2:4-5  |
Geerhardus Vos - Kerux Journal |
A Biblical Understanding of Conversion  |
Mark Dever - Mark 4 of Dever's 9 Marks of a Healthy Church |
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 Nature of Regeneration  |
Stephen Charnock |
A Discourse of the Word, the Instrument of Regeneration  |
Stephen Charnock |
A Divine and Supernatural Light Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God  |
John Piper |
A New Impulse? A Nobler Bent?  |
Hannah More |
A study of the Greek word "gennao"  |
Multiple Lexicons |
Alive or Dead?  |
J. C. Ryle |
Are You Regenerate?  |
J.C. Ryle |
Born Again: A Biblical and Theological Study of Regeneration  |
Peter Toon |
Calvin And Calvinism  |
Arthur C. Custance |
Charles and Bob L. Ross Vs. Scripture and the Confessions  |
Gene Bridges |
Christ's Teaching on the New Birth  |
L.R. Shelton, Jr. |
Do You Know the Truth About Being Born Again?  |
Stephen Pribble |
Do You Need to be Born Again?  |
O. Palmer Robertson |
Doctrine 101: Regeneration  |
Edward N. Gross |
Doctrine 101: Regeneration  |
Edward N. Gross |
Does 1 John 5:1 Prove Faith Before Regeneration?  |
Jim Bublitz |
Erroneous Views of Regeneration  |
Archibald Alexander, 1844 |
Essays on Monergism  |
@Monergism.com |
From Grace to Glory or Born Again  |
Octavius Winslow |
God's Great Mercy and Our New Birth  |
John Piper |
God's Great Mercy and Our New Birth  |
John Piper |
God's Part and Man's Part in Salvation  |
John G. Reisinger |
How Can I Hope? New Birth!  |
John Piper |
How May We Know We are Born of God  |
B.B. Caldwell |
John 3:1-10, and the Regeneration of the Spirit  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
John 3:1-10, and the Regeneration of the Spirit  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
Marred Vessels: The New Birth  |
Wayne Cox |
Myth of Free Will  |
Walter Chantry |
Nature of Saving Religion  |
Ernest C. Reisinger |
New Birth  |
Sinclair Ferguson |
Observations on Regeneration  |
John Blair |
Once Saved Always Changed  |
Steven Fernandez |
Overwhelmed By His Grace (Chapter 5): Regenerating Grace  |
Brian Anderson |
Poor, Naked, Penniless, Worthless?  |
Octavius Winslow |
Preparations Before Conversion  |
Samuel Rutherford |
Preparatory Grace - What Is It?  |
Abraham Kuyper |
Reasons Why Some Will Not Come to Christ  |
Albert N. Martin |
Regeneration  |
Andrew Johnson |
Regeneration  |
Tom Ascol |
Regeneration  |
Herman Hoeksema |
Regeneration  |
P.G. Mathew |
Regeneration  |
P.G. Mathew |
Regeneration & the Regenerate Man  |
David Dickson |
Regeneration (part 1)  |
J.C. Ryle |
Regeneration (part 2)  |
J.C. Ryle |
Regeneration (part 3)  |
J.C. Ryle |
Regeneration (section 4)  |
John L. Dagg |
Regeneration - Biblical Propositions, Partly Applied to a Missionary Context  |
Andrew Johnson |
Regeneration - Outline  |
Derek Gentle |
Regeneration and Conversion  |
James Petigru Boyce |
Regeneration and Conversion  |
Samuel Hopkins |
Regeneration and Conversion  |
Samuel Hopkins |
Regeneration and Conversion  |
W.E. Best |
Regeneration and Faith: Which Comes First?  |
Brian G. Hedges |
Regeneration and Sovereignty of God  |
Sam Storms |
Regeneration and the Spirit  |
Ra McLaughlin |
Regeneration by Monergism or Synergism?  |
J.W. Hendryx |
Regeneration, Justification and Sanctification  |
Lehman Strauss |
Regeneration: The Key to Believing the Truth  |
Gordon H. Clark |
Responsibility, Inability, Monergistic Grace  |
@Monergism.com |
Salvation an Inward Work of the Holy Spirit in the Heart of the Sinner  |
L.R. Shelton, Sr. |
Salvation an Inward Work of the Holy Spirit in the Heart of the Sinner  |
L.R. Shelton, Sr. |
Salvation and Regeneration: The New Birth  |
William Webster |
Studies on Saving Faith - Its Communication  |
A.W. Pink |
Subdued by Sovereign Love  |
Charles Spurgeon |
That Which Is Born of the Spirit Is Spirit  |
John Piper |
The Believers Delight In the Beauty of Divine Things  |
Jonathan Edwards |
The Born-Again Phenomenon  |
W.E. Best |
The Calling of the Regenerate  |
Abraham Kuyper |
The Circle of Faith  |
Charles Buntin |
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 Dead in Sin Made Alive  |
Edward Payson |
The Great Change  |
Arthur W. Pink |
The Heavenly Birth and its Earthly Counterfeits  |
Joseph Philpot |
The Heavenly Birth and its Earthly Counterfeits  |
J.C. Philpot |
The Holy Spirit's Work in Salvation  |
A.W. Pink |
The Holy Spirit's Work of Regeneration  |
Van Lees |
The Holy Spirit, Regeneration, and Sanctification  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
The Language of Regeneration  |
Gene Bridges |
The Leaven of Synergism  |
Arthur C. Custance |
The Life of Abraham and Justification  |
GospelPedlar |
The Nature of Regeneration  |
A.W. Pink |
The Nature, Causes and Means of Regeneration  |
John Owen |
The Necessity of Regeneration  |
A.W. Pink |
The Necessity of Regeneration  |
Stephen Charnock |
The Necessity of the Spirit to Give Effect to the Preaching of the Gospel  |
Thomas Chalmers |
The Necessity of the Spirit's Work  |
Charles Spurgeon |
The Reformed View of Justification  |
John Girardeau from his book Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism |
The Stony Heart Removed  |
Charles Spurgeon |
The Temporal Priority of Regeneration to Faith (Part 2)  |
Michael Suddoth |
The Temporal Priority of Regeneration to Faith (Part 1)  |
Michael Sudduth |
The Temporal Priority of Regeneration to Faith (Part 3)  |
Michael Sudduth |
The Two Resurrections  |
Grover Gunn |
The Wind of the Holy Ghost Blowing upon the Dry Bones in the Valley of Vision  |
Ebenezer Erskine |
The Work of the Spirit in Enlightening the Mind  |
James Buchanan |
The Work of the Trinity in Monergism  |
J.W. Hendryx |
Those Whom He Predestined He Also Called  |
John Piper |
Thoughts on Religious Experience  |
Archibald Alexander |
What Does It Mean To Be 'Born Again'?  |
Bernie L. Gillespie |
What We Believe  |
Peter Toon |
Which Came First? Faith or Regeneration  |
Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III |
Who Opened Lydia's Heart?  |
Geoff Thomas |
Word & Spirit, Mind & Heart  |
John Calvin |
Work of the Holy Spirit  |
Abraham Kuyper |
Ye Must Be Born Again  |
Thomas Boston |