What does it mean to be unregenerate? It means that you can relate to nothing but what your senses connect you with. It takes the ministry of the Holy Spirit to connect you with a greater world of reality that is in the promise of God. That is why the natural man doesn't receive the things that are of the Spirit of God. They are not spiritually discerned. You must have a spiritual discernment and the unregenerate person doesn't have that - he's sensual. Oh, he can relate to touch, taste, smell, all of these things - but he cannot connect with God.
Jim Gables (Faith vs Natural Senses)
What the unregenerate person desperately needs in order to come to faith is regeneration. This is the necessary grace. It is the sine qua non of salvation. Unless God changes the disposition of my sinful heart, I will never choose to cooperate with grace or embrace Christ in faith. These are the very things to which the flesh is indisposed. If God merely offers to change my heart, what will that accomplish for me as long as my heart remains opposed to him? If he offers me grace while I am a slave to sin and still in the flesh, what good is the offer? Saving grace does not offer liberation, it liberates. This is what makes grace so gracious: God unilaterally and monergistically does for us what we cannot do for ourselves
R.C. Sproul (Grace Unknown p. 188)
| Title |
Notes |
The Apparent "Good" in Natural Man  |
J.W. Hendryx - If natural man's condition is Total Depravity, How do we account for the apparent "good" in the unregenerate? |
| What about the Innocent Native who’s never heard about Jesus? |
Greg Johnson |
| A Solemn Impeachment of Unbelievers |
Charles Spurgeon |
| A Thought Concerning The Unconverted Religious Zealot |
C. Mathew McMahon |
| Addressing the Unconverted |
John Newton |
| Apostasy |
Bob DeWaay |
| Around the Wicket Gate |
Charles Spurgeon |
| Caught in our Shame: Comments on the Recent Barna Report |
Jim Elliff |
| Christ the only Preservative against a Reprobate Spirit |
George Whitefield |
| Christ's servant among sheep and wolves: an interview with Joel Beeke, Part I |
Interviewd by Martin Downes |
| Departing from the Living God |
William Gurnall |
| Did Ishmael and/or Esau go to heaven? |
Ra McLaughlin |
| Does God Answer the Prayers of Unbelievers? |
Robert Barnes |
| Don't Feed Dogs And Swine |
David Legge |
| Election, Non-Election, and Romans 9 |
Matthew Perman |
| Elijah's Appeal to the Undecided |
Charles Spurgeon |
| Eternal Punishment |
A.W. Pink |
| False Belief |
Ra McLaughlin |
| False Professors Solemnly Warned |
Charles Spurgeon |
| False Prophets, Their Projection And Their Production |
David Legge |
| Free From What? |
John Hendryx |
| Giant Despair |
Alexander Whyte |
| Goats and Sheep |
Sound of Grace |
| How To Know If You Are A Real Christian |
Jonathan Edwards - Originally titled "True Grace Distinguished from the Experience of Devils" |
| How to Survive in the Last Days of Apostasy |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
| How Wide is the Narrow Road? |
Steve Camp |
| Hypocrites and Christ |
Rev. Thomas Brooks |
| Inclusivism: The fate of those who never hear |
Dan Musick |
| Jesus Christ Fount of Every Blessing |
John Hendryx |
| Lordship, Non-Lordship and Dispensationalism |
Ernest Reisinger |
| Mongrel Religion |
Charles Spurgeon |
| Natural Men in a Dreadful Condition |
Jonathan Edwards |
| Of the Last Judgment |
Westminster Confession |
| On Discerning Who Belongs to the True Church |
John Calvin |
| ON UNBELIEF |
Thomas Reade |
| Reprobate |
Geerhardus Vos (from The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1915) |
| Reprobation Asserted |
John Bunyan |
| Salvation sans Jesus |
J.I. Packer - inclusivism vs. exclusivism |
| Sin—Sanctification—Unsaved Friends |
John Newton |
| Spiritual Discernment is Only for the Spiritual |
John Hendryx |
| Studies on Saving Faith ITS COUNTERFEITS |
A.W. Pink |
| The Consequences of Rejecting God |
Brian Schwertley |
| The Cure for Spirtual Blindness (MP3) |
Phil Johnson |
| The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry |
Gilbert Tennent |
| The Description of Apostates |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
| The Destruction of Apostates |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
| The Difference Between Those Who Think And Those Who Are (Part 1) |
David Legge |
| The Difference Between Those Who Think And Those Who Are (Part 2) |
David Legge |
| The Distinguishing Marks Of False Teachers |
Thomas Brooks |
| The Eternal Security of the Christian |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
| The Future of the Non-elect |
Arthur C. Custance |
| The Man on the Island: Facing the Truth About those who Never Hear the Gospel |
Russell D. Moore |
| The New Birth - Can an Unconverted Person Regenerate Himself? |
Brian Schwertley |
| The Pretenders |
Nick Bibile |
| The Sin of Unbelief |
Charles Spurgeon |
| The Sin of Unbelief |
Charles Spurgeon |
| The Tragedy of Rejecting Full Revelation (Part 1) |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
| The Tragedy of Rejecting Full Revelation (Part 2) |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
| The Tragedy of Rejecting Full Revelation (Part 3) |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
| The Visible Vs. The Invisible Church |
Brian Schwertley |
| The Wedding Garment |
Charles Spurgeon |
| The White Devil - The Sin of Unbelif |
John Bunyan |
| Thoughts on Unbelief |
Ebenezer Erskine |
| Twice Dead Men (Part 1) |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
| Twice Dead Men (Part 2) |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
| Unbelievers' Joy in the World |
Ralph Erskine |
| Unregenerate Knowledge of God |
John Frame |
| What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper? |
C.H. Spurgeon |
| Who Can Be Saved? A Review Essay (.pdf) |
Jim Hamilton |
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