To receive another life means to be regenerated. When we believed in the Lord Jesus, we received another life. At the same time, God put His divine life into us. Praise the Lord for God’s mercy! One day He came to the trash can and brought us out. Before we were saved, we were in the trash can. Before we were filled with the life of God, we fell into the trash can. ![]() After being brought back, and after being purified and cleansed with detergent, you need a further step-to fill the bottles with Coca-Cola. This bringing back takes care of the fall. If you bring all the fallen bottles back, and you clean them with detergent, they are still empty. But to bring them back is not to fulfill their purpose. First, you need to recover them, to bring them back. The bottles are for containing Coca-Cola, but all the bottles fell into the trash can. We can use Coca-Cola bottles as an illustration. Redemption takes care of our fall regeneration takes care of God’s purpose. Strictly speaking, regeneration has nothing to do with our fall. This putting of His life into us is regeneration. God’s final purpose is to put His life into us. But we have to realize that redemption is just a recovery procedure for the final purpose, which is to have God’s life. Most Christians just care for redemption and not so much for life. Of course, as long as we receive redemption, we get the life of God. Even if we are redeemed, if we have not received the life of God, God’s purpose has not been fulfilled with us. Redemption brings fallen man back to God’s purpose. Redemption is just God’s procedure of recovery. REGENERATION AND GOD’S PURPOSEĭue to the fall, man needs redemption, but redemption is not God’s goal. God put man before the tree of life so that man would take His life, but before man took the life of God, man fell. The tree of life signifies the divine life, the eternal life of God. So after the creation of man, God put man before the tree of life. What man had was just the breath of life, not the eternal life of God. In Genesis 1 and 2, man was made in God’s image, but by that time man did not have God’s eternal, uncreated life. To generate means that it does not exist, but to regenerate means that it exists already, and now another life is put into it. But regeneration means to put another life into the old thing. Restoration means to restore, to recover some old things. Regeneration and restoration are two different things. This is not just to revive it this is not just to restore it but this is to regenerate it. In John 3:6 we are told that our spirit has to be born of the divine Spirit. What God promised in Ezekiel 36 is still being fulfilled in John 3:6. ![]() God is able to give us a new spirit by regeneration. One is the new human spirit, and the other is God’s Holy Spirit. ![]() This new spirit, according to Ezekiel 36:26, is not the Holy Spirit, because Ezekiel 36:27, after the mentioning of the new spirit, says that God will put His own Spirit into us. Our human spirit needs to be born of the divine Spirit.Įzekiel 11:19 18:31 and 36:26 tell us that God promised His people a new spirit. That which is born of the divine Spirit is the human spirit. The second spirit has a small letter, referring to the human spirit. The first Spirit is capitalized, referring to the divine Spirit. John 3:6 says, “That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” It is evident that in this verse there are two spirits. CHAPTER FOUR OUR HUMAN SPIRIT-BORN OF THE DIVINE SPIRIT Scripture Reading: John 3:6b 4:24 Eph.
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