17. Regeneration

John 5:2; 1 Peter 1:23  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 8
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“G. C. R.” asks, “Is it correct to speak of regeneration as being the work of the Holy Spirit?” John 3:8, contains an explicit answer to our correspondent’s inquiry. “So is every one that is born of the Spirit.” In John 5:25, we find the work of quickening attributed to “the Son of God.” In 1 Peter 1:23, the word is presented as the instrument of quickening, or giving new life. In James 1 “The Father of lights” is presented as the One who begets us by the word of truth. Putting all these passages together, we learn that the Father begets, by the Word, through the power of the Holy Spirit. This makes the matter divinely simple.