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Morning and Evening

March 6, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Ye must be born again." — John 3:7 · KJV

Regeneration lies at the very foundation of salvation, and we should be very diligent to make sure that we really are "born again," for many imagine they are who are not. Be assured that the name of a Christian is not the nature of a Christian; and that being born in a Christian land, and being counted a professor of the Christian religion, is of no avail whatever, unless something more is added — the being "born again." This is a matter so mysterious that human words cannot describe it. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." Nevertheless, it is a change that is known and felt: known by works of holiness, and felt by a gracious experience. This great work is supernatural. It is not an operation a man performs for himself; a new principle is infused, which works in the heart, renews the soul, and affects the whole man. It is not a change of my name, but a renewal of my nature, so that I am no longer the man I used to be, but a new man in Christ Jesus. To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: man can do the one, God alone can do the other. If, then, you have been "born again," your confession will be, "O Lord Jesus, the everlasting Father, You are my spiritual Parent; unless Your Spirit had breathed into me the breath of a new, holy, spiritual life, I would be to this day dead in trespasses and sins. My heavenly life is wholly derived from You; to You I ascribe it. My life is hid with Christ in God. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me." May the Lord enable us to be well assured on this vital point, for to be unregenerate is to be unsaved, unpardoned, without God, and without hope.