Sermon Cloud

The Fruit of Regeneration

Galatians 4:19

Regeneration – New and Divine life given by God through the Holy Spirit to those who believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an act of God by which new life is implanted in man by the Holy Spirit.

Incarnational Christianity – The Christ-life formed within us validates our Christianity.

Christ’s life in us authenticates the reality of regeneration. Jesus would say that “You will know them by their fruits”.

The following verse epitomizes Incarnational Christianity:

“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me;

and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved

me and gave Himself up for me.”

Galatians 2:20

Personal humility and death to self

“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart,

and you will find rest for your souls.”

Matthew 11:29

The more you know God, the less life becomes about you.

“He (Christ) must increase and I must decrease.”

John 3:30

Read Luke 9:23-25

There is absolutely no place for self-assertion, self-promotion, or self glorification in

biblical Christianity. Jesus made it clear that the path of a disciple of His was the path

of self-denial.

The desire to please God above all others

Read John 4:31-34

“I can do nothing of my own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just,

because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.”

John 5:30

“And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I

always do the things that are pleasing to Him.”

John 8:29

“Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees

they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;

for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.”

John 12:42-43

“For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I

were still trying to please men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.”

Galatians 1:10

Speaking the Father’s words

“…My teaching is not mine, but His who sent Me.”

John 7:16

“…the things which I heard from Him (the Father) these I speak to the world…

I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.”

John 8:26,28

“Do you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you

I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.”

John 14:10

You can tell a lot about a person by their conversation…

People talk about what’s important to them

Sports (basketball, hunting, fishing, golf etc.)

Politics

Work

Money

Themselves

People to whom Jesus is important talk about Jesus. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit you act like Jesus would act, you do the things Jesus did, you say the things Jesus would say.

A war within against sin

Read Romans 7:14-23

(note. v.22…see Jeremiah 31:33)

God’s Spirit within will regulate, govern our behavior. Prompting, restraining, convicting.

An illuminated understanding of the scriptures due to the teaching of the Holy Spirit

“They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying,

‘Know the Lord’, for they will all know Me…”

Jeremiah 31:34

Read 1 Corinthians 2:9-14

(note v.13 “…those taught by the Spirit…’)

“Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you,

for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.”

1 Thessalonians 4:9

“As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have

no need for anyone to teach you; but as his anointing teaches you about all things,

and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.”

1 John 2:27

Where the bible was once some book you didn’t understand or get much out of, the scriptures will come alive to you.

A burden for the souls of men

“For the Son of Man has come to seek and save that which was lost.”

Matthew 18:11; Luke 19:10

“…shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world

to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”

John 3:16-17

A burden for the souls of men is absent in the lives of many who profess to be Christians.

The humiliation of Jesus (Phil. 2:5-8) was about the souls of men.

The ministry of Jesus was about the souls of men.

The crucifixion and resurrection was about the souls of men.

Continuing in obedience that leads to increasing freedom

“As He spoke these things, many came to believe in Him. So Jesus was saying to those

Jews who had believed Him, ‘If you continue in My word, then you are disciples of

mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.’”

John 8:30-32

“I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them,

to do them good; and I will put the fear (reverence, awe) of Me in their hearts so

that they will not turn away from Me.”

Jeremiah 31:40