Message 9: Regeneration and Shepherding
II. Regeneration
A. Regeneration is the center of God’s entire salvation and is the start of God’s salvation in its organic aspect
3. For the believers to have the spiritual life of God in addition to their natural life—John 3:15; John 1:12–13
John 3:15 That everyone who believes into Him may have eternal life.
John 1:12–13 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name, 13 Who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
4. The spiritual life of God being divine and eternal—John 3:36
John 3:36 He who believes into the Son has eternal life; but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.
5. This divine life being the basis and means of the believers’ spiritual life and living
Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.
Later, watch the following short video podcast sometime during the day.