1. MIKE MAZZALONGO A New Life in Christ Regeneration 13

2. 1.Inspiration of the Bible 2.Divinity of Christ 3.Original Goodness 4.Fall of Man 5.Reconciliation A.Election D. Redemption B.Predestination E. Regeneration C.Atonement Major Doctrines

3. He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, - Titus 3:5

4. Revivication Make Alive Again Born Again Regeneration

5. Restoration of ISRAEL from slavery Rebuilding of the Temple O.T. Imagery

6. A.Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7 N.T. Imagery

7. A.Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7 B.Slavery to Freedom - Romans 6:16-17 N.T. Imagery

8. A.Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7 B.Slavery to Freedom - Romans 6:16-17 C.Stranger to Son - Romans 8:14 N.T. Imagery

9. A.Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7 B.Slavery to Freedom - Romans 6:16-17 C.Stranger to Son - Romans 8:14 D.Old Man to New Man - II Corinthians 5:17 N.T. Imagery

10. A.Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7 B.Slavery to Freedom - Romans 6:16-17 C.Stranger to Son - Romans 8:14 D.Old Man to New Man - II Corinthians 5:17 E.Darkness to Light - Ephesians 5:8 N.T. Imagery

11. WAS WAS NOT IS AGAIN Regeneration

12. The gospel describes the regeneration process as a “before and after” picture with the redemptive work of Christ in the middle.

13. Regeneration After Freedom From : Guilt/Fear Acquittal Eternal Life/Hope Before Live With : Guilt/Fear Condemnation Spiritual Death No True Hope

14. Regeneration is not something that we do. It is something that happens to us as a result of what Christ has done on the cross.

15. Lost to Saved - Mark 16:16 Condemned to Forgiven - Acts 2:38 Sinner to Saint - Romans 1:7 Outsider to Insider - Galatians 3:20 Unrighteous to Righteous - 1 John 1:7-9 Dead to Alive - John 3:5 Old & New

16. “Born again Christian” … is Redundant. The Term:

17. Zeal for Christ Life Signs

18. Zeal for Christ Zeal for the Church Life Signs

19. Zeal for Christ Zeal for the Church Zeal for Purity Life Signs

20. Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. - Acts 19:18-19

21. Zeal for Christ Zeal for the Church Zeal for Purity Zeal for Work Life Signs

22. These “Life Signs” separate those who are alive in Christ from those who are dead in Christ.

23. UNREGENERATED REGENERATED BAPTISM The “Point” of Regeneration

24. Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?” - John 3:3-4

25. Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. - John 3:5

26. Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? - Romans 6:3

27. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. - Romans 6:4

28. and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; - Colossians 2:11

29. having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. - Colossians 2:12

30. When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, - Colossians 2:13

31. He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, - Titus 3:5

32. whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. - Titus 3:6-7

33. God Always Knew that the Atonement of Christ Would Free Believers to Experience New Lives.