Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is very good! WE would word it different today, but the Truth of it is vital!
If Jesus Christ is to regenerate me, what is the problem He is up against? I have a heredity I had no say in; I am not holy, nor likely to be; and if all Jesus Christ can do is to tell me I must be holy, His teaching plants despair. But if Jesus Christ is a Regenerator, One Who can put into me His own heredity of holiness, then I begin to see what He is driving at when He says that I have to be holy. Redemption means that Jesus Christ can put into any man the hereditary disposition that was in Himself, and all the standards He gives are based on that disposition: His teaching is for the life He puts in. The moral transaction on my part is agreement with God’s verdict on sin in the Cross of Jesus Christ.
The New Testament teaching about regeneration is that when a man is struck by a sense of need, God will put the Holy Spirit into his spirit, and his personal spirit will be energized by the Spirit of the Son of God, "until Christ be formed in you." The moral miracle of Redemption is that God can put into me a new disposition whereby I can live a totally new life. When I reach the frontier of need and know my limitations, Jesus says – "Blessed are you." But I have to get there. God cannot put into me, a responsible moral being, the disposition that was in Jesus Christ unless I am conscious I need it.
Just as the disposition of sin entered into the human race by one man, so the Holy Spirit entered the human race by another Man; and Redemption means that I can be delivered from the heredity of sin and through Jesus Christ can receive an unsullied heredity, viz., the Holy Spirit
What this is saying is that it is NOT possible to "Be ye holy; for I am holy" (1 Peter 1:16), without being born again! When we receive Jesus as Lord and personal Savior, the Spirit of God takes our dead human spirit, which is destined for hell, and re-creates it in the image of God! THEN we are new creatures that never existed before in our lives (2 Corinthians 5:17)! NOW we have received the the ability to act in holiness, which is simply separation from the world and its way of thinking, speaking and acting, and separation unto God and HIS ways! You CAN, but it takes a conscious, daily choice to live out this nature of God that is within us! We must continually renew our minds with the Word of God (Romans 12:1-2) and then act on what we know! Are YOU ready for this? LET'S GO! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "Alive":
Shalom in Him!
