Regeneration: What is it?
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Overview
What is regeneration in Christ? How is it produced? What are its results? In this volume, Mackintosh aims to identify regeneration and its effects in the lives of believers. In the process, he counters the trend of judging the extent of regeneration from feeling or experience. Instead, says Mackintosh, the effects of regeneration must be judged in accordance with the word of God. Mackintosh also draws heavily from Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus, and Paul’s letter to the Romans to illustrate the process of rebirth and renewal.
Top Highlights
“In a word, then, regeneration is God’s own work, from first to last. God is the Operator; man is the happy, privileged subject. His co-operation is not sought in a work which must ever bear the impress of one almighty hand. God was alone in creation, alone in redemption, and He must be alone in the mysterious and glorious work of regeneration.” (Page 9)
“They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts” (Page 7)
“I. And, first, What is regeneration? Very many look upon it as a change of the old nature, produced, no doubt, by the influence of the Spirit of God. This change is gradual in its operation, and proceeds, from stage to stage, until the old nature is completely brought under.” (Page 4)
“If a man begins to reason about the new birth, he must be confounded; but if he believes in Jesus, he is born again. Man’s reason can never understand the new birth; but the word of God produces it.” (Page 18)
“namely, first, an error as to the real condition of our old nature; and, secondly, as to the distinct” (Page 4)
Man’s complete ruin in sin, and God’s perfect remedy in Christ, are fully, clearly, and often strikingly presented [in Mackintosh’s writings].
—Andrew Miller, a leader of the Plymouth Brethren movement
- Title: Regeneration: What is it?
- Author: C. H. Mackintosh
- Series: C. H. Mackintosh Collection
- Publisher: Loizeaux Brothers Publications
- Pages: 31
Charles Henry Mackintosh (1820–1896) was notable for his work in philanthropic work during the Irish Potatoe Famine which affected much of Ireland, Scotland, and England at the time. He converted to Christianity through correspondence with his sister and through reading John Darby's Operations of the Spirit.
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