Paul
N. F. (10 Dec 2011)
"Create in Me a Clean
Heart, 0 God"
- This
is
VERY
IMPORTANT
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Our
Saviour said
that if we come to Him and are not born again, we cannot
enter the
kingdom of God - - that we must be born from above.
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“Create
in Me a Clean Heart, 0 God”
By A. W. Tozer
Jesus
answered and
said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man
be born
again,
he cannot see the kingdom of
God. --John
3:3
The miracle of the new birth was
foreshadowed in the
Old Testament record: “Create in me a clean heart, 0
God; and renew a
right spirit within me.”
There was at least a hint of miracle
within the
human breastnot the reasoning of yourself into a
position, but something
happening that could not be explained!
Coming into the New Testament, there is
no longer any
hinting or suggesting about the miracle of the new birth - -
it is boldly
and openly declared. Our Saviour said that if
we come to Him
and are not born again, we cannot enter the kingdom of
God - - that we
must be born from above.
Paul told the Corinthians: “If
any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all
things are become new.”
You couldn’t make it any stronger than
that!
Some-thing happens in a man’s nature that no man can
explain!
Just the moment that a man’s experience
in Christ can
be broken down and explained by the psychologists, we have a
church
member on our hands - - and not a Christian!
For that which must happen in the new
birth can never
be explained by psychology or psychiatry. The professional
can only stand
off respectfully and say, “Behold the works of the
Lord.” He
can never explain it!
And in that great and terrible day to
come, many
will be shocked when they find that they depended upon a
mental assent to
Christianity instead of upon the miracle of the new birth!
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.