Born again

This is our trajectory for the series.

And Scripture tells us that we are born physically alive, but because of sin, thanks to sin, we are born spiritually dead.

And yet by His Spirit, God brings us to faith in Jesus to give us a new kind of life.

And we are, as Jesus said, we are born again.

We are made spiritually alive, even though we are physically dying.

Our bodies are subject to death.

And then the Spirit that gives us that life, so we put our faith in Jesus, and then the Spirit then dwells in our lives for the rest of our lives.

Guaranteed, Scripture says, there's an assurance of that.

And as He works through our life, He assures us and He reveals Christ to us and He fills us and He leads us and He empowers us and He transforms us.

This is all what we're gonna be looking at through this series.

And this reaches all the way to glorification.

It's that day, as Romans 8, 11 says, that God will also give life to your mortal bodies through the Spirit who dwells in you.

That's glorification.

And so from our physical birth, all the way to our spiritual birth, all the way to our resurrected life in the new creation, we are completely dependent on the person and the work of the Spirit.

And as you read Romans 8, knowing that, as you read Romans 8, you actually see Paul opening up that horizon for us to be able to see.

Paul starts by talking about our freedom from sin and death.

And then he moves into a life lived by the Spirit today.

And then he finally carries that forward to the glorious future that is to come.

Pretty cool, hey, that he does that.

But for today, we're just looking at this beginning part here that I've circled and we're asking, how does someone who is spiritually dead become spiritually alive to God? And why do we need to be born again anyway? Why do that? Let's listen to how Paul describes our condition in the first eight verses of Romans 8.