The New Birth
As Newborn Babes, Desire the Sincere Milk of the Word
1. What is the natural condition of the human family?
"For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." (Romans
3:23; see Ephesians 2:1-3)
2. Who alone will be permitted to see God?
"Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God." Matthew
5:8)
3. Can man by his own exertions change conditions?
"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may
ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil?" (Jeremiah 13:23)
4. How, then, can one be brought to God?
"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God." (1 Peter 3:18)
5. What progress can one make in coming to God without the help of Christ?
"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him,
the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing."
(John 15:5)
6. When one is "in Christ," what has he come?
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)
7. What must take place before one can become a "New Creature?"
"For I was alive without the law once. but when the commandment came, sin
revived, and I died." (Romans 7:9)
8. By what did sin slay Paul?
"For sin, taking occasion by the commandments deceived me, and by it slew
me." (Romans 7:11)
9. Then what gives sin its strength to kill?
"The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law."
(1 Corinthians 15:56)
10. When by the law one is convicted of sin, and has died to sin, how may
he be made to live, or have the prospect of salvation?
"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)
11. By what means is the second birth effected?
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the
Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever." (1 peter 1:23)
"Seeing ye have have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the
Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another
with a pure HEART FERVENTLY." (1 Peter 1:22)
12. Can we fully understand this process?
"The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every
one that is born of the Spirit." (John 3:8)
13. Can one be born of the Spirit, and still do the works of the flesh?
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit." (John 3:6; see also Romans 8:5-9)
NOTE: That is, if one has been born of the flesh only, he is
fleshly, or carnal in his habits. The two words, carnal and fleshly, are
derived from the same original word, and the two are used interchangeably
in the New Testament. If, on the other hand, he has been born of the
Spirit, he is spiritual.
14. Do these two conditions harmonize?
"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the
flesh; and these are contrary one to the other; so that ye cannot do the
things that ye would." (Galatians 5:17)
15. What are the works of the flesh?
"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
varience, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings,
murders, drunkeness, revelings, and such like," (Galatians)
16. What are the works of the Spirit?
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, Joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." (Galatians 5:22,23)
17. When a man has been "born again," what will he do?
"If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that everyone that doeth
righteousness is born of him." (1 John 2:29)
18. What is righteousness?
"My tongue shall speak of thy Word: for all thy commandments are
righteous." (Psalm 119:172)
19. How, then, will he that is born of God regard sin?
"Whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death."
(Romans 6:21)
"Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good." (Romans 12:9)
"Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocracies, and
envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the milk of the
Word, that ye may grow thereby." (1 Peter 2:1,2)
20. What does Paul say of his conversion?
"And last of all ha was seen of me also, as of one born out of time."
(1 Corinthians 15:8)
21.How was Paul thus made to live?
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath me free from the
law of sin and death." (Romans 8:2)
NOTE: The "law of sin and death" is man's unrenewed nature, the
carnal mind, ever impelling him to sin and transgression. The "law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus," which frees us by Christ and leads us
to turn away from sin, and to overcome it. The great moral law of God
stands as the test of character in both conditions. In the one case it
condemns him; in the other it does not.
22. When made free from the law of sin and death, in what condition is
an individual?
"There is now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8:1)
23. To what kind of life does the new birth raise one?
"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive
unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:11)
24. If really born of God, what will one manifest?
"Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and everyone that
loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God
for God is love." (1 John 4:7,8)
25. What is gained by those who are born again?
"For whatsowever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the
victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."
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