It’s to the Pharisee, Nicodemus, that Jesus will say, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. But before Jesus will explain to Nicodemus, what Nicodemus will need to do, to believe in Jesus, Jesus explains to Nicodemus what God must do first, in Nicodemus . . . Nicodemus must be born again, and that being born again, that is entirely an act of God. God’s work of Regeneration.
When I declare that Jesus has saved me, I’m looking back at these five parts of my salvation when I first became a follower of Jesus: calling, regeneration, conversion, justification and adoption. This morning our focus is on that part of our salvation called Regeneration. Regeneration, this is the act of God that Jesus is referring to John 3 when he tells Nicodemus, when he tells us, You must be born again.