Is There Life After Birth?
At the end of last year, our pastor began his sermon series on the book of John. This morning’s sermon was entitled “Is There Life After Birth?” This morning’s text was John 2:23-25 – John 3:1-21. He is actually going to do a three part series on this text. This morning’s focus was more on the new birth.
As an illustration he mentioned how many of us might move to a different city to start over or try to escape our past. We’ve all been there. Some of us might have had a career change or some other kind of life change. But no matter what we may change in our life, we remain the same. We cannot change who we are.
We can also say this of our spiritual state. Just as a leopard cannot change his spots (Jeremiah 13:23), we cannot change our spiritual state. A regeneration of the inward man must occur. The Bible uses three wonderful pictures for the idea of regeneration: the new birth (John 3); resurrection (John 11:25-26); a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Before the new birth, we are like dead men walking. We do not realize that we are dead until we are made alive by the Spirit. There is truly life after birth and this new life is the work of God that cannot be thwarted.
