**You can’t regenerate yourself.**
That’s right. That’s why we must be born again HIS way, following HIS commissions, as instituted by HIS apostles, first enacted by HIS apostle Peter in Acts 2:38:
“..Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”.
**A dead man doesn’t know he’s dead in order to do something about it.**
Yes, but when the word takes hold, reaction is required. Just as the convicted hearts on Pentecost asked Peter, “Men and brethern, what shall we do?”, we also, when convicted by the Spirit, must hear and obey Acts 2:38, just as they did.
Romans 6:3; “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?”
4. “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:....” (That’s certainly not Spirit baptism, because the Spirit is life.) “..that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the GLORY of the FATHER, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
5 “For if we have been planted together in the LIKENESS of his death, we shall be also in the LIKENESS of his resurrection.”