The person who has never experienced the new birth, the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit cannot comprehend the change that it works in a person.
“The person who has never experienced the new birth, the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit cannot comprehend the change that it works in a person.”
So true. This change is only brought about by “believing what you heard”, and no progress happens any other way. Sanguine (i.e. “seared”) unbelievers are often happier, nicer and live “better” lives than believers who are goaded into works for approval before God. Talk about misery! The result?
“Where then is that sense of blessing you had?”—Galatians 4:15
Gone! This board is littered with “works for approval”, the ultimate insult to God’s laborious witness, through history, that “by works of the law no one will be justified”. He made it crystal clear through Israel but the mind controlled by the sinful nature will not/cannot accept Truth. “Yet you refuse to come to me to be saved.” Dead works of religion are just as much of the flesh as sexual immorality.
And it's so obvious by some of the comments they make. It's sad. My heart breaks to realize how much they are missing.