And you hath he quickened, who were dead in
trespasses and sins.. (Ephesians 2:1)
Some professing Christians tell you to “Give your life to
Christ by an act of your will”-to get to heaven. The problem is, you can’t do it. Teaching on Divine Sovereignty and Man's Helplessness in Regeneration, Dr. Robert Charles Sproul, teaching elder of St. Andrews Chapel (Presbyterian Church in America) at Sanford, Florida, said:
"What I find in the Bible is a description of fallen man not as one who with respect to the things of God is mortally ill, but one who is dead in sin and trespasses. He is as dependent upon the grace of God to be raised to spiritual life as Lazarus was for the power of Christ to come out of the grave. We don't see a person sick unto death in a hospital bed at his dying moment having to open up his lips to recieved the medicine. We see somebody who has been pronounced dead whom God must bring back from the dead if that person is to become alive. God just doesn't throw a lifesaver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive. That what the Bible says happens in your salvation."
Which comes first, being born of water and the Spirit or
entering the kingdom of God?
Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the
kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.” ( John 3:5)
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