Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus (Titus 2:13)

REGENERATION John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." (1) The necessity of the new birth grows out of the incapacity of the natural man to "see" or "enter into" the kingdom of God. However gifted, moral, or refined, the natural man is absolutely blind to spiritual truth, and impotent to enter the kingdom; for he can neither obey, understand, nor please God (Joh. 3:3); (Joh. 3:5); (Joh. 3:6); (Psa. 51:5); (Jer. 17:9); (Mar. 7:21-23); (1Co. 2:14); (Rom. 8:7); (Rom. 8:8); (Eph. 2:3). (See Scofield) - (Mat. 6:33). (2) The new birth is not a reformation of the old nature (See Scofield) - (Rom. 6:6) but a creative act of the Holy Spirit (Joh. 3:5); (Joh. 1:12); (Joh. 1:13); (2Co. 5:17); (Eph. 2:10); (Eph. 4:24). (3) The condition of the new birth is faith in Christ crucified (Joh. 3:14); (Joh. 3:15); (Joh. 1:12); (Joh. 1:13); (Gal. 3:24). (4) Through the new birth the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature and of the life of Christ Himself (Gal. 2:20); (Eph. 2:10); (Eph. 4:24); (Col. 1:27); (1Pe. 1:23-25); (2Pe. 1:4); (1Jo. 5:10-12).