{"id":503,"date":"2010-01-07T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2010-01-07T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:25:36","slug":"10-points-about-the-new-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/10-points-about-the-new-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Points about the New Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this helpful summary of spiritual new birth in chapters 3 and 4 of John Piper&#8217;s book, <em>Finally Alive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>1. Apart from the new birth, we are dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2).<\/p>\n<p>2. Apart from the new birth, we are by nature children of wrath (Eph. 2:3).<\/p>\n<p>3. Apart from the new birth, we love darkness and hate the light (John 3:19\u00e2\u20ac\u201c20).<\/p>\n<p>4. Apart from the new birth, our hearts are hard like stone (Ezek. 36:26; Eph. 4:18).<\/p>\n<p>5. Apart from the new birth, we are unable to submit to God or please God (Rom. 8:7\u00e2\u20ac\u201c8).<\/p>\n<p>6. Apart from the new birth, we are unable to accept the gospel (Eph. 4:18; 1 Cor. 2:14).<\/p>\n<p>7. Apart from the new birth, we are unable to come to Christ or embrace him as Lord (John 6:44, 65; 1 Cor. 12:3).<\/p>\n<p>8. Apart from the new birth, we are slaves to sin (Rom. 6:17).<\/p>\n<p>9. Apart from the new birth, we are slaves of Satan (Eph. 2:1\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2; 2 Tim. 2:24\u00e2\u20ac\u201c26).<\/p>\n<p>10. Apart from the new birth, no good thing dwells in us (Rom. 7:18).<\/p>\n<p>To read more, you can <a title=\"Finally Alive, John Piper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/media\/pdf\/books_bfa\/books_bfa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download the entire book as a PDF<\/a> or <a title=\"You Must be Born Again sermon series, John Piper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/Sermons\/BySeries\/83\/\" target=\"_blank\">watch\/read\/listen to the sermons<\/a> that inspired the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this helpful summary of spiritual new birth in chapters 3 and 4 of John Piper&#8217;s book,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/10-points-about-the-new-birth\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}