The Holy Spirit is the Author of the new birth.
The Scriptures states:
“…The Spirit gives birth to spirit” (John
3:6-7).
What is born of the Spirit is spirit.
The ‘son born of The Spirit’ is fearfully and
wonderfully made
( Psa 139:14).
For
You created my inmost being;
You
knit me together in my mother's womb.
I
praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your
works are wonderful,
I
know that full well.
My
frame was not hidden from You
when
I was made in the secret place.
When
I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
Your
eyes saw my unformed body.
All
the days ordained for me
were
written in Your Book
before
one of them came to be.
Ps
139:13-16 NIV
He made you so wonderfully complex, His workmanship
of you is marvelous and intricate.
This is the awful wonder of your spiritual birth.
He embroidered your life with colors and was able to
see you as an embryo.
Our new birth came through the resurrection of Jesus
Christ, by The Spirit.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ!
In His great Mercy He has given us new birth
into a living
hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead
1
Peter 1:3-4 NIV
King James Version states that: "...according
to His abundant mercy hath begotten us..."
The new birth by The Spirit is regeneration of our
spirits, transformation of our souls and renewal of our minds.
It is His boundless mercy that has given us the privilege
of being born again so that we are now members of God's own Family.
We have been given new and more vigorous Life--the
Eternal Life of GOD.
This Life which is spiritual nature is GOD's Gift to
all who are reborn in Christ.
Christ is The Head of the New Creation; for He is
The FirstBorn of all creation (Col.1:15), and The FirstBorn from among the dead
(v.18).
This is why we
are conformed to the likeness of GOD’s Son (Rom.8:29).
The moment a sinner repents and receives Jesus
Christ by faith into his heart, he or she becomes a child of God.
When a child of God receives The Holy Spirit, he or
she becomes baptized in The Spirit. ‘The child’ now matures into a state of
sonship—only at this state can he cry: “Abba, Father”.
When he just became converted, he needed to learn
the Ways of the LORD; but, the moment he was baptized in The Spirit, he
received the grace and ability to walk in the Ways of GOD’s Direction—seeking
only The Will of The Father.
When Jesus The Son Of GOD, prayed in the agony of
His soul in Gethsemane to The Father, He said:
"Abba,
Father, everything is possible for You. Take this cup from Me. Yet not what I
will, but what You will."
Mark
14:36 NIV
This was so because Jesus had The Spirit Of Sonship.
He has also given us this same Spirit Of Sonship, that we may be able to cry,
"Abba, Father" by Him.
For
you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you
received the Spirit of Sonship. And by Him we cry, "Abba, Father."
Romans
8:15-16 NIV
Because
you are sons, God sent The Spirit of His Son into our hearts, The Spirit Who
calls out, "Abba, Father."
Galatians
4:6-7 NIV
We can only pray for His Will in our lives when we
pray in The Spirit.
We who are ‘the children of His Promise’ were bought
at a price; purchased for GOD, by The Blood of The Lamb.
The Holy Spirit seals GOD’s sons for the Day of
Redemption (Eph. 4:30). He is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance
(Eph.1:14).
We now eagerly await for our adoption as sons; our manifestation
as God's sons (His possession).
We know that the whole creation has been
groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only
so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of The Spirit, groan inwardly as
we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Rom
8:22-24 NIV