born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou
hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and
whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit" (Jno.
3:5-8). "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have
it more abundantly" (Jno. 10:10). "For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature"
(Gal. 6:15). "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but
according to his mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and
renewing of the Holy Ghost" (Titus 3:5). "Therefore if any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, all
things have become new" (II Cor. 5:17). "Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be
partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
the world through lust" (II Pet. 1:4).

The reality of this mighty transformation is in no way evident in
present visible things, but must be accepted by faith. It is no less
than a translation from the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of Christ,
"who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and translated us
into the kingdom of his dear Son" (Col. 1:13). And by it one is said to
be delivered from this present evil age: "Who gave himself for our sins,
that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the
will of God and our Father" (Gal. 1:4), and, also, according to the
above passage, "to have escaped the corruption that is in the world"
(Satanic system).

The new life that is thus imparted is none other than the very life of
Christ: "Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of
his" (Rom. 8:9). "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the
hope of glory" (Col. 1:27). "I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me"
(Gal. 2:20). "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your
own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in
you, except ye be reprobates?" (II Cor. 13:5).

The third great fact of the believer's present position in separation
from this world is that the Holy Spirit is given unto him, at the moment
of his regeneration, to indwell him, in place of the energizing power of
Satan who "worketh" with energy in the children of disobedience: "The
love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spiri