Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The New Birth Spanish Tract, part 3

I have been learning the Spanish tongue for some time now, at least during most of this year. It hasn't been easy to learn how to pronounce the words, or what different forms they have depending on how they are conjugated. But with help from the Lord and a gracious person, I am much more familiar with the language, and am able to translate it when it is written without the need to look up every single word in a dictionary. I still cannot speak it very well. But as time goes on, I will learn to do that if the Lord wills. Here is my most recent translation of another paragraph from  the New Birth tract by L. R. Shelton, Jr.:

Veamos como el resto de las escrituras presentan a la naturaleza del nuevo nacimiento: 2 Corintios 5:17 declara que la regeneración ó el nuevo nacimiento es una nueva creación en la que las cosas viejas han pasado y todo es hecho nuevo. El nuevo nacimiento entonces es una nueva creación. Ezequiel 36:26-29 declara que el nuevo nacimiento es el recibir un nuevo corazón. Escuche la Palabra de Dios: "Os daré corazón nuevo (ésto es obra de Dios) y pondré espíritu nuevo dentro de vosotros; (obra de Dios) y quitaré de vuestra carne el corazón de piedra, y os daré un corazón de carne. (Esto siendo obra de Dios.) "Y pondré dentro de vosotros mi Espíritu, (obra de Dios) y haré que andéis en mis statutos, (ésto es obra de Dios) y guardeis mis preceptos, (éste es mi trabajo.) ¿Por qué? Porque Dios hizo Su obra en mí como siempre lo hace. Aún la función que yo desempeño es el resultado de Su obra, como dice en Filipenses 2:12-13: "...ocupaos en vuestra salvación con temor y temblor, porque Dios es el que en vosotros produce así el querer como el hacer, por su buena voluntad." Vemos entonces que el nuevo nacimiento es la dádiva de un corazón nuevo. En 2 Pedro 1:4, la regeneración el nuevo nacimiento se dice que es el recibir una nueva naturaleza: Por lo cual "nos ha dado preciosas y grandísimas promesas, para que por ellas llegaseis a ser participantes de la naturaleza divina, habiendo huido de la corrupción que hay en el mundo a causa de la concupiscencia." Sí, el nuevo nacimiento es el recibimiento de la naturaleza divina de Dios.

We see how the rest of the scriptures present the nature of the new birth: 2 Corinthians 5:17 declares that regeneration or the new birth is a new creation in that old things have passed and all is made new. The new birth then is a new creation. Ezekiel 36:26-29 declares that the new birth is the receiving of a new heart. Listen to the Word of God: "I will give you a new heart (this is the work of God) and I will put a new spirit in you; (work of God) and I will take from your flesh the heart of stone, and I will give you a heart of flesh. (This being the work of God.) "And I will put my Spirit in you, (work of God) and I make that you walk in my statutes, (this is God's work) and you will keep my precepts, (this is my work.) Why? Because God did His work in me as He always does. Even the function that I perform is the result of His work, as it says in Philippians 2:12-13: "...occupy yourselves in your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that produces in you so to want as to do, for his good will." We see then that the new birth is the gift of a new heart. In 2 Peter 1:4, in regeneration it says the new birth is to receive a new nature: By which "he has given you precious and great promises, so that by them you have come to be participants of the divine nature, having fled from the corruption that there is in the world caused by lust." Yes, the new birth is the receiving of the divine nature of God.