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.:
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.
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