Philip Dampier's Blog

How is a Sinner Begotten? (N. B. Hardeman)

“This time I call your attention to 1 Cor. 4:15. Paul said: ‘Though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.’ My friends, that is what I believe about it. Why? Because that is what Paul said. How is it? ‘Though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.’ How? ‘Through the gospel.’

But let me ask James what he has to say on the same thing. James (1:18) says, ‘Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth.’”

I can now begin to see why Paul wanted Timothy to preach the word. It is that by which men are begotten.”

But in 1 Peter 1:23 there is this statement: ‘Being born again.’ How? ‘Not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.’ ‘And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.’ (Verse 25)”

Hardeman’s Tabernacle Sermons by N. B. Hardeman, Gospel Advocate Co. 1922, 1969. pp. 70,71

Task for Today: Have you been born again? Obey the Word today.