{"id":650,"date":"2020-08-08T11:51:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T11:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=650"},"modified":"2023-12-27T22:49:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T04:49:34","slug":"rebirth-and-spiritual-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/rebirth-and-spiritual-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebirth and Spiritual Death&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-651 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2minds2.jpg?resize=125%2C125&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>People tend to underestimate the radical nature of their sinful condition, which truly is a \u201csickness unto death.\u201d However, even the metaphor of lethal sickness itself is not strong enough, since the spiritual condition of the natural man is the state of being spiritually dead&#8230; Apart from direct divine intervention on behalf of the individual soul, a person is literally unable to respond to God and receive the gift of eternal life. That is why Yeshua taught that we need a spiritual rebirth in order to see the Kingdom of God (John 3:3).<!--more-->This is the new principle of life from God (i.e., <em>chayim chadashim:<\/em> \u05d7\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d7\u05b2\u05d3\u05b8\u05e9\u05c1\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd) that operates according to the &#8220;law of the Spirit of life&#8221; (Rom. 7:23, 8:2). God loves His children with \u201can everlasting love\u201d (i.e., <em>ahavat olam:<\/em> \u05d0\u05b7\u05d4\u05b2\u05d1\u05b7\u05ea \u05e2\u05d5\u05b9\u05dc\u05b8\u05dd) and draws us to Himself in chesed (\u05d7\u05b6\u05e1\u05b6\u05d3, i.e., his faithful love and kindness). As it is written: \u201cI love you with an everlasting love; therefore in <em>chesed<\/em> I draw you to me\u201d (Jer. 31:3). Note that the word translated \u201cI draw you\u201d comes from the Hebrew word <em>mashakh<\/em> (\u05de\u05b8\u05e9\u05c1\u05b7\u05da\u05b0), meaning to \u201cseize\u201d or \u201cdrag away\u201d (the ancient Greek translation used the verb <em>helko<\/em> (\u1f15\u03bb\u03ba\u03c9) to express the same idea). As Yeshua said, \u201cNo one is able to come to me unless he is \u201cdragged away\u201d (\u1f11\u03bb\u03ba\u1f7b\u03c3\u1fc3, same word) by the Father\u201d (John 6:44). We are chosen from above (John 15:16). God\u2019s chesed seizes us, takes us captive, and leads us to the Savior&#8230; Spiritual rebirth is a divine act of creation, &#8220;not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God&#8221; (John 1:13). God is always preeminent, and the salvation of a particular soul is ultimately His prerogative.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6472\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/deut7-6b-analysis.gif?resize=547%2C536&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"536\" \/>\u00ad<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-650-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/deut7-6b-jjp-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/deut7-6b-jjp-1.mp3\">https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/deut7-6b-jjp-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00ad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People tend to underestimate the radical nature of their sinful condition, which truly is a \u201csickness unto death.\u201d However, even the metaphor of lethal sickness itself is not strong enough, since the spiritual condition of the natural man is the state of being spiritually dead&#8230; Apart from direct divine intervention on behalf of the individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dvar","category-hebrew-reading-practice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6475,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/6475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}