June 25, 2020 Show with Angus Stewart on “Regeneration: God’s Gift of a New Heart”

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Good afternoon, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Lake City, Florida, and the rest of humanity living on the planet Earth who are listening via live streaming at ironsharpensironradio .com. This is Chris Arnzen, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Thursday on this 25th day of June 2020.

And I'm always so thrilled to have back as a returning guest, Angus Stewart, who is pastor of the Covenant Protestant Reformed Church of Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Today, we are going to be continuing our discussion that we began not long ago on regeneration, and today the specific theme is regeneration, God's gift of a new heart.

And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Angus Stewart.

It's great to be back with you.

Amen.

And if you hear either Angus or I not respond to a question, or we stop in mid-sentence and aren't saying anything, it isn't likely because we have a loss for words. The likelihood is that our power was knocked out due to a severe thunderstorm that is raging outside my window right now.

Although it has calmed down a bit since a few minutes ago. But as we always do, for the sake especially of our listeners who have not yet heard you on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, or they just forgot the details, tell us about Covenant Protestant Reformed Church of Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

Covenant 2020.

Sure.

We had a better way to phrase it was,.

You don't want people buying their books from you.

Yes.

Thanks Chris, I'm glad you helped me.

And what makes your website very unique also is the number of translations you have for the three forms of unity, the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Dort, and the Heidelberg Catechism.

Yes, that's right, 25, 30.

Why “Inviting Jesus Into Your Heart” Is Unbiblical

Since our topic today involves the heart, I am going to say something that probably most Christians today, outside of the circles that you and I live and worship in, which would be the majority of Christendom in the 21st century, a very common thing for them to say, either about themselves or about somebody they are evangelizing, if they were speaking about themselves and somebody were to ask them, how long have you been a Christian?

The common response might be, I invited the Lord into my heart when I was 15 years old, or something like that. And if they're evangelizing somebody, they would say to that person, in order for you to receive eternal life, you must recognize you're a sinner.

You must recognize Jesus as the only way for salvation. And you must invite Jesus into your heart. Now, that statement did contain a couple of truths, a couple of true things in there. But as far as inviting Jesus into our hearts, something that has become a very prominent part of the vernacular of Christianity.

This is really a foreign concept to the Bible, isn't it? Yes, I can clearly fondly remember a sermon preached years ago in the 1990s by a very good friend of mine, Ed Moore, who pastors North Shore Baptist Church in Bayside, Queens.

And the name of his sermon, taken from the Garden of Eden, when God is calling out for Adam to show himself. He was in hiding after his fall. And basically, he goes on to a part in the sermon where he directs, he shifts the call from, Adam, where are you?

To sinner, where are you? To everybody listening. And he says, I heard you want to invite me into your heart. I don't want to be invited into your filthy, evil, wicked, vile heart. I've got to remove that heart from you.

And I've got to replace it with a heart of flesh. So this is a part of the problem is that people are acting as if their heart is a wonderful dwelling place for our Lord, or at the very least, not such a bad place for him to enter and perhaps do a little house cleaning.

This is entirely false. We need an actual heart transplant, according to the words of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, and even the letter to the Hebrews.

All the heart souls. And well, this theme is a very central theme that affects.

So many other truths and teachings and doctrines in Christendom. So many other categories of the Bible have their root in the fact that humans have been conceived in such great wickedness, that we refer to as total depravity, that a heart transplant is absolutely essential for us to even, as Jesus said to Nicodemus, unless he would be born again, he cannot even see the kingdom of God.

Now, this word regeneration that we're using, this is basically a synonym for born again, is it not?

We have.

A key word in the phrase that you have chosen for the title of our discussion is that regeneration is God's gift of a new heart. And there is a really sad and inadequate and really, when it boils down to it, a silly response to we who are theologically reformed, who believe that only God's elect receive this gift of a new heart.

And those that protest, whether they call themselves Arminians or something else, those from outside of reformed Christianity, it might even include Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, who are outside the realm of biblical Christianity altogether, but they would say a gift is only a true gift unless you freely accept it.

That is their answer to us saying that only the elect are given this gift. They say, no, no, no, no, Jesus offers the gift to everyone, and they need to accept it for it to actually create salvation or give birth to salvation, however you want to phrase it.

But one of the reasons this is a sad excuse for a defense of their beliefs is that they've invented something they believe to be true, that a gift is only a gift unless you freely accept it. Well, who made that up?

You could be unconscious on a hospital operating table, and you could be receiving a transplant of a vital organ. You could have blood being pumped into your veins from a blood donor. All kinds of things could be going on that are gifts to you that you had no say in the matter.

Images, let's be born again to my heart from outside. Another good text on regeneration or the new birth, three. Nicodemus, a master in Israel, a Pharisee, a member of the Sanhedrin, again and again, says there's an incorruptible seed of regeneration, which you got at the baptismal font.

The Bible says you're born again.

Yes, if you could do that after our first break, because we have to go to the first break right now.

Thanks, Chris.

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Regeneration as a Sovereign Gift and the Canons of Dort

Welcome back, this is Chris Arnzen. If you just tuned us in, our guest today for the entire program is Angus Stewart, one of my very favorite guests to interview on this program. I always have a blessed time, an exciting time, a time of edification, and just an all-around wonderful time of interviewing this brother from Covenant Protestant Reformed Church of Balamina, Northern Ireland, and we are discussing a follow-up topic to one that we previously conducted not long ago on regeneration.

This one, this topic more specifically is titled Regeneration, God's Gift of a New Heart. If you have questions for Angus, our email address is chrisarnzen at gmail .com, chrisarnzen at gmail .com, and please give us at least your first name, your city and state of residence, and your country of residence, if you live outside the USA, and please only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter.

I cut you off mid-sentence because we had to go to our break before, but if you could please pick up where you left off, Angus.

Thanks, Chris. Chris, I'd like to add before I come to that, you had a very nice email.

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Thanks, Chris. We were talking about the new birth, and we were saying that it was all life again. The Bible says, He born again is glory. He also shall...

Well, why don't we... You could continue on that thread and go into any particular side road, if you will, that you care to with any of those topics you mentioned, but I do want to read a question for you.

It's actually from somebody who's a member of the Covenant Protestant Reformed Church of Thalamina, Dr. Julian Kennedy. He says, just reviewing the canons and have a question. It is clear that they are speaking about regeneration in the adult and say nothing about infant regeneration, which of necessity is immediate without means, the word of the gospel, which is also true for adults.

Yet in Head, in 3 .5, it calls the gospel the seed of regeneration rather than the sovereign immediate work of God. Could the relationship between immediate regeneration and immediate conversion be clarified for infants and adults respectively?

I think he wants us to have three programs on this one issue. By the way, I misspoke. My eyesight was tricking me again. The heading in the canons of Dort was 3 .4, not 3 .5. So I apologize to Dr. Julian.

Um, now there's, just very briefly, there is a lot of mystery involved in infant regeneration. Can we be absolutely sure, certain, that God doesn't use means in these cases? Like we have the case in the Bible of John the Baptist, who leapt for joy in his mother's womb, merely being in the presence of Christ.

Um, we assume he must have been regenerate for him to miraculously have joy. Do we know that there was no means in bringing John the Baptist to the point of regeneration? I mean, could there not have been the gospel preached in his presence or the prophecy of the coming Messiah better said at that point of time?

That's right.

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