LESSON OUTLINE: "New Birth"

“New Birth”

Tony Thomas

Family Life Class

May 25, 2014

The birth of a healthy new baby is the most exciting event in any family. It is also the most exciting event in the “Family of God”. In this lesson we will explore what the New Birth is and discover why Salvation causes heaven to rejoice.

John 3:3-6 Jesus and Nicodemus discuss being “born again”.

Salvation is a new birth of the Spirit. Let’s do a little Biblical anthropology (study of mankind). Every person is composed of body, soul and spirit.

Your body makes you aware of the world around you. It houses your five senses.

Your soul makes you conscious of self. It is composed of your intellect, will and emotion.

Your spirit is the seat of your God-consciousness. Sin essentially causes a “deadness” in our Spirit with regard to our ability to communicate with God. Our spirit makes it possible for us to interface with the Spirit of God. So the new birth in a person’s spirit enables him or her to communicate with the Father through the Holy Spirit.

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Thessalonians 5:23 KJV

Man's natural state: Separation from God. Romans 2:11:15

1. How does sin (both as behavior and nature) affect a person’s ability to communicate with God?

2. Does sin eliminate a person’s consciousness of God? [Read Romans 2:11-15]

3. How important is parental “touch” to a child?

4. What comparsion can be made between a child's need for parental touch and a Christian's needs?

David’s cry for restoration. Psalm 51:10-12 .

5. What are the circumstances of Psalm 51?

6. Should the children of God have “separation anxiety”? [Read Psalm 27:7-10]

Signs of Health: Crying

Luke 18:7,8

7. In What way does the child of God cry?

Signs of health: Hunger

Psalm 1:2, 119:16

8. How does a child of God show hunger?

Signs of health: Joy Luke 10:17-20.

9. Why did Jesus instruct His disciples about rejoicing?

10. How does this compare to events in heaven? [Read Luke 15:7]

1 John 3:1-3

“Behold what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”