How does the Holy Spirit contribute to the new birth?
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The Holy Spirit is the agent who causes the new birth, breathing life into the spiritually dead as He did with the bones in Ezekiel's vision.
In the process of regeneration, the Holy Spirit plays a crucial role by performing the supernatural work of new birth within sinners. As demonstrated in Ezekiel 37, God's command to prophesy and the subsequent breathing of life into the bones illustrates that it is only by the Spirit's work that spiritual deadness can be overcome. In John 3, Jesus reiterates this truth when He states that one must be born of the Spirit to enter the kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit gives a new nature that is alive and capable of faith, allowing individuals to respond to God’s call for salvation. This transformation is essential and cannot be achieved through human effort; it is wholly the work of the Holy Spirit.
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