Worth Repeating

“To be born anew by the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit into a relationship in which God the First Person becomes a legitimate Father and the saved one becomes a legitimate child, is a position which is but dimly apprehended by any human being in this world. This far-flung reality is more a matter of heavenly values that on the earth. Nevertheless, this very regeneration is one of the foundational realities of everyone who has believed upon Christ as Savior. This birth from above accomplishes a measureless transformation. To be born into an earthly home of outstanding character is of great advantage, but to be born of God with every right and title belonging to that position - an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus Christ - passes the range of human understanding. This new existence is not only intensely real, but it, like all begotten life, is everlasting in its very nature.”

(Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology, Vol. III, p. 241)