Page 19 - Regeneration

God’s will is not referring to God

predestinating a person to either Heaven or

Hell but rather predestinating before the

foundation of the world to adopt by

spiritually indwelling those who willingly

repent of their sins toward God and trust

God’s Son as their Savior and thereby also

empowering these spiritually-adopted joint-

heirs with Christ to “eschew evil, and do

good” (1 Pet. 3:11). Peter told the

repentant believers on the Day of Pentecost

that they would receive the promised gift

of the Holy Spirit (See Acts 1:4 and Acts

2:38-39), which would entitle them to all

the rights, privileges, and promises of God’s

family (Rom. 8:14-15; Gal. 3:26, 4:6-7).

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