![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I had the urge to tell him about the richness of that land. Remarkably I haven’t remembered this until speaking to my own son a few days ago when passing by a graveyard. So instead he talked to me about regrets. It turns out he knew he was sick but didn’t want to tell me that. There was one more reminder given of living life to the fullest and not being afraid to try something new. Almost two decades later, we would have a conversation about the things in life he regretted. He would get this sly smile on his face and he said, that place holds a lot of dreams deferred.Īs I got older he explained he wished for me to never go to my grave with regrets. There came a time when I turned to him and asked what he meant. The Son of God alone can restore us to God, for He shed His blood to cleanse our sins and give us a new life.When I was growing up my step dad used to say to me every time we passed by a cemetery “that piece of land holds all the riches, ideas and innovations in the world.”įor a while I would look at him strangely and let his comment pass over my head. Wherefore regeneration or regeneration of the spirit is absolutely necessary. Man has degenerated into a fleshly position nothing from himself can return him to a spiritual state. No religion of this world, no ethics, culture or law can improve this fallen human spirit. Because he has a body his fall rendered him a man of the flesh (Gen 6:3). Nonetheless, as the spirit of the sinful archangel exists forever so the spirit of sinful man continues too. Spiritually speaking, man's spirit is dead. Man's spirit still exists but is separated from God, powerless to commune with Him and incapable of ruling. He now is separated from God and from every godly virtue. ![]() But he fell away and became the head of the powers of darkness. Satan was created as a spirit that he might have direct communion with God. Satan's fall came before man's we therefore can learn about our fallen state from Satan's plunge. ![]()
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