yourselves.… You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?” So the topic of the new birth is not marginal. It is central. Eternity hangs in the balance when we are talking about the new birth. Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. THE NEW BIRTH IS UNSETTLING The question we are asking in this chapter is: What happens in the new birth? Before I try to answer that question, let me mention a very earnest concern that I have about the way these
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