Regeneration is a unilateral act of God. God does the merciful work. God makes us alive. We simply receive his gift. When God does his marvelous work of regeneration in a spiritually dead person, it always produces results. In Acts 16:14, we read of the work of God in the life of a woman named Lydia. Luke writes, “One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart
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