REGENERATION

Titus 3:3-7 (NASB77)
“3 For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7 that being justified by His grace we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”
Regeneration is the work of the Holy Ghost transforming us from the deception of serving our lusts and pleasures to being overtaken by the Father’s kindness and love. This transformation gives us the hope of eternal life. Otherwise, we are lost in a cesspool of deception blinding us from the freedom eternal life offers.
The Holy Ghost takes us from being dead in our trespasses and sin to being alive in the kindness and love of God. The Holy Ghost simply changes our lifestyle. This spiritual transformation, this new and fresh birth is Regeneration.