Excerpt from The Meaning of the Cross: Studies of the Cross of Christ Throughout the BibleThe new birth becomes an actual experience the moment that we receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour. By that act, on the ground of the atoning sacrifice Of the Son of God, we receive new life, even the life of God, we pass into a new stage, that of spiritual regeneration, regenera tion by the Holy Spirit, and we enter into a new position, that Of being the children of God.N ow I dare not and can not emphasize too strongly the necessity of the new birth, simply because the new birth produces the new creation, and the new creation is God's imperative demand and requirement for new life and for new service.One of our old Scottish preachers once said, All man kind hangs either at the cradle Of Adam or, at the. Cradle of Christ, and we have to choose. I venture to say that the ordinary church-goer has little or no idea Of the mean ing of that, and yet it is one of the essential facts Of the Word of God. The Old head of the race was Adam, and Adam failed and fell, and the Old creation failed in him and fell with him. It is very important to be quite clear about that. I want to quote from a great Bible teacher: If man never fell, then the Christ Of the Gospels lived and taught and died unnecessarily. These are words that ought to be placarded abroad to-day: That man is con sistent who abandons all, rather than he who, professing still to own allegiance to Christ, denies some parts of the whole. It IS a pity that all of our liberal theologians could not read these words. These are words by J. Campbell Morgan in the introduction to the book of Genesis in his Analyzed Bible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.