"First, Jesus was born again. (In Col 1:18,) we learn that Jesus was the firstborn from the dead...
...Second, the entire cosmos was born again. Our text again says that Jesus was the firstborn of every creature...The creation longs for the culmination of this glorious process (Rom 8:22)...
...Third, Israel was born again. In his famous conversation with Nicodemus, Jesus pressed this particular point. You (all) must be born again (John 3;7)...Israel was born again, and so we are now members of the new Israel, the Christian church...
...And finally, John Smith was born again...(John 3:3, 5)...
...Without the resurrection, without the transformation of the heavens and earth, without the reconstitution of the new Israel, there is no such thing as individual regeneration. We do not say that corporate regeneration makes individual regeneration superfluous, but rather we say that corporate and cosmic regeneration makes individual regeneration both possible and mandatory. The world has been reconciled to God through Christ. Therefore, Paul presses the point. Be therefore reconciled." - Wilson, AC, pp104-5.
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