Studies on Strong Doctrine
CHAPTER EIGHT
INTRODUCTION
1. T F Humanly speaking, there is no doctrine of greater importance than that of regeneration. (p. 228)
2. T F The one underlying error of all those which are held concerning this doctrine is probably the idea that regeneration is some sort of spiritual spontaneous combustion which man produces within himself. (p. 229)
3. T F Regeneration is defined as that act of God upon us by which, through the Gospel as a means, the governing disposition of the soul is made holy. (p. 229)
4. T F When considering regeneration and conversion, we must not make the mistake of trying to separate them in time, for this would amount to holding that there could be a regenerated man who had never been converted, a regenerated but impenitent man. (p. 232)
5. T F Regeneration is the particular work of the Holy Spirit. (p. 233)
SECTION I
THE NEED FOR REGENERATION
6. T F Our English word regeneration means “to be born or begotten again.” (p. 233)
7. Man needs to be regenerated because:
A. He cannot __________ __________ __________ without it. (p. 234)
B. Man is __________ __________ a child of the devil. (p. 237)
C. Man is by nature __________ __________. (p. 241)
8. T F Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people, and none can enter except those who have been duly prepared. (p. 235)
9. T F Regeneration is not a rebirth of the flesh—of the old nature. (p. 235)
10. T F In regeneration, a man is born of the Spirit, and so becomes a living spiritual being. (p. 236)
11. T F The religious world, there are few people who are teaching that man can work his way into the kingdom of God. (p. 236)
12. T F In 1 John 3:9-10, John classifies mankind as either the children of God, or the children of the devil, and shows that this hinges on whether they have been born of God. (p. 239)
13. T F A person does not make his sonship by his works, but he does manifest it thereby; sonship comes through birth, not works. (p. 239)
14. T F Unless a man sees himself in his true condition, spiritually dead, totally depraved, alienated from God, bound in chains of spiritual darkness by the prince of darkness, he will have no desire to experience this new birth. (p. 240)
15. T F Universal death proves the fall to have touched all men, and so that all men are the children of the devil until they are born again. (p. 240)
16. __________ __________ simply means that all of his faculties are inclined to evils and that there is nothing spiritually acceptable to God in him naturally. (p. 243)
SECTION II
THE NATURE OF REGENERATION
17. The Nature of Regeneration:
A. Regeneration is not a __________ __________. (p. 244)
B. Regeneration is a __________ __________. (p. 248)
C. Regeneration is a __________ __________. (p. 253)
18. T F Regeneration not being a physical change is meant that the flesh, the physical nature of man, is not regenerated, nor in any way changed or improved. (p. 244)
19. T F Because the fleshly nature is unchanged in regeneration, there is a constant warfare between the two natures in the believer. (p.245)
20. T F Baptismal regeneration and every other thing which is substituted for the Divine regeneration of man, is a denial of the total depravity of man, and is man’s declaration that he has the spiritual ability to remedy his own sinful condition. (p. 247)
21. T F It is folly of the worst kind for man to substitute some sort of physical or intellectual change in man for the spiritual change that is predicated of regeneration in the New Testament. (p. 248)
22. T F Regeneration follows chronologically the first birth by several years, but it also works upon the spiritual nature of man as opposed to the first birth having to do with the physical nature of man. (p. 249)
23. T F Regeneration is not only a spiritual change, but one which is wrought by the Lord Himself. (p. 249)
24. T F Regeneration is a spiritual change because it is effected upon the spiritual nature of man; in other words, the human spirit, which, in its natural condition is dead in sin, is, by the ministry of the Holy Spirit of God, made alive in Christ Jesus. (p. 250)
25. T F In the new birth, the life of God is breathed in us, which life gives the saved persons’ the inability to ever lose his eternal life; his life is one with God, Who is eternal, and it is no more possible for him to die spiritually than it is for God to die. (p. 251)
26. T F Regeneration is also called a “quickening,” or giving of life, and this is a work predicated of only the Holy Spirit. (p. 251)
27. T F In regeneration man is passive, and has nothing at all to do with the accomplishment of it. (p. 252)
28. T F The spiritual change wrought by regeneration must be recognized as a matter of prolonged growth. (p. 252)
29. T F The regenerate are viewed as now being “in Christ,” and therefore no longer under the wrath of an offended God; they are possessed of the imputed righteousness of Christ as if they had never been part of the sinful world. (p. 253)
30. T F Man’s nature is incapable of any spiritual improvement, but must become a new creation through regeneration. (p. 254)
31. T F All things which are involved in regeneration are the work of God. (p. 254)
32. T F Regeneration is no the implantation of grace in man, (p. 255)
SECTION III
THE MEANS OF REGENERATION
33. T F The means of regeneration involves a mystery. (p. 256)
34. In studying the Means of Regeneration, what things must be taken into consideration?
A. The __________ means of regeneration. (p. 257)
B. The __________ means of regeneration. (p. 262)
C. The __________ means of regeneration. (p. 264)
D. The __________ means employed in regeneration. (p. 268)
35. T F Man’s regeneration is referred to one or the other of the persons of the Godhead. (p. 257)
36. T F Thus, because the Spirit is in the more immediate foreground in regeneration, He is most often referred to as the primary agent, and for this reason we will consider regeneration as primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. (p. 260)
37. T F By the impulsive means of regeneration we mean the motivation for God’s regeneration of man. (p. 262)
38. T F Only the pride and conceit of man would ever think that any merit, either real or foreseen, ever impelled God to regenerate a single soul. (p. 262)
39. T F God is not moved to regenerate man by any worth in him, but God operates sovereignly. (p. 262)
40. T F God’s the out-workings of His dealings are manifestations, not of arbitrary will, but of rich mercy and grace. (P. 263)
41. T F God uses the Word of God to accomplish the spiritual rebirth. (p. 265)
42. T F The scriptures emphasize that is by the preaching of the gospel that men are reborn. (p. 267)
43. T F Let no one deceive himself into thinking that God will honor just any sort of preaching with regenerating power; the Spirit of God uses the gospel of the Son of God to beget men into the family of God, and nothing else will be used, for the gospel is the means or channel through which the new birth is accomplished. (p. 268)
44. T F God has ordained that through the preaching of the gospel He will save men, and therefore the preacher is but an humble instrument in God’s hands. (p. 271)
45. T F Ministers are but weak and worthless instruments, insufficient of themselves, and unable to accomplish any thing; yet, under the power of the Spirit of God they can be used to proclaim the gospel whereby men are regenerated. (p. 271)
46. T F God has surrendered the means of regeneration to His ministers. (p. 272)
SECTION IV
THE RESULT OF REGENERATION
47. T F If regeneration is a change of man’s nature, then there must be a corresponding change in the fruits that spring from that nature. (p. 272)
48. The results of regeneration are:
A. Regeneration results in __________ __________. (p. 273)
B. Regeneration results in __________. (p. 275)
C. Regeneration results in __________. (p. 281)
D. Regeneration results in __________ __________ __________. (p. 283)
49. T F This new life is the very essence of regeneration, for the old life of man is the natural life, but this new life is the supernatural life. (p. 273)
50. T F There is a two‑fold nature of regeneration; there is first the cleansing, here called the circumcision or cutting off of the heart, and then there is the renewing or actual enlivening of the spiritual nature of man. (p. 274)
51. The new birth is new life, but not new life considered abstractly, nor new life in a passive or idle form, but the new birth is new life which manifests itself in __________ __________. (p. 274)
52. T F Regeneration is produced in baptism, which is the mistake of so many. (p. 275)
53. T F The sinfulness of man keeps him away from God, and causes him to set his affections upon himself and his own pleasure, and to find gratification in things which are opposed to God and holiness. (p. 275)
54. T F Many teach that regeneration results from conversion; this view often dangerously approaches teaching that a man is saved by the works of his own hands, by his own deeds, will or ability. (p. 276)
55. T F In the regeneration of man, there takes place within him a “turning,” and this turning is of a two‑fold nature. On the one hand, there is a turning from sin, which may be denominated repentance, and on the other hand, there is a turning unto Christ, which is simply faith in His finished work of redemption. (p. 276)
56. Of repentance, the first element of conversion, enjoined in the gospel involves: (p.278)
A. A consciousness of __________ __________.
B. That sin is a __________ __________ committed against God.
C. Hatred of __________.
D. __________ for sin.
E. A __________ to forsake sin.
57. T F Faith is the second element in conversion, and is the positive side of conversion. (p. 279)
58. T F If repentance may be called a change of attitude, faith may be called a change of allegiance, for in faith the individual turns to Christ. (p. 280)
59. T F By being born again spiritually, a person becomes a son of God. (p. 281)
60. It is a very prominent teaching in this present evil age that there is a __________ __________ of God, and a __________ __________ of men, but this is Satan’s device to blind men to their need of a Saviour. (p. 281)
61. T F Not only are we called the sons of God, but we are so in fact; and though the world does not recognize us in this character even as it did not recognize our Lord as the only begotten Son of God, and though even we cannot conceive of what we are going to be like, yet the time is coming when we shall be made like unto our glorious Lord. (p. 282)
62. T F In Romans 9:23, we have here set forth the fact that by regeneration God prepares in advance every regenerated person to serve Him, and therefore no excuse is left for negligence. (p. 283)
63. Paul admonishes believers to maintain __________ __________ that they may be __________ __________ thereby. (p. 283)
64. T F Every child of God is going to be judged, not on the basis of what he has accomplished, but upon the basis of how faithful he has been to his duty. (p. 284)
65. Behold then the blessedness of regeneration, that a __________, __________, __________, child of the devil should be divinely changed and made a “__________ __________” and fitted for service to the Lord here on earth, and for a home in heaven when the earth life is finished. (p. 285)
