Arizona republican., 1919-12-19
DR. KEL[EMS SPEAKS
 ON 1.-THE NEW b|RTH''
 AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Last evening at the Christian church
 pr. Kellems preached wonderful ser
 mon on the subject, "The New Birth"
 This is one of the subjects of the Bible
 which is often misunderstood, but MT.
 kellems said that it could be explained
 in a perfectly reasonable way. Before
 there is a birth there must be a beget-
 ting. In the divine begetting process
 there are three agents. the heart, in
 which the new life is begotten; the
 seed of the kingdom, from which the
 new life is to come, and the Father,
 from whom we are spiritually begotten.
 Now the Father proposes to beget
 life in the heart which is dead to
 treSpasses and sin. There is a school
 of thought today that believes that
 man by simply being good can spon-
 taneously generate life of a spiritual
 nature The laws of the natural life
 are the laws of the spiritual life. All
 life must come from antecedent life.
 The new life must come from the
 Father above, for He is the giver of all life. The Father uses the Holy
 Spirit in begetting the new life. Jesus tells us The Spirit life. The words that I have spoken unto you. they are Spirit and they are life Hence God uses the Holy Spirit. which is the author or giver of life in bringing life into the dead heart To be born of water and the Spirit then really lO Do DOIn Ol WstleT anu DeSOIteu of the Spirit. We say that child is born of his father and mother, but he is begotten of his father and born of his mother. No man is born of his father. In like manner we are spirit ually begotten of our Father in heaven.
 But how does the Holy Spirit beget life in the heart? He does it through the Word of God, which Is living and active and spirit breathed. There is that within the Word which is able to make alive unto God. It is able to save the soul. James tells us to receive with weakness the implanted word which is able to save the soul. The minister breaches the word. This message falls 1 on the heart of the sinner. The sinner receives it and weighs it in his mind. | As he hears he becomes a believer, for | faith cometh by hearing, and hearing | by the word of Christ When a man becomes a believer in Christ the new life has begun in his heart He begins | to live unto God, for 'whosoever be- | lieveth that Jesus is the Christ is be- gotten Of God
 But there must be birth as we'll as a begetting. Unless that which is be- | gotten is born it will die. Unless the | new life comes forth in obedience to | the Master it will perish. Jesus was the greatest psychologist that the world has ever known. He knew that if men | did not become doers of the Word as well as hearers. they would soon lose | their faith. Unless a man believes in Christ enough to come out in open | obedience to Him, his very faith will | cease to be. He that believeth on the | Son hath eternal life, but he that obey. l eth not the Son shall not see life. but | the wrath of God abideth in him | (John 3:36). The new birth is the act of baptism. This is the only act in | all the teaching of the Lord that could l be birth of water. and we must be born of water and the Spirit. The | water baptism translates a man out of | the kingdom of darkness into the king | dom of Gods dear Son.