The impartation of life is also a Divine work and this is ascribed in the Scriptures to the Holy Spirit, We read in John vi.
To put the matter of regeneration in another way; regeneration is the impartation of a new nature, God’s own nature to the one who is born again (2 Pet.
Naturally, as the Bible is the history of man’s redemption it does not dwell upon this phase of truth, but seemingly each new and higher impartation of the Spirit of God brings forth a higher order of being.
Regeneration is the impartation of life, spiritual life, to those who are dead, spiritually dead, through their trespasses and sins (Eph.
It is the impartation of spiritual power or gifts in service and sometimes one may have rare gifts by the Spirit’s power and yet manifest few of the graces of the Spirit.
So we see that the three distinctly Divine works of creation, the impartation of life, and prophecy are ascribed to the Holy Spirit.
Here both the creation of the material frame and the impartation of life are attributed to the agency of the Holy Spirit.
But this restoration, he said, was brought about by liberating, arousing, inciting, and strengthening the powers inherent in man rather than by divine impartation of new spiritual powers or by the creation of a new good volition.
Time being an essential element or factor in the impartation of velocity, if this factor be omitted, the least resistance becomes infinite.
As distance, through which force can act, is necessary to the impartation of velocity, so also time, during which force can act, is necessary to the same result.
Instruction, the impartation of knowledge by others (L.
Training refers not merely to the impartationof knowledge, but to the exercising of one in actions with the design to form habits.
That divine communication to Jesus was no mere impartation of abstractions or 'truths,' still less of the poor words of man's speech, but was the flowing into His spirit of the living Father by whom He lived.
It is maintained by constant efflux from the fountain of Life, by constant impartation of His quickening breath.
It is because Christ has given Himself thus to us that the possession of Him binds us to the imitation of His example, and the impartation of Him to all our brethren.
We do not plead our own merits, because we are not under the law, but under grace, and the principle underlying the gospel is life by impartation of unmerited mercy and divine life.
In Him we live,' and the life is the result of the perpetual impartation from Himself 'in whom all things consist,' according to the profound word of the Apostle.
For if the Unio is to complete itself by growth, the relation of impartation and reception must continue.
Physicians and medicine are his methods, as well as the impartationof faith and courage to the patient.
The addition of woody fibre between the bark and the trunk results, not by impartation into it of a new force from without, but by the awakening of the life within.
Holiness is not replaced by love, as Ritschl holds, since there is no self-impartation without self-affirmation.
The ethical limit of self-impartation is found in self-affirmation.
This union of the divine and human agencies in inspiration is not to be conceived of as one of external impartation and reception.
All Being, from the lowest creature up to the loftiest created spirit, exists by one law, the continual impartation to it of life from the fountain of life, according to its capacities.
That cause was sin, which cannot be cancelled as guilt by any self-denial however great, nor even by the impartation of a new life from God for the future.
For this there is needed an influence from without, the efficient touch of the Holy Spirit, the impartation of His life.
Being human, He must be indebted to the Spirit for all impartation to His human nature of what is Divine.
Let the pride of intellect and the pride of will cease their clamor, and in the silences Being speaks its own final word, not an argument or external ground of belief, but the self-impartation of itself to the soul.
Yes, if you mean the commonest and most convincing, the only convincing self-impartation of the ultimate good in the scale of goods; the vision of blessedness in God.
The latter is a matter of addition, because it implies the impartation of a new life to the soul which has hitherto been "dead in trespasses and sins.
Regeneration implies the impartation of a new life by the Divine energy of the Holy Ghost.
As little does this incident prove that the imposition of Apostolic hands was necessary in order to the impartation of the Spirit.
The lessons of the vine are intimacy, likeness of nature, continuous impartation of life, fruit.
It is distinguished from regeneration as growth from birth, or as the strengthening of a holy disposition from the original impartation of it.
We now perceive that the church is, by the impartation to it of Christ's life, made a living body, with duties and powers of its own.
The ordinance which symbolizes regeneration, or the impartation of new life, must precede the ordinance which symbolizes the strengthening and perfecting of the life already begun.
The fact to be noted is, however, that the people with whom Jesus was brought into contact were made aware in many ways of the impartation of His Life to them.
The impartation of life seems to have been His main business.
Then follows an equally exclusively divine act, the impartation of a new nature, which shall secure future obedience (vs.
As we have pointed out, they are shaped after the pattern of the creation of Adam, but the essential point is that what the world needs is the impartation from God of His Spirit.
Creation itself is sacrifice--the self-impartation of the divine Being.
This would fit in also with the general objective of the Sunday school, and is not the mere impartation of information, but the letting loose of moral and religious values in life.
Should theImpartation of Knowledge Be a Function of the Sunday School?
The teacher's task is not primarily the acquisition of knowledge, but the impartation of it,--an entirely different matter.
God Himself is the filler and the only filler of a human heart, and it is by this impartation of Himself and by nothing else that He bestows upon us the supply of our needs.
Our own experience tells us but too plainly and loudly that we need the impartation of a new life, and to be set on a new foundation, if we are ever to be anything else than failures and blots.
Remember, too, that the impartation of this highest good is one of the main reasons why we ourselves possess it.
This inward impartation of strength is the true and only condition of that self-sufficingness which Paul has just been claiming.
By the great gift of holiness for the future by the impartation of His own life and spirit, Jesus makes all things new.
Regeneration is the impartation of a new and divine life; a new creation; the production of a new thing.
