John 12:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. (ESV)

While we have been trying to understand how we can learn this language of faith, we have seen that we need a new heart to receive this word of faith and that we need the Holy Spirit to translate faith into understanding. In these devotionals we are still at those beginning stages. Yesterday we spoke of a heart prepared to receive this faith seed. Now let us look at the process of this new life experience.

This seed of faith is planted in our prepared heart, now what? Allow me to point out that this faith seed is the gospel of grace which is the Good news, that faith in Christ and His work on the Cross, is your dying moment, to be reborn with this new heart.

Romans 6:3-5 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Note the use of the word planted in verse 5. Here is that connection between the seed of faith, the prepared heart and death required for rebirth. It is all tied together in where you place your faith. Only placing your faith in Christ will produce this result.

Romans 6:6-7 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.

In the beginning of this thesis I said it was sin that was keeping us from God. This is His answer to the problem, this is God taking sin out of the way. Once you are freed from sin you can hear God by faith.