It does not come from the natural man. It is not produced by natural generation. It comes from our Lord Jesus Christ and by supernatural generation. It did not come from him while he walked the earth. At no time during his earthly career did a human being receive it. The disciples who followed him--he who leaned upon his breast at supper and was the disciple whom Jesus loved--knew nothing of it. This new and unique life was brought into the light only when that light shone from his empty grave. He gave it forth and communicated it to men only when, as the risen man, he ascended up on high. It comes from him as the second man, as the last Adam, that Adam to whom the first was only as the clay model to the completed statue, as concept is to consummation. It comes from him who is both God and man, in one body and one person forever; and who, as such, is the head and beginning of the new creation of God. By him it is communicated to those who own him as their atoning sacrifice. The instrument is the word of the Gospel. The agent is the Holy Spirit. The Word is preached--it falls into the heart of the believer as seed into the ground. The Spirit quickens it--the new life is germinated. That new life is the life and nature of the risen one, our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, the man in the glory; it is the mind of him who is called Christ, and it is, therefore, in final term--"the mind of Christ." It is wrought, not in the soul, but in the spirit of the believer. By no slow process does it enter--this life of the risen Lord--but by absolute fiat--the fiat of him who said--"Lazarus, come forth." It is fiat life. Its entrance into a human being is as light flashes into darkness. It is as instantaneous as when God of old said, "Let there be light," and light burst over a world cataclysmically fallen into chaos. It is as transforming as when morning awakens the sleeping earth and hill and dale, river and sea, shine forth in their beauty. It is as startling as when Lazarus himself, obeying the voice of his Lord, rose from the dead and came forth. Behold the illustration of it. Here is a man who grovelled in the lowest animalism. He was a husband and father. What a husband! and what a father!