John says in 1 John 3:14, +"We know that we have passed out of death into life."+ _Until we are thus born again we are in a condition of moral and spiritual death._ When we are born again we are "quickened" (or made alive), we who "were dead through our trespasses and sins." (Eph. 2:1). There is a profound contrast between regeneration and mere conversion. Conversion is an outward thing, a turning around. One is faced the wrong way, faced away from God; he turns around and faces toward God. That is conversion. But regeneration is not a mere outward change, but a thorough-going change in the deepest depths of one's being, that leads to a genuine conversion or genuine outward change. Many an apparently thorough conversion is a temporary thing because it did not go deep enough, but regeneration is a permanent thing. When God imparts His nature to a man, that nature abides in the man. When he is born again he cannot be unborn, or as John puts it in 1 John 3:9, +"Whosoever is begotten of God doth no sin, because his (God's) seed abideth in him."+ A man may be converted a thousand times, he can be regenerated but once. II. RESULTS OF THE NEW BIRTH We now come to the second question, closely related to the first, and it will help us to understand even more clearly what the New Birth is. _What are the results that follow when one is born again?_ They are numerous. 1. The first of these results is found in 1 Cor. 6:19, where we read: +"Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have from God?"+ These words were spoken to believers, to regenerated men, and they plainly tell us that _when one is born again, the Holy Spirit comes to take up His permanent dwelling in the man and that the man who is born again thus becomes a temple of the Holy Spirit_. It is true that we may not always be conscious of this indwelling of the Holy Spirit, nevertheless He dwells in us.