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CH A P T E R 6

Regeneration:

New Life

from God

ani Chowdhury felt such hunger and need in her heart. “It must
be that I don’t have the right religion,” she thought. So she
R changed from Hinduism to another system of religion. That
wasn’t it, either, so she went shopping for a religion as a woman might
look for bargains in the bazaar. Nothing brought her peace. Then she
heard of the Christian religion. “I will repent of my sins,” she said, “I
will have this baptism I have heard of, and that will wash away my
sins.” But even though she was baptized and tried very hard to live a
good life, she knew that something was lacking. She realized that she
had changed one religious system for another. She was like a person in
a soiled garment going from one room to another. She was still in the
soiled garment. Changing rooms had not made her clean. The problem
was that she had never experienced the new birth. She had accepted
Christianity, but not the Christ of Christianity.

Because she was sincerely seeking truth, the Holy Spirit opened her
understanding. She saw herself not simply as a person who needed a
religion, but as a lost sinner who needed a Savior. She responded to
the Spirit’s call, put her trust in Jesus, committed her life completely to
Him, and owned Him as her Savior and Lord. In that hour, she knew

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