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WHERE THERE'S FIRE THERE'S HEAT According to I Peter 1:23, the new birth is a birth that comes from the incorruptible word of God: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” The sinner hears the word of God regarding the gospel of Christ and he believes on Christ by receiving Christ in his heart (John 1:12; Rom. 10:9-10). That makes him a child of God by virtue of a new birth that is of the living words of God. I think we can all agree on that, even the shallow e-bees, now that we’ve layed it out for them. Well, one of the emblems of the word of God is fire. Jeremiah 20:9 says, “. . . his word was in mine heart as a burning fire . . .” That means, spiritually speaking, a true Christian has FIRE in his heart, just like Jeremiah. Well, bless your soul, where there’s fire there’s HEAT! It’s impossible to have it otherwise. I could blindfold you and walk you by 100 campfires and you could identify each one by virtue of the heat being produced. You would KNOW there’s fire by the evidence of the heat. You might say that the fruit of fire is heat. Then if I walked you by an unkinded stack of wood and said, “Here’s another campfire,” you would KNOW that something is wrong because there would be no heat. You would not stand there like an idiot and say, “Well, who am I to judge? Some fires have heat, and some do not. That’s good enough for me.” No, that’s not good enough. Where there’s fire, there’s heat. Period.