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The Secret Garden: Washing of Rebirth and Renewal (Titus 3:5)

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In The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor bitter, unloved, and unloving. She discovers a hidden garden, dead from neglect. As she tends it back to life, she herself is transformed—her sour disposition softened, her cousin healed, the manor restored. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. Mary does not merely improve; she is reborn. The garden does not merely grow; it resurrects. Titus describes salvation not as reformation but as regeneration—new life, not just improved behavior. Mary becomes a different person. So do we.

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rebirthrenewaltransformationhealingnew life

Scripture References

Titus 3:5John 3:3-72 Corinthians 5:17

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