“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”

(1Peter 1:3-5 ESV)

1John 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. 

 

“And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.”

(1John 3:3 ESV) 

 

When we are sovereignly born of God we see Jesus as such a treasure that it causes us to walk in newness of life. We don’t get the Treasure because we walk in newness of life, but instead, we walk in newness of life because we have seen the Treasure. Quite simply, there is something about seeing Jesus that makes us a holy people.