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Excerpted from: John 3:16 in Context (Part Two)Now, I am not going to go into all the details of born again and all of that. I just want to get the major principles that we pull out of here. And that is, Jesus here reveals that to understand and experience, this is the word see, He says to see the Kingdom of God, to understand and experience the Kingdom of God requires a spiritual rebirth or a regeneration. And that regeneration consists of first, God's calling, and then baptism and receipt of the Holy Spirit.
I kind of skipped over repentance there, but I hope you understand that that is part of baptism. So He mentions particularly the water and the Spirit here showing that baptism and the receipt of the Holy Spirit are intimated, they are part of the process of being born from above, we might say. And He goes on to say that one cannot see this change take place because it is a spiritual matter. It happens in a person's heart and mind.
John 3:8
Excerpted from: Let the Saints be Joyful in Glory!So it was the sound that filled the house, not the wind. It was an invisible cause producing audible effects. Spiritual references to the power of wind are numerous and are always understood to be under God's control. More significant than wind as power is wind as life. In John 3:8 it says, "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it but cannot tell where it comes from or where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit." So just as the first Adam received the breath of physical life, so the second Adam, Jesus Christ, brings the breath of spiritual life. And the idea of spiritual life as generated by the Holy Spirit is understood in the wind at Pentecost. In verse 2, the wind at Pentecost was rushing and mighty, a powerful windy sound that nevertheless did not extinguish the tongues of fire.
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