So the Word of God needs the germinating power of the Holy Spirit. The wire is said to be ‘dead’ when the electricity is cut off, but when the current is on it is a ‘live wire.’ Jesus says, “The words that I speak are spirit and they are life.” They are life because they are spirit. This is how man is born again. He is born again by the operation of the word and the Spirit of God in the heart. Some have thought that man becomes a Christian by a change of his purpose, or by decision of will, or by