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Many people believe they can initiate their salvation—either through choosing to believe or on their own merits. Yet the Bible is clear that we can’t take even the first step toward reconciliation with God on our own. We are spiritually dead and can do nothing unless we are given new life. Matthew Barrett explores the doctrine of regeneration to show us what truly happens to us when we are...

comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. (John 3:7–8) In the Greek the word for spirit (pneuma) is also “wind,” and likewise the word for wind is also “spirit.” Jesus is drawing a clear parallel here between wind and Spirit (as made obvious by 3:8), so that when he speaks of one he is speaking of the other. He is comparing the effects of the wind to the effects of the Spirit. It is very important to note that the phrase “the wind blows where it wishes” conveys
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