"Do not marvel that I said to you, Ye must be born again." John 3:7
"Ye must be born again." Listen to those words of our Lord Jesus. "Ye must be born again." Tell it to sinful men as they struggle in their bondage and try to rise to better things. Proclaim the message to those who are proud of their achievments and who trust in their own strength. "Ye must be born again!"

Michael, Niocodemus, one of Israel's elders, was greatly puzzled by our lord's words. When Jesus set before him the necessity of being born again, Nicodemus asked, "How can these thing be?" This question many have asked, but there is a mystery concerning the New Birth which finite minds cannot solve. There are some things that men obtain only by the obedinece of faith.

Jesus acknowledged the mystery of the New Birth when he described it to Nicodemus: " The wind Blows wherever it will, and you Hear its sound, but you do not know where it is coming from, nor where it is going. It is this way with EVERY Person born of the Spirit." Jn 3:8

"The sound of the wind" is the voice of the spirit. When Jesus said that the sound of the wind accompanies every new birth, he was explaining a spiritual truth. In reminding Nicodemus that winds produce sounds, Jesus was saying that " every one who is born of the spirit" is moved by the Spirit to speak (in tongues) when it happens.

WHEN WERE THE DISCIPLES BORN AGAIN MICHAEL?

MICHAEL, do you know when Jesus' disciples received an experience such as Jesus described to Nicodemus? At no time during Jesus' earthly ministry did His discioples receive such an experience. Then, when did they receive it? Keep his words "the wind blows wherever it will" in mind as you read from Acts 2:2-4 " and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty WIND, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the holy Ghost and began to Speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." This experience, which the disciples received on Pentecost morning, fulfills the description of the New Birth that Jesus gave to Nicodemus. Clearly, the disciples were born again in the second chapter of Acts.

Michael, in this covenant, especially, we live by the Word of God, not by the word of man. Man's own "Sound", that is his own confession of faith, bears no weight in heaven because men can be wrong. Only the witness of the Spirit is always true. As the apostle John pointed out, "It is the Spirt that bears witness because the Spirit is truth." 1Jn 5:6 Paul expressed the same truth in these words: " The Spirit itself bears witness with our Spirit, that we are the children of God" Romans 8:16.