The Holy Spirit is the Lamp of God---illuminating in us and for us the Word of God, revealing in and for us the face of Jesus, the exact Image of the Invisible Father.
Without the Holy Spirit, nothing of God is seen or revealed; we remain in darkness and ignorance of the ways of God. Jesus died in the flesh that His very Spirit might be poured out on and in those remaining in the flesh. Amazing!
This is the new birth--not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Paul said that before the new birth, he was alive to the flesh, but dead to the things of God. Now, he was alive to the things of God and dead to the things of the flesh.
Teilhard de Chardin and others tell us that the Spirit permeates all of creation, every cell vibrating with energy, and that all of creation works together to reveal the face of God. But without the new birth, we are totally oblivious to the magic going on around us every day! Flesh gives birth to flesh; spirit gives birth to spirit.
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