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John.3:7 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.' 3:8 The wind{The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, and spirit.} blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

What would we think if a person spent a life time building a house laying each stone perfectly and suddenly a person with great respect in the construction business says: “To finish the job correctly the wind blows where it wants, don't marvel, if your building is not born new it cannot be finished!”

Heb. 3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
3:2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house. 3:3 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house. 3:4 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God. 3:5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, 3:6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Shocking! Is this person joking, is he crazy, how can such a thing be? The house was no accident, it was carefully planned, its instruction came from the greatest of builders?

This is the shock Nicodemus experienced at Christ words, he was a priest part of God's holy house constructed by the greatest of God's people kings and prophets existing thousand's of years, how could Spirit finish what had been built by human hands, and minister in by human's? What does the wind have to do with anything, how could the unseen add to bricks and mortar?

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Today we find the same thinking, taking everything spiritual translating it into something physical, building a religious empire from bricks and mortar. Christ however stripped the power of our flesh and translates us into a kingdom of his love. He never once takes heavenly things and makes them into mundane earthly things, but the real question is why?

John 8:23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

John 3:31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Col.2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 2:14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; 2:15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

It actually very simple, but our flesh does not want to accept a truth that kills its power, and what is that. God is not part of this world, and all that he creates cannot come from this world, but why? Because this world is stolen property and every thing in it, its governments, religions and commerce the entire system of things was built by the rebellion of wicked spirit force.

James.3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

God does not consort with darkness and call it good and holy, this Nicodemus should of known being his service in the temple was sacred separated from any association of this world. Cleansed by precious blood of innocent victims animal blood. Subsequently, this is why the earthly temple could not complete what it took God to complete and what is that?

Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Christ came from above, why? He was sinless, without corruption of this world and its sin, this should tell us something? Christ after his murder was raised into incorruptibility never to be touched by any temptation of lust of flesh, this should tell us something? In other words, nothing born of earth will not sooner or later be corrupted by its association.

Matthew 7:18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

Ephesians 4:22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

This is the history of every man made institution from government into religion, including God's own temple once on earth. Moreover, something Christian's should become aware of that flesh is not being reformed by God, did you ever notice God's people the Jews had to go to the temple and be atone for? A practice that did not end by those in their religion working their way out of sin.

Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Sin was never taken away by atonement in the temple, it did not reform flesh into a better flesh, no matter how much life was lost defending the temple or sacrificing animals. Hence, God must create something “new” a better everlasting way to remove sin from human so he could build upon us spiritually into a precious temple, but how does one put new wine (Spirit) into old wineskin, old religion that cannot remove sin. One cannot with ruining both!

Mark 4:41 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

Matthew 9:17 Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."

Nicodemus must become new, not from the old temple and its services, but new from heaven. But who's hands could make a person new? None on earth that was impossible, thousand's of years of service in the temple proved it just could not be done by humans efforts works of law. God must make us new, from heaven, by his power (Spirit) the wind, and finish the works of the earthly temple into a perfect sinless people called son's of God.

1 Peter 2:5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

No person is going to go to heaven from religious education, or attending some religion, no person has the power to resurrect themselves, or be born again. God must created us new, by his power, by his love, by his kindness, not by works done good or bad in some religion. This is the shock Nicodemus experienced at Christ words, this is the shock many today whom think they have a right by studying God's word the bible to determine whom go to heaven who are not worthy.

Revelation 21:5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

Hebrews 10:20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

But Christ made it clear the wind blows were it wants, not under mankind's control, but God's the creator of the wind. Subsequently, all of us are faced with an important question do we put faith in God's alone or man made worship found in religion?

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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