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So now we have Russia…fighting terrorists in Syria that America has supported…blocking Monsanto and
banning GMO foods…taking steps to
protect endangered species…while
serving as snare and pitfall to a US-installed puppet government in
Ukraine–and all the while, through its actions for good, counterchecking
and abrogating the western media’s efforts to paint it as the villain.
“So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
By “Spirit” Jesus is of course referring to the Holy Spirit. The Holy
Spirit is mentioned in all four gospels, but it is in the Gospel of
John that it takes a front-and-center place in Jesus’s teachings. In
addition to the passage in chapter three, we have these words in chapter
four spoken by Jesus to the Samaritan woman at the well:
A time is coming and has now
come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and
in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
to his disciples in chapter six:
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.
and in chapter fourteen (here most of all):
If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—the
Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees
him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be
in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you…
…All this I have spoken while still with you. But
the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said
to you.
