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118 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
God's sacred service? Yes, in imitation of Jesus
and in obedience to his command, he gets baptized
at the earliest opportunity, as believers on
the day of Pentecost did and as Saul of Tarsus
and Cornelius did .-Acts 2 :41 ; 9 :18 ; 10 :46-48.
8 Where, now, does being born from spirit come
in? Just as the water from which a believer is
born is not a person, neither is the spirit . But the
believer is born from God and by means of his
spirit or life-giving active force . When the perfect
man Jesus was baptized in water, God brought
him forth or begot him as his spiritual son and acknowledged
him with words which Jesus as well
as John the Baptist heard : "You are my Son, the
beloved ; I have approved you." Luke 3 :21,22,
NW He was now begotten from God by means
of His spirit, and there was a manifestation of
that spiritual force in the form of a dove . He was
now a spiritual son of God and was now definitely
on his way back to heaven where he had been
God's only-begotten spirit Son. It was as a newly
8 . How is a believer born from spirit, as illustrated by
Jesus?