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for today's encouraging word. You know, one of the great promises ever made about the Holy Spirit is

from Jesus himself. He said the wind blows where it wishes and you can hear it

sound but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going.

Over the next few moments I want to talk to you about the power of being born of the

Holy Spirit in that passage from John Chapter 3 in verse 8. Of all the analogies that Jesus could have used to describe the

son of God, why did Jesus call the Holy Spirit the wind, the wind. The wind. The wind. That's a question really worthy of consideration.

And I believe the answer is one that will lift our spirits during these very challenging and difficult days.

When it came to describing the Holy Spirit, Jesus had a universe, a universe of metaphors at his disposal, right? I mean, comets, galaxies, ocean depths,

Beluga whales. And out of the entire glossary, out of every word he could have used, he chose to give Nicodemus this description of the Holy Spirit, wind.

It's easy to see why. The spirit like wind is an unseen force. I remember reading some

years ago a description by Dutch theologian Abraham Cooper who dedicated a

thousand pages and many years to a study of the Holy Spirit and he has a chapter in his book called Careful Treatment Required.

And in it he goes on to explain if I can if I can paraphrase

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