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And now, here's Gary.

Chapter 27 of Acts, the exciting conclusion of the Book of Acts.

We've been talking about something very interesting,

and that is the Holy Spirit's guidance of Paul throughout the Book of Acts.

Now, today, I want to show you something that I imagine you've never seen before.

And if you have come tell me about it later, you can see.

I actually saw that a long time ago, and you didn't find out about it until just now.

We'll see.

Because I discovered something in scripture at the conclusion of the book of Acts

that's just amazingly exciting. You remember when Jesus talked to Nicodemus? He said,

verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again. He cannot see the kingdom of God.

And then they went on and had this conversational exchange in which Jesus described to Nicodemus that he had to be born of the spirit.

And in John 3-8, Jesus uses this metaphor. He says, the wind bloweth where it listeth, which in modern English is,

the wind blows where it wants to blow. And thou hear'st the sound thereof, canst not tell whence it

cometh, whither it goeth. So is everyone that is born of the spirit. And so Jesus likens the

Holy Spirit to the wind, which I think is just a marvelous metaphor,

seen all the way through the Bible in different forms. In the Old Testament, the Spirit of God is

called the Ruachakhadash, which is essentially Holy Spirit in Hebrew, but it is more than that. It is something we would call the

divine wind, if you will, the wind that's guided by God. And when Jesus said this to Nicodemus,

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