Section 2
the Spirit that we may have His divine life with His divine nature, a life with a nature absolutely different from our natural life with its nature.
THE SPIRIT BEGETTING SPIRIT
To be born anew is to be born of the Spirit in our spirit. The divine Spirit regenerates our human spirit with God's divine life. Regenera tion, that is, receiving the divine life, is absolutely a matter that transpires in our spirit. Our spirit was made by God for this very purpose. We have such a special organ, our human spirit, deep within us. In His creation, God made us with a spirit for the purpose that one day we might ex ercise it to contact Him and to receive Him into our being. The function of the human spirit is to contact God. Regeneration is not a matter of our mind, emotion, or will; it is altogether a matter in our spirit. Verses 12 and 13 of John 1 say, "But as many as received Him, to them He gave author ity to become children of God, to those who be lieve in His name: who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." In what part of our being are we born of God? In our spirit. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. God is a Spirit, and only a spirit can touch a Spirit. Only a spirit can be born of