The disciples were born of the Spirit when Jesus breathed His life upon them after His resurrection. On the day of His resurrection, we recall that Christ spoke with the women who visited the tomb and commissioned them as His first witnessess. He said, ‘Go to My brethren and say to them, “I ascend to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God”.’ Christ ascended to the Father and was then sent by Him to the disciples, so that the disciples could receive His life and become sons of God.
When Jesus stood among the disciples in the upper room, He breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’. There were two distinct actions here. Jesus breathed ‘His life’ upon His disciples. He then gave them the Person of the Holy Spirit. The disciples were born of the Spirit when the Father sent Christ to give His Spirit and life to them. It is for this reason that the apostle Paul calls Jesus the ‘life-giving Spirit’. This fulfilled the promise that Jesus had made to His disciples, ‘I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you … You will see Me; because I live, you will live also.’
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit all come and take up residence in the heart of a person who is in the process of being born of God. Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him’. Further to this, Jesus said, ‘I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever’. The Father sends the Holy Spirit, through the Son, to dwell in each son of God as the essence of the New Covenant. The Holy Spirit is the guarantee of their eternal inheritance as sons of God.
Joh 20:17, 22
(17) Jesus *said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'"
(22) And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit."
1Co 15:45
So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Joh 14:16, 18-19, 23
(16) "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever."
(18) "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. (19) After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also."
(23) Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him."
2Co 1:21-22
Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, (22) who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
Eph 1:13-14
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, (14) who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.
Act 1:4-5
Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, "Which," He said, "you heard of from Me; (5) for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
Act 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.
(17) Jesus *said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'"
(22) And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit."
1Co 15:45
So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Joh 14:16, 18-19, 23
(16) "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever."
(18) "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. (19) After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also."
(23) Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him."
2Co 1:21-22
Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, (22) who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
Eph 1:13-14
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, (14) who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.
Act 1:4-5
Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, "Which," He said, "you heard of from Me; (5) for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
Act 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.
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