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               COMMENT:  Clearly, Adam's descendants  had  failed to  utilize the spirit
               they  received at conception and  had  disobeyed  YEHOVAH  God and His
               laws, bringing corruption and violence to the land in which they lived.


               Later,  the  Children  of  Israel  were  to  destroy  the  mixed  breed  of  the  Ca-
               naanites. These could  not  receive  the things of the spirit of YEHOVAH
               God.


                                       5. Why could they not witness in their spirit as an Israel-
                                       ite is able to do? Romans 8:14, 16.


                                       COMMENT: This principle is a continuing theme in the
                                       Bible. When the procreative power of Abram and Sara
                                       was regenerated, the spirit  of  YEHOVAH  God
                                       was embedded  in  their  genes --  memorialized  by  the
               addition of the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet to their names. Salvation
               requires  that  the  individual  believes  YEHOVAH  God  and that  belief  is  a
               function of the indwelling spirit, NOT of the natural flesh.


               6. What did the Messiah say to Nicodemus? John 3:5-6.

               COMMENT: "…that which is born of the spirit is spirit." Hence there was no
               point in the Messiah dying for people who do not have the indwelling spirit
               and hence no ability to comprehend and believe the things of the spirit.


               7. Through Abraham and Sarah, did YEHOVAH God established the basis
               for Abraham’s seed to become the Sons of YEHOVAH God? John 1:12.


                COMMENT: YEHOVAH was making a new beginning with Abraham. None
               other than  the  seed of Abraham, through the son  of promise,  Isaac, has
               this opportunity or potential. Abraham’s seven other sons did not have this
               potential  --  because  they  were  born  prior  to  Isaac. The  descendants  of
               Isaac were begotten of the spirit from their conception.


               8. Is this why those among Isaac’s descendants who believe are regarded
               as being anointed by the spirit? Galatians 3:16.

               9. What therefore, does Paul declare in II Corinthians 1:21-22?


               COMMENT: In I Corinthians 2:7-16 Paul, confirming this, tells the breth-
               ren (kinsmen of the same womb of Sarah) that they have not received the
               spirit of the world, but the spirit of YEHOVAH God (verse 12). He says
               that through this we might know (or comprehend) the things that are freely
               given to us, (the brethren), of YEHOVAH God. He goes on to further de-

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