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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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