John 4:24
John 3:1-21
1 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
10 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? 11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
The Holy Spirit and the wind in a way are related...The study of the Holy Spirit is called pneumatology, comes from two Greek words, pneuma meaning "wind," "breath," or "spirit" and logos meaning "word," or "logic."...
The Kingdom of heaven is a very deep subject and is hard for me to understand...Jesus answers questions about Heaven and talks about Heaven, like He has been there and knows about it...Who better than to get into a conversation about the subject of the Kingdom of heaven than Jesus...He knows Heaven...No one has ever gone into heaven except the One who came from heaven—the Son of Man...And Nicodemus, who is meeting Jesus at night, does not even ask Him directly about the Kingdom of heaven...No, Nicodemus just made a statement to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know that You are a Teacher who has come from God...For no One could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with Him."...And then Jesus immediately starts talking about the Kingdom of God...Jesus makes two statements about the Kingdom of God...The first statement is shorter and is about seeing the Kingdom of God...Jesus says, "Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again."...The second statement about the Kingdom of God is longer and is about entering the Kingdom of God...Jesus says, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit...Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit...You should not be surprised at My saying, ‘You must be born again.’...The wind blows wherever it pleases...You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going...So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."...
God is Spirit...And God understands all things...He understands the Spirit, because He is Spirit…And no one knows heaven better than God… He understands the wind and He directs the wind where it needs to go…And the same might be said of everyone who does His will and is born of the Holy Spirit...He directs them as He does the wind...And to be able to see the Kingdom of God and to be able to enter the Kingdom of God, we want to know more about heaven and its ways...And Nicodemus tries hard to understand these things as Jesus explains them to him...Jesus tells Nicodemus that no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit…Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit…You should not be surprised Him saying, that we must be born again…The wind blows wherever it pleases and wherever it wants to…One hears the wind blowing, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going…The same thing can be said by those born of the Spirit….Jesus makes reference to the Holy Spirit and to water...Maybe He is referring to the water of baptism...Not that one needs to be baptized to see and enter the Kingdom of heaven, but we need a rebirth, a reawakening, a renewing (likened to a baptism), from our old earthly fleshy driven ways to the ways of the Spirit and to the ways and the will of God...
So Jesus being sent by God and being from above also understands heaven… Jesus understands these things as He tries to explain some of these things to Nicodemus…Nicodemus came to Jesus as a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin ruling council…But he asked Jesus questions not one from a Sanhedrin’s stand point of view, but one who wants to better understand his own soul…Nicodemus knew that Jesus had come from God, and wanted better to know these things of the Spirit and the Spiritual…And the conversation about heaven and the Kingdom of heaven and its understanding is very much one sided...And so it is with Jesus with His personal knowledge of heaven...And when Nicodemus asks "How can this be?", about the rebirth and the wind, I relate very much to his frustration of not understanding...
Man communicates with God and His Son through our soul and Holy Spirit…The more we know about the Spirit the better we can communicate with Them...God is from heaven and Jesus is also from above...And like the wind, the Spirit is directed by God...The things of Spirit and of the Kingdom of heaven are difficult for man to understand, and God knows this...That is why we are not told we need to understand these things of the Spirit and of the Kingdom of heaven...We are asked to believe...We are to believe in God and His One and Only Son to get to His Kingdom, to heaven... For God so loves the world that He gave His one and only Son as a sacrifice on the cross for us, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life...For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him...