YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN

1 Power

Power. Ability to do things, by virtue of strength, skill, resources, or authorization. Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel, “Power,” Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 1742.

Acts 1:8 NIV

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 1:8 ESV

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel, “Power,” Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 1742.

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Acts 1.8

God will give us power to do anything. Phili. 4. 13 says I can do all thing through Christ that strength me.

2 Purpose

intention. The word is used in religious contexts in several senses. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, ), 844.

, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, ), 844.

John 3:16 ESV

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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3 Present

The tense that normally expresses progressive action occurring in the present. Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, ), 101.

Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, ), 101.

John 1:3 ESV

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

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