In other words, the Spirit of God will not dwell in unholy temples, hence sincere repentance and baptism for the remission of sins go before the baptism of the Spirit, that men may be cleansed from their sins, justified before God, and their bodies, by these means, made fit dwelling places for the Holy Ghost--the living temples of God. CHAPTER XX. (Scripture Reading Exercise.) "LIFE FROM LIFE"--SPIRITUAL LIFE FROM SPIRIT. ANALYSIS I. The Gospel Regarded as the Power of God. II. Spiritual Life from Spiritual Life--"Ye Must Be Born Again." III. Parallel between the Organic and Inorganic Worlds. IV. Parallel between the Spiritual and Natural Worlds. V. The Difference Between the Spiritual and the Natural Man. REFERENCES "Natural Law in the Spiritual World," Henry Drummond; and the Scripture passages cited in the body of the lesson. _SPECIAL TEXT: "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (I Cor. ii:14.)_ DISCUSSION. _1. The Gospel the Power of God Unto Salvation:_ We have now reached the place in the development of our theme where it takes on a strong personal interest. The gospel is the "power of God unto salvation."[A] It is so for us--for all men. "Ye must be born again; * * * except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."[B] Is this new birth possible to all? We must needs think so if the Gospel is available to all; and that is a fact so patent to both justice and revelation that it requires no discussion. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life." This alone sufficiently proclaims the universal right of men to the hopes and to the saving powers of the Gospel. "Ye must be born again!" "Born of the water and of the Spirit." Then with that new birth will there come new life? And what will that life be? "That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is Spirit,"[C] said the Christ. Spirit birth then is the aim of the Christian baptism--baptism of water and of the Spirit being the two parts of the one thing, the first being preparatory for and leading up to the second, its complement. And with this there draws tremendous consequences. [Footnote A: Rom. i:16.] [Footnote B: St. John iii:5.] [Footnote C: St. John iii:6.]