Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
A relatively short verse but it's all about "giving births", did you notice? The flesh gives birth so does the Spirit. We have a physical birth as well a spiritual one. Both births bring about some manifestations-physical as well as spiritual ones.One experience occurs through natural means whereas the other by supernatural means. Flesh can only give birth to flesh and the Spirit to spirit. Both births happen through a seed. A seed has to be sowed in order for us to be able to see a birth. A seed of the flesh can only produce another flesh. The Spirit can produce another new spirit. How can the Spirit come into a flesh and produce another spirit, when there is one already within that body. Only by the Spirit giving birth to one spirit when He comes into that body. How does the Spirit gain entrance into that body in order to give birth to a new spirit? By the "seed" planted in that body. What is that "seed"? That "seed" is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is that seed who must be sown into that body. That body has a soul too. That soul is also referred to as the mind.The Spirit enters that body through the permission given by the LORD upon the person inviting the Lord Jesus Christ to be the Lord and Savior of his or her life. How do you invite the Lord Jesus Christ to be the Lord and Savior of your life? Believe that He was sent by the Father in heaven to be your Savior and Deliverer of your bondage to sin and the sinful nature of the Devil in you. Your believe in Jesus Christ our Lord will bring Him as the "seed" into you. That seed will bring on you God the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit will come into you after you have believed that Christ is the"seed" of God you need in your life now. God the Holy Spirit will give birth to a new spirit within you. Christ will be formed in you fully in that born again spirit as you obey everything Christ had commanded. God the Holy Spirit will bring into remembrance everything Christ had commanded. Christ our Lord is the Word of God. He is the "seed of God" in you. He fills your born again spirit through the full formation of His divine nature in there. This Christformation in your born again spirit will transform your mind (soul) accordingly as you continually obey everything He had commanded. This Christformation will go on within you until you are ready to see what you have sown through your life of obedience to Him. You will be clothed with your Christconformed and imperishable body at His return or the final resurrection, whichever you were ready for. Only He knows what you are ready for through your obedience to Him. No one else would know what occurs within you except you and the LORD. The divine nature of Christ is also the divine nature of God the Father in you. God the Holy Spirit fully "helps" you with this formation within your born again spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:7-16
No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"-- but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
