The Newly Created Child of God is Made by the Word
Genesis 1: 2
Here is a description of every sinner as we are born into this world and this is why no man can come to God until he be born of God and drawn of the Father: we are without form—vanity, void—empty, darkness upon the face of the deep. We come into this world dead with no spiritual understanding (Eph 2: 21).
The new, inner creation is made by the Word preached. It pleased God to save by the preaching of the gospel (1 Corinthians 1: 21). John the Baptist was sent before Christ, for the express purpose of bearing witness of Christ the Light (John 1: 6-9; 1 Corinthians 1: 21). Just as men rejected John’s gospel, so when the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, though he was in the world, though the world was made by him, yet, the world did not know him. He even came unto his own and his own received him not (John 1: 10).
Yet, just as Christ Jesus literally came into our midst in this earth during John's ministry so Christ comes through the Spirit into the child of mercy as the gospel is preached to them. The Spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters, for except a man be born of the Spirit of God he cannot see and believe on Christ (John 3: 3-8) This work of the Spirit is unstoppable, like as the wind moves upon you but you do not move upon the wind.