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Jeff Schreve - Jesus and Nicodemus

January 12, 2025 | S25:E2

Jeff Schreve - Jesus and Nicodemus
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From His Heart: Jeff Schreve | Jeff Schreve - Jesus and Nicodemus | January 12, 2025
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  • Pastor jeff schreve: how did jesus interact with people and
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  • How did they respond to him?
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  • Hey, did every encounter lead to salvation and healing?
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  • Or did some encounters lead to conflict and difficulty?
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  • Today we begin my new series called "divine encounters: what
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  • Happens when people meet the master?"
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  • We'll start it off today by exploring what happened between
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  • Jesus and nicodemus.
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  • Jeff: now, nicodemus was religious to the hilt, but he
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  • Had the same problem i had.
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  • He didn't know about heaven.
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  • He wanted to go there, but he didn't know how to get there.
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  • He might have thought he did, but he really didn't, and jesus
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  • Set him straight right off the bat in his encounter with
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  • Nicodemus when he says to him, "unless you're born again,
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  • You're not gonna see the kingdom of god.
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  • Unless you're born again, you're not gonna enter the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • Do not be astonished, do not be amazed, that i said to you, you
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  • Must be born again."
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  • Now, no doubt, probably everybody under the sound of my
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  • Voice, you've heard that term "born again."
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  • Some bible translations in john 3, they don't use "born again,"
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  • They use "born from above."
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  • That word in the greek can mean again, anew, or above.
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  • But we don't know--so many of us, we don't really understand
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  • What that means.
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  • So in this divine encounter with nicodemus, jesus introduces this
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  • Subject of being born again.
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  • And it was important, critically important for nicodemus.
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  • It's critically important for you and me.
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  • John chapter 3 beginning in verse 1: "now there was a man of
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  • The pharisees, named nicodemus."
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  • His name means conqueror of the people, "a ruler of the jews;
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  • This man came to jesus by night and said to him, 'rabbi, we know
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  • That you have come from god as a teacher; for no one can do these
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  • Signs that you do unless god is with him.'
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  • Jesus answered and said to him--"
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  • There wasn't a question that nicodemus posed, but he had a
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  • Question in his heart, and jesus read his heart, read his mind.
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  • "and he answered and said to him, 'truly, truly, i say to
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  • You, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of god.'"
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  • Now, big question for us today, do you understand what it means?
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  • Do you understand why this is so critical?
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  • What is the whole deal about being born again?
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  • Someone has well said there's only one kind of christian, and
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  • That's a born again christian.
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  • Being born again is not incidental, it is fundamental,
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  • And it's very, very critical that you understand what
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  • It means.
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  • So three insights for this morning.
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  • Insight number one: every person must understand his or her
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  • Lost condition.
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  • To understand what it means to be born again, to understand
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  • What is going on here in this interaction with jesus and
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  • Nicodemus, you have to understand, you have to back up
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  • And understand your lost condition and humanity's
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  • Lost condition.
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  • See, john chapter 3 gets its roots in genesis chapter 3, and
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  • If you'll remember, genesis 2, everything is perfect.
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  • The man and his wife were both naked and they were not ashamed
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  • And god had brought eve to adam and "this is now bone of my
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  • Bones and flesh of my flesh."
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  • She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man
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  • And everything is great and the sun sets on genesis chapter 2
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  • And it's perfect.
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  • It's a perfect man with a perfect woman in a perfect
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  • Garden with a perfect god.
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  • And then in genesis 3 everything blows up.
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  • You know, god had given them one command: "from every tree of the
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  • Garden you may freely eat, but from the tree that is in the
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  • Middle of the garden, you may not eat from it, lest you die."
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  • And so to understand john 3, you must be born again.
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  • You have to understand genesis 3.
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  • Why do i must--why must i be born again?
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  • Oh, it's because i'm dead inside, dead toward god.
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  • And nicodemus is going to learn about this.
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  • Now, he is a poster child for the very best of humanity.
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  • It's interesting that he comes to jesus because you could not
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  • Get a better subject, exhibit a, than nicodemus, and he shows
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  • That the very best of humanity is lost.
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  • The very best of humanity is a sinner in desperate need of
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  • The savior.
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  • So it says: "now there was a man of the pharisees, named
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  • Nicodemus, conqueror of the people," that's what his
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  • Name means.
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  • He's a pharisee.
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  • Now, the pharisee, that means a separated one, and the pharisees
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  • Were very legalistic.
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  • They were very meticulous.
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  • They got rotten but they didn't start out rotten.
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  • Nicodemus is different than most of the pharisees.
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  • He's not rotten to the core.
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  • See, he says, "rabbi, we know that you're a teacher who has
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  • Come from god."
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  • How do we know this?
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  • And he doesn't say, "i know this."
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  • He says, "we know this"; he's speaking on behalf of some
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  • Others, "we know," how?
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  • "because of the signs that you're doing.
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  • No one can do the things you're doing unless god is with him."
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  • He was honest enough to say, "these are miracles from god."
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  • But see, he represents the very best of humanity and so when the
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  • Best of humanity comes before the lord, the lord says to him,
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  • "truly, truly, you must be born again.
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  • You must be born from above.
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  • If you're not born again, if you're not born from above,
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  • Guess what?
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  • You who want to go to heaven, you're not gonna go there.
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  • You're not gonna see the kingdom of heaven, you're not gonna
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  • Enter the kingdom of heaven."
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  • So the very best of humanity is helplessly lost, helplessly,
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  • Hopelessly perishing.
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  • That's what the lord says to this guy, "hey, you're so
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  • Religious, you're the most religious guy on the planet.
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  • You're the most moral guy on the planet.
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  • You're the most respected person in all of israel.
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  • You're the teacher, not a teacher, the teacher of israel."
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  • You don't get any higher on the food chain than nicodemus.
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  • But nicodemus is hopelessly perishing.
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  • Nicodemus is a sinner.
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  • All have sinned and fall short of the glory of god, and the
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  • Wages of sin is death.
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  • Nicodemus, he may not realize it, but he is in trouble.
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  • He's in serious trouble, and here's the thing.
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  • No amount of good works can change that.
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  • And for you and for me, as those born in adam, born with a dead
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  • Spirit, no amount of good works, no amount of church activities,
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  • Can change the fact that you were--that you are a sinner and
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  • The wages of sin is death and the soul that sins shall die.
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  • Your destination is fixed.
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  • When you're born into this world--this is for all of us.
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  • See, in adam, all die.
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  • Every single person is born in this world in adam.
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  • We're all related to adam, and in adam's fall, we sinned all.
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  • Genesis 3 applies to you, it applies to me.
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  • There is no good person.
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  • There are no good people because there's no one good except
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  • God alone.
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  • "there is none righteous, not even one."
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  • So heaven is a place for good people, but guess what?
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  • There are no good people if you wanna use that--go down
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  • That road.
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  • Well, okay, it's a place for good people, but you're
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  • Not good.
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  • So nobody goes to heaven.
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  • Jesus said, "be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect."
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  • Well, how many perfect people do you know?
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  • Any perfect people in here?
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  • If you're here, fly around, let us see you in your perfection.
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  • No, there's none righteous, not even one.
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  • Nobody is perfect and this is what the bible says in galatians
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  • 2, the apostle paul said this: "nevertheless knowing that a man
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  • Is not justified by the works of the law, but by hearing with
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  • Faith, since by the works of the law no flesh will be justified."
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  • What is nicodemus doing as a pharisee?
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  • He is trying so hard to keep the law, so meticulous with the law,
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  • So meticulous with the keeping the sabbath and keeping all the
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  • Commandments, and he probably was doing a good job externally.
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  • But you know, jesus said, you know, "you've heard it said,
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  • 'you shall not commit adultery.'"
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  • And nicodemus was like, "yeah, i've never done that."
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  • "but i say to you, anyone who looks on a woman and lusts for
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  • Her has committed adultery with her already in his heart."
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  • Oh.
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  • You know, internally, he wasn't keeping the law.
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  • That's the same thing paul said: "hey, i--all the external
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  • Things, i kept all those."
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  • Paul was a pharisee, but he said when it came to the tenth
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  • Commandment, "you shall not covet," he said "that slew me
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  • Because i didn't do any of those outward things, but i wanted to.
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  • I wanted to.
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  • And there was sin in my heart."
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  • So when you understand what it means to be born again, when you
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  • Start to really dig into this thing--what is this?--
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  • Well, you have to understand that every person is lost.
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  • People don't like to--you don't like--they don't like to
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  • Hear that.
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  • "oh, that's just--jeff, that's so negative.
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  • You have a weird view of god."
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  • No, i have a right view of god.
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  • We've sinned against heaven's king, and the wages of sin is
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  • Death, and until you understand that, you'll never be
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  • Born again.
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  • Why would you need to?
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  • You have to understand that you're sick and desperately sick
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  • And seriously sick to look to the great physician.
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  • So, first insight: every person must understand his
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  • Lost condition.
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  • Second insight: every person must be born again.
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  • And jesus made that very clear to nicodemus.
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  • And so he says the first of the "truly, truly" statements here
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  • In john chapter 3, he says it three times.
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  • And if you'll notice, 25 times in the book of john, you run
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  • Into this statement where jesus says, "truly, truly i say
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  • To you."
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  • Truly, truly--king james: verily, verily, pay attention,
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  • Pay attention.
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  • Literally, the word is "amen."
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  • Amen, amen.
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  • It's what they would say at the end of something when somebody
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  • Would say something, you know, let it be so, amen.
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  • Jesus started it off that way.
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  • It's kinda like what we say today, truly, truly is like him
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  • Saying, "truth bomb coming, and so pay attention, turn your
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  • Hearing aids up.
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  • Truth bomb is coming."
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  • "truly, truly, i say to you, unless a man is born again, born
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  • From above, he cannot see the kingdom of god."
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  • And nicodemus responds, "born again, what?
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  • How can a man be born when he is old?
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  • He can't enter a second time into his mother's womb and be
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  • Born, can he?
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  • I mean, that doesn't make sense at all, jesus."
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  • Jesus answered, here it comes.
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  • Truth bomb again.
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  • "truly, truly, i say to you, unless one is born of water and
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  • The spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of god.
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  • That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born
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  • Of the spirit is spirit.
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  • Do not be amazed that i said to you, 'you must be born again.'"
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  • Now it's a must.
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  • You must be born again, but nicodemus is not understanding.
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  • Now he's not some guy that, you know, made cs in school.
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  • He's a smart guy.
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  • He's the ruler of the jews, part of the sanhedrin, well
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  • Respected, the teacher of israel, but he's not getting it.
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  • He's thinking in terms of physical and, see, the new birth
  • 00:12:53.809 --> 00:12:58.113
  • Is not physical, it is spiritual.
  • 00:12:58.113 --> 00:13:01.483
  • And jesus is giving him a physical illustration to help
  • 00:13:01.483 --> 00:13:04.553
  • Him see a spiritual truth, just like the parables.
  • 00:13:04.553 --> 00:13:07.623
  • You know, the parables were earthly stories so that we could
  • 00:13:07.623 --> 00:13:11.093
  • Understand a heavenly meaning.
  • 00:13:11.093 --> 00:13:12.494
  • And once you latched on to the earthly story, then he'd say,
  • 00:13:12.494 --> 00:13:15.231
  • "the kingdom of heaven is like that," and so you can make
  • 00:13:15.231 --> 00:13:18.667
  • The parallels.
  • 00:13:18.667 --> 00:13:20.002
  • Well, he uses physical birth here, but nicodemus gets stuck
  • 00:13:20.002 --> 00:13:23.606
  • On the physical birth.
  • 00:13:23.606 --> 00:13:26.275
  • And he says, "no, nicodemus it's--i'm not talking about
  • 00:13:26.275 --> 00:13:29.845
  • Being born again physically.
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  • I'm talking about being born spiritually."
  • 00:13:31.914 --> 00:13:35.851
  • And being born again takes the word of god and the spirit
  • 00:13:35.851 --> 00:13:40.289
  • Of god.
  • 00:13:40.289 --> 00:13:41.657
  • Those are the parents of spiritual birth: the word of god
  • 00:13:41.657 --> 00:13:45.294
  • And the spirit of god.
  • 00:13:45.294 --> 00:13:47.730
  • Now, romans 10:17: "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the
  • 00:13:47.730 --> 00:13:53.736
  • Word of god."
  • 00:13:53.736 --> 00:13:55.971
  • The bible says in the book of james that "we are born again
  • 00:13:55.971 --> 00:14:00.776
  • Through the word, the imperishable word of god."
  • 00:14:00.776 --> 00:14:04.713
  • And so how does this work?
  • 00:14:04.713 --> 00:14:06.382
  • Because, obviously, the spirit has to be there for us to
  • 00:14:06.382 --> 00:14:09.852
  • Be saved.
  • 00:14:09.852 --> 00:14:11.186
  • If you're not born of the spirit, you're not born again.
  • 00:14:11.186 --> 00:14:13.956
  • So the spirit and the word.
  • 00:14:13.956 --> 00:14:16.292
  • The word comes by the power of the holy spirit to speak to your
  • 00:14:16.292 --> 00:14:21.664
  • Heart, to show you that you are lost.
  • 00:14:21.664 --> 00:14:26.835
  • To show you that you're on the highway to hell, to give you
  • 00:14:26.835 --> 00:14:29.405
  • That "ruh-roh" moment, "i'm in trouble," to get you to look up
  • 00:14:29.405 --> 00:14:34.343
  • And to say, "i'm dead inside.
  • 00:14:34.343 --> 00:14:36.278
  • I need to be made alive inside."
  • 00:14:36.278 --> 00:14:40.182
  • So it takes the word of god and the spirit of god.
  • 00:14:40.182 --> 00:14:44.386
  • And the word of god and the spirit of god speak to the heart
  • 00:14:44.386 --> 00:14:47.189
  • Of the sinner to show that sinner he needs the savior.
  • 00:14:47.189 --> 00:14:52.261
  • But now we have a situation here.
  • 00:14:52.261 --> 00:14:55.064
  • John chapter 3, verse 5, people struggle because they say,
  • 00:14:55.064 --> 00:15:01.036
  • "'well,' jesus said, 'truly, truly,'" truth bomb, "'i say to
  • 00:15:01.036 --> 00:15:04.440
  • You, unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter
  • 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:09.244
  • Into the kingdom of god.'"
  • 00:15:09.244 --> 00:15:11.480
  • He's not talking about being baptized.
  • 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:15.150
  • But now here's what nicodemus would have understood.
  • 00:15:15.150 --> 00:15:19.455
  • There was a baptizer going around that everybody was
  • 00:15:19.455 --> 00:15:22.624
  • Talking about.
  • 00:15:22.624 --> 00:15:23.993
  • His name was john, john the baptist, john the baptizer.
  • 00:15:23.993 --> 00:15:30.032
  • And he was telling people to be baptized for repentance, as a
  • 00:15:30.032 --> 00:15:35.571
  • Sign of repentance.
  • 00:15:35.571 --> 00:15:37.373
  • And this is what it says in john--or in acts 19:4: "paul
  • 00:15:37.373 --> 00:15:41.643
  • Said, 'john baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling
  • 00:15:41.643 --> 00:15:45.781
  • The people to believe in him who was coming after him, that is,
  • 00:15:45.781 --> 00:15:49.985
  • In jesus.'"
  • 00:15:49.985 --> 00:15:51.954
  • So the water could very well be referring to repentance.
  • 00:15:51.954 --> 00:15:57.393
  • Unless you're born of repentance and faith, faith in the lord,
  • 00:15:57.393 --> 00:16:02.531
  • And repentance and faith are the two essentials for salvation.
  • 00:16:02.531 --> 00:16:06.602
  • Obviously, you can't get saved without the spirit working the
  • 00:16:06.602 --> 00:16:09.671
  • Word in your heart, convicting your heart, showing that you're
  • 00:16:09.671 --> 00:16:11.907
  • A sinner and you need the savior, that you won't
  • 00:16:11.907 --> 00:16:13.942
  • Get saved.
  • 00:16:13.942 --> 00:16:15.310
  • Jesus said, "if my--unless my father draws that person, he
  • 00:16:15.310 --> 00:16:18.814
  • Can't be saved.
  • 00:16:18.814 --> 00:16:20.182
  • No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him,
  • 00:16:20.182 --> 00:16:22.684
  • And i will raise him up on the last day."
  • 00:16:22.684 --> 00:16:24.920
  • So the spirit of god takes the word of god, speaks it to your
  • 00:16:24.920 --> 00:16:27.356
  • Heart, and then you have to respond.
  • 00:16:27.356 --> 00:16:30.159
  • And so he's talking to nicodemus about spiritual things, not
  • 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:33.495
  • Physical things.
  • 00:16:33.495 --> 00:16:34.830
  • He's talking to him about the fact that you need the word of
  • 00:16:34.830 --> 00:16:38.434
  • God and the spirit of god, and he's talking to him about the
  • 00:16:38.434 --> 00:16:40.536
  • Fact that you need repentance and faith.
  • 00:16:40.536 --> 00:16:43.906
  • But then insight number three: not only must every person be
  • 00:16:43.906 --> 00:16:47.609
  • Born again, but every person can be born again.
  • 00:16:47.609 --> 00:16:51.613
  • That's the good news of the gospel.
  • 00:16:51.613 --> 00:16:53.315
  • That's what we have to share with every single person: "hey,
  • 00:16:53.315 --> 00:16:55.818
  • Jesus died for you.
  • 00:16:55.818 --> 00:16:57.152
  • You can be saved."
  • 00:16:57.152 --> 00:17:00.589
  • Every person can be born again.
  • 00:17:00.589 --> 00:17:04.927
  • Now, not everybody responds to jesus, obviously.
  • 00:17:04.927 --> 00:17:09.031
  • Not everybody responds to the spirit and the word.
  • 00:17:09.031 --> 00:17:11.934
  • Not everybody responds to the fact that they're lost, that
  • 00:17:11.934 --> 00:17:15.804
  • They're in a--on the highway to hell and they need the savior.
  • 00:17:15.804 --> 00:17:18.807
  • Not everybody repents and believes.
  • 00:17:18.807 --> 00:17:20.609
  • That's obvious.
  • 00:17:20.609 --> 00:17:23.045
  • John chapter 1, "he was in the world and the world was made
  • 00:17:23.045 --> 00:17:25.314
  • Through him, and the world did not know him.
  • 00:17:25.314 --> 00:17:26.682
  • He came to his own and those who were his own did not
  • 00:17:26.682 --> 00:17:28.784
  • Receive him."
  • 00:17:28.784 --> 00:17:30.252
  • You have to respond in repentance and faith, but every
  • 00:17:30.252 --> 00:17:34.790
  • Person can be born again.
  • 00:17:34.790 --> 00:17:36.492
  • See, jesus died and rose again for you.
  • 00:17:36.492 --> 00:17:40.496
  • For you.
  • 00:17:40.496 --> 00:17:42.131
  • Now, john 3:16: "for god so loved the world," well, that's
  • 00:17:42.131 --> 00:17:45.968
  • Pretty big, that's pretty broad, that's the world, that's a
  • 00:17:45.968 --> 00:17:48.137
  • Faceless humanity.
  • 00:17:48.137 --> 00:17:50.305
  • Yeah, but then paul says, "he loved me and delivered himself
  • 00:17:50.305 --> 00:17:53.909
  • Up for me.
  • 00:17:53.909 --> 00:17:55.244
  • He died for me."
  • 00:17:55.244 --> 00:17:56.812
  • For god so loved jeff schreve that he gave his only begotten
  • 00:17:56.812 --> 00:17:59.414
  • Son, that whosoever believed, that if jeff schreve would
  • 00:17:59.414 --> 00:18:01.984
  • Believe on him, he would not perish but have
  • 00:18:01.984 --> 00:18:03.619
  • Everlasting life.
  • 00:18:03.619 --> 00:18:04.987
  • And you can stick your name in there too, because he died for
  • 00:18:04.987 --> 00:18:07.389
  • You and rose again from the dead for you.
  • 00:18:07.389 --> 00:18:10.058
  • You can be born again, and you can look to jesus in
  • 00:18:10.058 --> 00:18:16.698
  • Faith today.
  • 00:18:16.698 --> 00:18:19.368
  • Now he goes on to say this, nicodemus, verse 9: "'how can
  • 00:18:19.368 --> 00:18:25.174
  • These things be?'
  • 00:18:25.174 --> 00:18:27.075
  • Jesus answered and said to him, 'are you the teacher of israel
  • 00:18:27.075 --> 00:18:30.679
  • And do not understand these things?
  • 00:18:30.679 --> 00:18:32.681
  • Truly, truly, i say to you, we speak of what we know.'"
  • 00:18:32.681 --> 00:18:36.685
  • That's another truth bomb.
  • 00:18:36.685 --> 00:18:38.053
  • That's another one of those "truly, trulys."
  • 00:18:38.053 --> 00:18:39.688
  • "we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen,
  • 00:18:39.688 --> 00:18:42.891
  • And you do not accept our testimony.
  • 00:18:42.891 --> 00:18:45.194
  • If i told you earthly things and you do not believe, how would
  • 00:18:45.194 --> 00:18:47.663
  • You believe if i tell you heavenly things?
  • 00:18:47.663 --> 00:18:49.965
  • No one--" now he's gonna present his deity here.
  • 00:18:49.965 --> 00:18:54.203
  • "no one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended
  • 00:18:54.203 --> 00:18:58.807
  • From heaven: the son of man."
  • 00:18:58.807 --> 00:19:02.678
  • And then he gives him another another illustration that
  • 00:19:02.678 --> 00:19:05.047
  • Nicodemus would be very familiar with, from the book of numbers:
  • 00:19:05.047 --> 00:19:08.450
  • "as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
  • 00:19:08.450 --> 00:19:11.587
  • The son of man be lifted up; so that whatever--that whoever
  • 00:19:11.587 --> 00:19:15.457
  • Believes will in him have eternal life."
  • 00:19:15.457 --> 00:19:19.194
  • You remember that, nicodemus?
  • 00:19:19.194 --> 00:19:20.796
  • You remember in numbers when the people were grumbling and
  • 00:19:20.796 --> 00:19:23.732
  • Grippling and complaining and god had had enough and he sent
  • 00:19:23.732 --> 00:19:27.236
  • Fiery serpents among the people and they were biting the people
  • 00:19:27.236 --> 00:19:30.305
  • And they were dying?
  • 00:19:30.305 --> 00:19:31.974
  • Do you remember what happened?
  • 00:19:31.974 --> 00:19:34.109
  • This is what the lord said:
  • 00:19:34.109 --> 00:19:37.079
  • "then the lord said to moses--" the people come to moses, say,
  • 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:40.882
  • "we have sinned.
  • 00:19:40.882 --> 00:19:42.217
  • What are we gonna do?"
  • 00:19:42.217 --> 00:19:43.585
  • "the lord said to moses," numbers 21, "'make a fiery
  • 00:19:43.585 --> 00:19:45.120
  • Serpent, and set it on a standard,'" on a pole, "'and it
  • 00:19:45.120 --> 00:19:48.123
  • Shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at
  • 00:19:48.123 --> 00:19:50.659
  • It, he will live.'
  • 00:19:50.659 --> 00:19:52.027
  • And moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and
  • 00:19:52.027 --> 00:19:55.063
  • It came about if the serpent bit any man, when he looked to the
  • 00:19:55.063 --> 00:19:58.100
  • Bronze serpent, he lived."
  • 00:19:58.100 --> 00:20:00.936
  • Jesus said, "nicodemus, you remember that?"
  • 00:20:00.936 --> 00:20:03.438
  • Well, obviously, nicodemus knew that.
  • 00:20:03.438 --> 00:20:04.940
  • He memorized it.
  • 00:20:04.940 --> 00:20:06.475
  • He knew that, and he said, "what did they do?
  • 00:20:06.475 --> 00:20:09.511
  • They put a bronze serpent on a pole and they lifted it up.
  • 00:20:09.511 --> 00:20:14.249
  • And if i," john 12, "be lifted up from the earth," jesus said,
  • 00:20:14.249 --> 00:20:18.587
  • "i will draw all men to me.
  • 00:20:18.587 --> 00:20:21.189
  • I'm gonna be lifted up one day because god so loved you,
  • 00:20:21.189 --> 00:20:24.893
  • Nicodemus, that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever
  • 00:20:24.893 --> 00:20:27.462
  • Believes in him should not perish, but have
  • 00:20:27.462 --> 00:20:28.864
  • Everlasting life.
  • 00:20:28.864 --> 00:20:30.198
  • The father did not send the son into the world to condemn the
  • 00:20:30.198 --> 00:20:32.567
  • World, but that the world should be saved through him," how?
  • 00:20:32.567 --> 00:20:35.871
  • Through his death and burial and resurrection.
  • 00:20:35.871 --> 00:20:38.340
  • Jesus was going to be lifted up on the cross, just like that
  • 00:20:38.340 --> 00:20:41.777
  • Serpent that bit the people.
  • 00:20:41.777 --> 00:20:44.680
  • Lifted up.
  • 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:46.448
  • What do you have to do? you have to look to it.
  • 00:20:46.448 --> 00:20:49.051
  • You get bitten by a serpent. what do you have to do?
  • 00:20:49.051 --> 00:20:50.986
  • "i have to go to the lab and try and come up
  • 00:20:50.986 --> 00:20:52.721
  • With a medicine to fix me."
  • 00:20:52.721 --> 00:20:54.256
  • No, you don't have to do that.
  • 00:20:54.256 --> 00:20:55.791
  • "i gotta go kill all the serpents."
  • 00:20:55.791 --> 00:20:57.125
  • No, you don't have to do that.
  • 00:20:57.125 --> 00:20:58.460
  • "i gotta go climb to the top of mount everest and back."
  • 00:20:58.460 --> 00:21:02.664
  • No, you don't have to do that.
  • 00:21:02.664 --> 00:21:04.032
  • You have to look to the serpent on the pole.
  • 00:21:04.032 --> 00:21:07.202
  • You just look, and if you look to the serpent on a pole, you
  • 00:21:07.202 --> 00:21:11.973
  • Will be saved.
  • 00:21:11.973 --> 00:21:14.242
  • That's what jesus was teaching him.
  • 00:21:14.242 --> 00:21:16.845
  • You just look to him, and you can experience the power of the
  • 00:21:16.845 --> 00:21:23.085
  • Holy spirit, the power of the new birth.
  • 00:21:23.085 --> 00:21:25.854
  • "the wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it.
  • 00:21:25.854 --> 00:21:31.660
  • You don't know where it comes from and where it is going."
  • 00:21:31.660 --> 00:21:33.795
  • You can't--you can't describe the wind, you can't understand
  • 00:21:33.795 --> 00:21:37.065
  • The wind.
  • 00:21:37.065 --> 00:21:38.400
  • There's a mystery to the wind.
  • 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:41.002
  • He said, "so is everyone who is born of the spirit."
  • 00:21:41.002 --> 00:21:44.406
  • It's invisible, you can't see it, and it's a mystery.
  • 00:21:44.406 --> 00:21:47.709
  • It's hard to describe, but you know what?
  • 00:21:47.709 --> 00:21:50.178
  • You walk out on a windy day and you know for sure the wind
  • 00:21:50.178 --> 00:21:53.482
  • Is blowing.
  • 00:21:53.482 --> 00:21:54.816
  • You can see the effects of the wind, you can see the power of
  • 00:21:54.816 --> 00:21:57.519
  • The wind.
  • 00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:59.087
  • Jesus said, "so is everyone who is born of the spirit."
  • 00:21:59.087 --> 00:22:03.358
  • Hey, when you're born again, it's way different than what
  • 00:22:03.358 --> 00:22:06.895
  • Nicodemus had, because what nicodemus had was religion.
  • 00:22:06.895 --> 00:22:10.899
  • And it's effort and it's, oh, it's trying so hard and it's
  • 00:22:10.899 --> 00:22:14.302
  • Trying to be meticulous and "i'm gonna do all these things to
  • 00:22:14.302 --> 00:22:16.805
  • Hopefully pull myself up by my bootstraps and make myself
  • 00:22:16.805 --> 00:22:20.275
  • Respectable to god."
  • 00:22:20.275 --> 00:22:21.610
  • You will never do that,
  • 00:22:21.610 --> 00:22:23.578
  • Because you are a sinner, and the wages of sin is death.
  • 00:22:23.578 --> 00:22:28.316
  • And although god loves you, you are under the judgment of god,
  • 00:22:28.316 --> 00:22:32.220
  • But he loves you too much to leave you there, so he sent his
  • 00:22:32.220 --> 00:22:34.623
  • Son to die on the cross and rise again from the dead for you.
  • 00:22:34.623 --> 00:22:38.860
  • And if you'll put your faith and trust in jesus, he'll come in.
  • 00:22:38.860 --> 00:22:43.165
  • And here's what the bible says: "in him, in jesus, was life and
  • 00:22:43.165 --> 00:22:47.736
  • The life was the light of men."
  • 00:22:47.736 --> 00:22:50.639
  • And so when you receive christ as savior and lord, the lord
  • 00:22:50.639 --> 00:22:54.476
  • Comes in through the person of the holy spirit, and when the
  • 00:22:54.476 --> 00:22:56.978
  • Lord comes in, the life comes in, and when the life comes in
  • 00:22:56.978 --> 00:23:00.248
  • The light comes on, and everything changes in your life.
  • 00:23:00.248 --> 00:23:03.819
  • How do you know that you've been born again?
  • 00:23:03.819 --> 00:23:05.821
  • Because you can't be the same person that you were.
  • 00:23:05.821 --> 00:23:08.924
  • You're under new management and everything changes.
  • 00:23:08.924 --> 00:23:15.897
  • And there's power that wasn't there before.
  • 00:23:15.897 --> 00:23:19.301
  • There's conviction of sin that wasn't there before.
  • 00:23:19.301 --> 00:23:25.807
  • What happened to nicodemus?
  • 00:23:25.807 --> 00:23:27.876
  • He listened to jesus.
  • 00:23:27.876 --> 00:23:30.846
  • And jesus, the words that he speak were words of life, and he
  • 00:23:30.846 --> 00:23:34.983
  • Began to process.
  • 00:23:34.983 --> 00:23:36.318
  • When we read about nicodemus in john chapter 7, he defends jesus
  • 00:23:36.318 --> 00:23:40.021
  • Among the religious leaders, and then in john 19, when jesus died
  • 00:23:40.021 --> 00:23:44.326
  • On the cross, nicodemus came with joseph of arimathea and at
  • 00:23:44.326 --> 00:23:48.697
  • Great personal cost to them in reputation and in their circles
  • 00:23:48.697 --> 00:23:54.102
  • With the pharisees, they requested the body of jesus.
  • 00:23:54.102 --> 00:23:57.973
  • And they anointed the body of jesus and they put jesus in the
  • 00:23:57.973 --> 00:24:01.943
  • Tomb of joseph of arimathea, a rich man.
  • 00:24:01.943 --> 00:24:05.247
  • By all indications, nicodemus came to know christ.
  • 00:24:05.247 --> 00:24:10.852
  • He responded with repentance and faith, and he was saved, he was
  • 00:24:10.852 --> 00:24:14.623
  • Born again.
  • 00:24:14.623 --> 00:24:15.991
  • Jeff: in the earthly ministry of jesus, he interacted with a lot
  • 00:24:18.860 --> 00:24:22.264
  • Of people in a variety of ways, and the responses given to him
  • 00:24:22.264 --> 00:24:26.768
  • Were equally diverse.
  • 00:24:26.768 --> 00:24:28.737
  • Now, many encounters led to positive outcomes like healing
  • 00:24:28.737 --> 00:24:32.107
  • And deliverance and salvation, but others resulted in conflict
  • 00:24:32.107 --> 00:24:37.379
  • And rejection.
  • 00:24:37.379 --> 00:24:38.813
  • Our lord demonstrated his love by meeting each person where
  • 00:24:38.813 --> 00:24:42.350
  • They were, physically and spiritually, often in their
  • 00:24:42.350 --> 00:24:45.654
  • Everyday environment.
  • 00:24:45.654 --> 00:24:47.155
  • He showed compassion and he cared for people's needs.
  • 00:24:47.155 --> 00:24:51.159
  • He also spoke to people's hearts and connected with them on a
  • 00:24:51.159 --> 00:24:54.129
  • Personal level, but some were offended by his teachings, and
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  • They turned away, and some simply hated him, even to the
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  • Point of death.
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  • So here's the question: what about you?
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  • Can you encounter those opposed to jesus and remain focused on
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  • Sharing the good news?
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  • I believe this new series, "divine encounters: what happens
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  • When people meet the master?"
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  • Can help you in your witness for christ.
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  • These eight messages present clear examples on how we're to
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  • Interact with different people in different walks of life and
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  • Still effectively and compassionately share the good
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  • Jeff: we're in a series, "divine encounters: what happens when
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  • People meet the master?"
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  • So i have this question for you: have you met the master?
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  • Have you come to know jesus in a real and personal way?
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  • And if not, today can be the day for you.
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  • Pray this prayer with me: "lord jesus, i need you.
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  • I know that i'm a sinner and i'm lost and i can't save myself.
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  • But jesus, i believe that you are god in the flesh.
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  • I believe you died on the cross for my sins and rose again from
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  • The dead.
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  • And right now, jesus, i open my heart to you.
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  • Come into my life, forgive me of all my sins, be my lord
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  • And savior.
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  • I surrender my all to you."
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  • My friend, if you'll pray that kind of prayer and mean it, the
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  • Lord will come in, and your life will never be the same.
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  • To receive christ.
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  • Contact us and let us know
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  • And we'll be faithful
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  • To pray for you.
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  • Remember, god loves you
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  • And we do too.
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  • ♪♪♪
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