Ed Young - A New Nature

December 18, 2024 | S24:E5103

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - A New Nature | December 18, 2024

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Dr. ed young: jesus began his public ministry in jerusalem, in
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Judea, on the temple mount, there at the temple.
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The perfect place to begin, would you say?
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And when you read the bible about the temple that can't be
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Talking about the temple mount, which is an area of 19 acres.
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But on the temple mount in jesus' day, if you went there
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You would go from east to west.
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And you would go in through the court of the gentiles, the court
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Of the women, you'd go to the court of israel, you'd go to
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The court of the priests.
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And then you would move and see the offers of sacrifice, then
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There was a holy place, and then there was the holy of holies in
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The temple itself.
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So when jesus went up into the temple, he first entered the
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Court of the gentiles.
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And you remember what he saw?
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It was a cattle auction.
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It was money-changers.
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Jews from all over the world by the thousands came to jerusalem
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To remember and to celebrate this moment, and they were going
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To buy various kinds of animals and doves to offer a sacrifice
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For their sin to the temple.
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And there in the court of the gentiles, it was at an auction
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Place where you'd buy cattle at exorbitant prices.
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Sheep, goat auctions, sometime doves.
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And then you had to pay your temple tax, a half-shekel for
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Every jew that was over 20 years of age.
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And they, the jews would not take the coinage from the
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Various nations they came from, they'd have to take their coins
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From all the nations and exchange it into jewish coins.
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What a chance for profit!
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[whistles]
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Man, you talk about, jackin' up the price.
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You talk about making money.
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And you'd never seen a thing about it.
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The slipped-slide, quick movement there, you couldn't
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Find anything like it unless you visit new york stock exchange,
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I guess.
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And that was when jesus saw the exploitation of the common
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People, he went over and made a whip.
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And he went and took that whip and he drove the animals out of
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The court of the gentiles.
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And he went over, he turned over all the tables of
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The money-exchangers.
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And he drove them out and said, god's house, the temple,
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The place of worship for prayer, has been made into an
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Exploitive business.
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Get out of here.
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He just, in texas terms, cleaned house.
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Naturally they had taken care of the floor, picked up some
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Litter, then the temple could be entered.
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And sacrifice and worship could take place.
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Now when jesus did that, you talk about upsetting the power
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Structure in jerusalem and israel!
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My, my, my, this was the season where they made all their money!
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Passover!
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Business big time!
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Make or break.
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And then the authorities went to him and they said, right here in
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The second chapter of john, who do you think you are, jesus?
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By what authority do you do the things that you do?
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Jesus' answer was interesting.
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He said, you destroyed this temple.
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In three days, it'll be put right back in place.
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They thought he was talking about the physical temple.
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He was talking about his body.
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He was talking about the destruction of his body on the
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Cross, and how in three days he would have a new
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Resurrected body.
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He would be rediscovered, reconstituted into a new person,
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An eternal person.
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They missed it.
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And then it says, in this same scripture, in john chapter 2
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That jesus taught during the passover all around the temple.
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And it says that many people believed.
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They believed.
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They believed because of his signs, his miracles.
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How many miracles you think can be counted in the bible that
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Jesus performed in three-and-a-half years?
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36.
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There were others, we're sure, but only 36 can be counted.
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Three and a half years, that's about one a month, isn't it?
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You see, jesus knew if you attract crowds by sensational
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Acts, you have to do something more sensational next time, and
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The next time.
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That's the reason they jumped off the temple, remember?
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When he was being tempted?
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No show business.
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And a lot of people believe, because the signs, and look what
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Jesus says about that.
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Latter part of john chapter 2, "but jesus on his part," verse
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24, "was not entrusting himself to them, for he,
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Jesus, knew all men.
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And because he did not need anyone to testify concerning
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Man, for he himself knew what was in man."
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Isn't that interesting?
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Jesus knew the real from the artificial.
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He knew those who were just following him because of all
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The signs and the sensation of the moment.
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He knew man.
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And then he begins right in chapter 3--by the way, john
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Chapter 3 is one of the great chapters in the bible.
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Romans 8, john 3, start of genesis 1, revelation 20, some
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Great chapters.
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But john 3 is one of the greatest.
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And it's so interesting.
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It says, "now there was a man of the pharisees named nicodemus,
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A ruler of the jews."
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In other words, jesus knew mankind, and then he said,
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Here's a man, in other words, would represent the best that
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Human production can reveal.
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Nicodemus.
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So, i call him nick at night.
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Because you went to jesus at night.
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People say, well, he was ashamed.
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No.
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That's when people would meet.
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They'd go to housetops, all the hustle in there, nick could have
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A private audience with this new, itinerant, prophet-type
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From galilee.
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So nick goes to jesus.
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And i want you to see two or three things.
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Number one, nicodemus knew about jesus,
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And he thought jesus
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Needed credentials, confirmation, legitimacy.
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Because jesus had just cleansed the temple, of all things.
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And nick goes to him, and what broad, complimentary words does
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He say about jesus?
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He says, "the man came to jesus by night, and said to
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Him, 'rabbi.'"
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He gives jesus the title rabbi.
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He had no way, that was not a legitimate title, jesus had
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Finished no institution, he hadn't been ordained, he hadn't
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Been set aside, he hadn't been certified.
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But here nick calls him rabbi.
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Man, quite a thing!
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He says, "we know you have come from god."
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Whoa.
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He recognized jesus was a messenger from god?
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He says a teacher.
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What a great, great word.
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A teacher.
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"for no one can do these signs, a miracle worker, unless god is
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With him."
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Let me tell you something.
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Nicodemus got it, didn't he?
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He said, he gave him the title of rabbi.
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He said, you've supported you have signs and miracles, you
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Must be from god.
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And you're a teacher whom god has ordained and god
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Has touched.
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You see, nick was giving jesus legitimacy!
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Not some you-born-rabble-rouser from galilee who had cleansed
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The temple.
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He saw perhaps that jesus, if he were the messiah, was fulfilling
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Prophecy when he cleaned out god's house.
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Prophecy in zechariah.
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Prophecy in malachi chapter 3. prophecy in psalm chapter 19.
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He was fulfilling prophecy.
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Cleaning up a place of worship.
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And maybe, somehow, nick saw this.
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And so he thought to give jesus legitimacy.
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But notice about jesus.
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Jesus also knew about nick, but look what he says.
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Jesus answered, verse 3, and said to him, "truly, truly."
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By the way, truly, truly means amen, amen.
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It means book it!
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Nail it down!
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This is true truth!
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Jesus says, true truth, i say to you, nicodemus, "unless one is
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Born again he cannot see the kingdom of god."
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Huh.
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Nicodemus?
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You've got every base covered.
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But yet you, nicodemus, need to be born again, or you'll never
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Get to the kingdom of god.
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When nicodemus thought he represented the kingdom of god.
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He had everything the world could offer, and everything the
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Kingdom of god could offer, and here this jesus was saying, whom
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He just legitimized, you gotta be born again.
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Ladies and gentlemen, someone says to me, well, i've always
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Been a christian, you know, my mother, and dad were christians,
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We were brought up in the church.
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Nonsense!
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Nonsense!
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Jesus says we have to be born again and have a new nature,
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A new appetite, a new vision, new insight.
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That's what it takes to be a follower of jesus christ.
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It takes a new birth.
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Even nicodemus, trained, disciplined, moral, erudite,
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Wealthy, had everything position, political esteem, he
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Had it all, and he had to be born again if he were ever
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To see the kingdom of god.
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We're born again, no matter where we are in life.
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And then nicodemus was still confused.
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In other words, the word that i use for nicodemus here
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Is bewildered.
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Ever been bewildered?
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I mean, here was nick, who-- man, he was at the top of
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The line here.
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This prophet, whom he just legitimized, saying, nick,
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You gotta be born again.
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You can't make it on just rules and laws and discipline, you
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Gotta be born again.
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And then we have two how questions asked by nick.
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Look at them.
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I think they're very, very revealing in this conversation
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At night on top of a roof, in all probability.
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He says, "how can a man be born when he is old?
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He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be
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Born, can he?"
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In other words, he ain't goin' back in your mother's womb and
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Be born again, he took it literally.
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And jesus answered, he said, "truly, truly."
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There's our word, amen amen.
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It's absolutely true, "i say to you, unless one is born of
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Water," that probably means physical birth, water breaks,
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There's the birth,
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"and of the spirit," that's a spiritual birth, "he cannot
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Enter into the kingdom of god."
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In other words, there is a physical birth in this world.
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There's a spiritual birth into the next world.
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A physical birth on earth, a spiritual birth that prepares us
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Now and carries us all the way through to heaven.
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Then jesus says, verse 6, that which is born of the flesh is
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Flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
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In other words, flesh begets flesh.
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A cat doesn't give birth to a dog.
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Cats give birth to cats.
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A plum tree doesn't produce watermelons.
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Plum trees produce plums, and watermelon vines produce
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Other watermelons.
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Light begets light.
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When we gave birth to our children, our children were born
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With our sin, our natural sin, within them, just like we
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Were born.
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We pass that down in lineage.
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Flesh is flesh, spirit is spirit, and we have to be born
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Again to change our appetites.
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And then this little verse is so very interesting.
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And jesus is speaking to the confusion, the bewilderment,
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I think, of nick.
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And he says, "that which is born of flesh is flesh,
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Spirit is spirit."
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Verse 7, "do not be amazed, nick, that i said to you,
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You must!"
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That's an imperative.
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You must be born again.
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Nick couldn't get it!
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He had everything.
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He would say, you know, i need to be born again?
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I was pastor before i came here in the first baptist church
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In columbia, south carolina.
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The church is uniquely located, it's right in the heart of that
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Capital city.
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So you can imagine the street traffic that we had.
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Prostitutes, addicts, all around the street 24/7.
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From the bars, able to come in drunk and fall into the various
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Doors that went into the church.
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Now just imagine, i'm going there to speak, and i'm speaking
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On john 3 and talking about second chances.
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You must be born again.
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And i would go into the church i pastor, which is a prestigious
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Church, the sitting governor was a member, his family would come
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In a limo and sit on the back.
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We had the city manager, we had judges, we had politicians, we
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Had doctors, we had people, business people, from all walks
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Of life, typical deep south first baptist church, all the
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Elite, many generations membership there.
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And i went in there and told them, no matter who you from,
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What you've done, what you accomplish, what your position
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Is, you've gotta be born again.
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You need a second chance, a fresh beginning.
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And they would sit there...
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But i think that message, had i gone out into the streets, which
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I did, and i would see people who maybe still had needles in
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Their arm, who are still getting over a drunk, who would come in
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On a bus to go to the hospital to hope for some answers, to
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Those who people were bringing them there to admit them into
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A home for those who are mentally disturbed.
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I got, i think out there in the street i'd say, look!
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God in christ can give you a new chance.
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You could be forgiven.
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And whatever you did last night doesn't make any difference, god
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Will forgive, god will let you be born again, you'll have a
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Whole new look and life!
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You know, they were a lot more receptive than those who sat in
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The pews.
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You wonder why?
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Oh yeah.
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There was a desperation there.
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There was a need there.
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You're gonna have a new beginning.
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Whatever has happened in the past doesn't make any difference
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To god.
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You need to be born again and christ has provided a way for
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You to be born again.
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So that's the message.
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Nicodemus was amazed.
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Absolutely amazed.
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I need to be born again?
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Then there's that other how.
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Nicodemus asked a second how question.
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And he moves down he said, he said, "you must be born again,"
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Verse 7.
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Verse 8, he said, "the wind blows where it wishes and you
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Hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and
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Where it is going, so is someone who is born of the spirit."
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Do you think we know today where the wind comes from?
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Which way it's going to go?
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If you think so, you have been watching all these hurricanes.
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Well, it could come down this way, we've got one pattern, it
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Moves across this way, we think it's gonna be thursday, but it
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Could be thursday three weeks-- they don't know!
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Don't have a clue!
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They have patterns and trends and what they believe.
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The wind is very capricious.
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God controls it.
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Thank god that he does.
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He controls the wind of the holy spirit, that's exactly what
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We're saying here.
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The spirit of god blows and moves, and it convicts, and it
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Convinces, and it causes some who didn't even know they needed
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It to be born again, to come to christ, have a fresh new
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Beautiful start in life.
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What an amazing thing!
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And then there's that how.
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Nicodemus says, verse 9, "how can these things be true?"
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The second how.
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"jesus answered, and said to him, 'are you, nick, a teacher
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Of israel and do not understand these things?'"
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In other words, jesus said, look, nick, have you read
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The old testament?
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You're a scholar.
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Do you not know how the spirit of god has touched david, had
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Changed him?
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How the spirit of god led this prophet?
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Do you not see that all the way through everything you studied?
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What's the matter with you, nick?
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The spirit of god makes all the difference in the world.
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And then jesus goes on.
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"truly, truly," there's our words, "i say to you, we speak
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Of what we know," says jesus to nick, "and testify to what we
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Have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
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I told you earthly things and you do not believe, nick, how
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Will you believe if i tell you heavenly things?"
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What's he saying?
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Jesus is saying, look, nick, i want to tell you something.
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You've already said i'm from god.
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You've already said my teaching is valid.
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You've already said all the legitimacy i needed because i am
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A breath from god itself.
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And now you won't believe me when i point out to you, for
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Example, that all those john the baptist baptized, repented, and
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Were baptized, they're brand new people by the power of the
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Spirit, and when they receive me they'll be born from above.
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They'll have a brand new, clean, sparkling, transparent life.
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Don't you get that, nick?
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And then that little verse there.
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Jesus said, "no one has ascended to heaven, but he who has
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Descended from heaven, the son of man."
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He's saying to nick, i came from heaven, my home is in heaven,
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And i descended to this earth and i'm speaking authoritatively
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About these matters that even somebody as moral, as powerful,
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As wealthy, as influential as you, you gotta be born again.
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You gotta be born again.
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Now we've got two how questions nick asked.
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How can this be, how?
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But there is that unasked question.
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And this whole passage kept haunting me--
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Well, it's sorta like there's an elephant in the room, something
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That's not being asked in this dialogue, and jesus, i think,
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Perceives that unasked question.
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And it was not how can i be born again?
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Nick kept asking.
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He really wanted to ask, why do i, of all people, need to be
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Born again?
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Jesus answers in the next verse.
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And let me say it up front.
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The answer is, nick, you've been bitten by the snake.
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Nick, you're snake-bitten.
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And he used an old testament passage where nick would get it.
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"as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
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The son of man be lifted up."
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And then the next verse, he just follows through, and he moves on
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And he says, "nick, so that whoever believes in him will
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Have eternal life."
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He's talking about the cross.
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Those israelites rebelled, snakes came and started to bite
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All them, they began to die, they were dying, and they went
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To moses and said, what can we do?
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And moses went to god, and god said, you take a stick, and put
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A bronze snake on that stick, a symbol they'd been bitten by
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The snake.
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That's the reason they were dying, they were disobedient,
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They were sinners.
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And god said to moses, hold up that snake on that stick, and
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Everybody who looks at the snake on the stick will be healed,
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They'll be saved, and they did.
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And jesus is saying, this is what's gonna happen, nick.
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I'm going to be crucified.
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I'm gonna take all the bite, all the sin that's in you, and the
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Poison and everybody else, and i'm going to die for that poison
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So that they might have life.
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And that is the way that they can have a brand new life, they
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Can be born again.
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That was the answer.
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Now i've got a question.
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You read commentaries on this passage, and there are just
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Hundreds of them, i've read, read, read.
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And they're divided on whether or not nicodemus was
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A christian.
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All right, they're equally divided.
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Some say he was a christian because of this, some say, oh
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No, he wasn't a christian because of this.
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Let me tell you something.
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I am convinced that nick was a born-again christian, that he
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Became a born-again christian.
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Let me tell you why.
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Later on, the sanhedrin, supreme court, discussing jesus, and
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They were already convicting him, and nicodemus spoke up and
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Said, look, somebody's innocent until proven guilty.
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You have to have evidence.
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Everybody's innocent, you have to prove his guilt, you're not
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Giving him a fair trial.
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He spoke up for jesus in the supreme court.
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Also, when jesus was crucified, joseph of arimathea, also a
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Member of the supreme court, lent jesus his tomb.
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He didn't need it very long.
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Lent jesus his tomb, and in that passage of joseph of arimathea
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Also has mentioned nicodemus.
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And so that's an assumption.
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Also he was messiah and one sign would be nicodemus gave all the
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Myrrh and the aloe that were needed as spice to bury jesus as
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Was that custom, and it was over 75 pounds of myrrh and aloe.
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This was the amount that would be given and spent for someone
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Who would be a king.
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But that didn't convince me.
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What nailed down the fact that nick was indeed born again was,
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I am sure as a theologian, a scholar, he went back and
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Recalled what happened there on that housetop.
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And what happened in john 3. and nick said, you know, when he
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Talked about his body, if it were destroyed it'd be raised in
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Three days, he looked back on that and said, that's
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What happened.
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And he looked back on this passage about the snake being
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Lifted up, he said, he died on a cross.
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And he looked back and talked about jesus ascending and
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Descending, that would be his, jesus', ascent into heaven after
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Appearing 40 days on this earth in his resurrected body,
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Witnessed to by 500 to 1,000 people.
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Oh that would be his ascension.
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And then the wind blowing where it wants to blow, that would
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Be pentecost.
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And so nick had evidence of the major points in the life of
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Jesus, and i am convinced that nick at night was a born-again
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Believer in the lord jesus christ.
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Ed young: we have all felt alone.
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Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
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On earth.
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But god did not create us to live in
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A constant state of loneliness.
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We need community and fellowship
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With others for our emotional and physical well-being.
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Listen, if you are experiencing loneliness today,
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Dr. ed young: jesus said to nicodemus,
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You need to be born again.
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He was saying what you need is something you cannot do
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For yourself.
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You need a new nature, a new appetite, a new vision.
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You need to follow me and become a member of my family.
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And that comes about when you experience a spiritual birth
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That makes you a brand-new person.
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Let me ask you, do you need to be reborn?
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Has jesus made you brand-new inside and out?
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Take a moment, just a moment, call the number on your screen.
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And we want to guide you as you take maybe your first step, or
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Maybe you step again into new life with jesus christ.
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Call right now.
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Let me personally thank you for joining me today, and please
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Tune in next time as we study god's wonderful word on
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"the winning walk."
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Ed Young - A New Nature

December 18, 2024 | S24:E5103

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