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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - A New Nature | April 29, 2026
- Well, i've always been a christian.
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- You know, my mother and dad were christian.
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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
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- We have to be born again and have a new nature,
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- A new appetite, 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, discipline, moral, erudite,
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- Wealthy, had everything positioned political esteem.
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- He had it all.
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- But he had to be born again if he were ever to see
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- The kingdom.
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- We're born again.
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- Jesus.
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- Began his public ministry
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- In jerusalem, in judea.
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- On the temple mount.
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- There. at the temple.
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- The perfect place to begin.
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- Would you say
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- Then when you read the bible about the temple, it can 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,
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- If you went there, you would go from east to west,
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- And you would go in through the court
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- Of the gentiles, the court of the women.
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- You'd go to the court of israel,
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- You'd go to the court of the priest,
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- And then you would move and see the offers of sacrifice.
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- Then there was a holy place, and then there was the holy
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- Of holies in the temple itself.
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- So when jesus went up into the temple,
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- He first entered the court of the gentiles.
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- And you remember what he saw?
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- It was a catalog, shin.
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- It was money changers.
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- Jews from all over the world by the thousands,
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- Came to jerusalem to remember and to celebrate this moment.
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- And they were going to buy various kinds of animals
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- And doves to offer sacrifice for their sins, the temple
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- And then the court of the gentiles.
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- It was an auction place where you'd buy cadillac
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- Exorbitant prices.
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- She goat auctions, sometimes doves,
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- And then you had to pay your temple tax a half shekel
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- For every jew that was over 20 years of age.
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- And they,
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- The jews, would not take the coinage
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- From the various nations they came from.
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- They'd had to take their coins from all the nation
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- And exchange it into jewish coins.
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- What a chance for profit man.
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- You talk about jacking up the price,
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- You talk about making money
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- And you've never seen thing about it.
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- The the slip slide, quick movement there.
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- You couldn't find anything like it
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- Unless you visit new york stock exchange, i guess.
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- And that was when jesus
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- Saw the exploitation of the common people.
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- He went over, made a whip,
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- And he went and took that whip, and he drove the animals
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- Out of the court of the gentiles.
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- And he went over.
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- He turned over all the tables of the money exchangers,
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- And he drove them out and said, god's house,
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- The temple, the place of worship for
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- Prayer, has been made into an export business.
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- Get out of here!
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- He just in texas turn terms.
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- Cleaned house.
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- Natural.
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- They had
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- Taking care of the floor.
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- Picked up some litter.
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- 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
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- Upsetting the power structure in jerusalem and israel.
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- My my, my,
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- This was the season which they made all their money.
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- Passover.
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- This is big time.
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- Make or break.
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- And then the authorities went to him and they said,
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- Right here in the second chapter of john,
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- Who do you think you are, jesus?
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- By what a song do you do?
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- The things that you do?
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- Jesus answer was interesting.
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- He said, you destroy this temple in three days,
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- 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
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- Of his body on the cross, and how in three days
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- He would have a new resurrected body.
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- He would be rediscovered, reconstituted
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- Into a new person, 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 two,
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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 believe.
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- They believe because of his signs, his miracles.
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- How many miracles do you think or can be counted?
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- The bible that jesus performed in three and a half years 36.
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- There were others were sure, but
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- Only 36 can be counted three and a half years.
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- That's about one a month, isn't it?
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- You see, jesus knew if you attract crowds
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- By sensational acts,
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- You have to do something more sensational next time
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- And the next time.
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- That's the reason they jump off the temple.
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- Remember when he was being tempted?
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- No show business.
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- And a lot of people believe because of the signs.
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- And look what jesus says about that letter.
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- Part of john chapter two.
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- But jesus on his part,
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- Verse 24, was not entrusting himself
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- To them, for he, jesus knew all men.
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- And because he did not need anyone to testify
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- Concerning man for himself, knew what was in man.
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- Literally,
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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, the moment he knew man.
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- And then he begins right in chapter three.
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- By the way,
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- John, chapter three
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- Is one of the great chapters in the bible.
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- Romans eight, john's three, certainly genesis
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- One, revelation 20, some great chapters.
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- But john three 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 vicodin,
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- A ruler of the jews.
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- In other words, jesus knew mankind.
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- And then he said, here's a man.
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- In other words, would represent the best
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- That human production can reveal.
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- Nicodemus.
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- So i call him nick at nite
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- Because he went to jesus at night.
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- I feel say, well, he was ashamed.
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- Know that's when people would meet.
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- They'd go to housetops all the hustle in there.
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- Nick could have a private audience with this new
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- Itinerant prophet type from galilee.
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- So nick goes to
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- Jesus and i want you to see 2 or 3 things.
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- Number one.
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- Nicodemus.
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- You about jesus.
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- And he thought
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- Jesus needed credentials,
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- Confirmation,
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- Legitimacy because jesus
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- Had just cleansed the temple of all things.
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- And nick goes to him.
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- And what broad, complementary words does he say about jesus?
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- He says,
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- The man came to jesus by night
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- And said to him, rabbi, he gives jesus a title rabbi.
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- He had no way that was not a legitimate title.
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- Jesus had finished no institution.
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- He had been ordained.
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- He hadn't been set aside.
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- He hadn't been certified.
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- But here nick calls him rabbi 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 measure from god.
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- He says, a teacher.
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- What a great, great word a teacher,
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- For no one can do these signs.
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- A miracle worker unless god is 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 the title of rabbi.
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- He said, you've supported.
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- You have signs and miracles.
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- You must be from god and your teacher
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- Whom god has ordained and god has touched.
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- You see, nick was giving jesus legitimacy,
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- Not some new born rabbi rouser
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- From galilee who had cleanse the temple.
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- He saw perhaps, that jesus, if he were the messiah,
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- Was fulfilling prophecy when he cleaned out god's house.
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- Prophecies.
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- Zachariah prophecy in malachi chapter three.
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- Prophecy in psalm chapter 19.
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- He was feeling prophecy, 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 what jesus jesus also knew about nick.
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- But look what he says.
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- Jesus answered verse three and said to him,
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- Truly, truly, by the way, truly, truly means amen.
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- Amen. 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.
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- I say to you, nicodemus, unless one is born again,
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- He cannot see the kingdom of god. ha!
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- Nicodemus,
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- You've got every base covered.
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- But yet you, nicodemus,
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- Need to be born again,
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- Or you'll never get to the kingdom of god.
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- When they couldn't
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- Thought he represented the kingdom of god,
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- He had everything the world could offer
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- And everything the kingdom of god could offer.
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- And hear this jesus was saying whom
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- He just legitimized.
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- You gotta be born again,
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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- Someone says to me, well, i've always been a christian.
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- You know, my mother and dad were christian.
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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
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- We have to be born again and have a new nature,
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- A new appetite, 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, discipline, moral, erudite,
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- Wealthy, had everything positioned political esteem.
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- He had it all.
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- But he had to be born again if he were ever to see
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- The kingdom. we're born again,
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- Nicodemus here
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- Is bewildered, yet been bewildered.
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- I mean, he was naked man.
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- He was at the top of the line here, this prophet whom he just
- 00:13:50.942 --> 00:13:54.712
- Legitimized, saying, nick, you got to be born again.
- 00:13:54.712 --> 00:13:59.684
- You can't make it on just rules and laws and discipline.
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- You gotta be born again.
- 00:14:03.321 --> 00:14:05.723
- And then we have two how questions ask by nick.
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- Look at them.
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- I think they're very, very revealing
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- In this conversation at night on top of a roof.
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- 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 in his mother's
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- Womb and be born, can he?
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- Other words, you can't go back in
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- Your mother's womb and and be born again.
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- He took it literally.
- 00:14:33.284 --> 00:14:34.152
- And jesus answered.
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- He said, truly, truly, there's our word.
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- Amen. amen.
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- It's absolutely true,
- 00:14:39.590 --> 00:14:40.858
- I say to you, unless one is born of water,
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- That probably means physical birth.
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- Water breaks.
- 00:14:46.497 --> 00:14:47.365
- There's the birth and of the spirit.
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- That's a spiritual birth.
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- He cannot enter into the kingdom of god.
- 00:14:52.036 --> 00:14:55.573
- 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,
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- A spiritual birth that prepares us now
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- And carries us all the way through to heaven.
- 00:15:05.950 --> 00:15:08.686
- Then jesus says, verse six, that which is born of
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- The flesh is flesh,
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- 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
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- Doesn't give birth to a dog.
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- Can't give birth to catch
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- A plum tree
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- Doesn't produce watermelons.
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- Plum trees produce
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- Plums, and watermelon vines produce other watermelons.
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- Light begets light.
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- When we gave birth to our children,
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- Our children were born
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- With our sin, our natural sin within them.
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- Just like we were born.
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- We passed that down in lineage.
- 00:15:54.699 --> 00:15:57.802
- Flesh is flesh, spirit is spirit.
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- And we have to be born again to change our appetites.
- 00:16:01.205 --> 00:16:05.977
- And then this little verse is so very interesting.
- 00:16:05.977 --> 00:16:08.880
- And jesus is speaking to the confusion, the bewilderment.
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- I think of nick and he says
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- That which is born of flesh is flesh spirited spirit.
- 00:16:17.855 --> 00:16:20.925
- Verse seven, do not be amazed, nick, that
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- I said to you, you must.
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- That's an imperative.
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- You must be born again.
- 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.470
- Nick couldn't get it.
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- He had everything
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- He was saying.
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- You know i need to be born again.
- 00:16:37.875 --> 00:16:40.211
- You would have a new beginning.
- 00:16:40.211 --> 00:16:41.446
- Whatever's happening, a bad thing, but a difference to god.
- 00:16:41.446 --> 00:16:43.915
- You need to be born again.
- 00:16:43.915 --> 00:16:45.583
- And christ has provided a way for you to be born again.
- 00:16:45.583 --> 00:16:50.455
- So that's the message.
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- Nicodemus was amazed.
- 00:16:52.123 --> 00:16:54.058
- Absolutely amazing.
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- I need to be born again.
- 00:16:56.727 --> 00:16:58.930
- Then there's that other how?
- 00:16:58.930 --> 00:17:00.798
- Nicodemus asked the second how question, and he moves down.
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- He said, though he said, you must be born again.
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- Verse seven,
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- Verse eight,
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- He said,
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- The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it,
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- But do not know where it comes from and where it is going.
- 00:17:16.180 --> 00:17:19.283
- 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 is going to go?
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- If you think so.
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- You have been watching all these hurricanes.
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- Well, it could come down this way.
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- We've got one pattern.
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- It moves across this way.
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- We think it's going to be thursday,
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- But it could be thursday. three week.
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- 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, the holy spirit.
- 00:17:56.487 --> 00:17:58.456
- That's exactly what we're saying here.
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- The spirit of god blows and it moves and it convicts
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- And it convinced, and he calls it
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- Some who didn't even know they needed it to be
- 00:18:06.397 --> 00:18:09.734
- Born again, to come to christ,
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- Have a fresh, new, beautiful start in life.
- 00:18:12.370 --> 00:18:15.339
- What an amazing thing.
- 00:18:15.339 --> 00:18:17.942
- And then there's that how
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- Nicodemus says verse, then how can these things be true?
- 00:18:20.011 --> 00:18:23.281
- The second, how jesus answered and said to him, are you,
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- Nick, a teacher of israel, and do not understand
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- These things?
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- Other words jesus said, look, nick,
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- Have you read the old testament?
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- You're a scholar.
- 00:18:35.560 --> 00:18:37.695
- Do you not know how the spirit of god has touched
- 00:18:37.695 --> 00:18:40.097
- David and changed him?
- 00:18:40.097 --> 00:18:41.499
- How the spirit of god led this prophet?
- 00:18:41.499 --> 00:18:43.534
- Do you not see that all the way through everything you study?
- 00:18:43.534 --> 00:18:46.604
- What's the matter with you, nick?
- 00:18:46.604 --> 00:18:49.373
- The spirit of god makes all the difference in the world.
- 00:18:49.373 --> 00:18:53.611
- And then jesus goes on, truly, truly.
- 00:18:53.611 --> 00:18:57.181
- There's our words i say to you.
- 00:18:57.181 --> 00:18:59.817
- We speak of what we know, says jesus,
- 00:18:59.817 --> 00:19:02.486
- To nick, and testify to what we have seen.
- 00:19:02.486 --> 00:19:05.756
- And you do not accept our testimony.
- 00:19:05.756 --> 00:19:09.060
- I told you earthly things and you do not believe.
- 00:19:09.060 --> 00:19:12.096
- Nick.
- 00:19:12.096 --> 00:19:13.164
- How will you believe if i tell you heavenly things?
- 00:19:13.164 --> 00:19:16.267
- What's he saying?
- 00:19:16.267 --> 00:19:17.702
- Jesus saying, look, nick, i want to tell you something.
- 00:19:17.702 --> 00:19:21.105
- You've already said.
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- I'm from god.
- 00:19:22.540 --> 00:19:24.041
- You've already said my teaching is valid.
- 00:19:24.041 --> 00:19:26.811
- You've already said all the legitimacy
- 00:19:26.811 --> 00:19:29.714
- I needed because i am a breath from god itself.
- 00:19:29.714 --> 00:19:32.883
- And now you won't believe me when i point out to you,
- 00:19:32.883 --> 00:19:36.053
- For example, that all those john the baptist
- 00:19:36.053 --> 00:19:39.056
- Baptized, repented, and were baptized
- 00:19:39.056 --> 00:19:41.659
- There brand new people by the power of the spirit,
- 00:19:41.659 --> 00:19:44.562
- And when they receive me, they'll be born from above.
- 00:19:44.562 --> 00:19:49.734
- They'll have a brand new, clean, sparkling,
- 00:19:49.734 --> 00:19:53.170
- Transparent life.
- 00:19:53.604 --> 00:19:56.173
- Don't you get that, nick?
- 00:19:56.173 --> 00:19:58.409
- And then that little verse there,
- 00:19:58.409 --> 00:20:01.045
- Jesus said, no one has ascended to heaven,
- 00:20:01.045 --> 00:20:05.049
- But he who has descended from heaven, the son of man.
- 00:20:05.049 --> 00:20:10.087
- He's saying, the nick, i came from
- 00:20:10.087 --> 00:20:13.024
- Heaven, my home is in heaven.
- 00:20:13.024 --> 00:20:15.960
- And i descended to this earth.
- 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.062
- And i'm speaking authoritatively about these
- 00:20:18.062 --> 00:20:21.932
- Matters that even somebody as moral, as powerful,
- 00:20:21.932 --> 00:20:26.003
- As wealthy, as influential as
- 00:20:26.003 --> 00:20:29.040
- You, you gotta be born again.
- 00:20:29.040 --> 00:20:32.910
- You gotta be born again.
- 00:20:33.444 --> 00:20:36.514
- Now we've got two how questions.
- 00:20:36.514 --> 00:20:38.816
- Nick. nick asked, how can this be?
- 00:20:38.816 --> 00:20:41.319
- But there is that unasked question,
- 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:44.755
- And this whole passage kept haunting me.
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- I say what?
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- It's sort of like there's
- 00:20:48.125 --> 00:20:49.126
- An elephant in the room,
- 00:20:49.126 --> 00:20:50.194
- Something that's not being asked in this dialog.
- 00:20:50.194 --> 00:20:52.797
- And jesus, i think, perceive that unasked question.
- 00:20:52.797 --> 00:20:56.400
- And it was not, how can i be born again?
- 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.237
- Nick kept asking.
- 00:21:00.237 --> 00:21:02.373
- He really wanted to ask why do i,
- 00:21:02.373 --> 00:21:06.444
- Of all people, need to be born again?
- 00:21:07.178 --> 00:21:11.449
- Jesus answer is in the next verse
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- And let me say it up front.
- 00:21:13.784 --> 00:21:15.186
- The answer is, nick, you've been bitten by the snake.
- 00:21:15.186 --> 00:21:18.923
- Nick, you're snake bitten.
- 00:21:19.490 --> 00:21:21.726
- And he uses an old testament passage for nick would get it
- 00:21:21.726 --> 00:21:25.196
- As moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
- 00:21:25.196 --> 00:21:28.199
- Even so must the son of man be lifted up.
- 00:21:28.199 --> 00:21:32.169
- And then the next verse, he just follows through and
- 00:21:32.169 --> 00:21:35.239
- He moves on. he says, nick,
- 00:21:35.239 --> 00:21:38.008
- So that
- 00:21:38.242 --> 00:21:39.243
- Whoever believes in him will have eternal life.
- 00:21:39.243 --> 00:21:42.947
- He's talking about the cross.
- 00:21:42.947 --> 00:21:45.649
- Those israelites were rebellion rebels.
- 00:21:45.649 --> 00:21:48.486
- Snakes came and started to bite all of them.
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- They began to die.
- 00:21:50.755 --> 00:21:52.223
- They were dying and they went to moses said, what can we do?
- 00:21:52.223 --> 00:21:55.126
- And moses went to god.
- 00:21:55.126 --> 00:21:56.327
- And god said, you take a stick
- 00:21:56.327 --> 00:21:58.929
- And put a bronze snake on that stick, a symbol.
- 00:21:58.929 --> 00:22:03.134
- They'd been bitten by the snake.
- 00:22:03.134 --> 00:22:05.336
- That's the reason they were dying.
- 00:22:05.336 --> 00:22:06.637
- They were disobedient.
- 00:22:06.637 --> 00:22:07.805
- They were sinners.
- 00:22:07.805 --> 00:22:08.973
- And god said to moses, hold up that snake on that stick,
- 00:22:08.973 --> 00:22:12.977
- And everybody who looks at the snake
- 00:22:12.977 --> 00:22:14.879
- On the stick will be healed.
- 00:22:14.879 --> 00:22:17.014
- He'll be saved. and they did.
- 00:22:17.014 --> 00:22:19.450
- And jesus said, this is what's going to happen, nick.
- 00:22:19.450 --> 00:22:22.887
- I'm going to be crucified.
- 00:22:23.454 --> 00:22:25.656
- I'm going to take all the bite, all the sin that's in
- 00:22:25.656 --> 00:22:29.627
- You and the poison and everybody else, and i'm
- 00:22:29.627 --> 00:22:32.763
- Going to die from that poison so that they might have life.
- 00:22:32.763 --> 00:22:36.934
- And that is the way they can have a brand new life.
- 00:22:36.934 --> 00:22:40.337
- They can be born again.
- 00:22:40.337 --> 00:22:44.208
- That was the answer.
- 00:22:44.675 --> 00:22:47.578
- Now, i've got a question.
- 00:22:47.578 --> 00:22:49.980
- You read commentaries on this passage
- 00:22:49.980 --> 00:22:52.783
- And there are just hundreds of them.
- 00:22:52.783 --> 00:22:54.985
- I've read, read, read.
- 00:22:54.985 --> 00:22:57.655
- And they're divided on whether or not nicodemus
- 00:22:57.655 --> 00:23:01.025
- Was a christian. right.
- 00:23:01.025 --> 00:23:02.460
- They're equally divided,
- 00:23:02.460 --> 00:23:04.762
- Or some say he was a christian because of this.
- 00:23:04.762 --> 00:23:06.931
- Some say, oh, no, he wasn't a christian because of this.
- 00:23:06.931 --> 00:23:09.767
- Let me tell you something.
- 00:23:09.767 --> 00:23:11.769
- I am convinced
- 00:23:11.769 --> 00:23:14.538
- That nick was a born again christian,
- 00:23:14.538 --> 00:23:17.875
- That he became a born again christian.
- 00:23:17.875 --> 00:23:20.678
- Let me tell you why.
- 00:23:20.678 --> 00:23:22.580
- Later on
- 00:23:22.580 --> 00:23:25.216
- The sanhedrin supreme court discussing jesus.
- 00:23:25.216 --> 00:23:29.186
- And they were
- 00:23:29.186 --> 00:23:29.820
- Already convicting him
- 00:23:29.820 --> 00:23:31.222
- And they couldn't even spoke up and said, look,
- 00:23:31.222 --> 00:23:34.725
- Somebody is innocent and said, they proved me guilty.
- 00:23:34.725 --> 00:23:38.295
- You have to have evidence.
- 00:23:38.863 --> 00:23:39.997
- Everybody's going to have to prove his guilt.
- 00:23:39.997 --> 00:23:42.166
- You're not giving him a fair trial.
- 00:23:42.166 --> 00:23:44.134
- He spoke up for jesus in the supreme court
- 00:23:44.134 --> 00:23:47.872
- Also, when jesus was crucified.
- 00:23:48.506 --> 00:23:51.008
- Joseph of arimathea, also a member of the supreme court,
- 00:23:51.008 --> 00:23:55.112
- Let jesus his tomb.
- 00:23:55.579 --> 00:23:57.581
- He didn't need it very long.
- 00:23:57.581 --> 00:24:00.050
- Let jesus is tomb.
- 00:24:00.050 --> 00:24:01.585
- And in that passage of joseph
- 00:24:01.585 --> 00:24:04.622
- Also is mentioned nicodemus.
- 00:24:04.622 --> 00:24:06.957
- And so that's an assumption.
- 00:24:06.957 --> 00:24:09.093
- Also he was messiah.
- 00:24:09.093 --> 00:24:10.561
- And one sign would be nicodemus gave
- 00:24:10.561 --> 00:24:13.564
- All the murder and the al that was needed
- 00:24:13.564 --> 00:24:17.034
- As spice to bury jesus, as was that custom,
- 00:24:17.034 --> 00:24:21.171
- And it was over 75 pounds of murray.
- 00:24:21.171 --> 00:24:26.110
- And at all this was the amount that would be given and spent
- 00:24:26.110 --> 00:24:30.180
- For someone who would be a king.
- 00:24:30.180 --> 00:24:33.250
- But that didn't convince me.
- 00:24:33.851 --> 00:24:36.487
- What nailed down the fact that nick was indeed
- 00:24:36.487 --> 00:24:40.491
- Born again was, i am sure, as a theologian, a scholar.
- 00:24:40.491 --> 00:24:45.262
- He went back and recalled what happened
- 00:24:45.262 --> 00:24:48.132
- There on that housetop and what happened in john three.
- 00:24:48.132 --> 00:24:52.836
- And nick said, you know, when he talked about his body,
- 00:24:52.836 --> 00:24:57.474
- If it were destroyed, he'd be raised in three days.
- 00:24:57.474 --> 00:25:00.578
- He looked back on that and said, wow, that's
- 00:25:00.578 --> 00:25:04.114
- What happened.
- 00:25:04.114 --> 00:25:05.416
- And he looked back on this passage about the snake
- 00:25:05.416 --> 00:25:08.586
- Being lifted up.
- 00:25:08.586 --> 00:25:09.920
- He said he died on the cross.
- 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:12.690
- Oh, and he looked back and talked about jesus
- 00:25:12.690 --> 00:25:15.559
- Ascending and descending.
- 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:17.261
- That would be his jesus ascend into heaven after appearing
- 00:25:17.261 --> 00:25:21.498
- 40 days on this earth in his resurrected body.
- 00:25:21.498 --> 00:25:25.402
- Witness two by
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- Five, 500 to 1000 people.
- 00:25:26.770 --> 00:25:29.607
- Oh, that would be his ascension.
- 00:25:29.607 --> 00:25:31.008
- And then the wind blowing where it wants to blow.
- 00:25:31.008 --> 00:25:33.577
- That would be pentecost.
- 00:25:33.577 --> 00:25:35.813
- And so nick had evidence
- 00:25:35.813 --> 00:25:37.881
- Of the major points in the life of jesus.
- 00:25:37.881 --> 00:25:41.652
- And i am convinced that nick at night was a born again
- 00:25:41.652 --> 00:25:47.091
- Believer in the lord jesus christ.
- 00:25:47.091 --> 00:25:50.194
- Everybody wants a happy home.
- 00:25:50.828 --> 00:25:53.831
- But let's be honest.
- 00:25:53.831 --> 00:25:55.332
- A happy home doesn't just happen.
- 00:25:55.332 --> 00:25:58.235
- It's built.
- 00:25:58.235 --> 00:25:59.503
- It's shaped.
- 00:25:59.503 --> 00:26:00.938
- Day by day by day.
- 00:26:00.938 --> 00:26:03.073
- That's why i want to encourage you to read
- 00:26:03.073 --> 00:26:05.643
- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
- 00:26:05.643 --> 00:26:08.879
- This 90 day devotional is from
- 00:26:08.879 --> 00:26:11.382
- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this book each day
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- You will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- We're not talking about something complicated here.
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- We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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- 15 minutes.
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- Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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- Your home on what matters the most in christ
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- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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- Your life.
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- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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- Everything else changes.
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- Conversations change.
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- Priorities change.
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- Hearts begin to change.
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- Take that first step today.
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- Call the number or visit the website below
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- And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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- And begin your 90 day journey right now.
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