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a poll. Anyone who's bitten can look at it and
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prayed for the people
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wilderness so the son of man must be lifted up,
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No one has made a trip there taking notes and
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We do
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I suspect it's because he's answering nicodemus
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this works. But at the end of the day, we don't
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the coolest promising an new covenant and he says
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at uh the top of a lot of hits in the country
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power but you don't see the kingdom and any
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This that was his religious affiliation. He was a
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not understand these things very truly. I tell
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John all of which tell us something about jesus
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is named the, God was there has disclosed himself
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time phillip and yet you have not known me.
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himself
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Thank you
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and comes back to life
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first the God who is love the God who loves and
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than the God who dies
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that is why the next two sessions will focus on
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how all of this is grounded in the love of God
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in particular in the next verse, as he explains
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Now jesus has much more to explain about this
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But by believing in me
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or being ultra religious
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receive the benefit of this, not by trying harder
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in jesus' death that's. What jesus say and you
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We begin eternal life, the new birth is grounded
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death. We have life by his crucifixion on a pole.
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the means by which we have new birth by his
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Jesus, on that cross by his death provided
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of fulfillment here
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have gone and now it's coming to a certain kind
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and it's modeling for the old testament people
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gonna be out of nothing. We've already seen that,
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it's going to be out of a sovereign grace or it's
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You can't offer him something and make a trade
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with
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that the God of the old testament can't be barter
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How could it be any other way. We've already seen
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will live
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that those who look to me those who believe in me
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it were, on another poll across shaped pole,
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referring to his crucifixion on another, stick as
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referring to himself will be lifted up he's now
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so the son of men. One of jesus' ways of
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lived
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lifted up the snake in the desert and people
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And now, a Millennium and a half later jesus
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comes along and says just as moses
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that's all account
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And you live
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you look at my provision
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But by the provision that I myself
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make
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way out of it is not by digging it out yourself
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the destruction that's where you go and the only
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You, you provide the sin and the the death and
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I provide life
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you people provide the sin
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Would you not learn
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It's as if God is saying
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Do a whole lot of good works. None of that
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really sorry
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late yourself with some lips to show you're
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fast
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Make make sure you do a lot of penance flag a
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nothing about
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make sure you say enough ritual hail. mary's
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it and live how bizarre
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Those who have the venom in that in them look at
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it up on a pole
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He tells moses to cast the bronze snake and stick
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provide the solution. It's a plain flat out were
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And if they are to come out of it, only God can
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accurate solution has the story on false.
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And they die
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complain and at the end of the day, it's death
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all over again
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if you can have had their own way, you wine and
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asking for things you merely dictate to God and
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you make your own rules. You become your own God,
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you decide your own destiny. You don't trust you
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don't delight in God or as a sovereign care or
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the way back in genesis three. We find a
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repetition that is to say,
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whining and complaining was bound up with a
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all it said all account
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profound dissatisfaction of God once again, all
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The nature of the murmuring and rumbling the
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Do you hear what's going on there, though
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looked at the Brown snake and they lived that's
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pole, then anyone who was bitten by the snake
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The lord said to moses make a snake and put it on
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lord will take the snakes away from us so moses
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against the lord and against you pray that the
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the Came to moses and said we send when we spoke
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when the lord send venomous snakes among them,
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they beat the people and many is relates died
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miserable food
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No bread there's. No water. We need test this
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us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness there's.
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grew impatient on the way they spoke against God
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and against moses and said why have you brought
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to the Red Sea to go around them. But the people
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land. They traveled from mt ??? along the route
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from slavery in Egypt, but not reach their own
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they That is the israelites who had now escaped
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very short account I'll read it to you.
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leviticus numbers in the 20 first chapter it's, a
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called the book of numbers genesis exodus
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is found in the fourth book of the bible it's
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that because he knew his old testament
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now the passage to which jesus is referring which
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of course, nicodemus would have picked up like
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life
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So the son of man must be lifted up. That
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everyone who believes in him may have eternal
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lifted up the snake in the wilderness were told.
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and how do you get it well. It's just as moses
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new birth
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have life and this life is eternal life it's not
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Life it is eternal life which is the product of
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like this
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product of new birth if you have new birth, you
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eternal life of which jesus speaks, must be the
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eternal life now. Clearly in this context, this
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He says just as moses lifted up the snake in the
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that everyone who believes in him may have
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Jesus' alludes to an old testament passage that
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some of us here won't know anything about.
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testament.
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strengths and weaknesses. Did know the old
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it makes to us because nicotine is for all his
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made more sense to nicotine is that, initially,
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What jesus says in verses 14 and 15 might have
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birth
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being born again is bound up in his identity
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and finally, how jesus brings about this new
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In other words, why jesus could speak about this
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teacher
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thinking that well, jesus is a nice moralizing
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But there is no way you can walk away from this
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garbage blasphemous. silliness
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This is either true or it is the most unmitigated
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come back and filed a report.
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cannot otherwise have information about
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to give you information about things that you
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Who claims to come from God to be one with God
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What do you do with jesus
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with christianity revelation claims.
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sooner or later, you have to come to grips
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At the end of the day, to understand christianity
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glories of the transcendent, God
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possibly believe if I start describing to you the
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the new birth, how on Earth you're going to
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earthly things that take place down here, like
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things. If you don't believe when I talk about
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on Earth that's what jesus means wirelessly
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describing things that take place on Earth that's
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where the new birth takes place. It takes place
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you wouldn't have a clue you're. Having a hard
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job, believing anything. I say when I'm
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God to you and all of its spiritual glory, you
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To if I were to try to depict the throne room of
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nicodemus if I were
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Now he says in effect
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of revelation.
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come from there so he speaks with the authority
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truly, God, with God. Yet God in this complexity
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of one God who has become a human being. He has
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god's own self expression. His word one with God
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exactly what we saw in the last session that is
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to say,
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to have come from there, which is of course
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This is the claim of someone in fact who claims
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theologians alike to squabble and write books
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he's teaching his revelation from God himself
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this is not one more theologians among
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revolutionary claim that is a claim that what
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so bluntly about the new birth is grounded in a
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Make no mistake. The reason why jesus can speak
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But that's where I come from
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us
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God. No one has been there to come back and tell
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to describe what goes on in the throne room of
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Because quite frankly, no one has been to heaven
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and he says nicodemus.
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and jesus now smiles at the end of this discourse
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We know one or two things to. We do
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We know that you are a teacher sent from God
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in his own terms nicodemus, a said uh rabbi.
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if I speak of heavenly things why does jesus
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begin with the first person plural
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you do not believe how, then would you believe,
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singular. I have spoken to you of earthly things
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the next verse he switches to the first person
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know. We testify to. What we have seen and then
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the first person plural. We speak of what we
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begin with have you noticed how he begins with
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heavenly things now. This is a strange passage to
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believe how, then would you believe if I speak of
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spoken to you of earthly things and you do not
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you people do not accept our testimony. I have
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and we testified to what we have seen, but still
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Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know
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authority to speak like that versus 11 to 13
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about being born again. What gave him the
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and then much more briefly. Why jesus could speak
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This is what jesus says about the new birth
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again
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participate in it because you have been born
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coming to a focus in jesus and you don't
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the culmination of the old testament story. All
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God. This dawning kingdom of David son here is
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enter into this saving, transforming kingdom of
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Because unless you are born again, he will not
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would feel replied you must be born again
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because sir
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you must be born Again, you must be born again
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that you keep preaching again and again and again
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somebody got really ticked with him and cornered
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him. One day and said mister whitfield. Why is it
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born again. You must be born again until finally,
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again he preached from this text. You must be
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him. Downwind spectacular and again and again and
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preaching in a Valley with a sounding box behind
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cords. You could preach to tens of thousands by
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He preached a vast crowds with a pa system. He,
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he must have had a spectacular lungs and vocal
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as he was on the English side
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Six weeks to three months,
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so he was as famous a preacher in the 13 colonies
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but he crossed the Atlantic 13 times each time by
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sale.
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He was a brit,
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whitfield
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u it's not merely a public stance it's a power
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the Western world at the time called George
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preacher, probably the most famous preacher in
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In the eighteenth century there was a very famous
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says when this new birth comes it does transform
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jesus is. You just aren't a Christian because he
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Christian unless you believe the truth about who
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brothers and sisters. You've just aren't a
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you're, not a Christian unless you love the
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you really have no part in him
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like this
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Uh unless you obey jesus word,
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recorded letters. He can't keep saying things
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second John, third John in the first of his three
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call first John. There are three first John
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testament or the end. It's a little one that we
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also writes a letter farther on to the new
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same writer John is recording all of this. He
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The bible keeps saying these kinds of things, the
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Or mysticism
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Or religious practice
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ritual
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those who think that christianity is a matter of
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In other words, this text is dead, set against
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born again
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you cannot enter this kingdom unless you're born
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again. That is what you must have. You must be
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cannot see the kingdom the real power of God and
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Born of the spirit and my dear nicodemus, you
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in a new direction, so it is with everyone
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life from God himself that shapes our existence
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a change of direction. There is a change of
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is a transformation there is is the beginning of
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origin. There is a cleaning up in the life there
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of Christian failure in jew course, but there is
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life that doesn't mean people have suddenly
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reached perfection. Will wrestle with a lot more
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is new birth where it's genuinely come from God.
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It will transform you. You will see change in the
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It doesn't necessarily mean anything where there
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off base somebody's made a commitment to jesus a
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lotty dog.
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That's why barn is interpretation is so abysmal e
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You can't deny them
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you always see the results
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But where there is genuine new birth,
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within us to transform us
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have a full analysis of how God works powerfully
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what we can infer a quite a few things about how
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in there that talks about the new birth and from
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and a batch of uh there's. Another passage here
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From the bible we can look at a text like this
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new birth
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I may not be able to explain all the mechanics of
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Listen friends,
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and then Jesus says so it is with everyone who is
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born of the spirit
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pass, but you can't deny the effects
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all of the physical forces that brought it to
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not be able to explain all of the dynamics and
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and power of wind. You see the effects you might
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but that doesn't mean that you deny the existence
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high pressure nobody is thinking in those terms,
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where is the line between the depression and the
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dick,
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desert is this iconic or and he's like. What a
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meteorology but not all that much a good deal
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around thinking there is a high in the arabian
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less than we know today. Nobody was sitting
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I mean even then they knew something of
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Do you really know where it comes from
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You see the effect of the wind
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Dance is down the Street, a little dust any maybe
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and jesus looks around and he says him
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swinging in the evening breeze or a tumble. we
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You maybe that they're standing on a Street
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corner in Jerusalem and the sycamore ranch is
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from or where it is going so it is with everyone
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who is born of the spirit, wind.
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hear it sound but you cannot tell where it comes
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the wind spirit blows wherever it pleases you
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pun,
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the context so when the original is a bit of a
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translate spirit can also mean wind depending on
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depends in part on the fact that the word that we
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And then it gives another analogy the analogy
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that I demand something that is birth from spirit
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life of God and that's what he wants
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flesh gives birth of flesh. Don't be surprise
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that or you cannot possibly be connected with the
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so that we are change, transform you must have
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God himself from his spirit
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And that actually se fuses you, with power from
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some act of God that does clean you up
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What does it feel said
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What you really must have is
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trying harder.
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You're not gonna have moral revolution by merely
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selection
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You're not going to produce that by natural
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With a life of God
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bats generate bats kind produces kind flesh
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beings rebels lost and actually connect
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produces flesh so how on Earth you take human
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cockroaches generate cockroaches
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give birth to pigs
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should not be surprised in my saying you must be
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born again now. What he means by this is pigs,
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flesh, but the spirit gives birth to spirit. You
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further. He says verse six flesh gives birth to
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And then he was quick to explain a little
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to transform and renew
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and by the power and life of God,
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That's what jesus means by the new birth
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transformation. The water sprinkling, the heart
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that would be characterized by moral
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covenant, a new agreement from God
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earlier bound up with the dawning of a new
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it's the promise of a profit from six centuries
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So, whatever else this birth is
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indicating life and power from God himself
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And I will pour out my spirit upon you
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Indicating cleaning somebody out morley
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sprinkle your hearts with clean water
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and agreement that God is arranged but now he's
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that in this new covenant, he says I will
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didn't ??? tick order. It's it's a dick covenant
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The begins to use David is the founding of a hole
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and then, when he
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that's a kind of covenant, as well, an agreement
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week we noticed how God writes is on agreements
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on governance. He has one for example, with
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abraham and then when the laws given with moses
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covenant with his people. You will recall last
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about the sixth century
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prophet by the name of the zeke, yule writing
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God promises a time when he will make a new
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and chapter 36 of easy kill
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of the most striking is found in an old testament
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about water and spirit.
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There are a number of passages, but perhaps one
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He should pick up what jesus means when he talks
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knows the text that well so he picks up
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actually memorize the whole old testament. He
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nicotine was to pick up that sort of language
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because, after all, he's the sort of chapters
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In other words, when jesus says, the birth I'm
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talking about is a water and spirit he expects
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water and spirit
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it doesn't, but interestingly enough in quite a
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we scan last week, so the question becomes where
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does that. Bible talk about new birth.
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few places, it does talk about
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The short answer is
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testament. The first two thirds of the bible that
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anything that comes from what we call the old
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What he should have understood of course, was
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understood
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in the land. What things should he have
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the Grand mufti the theological senior professor
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now. What things should nicodemus because he was
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teacher of Israel, probably a title the Grand
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understand these things
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mufti the region's professor dividend. You don't
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jesus replies you're. Israel's teacher you're the
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understand. He says how can these things be and
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before we conclude what it means
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his answer. Nicodemus still doesn't quite
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down in verses nine and 10 when jesus has given
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There's, one other small hint that we can pick up
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mean by that
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So what does John mean by that. What is jesus
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Born again
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is parallel to
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whole expression born of water and the spirit
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is a signaling to verse. First birth. One born of
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water, then berth to the born again part no the
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water and the spirit born of water and the spirit
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in other words born again, is parallel to born of
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being born of water and the spirit
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Without being born again versus five without
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in the same sort of sweep
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up a bit more from seed winter, but you're still
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one can enter the kingdom of God so it's souped
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no one can see the kingdom of God verse five, no
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see the two senators is a parallel verse. Three,
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tell you verse five very truly. I tell you, you
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something about this verse. Three very truly, I
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carefully with verse five you'll discover
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Moreover, if you compare verse three very
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just wasn't an expression that anybody used.
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of natural birth as being born of water. That
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partly because I have not been able to find
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anywhere in the ancient world that people spoke
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That's what it means
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I don't
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water and of the spirit
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versus born of the spirit, something from god's
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supernatural. There tumors you have to be born of
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push out its natural
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when you're born before you actually begin to
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born of water. Maybe is the breaking of the water
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natural birth plus some kind of spiritual birth
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Some people think it means
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water and the spirit and a number of ways.
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people have understood this expression, born of
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Now I have to tell you over the generations
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born of water and the spirit.
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What does he mean by that
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no one can enter the kingdom of God without being
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very truly, I tell you
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so he says in verse five
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But jesus will back down
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you're now promising too much
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no new birth messianic figure. You maybe, but
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Jesus, you are encouraging the apostle the
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impossible. There is no new beginning. There is
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understand what's going on at all
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saving transforming since you don't really
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really don't see very much you see the display of
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need is new people, not mere displays of power
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and so from your vantage point nakedness you
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need is new creatures, not new, creates what we
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What we need is new lives, not new laws. What we
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women, not new institutions.
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in effect, that what we need is new men and
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again, but at this light jesus is clearly saying
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How can you start over by being born
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But life doesn't have a second edition
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edition. How I would correct the proofs
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Poet John clay wrote if life had a second
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no longer be
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for a man to a rise in me that the man I am may
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19 century, poet alfred, lord tennyson wrote uh
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again
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and in point of fact, isn't that the sentiment of
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many writers and poets over the years the English
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You're promising too much how can any man be born
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have another go at it
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you can't crawl back into your mother's womb and
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physicists,
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run backwards, despite our theoretical
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How could you possibly start over time doesn't
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beginning
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in effect jesus you're promising too much and you
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years for a metaphor, he's not stupid and he says
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promising is and you beginning
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Nicotine is here is that because he's got two
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somehow in this metaphor of new birth. What he's
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follow me you can promise all kinds of things,
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but what jesus is promising
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new direction.
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Fulfillment finally, in marriage, you get wealthy
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uh turning over a new leaf. Your life takes on a
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You can promise a lot of things you can promise
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that is to say
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and jesus on terms
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I think that he is replying to jesus
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that comes your way
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without being able to discern the odd metaphor
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The Grand mufti,
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You don't get to be the teacher of Israel.
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But I don't think that makes any sense either
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Nicodemus was not a stupid man.
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to put too fine a word on it dumb
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He he's just slow. He he's literally stick is not
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up. This way means that he can't see a metaphor.
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and start all over again. So to set this thing
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crawl back into your mommy's. Tummy physically
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that jesus is seriously suggesting you have to
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of divinity, but you know, does he really think
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Some have tried to argue that nicodemus here
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shows himself to be a bit thick reaches professor
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Now
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to be born
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mother's womb
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How can anyone be born when they are old. Surely
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they cannot enter a second time into their
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verse four
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and nicodemus replies with a bit of a sneer in
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introducing you have to be born again. He says
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to see this kingdom that kingdom that jesus is
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pretensions
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Gently, but firmly knocking down nicodemus
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doing is actually
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kingdom at all in other words, what jesus is
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you really don't deserve you don't see the
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You can't see the kingdom unless you're born
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again, you might see the miraculous signs, but
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You don't see a blessed thing
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And jesus says my dear nicodemus
530
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Let me tell you the truth.
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operating in some sense,
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he's claiming something
533
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God is with you in that sense this is god's reign
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sense and we have come to the conclusion. He says
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He sees this is god's rain, god's power in some
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that
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Quack
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miraculous signs, signs that cannot be explained
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as as the tricks of
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and introduce the kingdom all right and now what
541
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does naked ema seek. He sees jesus doing
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00:24:41,340 --> 00:24:44,580
eventually great david's greater son would come
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and so forth and there was an anticipation that
544
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his reign over the israelites of the old covenant
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sovereignty and sometimes it's the exercise of
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quite varied. It it has to do with god's dynamic
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rain with his power and sometimes it's a sweeping
548
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I mentioned that the notion of kingdom can be
549
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recall, and then in one of the earlier sessions.
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I think the connection is far simpler. You may
551
00:24:16,630 --> 00:24:19,590
awful lot of stuff to leave out
552
00:24:14,770 --> 00:24:16,630
make sense of the flow of the passage it's, an
553
00:24:12,490 --> 00:24:14,770
isn't it between verses two and verse three to
554
00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:12,490
but that's an awful lot of stuff to leave out
555
00:24:07,330 --> 00:24:10,360
whether you're qualified to get in it
556
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but
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is not whether I'm going to make the kingdom Don
558
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which case jesus, says uh uh the crucial question
559
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going to make david's kingdom. Finally dawn,
560
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in the coming kingdom are you the one who is
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So tell us are you the one who is going to bring
562
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let's go we're with them.
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because nobody could do what you're doing and
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We know that you are a teacher sent from God
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like this
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supposed ellipse. This
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as if, as if nicodemus is really saying something
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so that people have suggested sort of a a pri
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of God what's the, what's the connection
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00:23:24,540 --> 00:23:27,070
you, the truth
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Unless you're born again, you can see the kingdom
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accurate signs unless God were with them. I tell
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from God because no one could do this were
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Nicodemus says we know you are a teacher sent
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response to what nicodemus said
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now you ask yourself how is that in any sense, a
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of God without being born again
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very truly. I tell you no one can see the kingdom
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and then verse three finds jesus saying
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things. It does sound a wee bit pompous
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perhaps, however, have been examining these
582
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and yet this editorial, we this, we theologians,
583
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evidence
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above and nicodemus wasn't going to deny the
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The kind of things that jesus did were a cut
586
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had its share. We have our share today to
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case. One more religious quack, the ancient world
588
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not simply dismissing jesus as some sort of nut
589
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chapters looking honestly at the phenomenal he's,
590
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In one sense, it's commendable at least, the
591
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that's what it sounds
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a teacher sent from God
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have come to the conclusion. We have that you are
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only explanation is that it it is from God, so we
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cannot deny that this is miraculous, that the
596
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look at the kind of thing that you do and we
597
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to do miracles in their all fraudulent but we
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There are all kinds of quacks out there who claim
599
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teacher.
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you are not the run of the mill sort of religious
601
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that
602
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We have been examining you and we have observed
603
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pomposity, a rabbi uh
604
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displaced or jesus there is a little element of
605
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for all the formal respect that nicodemus
606
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almost impossible to avoid the conclusion that
607
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draws attention to this. We language it's it's
608
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Well later on, you'll see the jesus carefully
609
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and editorial. We what's going on
610
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there's. No hint that anybody else is there
611
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a Royal wedding that really makes it pompous
612
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together, we have come to this conclusion
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students with him. You know my class and I,
614
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this. We
615
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but we could start by asking why he starts with
616
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there's no indication that he's brought his uh
617
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them
618
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the signs you are doing of God we're not with
619
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And then he says we know that you are a teacher
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who has come from God for no one could perform
621
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preacher and begin rabbi
622
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them and Israel
623
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dinner uh of divinity, to approach an itinerant
624
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quite remarkable for the regions, professor of
625
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He didn't quite know what he was doing and that
626
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he comes with a certain kind of respect. It is
627
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becomes pretty obvious as you read on,
628
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how to approach properly. He was a bit baffled.
629
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and no doubt it was nighttime but he came in with
630
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a certain kind of law snus. He didn't even know
631
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John does use this sort of language, then the
632
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text is saying that when nicodemus came to jesus
633
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And if that's what's going on that's the way,
634
00:20:21,230 --> 00:20:25,390
hope any more
635
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darkness of Las Vegas without light and
636
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making a deeper comment. As he recounts the thing
637
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he is saying. He went out into the horrible
638
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No doubt that was the time alright, but John is
639
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and it was night
640
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and, as the man goes out, John comments
641
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Judas the man who will ultimately be tray him
642
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jesus
643
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betrayed
644
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almost certainly because John likes to play with
645
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these sorts of things later on when jesus was
646
00:19:40,790 --> 00:19:43,220
does he even bother mentioning it
647
00:19:38,210 --> 00:19:40,790
it was night it's just a historical fact, but why
648
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darkness night and day and things like that and
649
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just because it was night that that was the time
650
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one reason why it's mentioned that it was not
651
00:19:27,590 --> 00:19:30,740
John himself in his book that uses light and
652
00:19:25,070 --> 00:19:27,590
recording that it was night. You have to see how
653
00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,360
take on anybody if he thinks he's got a point
654
00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:25,070
No one understand what John means by faithfully
655
00:19:14,220 --> 00:19:16,920
got one independent spirit about him. He will
656
00:19:11,790 --> 00:19:14,220
doesn't really care what people think he's he's
657
00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:11,790
Several times in this book and every time he
658
00:19:08,310 --> 00:19:09,300
nick, a demon
659
00:19:06,090 --> 00:19:08,310
I don't believe it for a moment
660
00:19:02,490 --> 00:19:06,090
some theological advice so he was embarrassed.
661
00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:02,490
would he approach an itinerant preacher and get
662
00:18:57,870 --> 00:19:00,720
himself the regions professor of divinity and why
663
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all that, whereas here was G here was nicodemus
664
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boonies. He was rapping galilee funny accent and
665
00:18:47,310 --> 00:18:49,920
was a kind of itinerant preacher from the
666
00:18:44,820 --> 00:18:47,310
in the day was a bit embarrassed. You know jesus
667
00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:44,820
people have said well, he didn't want to show up
668
00:18:36,540 --> 00:18:39,720
Why
669
00:18:33,050 --> 00:18:36,540
He comes at night
670
00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,120
Oh there have been lots of suggestions advanced
671
00:18:28,670 --> 00:18:33,050
with some wealth, but he comes to jesus.
672
00:18:26,330 --> 00:18:28,670
it appears that he probably is connected also
673
00:18:21,740 --> 00:18:26,330
The politically connected um and um later on it's
674
00:18:14,990 --> 00:18:17,570
mufti is the religious professor of divinity so
675
00:18:17,570 --> 00:18:21,740
he's learned he's theologically up there and he's
676
00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,990
the teacher of Israel. He, he he's the Grand
677
00:18:10,250 --> 00:18:12,200
with the word that should probably be rendered
678
00:18:07,610 --> 00:18:10,250
teacher of Israel that is there is an article
679
00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,610
down and verse 10 we're told that he is the
680
00:17:58,130 --> 00:18:00,980
from from different backgrounds. Uh. This put him
681
00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,130
people committed to judaism in some sense. So
682
00:17:51,380 --> 00:17:55,880
was also religious elite that is the rulers were
683
00:17:39,510 --> 00:17:44,330
and so this meant that he was um
684
00:17:47,090 --> 00:17:51,380
political elite and because this political a lead
685
00:17:44,330 --> 00:17:47,090
Part of a certain party but belonging to the
686
00:17:36,630 --> 00:17:39,510
country under the roman governor
687
00:17:32,790 --> 00:17:36,630
the top Council of 70 or 72 people that rule a
688
00:17:23,550 --> 00:17:24,420
but on
689
00:17:21,450 --> 00:17:23,550
excessive rules,
690
00:17:18,750 --> 00:17:21,450
certain kind of orthodoxy, sometimes given to an
691
00:17:27,180 --> 00:17:29,430
member of the Jewish ruling Council almost
692
00:17:29,430 --> 00:17:32,790
certainly that's referring to the sand. He driven
693
00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:18,750
community for discipline and good deeds and a
694
00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:15,900
judaism known and largely respected in the
695
00:17:09,060 --> 00:17:11,640
from a conservative branch of first century
696
00:17:05,730 --> 00:17:09,060
we're told he's a pharmacy that meant that he was
697
00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:05,730
were introduced to this. Chap called nicodemus
698
00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,100
and the account here is the first 10 verses
699
00:16:55,590 --> 00:16:58,560
What jesus actually said about being born again
700
00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,590
what Jesus actually said about being born again.
701
00:16:49,940 --> 00:16:52,040
number one.
702
00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:49,940
I'm going to proceed in four quite uneven points
703
00:16:36,980 --> 00:16:40,730
If we're going to embrace some kind of born again
704
00:16:40,730 --> 00:16:44,840
ism or born again theology.
705
00:16:33,770 --> 00:16:36,980
important to try to find out what he meant by it.
706
00:16:29,060 --> 00:16:33,770
world until jesus invented the term so it is
707
00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,060
used so far as our sources go in the ancient
708
00:16:23,570 --> 00:16:26,480
As far as we know, born again, language was not
709
00:16:18,170 --> 00:16:23,570
Why does jesus even use this sort of language
710
00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,170
commitment.
711
00:16:12,860 --> 00:16:16,640
parents. It's not it's not begun from from some
712
00:16:10,550 --> 00:16:12,860
in other words, the source comes from the
713
00:16:07,820 --> 00:16:10,550
doing the work and pushing a little tyco
714
00:16:05,990 --> 00:16:07,820
I think it's the mother as far as I know, is
715
00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:02,690
in other words, the child does not sort of make a
716
00:16:02,690 --> 00:16:05,990
commitment to come out of his mother's womb.
717
00:15:56,930 --> 00:16:00,260
seems to look at things from the other side
718
00:15:53,570 --> 00:15:56,930
But the whole nature of birth
719
00:15:47,990 --> 00:15:53,570
commitment is looking at it from our side
720
00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:44,750
whether or not it has made any difference in
721
00:15:44,750 --> 00:15:47,990
their life. Indeed to talk about it as a
722
00:15:39,470 --> 00:15:43,160
still more or less happy with it. Regardless of
723
00:15:37,490 --> 00:15:39,470
some kind of religious commitment to jesus and is
724
00:15:35,090 --> 00:15:37,490
is what jesus had in mind. Someone who's made
725
00:15:29,100 --> 00:15:32,500
which we live
726
00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:35,090
What is that what jesus has in mind
727
00:15:26,820 --> 00:15:29,100
those of the whole generation and culture in
728
00:15:18,210 --> 00:15:22,950
that the morals and mores of such so called born
729
00:15:22,950 --> 00:15:26,820
again, people are not really much different from
730
00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,210
And then, when he discovered rather sadly, was
731
00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,470
important to them today
732
00:15:07,250 --> 00:15:10,400
personal commitment to jesus christ that is still
733
00:15:04,010 --> 00:15:07,250
so he defined born again as someone with a
734
00:15:01,310 --> 00:15:04,010
have to define what board again means don't you
735
00:14:58,610 --> 00:15:01,310
again. People but if you're gonna do that you
736
00:14:54,590 --> 00:14:58,610
not too long ago. He pulled a whole lot of born
737
00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,590
they think about this or that or the other and
738
00:14:47,870 --> 00:14:51,920
who is constantly pulling people to find out what
739
00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,870
There's, a pollster by the name of barn, a
740
00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,620
the media. Uh, something about this born again
741
00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:44,000
Republican or whatever
742
00:14:32,060 --> 00:14:36,320
vice versa and then we'll start hearing in one of
743
00:14:29,630 --> 00:14:32,060
Republican, a liberal, becomes a conservative or
744
00:14:24,750 --> 00:14:29,630
Or sometimes um sometimes a Democrat becomes a
745
00:14:18,980 --> 00:14:24,500
So what is born again me name change
746
00:14:15,850 --> 00:14:18,980
born again that's
747
00:14:12,580 --> 00:14:15,850
all over America. There were slogans about the
748
00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:08,920
then somewhere along the line. They decided that
749
00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,580
they would change the dots into the nissan and um
750
00:14:03,550 --> 00:14:06,760
but um the base model was the dancer
751
00:14:00,850 --> 00:14:03,550
they were produced by the nissan motor company,
752
00:13:57,430 --> 00:14:00,850
people drove that's automobiles,
753
00:13:48,170 --> 00:13:52,570
You birth language
754
00:13:52,570 --> 00:13:57,430
I'm old enough to remember when
755
00:13:44,670 --> 00:13:48,170
in him
756
00:13:42,030 --> 00:13:44,670
That everyone who believes may have eternal life
757
00:13:38,910 --> 00:13:42,030
wilderness. So the son of man must be lifted up.
758
00:13:36,450 --> 00:13:38,910
just as moses lifted up the snake in the
759
00:13:34,710 --> 00:13:36,450
the son of man,
760
00:13:31,830 --> 00:13:34,710
Into heaven except the one who came from heaven,
761
00:13:27,770 --> 00:13:30,560
would you believe. I speak of heavenly things.
762
00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:31,830
No one has ever
763
00:13:25,430 --> 00:13:27,770
earthly things and you do not believe how, then
764
00:13:22,250 --> 00:13:25,430
accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of
765
00:13:19,790 --> 00:13:22,250
what we have seen, but still you people do not
766
00:13:17,420 --> 00:13:19,790
you, we speak of what we know and we testified to
767
00:13:11,150 --> 00:13:14,360
you are israel's teacher said jesus and do you
768
00:13:07,490 --> 00:13:11,150
how can this be nicodemus asked
769
00:13:04,190 --> 00:13:07,490
with everyone born of the spirit
770
00:13:01,460 --> 00:13:04,190
where it comes from or where it is going so it is
771
00:12:57,770 --> 00:13:01,460
Pleases you hear it sound but you cannot tell
772
00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:57,770
where
773
00:12:52,750 --> 00:12:57,400
my saying you must be born again the wind blows
774
00:12:50,260 --> 00:12:52,750
birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at
775
00:12:44,770 --> 00:12:46,780
the spirit
776
00:12:46,780 --> 00:12:50,260
flesh gives birth to flesh, but the spirit gives
777
00:12:41,890 --> 00:12:44,770
kingdom of God without being born of water and
778
00:12:39,430 --> 00:12:41,890
very truly. I tell you no one can enter the
779
00:12:32,380 --> 00:12:34,030
they cannot enter a second time into their
780
00:12:37,540 --> 00:12:39,430
jesus answered
781
00:12:34,030 --> 00:12:37,540
mother's. Womb to be born
782
00:12:28,330 --> 00:12:32,380
Be born when they're old nicodemus asked, surely
783
00:12:27,550 --> 00:12:28,330
How can
784
00:12:19,630 --> 00:12:23,500
jesus replied very truly. I tell you no one can
785
00:12:16,750 --> 00:12:19,630
God were not with him
786
00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:27,550
see the kingdom of God without being born again.
787
00:12:14,380 --> 00:12:16,750
no one. Could perform the signs you are doing if
788
00:12:11,950 --> 00:12:14,380
that you are a teacher who has come from God for
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came to jesus at night and said rabbi, we know
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who was a member of the Jewish ruling Council. He
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No, there was a fair, a C, a man named nicodemus
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The first 15 versus John 31 to 50
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I will
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beginning with four gospels Matthew Mark luke and
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those is john's gospel and, in the third chapter.
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coming life, death resurrection the fourth of
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that start in Greek and of come down to us
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testament the new testament writings the parts
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this is in the last third called the new
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chapter three now if you are looking at bibles
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this, but first of all I'm going to focus on John
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passages in the new testament. The talk about
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Tonight in the first session we're looking at the
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you how he does this now. One crucial part of
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this is the new birth
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guard who grants new birth there are several
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and the rest of the series is designed to show
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Jesus addresses all three of these massive needs
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it means the becoming a human being the in
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flushing the in carnation of God, among
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call the in carnation the inflection that's. What
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of seven talks, we got as far as what Christians
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Now that's where we're going in this second set
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haven't and a new Earth.
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the last two chapters of the bible and you
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crops up from time to time until it triumphs in
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up hundreds of years before the coming of jesus
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and the Pulls out before us, the prospect of a
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summarized under an expression that start showing
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universal transformation at the end, aptly
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within us
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and then he begins his work of transformation
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reconciled to this. God who is there
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lives the bible vision is that we really are
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that we make a decision for jesus and live happy
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and other words. The bible's prospect is not just
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universe with no more death or decay
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Educating universe that there is still pain and
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clarity begins to lay out hope of a transformed
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sorrow and death with the bible with increasing
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keeps going on. It is
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reversed and overcome, otherwise, death just
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and third, all the effects of sin must somehow be
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again and again
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just keep on rebelling and doing it again and
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but we must be morally transformed or else we
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second, we must not only be reconciled to him,
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all, our selves to be reconcile to go.
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But precisely how does this help so he's come God
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right through the whole bible. We need first of
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what we need granted the tension that sweeps
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We need that
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who comes to save his people from their sins
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the God man. This jesus, he always saves the one
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proverbs and the like he's. Finally named as
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described and in story and action and word and
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only with his with his attributes as they're
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himself in the old testament and he's named not
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he's named not only with the names he takes on
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God was there, but he's disclosed himself and
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Here's, a guy who has disclosed himself he's the,
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He was saying he has seen the father
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followers, have I've been with you, such a long
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interact with people look at jesus
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So when his gospel, he says to one of his own
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attributes are, how we behave how we think how we
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to know what his characteristics are, what his
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what he's like if you want to, if you don't want
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Do you wanna know what God looks like
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Well, not physically and yet, if you want to know
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but we have seen jesus
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We saw no one has seen God at any time,
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one who is the perfect locus of grace and truth.
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And then becoming flesh, he ultimately became the
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use the bible's language
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Living for a while, among us, he became flesh to
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the Sun becoming a human being
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son,
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complexity of one God. Nevertheless, father and
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self expression who is himself God in the
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passage we looked at last week the word god's own
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that look forward to the time when, in the last
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So we are glad some of the old testament promises
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King who is nevertheless identified with God
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Prince of peace
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With an array of biblical text promising attic
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Everlasting father
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mighty God
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end and he will be called wonderful counselor
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of the increase of his kingdom. There will be no
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He shall reign on the throne of his father, David
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a child is born unto us a son is given
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We re site with pleasure at Christmas for unto us
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For we we are giving glimpses that uh.
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with david's jeans
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King. It is is more than just one more person
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this ultimate David died. This ultimate debated
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yet, as the promises unfold in the old testament,
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set up about a thousand cc under King David and
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someone from the debate a klein the line of Kings
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Dean or
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with God, eventually promising in jew course
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covenant
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sacrificial system as it was set up under the old
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and so we witnessed the beginning of the
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death, even while this God forgives the sinner
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That does not god's Justice requires some kind of
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being cut off from the creator is death.
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sin if the entitlement of rebellion and sin of
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be. How how there needs to be sacrifice for
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In jew course, he he shows what good law should
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tribes and Nations around the world
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to save men and women drawn from every time and
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anticipates what God is going to do, ultimately
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process of starting a new humanity in a in a
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covenant and agreement with him that that
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flawed through and through, but to begin the
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He calls out one man abraham and his family
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judgment but he does some spectacular things.
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in his sovereign mercy.
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out rebels
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He operates in a variety of ways. Yes, there is
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You have the God of the bible. Instead of wiping
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rebel against him. What do we have, but death
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serve me or I'll find another one. Thank you so
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you have the beginning of all a dollar tree
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But if our life has come from God and now, we
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God, if he she or it exists jolly will better
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control. We want to be at the Center and even
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But because all of these things are small index
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ease of how we want to prevail. We want to
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lost a rerun
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I've lost many arguments in my time. I've never
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wins
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then you replay the whole thing in your mind. Who
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said if you only thought of them fast enough and
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should have said all the things you would have
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the things you could have said all the things you
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And you go away from it seeding. You remember all
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Or suppose you have a really good knockdown drag
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who's faced you look for first
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him out argument. One of the one in 10 year types
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here's, your graduation class photo
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I know that
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Yet if I were to hold up your high school or
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College graduation class photo and say
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of the universe.
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that nobody goes around saying I'm at the Center
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universe.
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There can only be strive now. I know full well
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the horizontal evils that we know
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will Everybody wanting to be at the Center of the
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only to the creator come all of the social evils
944
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usurp, to ourselves the prerogatives the belong
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to challenge God to become God ourselves to, to
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depicted in genesis. Three and with this desire
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against this. God and we tried to see how this is
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but the very nature of evil is tied to rebellion
949
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centered
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and good,
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God himself, the creator is different from the
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creation but all that he made was initially God
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everything good
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massive tension cost mc in scope, but descending
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all the way down to the level of the individual
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The tension is grounded in the fact that God made
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up from the opening chapters of genesis, a
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The bible story line. We have discovered has set
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the next few minutes
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at the halfway point in the series.
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Attention to the biblical material unpacked in
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It's a great pleasure to be back with you we're
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own spirit, then please pay
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must tell you that you are in terrible danger,
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start over with new vitality provided by god's
966
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but if you are beginning to see that you need
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power from God himself to change direction and
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in that case, you'll probably walk away and I
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may find what jesus says. Insulting
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None of this will make much sense in fact, you
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you feel you need neither God nor other people.
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you live with such massive self confidence that
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if You are entirely satisfied with your life. If
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that require forgiveness
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know what jesus promises is life transforming
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himself calls a new birth.
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power and you origin and you beginning what he
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for we may stubbornly persistent doing things
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rebellious hearts and minds not mere forgiveness
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Not improve liturgy
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for our minds will continue to wonder not mere
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threats for threats by themselves. Do not capture
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will break it
984
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the point of the Exchange as we'll see is along
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What jesus promises is not more moral code for we
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legislator called nicodemus
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these lines.
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with the first century Jewish scholar and
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genesis in a conversation that the lord jesus had
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Hello my name is dawn carson the title of this
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live so moses made abroad snake and put it on a
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talk the God who grants new birth, finds its
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