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a poll. Anyone who's bitten can look at it and

prayed for the people

wilderness so the son of man must be lifted up,

No one has made a trip there taking notes and

We do

I suspect it's because he's answering nicodemus

this works. But at the end of the day, we don't

the coolest promising an new covenant and he says

at uh the top of a lot of hits in the country

power but you don't see the kingdom and any

This that was his religious affiliation. He was a

not understand these things very truly. I tell

John all of which tell us something about jesus

is named the, God was there has disclosed himself

time phillip and yet you have not known me.

himself

Thank you

and comes back to life

first the God who is love the God who loves and

than the God who dies

that is why the next two sessions will focus on

how all of this is grounded in the love of God

in particular in the next verse, as he explains

Now jesus has much more to explain about this

But by believing in me

or being ultra religious

receive the benefit of this, not by trying harder

in jesus' death that's. What jesus say and you

We begin eternal life, the new birth is grounded

death. We have life by his crucifixion on a pole.

the means by which we have new birth by his

Jesus, on that cross by his death provided

of fulfillment here

have gone and now it's coming to a certain kind

and it's modeling for the old testament people

gonna be out of nothing. We've already seen that,

it's going to be out of a sovereign grace or it's

You can't offer him something and make a trade

with

that the God of the old testament can't be barter

How could it be any other way. We've already seen

will live

that those who look to me those who believe in me

it were, on another poll across shaped pole,

referring to his crucifixion on another, stick as

referring to himself will be lifted up he's now

so the son of men. One of jesus' ways of

lived

lifted up the snake in the desert and people

And now, a Millennium and a half later jesus

comes along and says just as moses

that's all account

And you live

you look at my provision

But by the provision that I myself

make

way out of it is not by digging it out yourself

the destruction that's where you go and the only

You, you provide the sin and the the death and

I provide life

you people provide the sin

Would you not learn

It's as if God is saying

Do a whole lot of good works. None of that

really sorry

late yourself with some lips to show you're

fast

Make make sure you do a lot of penance flag a

nothing about

make sure you say enough ritual hail. mary's

it and live how bizarre

Those who have the venom in that in them look at

it up on a pole

He tells moses to cast the bronze snake and stick

provide the solution. It's a plain flat out were

And if they are to come out of it, only God can

accurate solution has the story on false.

And they die

complain and at the end of the day, it's death

all over again

if you can have had their own way, you wine and

asking for things you merely dictate to God and

you make your own rules. You become your own God,

you decide your own destiny. You don't trust you

don't delight in God or as a sovereign care or

the way back in genesis three. We find a

repetition that is to say,

whining and complaining was bound up with a

all it said all account

profound dissatisfaction of God once again, all

The nature of the murmuring and rumbling the

Do you hear what's going on there, though

looked at the Brown snake and they lived that's

pole, then anyone who was bitten by the snake

The lord said to moses make a snake and put it on

lord will take the snakes away from us so moses

against the lord and against you pray that the

the Came to moses and said we send when we spoke

when the lord send venomous snakes among them,

they beat the people and many is relates died

miserable food

No bread there's. No water. We need test this

us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness there's.

grew impatient on the way they spoke against God

and against moses and said why have you brought

to the Red Sea to go around them. But the people

land. They traveled from mt ??? along the route

from slavery in Egypt, but not reach their own

they That is the israelites who had now escaped

very short account I'll read it to you.

leviticus numbers in the 20 first chapter it's, a

called the book of numbers genesis exodus

is found in the fourth book of the bible it's

that because he knew his old testament

now the passage to which jesus is referring which

of course, nicodemus would have picked up like

life

So the son of man must be lifted up. That

everyone who believes in him may have eternal

lifted up the snake in the wilderness were told.

and how do you get it well. It's just as moses

new birth

have life and this life is eternal life it's not

Life it is eternal life which is the product of

like this

product of new birth if you have new birth, you

eternal life of which jesus speaks, must be the

eternal life now. Clearly in this context, this

He says just as moses lifted up the snake in the

that everyone who believes in him may have

Jesus' alludes to an old testament passage that

some of us here won't know anything about.

testament.

strengths and weaknesses. Did know the old

it makes to us because nicotine is for all his

made more sense to nicotine is that, initially,

What jesus says in verses 14 and 15 might have

birth

being born again is bound up in his identity

and finally, how jesus brings about this new

In other words, why jesus could speak about this

teacher

thinking that well, jesus is a nice moralizing

But there is no way you can walk away from this

garbage blasphemous. silliness

This is either true or it is the most unmitigated

come back and filed a report.

cannot otherwise have information about

to give you information about things that you

Who claims to come from God to be one with God

What do you do with jesus

with christianity revelation claims.

sooner or later, you have to come to grips

At the end of the day, to understand christianity

glories of the transcendent, God

possibly believe if I start describing to you the

the new birth, how on Earth you're going to

earthly things that take place down here, like

things. If you don't believe when I talk about

on Earth that's what jesus means wirelessly

describing things that take place on Earth that's

where the new birth takes place. It takes place

you wouldn't have a clue you're. Having a hard

job, believing anything. I say when I'm

God to you and all of its spiritual glory, you

To if I were to try to depict the throne room of

nicodemus if I were

Now he says in effect

of revelation.

come from there so he speaks with the authority

truly, God, with God. Yet God in this complexity

of one God who has become a human being. He has

god's own self expression. His word one with God

exactly what we saw in the last session that is

to say,

to have come from there, which is of course

This is the claim of someone in fact who claims

theologians alike to squabble and write books

he's teaching his revelation from God himself

this is not one more theologians among

revolutionary claim that is a claim that what

so bluntly about the new birth is grounded in a

Make no mistake. The reason why jesus can speak

But that's where I come from

us

God. No one has been there to come back and tell

to describe what goes on in the throne room of

Because quite frankly, no one has been to heaven

and he says nicodemus.

and jesus now smiles at the end of this discourse

We know one or two things to. We do

We know that you are a teacher sent from God

in his own terms nicodemus, a said uh rabbi.

if I speak of heavenly things why does jesus

begin with the first person plural

you do not believe how, then would you believe,

singular. I have spoken to you of earthly things

the next verse he switches to the first person

know. We testify to. What we have seen and then

the first person plural. We speak of what we

begin with have you noticed how he begins with

heavenly things now. This is a strange passage to

believe how, then would you believe if I speak of

spoken to you of earthly things and you do not

you people do not accept our testimony. I have

and we testified to what we have seen, but still

Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know

authority to speak like that versus 11 to 13

about being born again. What gave him the

and then much more briefly. Why jesus could speak

This is what jesus says about the new birth

again

participate in it because you have been born

coming to a focus in jesus and you don't

the culmination of the old testament story. All

God. This dawning kingdom of David son here is

enter into this saving, transforming kingdom of

Because unless you are born again, he will not

would feel replied you must be born again

because sir

you must be born Again, you must be born again

that you keep preaching again and again and again

somebody got really ticked with him and cornered

him. One day and said mister whitfield. Why is it

born again. You must be born again until finally,

again he preached from this text. You must be

him. Downwind spectacular and again and again and

preaching in a Valley with a sounding box behind

cords. You could preach to tens of thousands by

He preached a vast crowds with a pa system. He,

he must have had a spectacular lungs and vocal

as he was on the English side

Six weeks to three months,

so he was as famous a preacher in the 13 colonies

but he crossed the Atlantic 13 times each time by

sale.

He was a brit,

whitfield

u it's not merely a public stance it's a power

the Western world at the time called George

preacher, probably the most famous preacher in

In the eighteenth century there was a very famous

says when this new birth comes it does transform

jesus is. You just aren't a Christian because he

Christian unless you believe the truth about who

brothers and sisters. You've just aren't a

you're, not a Christian unless you love the

you really have no part in him

like this

Uh unless you obey jesus word,

recorded letters. He can't keep saying things

second John, third John in the first of his three

call first John. There are three first John

testament or the end. It's a little one that we

also writes a letter farther on to the new

same writer John is recording all of this. He

The bible keeps saying these kinds of things, the

Or mysticism

Or religious practice

ritual

those who think that christianity is a matter of

In other words, this text is dead, set against

born again

you cannot enter this kingdom unless you're born

again. That is what you must have. You must be

cannot see the kingdom the real power of God and

Born of the spirit and my dear nicodemus, you

in a new direction, so it is with everyone

life from God himself that shapes our existence

a change of direction. There is a change of

is a transformation there is is the beginning of

origin. There is a cleaning up in the life there

of Christian failure in jew course, but there is

life that doesn't mean people have suddenly

reached perfection. Will wrestle with a lot more

is new birth where it's genuinely come from God.

It will transform you. You will see change in the

It doesn't necessarily mean anything where there

off base somebody's made a commitment to jesus a

lotty dog.

That's why barn is interpretation is so abysmal e

You can't deny them

you always see the results

But where there is genuine new birth,

within us to transform us

have a full analysis of how God works powerfully

what we can infer a quite a few things about how

in there that talks about the new birth and from

and a batch of uh there's. Another passage here

From the bible we can look at a text like this

new birth

I may not be able to explain all the mechanics of

Listen friends,

and then Jesus says so it is with everyone who is

born of the spirit

pass, but you can't deny the effects

all of the physical forces that brought it to

not be able to explain all of the dynamics and

and power of wind. You see the effects you might

but that doesn't mean that you deny the existence

high pressure nobody is thinking in those terms,

where is the line between the depression and the

dick,

desert is this iconic or and he's like. What a

meteorology but not all that much a good deal

around thinking there is a high in the arabian

less than we know today. Nobody was sitting

I mean even then they knew something of

Do you really know where it comes from

You see the effect of the wind

Dance is down the Street, a little dust any maybe

and jesus looks around and he says him

swinging in the evening breeze or a tumble. we

You maybe that they're standing on a Street

corner in Jerusalem and the sycamore ranch is

from or where it is going so it is with everyone

who is born of the spirit, wind.

hear it sound but you cannot tell where it comes

the wind spirit blows wherever it pleases you

pun,

the context so when the original is a bit of a

translate spirit can also mean wind depending on

depends in part on the fact that the word that we

And then it gives another analogy the analogy

that I demand something that is birth from spirit

life of God and that's what he wants

flesh gives birth of flesh. Don't be surprise

that or you cannot possibly be connected with the

so that we are change, transform you must have

God himself from his spirit

And that actually se fuses you, with power from

some act of God that does clean you up

What does it feel said

What you really must have is

trying harder.

You're not gonna have moral revolution by merely

selection

You're not going to produce that by natural

With a life of God

bats generate bats kind produces kind flesh

beings rebels lost and actually connect

produces flesh so how on Earth you take human

cockroaches generate cockroaches

give birth to pigs

should not be surprised in my saying you must be

born again now. What he means by this is pigs,

flesh, but the spirit gives birth to spirit. You

further. He says verse six flesh gives birth to

And then he was quick to explain a little

to transform and renew

and by the power and life of God,

That's what jesus means by the new birth

transformation. The water sprinkling, the heart

that would be characterized by moral

covenant, a new agreement from God

earlier bound up with the dawning of a new

it's the promise of a profit from six centuries

So, whatever else this birth is

indicating life and power from God himself

And I will pour out my spirit upon you

Indicating cleaning somebody out morley

sprinkle your hearts with clean water

and agreement that God is arranged but now he's

that in this new covenant, he says I will

didn't ??? tick order. It's it's a dick covenant

The begins to use David is the founding of a hole

and then, when he

that's a kind of covenant, as well, an agreement

week we noticed how God writes is on agreements

on governance. He has one for example, with

abraham and then when the laws given with moses

covenant with his people. You will recall last

about the sixth century

prophet by the name of the zeke, yule writing

God promises a time when he will make a new

and chapter 36 of easy kill

of the most striking is found in an old testament

about water and spirit.

There are a number of passages, but perhaps one

He should pick up what jesus means when he talks

knows the text that well so he picks up

actually memorize the whole old testament. He

nicotine was to pick up that sort of language

because, after all, he's the sort of chapters

In other words, when jesus says, the birth I'm

talking about is a water and spirit he expects

water and spirit

it doesn't, but interestingly enough in quite a

we scan last week, so the question becomes where

does that. Bible talk about new birth.

few places, it does talk about

The short answer is

testament. The first two thirds of the bible that

anything that comes from what we call the old

What he should have understood of course, was

understood

in the land. What things should he have

the Grand mufti the theological senior professor

now. What things should nicodemus because he was

teacher of Israel, probably a title the Grand

understand these things

mufti the region's professor dividend. You don't

jesus replies you're. Israel's teacher you're the

understand. He says how can these things be and

before we conclude what it means

his answer. Nicodemus still doesn't quite

down in verses nine and 10 when jesus has given

There's, one other small hint that we can pick up

mean by that

So what does John mean by that. What is jesus

Born again

is parallel to

whole expression born of water and the spirit

is a signaling to verse. First birth. One born of

water, then berth to the born again part no the

water and the spirit born of water and the spirit

in other words born again, is parallel to born of

being born of water and the spirit

Without being born again versus five without

in the same sort of sweep

up a bit more from seed winter, but you're still

one can enter the kingdom of God so it's souped

no one can see the kingdom of God verse five, no

see the two senators is a parallel verse. Three,

tell you verse five very truly. I tell you, you

something about this verse. Three very truly, I

carefully with verse five you'll discover

Moreover, if you compare verse three very

just wasn't an expression that anybody used.

of natural birth as being born of water. That

partly because I have not been able to find

anywhere in the ancient world that people spoke

That's what it means

I don't

water and of the spirit

versus born of the spirit, something from god's

supernatural. There tumors you have to be born of

push out its natural

when you're born before you actually begin to

born of water. Maybe is the breaking of the water

natural birth plus some kind of spiritual birth

Some people think it means

water and the spirit and a number of ways.

people have understood this expression, born of

Now I have to tell you over the generations

born of water and the spirit.

What does he mean by that

no one can enter the kingdom of God without being

very truly, I tell you

so he says in verse five

But jesus will back down

you're now promising too much

no new birth messianic figure. You maybe, but

Jesus, you are encouraging the apostle the

impossible. There is no new beginning. There is

understand what's going on at all

saving transforming since you don't really

really don't see very much you see the display of

need is new people, not mere displays of power

and so from your vantage point nakedness you

need is new creatures, not new, creates what we

What we need is new lives, not new laws. What we

women, not new institutions.

in effect, that what we need is new men and

again, but at this light jesus is clearly saying

How can you start over by being born

But life doesn't have a second edition

edition. How I would correct the proofs

Poet John clay wrote if life had a second

no longer be

for a man to a rise in me that the man I am may

19 century, poet alfred, lord tennyson wrote uh

again

and in point of fact, isn't that the sentiment of

many writers and poets over the years the English

You're promising too much how can any man be born

have another go at it

you can't crawl back into your mother's womb and

physicists,

run backwards, despite our theoretical

How could you possibly start over time doesn't

beginning

in effect jesus you're promising too much and you

years for a metaphor, he's not stupid and he says

promising is and you beginning

Nicotine is here is that because he's got two

somehow in this metaphor of new birth. What he's

follow me you can promise all kinds of things,

but what jesus is promising

new direction.

Fulfillment finally, in marriage, you get wealthy

uh turning over a new leaf. Your life takes on a

You can promise a lot of things you can promise

that is to say

and jesus on terms

I think that he is replying to jesus

that comes your way

without being able to discern the odd metaphor

The Grand mufti,

You don't get to be the teacher of Israel.

But I don't think that makes any sense either

Nicodemus was not a stupid man.

to put too fine a word on it dumb

He he's just slow. He he's literally stick is not

up. This way means that he can't see a metaphor.

and start all over again. So to set this thing

crawl back into your mommy's. Tummy physically

that jesus is seriously suggesting you have to

of divinity, but you know, does he really think

Some have tried to argue that nicodemus here

shows himself to be a bit thick reaches professor

Now

to be born

mother's womb

How can anyone be born when they are old. Surely

they cannot enter a second time into their

verse four

and nicodemus replies with a bit of a sneer in

introducing you have to be born again. He says

to see this kingdom that kingdom that jesus is

pretensions

Gently, but firmly knocking down nicodemus

doing is actually

kingdom at all in other words, what jesus is

you really don't deserve you don't see the

You can't see the kingdom unless you're born

again, you might see the miraculous signs, but

You don't see a blessed thing

And jesus says my dear nicodemus

Let me tell you the truth.

operating in some sense,

he's claiming something

God is with you in that sense this is god's reign

sense and we have come to the conclusion. He says

He sees this is god's rain, god's power in some

that

Quack

miraculous signs, signs that cannot be explained

as as the tricks of

and introduce the kingdom all right and now what

does naked ema seek. He sees jesus doing

eventually great david's greater son would come

and so forth and there was an anticipation that

his reign over the israelites of the old covenant

sovereignty and sometimes it's the exercise of

quite varied. It it has to do with god's dynamic

rain with his power and sometimes it's a sweeping

I mentioned that the notion of kingdom can be

recall, and then in one of the earlier sessions.

I think the connection is far simpler. You may

awful lot of stuff to leave out

make sense of the flow of the passage it's, an

isn't it between verses two and verse three to

but that's an awful lot of stuff to leave out

whether you're qualified to get in it

but

is not whether I'm going to make the kingdom Don

which case jesus, says uh uh the crucial question

going to make david's kingdom. Finally dawn,

in the coming kingdom are you the one who is

So tell us are you the one who is going to bring

let's go we're with them.

because nobody could do what you're doing and

We know that you are a teacher sent from God

like this

supposed ellipse. This

as if, as if nicodemus is really saying something

so that people have suggested sort of a a pri

of God what's the, what's the connection

you, the truth

Unless you're born again, you can see the kingdom

accurate signs unless God were with them. I tell

from God because no one could do this were

Nicodemus says we know you are a teacher sent

response to what nicodemus said

now you ask yourself how is that in any sense, a

of God without being born again

very truly. I tell you no one can see the kingdom

and then verse three finds jesus saying

things. It does sound a wee bit pompous

perhaps, however, have been examining these

and yet this editorial, we this, we theologians,

evidence

above and nicodemus wasn't going to deny the

The kind of things that jesus did were a cut

had its share. We have our share today to

case. One more religious quack, the ancient world

not simply dismissing jesus as some sort of nut

chapters looking honestly at the phenomenal he's,

In one sense, it's commendable at least, the

that's what it sounds

a teacher sent from God

have come to the conclusion. We have that you are

only explanation is that it it is from God, so we

cannot deny that this is miraculous, that the

look at the kind of thing that you do and we

to do miracles in their all fraudulent but we

There are all kinds of quacks out there who claim

teacher.

you are not the run of the mill sort of religious

that

We have been examining you and we have observed

pomposity, a rabbi uh

displaced or jesus there is a little element of

for all the formal respect that nicodemus

almost impossible to avoid the conclusion that

draws attention to this. We language it's it's

Well later on, you'll see the jesus carefully

and editorial. We what's going on

there's. No hint that anybody else is there

a Royal wedding that really makes it pompous

together, we have come to this conclusion

students with him. You know my class and I,

this. We

but we could start by asking why he starts with

there's no indication that he's brought his uh

them

the signs you are doing of God we're not with

And then he says we know that you are a teacher

who has come from God for no one could perform

preacher and begin rabbi

them and Israel

dinner uh of divinity, to approach an itinerant

quite remarkable for the regions, professor of

He didn't quite know what he was doing and that

he comes with a certain kind of respect. It is

becomes pretty obvious as you read on,

how to approach properly. He was a bit baffled.

and no doubt it was nighttime but he came in with

a certain kind of law snus. He didn't even know

John does use this sort of language, then the

text is saying that when nicodemus came to jesus

And if that's what's going on that's the way,

hope any more

darkness of Las Vegas without light and

making a deeper comment. As he recounts the thing

he is saying. He went out into the horrible

No doubt that was the time alright, but John is

and it was night

and, as the man goes out, John comments

Judas the man who will ultimately be tray him

jesus

betrayed

almost certainly because John likes to play with

these sorts of things later on when jesus was

does he even bother mentioning it

it was night it's just a historical fact, but why

darkness night and day and things like that and

just because it was night that that was the time

one reason why it's mentioned that it was not

John himself in his book that uses light and

recording that it was night. You have to see how

take on anybody if he thinks he's got a point

No one understand what John means by faithfully

got one independent spirit about him. He will

doesn't really care what people think he's he's

Several times in this book and every time he

nick, a demon

I don't believe it for a moment

some theological advice so he was embarrassed.

would he approach an itinerant preacher and get

himself the regions professor of divinity and why

all that, whereas here was G here was nicodemus

boonies. He was rapping galilee funny accent and

was a kind of itinerant preacher from the

in the day was a bit embarrassed. You know jesus

people have said well, he didn't want to show up

Why

He comes at night

Oh there have been lots of suggestions advanced

with some wealth, but he comes to jesus.

it appears that he probably is connected also

The politically connected um and um later on it's

mufti is the religious professor of divinity so

he's learned he's theologically up there and he's

the teacher of Israel. He, he he's the Grand

with the word that should probably be rendered

teacher of Israel that is there is an article

down and verse 10 we're told that he is the

from from different backgrounds. Uh. This put him

people committed to judaism in some sense. So

was also religious elite that is the rulers were

and so this meant that he was um

political elite and because this political a lead

Part of a certain party but belonging to the

country under the roman governor

the top Council of 70 or 72 people that rule a

but on

excessive rules,

certain kind of orthodoxy, sometimes given to an

member of the Jewish ruling Council almost

certainly that's referring to the sand. He driven

community for discipline and good deeds and a

judaism known and largely respected in the

from a conservative branch of first century

we're told he's a pharmacy that meant that he was

were introduced to this. Chap called nicodemus

and the account here is the first 10 verses

What jesus actually said about being born again

what Jesus actually said about being born again.

number one.

I'm going to proceed in four quite uneven points

If we're going to embrace some kind of born again

ism or born again theology.

important to try to find out what he meant by it.

world until jesus invented the term so it is

used so far as our sources go in the ancient

As far as we know, born again, language was not

Why does jesus even use this sort of language

commitment.

parents. It's not it's not begun from from some

in other words, the source comes from the

doing the work and pushing a little tyco

I think it's the mother as far as I know, is

in other words, the child does not sort of make a

commitment to come out of his mother's womb.

seems to look at things from the other side

But the whole nature of birth

commitment is looking at it from our side

whether or not it has made any difference in

their life. Indeed to talk about it as a

still more or less happy with it. Regardless of

some kind of religious commitment to jesus and is

is what jesus had in mind. Someone who's made

which we live

What is that what jesus has in mind

those of the whole generation and culture in

that the morals and mores of such so called born

again, people are not really much different from

And then, when he discovered rather sadly, was

important to them today

personal commitment to jesus christ that is still

so he defined born again as someone with a

have to define what board again means don't you

again. People but if you're gonna do that you

not too long ago. He pulled a whole lot of born

they think about this or that or the other and

who is constantly pulling people to find out what

There's, a pollster by the name of barn, a

the media. Uh, something about this born again

Republican or whatever

vice versa and then we'll start hearing in one of

Republican, a liberal, becomes a conservative or

Or sometimes um sometimes a Democrat becomes a

So what is born again me name change

born again that's

all over America. There were slogans about the

then somewhere along the line. They decided that

they would change the dots into the nissan and um

but um the base model was the dancer

they were produced by the nissan motor company,

people drove that's automobiles,

You birth language

I'm old enough to remember when

in him

That everyone who believes may have eternal life

wilderness. So the son of man must be lifted up.

just as moses lifted up the snake in the

the son of man,

Into heaven except the one who came from heaven,

would you believe. I speak of heavenly things.

No one has ever

earthly things and you do not believe how, then

accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of

what we have seen, but still you people do not

you, we speak of what we know and we testified to

you are israel's teacher said jesus and do you

how can this be nicodemus asked

with everyone born of the spirit

where it comes from or where it is going so it is

Pleases you hear it sound but you cannot tell

where

my saying you must be born again the wind blows

birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at

the spirit

flesh gives birth to flesh, but the spirit gives

kingdom of God without being born of water and

very truly. I tell you no one can enter the

they cannot enter a second time into their

jesus answered

mother's. Womb to be born

Be born when they're old nicodemus asked, surely

How can

jesus replied very truly. I tell you no one can

God were not with him

see the kingdom of God without being born again.

no one. Could perform the signs you are doing if

that you are a teacher who has come from God for

came to jesus at night and said rabbi, we know

who was a member of the Jewish ruling Council. He

No, there was a fair, a C, a man named nicodemus

The first 15 versus John 31 to 50

I will

beginning with four gospels Matthew Mark luke and

those is john's gospel and, in the third chapter.

coming life, death resurrection the fourth of

that start in Greek and of come down to us

testament the new testament writings the parts

this is in the last third called the new

chapter three now if you are looking at bibles

this, but first of all I'm going to focus on John

passages in the new testament. The talk about

Tonight in the first session we're looking at the

you how he does this now. One crucial part of

this is the new birth

guard who grants new birth there are several

and the rest of the series is designed to show

Jesus addresses all three of these massive needs

it means the becoming a human being the in

flushing the in carnation of God, among

call the in carnation the inflection that's. What

of seven talks, we got as far as what Christians

Now that's where we're going in this second set

haven't and a new Earth.

the last two chapters of the bible and you

crops up from time to time until it triumphs in

up hundreds of years before the coming of jesus

and the Pulls out before us, the prospect of a

summarized under an expression that start showing

universal transformation at the end, aptly

within us

and then he begins his work of transformation

reconciled to this. God who is there

lives the bible vision is that we really are

that we make a decision for jesus and live happy

and other words. The bible's prospect is not just

universe with no more death or decay

Educating universe that there is still pain and

clarity begins to lay out hope of a transformed

sorrow and death with the bible with increasing

keeps going on. It is

reversed and overcome, otherwise, death just

and third, all the effects of sin must somehow be

again and again

just keep on rebelling and doing it again and

but we must be morally transformed or else we

second, we must not only be reconciled to him,

all, our selves to be reconcile to go.

But precisely how does this help so he's come God

right through the whole bible. We need first of

what we need granted the tension that sweeps

We need that

who comes to save his people from their sins

the God man. This jesus, he always saves the one

proverbs and the like he's. Finally named as

described and in story and action and word and

only with his with his attributes as they're

himself in the old testament and he's named not

he's named not only with the names he takes on

God was there, but he's disclosed himself and

Here's, a guy who has disclosed himself he's the,

He was saying he has seen the father

followers, have I've been with you, such a long

interact with people look at jesus

So when his gospel, he says to one of his own

attributes are, how we behave how we think how we

to know what his characteristics are, what his

what he's like if you want to, if you don't want

Do you wanna know what God looks like

Well, not physically and yet, if you want to know

but we have seen jesus

We saw no one has seen God at any time,

one who is the perfect locus of grace and truth.

And then becoming flesh, he ultimately became the

use the bible's language

Living for a while, among us, he became flesh to

the Sun becoming a human being

son,

complexity of one God. Nevertheless, father and

self expression who is himself God in the

passage we looked at last week the word god's own

that look forward to the time when, in the last

So we are glad some of the old testament promises

King who is nevertheless identified with God

Prince of peace

With an array of biblical text promising attic

Everlasting father

mighty God

end and he will be called wonderful counselor

of the increase of his kingdom. There will be no

He shall reign on the throne of his father, David

a child is born unto us a son is given

We re site with pleasure at Christmas for unto us

For we we are giving glimpses that uh.

with david's jeans

King. It is is more than just one more person

this ultimate David died. This ultimate debated

yet, as the promises unfold in the old testament,

set up about a thousand cc under King David and

someone from the debate a klein the line of Kings

Dean or

with God, eventually promising in jew course

covenant

sacrificial system as it was set up under the old

and so we witnessed the beginning of the

death, even while this God forgives the sinner

That does not god's Justice requires some kind of

being cut off from the creator is death.

sin if the entitlement of rebellion and sin of

be. How how there needs to be sacrifice for

In jew course, he he shows what good law should

tribes and Nations around the world

to save men and women drawn from every time and

anticipates what God is going to do, ultimately

process of starting a new humanity in a in a

covenant and agreement with him that that

flawed through and through, but to begin the

He calls out one man abraham and his family

judgment but he does some spectacular things.

in his sovereign mercy.

out rebels

He operates in a variety of ways. Yes, there is

You have the God of the bible. Instead of wiping

rebel against him. What do we have, but death

serve me or I'll find another one. Thank you so

you have the beginning of all a dollar tree

But if our life has come from God and now, we

God, if he she or it exists jolly will better

control. We want to be at the Center and even

But because all of these things are small index

ease of how we want to prevail. We want to

lost a rerun

I've lost many arguments in my time. I've never

wins

then you replay the whole thing in your mind. Who

said if you only thought of them fast enough and

should have said all the things you would have

the things you could have said all the things you

And you go away from it seeding. You remember all

Or suppose you have a really good knockdown drag

who's faced you look for first

him out argument. One of the one in 10 year types

here's, your graduation class photo

I know that

Yet if I were to hold up your high school or

College graduation class photo and say

of the universe.

that nobody goes around saying I'm at the Center

universe.

There can only be strive now. I know full well

the horizontal evils that we know

will Everybody wanting to be at the Center of the

only to the creator come all of the social evils

usurp, to ourselves the prerogatives the belong

to challenge God to become God ourselves to, to

depicted in genesis. Three and with this desire

against this. God and we tried to see how this is

but the very nature of evil is tied to rebellion

centered

and good,

God himself, the creator is different from the

creation but all that he made was initially God

everything good

massive tension cost mc in scope, but descending

all the way down to the level of the individual

The tension is grounded in the fact that God made

up from the opening chapters of genesis, a

The bible story line. We have discovered has set

the next few minutes

at the halfway point in the series.

Attention to the biblical material unpacked in

It's a great pleasure to be back with you we're

own spirit, then please pay

must tell you that you are in terrible danger,

start over with new vitality provided by god's

but if you are beginning to see that you need

power from God himself to change direction and

in that case, you'll probably walk away and I

may find what jesus says. Insulting

None of this will make much sense in fact, you

you feel you need neither God nor other people.

you live with such massive self confidence that

if You are entirely satisfied with your life. If

that require forgiveness

know what jesus promises is life transforming

himself calls a new birth.

power and you origin and you beginning what he

for we may stubbornly persistent doing things

rebellious hearts and minds not mere forgiveness

Not improve liturgy

for our minds will continue to wonder not mere

threats for threats by themselves. Do not capture

will break it

the point of the Exchange as we'll see is along

What jesus promises is not more moral code for we

legislator called nicodemus

these lines.

with the first century Jewish scholar and

genesis in a conversation that the lord jesus had

Hello my name is dawn carson the title of this

live so moses made abroad snake and put it on a

talk the God who grants new birth, finds its