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The ✝️ Blueprint for Being #Born_Again (John 3:3) 🐣 764,836 views Feb 1, 2013
And Jesus says to the 🇮🇱 #JEWISH #PHARISEE #NICODEMUS this: "If you want to enter the Kingdom, you've got to be BORN AGAIN." 🐣
🩸 They (#NICODEMUS 🇮🇱 ) put burdens on people of legalism that they don't help them carry.
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They essentially are #liars. They are #phonies; they are #frauds described as #whitewashed_tombs on the outside, inside
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#full of #corrupt dead men's bones. He was one of those.
He (#NICODEMUS 🇮🇱 ) was a man who was like the apostle Paul--zealous for the law, traditional, kosher, blameless
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before the law, externally fastidious about keeping every law, every ritual, every little
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minute kind of tradition that had developed and he lived as a #hypocrite. And #hypocrites know that there's a difference between the outside and the inside because
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the #spirit of a man, 1 Corinthians 2 says, knows what is in the #heart of a man. So he knows what's going on.
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He's a #hypocrite. Now he's climbed the #hypocrite...the hypocritical pile to the very top because he is a ruler
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of the #Jews, 🇮🇱 a member of the #Sanhedrin, the #ruling body of seventy people, and to be in that group you had to be one of the most elite of all hypocrites.
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He was also labeled in verse 10 as the #teacher of #Israel, which means that he had climbed
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the pile of academia and biblical knowledge and was regarded as the teacher.
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So here is a man extremely religious, extremely fastidious. He is...he is at the pinnacle of what would be called a #Pharisaical, #Judaistic #nobility.
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He is ELITE (AKA #ZIONIST) when it comes to that, devotedly moral, externally following every detail of
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the law and on the #inside he #knows he is #NOT in the #kingdom_of_God.
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He has #no_assurance that his eternal #soul belongs to God. He has #no_assurance of #forgiveness of His transgressions and his #sins which are #many,
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the least of which is certainly the most common of sins, and that is his hypocrisy.
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The greatest of which is his #rejection of the way of #salvation, which was always by
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#faith and #grace and #penitence. He is a hypocrite.
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He has #no_relation to #God, #no_place in the #kingdom, #no_assurance of forgiveness, #no_hope of heaven, and he knows all that because the spirit of a man knows what's in a man.
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So he comes to Jesus. And what is he doing? He comes by #night; he needs some help.
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And the help that he wants is how do I get in the kingdom. And you know what his approach is going to be. His approach is going to be, I'm not in the kingdom.
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I know I'm not in the kingdom. What do I need to do? I've done everything I know to do. I've kept every law I know to keep.
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I've kept every biblical law I know to keep. I've kept every rabbinic traditional law I know to keep, I've dotted every i, crossed
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every t, my whole life, that's why I've achieved what I've achieved religiously. In a sense you could say he may well be the pope of Jerusalem.
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I mean, he's hit the top of the pile. What do I do?
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Where do I go? What more do I need to do? What other thing do I need to do? Or what thing do I need to delete out of my life?
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What am I doing that I need to stop doing? What am I not doing I need to do? And Jesus says to him this: "If you want to enter the kingdom, you've got to be born again."
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Which is to say, "Nothing you've ever done makes any contribution. Everything you are needs to be dead.
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Everything you have achieved needs to die, is dead--dead works as we read in Hebrews
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9." Because the kingdom of God, verse 3, the kingdom of God, the realm of salvation is only for
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those who are born again, or you can't see it, meaning you can't participate in it, you
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can't be a part of it, both in your life here and forever in the glories of heaven.
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He ignores the greeting. He doesn't comment on the greeting, at least John doesn't record his comment on it if he
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did. He reads Nicodemus' mind. He goes right to his mind because He knew everyone's mind.
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He knew what everybody was thinking 'cause He's God. And He shatters in that one statement to bits all the stained glass ideas of religion.
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All religious works, all moral works are useless, impotent to provide anything by which a man
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can enter the kingdom. This is the truth of regeneration. And is predicated on the fact that the best that a man can do is wretched, that all our
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moral works, and all our religion is useless to satisfy or please God.
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Ephesians 2 says, "You're dead in trespasses and sins." Ephesians 4, "You're cut off from the life of God."
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This is a dead man, a blind man, an ignorant man, a hopeless man and on top of that, a
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hypocrite. From there you can't get to God's kingdom. You can't.
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Unless you're born from above, born again, have another birth that comes like your first
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birth from above. You need to be created by God again spiritually.
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This introduces to us the truth of regeneration. Now I want you to get this, going to give you a little theology this morning.
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