00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:09 Debate on Changing the Work Week

00:35 Discussion on Office Temperature

01:47 Daylight Savings Time and Time Zones

02:24 Introduction to Daily Bible Reading (DBR)

02:32 Jesus Turns Water into Wine

05:13 Jesus Cleanses the Temple

07:18 Nicodemus and Being Born Again

13:45 Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

16:02 Conclusion and Prayer

16:33 Podcast Outro and Information

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast, and

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happy Monday to all of you Bible

people who observe Mondays.

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That's right.

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That's everybody.

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I think.

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Hey, did you know they're thinking

about changing the work week.

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I've heard that kicked

around for quite a while.

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Not a chance, man.

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It's been seven days from

the beginning of time.

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That's what happened.

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Oh, the work week?

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Yeah.

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Well, okay.

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No, I haven't heard that.

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Like they're, they've, a lot of people are

saying, let's go to a four day work week.

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Oh, four tens.

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Yeah.

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I've seen stuff like that before.

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Yeah.

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I don't know I'd before that.

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Would you?

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I would do it.

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I was trying to think if that

would even work as the church.

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Are you okay?

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There you are.

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Just, it's rearranging my seat here.

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You are doing something.

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It's hot in here.

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Are you still mad because we lost

our first episode yesterday hot.

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I wasn't mad about it.

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I was pretty much unfazed.

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Were you, I, yeah.

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I sensed that I didn't sense

that you were upset, but, well,

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you said I'm upset right now.

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I'm not frustrated.

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I feel fine.

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I'm just watching you

slam your chair around.

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I'm warm.

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That makes me upset.

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Getting hot and sweaty

does not make my day, dude.

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I'm not sweaty yet, but I'm

getting toasty around the corner.

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I don't have any heater

on or anything in here.

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It's just a lot of hot air in

this office is all, I didn't

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say who I'm saying normally the

temperature in the office is fine.

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Okay.

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But you know what, I'm glad that you're

in this one and I'm in the other one.

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'cause this one gets more afternoon sun.

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Which is hotter.

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Yeah.

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And they, in the morning.

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It's perfect.

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Do you do like it rather

frigid in the office?

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I like it.

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I like it cooler.

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It keeps my brain cool.

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Not relationally, just temporarily.

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Yeah.

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Tempera, temp, tempera early.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Climate lee, whatever.

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So are we doing the four tens here?

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Is that what the plan is?

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I don't think so.

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No.

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We're not gonna do that.

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No.

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It doesn't quite work for us.

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We'd have to do, I don't know

if a sector would work for I

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people, I've heard comment on it.

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Fire firefighters do things like that.

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That weird schedule.

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They do three, well, yeah,

three days on nurses.

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Yeah.

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Same thing there.

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But yeah.

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But like the production sector

and everything like that,

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truck drivers, it would.

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Throw a lot of things in for a

loop, you'd have to have widespread

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acceptance, and then everyone does.

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It's kind of like daylight

savings time, which nobody likes.

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No, but everyone does it so it works.

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Although we get to fall back soon, man.

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I don't remember when.

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I don't know.

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I'm still hoping that our governor

pushes through the legislation for

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us to just stick with one of 'em.

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I don't even care which one at this point.

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Just let me have one.

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Although there's one that would

put us three hours different

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from California, I don't care.

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California's dead to me.

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I'm just kidding, guys.

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I'm just kidding.

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I love you guys.

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I was gonna say, Bruno and

Nani are not gonna like that.

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Yeah.

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You're not gonna get peanut butter

balls from Cherie next time.

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Yeah.

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I don't wanna compromise that.

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Yeah.

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I do not wanna compromise that.

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No I would just like to

stay on the same time.

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Okay.

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That would be great.

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Alright.

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Fair enough.

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Alright hey, let's jump into our DBR.

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We are in John chapter two

through John chapter four.

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John two through four.

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So John, chapter two is, it

opens with a familiar story.

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Again the changing of water to wine.

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And there's a lot of questions here.

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Was he talking about replacing the

purification system because there the

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purification jars that were filled with

water and then he changed it to wine.

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Was he making a statement there?

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It maybe but Jesus is revealing

part of his identity here.

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So we need to set the stage.

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The reason this is a problem is this was a

massive point of indignation and shame for

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the family that was hosting the wedding.

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And Mary clearly loved this family.

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It evidenced by the fact

that she was invited.

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She had a, a.

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Pretty significant role in this,

that she would be able to go to

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Jesus and ask Jesus to intervene.

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And so Jesus is gonna do this

even though his first rebuff of

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Mary's request is, seems stark.

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Woman, what does this have to do with me?

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My hour has not yet come.

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First the word woman was

a term not of rebuke and.

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Pejorative nature like it is today.

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This was a common way to address someone.

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And so Jesus it may not have been the

common way to address your mother, but

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some have even said this may be Jesus

indicating that his identity is shifting.

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That his purpose in his main role is not

that of Mary's son anymore, but that of

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the son of God that he's shifting over to.

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Fulfill that rule still, he responds.

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When she responds, I think

faithfully and says to the

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servants, do whatever he tells you.

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He does this miracle.

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And I think it's less about

maybe there's layers there.

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John is known for multiple

layers of meaning.

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So it.

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Definitely could be that he's

pointing out the purification

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rights are gonna be replaced.

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That it's not about the law anymore.

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Jesus is here to do something new, the

wine, the celebration, the joy but Jesus

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is doing this and he does it, I think more

for his disciples and the servants that

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were part of this than for anyone else.

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Because the disciples see

this and he manifests.

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It says in the Bible, he manifests

his glory to them through this sign.

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So he's showing these freshly

called disciples that that

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following him is worth it.

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Because they're gonna see

some pretty amazing things.

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Not worth it from an entertainment

perspective, but worth it from the

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perspective of, man, his power is

on display in what he's doing here.

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Yeah.

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Baptists have only taken a

slight issue with this text

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and that it's mistranslated.

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Many Baptists understand that the way

it should be translated is that Jesus

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turned the water into grape juice.

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There it is.

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That's what happened.

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There it is.

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Besides that, it's a great text.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Verse 11, it says, this is the first

of his signs that Jesus did at Cana

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in Galilee and manifested his glory.

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Now we just read about

another sign yesterday.

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We read about the man with the para

paralysis being lower, lowered down.

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We've read about him healing people

at Peter's mother-in-law's house.

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So it seems like maybe

chronologically this might be out

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of order a little bit here, but.

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Nonetheless, this is where we find

ourselves reading it, but I don't have

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a reason to doubt that this is true.

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What John says that this was

the first miracle that he did.

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'cause John was here.

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John was present with him, and so it seems

like this one probably pre preempted the

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other ones that we've read about so far.

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From here, the Passover of the Jews,

it says in verse 13 was at hand.

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And so that was one of the feasts that

required the presence of all Jewish males.

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And so Jesus, in perfect obedience to

the law, went up to Jerusalem there and

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he finds the temple had been overrun.

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At least the court of the Gentiles,

the outer courts where the Gentiles

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could go to worship had been overrun

by these money changers and by people

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looking to make a money, make a dollar,

make a dropout, whatever the money was.

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Off the people come to the temple to

worship God, and they were gouging

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prices for buying the sacrifices there.

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It's like trying to

get gas by the airport.

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You're gonna pay way above market

value for these sacrifices there.

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They're changing out money and

charging interest to, to say, okay,

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you can bring your foreign money here.

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We'll give you the temple money,

but we're also gonna charge a

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little bit off the top here.

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So Jesus isn't having it.

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And he forms a whip of cords and it

says he drove them out of the temple

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along with the animals and the.

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The beast.

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So Jesus is using a whip here.

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On people.

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Yep.

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To drive them out of the temple.

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That's what I would do.

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And he's overturning the

tables and all of this.

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And the reason being is because he

loves the holiness and the glory of God.

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And this was demeaning that,

and he was not standing for it.

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And so he's his passion.

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And that's what it says in the text.

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The disciples, remember this, the

deal for your house will consume me.

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His passion for his father is on

clear display in this encounter.

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Real quick, this is presented in the other

gospels at the end of Jesus' ministry.

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Is this at the beginning of Jesus'

ministry too or is John moving it forward?

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The, yeah, so that's the question.

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Are there two cleansings

or is there only one?

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I tend towards there being

two that bookend his ministry.

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And I think this is the first

one and there's another one

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that takes place later on.

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Right on.

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Yeah.

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After this, it says

that many followed him.

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You'll notice that towards

the end of chapter two.

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And yet Jesus was skeptical of them.

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The Greek plays off.

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He did not believe in their belief because

he knew it was in the heart of man.

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So Jesus is gonna have a lot of people

that initially flocked to him who.

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He knows whether or not

their faith is genuine.

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And that's a sobering reminder to us

to make sure that our faith is genuine,

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that we're not following Jesus for the

wrong reasons, but that we're following

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him, surrender to him as our Lord and

the Savior, and for the right reasons.

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Chapter three, familiar, probably the

most familiar chapter in the gospel

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of John, perhaps, and that is the

interaction when Nicodemus comes to

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him, it says by night there, and he

says, we know that you're from God.

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For no one can do the things that you're

doing unless he's been sent from God,

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and Jesus tells him Nicodemus I tell

you the truth, unless one is born again,

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he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

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And a common theme in John's gospel

that we'll see over and over again

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is that Jesus is gonna try to get to

the spiritual level, and his audience

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is gonna stay on the physical level.

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So Jesus is trying to convey that the

need for regeneration to be born again.

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To this man, Nicodemus and expecting

Nicodemus would understand this.

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And I think expecting that because of

passages like we read not too long ago

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in Ezekiel the new covenant language, the

new heart, the being given new life, the

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spirit being placed within the washing

and the water, all of these things.

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And Jesus is expecting

Nicodemus to be able to track

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with them and Nicodemus can't.

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And so Jesus then goes to press

even further and says if you can't

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understand, if I've told you earthly

things, verse 12, how are you gonna

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understand the heavenly things?

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No one has ascended into heaven except he

who descended from heaven, the son of man.

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And then he begins, I think from here

to explain how regeneration is possible.

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And that is the most famous passages in

John as Moses lifted up the surface in

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the serpent, in the wilderness, so much

the son of man be lifted up, that whoever

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believes in him may have eternal life.

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3 16, 4.

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Gods love the world that

he gave his only son.

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Whoever believes in him should

not perish, but have eternal life.

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I think Nicodemus is being.

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Todd, this is how

regeneration is possible.

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Nicodemus, you asked how can a

man enter into his mother's womb?

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It's not physical rebirth.

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Jesus has said earlier, it's spiritual

rebirth, and that comes this way.

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It comes through the son of

man being lifted up so that

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you might have eternal life.

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Okay, two follow-up questions.

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Number one, what does it

mean to be born again?

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And clearly Jesus is saying here,

it's essential to be a Christian.

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So how does someone know if

they've been born again and

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what does that mean practically?

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Yeah.

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Paul's gonna pick up on this concept

of being a new creation in Christ.

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And even Romans chapter six is gonna

talk about the fact that we have

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been buried with him by baptism

into his death in order that we

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might walk in newness of life.

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So there's a freshness.

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I was talking with somebody recently

to just say, who we were prior to

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Christ when we're at the bema seat.

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That's not brought up.

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That's not there because that's

part of the old that's gone, that's

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been taken outta the equation.

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It's who we are as we have been made new,

we've been given new life, regenerated.

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The spirit has given us new life

in Christ and we are now able

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to walk in obedience to him.

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And that's what we're dealing with

there at the assessment of the beam.

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A seat of Christ is how we walk

as Christians, as believers.

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So how do I know if I've been born again?

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Have you believed in Christ John three 16?

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Have you trusted in him for eternal life?

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Have you repented from your

sins and put your faith there?

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And then, much like John the Baptist,

confronted the religious leaders,

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we're gonna bear fruit in keeping

with that faith and keeping that with

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repentance, with that repentance.

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And so, second Peter, chapter

one we talked about this at

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least in community groups.

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I can't remember if I hid it in the sermon

or not, but verses five, I think I did

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verses five through 11 when Peter says,

supplement your faith with these things.

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And confirm you're calling an

election by practicing these things.

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So I think one of the evidences

of our new birth is we see that

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transformation in our life.

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So is there an experiential

subjective sense in which you

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people talk about all the time?

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Oh, I, when I was saved things,

suddenly things were so different.

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There was the changes all over.

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I suddenly grew in love for the scripture.

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I wanted to be at the church

I all these different.

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Experiential and subjective

things happen to them.

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Is that consistent?

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Is that what John is getting at when

he talks about going from darkness

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to light and from being dead in

your sins, that, that's Pauline

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language, but being born again, is

that something that every Christian

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should expect and to what degree?

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Yes, our affections are gonna change.

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Yes.

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Our desires are gonna change.

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But it's hard to blanket statement

that, because everybody's

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got a different testimony.

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And so for the person that's been strung

out on drugs their whole life, that

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then gets saved the contrast is gonna

be so stark and so evident in their

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life that you're gonna be able to look

at them and say, wow, that's amazing.

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The kid that's been brought up in

the church their whole life and

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their main sin is self-righteousness.

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Which is just as deadly as being

strung out on drugs your whole life.

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The change, the contrast may be

less noticeable for that one.

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And so that's why I think it's, we

can't, as a church prescribe this

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is what the change has to look like.

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Should there be a change?

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Yes.

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Should your affections change

and your desires change?

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Yes.

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To what degree is going

to change based on, on.

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Who you are and how God's

working in your life.

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Yeah.

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This is a unilateral event being born

again, the regeneration is the technical

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term for this process or this experience.

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This is something God does.

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This is something you can't force.

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When, I guess here's another question.

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This is related to the second question,

but it's still part of the first.

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When does being born again happen in

relation to the rest of your salvation?

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It's.

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Imperceptible from a

human, from the human eye.

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But regeneration does proceed.

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Faith.

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We have to be born again in order

to put our faith in Christ for

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the forgiveness of our sins.

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A dead body can't do anything right.

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A spiritually dead

person can't do anything.

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So the spirit in part's life

causes us to be born again.

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And part of that then is the ability

to put our faith and trust in

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Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

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That's all part of the

package of conversion.

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It's, that's why I say it's

imperceptible from the human eye.

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You can't look and say, okay, this person

got born again, and then a week later

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they, they put their trust in Jesus.

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This is all happening

instantaneously from our perspective.

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Yeah.

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But it's God's work

that precedes our work.

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So someone shouldn't freak

out then if they're not Sure.

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Am I born again?

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I'm not born again.

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This really isn't a

question for you, your job.

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From God's perspectives, repent.

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Put your trust in Jesus.

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Believe in him.

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It's not for you to say, I

Lord, I wanna be born again.

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Help me be born again.

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Your job is to put your trust in Jesus.

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Not to say, I need to be born again.

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That's not your job.

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You can't make yourself be born

again any more than you can make

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yourself be born in the first place.

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Yeah, you're just the passive

recipient of this process, and

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this is God's work on your behalf.

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Okay, second question

was Nicodemus born again?

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Was he a Christian?

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I believe by the end of John's

gospel, we see evidence that he

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was, he's there at the cross.

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He's helping with the body

being taken down from the cross.

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I think Nicodemus does get saved.

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Yes.

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Yeah, that sounds pretty cool.

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Yeah.

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And he'd be one of the few people

who's a Pharisee, who seems to

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have a legitimate faith in Christ,

which is kind of a warning.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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The rest of John chapter three, you have

a conflict arise between the disciples

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of John and and the disciples of Jesus.

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Although more the disciples of John

they're jealous for John's sake.

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They love their teacher.

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They love the one that

they've been supporting.

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And they say, Hey, Jesus

is baptizing more people.

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And John says, great, that's awesome.

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That's why I came out.

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He must increase and I must decrease.

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So John clearly understood his

message, but what's fascinating

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is God uses this because.

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Jesus is gonna catch wind of

this, and this is gonna preempt

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him to move and he's gonna move.

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And from here in John four, it's gonna

say that he has to pass through Samaria.

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Now that's, he has to, because this

is part of God's will, God's plan,

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the Jews would often actually cross

over the Jordan River and pass and

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circumvent Samaria because they

didn't want to risk defilement.

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In going through the land of

the Samaritans, Jesus instead

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goes straight through Samaria,

stops at a well there in Ssar.

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He sits down and he encounters this woman.

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And I've said earlier, I think in

yesterday's episode, this is the

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first person that he's going to

reveal his messianic identity to.

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He's going to encounter this

woman and pursue her first.

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He does so with this idea of,

Hey, you need to ask me for water.

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'cause he had asked her,

Hey, can I get a drink?

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And he's gonna tell her, you should be

asking me for water and I'll give you

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water that you'll never thirst again.

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And again, she stays

on the physical level.

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She says, sir, where's this water?

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I want this water.

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So then he goes further after her heart.

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He says, why don't you call your husband?

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And she says, well, I

don't have a husband.

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He says, yeah, you're right.

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You've had five and the guy that you're

with right now, not your husband.

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And she then.

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Tries to shift the subject because

she's uncomfortable in our sin and

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says, okay what about places of worship

you, Jews, worship over in Jerusalem?

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We Samaritan's worship here.

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What's right?

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And Jesus goes with her there

and says, you know what?

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It's not about that.

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It's not about which mountain, but

it's about the worshiping the father

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in the right way, God, a spirit and

desires those to worship him and

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worship him in spirit and truth.

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So that's what you needed.

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Do and then she, the light bulb goes off

for, she goes I know when the Messiah

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comes, he's gonna reveal all this.

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And Jesus says, I who speak to you am He.

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The rest of the chapter is

all about her testimony.

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Going back, telling the other people

in Samaria all about this encounter.

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They come back, they spend

time around Jesus and they end

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up believing in him as well.

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So it's an unlikely first.

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Person for him to reveal his identity

to and one of the most effective first

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evangelists and ambassadors for Christ.

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It's an unlikely person that

we find here in John four.

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Yeah.

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This is such a cool narrative.

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I love what Jesus says in verse 34.

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He says, my food is to do the will of

him who sent me to accomplish his work.

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And this is when Jesus is

saying, look, his disciples like.

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Aren't you hungry?

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You haven't eaten yet, and Jesus is saying

There's something better than food that

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I've got, and given how hyper palatable

our food is today, I just think it's

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really cool that Jesus is saying there's

something better than even the most

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tasty sandwich that you can have, or the

best brisket that you can enjoy doing.

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God's will is more flavorful and

more desirable, and more enjoyable,

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and even more sustaining than

the best meal that you can enjoy.

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Yeah.

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Let's pray in that we're

done with this episode.

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God, we thank you for this example and

just a reminder that all of us were

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unlikely converts at some point in time.

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None of us deserved it.

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None of us have merited it.

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And yet, like you came after

Nicodemus, like you came after the

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woman at the, well, Lord, you came

after us with the saving grace.

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Of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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And so we're so thankful for that.

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May we be like this woman at the

well and go and tell as many people

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as we can that we found the Messiah

and that they can find him to, and we

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pray that you'd save others through

those endeavors in those efforts.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep your Bibles tune again

tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye bye.

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listening to another episode of

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said