070: Why you MUST have a new identity (John 3:3-8) || The Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible Study
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 12 March 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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📜 TODAY'S SCRIPTURE:
JOHN 3:3-8 - Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you new creation you that may sound like a funny way for me to greet you this fine |
| 0:11.0 | morning but it is an extension of what we address yesterday |
| 0:15.8 | the fact that you have a new identity and I want to get right into it this morning |
| 0:20.9 | we looked at John chapter 3 where Jesus said to a guy named |
| 0:24.8 | Nicodemus you must be born again. And what he was trying to communicate to |
| 0:29.9 | Nicodemus which Nicodemus didn't get and which I think we don't get as significantly as we should, |
| 0:36.4 | is that birth determines your identity. |
| 0:40.7 | Birth does, and the example I gave you was a dog is not a dog because it barks. |
| 0:45.0 | A dog is a dog because it was born a dog. |
| 0:49.0 | Makes sense? |
| 0:50.0 | Now you were born a human, and that's what makes you human. |
| 0:55.0 | Okay, when your parents had you and you, they were told by the doctor, it's a boy or it's a girl. |
| 1:02.0 | They didn't look at you and say, oh my God, please, I hope |
| 1:06.4 | he grows up to be human. I mean, they knew you were human because you were born a human that was your identity and so when |
| 1:15.0 | Jesus says to Nicodemus and when he says to you and me you must be born again |
| 1:20.7 | literally in the Greek it means you must be born from above. He's saying you need |
| 1:24.8 | something to happen in you that gives you a new identity. Because this old |
| 1:31.7 | identity that we're used to living out of as a human being independent of God |
| 1:36.1 | is the identity we received from our ancestor Adam and Eve. |
| 1:41.9 | It's been passed down through generations and it's not that being human is a bad thing. |
| 1:45.8 | God's the one who made us human. But through Adam and Eve we received a spiritual DNA if you want to call it that it's not really |
| 1:55.1 | physical DNA but we received a spiritual characteristic of sinfulness of |
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