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All right, welcome back, day three of our deep dive in John chapter three.

So far, what we've covered is that Nicodemus shows up at night and he's completely confused about the

nature of salvation and he's asking Jesus about what he's teaching, and it just goes right over his head.

I mean, he says, you know, Jesus, you must be a rabbi because nobody could do the things that

you do unless they were from God.

And immediately, Jesus, Nicodemus doesn't even ask a question, and Jesus just gives an answer.

He's like, truly, but unless you're born again, then you can't be saved.

And he very clearly explains that salvation is received, it's not achieved, and I think it goes

straight over Nicodemus's head. And then Jesus, being the master teacher, is going to use a couple

of rabbinical traditions to take something that Nicodemus is very, very, very familiar with,

which is the Old Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures, and he's going to show Nicodemus. Jesus is going

to show Nicodemus where Jesus is in the Old Testament. This is why, by the way, we do not

unhitch from the Old Testament, because Jesus did not unhitch from the Old Testament. So we'll pick it up in verse 9 and Nicodemus said to him, how can these things be? And Jesus answered him, are you a teacher of Israel? And yet you do not understand these things. Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know. Now who's the we here? Well, that's the triune God, God, the Father, God, the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We speak of what we know and bear witness to what we have

seen, but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe,

how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except the one

who descended from heaven, the son of man now here's the

biblical illustration that jesus is going to give that's going to help nicodemus connect the dots

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