Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

We're all familiar with the phrase, born again, but do you know what it actually means to be born again?

Today, we'll open our Bibles to John 3 as we continue the gospel one sign at a time,

our year-long study in the Gospel of John.

In it, Paul looks at Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus when he famously tells him,

you must be born again.

To hear more of these Bible studies, visit paultrip.com slash john.

Here's Paul Tripp on being born again.

You cannot understand the mission of Jesus.

You cannot understand the work of his grace without these two words.

Well, in the next eight sessions of this John Bible study, we're going to consider three passage, three chapters of John.

There's just an amazing presentation of who Jesus is and the work he came to do.

And I, as I was preparing this, I was thinking of Psalm 27 where David is going through a very difficult situation in his life.

And he says, I just want to run to the temple and gaze upon the beauty of the Lord.

I want to welcome you to do that with me.

Gaze upon the beauty of the Lord. As we go through these amazing

passage of scripture from John, just let your heart focus on the beauty of your Redeemer.

We're going to start with John 3, verses 1 through 15.

And I'm just going to read a selection of this passage because we're now looking at longer

passages.

Now, there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling

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