A Promised Birth
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The new birth is not only a New Testament doctrine. From ancient times, God promised to give His people new hearts and make them into new creatures. Today, Steven Lawson examines the teaching of the Old Testament on regeneration.
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| 0:00.0 | In John chapter 3, we read about a Jewish teacher named |
| 0:03.6 | Nicodemus, who approached Jesus and asked him what he |
| 0:07.0 | meant when he said that you must be born again. |
| 0:10.2 | He was the number one teacher of Israel. |
| 0:13.9 | That's what verse 10 indicates with the definite article |
| 0:17.3 | V. Are you the teacher of Israel? |
| 0:20.7 | And you do not understand these things. |
| 0:24.7 | You have totally missed the message of the Old Testament. |
| 0:35.6 | Nicodemus didn't get it. |
| 0:37.5 | Jesus teaching about the New Birth was an absolute mystery to him. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to Renewing Your Mind on this Tuesday, |
| 0:44.4 | and another message from Stephen Lawson's series, |
| 0:47.0 | which is titled The New Birth. |
| 0:49.5 | Jesus' response to Nicodemus implied that any person |
| 0:52.8 | who had read the Old Testament should have understood |
| 0:55.3 | what Jesus meant. |
| 0:57.0 | Let's discover more as we join Dr. Lawson. |
| 1:02.6 | Well, we come to our next session on The New Birth, |
| 1:05.5 | and in this session, I want to draw our attention to this fact |
| 1:10.3 | that The New Birth is a promised birth. |
| 1:14.1 | I want you to look in John chapter 3 with me one more time, |
| 1:17.8 | and I want us to look at verses 9 and 10, |
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