Welcome to the Voochurch podcast.

In today's message, don't let the old man in.

Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. continues the Born Again collection,

inspiring us to take action, leave our old selves behind, and embrace our new identity in Christ.

As we approach the final week of 21 days of prayer and fasting, let's finish strong together.

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Now let's lean into the message together.

Tonight, we are continuing.

We're in part three of a collection of talks entitled Born Again.

And for the last three weeks, we have been looking at John Chapter 3, where there is a conversation

taking place between a famous Pharisee named Nicodemus and Jesus himself.

Now, if you don't know what a Pharisee is, it's a teacher of the Jewish law, the law being

the Torah, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

And the entire pursuit of being a Pharisee is perfection.

The only problem with that goal is, is there's only one who is perfect, and that is God.

And when you chase perfection, you continue to chase something

that only grace itself can deliver. And the Bible says that that Pharisee named Nicodemus,

he comes to Jesus in the night because he has questions. It's interesting because all of his

colleagues, all of his friends were saying that Jesus is a heretic.

They were saying Jesus is demon possessed.

But listen to me, you can play religion in daytime, but at some point when you lay your head

on your pillow at night, the dark night of the soul will come for all of us.

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