Ep. 170 - Nicodemus’ Encounter with Jesus and What it Means to be Born Again

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, the guys discuss Nicodemus’ encounter with Jesus in the third chapter of John and what it means to be born again. Some might think being “born again” means to be radically changed or have different views than our world, but this is not the case. Nicodemus, as a Pharisee and religious figure with political authority knew the Scriptures very well, and even he didn’t understand it. So Jesus took time to explain what it means to be born of the Spirit. At the beginning of the e...

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0:00.0	My crown and joy is the new birth.
0:07.0	I'm a new person.
0:08.0	I know that I was once like this, and now I'm like that.
0:11.0	In an instant, even the sky looked different.
0:14.0	The trees looked different.
0:15.0	The flowers, the birds.
0:16.0	Everything was different because I was different.
0:18.0	So what I like to say to non-Christians when I witness to them
0:21.0	is this can be your personal miracle.
0:23.0	You don't want to see visions and hair voices
0:26.0	because you could be sent to a mental home if you start being visions
0:29.0	and hair voices.
0:30.0	But if God makes you a brand new person on the inside,
0:34.0	instead of having eyes full of adultery, drinking,
0:36.0	and like we like water, loving darkness, rather than light,
0:39.0	you hunger and thirst for righteousness.
0:42.0	That'll be your personal miracle.
0:44.0	And I shake my head at how new I am in Christ.
0:47.0	And the other thing that you birth explodes my respect for the Bible
0:51.0	because the Bible told me what had happened to me.
0:55.0	I open its pages, this 2000 year old book New Testament
0:59.0	tells me, if any man being Christ, you're a new creature.
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