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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

John #6 - Spiritual People Need Jesus

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a theology professor sits down to have a deep conversation with Jesus? They end up having a late-night mental boxing match about what it means to be “born again”. Jesus tells the Bible scholar that, in effect, you can memorize books of the Bible, tithe generously to the Lord, live a moral life, believe in God, and sit in church every week until you die and have your funeral in a church and still go to hell if you are not born again by the Holy Spirit. Prepare for a brain cramp in this sermon…

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Thank you for listening and being a part of Mark Justal Ministries.

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And remember, it's all about Jesus.

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Well, this is the one I'm really excited about.

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We're in John's Gospel.

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This is the book that God wrote.

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Amen.

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God wrote a book.

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This is the word of God, and God has a word for you today, and this is the best-selling book in the history of the world.

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This is the most translated book in the history of the world.

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This is the most loved, hated, debated book in the history of the world and this book is all about Jesus and we're spending a whole year going through one book of the Bible the of John, and it's written by Jesus nearest

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and dearest friend. This is Jesus best buddy when he's on the earth and at this

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point all the other disciples are dead. He is the last living apostle.

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He is the eyewitness and he sits down to write a book about Jesus.

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And he tells us what he saw with his own eyes, what he heard with his own ears, because he was there for the life and ministry of Jesus.

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And today we're going to learn about a conversation that Jesus had with a guy named Nicodemus. It's not

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included anywhere else in the Bible, so if John didn't record it, we would not

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