And then lifting his hands he shouted as only a primitive Methodist could do.

Young man, look to Jesus, look, look, look, you have nothing to do but look and live and live.

I saw at once the way of salvation. That's John

Piper reading C. H. Spurgeon's account of his conversion.

So what does it mean to look at Jesus and live?

That's the question John Piper answers from John 3, 1 to 15 in this episode of Light and Truth.

His sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on April 5th, 2009.

With verse 13, he shifts from being a witness to being the son of man.

He's not any longer going to talk about what needs to happen in Nicodemus like I might do, he's going to talk about what he's going to do

that makes the new birth possible.

Jesus is shifting from that makes the new birth possible.

Jesus is shifting from, this needs to happen in you.

He's shifting from describing the process.

It's by the spirit, it's like water water it's like wind blowing it's like another birth it

brings life he's describing a process and then after verse 13 he's describing the action of the son of man in history.

That's very significant.

There are more obstacles to the new birth

than the deadness of the human heart.

And they must be dealt with in history by the son of God

before the Holy Spirit can deal with the deadness in the human heart.

So, Jesus gonna talk to him about this.

Because the way the Holy Spirit works to cause the heart to be born again is by

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