Welcome to Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin.

The Church of 1122 is a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Hey, church family.

Welcome to episode six of our deepening podcast.

I'm glad you've joined us.

You know, this past week we were in John chapter three, maybe the most famous Christian verse,

John 316, where Nicodemus comes to Jesus at night and asks some questions. And then,

if you'll remember, what Jesus does is Jesus begins to unpack the gospel for Nicodemus, who is a Pharisee, who ought to be at, like, graduate-level Bible study.

And yet, as soon as Jesus says, you've got to be born again, then immediately just

it goes straight over Nicodemus's head, which in fact, we find this over and over and over and over and

over and over. I mentioned it like when Jesus asked the two disciples, what are you seeking?

And they just went over their head. He was asking like a deep spiritual question. What is that thing in your soul that you're looking for to satisfy you?

And they're like, what are we seeking? Where are you staying? They miss it.

Nicodemus totally misses it. When he says, you know, what must I do to be saved? That's what

he's asking. He just says, Jesus says, you've got to be born again. And Nicodemus is thinking like, bottom shelf. He's like,

physical only, be born again. You mean, I've got to, you know, find my way back into my mother's

womb. And Jesus is like, nope, that's not what we're talking about whatsoever. The woman at the well,

the same thing. He's saying, I am living water. And she's like, water, you can't even get water you don't have a bucket and so what jesus

then does is he takes two old testament uh events that nicodemus would have been well versed in

and then he uses those things that nicodemus already knows um Abraham and Isaac and m Moses lifting up the fiery serpent.

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