You Must Be Born Again

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Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Desiring God, John Piper, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 November 2007

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The new birth produces new desires and new behaviors. An unchanged life is not a born-again life.

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0:00.0	The following resource is from Desiring God.org.
0:04.0	Scripture text for this evening sermon is John chapter 3 verses 1 through 18.
0:16.7	John 3, 1 through 18.
0:21.5	Now there is a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
0:23.0	This man came to Jesus by night and said to him,
0:26.0	Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God.
0:30.0	For no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with Him.
0:35.0	Jesus answered, truly, truly, I say to you,
0:40.0	unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
0:45.0	Nicodemus said to him,
0:47.0	How can a man be born when he's old?
0:50.0	Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?
0:54.5	Jesus answered, Truly, truly I say to you,
0:57.5	unless one is born of water in the spirit,
0:59.8	he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which
1:06.5	is born of the spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I say to you you must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear
1:16.3	it sound but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the spirit.
1:27.0	Nicodemus said to him,
1:29.0	how can these things be?
1:31.0	Jesus answered him, Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?
1:37.0	Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
1:47.0	If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
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