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John 3:23 · BSB
3:23 Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
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…Timothy understood what we need to understand today that this is not about us. It's all about him. John the Baptist understood this when he says inJohn chapter 3and verse number 30 that I must decrease. And he must increase. Timothy said, it doesn't matter if I'm heard, it doesn't matter if I'm seen. Jesus…
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…right? So why do I have the sin of Adam? It's because I am physically his descendant. Well, do you remember what Jesus said to Nicodemus inJohn chapter 3? You must be born again. Nicodemus, how do I get born again? He's thinking physical. I can't be born again physically. Jesus says, that which is…
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…journey, he seems to have suspected that there was more to faith than just having all the answers. So one night, Nicodemus goes looking for Jesus.John chapter 3, if you want to follow along in your Bibles, that's that's where we're gonna hang out first. Chapter 3 begins like this. Now there was a Pharisee,…
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…All right. Which one, sir? Yeah, let's start first with Jesus Christ saying, except you're born again, you cannot enter the kingdom. Uh, that'sJohn chapter 3, uh somewhere around the 17th, 18th verse. Someone get that from me. That's the beginning. John 3 and 5. John 3 and 5, thank you. I'm sorry. Give…
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…gentleness, self-control. One of the fruit that the Holy Spirit bears in the life of the born-again believer is faith or belief in God. And even inJohn chapter 3, this faith or belief in God follows or comes after someone being born again by God's doing. So the correct order is God elects or chooses by his…
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…to every elect in regeneration by the sovereign and direct work of the Holy Spirit. Stop. That's what Jesus is talking about with Nicodemus inJohn chapter 3, that ye must be born again, that ye might enter the kingdom of God or see the kingdom of God. The wind bloweth where it listeth. In other words,…
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…chew spit onto the New Testament. And as a high schooler, even, I thought to myself, why? Why is there so much opposition to the Bible? The book ofJohn, chapter 3, tells us. We've all heard of John 3.16, rightly so, famous verse. God so loved the world, he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him will…
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…you all this morning. And uh it's great to come and worship the Lord and spend this time together. Uh I want you to turn with me in your Bibles toJohn chapter 3. And that's the topic that we're going to talk about today. Uh John 3.16. So just in a minute, we're going to do our prayer time. But I wanted to…
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…way that the new birth was described through Jesus having this conversation with this Pharisee named Nicodemus. If you remember this account inJohn chapter 3, Nicodemus came to Jesus at night and he wanted to know, how do I find an eternal life? And Jesus responded this way. He says, Truly, truly, I say…
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…today. But here's the problem with the entire human race, and sad to say, and most of the church. Do you want to know what it is? Let's go toJohn chapter 3. Very familiar. We all quote verse 16 all the time because once you're saved, usually that's about the first verse that we all memorize besides the…
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…believe all you have to do is believe but Jesus' message on salvation is completely different. He says you have to keep God's commands. Now go toJohn chapter 3if you would go to John chapter 3 and we're going to go to Mark 10 in just a bit this Mark 10 is the passage that he uses to demonstrate that we…
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…would. John chapter 2, hold your place there in Genesis 37, and let's go to John chapter 2. As you're turning there, I'm going to read to you fromJohn chapter 3in verse number 20. It says, Look at Genesis chapter 2 if you would, in verse number 23. It says, And of course we know that Jesus throughout his…
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…that we have it wrong when it comes to our belief that God predestines people. Well, I find it interesting that in that very same context ofJohn chapter 3, the context of that chapter is when Jesus told Nicodemus that a man must be born again to see and enter in the kingdom of God, the kingdom of…
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…the simple thought being born does not mean being born again. And Jesus said, you cannot see or enter the kingdom of God lest ye be born again.John chapter 3. The issue in this section of scripture that Paul's trying to get us to understand is that we need to be born again. That there's something wrong…
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…we're tired. That's rowboat Christianity. But Jesus is literally saying, I pour and I keep on pouring. A reference to the Holy Spirit, I think it'sJohn chapter 3, says, the Spirit is like wind. Think about the difference in a rowboat and a sailboat. In a sailboat, you still set the course and you raise the…
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…we start talking about Holy Spirit. Some of us get a little, it's about to get a little uncomfortable in here. But I believe this is what we see inJohn chapter 3. No, Matthew chapter 3. John the Baptist is speaking here. He says, I baptize you with water for repentance, but he is coming after me, he who's…
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…is a challenge for you. It's an ongoing story, it's an ongoing invitation that we are called, we are invited into a place of grace. I love one,John chapter 3, where John says, this is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence. If our hearts condemn us, if…
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…of the gospel in your life. You've been made a new creation. The old has passed away, the new has come. You've been born again, Jesus teaches inJohn chapter 3. And as a new person with a new heart, the heart of stone has been removed, the heart of flesh has been given. If that's true of you, of course…
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…it shows us what's true. Jesus reveals God to us, John says, but he also reveals truth about ourselves. After Jesus' discourse with Nicodemus inJohn chapter 3, where that famous statement is, for God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever trusts him should not perish but have eternal…
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…to understand the hard parts as an excuse to justify rejecting Jesus. And this is not new with the Sadducees. Jesus saw this with Nicodemus back inJohn chapter 3. Nicodemus comes to Jesus to question teachings about heaven. And Jesus' response to Nicodemus cuts through the smog here and says, if you don't…
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