1 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,000 Welcome to New Life Community Church this morning. 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,700 Most of you guys are members here, you're part of the family 3 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:13,000 but if you are visiting, my name is Jasper. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,000 On the associate pastor. Here, we welcome you, especially 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:20,500 thanks for being here today. So what we're going to do, we 6 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:25,200 have been going through a series called the law and the gospel. 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,800 And we've been looking at the story of Nicodemus. 8 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:30,900 Okay. Now, this is in the Book of John 9 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:32,900 chapter 3. So go ahead and turn there. 10 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:36,300 If you've got your Bibles. And we're going to be continuing 11 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:41,900 on in this this series. Okay, so today, what we're going 12 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:45,000 to look at in John 3, were specifically going to focus on 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,100 verse 4 and will read that in just a second. 14 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:51,500 And today we're going to look at this need for some clarification 15 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,900 and I'll explain all of that in just a moment. 16 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:56,300 But go ahead and turn to me to John 3. 17 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:57,700 Let's read. We're going to go ahead and 18 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:01,300 start at verse one, just to kind of recap and then we'll get 19 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:03,700 rolling. Okay, so John chapter 3, 20 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:09,200 Starting at verse 1 now, there was a man of the Pharisees named 21 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:14,600 Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night 22 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,900 and said to him. Rabbi, we know that you have 23 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:22,300 come from God as a teacher for no one can do these signs that 24 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:25,300 you do. Unless God is with him, Jesus 25 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:28,300 answered and said to him. Truly, truly, I say to you. 26 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,700 Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God 27 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,900 Nicodemus. I said to him, how can a man be 28 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:41,800 born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time 29 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,400 into his mother's womb and be born, can he? 30 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,600 Now if you're reading from the ESV which I normally do, this 31 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,400 was the nasb. The ESV says, how can man be 32 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,700 born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into 33 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:57,600 his mother's womb and be born? So that's the verse that we're 34 00:01:57,607 --> 00:02:02,200 going to really camp out on today and talked about in 35 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,200 today's sermon before we get started. 36 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:06,800 Want to pray for us. So join me in prayer and then 37 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:07,800 we'll get rolling. Okay. 38 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:12,700 Father God we again are just thankful for today. 39 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:15,700 We are thankful to be here. We're thankful to be able to 40 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:19,000 worship together as Brothers and Sisters in Christ. 41 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:23,600 Father, we are grateful for all you have done for us. 42 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,500 We sing your praises today. We worship you today in this 43 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:31,700 place when we pray now that as we open your word as we read it, 44 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:35,000 and we look, we look at this story that you open our minds 45 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,200 and our hearts to receive whatever it is. 46 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,800 You want us to hear this morning, please speak through 47 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,300 me. Please have your way in our 48 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:43,100 hearts. Lord. 49 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:45,300 We pray and ask it in Jesus name. 50 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,900 Amen. Amen. 51 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:50,800 So we've been going through this series, as I mentioned, Kyle has 52 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,400 done a great job of walking us through multiple passages. 53 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,900 We've looked at verses 1 through 3 so I'm going to give you a 54 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:00,400 really really quick recap just to catch you up in case you've 55 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,700 missed any of it, okay? So the story of Nicodemus 56 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,300 Nicodemus was a man of the Pharisees, the ruler of the 57 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:11,100 Jews. So he was the at the top of the 58 00:03:11,300 --> 00:03:13,400 Food chain when it came to the Pharisees. 59 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,200 Okay. He was the leading God. 60 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,100 He was the teacher of the Jews. He was the man, he was supposed 61 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:20,700 to know it all. Have it all. 62 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:23,200 Figured out he was the holiest guy around. 63 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,800 He was the dude, right? All the way at the very, very 64 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,100 top. He's coming to Jesus at night. 65 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:32,700 So, we've talked about this in depth Y and the significance of 66 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:36,300 this, but he's coming at night because he's trying to hide the 67 00:03:36,308 --> 00:03:39,600 fact that he's going to visit Jesus, for multiple reasons one. 68 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,300 He knew that if he was, Seen talking to Jesus and asking 69 00:03:43,300 --> 00:03:46,100 Jesus things that that would make him look like he didn't 70 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:48,600 know it. All he's acknowledging that 71 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,600 Jesus is a higher teacher than he is. 72 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,600 And so he surely didn't want other Pharisees seeing this. 73 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,400 He also genuinely wanted to ask Jesus some things, and he was 74 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,300 embarrassed to be seen with Jesus, so he's coming during the 75 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:04,000 unknown under the cover of night to come talk to Jesus. 76 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,600 Now, when he gets there and he talks to Jesus, right out of the 77 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,200 gate, he calls him Rabbi, which means teacher. 78 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:12,800 Okay. So, So, if he's acknowledging 79 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,000 him as teacher, he's saying, I know you're you're higher than I 80 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,600 am. You know, more than me, you 81 00:04:17,899 --> 00:04:20,800 obviously he's saying, nobody can do what you're doing, unless 82 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,500 God is with him, unless he's from God. 83 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:27,000 And so Nicodemus is acknowledging that, look your 84 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:29,000 Europe here, I'm here, you're up here. 85 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 And so again, that's something he wouldn't have wanted other 86 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,500 people seeing, but he is paying homage in a sense. 87 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:37,700 He's acknowledging this to Jesus. 88 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,300 And here's what's funny. He comes to Christ. 89 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:45,900 Never asks a question. He never comes to him and says, 90 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:47,500 hey, how can I see the Kingdom of Heaven? 91 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:51,300 He just comes and says, hey, it's obvious that you're from 92 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:53,100 God. Nobody can do what you're doing 93 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:56,200 unless he's from God. And as Kyle pointed out, the 94 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:00,900 signs that he was doing the word for that is not just a miracle. 95 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:04,100 These were has lost in put it, these were Miracles with a 96 00:05:04,100 --> 00:05:07,800 message, this was more than just performing healings and miracles 97 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,300 something much bigger happening and Nicodemus is acknowledging 98 00:05:11,300 --> 00:05:14,700 this. And so he's saying look, I get 99 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:17,900 it, you know, God you've seen God, you're something different, 100 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:20,400 you're a whole new level that I don't even understand. 101 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,300 And all he's doing is acknowledging that and Jesus 102 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:27,100 tells him Man can't see the Kingdom of Heaven. 103 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:31,400 Unless he is born again. Nicodemus never asked about 104 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,400 being born again. He never asked how you see the 105 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,900 kingdom of heaven, but Jesus goes ahead and gives him this 106 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:38,700 answer anyway. Because as if you'll remember 107 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:43,100 back in chapter 2, verse 25, it says that Jesus knew what was 108 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:46,600 in, man. He already knew Nicodemus is 109 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,800 hard before he ever even got there, before he ever opened his 110 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,900 mouth. Jesus knew what was on the guy's 111 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:54,600 mind and what was in his heart and what he wanted to know, he 112 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,200 knew Nicodemus is saying like Jesus, I know you've been with 113 00:05:58,200 --> 00:05:58,800 God. I know you. 114 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,600 Oh God, there's something happening here. 115 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:03,400 It's something bigger than I understand and I want to know 116 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,600 about it. I want to tell, you know, I just 117 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,800 want to be close to it. I want to, I want to figure it 118 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,300 out. Jesus knew that. 119 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:11,800 And so he's telling him how you see the kingdom of God? 120 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,200 So, moving on. Jesus, finally tells him, can't 121 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:17,900 see the Kingdom of Heaven unless you're born again. 122 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:20,800 So as Kyle pointed out last week, now this would have been 123 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:27,000 shocking news for Nicodemus. Okay, now he is a man that has 124 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,300 spent his entire life. Working his way up, okay, you 125 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:35,000 hear that term and our culture, some like in the workplace or 126 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,100 whatever, just constantly trying to work my way up the ladder up 127 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:42,000 to the next rung of the ladder. So Nicodemus had worked his way 128 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,500 all the way to the top, and Jesus is telling him you got to 129 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:49,500 start over, you just got to be reborn. 130 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,200 You got to start all the way over. 131 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:54,100 So this would have just shocked him. 132 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:56,400 This would have rattled him. I mean, he was all about 133 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,000 figuring out that next level. How can I go even In further in 134 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,400 this. And instead of there being some 135 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,300 next-level that he didn't know about, it's down here, it's 136 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:09,200 starting all the way over, like all that stuff. 137 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,300 You've done all those accolades. All your learning, your titles, 138 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:15,300 just toss it out. You got to start all the way 139 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:19,100 over. And so he tells him, you can't 140 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:23,700 even see the kingdom of God. Much less inner it, unless you 141 00:07:23,700 --> 00:07:27,300 do this, unless you're reborn, unless you are recreated as a 142 00:07:27,308 --> 00:07:32,600 new person. So, he tells Nicodemus. 143 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,400 The way to see the kingdom is not to keep working your way up, 144 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:43,100 but to be brought low, that's the way to be reborn to humble 145 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:47,000 yourself and realize that your righteousness and all of that 146 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,800 counts for nothing. So, how does Nicodemus respond 147 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,900 when Jesus says this? How does he respond to this 148 00:07:53,900 --> 00:07:56,800 shocking news that you must be reborn? 149 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:58,400 Well, that's what we're going to look at today. 150 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,000 He answers with a question. So verse for let's read it one 151 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,400 more time. How can man be born again? 152 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:10,600 Or be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into 153 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:17,000 his mother's womb and be born? So this idea of being reborn, 154 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:20,700 this would have been not only shocking but it would have been 155 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:26,800 very foreign to Nicodemus. Okay, the words, like reborn and 156 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,300 new birth and new life would have not been. 157 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:32,600 Those would not have been common phrases for Nick. 158 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:35,100 Okay. That's that's things that we 159 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:37,700 hear a lot in our culture, we might have grown up in church 160 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:40,400 hearing these terms, but he would not have heard language 161 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:41,700 like this. Now, he should have been 162 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:45,200 familiar with the concept to a degree. 163 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:51,700 Cow pointed out last week. That as the teacher of the Jews 164 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:55,700 and leading Pharisee, he should have known some Old Testament 165 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:59,900 passages, like Ezekiel 36 that talk about God, giving us a new 166 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:03,400 heart and a new spirit. He should have known this but 167 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,300 it's flying right over his head, he's not recalling, he's 168 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:09,700 confused whatever. But all of that is escaping him. 169 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,400 So this idea of being reborn, this is something confusing to 170 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,400 Nick, okay, he's not Not understanding what Jesus is 171 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,400 talking about. So so he's asking he's not 172 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:26,200 asking tell me when Jesus says, unless man is born again. 173 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,400 He cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven. 174 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:30,500 Nicodemus isn't asking, okay, what are those steps? 175 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:31,500 Let me write that down. What? 176 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:32,400 Step one? What? 177 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,700 Step to tell me the process. Tell me how when he's asking, 178 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:38,700 how can man be born when he's old? 179 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:41,700 He's asking what are you talking about? 180 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,900 What do you mean be born again? How is that even possible? 181 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:51,300 it's like he's saying, So you want me to go find my mom? 182 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:53,000 And let's go back to the hospital and try this over 183 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,100 again. Like, is that what you're 184 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:55,700 saying? I what do you mean? 185 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,100 Be born again. He's asking Jesus. 186 00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:01,700 How what? Huh he's just he's not 187 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:06,400 understanding. So there was this need for 188 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,600 clarity here Nicodemus. Needed to understand what it 189 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,200 was. Jesus was talking about when he 190 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,800 was saying that man must be reborn if he wants to see the 191 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,700 Kingdom of Heaven. He needed some clarification, 192 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:19,700 right? He needed to clearly understand. 193 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:25,200 And what Jesus is talking about. So what does it mean to be 194 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,800 reborn? That is a question that I want 195 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,200 us to ask and consider today. What does it mean to be reborn? 196 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,500 How would you? How would you answer that 197 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:37,400 question? If someone asked you, I want to 198 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:41,400 put forward to you today as kind of my main thought here are big 199 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:46,500 takeaway today. This idea to be reborn is to 200 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:51,600 have your heart mind and soul. Transformed into the likeness of 201 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,800 Christ. Now, there's a thousand 202 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:59,000 different ways we could Define being reborn or being saved. 203 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,400 That's the term. We use a lot around here is 204 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,200 being saved. There's a thousand different 205 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:08,200 ways we could word this but to try to condense it down into a 206 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,100 Punchy way that will understand it today. 207 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:11,700 That's where I'm going to land on it. 208 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,400 So anytime you're talking about what something is or trying to 209 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,000 define something one. Good way to help is to start out 210 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,900 by saying what it is not. Okay? 211 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:22,300 So we're going to do that really quick. 212 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:27,100 Let's talk about what what being reborn is not. 213 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,100 Okay. So again reborn same thing as 214 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:33,400 being saved. That might be a way that you 215 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,500 might understand it better. So that's what we're talking 216 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:37,000 about. Okay, let's get that out of the 217 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,300 way first. What it is not, it is not 218 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:45,300 physical rebirth, okay? Nicodemus, you know uses the 219 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:48,700 same analogy or same metaphor that Jesus used to ask and that 220 00:11:48,700 --> 00:11:50,300 be done. You talking physically. 221 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:52,500 What are we talking here? We know that's not the case. 222 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,700 Okay, so let's just get that out right out of the gate, it's not 223 00:11:55,700 --> 00:12:01,900 physical, okay? Being reborn is not fixing 224 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:08,100 yourself up a little bit, okay? It's not taking who you are and 225 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:10,800 what you are and just kind of polishing it up a bit. 226 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:16,300 It's not that It is not deciding to do the right thing. 227 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:20,300 It is not saying, okay, I'm going to start going to church 228 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:22,400 now, that's the right thing to do. 229 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,000 That's the good thing to do, right? 230 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,600 That will surely, the Lord will let me into heaven. 231 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,800 If I go to church every week, It's not putting money in a bag. 232 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:36,100 It's not helping someone in need, it's not being a good 233 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:39,500 person. Being reborn is none of those 234 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:41,600 things. You can be the best person in 235 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,500 the world that donates tons of money and never misses a service 236 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,500 and not be reborn. So being reborn reborn is not 237 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:54,200 just trying to clean yourself up a little and just do a lot of 238 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,900 good things. A great example of this. 239 00:12:57,900 --> 00:13:00,500 Okay, just I'm just trying to kind of Drive the point home 240 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:04,300 here, over the last several weeks, we've been repainting, 241 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:07,400 some of the doors in the hallway to the classrooms because they 242 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,500 desperately need it. The Paul enjoys have come and 243 00:13:11,500 --> 00:13:14,100 help me do this. We've painted a few doors. 244 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:17,300 And so anybody that's ever painted knows that when you use 245 00:13:17,300 --> 00:13:21,200 a roller you have a Recover, those things are made. 246 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,900 They are designed to absorb paint, right? 247 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:26,400 That's what they're made for. And depending on what you're 248 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,900 painting, you can have thicker ones or thinner ones and all of 249 00:13:28,908 --> 00:13:32,000 that, but that's what they're made to do, is soak in paint. 250 00:13:32,900 --> 00:13:35,500 When you get done painting with one of those things, if you 251 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:38,500 don't clean that thing out really, really well. 252 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,600 And you try to use it again, you're in a world of trouble, 253 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:42,300 right? James. 254 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:46,100 So you take an old roller cover that you didn't get clean. 255 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:48,300 Very well that paint does, what it's supposed to do it. 256 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,300 It's soaked in and it's going to get hard. 257 00:13:50,300 --> 00:13:52,700 It's going to be gross and you're going to be dipping this 258 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:55,900 corn cob into some paint trying to roll with it and it's just 259 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:59,100 not going to work. You have to get all the paint 260 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:01,600 out or, you know, if it's a cheap roller cover just toss it 261 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,500 and get a new one, right? So that's a really bad analogy, 262 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:09,000 but I'm just trying to make the point that being reborn isn't 263 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,800 just trying to clean ourselves up a little bit. 264 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,300 It's not just taking what we are and putting a Fresh coat of 265 00:14:13,308 --> 00:14:16,200 paint on it. It's not using that old nasty 266 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:19,200 roller to try to do a job. The different color. 267 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:26,100 You have to understand that you as you are are not good enough. 268 00:14:27,300 --> 00:14:30,300 You're not good enough to earn your way into heaven. 269 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:34,600 That it doesn't work like that. You're a nasty roller cover. 270 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:41,100 Should he use that analogy but whatever since saturates the 271 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:47,600 very fiber of who we are, okay. It penetrates to the depths to 272 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,800 our soul in our heart and every thought every fiber of our being 273 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,800 is sinful because of the Fall because of the Kursk. 274 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,300 I'll cover this very well and his previous sermons. 275 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,900 It's saturates all the way down. It's not just a little bit here. 276 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:05,800 You just kind of wipe off and keep on going. 277 00:15:06,700 --> 00:15:09,900 It's who you are. You are a sinner by birth. 278 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:15,100 So you don't need as Lawson said, and Kyle pointed out you 279 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:19,500 don't need resuscitation you need a resurrection. 280 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:27,800 You are dying in your sin. You are dead in your sin. 281 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:30,300 Does that sound kind of familiar. 282 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:33,400 Like maybe if you've read that in your Bible somewhere. 283 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:39,400 Ephesians 2 says, you were dead in the trespasses and sins in 284 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,600 which you once walked dead not dying. 285 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,600 Not kind of a little bit, a little bit bad because of the, 286 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:51,000 some of that little send stuff you are dead in your sins. 287 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,900 Trespasses. You aren't drowning and you just 288 00:15:55,900 --> 00:15:57,700 need someone to throw you that life preserver. 289 00:15:57,700 --> 00:15:59,900 So you can grab on and you'll be okay. 290 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:02,600 You don't need a little bit of assistance. 291 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:09,500 You are dead in your sins. Dead beyond the dead. 292 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:13,700 You're not just dead. You You've died. 293 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:17,900 You you are you're not drowning. You're at the bottom of the 294 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:21,700 ocean, as a pile of bones. That's how dead you are. 295 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:23,900 You've been dead. It's just bones. 296 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:30,300 Your skeleton. So you you are a sinner and what 297 00:16:30,300 --> 00:16:35,000 that sin has earned, you is eternity and a lake of fire. 298 00:16:35,100 --> 00:16:37,100 That's what you've earned. That's what's fair. 299 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:41,100 That's what's just because God is just and fair, right? 300 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,500 That's what you deserve. As a sinner. 301 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:48,300 Born sinful. That's why we have to be reborn. 302 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:51,400 That's the need. That's where the need comes in 303 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:56,400 there has to be rebirth, otherwise we get what we deserve 304 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,700 without rebirth, that's what we get, that's what we've earned. 305 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:04,300 So being reborn is not just adding a few good habits to your 306 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:07,099 schedule. That's not what rebirth is. 307 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,300 So let's talk about what it is. Okay. 308 00:17:09,300 --> 00:17:12,599 Now let's get to the good stuff. I know that's kind of a bleak 309 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:15,800 picture, but let's talk about the good part now, Is what 310 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,800 rebirth is what it? What does it mean? 311 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,800 Well, just like Jesus Is Telling Nick here. 312 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:27,500 You have to be reborn. You have to start over. 313 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:32,400 You have to be recreated into a brand new person. 314 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:39,900 You cannot stay the same period the old you must die. 315 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:45,300 You must be crucified with Christ just like he was 316 00:17:45,300 --> 00:17:49,600 crucified on that cross. So you're saying I'm not good 317 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,400 enough. The way I am that sin has 318 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:57,300 saturated every fiber of my being and I know what I am. 319 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:03,500 I'm a sinner, my heart, my mind, my soul are stained with sin and 320 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:09,800 I am not good enough on my own, but Jesus is He is perfect. 321 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:12,400 He is righteous. He is Holy. 322 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:17,400 He is all those things. Therefore, because I am not 323 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,400 those things. And he is those things. 324 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,100 I'm going to turn to him and say, where does my righteousness 325 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:25,700 come from? Where does my goodness come 326 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:26,700 from? Not for me. 327 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:30,300 It has to come from him. It's not even about me anymore. 328 00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:34,500 I just want to be with him. I want to take on what he is on 329 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:39,900 to myself. Romans 10:9 says, if you confess 330 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:42,400 with your mouth, that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart, 331 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,900 that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved this 332 00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:50,500 process of acknowledging that I'm not good enough, but he is. 333 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:54,500 And so, all my faith, All My Hope goes in him and what he's 334 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:58,100 done on that cross. Like, you know, I don't know 335 00:18:58,100 --> 00:18:59,800 what it's going to be. Like, one of these days when we 336 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:01,100 all get to heaven. I don't know if you're going to 337 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:03,900 stand before the Pearly gate, I don't know all those details. 338 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:08,300 But hypothetically, if you were Were and you got there and 339 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:11,000 someone's there saying, why do you deserve to get in? 340 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,900 It's not going to be well because I did this and this and 341 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:15,600 this and this and this it's going to be. 342 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:20,800 I don't deserve to get in. But Jesus is he's my Lord and my 343 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,800 savior and his righteousness has been put on me because I trust 344 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,700 in him. It's because of him that I 345 00:19:26,700 --> 00:19:28,100 should get in, not because of me. 346 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:34,100 So when we do this, when we turn to him in faith acknowledging, 347 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:38,500 our own sin and Trusting only in him, only in his goodness. 348 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:43,100 Not, any of my works are good enough when we realized that, 349 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:46,100 when we realize our sin and our depravity something starts to 350 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:52,000 happen, This process of being reborn is a supernatural thing. 351 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,200 It is it's amazing. It blows my mind when we realize 352 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,100 our sin. And that our only hope is in 353 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:04,300 Christ and that we have to, with full abandoned give ourselves to 354 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:07,500 him, make me what you will use me. 355 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:10,900 However, you will, I'll do whatever God I am yours, I cast 356 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:16,700 myself at your feet when we do this, God's God changes us. 357 00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:23,600 He takes that, that nasty sin-stained soul and he makes it 358 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:27,800 new. He takes those dry dead bones 359 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,500 that I was talking about. About and he breathes new life 360 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:35,000 into those bones. It is a supernatural act of God 361 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:37,800 and the very essence of your being. 362 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,600 Your soul is recreated into a New Soul. 363 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:45,900 Now, the ladies have just read about this a little bit in a 364 00:20:45,908 --> 00:20:48,800 book that they're reading and biblical Womanhood, that talks 365 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,500 about that. That's that's who you are right 366 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:54,300 at your soul. It's not your your body and it's 367 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:56,500 not your thoughts and your memories and all that. 368 00:20:56,500 --> 00:20:58,500 It's your soul. That's What Makes You Who You 369 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:03,400 Are. and God takes that and he recreates it, you are reborn a 370 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:13,000 new person, a new being, you have a new heart, a new mind, a 371 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,000 new spirit within you the Holy Spirit within you now. 372 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:22,400 Ezekiel 36:26 through 27 calls read this already. 373 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,500 This is the passage Nicodemus should have known, but it says 374 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:29,500 this, I will give you a new heart and a new spirit. 375 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:32,900 I will put within you and I will remove the Heart of Stone from 376 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:35,800 your flesh and I will give you a heart of Flesh. 377 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:39,900 I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my 378 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:42,900 statutes and be careful to obey my rules. 379 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,500 And then Romans 12:2 says, don't be conformed to this world but 380 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:54,800 be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you 381 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,700 may discern. What is the will of God, what is 382 00:21:56,700 --> 00:21:59,900 good and acceptable and perfect. So we see here, God gives us a 383 00:21:59,908 --> 00:22:02,500 new heart. A new spirit, our minds are 384 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:06,300 transformed. And because of that we now have 385 00:22:06,300 --> 00:22:11,100 new thoughts, new affections, new passions, new desires. 386 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:14,900 We no longer think the way we used to think, I don't act. 387 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:17,400 The way I used to act. I don't talk the way I used to 388 00:22:17,408 --> 00:22:19,400 talk. I'm Different. 389 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,800 I've been reborn, I'm a new person. 390 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,100 You guys know what I'm talking about. 391 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:28,700 You seen this in the hopefully in yourself, but we've seen this 392 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:32,400 and people, there are some people that their conversion. 393 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,900 Is this dramatic 180? They were man, they were really 394 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:38,200 bad. And now look at them, their 395 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:43,300 preacher I mean, we've all seen this, it doesn't look the same 396 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:47,000 for everybody but it should be that you are a new person in 397 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,300 Christ. Now It's therefore if anyone is 398 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:55,200 in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away and 399 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,400 behold the new has come second Corinthians 5:17. 400 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:06,200 Anyone who understands this? And as experience this 401 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:10,800 understood, the depth of their sin and understood that Christ, 402 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,200 saved them from that and made them new ought to have reason 403 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,400 today to say, hallelujah and amen. 404 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:19,800 I'm not saying that just to get a men's from you guys. 405 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,100 I'm just saying, even if its internal like, this should be 406 00:23:23,100 --> 00:23:28,300 cause to Rejoice. What else in this world is there 407 00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:33,900 worth praising God. And singing about It's amazing. 408 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:37,900 It's a supernatural thing. This is what being reborn is 409 00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:42,900 it's a complete change your a completely new person again just 410 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:46,200 to restate it. Being reborn. 411 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,000 What it actually means is that you are being renewed, your 412 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,100 soul, your mind, your heart are transformed into his likeness. 413 00:23:54,100 --> 00:24:00,500 Now that's what being reborn is. That's what it means. 414 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:04,500 And so I want to I want to ask you now as we think through how 415 00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:07,500 this applies to us. What I asked you. 416 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:16,900 Do you do you truly understand what it means to be reborn? 417 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,500 Do you really, do you really understand? 418 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,900 What we mean? When we say being reborn or 419 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:33,200 being saved, The I hope maybe this is helps help shed some 420 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,100 light on it, but even if this is just been nothing, do you 421 00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:40,100 comprehend this? Do you get it? 422 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,900 Or are we, are you still like Nicodemus where it's just like 423 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:54,100 completely missing the point? If someone was to ask, you kind 424 00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:57,100 of like the Philippian, Jailer asked Paul and Silas Lee what 425 00:24:57,100 --> 00:25:02,300 must I do to be saved. maybe someone realizes finally, I'm a 426 00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:05,800 sinner and I need a savior, like, I understand I'm a sinner 427 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:11,100 and I understand the penalty for that, the wages of sin is Deaf 428 00:25:11,100 --> 00:25:15,000 like maybe they finally get it. It finally clicks and it's not 429 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,700 just something out there but it's in here and I understand 430 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:19,300 that. Now, what do I do? 431 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:23,400 What must I do to be saved? Could you could you tell them 432 00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:28,400 what being reborn means? Could you have that 433 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:35,100 conversation? Or even more important not that 434 00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:38,100 I'm saying, we should all have this really great Theology and 435 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:40,500 working knowledge of how to explain the step by step 436 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:44,000 process, not saying that, but even more important than knowing 437 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000 it, have you experienced this today? 438 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,200 Can you confidently say I'm not the person. 439 00:25:52,200 --> 00:26:03,300 I once was Have you been Reborn? It's the the most important 440 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:07,300 question you could ever answer in your life, and it that 441 00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:11,400 answer, Means more than anything else. 442 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:16,400 Do you understand this? Have you experienced rebirth? 443 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,600 I always used to hear this growing up. 444 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,700 I don't want to make anyone doubt their salvation, I get it. 445 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:27,400 I don't want to do that either. I don't want to take scripture 446 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,500 and twisted and make God loving God-fearing Christians, think 447 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:33,600 that they can lose their salvation or that they're not 448 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,600 saved. But what I do want you to do is 449 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,100 take a long hard, look at your life, and look at the fruit in 450 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:44,200 your life. Do you see good fruit? 451 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,500 This book is pretty clear about how you can know a tree, whether 452 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:50,500 it's good or bad. You look at the fruit hanging 453 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:53,600 off the branches. Do you see good fruit in your 454 00:26:53,600 --> 00:27:03,400 life or do you see bad fruit? Have you have you crucified the 455 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:08,000 old self and being reborn in a new person with a new heart? 456 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,500 A new mind, new affections, new thoughts. 457 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,900 Have you been resurrected to New Life? 458 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,300 Do you have the Holy Spirit living within you? 459 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:31,300 Do you walk with the Lord? Do you love God? 460 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,500 Do you want to learn more about him? 461 00:27:36,700 --> 00:27:40,000 Are you hungry for his word so that you can learn more about 462 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,600 God and learn more about. Look, there's no end to learning 463 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,500 about God and his character right there. 464 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:47,100 We, none of us. Have that figured out. 465 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:51,000 We'll never figure all that out. So are you still hungry to learn 466 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,500 more and more and more about God? 467 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:56,000 And as you do, does it deepen, your faith in him? 468 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,400 Does it make you praise him, more and more, the more you 469 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:04,000 learn about how huge he is. Do you love to read your Bible? 470 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,100 Do you love to gather with your brothers and sisters and worship 471 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:10,000 once a week? Do you love to do these things 472 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,700 that you care about these things? 473 00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:13,800 You desire to grow in these things? 474 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:22,600 Or is all of it, just a burden. Is being here, a burden every 475 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,600 week. Is Jesus a burden to you? 476 00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:34,600 Or is he your Delight? I want everybody here to be able 477 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:39,200 to say with confidence. I have been reborn. 478 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,900 I'm not the person I used to be. I love God. 479 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:47,300 I cast myself at God's feet. I'm growing, I'm still learning. 480 00:28:47,300 --> 00:28:49,800 I still make mistakes, but I am not the person. 481 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,900 I once was and I want to keep growing. 482 00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:56,300 I know that I'm Reborn. I want everybody to be able to 483 00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:59,800 confidently, say yesterday that I don't want you to have any 484 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:04,300 doubt about that. And thus the need for clarity. 485 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,600 That's why we must clearly understand what it means to be 486 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,600 born again. That's why Nicodemus needed to 487 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,900 understand what Jesus was talking about. 488 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,500 And as we keep going in this story, Steve's going to preach 489 00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:20,200 next week, we're going to learn more and more about how Jesus 490 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,100 answers this question for Nicodemus. 491 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:24,700 But I want to make sure this morning. 492 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,200 Everybody in this room has a clear understanding of what 493 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,100 we're talking about when we say being reborn. 494 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,400 It's not making another trip to the hospital to go. 495 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,500 Try it over again. It's this. 496 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:43,200 Have you been Reborn? So, I'm going to ask the worship 497 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,900 team to come up. I just have a couple of last 498 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:49,200 thoughts for you guys before we leave this morning. 499 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,900 I want to challenge you guys, okay? 500 00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:57,500 I want to challenge everyone in here. 501 00:29:58,100 --> 00:30:01,100 So stay with me for three more minutes. 502 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:03,900 I want to issue a challenge to you today. 503 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:08,700 I want you to look at your life and look at the fruit in your 504 00:30:08,700 --> 00:30:10,700 life and honestly answer that question. 505 00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:14,600 Have I been reborn if you're in this place and you're a Believer 506 00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:16,700 and you can answer yes to that question. 507 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,000 Praise God. We're about to sing. 508 00:30:20,100 --> 00:30:22,500 I want you to just remember that. 509 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:26,400 Remember, your own salvation, your own rebirth and praise God 510 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,000 for that. Sing out to him. 511 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000 Like, you haven't in a long time and remember, you're not the 512 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,100 person you used to be and that's worth singing to him for, okay? 513 00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:37,600 So praise God, if that's you this morning, but if it's not, 514 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,900 if you can't say with confidence, that that's me. 515 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,900 If you look and you see bad fruit, I plead with you today to 516 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:49,300 recognize that you are a sinner in need of rebirth, Just like 517 00:30:49,300 --> 00:30:52,800 Nicodemus needed rebirth. Look, he was the most righteous 518 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,800 guy in his time. He was the man and Jesus said, 519 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,400 you got to start over, you need to be reborn. 520 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:02,700 And if that was the case for Nicodemus, that's the case for 521 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:05,600 anyone in this room who's never placed their faith in Christ. 522 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,300 Without that you will perish. And so I plead with you today, 523 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:15,600 if you've never placed your faith in Christ to do, so place 524 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:20,300 your trust in your, hope in him and his righteousness, not your 525 00:31:20,300 --> 00:31:22,800 own. You will be saved. 526 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,800 We don't do altar calls here where I'm going to pressure, you 527 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,800 to come down front, repeat some prayer. 528 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,500 Just so I can say hey we had some people get saved today but 529 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,200 I'm going to stand right down here. 530 00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:38,200 If anybody wants to come talk to me, I'm glad to talk about this 531 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:41,400 Kyle talk about it. Alan will talk about movies up 532 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,500 here right now but he'll talk to you after it's over. 533 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,300 If you don't know for sure come talk to someone schedule, an 534 00:31:48,308 --> 00:31:50,700 appointment, come talk to us this week or something that 535 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000 whenever just the holy spirit is Convicting you this morning, 536 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,400 don't just ignore that. Don't just stuff that down. 537 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,300 I ask no big deal. I got a little emotional. 538 00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:01,800 No big deal though. Follow through with that, listen 539 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,800 to the Holy Spirit. Listen to God, don't go out of 540 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,300 this place today without knowing for sure, if you can 541 00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:10,200 confidently, say, I've been reborn. 542 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,500 Amen. I mean, I love you guys. 543 00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:13,900 It's been good to preach this morning. 544 00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:17,500 Let's sing and praise. Thank God for that this morning, 545 00:32:17,500 --> 00:31:54,000 men. Convicting you this morning, 546 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,400 don't just ignore that. Don't just stuff that down. 547 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,300 I ask no big deal. I got a little emotional. 548 00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:01,800 No big deal though. Follow through with that, listen 549 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,800 to the Holy Spirit. Listen to God, don't go out of 550 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,300 this place today without knowing for sure, if you can 551 00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:10,200 confidently, say, I've been reborn. 552 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,500 Amen. I mean, I love you guys. 553 00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:13,900 It's been good to preach this morning. 554 00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:17,500 Let's sing and praise. Thank God for that this morning, 555 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:17,800 men.