Jesus and Nicodemus (John 3:1-21)
Nicodemus starts by acknowledging Jesus as a teacher from God. Jesus responds with, if you haven’t been born again you cannot see the kingdom of God. The next question, “can a man go back into his mother’s womb?” proves he was trying to do things by the flesh and was not born again. Jesus explains the crossover. At the first level, all men are born of the water of the womb, but you need to be born of the Spirit to enter the kingdom of God. At the next level, it meant that just because someone has been baptized, doesn’t make him born again. They need to be led by the Spirit. Being led by the Spirit looks the way the wind does, strangers passing through, a body of people being led in the same direction by something you cannot see. Nicodemus says that he is lost so Jesus says if he as a leader does not understand this testimony, how would he believe when He speaks of Scripture revelation. But He does anyway and says the only reason anyone went up into heaven, such as Enoch and Moses, was because they humbled themselves and took the lowest seat as the son of man, not the Son of God. And this is still how God will love the world which the crucifixion would prove. God doesn’t choose to rule how the religious leaders were. Just faith, and that’s how simple God makes it and how simple they should. People know this but still choose not to. And Nicodemus at this conversation had no excuse to judge because he knows why he came to Jesus at night.
33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” (Jeremiah 31:33-34)
References
John 3:1-21
Jeremiah 31:33-34
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