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YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN
John 3:1-21
\\ *You must be Born Again!*[1]**
/1//Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, /
/a member of the Jewish ruling council.
/
/2//He came to Jesus at night and said, /
/“Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God./
/For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing /
/if God were not with him.”
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/ 3In reply Jesus declared, /
/“I tell you the truth,/
/ no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
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/ 4“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked.
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/“Surely he cannot enter a second time /
/into his mother's womb to be born!” /
/ 5Jesus answered, /
/“I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God /
/unless he is born of water and the Spirit./
/ 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit./
/ 7You should not be surprised at my saying, /
/‘You must be born again.’/
/ 8The wind blows wherever it pleases.
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/You hear its sound, /
/but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.
So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
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/ 9“How can this be?”
Nicodemus asked.
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/ 10“You are Israel's teacher,” said Jesus, /
/“and do you not understand these things?/
/ 11I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, /
/and we testify to what we have seen, /
/but still you people do not accept our testimony.
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/12//I have spoken to you of earthly things /
/and you do not believe; /
/how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?/
/ 13No one has ever gone into heaven /
/except the one who came from heaven–the Son of Man.
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/14//Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, /
/so the Son of Man must be lifted up, /
/15//that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life./
/ 16“For God so loved the world /
/that he gave his one and only Son, /
/that whoever believes in him shall not perish /
/but have eternal life.
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/17//For God did not send his Son into the world /
/to condemn the world, /
/but to save the world through him.
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/18//Whoever believes in him is not condemned, /
/but whoever does not believe stands condemned already /
/because he has not believed /
/in the name of God's one and only Son. /
/19//This is the verdict: /
/Light has come into the world, /
/but men loved darkness instead of light /
/because their deeds were evil.
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/20//Everyone who does evil hates the light, /
/and will not come into the light /
/for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
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/21//But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, /
/so that it may be seen plainly /
/that what he has done has been done through God.”/
There are times when life gets a little stale,
boring and empty,
when you do the same things over
and over and over and over again.
You go through the motions
but that inner drive or passion is not there.
The fire in the belly has gone out.
It happens to us in so many different aspects of our lives.
In *our jobs* for example.
We go through the motions.
In many ways,
we go through parts of our jobs
over and over and over again,
for one year, two years, twenty years, forty years.
Over and over again...
We shine the shoes of the boss
To keep him off our backs and happy.
At one time, the job was quite exciting,
but time has gone by
and the inner enthusiasm isn’t quite there anymore.
Jobs can become stale.
You personally, not just the job,
But you can become stale on the job.
We can become washed out,
worn out, burnt out.
We all know that feeling…
Or the same thing can happen to you *at school*.
You know inside
when you are going through the motions at school,
when the inner enthusiasm isn’t there.
You have had the same teacher
for about nine months now
and the words all seem to be the same.
Your grades are dropping
And you feel lousy about it.
And the same thing can happen in *your marriage*.
You know when you are going
through the motions of marriage.
At one time,
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