"Look and Live"
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Do not forget this chapter of John when dealing with religious people.
New Birth to Nicodemus
Nicodemus, as a teacher of the Law, thought he had totally gotten everything that God required of him . . . but he didn’t.
1. The stage is set, vs. 3-13.
1. The stage is set, vs. 3-13.
V. 9 literally is “How can this take place?” This is something that Nicodemus should have known from the OT.
“And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Ezekiel 37
“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.
2. The OT Picture, 14a.
2. The OT Picture, 14a.
Jesus draws Nicodemus’ attention to events spoken of in Numbers 21:5-9
The people spoke against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food.”
The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.”
And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.
Let me illustrate this event:
This is a passage to teach gospel truth. Part of the success in using the diagram is to place yourself in the position of the unbeliever when you share this with them. I ask the question: “How in the world can a brass serpent heal snakebite?” The results would be that I would die!
Read the Numbers passage, then ask the person you are sharing with “Will you live? If you looked to the serpent, and then died, God would be a liar. If He is a liar, than He can’t be God. But God has made it where anyone could be saved.”
3. The NT truth, vs. 14b-15.
3. The NT truth, vs. 14b-15.
Jesus Christ became God’s answer to the sin problem.
4. John’s commentary, vs. 16-17.
4. John’s commentary, vs. 16-17.