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Showroom Ready vs. Spiritual Readiness
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Are you showroom ready?
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You've ever restored an old classic car? You know this term, showroom ready. You search for months on end to find this old vintage car that's quite literally stuck in somebody's yard. And the weeds have overgrown it. And you take it, you drag it out.
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The paint is all faded on this car, and the seats are all worn. The engine barely turns over, but you lug this treasure back to your house. No, I'm not talking about the Morgan's house right now.
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But if you've ever been over there, it is a car show indeed. You take this beautiful old treasure and you polish it up. Take off the chrome bumpers and you get them replated.
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You finish the upholstery with all new leather, repainting every inch of this beautiful car's body. And by the end, you look at it and you think, that thing right there, that's showroom ready.
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The problem is, however, when you sit in the seat and you put the key in and you turn, the engine doesn't do anything. It just sits there. Why? Well, because underneath all of that cosmetic improvements, the engine was still dead.
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Showroom ready. Many of us, brothers and sisters, in our Christian walk are showroom ready.
External Polish vs. Internal Transformation
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Polished on the outside, but dead where it counts.
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This is the tension we see in John chapter 3, probably one of my most favorite chapters of all to teach in the Bible. We met with some of our good friends yesterday and Brandon, he was our old missions pastor and he said, what are you teaching tomorrow? I said, John chapter three.
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o He said, mercy on you. It's a heavy lifting. Then he started giving me all these scriptures and said, are you going to are you goingnna to include this scripture and this scripture and this scripture? And I said, no, I'm not. I'm just stick sticking right here in John chapter 3.
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Brothers and sisters, I want to confess this morning, I lied. I have a whole bunch of scripture to give you today that's going to fit nicely in here. When I tell you this scripture references, I just simply want you to write them down.
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And you'll do your research this week as you read each one of these. But we're not going to veer from this story at the beginning of John chapter 3 because it's super important.
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It's this picture of Nicodemus who is spiritually polished, if I can put it that way. On the outside, he has it all going for him. He's moral, he's educated, he's respected, he's religious, he's disciplined, he's even admired by those around him.
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On the outside, he is spiritually alive. But Jesus looks right at this man and he speaks the truth to him and he speaks that same truth to you and I today. And he specially tells Nicodemus and he says to you, you don't need a touch up.
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You don't need religious improvement. You need an entirely new life.
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He's basically telling us brothers and sisters today, showroom ready isn't going to cut it for Jesus.
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Christianity, for some reason, as I wrote this past week, as I reflected on others looking inward to us as Christians, what do they say about us? They say Christianity is primarily about self-improvement, how to get a better version of yourself.
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Matter of fact, one of the top-selling books for a long time was, Live Your Best Life Now. Couldn't be more anti-Christian.
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It's not about trying harder. It's not about cleaning up your bad habits. It's not being moral or attending church more consistently. It's not about improving your behavior.
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No, Jesus speaks to this deepest human problem, and he says you're not just spiritually broken, you're spiritually dead. Complete difference.
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He says, apart from me, you are spiritually dead, and therefore I have to make you anew. The good news, brothers and sisters, of this passage is simply this, that Jesus did not just come to make bad people better.
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He came to make dead people alive. He requires a new birth. Today, you'll repeat after me. Jesus requires a new birth.
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The first thing I want you to write down is this. New life requires new birth. New life requires New birth.
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Why is it important you write it down, by the way? i know for you guys, are they're kind of new here. You probably came here and you're like, wow, they have a bulletin, and there's notes, and he's given a sermon, and he wants us to write stuff down. It comes in in levels of three. You write it, you hear it, you read it, you recall it next week. You'll see how all three of these Things I want you to write down will tie nicely together as you read them back this week. New life requires new birth. Now let's look at this new birth. ah John chapter 3, like I said, probably my most favorite chapter to teach out of.
Nicodemus: A Case Study in Spiritual Blindness
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For those of you who are of your what we call the BSI, do you remember that when I taught you, ladies and fellas? What did BSI stand for? Bible Scholar Investigators.
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Like a CSI, but you're a BSI. If you're an investigator, chapter 3 is chock full of evidence. Just right for the digging. look Let's read these first few verses here.
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Chapter 3 starts this way. says, there was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. Now after dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. Rabbi, he said, we all know that God has sent you to teach us.
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Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you. Jesus replied, I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the kingdom of God. What do you mean?
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exclaimed Nicodemus. How can an old man go back in his mother's womb and be born again? Jesus replied, I assure you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.
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Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don't be surprised when I say to you you must be born again. The wind blows wherever it wants.
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Just as you can hear the wind, but you can't tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can't explain how people are born of the Spirit. Let's pause there.
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It's an interesting opening to this scene. Nicodemus, we're told, is this religious leader, this Pharisee, somebody who's admired, somebody who has it all.
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The author is doing something by setting us up like this. He's not just your ordinary skeptic. He's not an atheist. he's He's somebody who's in the inner circle, if I could put it that way, of Christianity.
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He's somebody who should have known everything about this coming Messiah. Even later in the chapter, he's referred to as the teacher of Israel. This is how important Nicodemus is.
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The author's doing something. He's saying, this guy is so with it, religiously, he's the top of the top, and he doesn't get it. And I just put in my notes, how comforting is that to me?
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Somebody who doesn't know it all, but can still get it Now you'll notice the scene unfolds here. says this man came to Jesus by what? By night.
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If you're somebody who highlights or circles, you might want to circle that. Or by darkness, your translation may say. John uses darkness here symbolically all throughout his gospel. Nicodemus likely came at night out of caution.
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He sincerely wanted to ask Jesus this question, but he was fearful of what others would think. But darkness also represents a little bit about his spiritual walk.
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So as he comes Jesus in the middle of the night, and he asks Jesus this question, and look how he he addresses Jesus, Rabbi. right Formal respect.
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He understands Jesus is a rabbi, a teacher. We know that you are a teacher who came from God. A profound statement in and of itself to have somebody at the level of Nicodemus to recognize Jesus in this manner.
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He acknowledged that Jesus was sent from God.
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But he doesn't understand who Jesus really is. In my notes, I put, he gets it, kind of.
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He's a lot like some of us. We get it, kind
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I put there are many people like this today. They like Jesus. They respect Jesus. Some of them even quote Jesus. So I'm just going to tell you what, that Facebook, for as great as that thing is, it brings up some crazy people across this United States that quote the Bible in all the wrong ways. And I shake my head, and i and I strain my thumb from really wanting to respond.
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You can love him, you can like him, you can respect him, you can quote him, you can admire him, but brothers sisters, admiration will not save you.
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You can be real close to the truth without ever embracing the
Salvation: Beyond Rituals to Heart Transformation
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truth. This is Nicodemus' is failure here. Externally, he's polished, but God doesn't care about that.
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He's looking for a transformed heart. This is why Ezekiel 36 is so important to the background of this story. For somebody who's writing something down, Ezekiel 36, 26. He says,
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I will give you a new heart and put in a new spirit within you. Notice he doesn't say, I'm going to give you a changed heart or a reformed heart or a better heart.
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He says, I'm going to give you a new heart and a new spirit. Salvation brothers and sisters is always about a transformed heart. It's not about external conformity.
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God doesn't care about your religiousosity if I can use that word. He doesn't care about your rituals. He cares about a changed heart.
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I put here a person can grow up in church the same way. They come here week after week. I used this fancy term last week in called Christianese. You all remember me saying this?
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I have somebody who watches online and they sent me a message and they said, I just love that term Christianese that you used. Christianese, brothers sisters, is using Christian terms, but you're not really a Christian.
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It's like living around an near an airport, if I can use this analogy. ah You hear the sounds, you learn the vocabulary, what's going on, you watch the planes take off every single day, but you yourselves never leave the ground.
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Nicodemus has spent his whole life around spiritual things, but he's never truly taken flight. Look at verse 3. Truly, truly, I say to you, also amen, amen is the Greek.
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Jesus is emphasizing here absolute certainty. Truly, truly, I tell you this. You must be, it, born again.
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Genethe enothen in the Greek. Born from above or born again. It's this new birth that comes from heaven itself. Now look, if you're somebody who highlights unless or circle it.
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I say to you, unless you are born again, you may not, cannot, will not see the kingdom of God. no alternatives here, I put. He doesn't say unless you become more religious, you can get into the kingdom of God. He doesn't say unless you improve yourself, you can get into the kingdom of God. Unless you try harder, you can get into the kingdom. That's not what he says. Brothers and sisters, he says unless you are born again, meaning you have a new birth, you will not see the kingdom of God.
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I put this as not optional Christianity. This is Christianity 101. It's that foundational that you understand this.
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The kingdom of God here refers to his saving reign and his rule. Jesus says spiritual blindness prevents fallen humanity from entering into the kingdom apart from some supernatural transformation.
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Salvation is not reformation. It's regeneration. That's the second thing I want you to write down. New birth is not refer reformation.
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It's regeneration. It's long word, I know. It'll make sense when you read it back this week, trust me. I'll say it again. New birth is not reformation. It's regeneration.
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And while you're writing down, put Titus 3.5 next to that. Titus 3.5. It says, for he saves us by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit. That word in the Greek, regeneration, really means new birth.
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It's the same word, interchangeable. Christianity is not about behavior modification. It's about a new creation.
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Now got love Nicodemus. Look here on verse 4, Nicodemus.
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By the way, why do I love Nicodemus? Because he's so um real. He's so true, like in his responses. I just feel like any one of us would respond like this. He said, well, what do you mean?
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How can a man be born again? How can he go back into his mother's womb and be born again, right? He's thinking physically. How does a man get reborn? Jesus was like, you're missing the point. I'm not talking physically, I'm talking spiritually.
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He doesn't get it. I put in my notes here. He doesn't get spiritual things. Jesus goes on, he says, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
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If you're here today and you're struggling with somebody in your family who's an unbeliever, whether it's a brother, a sister, whether it's a spouse, whether it's one of your kids, whether they're grown or not, may I set your mind at ease simply by telling you this. They will not, they cannot understand the things of the Spirit because they are dead.
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They're not broken. They're not spiritually broken. They're spiritually dead. They cannot respond to the things of the Spirit. Only the Spirit can awaken their dead soul. Why is that important? Well, we're going to get to that in the application because I'm going to blow your mind here just a few seconds.
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Jesus compares the Spirit here to the wind. He says the wind blows this way, it blows that way. You don't know it. You don't know where it's coming from, but you feel it. This word wind is really pneuma in the Greek. It could be wind, it could be Spirit. One one word, same in unchangeable way.
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He says, in this way, the Spirit produces new life.
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And you feel the effects of that new life in you. How can I tell you're born again? Because you have a new life. And that new life looks a certain way. It talks a certain way.
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It acts a certain way. Third thing I want you to write down. Regeneration comes from the Spirit. Regeneration.
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comes from the Spirit. I'll put an illustration here, Tom and Dottie West. I warned them ahead of time. I said, I'm gonna use you guys as an illustration today.
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Tom and Dottie don't come out here to the flower beds at the church, by the way. They don't come out here, push in a few seeds, and then just stare real intently at those seeds as if they will grow faster somehow by them staring at them.
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Those seeds grow by sunlight. and by water, and by nutrients.
Role of the Holy Spirit in Spiritual Renewal
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Something external to the seed is what helps the seed grow. It's in the same way, brothers sisters, that spiritual life is not something that we can do within ourselves. It's not something self-generated.
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The Spirit, the Holy Spirit, breathes this new life into you, into me. It opens our eyes to our sinful lives in the way God sees our sin. And it's in that moment, brothers sisters, that we have that choice to accept Christ.
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So Jesus is not asking Nicodemus here to become more religious. He's telling him, I want you become something completely new. And he raises this important question to Nicodemus, and it's the same question that you and I have to answer today.
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If salvation requires some supernatural work of God, then how does somebody like you and receive that? Well, he answers that next. Let's look here, verse 9 and following.
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Nicodemus says, how are these things even possible? ah Jesus replies, he says, you're a respected Jewish teacher. you got to get this. This is the polite way to correct somebody, by the way. Verse 10. You're a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don't understand these things.
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I assure you, we tell you what we know and what we have seen, and yet you don't believe our testimony. But if you don't believe me when I tell you about earthly things, how can you possibly believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
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No one has ever gone to heaven and returned, but the Son of Man has come down from heaven. Interesting, his take here.
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He says, how can these things be? He's intellectually stuck, I put in my notes here. For somebody who's so smart and so self-gradulated, ah self um graduated so highly highly esteemed, I put in here, he simply can't understand the basics.
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The natural mind struggles with spiritual things. Another verse to write down, 1 Corinthians 2.14. 1 Corinthians 2.14. The natural person does not accept the things of the spirit.
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Spiritual truth is not something we study. We don't go to church to learn spiritual things. Spiritual things are taught to you through spiritual discernment. That means you give your life to Christ, and moment by moment, decision by decision, he gives us opportunity to test our faith and respond in obedience. And when you do that in the small things in life, you grow spiritually. And the more you grow spiritually, the more spiritual discernment you get.
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It's not something you can just simply go, going to come to First Baptist Church Cameron, and I'm to to every Bible study class, and I'm going to check them all out, and I'm going to get this Bible knowledge, and I'm going to be spiritually discerned.
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It's not the way it works.
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Nicodemus studied scripture for decades, but yet he missed the very basic of basic questions. Jesus says, ah aren't you a teacher of Israel, but yet you don't understand these things? It's a loving, but it's a sharp rebuke at the same time.
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Nicodemus, with all his knowledge, all his recognition of the Old Testament prophecies, should have known who Jesus was. But the problem here isn't a lack of information, it's a lack of spiritual awareness.
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Let's put here as a note, we can study all the sermons, all the podcasts, all the Christian books and still resist Christ himself.
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Jesus says, no one has ascended into heaven except he who has descended from heaven, the son of man. right Jesus' favorite title that he says about himself often. It's this divine authority because he came from the Father.
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Son of Man receives eternal dominion and glory. He's not simply just pointing towards truth because he's addressing this term rabbi that Nicodemus says.
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Rabbi, rabbi, will you help me understand? Jesus is basically saying, I'm no rabbi. I'm not somebody who's going to teach you the truth. I am the truth. Nicodemus, you should have known this all along.
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He came real close, but he missed the mark. And I thought to myself, how many of us are like that today? We come real close, and i often wonder, does Jesus look down from us sometime and just go, oh, you were so close.
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You almost got it.
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says, if you really, truly want to be saved, you have to place your faith in the one who's lifted up. We'll see this verse 14. Look with me.
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And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on the pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life. For this is how God loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but will have eternal life.
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In your notes, you want to write down 316. You want to have that memorized.
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But right after that, if you if you would do me a a really big luxury, put 317 in there also. lot of people forget 317. God sent his son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world.
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but This picture Jesus is giving here of the the ser of the serpent that's lifted up on the pole, right? Numbers 21, if you're writing down, Numbers 21 is where you want to go to look at this. Israel in full rebellion to God, you know, the the poisonous serpents invade the camp.
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And God instructs Moses to lift up this bronze servant, and everyone who looks with faith onto that will be saved.
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Takes an act of belief, and the healing comes from that belief.
Understanding Jesus' Sacrifice
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Jesus says this story ultimately points to himself. This phrase lifted up carries a double meaning here in John, right? He's physically lifted up on the cross, but he's also lifted up in his exaltation of what he did on the cross.
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Christ would bear the sins of the sinners, that's you and I, could receive life. It's a picture of substitutionary atonement. big Big theological word.
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He took your place and my place. Our punishment he took on the cross. you're writing down scripture, 2 Corinthians 5.21.
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I know you're thinking, wow, the pastor never makes us write down this much scripture. It's that important this week. 5.21, 2 Corinthians says, He made him who knew no sin to become sin on our behalf.
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He's the sin bearer for you and I. And it says, whoever believes in him may have eternal life. Can I get an amen? Amen. I'll say that again. Whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
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This word faith is is an active word here. This is not some passive. It's actual trusting reliance on the work in which Jesus did at the cross. When you believe on Jesus, I used to understand this old old Christian terminology here. They would say, do you believe on him?
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Do you believe on him or in him? Or do you believe Jesus? Are they three different things? I used to have a professor ask me that one time. To believe on him means you believe in your heart and you accept that what he did on the christ on the cross paid for your sin.
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And that by his resurrection, that is proof that that was acceptable ah by God. And that his new life is therefore meaning that if we believe on him, we too have new life.
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I put here the moment that we believe, that we trust, that we put our faith in, All the sins are forgiven. It's a one-time exchange. All your past sins, all your present sins, and get this, all your future sins are already paid for. If that's not good news, I don't know what is.
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Condemnation is removed and spiritual life begins that moment. You don't have to work your way up into better spiritual standing. You get everything. You get the spiritual ragu, I used to always say. It's all in there.
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The moment you get saved, brothers sisters, it's all there. Everything you need to lead a healthy Christian life is there for you to appropriate.
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Verse 16 is probably the most recognized verse.
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The source of salvation, his love, his gift of salvation, his only son. That's that word begotten, your translation may say. The scope of that, the entire world, it was for everybody.
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Not that everybody will believe, but it says whoever will believe, meaning there are some who won't believe. How do we know that there are some who won't believe? Because hell is full of those people. I want to be real clear with that.
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There's two destinations after this world. Either eternity in hell or your eternity with in heaven with with Jesus. Two, it's not we don't get to make up a third. We don't get to have a combination or a better fitting. It's not like a buffet. You don't get to pick and choose here. It's one or two.
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And it's all based upon whether or not we place our faith in Christ. Because without faith in Christ, he goes on to say, then you're already condemned.
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You're condemned, brothers sisters, because from a baby, you know how to lie and cheat and steal and murder. it's it It's all within you to do that.
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And you don't place your faith in Christ and you don't receive his righteousness. You're relying on your own righteousness. And God is going to look at that and say, that is not acceptable. Therefore, you have one destination and that's in hell.
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I want be real clear on that. I don't think we teach hell enough here from the pulpit. But it says primarily he doesn't come to condemn. If you place your faith in Christ, he's come to save you.
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He's not a condemner. He's a saver.
Evidence of Spiritual Acceptance and Understanding
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And I put here the the third thing I want you to write down is the spirit who indwells you is proof that you've received Jesus.
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The spirit who indwells you is proof that you've received Jesus.
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You will never be able to understand spiritual things in the spiritual realm if you don't have the Holy Spirit within you. It's just that simple.
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And I can tell you from long life, a long walk with with Christ that, and you and you can verify this too, I'm sure, as you you come in contact with various people in your walk, and and you can tell they know the language, but they don't know the Spirit.
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Does make sense? They say all the right things, but they're not living those things out. They say they're Christ followers, but they have a really sharp tongue. They say they're a Christ follower, but but boy, they're they're heavy on the gossip.
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They say they're a Christ follower, but they like to cut corners and cheat just a little bit here and there, as if God doesn't see that.
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Somebody who has the spirit within them lives spiritually. They live by different world system, if I can put it that way.
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New birth is not merely some past event that you go, oh yeah, I i was saved back when I was 12.
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That's an ongoing Christian walk, if I can put it that way. You're walking by the Spirit. It new life that you're walking every single day. And I like Brother Mike, he said you gotta make a decision.
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There's some human responsibility in this as well. You are saved, once saved, always saved. I can point you directly to the passage that says, you know, he will never be snatched from his hand. But brothers and sisters, just because you're saved doesn't mean that that you can just live however you want to live after that.
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There's a responsibility that comes with that. All right, what do we do with this this week? This is where i I had one direction I was going earlier about Monday this week.
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And after I did some long praying, I thought, you know, I'm going to completely go a different route in application this week.
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If we have to accept Christ at some point, if that's if that's your goal for somebody in your family that is lost, right? And y'all know our story, Kim and I. you know We have some grown kids that aren't believing right now.
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And I can say that transparently because I know many of you and I know your stories as well. Husbands, spouses, husbands. family members, kids who are lost.
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Maybe the prayer this week, if we're to apply John chapter three in the correct way, maybe we stop asking them or asking God for behavioral changes for our kids or for your spouse.
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Maybe we stop asking, Lord, please help my wife to fill in the blank. Please help her to stop doing this or start doing this. Please help my husband to stop drinking or cheating or gambling.
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Lord, would you please just have my kids stop living worldly lives?
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What we really took chapter three at heart and we changed that prayer to look like this? Give them a new heart. That simple. Lord, would you give them a new heart?
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Would you give my wife a new heart? Would you give my husband a new heart?
Praying for True Spiritual Transformation
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Because that's the only way it's going to happen. You can pray for behavior change all day long. They're so entrenched in the world, and the world has them by its grip, it is not going to let them go unless they have a new heart.
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just put in closing, this is not a do book. Do better. It's a done book. Jesus has already done it for you. You just need to accept it.
00:31:28
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Are you showroom ready?