Part 4 | What Nicodemus Now Knows
From John 3
📖 John 3:1 ESV Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
📖 John 2:23-25 ESV Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for He himself knew what was in man.
What Nicodemus :
1. You can be and not with God.
📖 John 3:2 ESV This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
📖 John 3:3 ESV Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
📖 John 3:4 ESV Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
📖 John 3:5 ESVJesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
📖 John 1:12-13 ESV But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
What Nicodemus to know:
2. is something that happens not .
📖 John 3:7 ESV Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
📖 John 3:8 ESV The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
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What Nicodemus have :
3. Only can make come from , come from , and come from .
📖 John 3:9 ESV Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”
📖 John 3:10 ESVJesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?
📖 Ezekiel 36:25-27 ESV I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
📖 Exodus 14:21 ESV Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind (Ruah – Spirit) all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
📖 Genesis 8:1 ESV But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a WIND blow over the earth, and the WATERS subsided.
📖 Genesis 1:1-2 ESV In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
📖 Genesis 1:9 ESV And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.
📖 1 Peter 1:23 ESV you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding WORD of God
📖 John 7:45-48 ESV The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” 46 The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!” 47 The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? 48 Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? 49 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”
📖 John 7:50-51 ESV Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, 51 “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” 52 They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”
📖 John 19:38 ESV After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.
📖 John 19:39 ESV Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.
What Nicodemus Knows:
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