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“The New Birth”
!!!! John 3:1-15
! Introduction: (1) /Remember, no chapter breaks in the Greek, therefore,// man// in the last chapter moves right into chapter three to Nicodemus.
/(2) Luke 15:3-10 /talk about Brittany being born and the joy there was.
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I.
The Man Who Came By Night
A.
Nicodemus (3:1-2)
1.
He was a ruler (archon) of the Jews.
a.
He was a Pharisee (/separated ones/)
Several things should be noted.
1) /They were the accepted of their day—a sect or school of religious thought./
They were organized solely for preserving the law and the Jewish religion.
Thereby, they were to save the Jewish nation.
2) /They were strict literalists./
The Jewish law was expanded into thousands and thousands of little rules and regulations by the Scribes.
These rules and regulations were known as the Scribal or Oral Law.
More than fifty volumes or books were eventually needed to hold the regulations (Luke 6:2).
3) /The Pharisees were a body of the most zealous religionists./
4) /There were never many Pharisees—never more than 6,000./
The strictness and demands of the sect were too hard for the common people.
5) /They were in dead earnest—dedicated and zealous, self-denying, and moral./
No man could give his life to so desperate and restrictive a task unless he was totally genuine.
6) /They were self-righteous, heartless, and hypocritical /(Luke 18:9).
They lacked any sense of need or sin (Luke 7:39).
7) /They were bitterly opposed to the Sadducees, hating and despising them, feeling that the Sadducees were traitors to the nation./
However, the Pharisees were forced to quietly cooperate with the Sadducees because the Sadducees were the primary ruling party of the nation.
8) /They were the main opponents of Jesus Christ and were unsparing in their accusation of Him./ Their savage attacks were primarily for two reasons.
(1), He was not a graduate of any of their rabbinical schools, nor a member of any of their religious sects.
(2), He attacked their rules and regulations which had been added to God’s law ( Matthew 23:1-36; Luke 11:37-54 ).
b.
He was a /teacher of Israel/ (John 3:10) he held some official position of the highest rank/./
c.
He apparently was wealthy—He spent a great deal of money at the burial of Jesus (John 19:39).
d.
He was silent at the trial of Jesus, saying nothing to defend Jesus, but he boldly stepped forth after the Lord’s death and publicly helped in the burial of Jesus (John 19:39-42).
Note: In spite of his achievements, prominence in education, politics, culture, religion, & wealth, he still had a great need.
He needed to know God
2.
He /came to Jesus by night./
Some view this as:
a. Figuratively as spiritual darkness of his heart (cf.
1:5; 9:4; 11:10; 13:30)
b.
He could not take time with Jesus during the day because of his busy schedule
c. /He wanted to have a secret meeting with Jesus rather than to risk having disfavor with his fellow Pharisees.
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3.
He came in behalf of the religionists.
He said, /“We know.”/
(v.1-2a)
a.
You are a teacher come from God (v.2b):
No one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him (v.2c):
But Jesus was not just a teacher sent from God, /He was God in human flesh./
II.
Becoming a New Man (v.3-8) Matthew 5:20 /“unless your righteousness exceeds the Pharisees”/
A.
The New Birth is a Necessity (v.3)
1.
The Importance of the words,/ "cannot see the kingdom of God./"
a.
One must be /"born again"/ or else he will never /"see"/ (John 3:3) nor /"enter"/ (John 3:5) the Kingdom of God.
b.
It is an absolute imperative that a person be born again (John 3:7).
2.
/Strong Assertion/, “Unless one is born again.”
The word “again” (anothen) has three different meanings in Greek.
It means...
a.
/From the first/: from the beginning or completely and fully (cp.
Luke 1:3).
When the Bible uses /anothen /instead of /palin/ in the first part of the chapter, it is suggesting that the new birth is supernatural and has it origin in God.
b.
/Again/: a second time, a repeated act (John 3:4) (cp.
Galatians 4:9).
c. /From above/: from the top, which means from God (cp.
John 19:11).
Illustration of me playing a song on the guitar & someone wanted to hear it again /(palin), /that would mean that someone else could pick up my guitar and try to play the same song again.
It would only mean they wanted to hear the song repeated.
However, if they should say, “Play it again /(anothen)/ it would mean the repetition of the music would have to have the same source as the first playing.
In other words they would want me to play the song again.
Thus when Jesus said, “Unless one is born again,” he was suggesting that the new birth would have to have the same source as the original birth, this is by God.
/The point is this.
A man must be "born again."
He must be.../
· born completely and fully, a complete and full change (2Cor.5:17,
21).
· born all over /again/, in the sense of a second time.
· born /from above/, from God.
B.
The New Birth is Spiritual (v.4-8)
1.
The new birth is a spiritual birth, the birth of a new power and spirit in life.
a.
It is not reformation [or improvement] of the old nature (Romans 6:6):
“Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with /Him/, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
Illustration of one turning over a new leaf, but still has a debt to pay from the old leaf.
b.
It is the actual creation of a new birth within—spiritually (John 3:5-6; cp.
John 1:12-13; 2 Cor.
5:17; Ephes.
2:10; Ephes.
4:24).
/The Application/ ( Ephes.
1:3; 1John 3:1; Ephes.
4:17-24;)
2.
How Can a Man be born again when he is old (v.4)?
/He reacted to Christ’s words in the natural not the spiritual /
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