WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible, guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:15.640 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome, Welcome, welcome, We're back. We 4 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:20.480 are back, and we didn't really go anywhere. No, but 5 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:24.079 we are back in what your phone? I guess most 6 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:24.839 people listen by. 7 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:28.879 Their phone, in your car, your on your favorite podcast. 8 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:31.519 We can't say on my farm, your radio, No, that's right, 9 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:33.960 you can't say that. That's right in your headphone, could 10 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:36.320 be over your speaker, could be on TV. That's right 11 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:37.799 on your screen, on your. 12 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:40.640 Screen, that's probably the big Well, well we're coming out 13 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:41.759 of your screen audibly anyway. 14 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:45.320 So this last month, we've had sixty thousand and sixty 15 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.439 something thousand views over the last thirty days. 16 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:49.159 Oh, that's fun. 17 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:54.439 And most of them are YouTube, but there's like twelve 18 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:59.520 thousand views on the other listens on the podcast platforms 19 00:00:59.520 --> 00:00:59.960 and stuff. 20 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:02.000 Wow, it's kind of neat. Yeah, it's very cool. 21 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:03.759 So some people are listening to us through their headphones, 22 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:05.000 others are watching us on a screen. 23 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:08.040 But well, hey, we're back either way to the Bible, guys. 24 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:11.359 We are in the middle of a series that is 25 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:14.359 really designed around the idea that what if Jesus had 26 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:15.040 his own podcast. 27 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:16.760 He had a lot of things to say, He. 28 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:20.519 Had famous quotes of Jesus. But before we get into that, 29 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.920 we have what I think is a isn't this a 30 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:23.680 brand news? 31 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:25.879 It is? It is it is. It's a hot take 32 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:29.920 showdown hot take show. So we're gonna take controversial statement. 33 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:31.879 This is gonna be a new segment. Okay, yeah, yeah, 34 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:33.799 Desire and A we're talking about this and I think 35 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:36.040 this is gonna be a new one. We're going to 36 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:41.680 take a bold, confrontational statement statement, and we have to 37 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:42.599 take a side. 38 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:44.400 Either defended or debunk it. 39 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:45.560 That's right. Are you ready? 40 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:47.680 And we take number one. We can't go middle ground. 41 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:48.760 We have to go one of the other. 42 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:50.920 It's all in on one side or the other. Okay, 43 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:51.519 are you ready? 44 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:51.879 Yes? 45 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.640 Hot take number one. Breakfast is the most overrated meal 46 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:56.079 of the day. 47 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:03.200 Go disagree. It is not overrated at all. Breakfast is everything. 48 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:05.799 Everybody says that it is everything. 49 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:07.519 Everybody. What does everybody say it is? 50 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.680 Well, there's experts that say that it is the most 51 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:13.360 important meal of the day. Really, they will they will 52 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:15.319 say it over and over again. There's not a person 53 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:19.479 who does well nutritionists that doesn't say that, right, And so. 54 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:24.120 What about all these people that talk about fasting. 55 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:27.560 That's a different topic. 56 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.439 A lot of people say the healthiest way to go 57 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.280 is the you know, the what is it when you 58 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:36.919 do then and fast? They say skip breakfast. 59 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:41.120 Yes, but I'm saying of all the medals. 60 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:44.120 Literally breaking the fast, and they're saying it's healthy for you. 61 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.080 He's a terrible argument. No, it's terrible argument. 62 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:48.680 It's true. A lot of people say, don't eat. 63 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:49.960 Do you understand what I'm saying. 64 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:52.000 You just made a c I'm saying, you made a 65 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.080 comment that said breakfa the run, and I'm saying. 66 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:58.240 And dinner, of those breakfast is the most important meal 67 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.240 of the day. Here's what you're saying. You're saying, what 68 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:01.479 about eating nothing? 69 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.159 That's not what I said. No, No, that's not what 70 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.800 what I'm saying. Is you you made the claim that 71 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.759 all experts agree. No, I said most, you said all. 72 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:14.479 But that's okay. And I'm saying a lot of experts 73 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:19.919 say don't eat breakfast, skip it. Yeah, being lunch no no, no, 74 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:23.560 that this should be your lifestyle. No, no, no, no, that's. 75 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:27.120 What fasting doesn't just skip a meal. It skips like 76 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:29.439 it skips like a whole day. 77 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:35.039 No it doesn't. Yes, no, no, no, no no no. Yeah. Yeah, 78 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.319 yeah that They say that that's the healthiest of all 79 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:40.000 the intermittent fastings, and it's a it can become a lifestyle, 80 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:41.840 should be a lifestyle. So you should be eating three 81 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:42.319 meals a day. 82 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:43.879 Okay, here here's another thing. Here's a no thing. 83 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:46.759 You eat three meals a day. Americans like me. 84 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:49.879 Yeah, that's right. Okay, how about this angle? 85 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:50.039 Then? 86 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:56.080 I think that breakfast food is probably is good. Is good, 87 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.919 The food is good. I've always wondered about that. God, 88 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:03.240 thank you for this food? Right, God is great. God 89 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:05.199 is good, Thank you for this food. It's as if 90 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:06.919 there's rhyme, but they don't. 91 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.080 Know anyway, It just looks right on the paper. 92 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.800 The point is is that how about this one from 93 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:17.199 the angle of why is it that breakfast foods are 94 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:22.920 like most people like breakfast food around the world, of. 95 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:25.079 Every culture comfort their comfort foods. 96 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:27.519 Yeah, think about it. There's really no other category of 97 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.399 food that the majority of all humans like except for 98 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.439 breakfast food. Nothing beats breakfast food, right. You know, Indians 99 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:35.240 love Indian food, but there's a lot of Americans that 100 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:37.360 don't like Indian food, right, A lot of people in 101 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:40.720 Africa that wouldn't like Sloppy Joe's. 102 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.160 So, but it is interesting. You know, you go to 103 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.879 restaurants for breakfast overseas and they don't do breakfast like 104 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:52.120 we eat breakfast. They literally call it the American breakfast 105 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:55.519 or a European breakfast, eggs, bacon, sausage, but. 106 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:56.160 They like it. 107 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:00.879 Yeah. I was just in an Indian I was just 108 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.079 in India and I had the special order eggs. There 109 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:05.800 were no eggs, you know what they had. They had 110 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.360 beans and tomatoes and all these like like it was 111 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:15.399 like dinner, chicken meals, chicken dishes, beef Dishessould there be 112 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:17.800 another reason for it's it's how breakfast goes over there? 113 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:20.639 Do you think that maybe chickens are rare, eggs are rare. 114 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:26.160 They're everywhere. But anyways, yeah, yeah, so it's different. All right, 115 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.279 here's here's hot take number two. You and I are 116 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:30.759 in disagreement on the hot take number two. Cats make 117 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.600 better pets and dogs. Oh absolutely, I agree with that one. 118 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:34.879 That's that's not even controversial. 119 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:36.480 Yeah, that's not controversial at all. 120 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:39.240 Why now, why why do cats make better pets and dogs. 121 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:41.519 Well, listen, First of all, let me distinguish the fact 122 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:43.920 that I'm not saying that people like cats. 123 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:45.120 More than dogs better pets. 124 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.199 They're just better pets than dogs. Right, So you may 125 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.839 enjoy dogs more. Dogs are hard to work, and it 126 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:51.879 may be a better payoff. 127 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:53.839 Yeah, my wife is going to be mad about my 128 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.399 take on this. One loves dogs. 129 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.879 But that's but that doesn't change the fact that dogs 130 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:00.399 are more work work. 131 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.240 Dogs need you. Cats don't need you. That's why they're 132 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:04.199 great pets. 133 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:08.199 Right right, So so better pets. Meaning like on dogs, 134 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.480 you have to bathe them. Dogs, you have to walk them. Dogs, 135 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:13.439 you have to clean up their poop with your hands 136 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:17.680 and bags. Dogs are You can't leave a dog for days. 137 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:20.720 You cannot ignore a dog. 138 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:21.319 They need you. 139 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:25.680 They go to Dogs don't ignore you. They dominate your space. Yeah, 140 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:29.160 as far as a pet goes a pet owner. Cats 141 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:32.720 bathe themselves. Cats take care of it in litter boxes. 142 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.279 You don't smell anything. You don't need to walk a cat. 143 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.199 Cats don't need you. You could leave cats for days. 144 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:41.480 I mean, come on, it's not even a controversial statement. 145 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:43.759 I'm going to agree with you. Now we don't have 146 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.079 cats at our house because my wife is allergic. But 147 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.560 oh yeah, so is my grandson. So anyways, all right, well, hey, 148 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.959 two hot takes, we solve both of those ones. You 149 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.480 and I are in a disagreement. We're in alignment on cats, 150 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.319 and we're disagreement about breakfast. So although although I took 151 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:03.360 the breakfast side only adversarially because I love breakfast. 152 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:04.959 Yes, and I know you did because it was a 153 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:07.560 stretch what you were talking about fasting, that's not true. 154 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:11.000 I argued to your point that all experts agree with you, 155 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:11.600 and they don't. 156 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:16.040 Okay, then most do. Yeah, some breakfast is not overrated. 157 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:18.160 Here we go. Are you ready? 158 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:20.079 I am ready? John, chapter talking. 159 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.199 About not being overrated? John? Chapter three is a very 160 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:25.800 popular and you know what chapter, and it. 161 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.879 Is everything that Jesus meant for it to be. 162 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:32.720 That's right. So today we are in You know. 163 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:35.879 By the way, you've done every single bad transition this week. 164 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:38.639 I keep on forgetting, which is why last week when 165 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:40.759 I was with Kyle and Wesley, or. 166 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:42.319 The two previous weeks, you're just not committed to me, 167 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:42.959 I forget. 168 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:44.079 I forgot most of it. 169 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:45.000 You're not committed. 170 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:46.600 I bet you only did it one third of the time. 171 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:52.079 You're just mailing it in, be honest. So so so 172 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:56.319 today with the premise that, you know what, if Jesus 173 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.240 had had a podcast today's episode, Jesus would say you 174 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:02.399 must be born again. That'd be the whole theme behind 175 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:05.399 the episode. So is that a statement for late you 176 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:06.199 must be born again? 177 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:07.120 You must be born again? Ye? 178 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:11.319 So in John chapter three, we're just going to read 179 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.240 I think the whole chapter here, but it says this. 180 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:17.839 There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader 181 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.839 who was a pharisee. After dark one evening, he came 182 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.040 to speak with Jesus Rabbi. He said, we all know 183 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.519 that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous 184 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:29.639 signs their evidence that God is with you. Jesus replyed 185 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:31.519 to tell you the truth. Unless you are born again, 186 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:34.840 you cannot see the Kingdom of God. What do you mean, 187 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:36.919 exclaimed Nicodemus. How can an old man go back into 188 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:40.360 his mother's woman and be born again? Jesus replied, I 189 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.799 assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God 190 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:45.840 without being born of water and the spirit. Humans can 191 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.960 reproduce only human life, but the Holy spirit gives birth 192 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.600 to spiritual life, so don't be surprised when I say 193 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:54.039 you must be born again. The wind blows wherever it wants, 194 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:55.639 and just as you can hear the wind, but can't 195 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:58.519 tell where it comes from or where it's going, So 196 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:00.879 you can't explain how people are born and of the spirit. 197 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.440 How are these things possible? The Kademus asked. Jesus replied, 198 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:08.360 you were respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don't understand 199 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:11.519 these things. I assure you. We tell you what we 200 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:14.320 know and have seen, and yet you won't believe our testimony. 201 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:16.200 But if you don't believe me when I tell you 202 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:19.759 about eternal things, how can you possibly birth earthly things? 203 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:21.080 I'm sorry? What did I say? 204 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:22.200 You said eternal things? 205 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.120 Oh? Yeah, I just didn't want that. This thing it 206 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:26.960 says earthly things, Yes it does. Yes, I tell you 207 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:29.960 about earthly things. How can you possibly believe if I 208 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:33.320 tell you about heavenly things? No one has ever gone 209 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:35.399 to heaven and returned, But the Son of Man has 210 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:37.840 come down from heaven. And as Moses lifted up the 211 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.360 bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the 212 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.320 son of Man must be lifted up so that everyone 213 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:45.039 who believes in him will have eternal life. For this 214 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:46.840 is how God loved the world. He gave his one 215 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:49.320 and only sons so that everyone who believes in him 216 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.480 will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his 217 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.159 son in the world not to judge the world, but 218 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.559 to save the world through him. There is no judgment 219 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.759 against anyone who believes in him, but anyone who does 220 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.200 not believe in him has already been judged for not 221 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.799 believing in God's one and only son, and the judgment 222 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:11.000 is based on this fact. God's light came into the world, 223 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:13.559 but people love the darkness more than the light, for 224 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:16.679 their actions were evil. All who did evil hate the 225 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.000 light and refuse to go near it for fear their 226 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:21.759 sins will be exposed. But those who do what is 227 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.360 right come to the light so others can see that 228 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:28.559 they are doing what God wants. Is that it there? 229 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:30.120 It is? Okay, So I'm not reading the whole chapter, 230 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:31.919 but I did get one to twenty one. Yeah, one 231 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:33.639 through twenty one. The whole story of Nicodemus. 232 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:38.759 Yeah, the whole story Nicodemus. So, first of all, Nicodemus 233 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:42.240 is one. It's always whenever I think of Nicodemus. I 234 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:46.639 always think of like the one who got away. Oh 235 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:50.279 you know what I mean, the great thing that almost was. 236 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:52.960 Don't you think of it that way. It's like it's 237 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:58.919 like he was almost there. Here's this great prominent religious 238 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:04.639 faires pharisaical pharisee. Yeah, I was gonna say pharisecal leader. 239 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:07.360 How do I how do I use that note adjutive 240 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:08.519 pharisee leader. 241 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:11.000 Pharisee leader. Really I thought there. 242 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.679 Was that that would be the title. Well, I know, 243 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:17.080 I know, but it's like a football player. He's a 244 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:19.720 pharisee leader, really, a leader of the Pharisees. 245 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:22.440 I've heard it said other ways. Maybe I've heard it wrong. 246 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:25.240 Well, there's fair phariseaical behavior. 247 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.960 Oh, phariseical. That's the word I was looking for. Yes, correct, so, 248 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:32.960 but but yeah, you're right, his title is pharisee. So uh. Anyway, 249 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.559 the point is is that here he is, this pharisee 250 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:38.240 and it wasn't he a member of the Sanhedron as well? 251 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:38.720 Yeah? 252 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.120 Yeah, so here he is, I mean, just the most 253 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.440 prominent of influence in the in the religious world, and 254 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:48.120 he's meeting with Jesus at Knight and Uh. And he's 255 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.799 meeting them at night because he is a secret believer. 256 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:53.879 Admirer. 257 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:58.320 Admirer, I guess is probably the better word. He's very curious. 258 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.279 He's not wanting to put g Jesus to death. He's 259 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:05.799 actually very curious to see if Jesus is coming from God. 260 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:10.320 And and so here he is just right on the edge. 261 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:12.720 You know, I could just I picture I picture it 262 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.159 going the other way. I picture it like he was 263 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.840 like one step away of saying like, Okay, I'm done 264 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.799 with being a pharisee. I'm all in. I'm going to 265 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:25.879 follow you Jesus, and I'm going to become a believer 266 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:28.759 in an influencer like the apostle Paul, right from one 267 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:32.440 extreme to the other. And and yet he doesn't he 268 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:36.279 doesn't really ever cross the line. And uh and uh. 269 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:41.679 Anyway, as far as yeah, Christ follower. 270 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:45.039 Yeah, but not a devoted follower enough to stop. 271 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:47.279 I mean, he doesn't leave being a pharisee. 272 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.320 Right, Yeah, well Jesus had to die. But but but 273 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.440 that would mean that he was on the council when 274 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.840 Caiaphas had had him voted to be put to death. 275 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.639 Yeah, but he voted against it. Yeah, he voted against it. 276 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.519 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well you know what I'm saying, right, Sure, 277 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:03.120 what I'm saying is like, he didn't become. 278 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:06.720 A pall right, he didn't leave, Yes, he didn't leave 279 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:12.840 the Yeah, yeah, so is interesting. He comes to Jesus 280 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:17.879 at night. The daytime interactions between Jesus and the Pharisees 281 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:21.759 were always very antagonistic, Right, either Jesus is going after 282 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:24.360 the Pharisees or the Pharisees are going after Jesus. Almost 283 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:28.679 every day, it looks like, right, but then you've got Nicodemus. 284 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:30.600 He comes at night. One, I think he doesn't want 285 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:34.639 to be seen by the other Pharisees. Two, the day's 286 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:38.240 work is done. This is much more casual. It's not 287 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:42.080 the marching around the city preaching and healing, and it's 288 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:45.600 not the you know, all the rituals and rules and 289 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.320 regulations for the Pharisees. This is kind of a more casual, 290 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:52.480 calm space. And it's one on one. It's not groups. 291 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:55.799 So it's not it's not Jesus group against the Pharisees group. 292 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:57.919 It's just he's one on one guys. So there's a 293 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:00.240 lot of respect. I think in this there's also little 294 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:04.279 bit of caution in that, but he's definitely impressed with Jesus. 295 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:06.799 He calls him a rabbi, which gives him some respect, 296 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:10.279 which is very impressive because being a member of saying 297 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:12.519 he'd meant that he was a member of the Supreme Court. 298 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.799 So for him to ascribe any kind of title to 299 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:23.320 Jesus means I'm acknowledging you as nearly an equal here, right, 300 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:27.559 And that speaks volumes, And he certainly says, your miracles 301 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:30.399 have proven to me that you are who you're claiming 302 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:38.639 to be, right, And then he says, so, I just 303 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.320 think you're a good guy. And Jesus doesn't small talk 304 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.759 at all on this one. He just goes straight as 305 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:46.320 a yeah, let me tell you you need to be 306 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:50.720 born again. But and this is the first time anybody's 307 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.639 ever heard this phrase before, right, be born again? And 308 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.600 so he's a smart guy, and he goes, what are 309 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:01.399 you talking about? How do you go back and be 310 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.080 born a second time? And Jesus said, really, you're a 311 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:07.080 leader among the people, and you can't get the idea 312 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:08.919 between a physical birth and a spiritual birth? 313 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.519 Yeah right, Yeah, And it's interesting how he describes, you know, 314 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:15.000 physical birth being born of water, and then spiritual birth, 315 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:17.120 being born of the spirit. And he says, hey, you'll 316 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:18.840 never be able to explain it, just like you can 317 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.399 feel the wind, but you can't explain it. And so 318 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:23.559 he says, you'll never be able to fully understand it. 319 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:27.279 And yet this is what is required. And so Jesus's 320 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:31.639 statement that you cannot enter the Kingdom of God unless 321 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:36.799 you are born again indicates that every human being has 322 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:39.799 a spiritual birth or excuse me, a physical birth, but 323 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.440 you need a spiritual rebirth or to be born born 324 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:47.080 in a spirit. Actually, really it's just born into the 325 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:51.039 spirit in order to enter the Kingdom of heaven. So 326 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:55.000 you need to you know, and we use different terms 327 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:59.519 as well, not just being born again, but Roman says 328 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:02.960 to be said, which means to be rescued from your sins, 329 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.320 and so to be saved or to be born again. 330 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:10.879 Another word would say to trust Christ fully, to be 331 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:14.879 become a fully devoted follower of Christ. But basically it 332 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:18.600 all comes down to putting your faith in and your 333 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:23.600 trust in and belief in the sacrifice of Jesus, because 334 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:25.639 he lays it out John three sixteen. 335 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:28.519 Is right here well, Verse fifteen, even before that fourteen 336 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:33.639 and fifteen. Yes, he says, even as Moses lifted up 337 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:36.320 the bronze snake or the serpent in the wilderness. 338 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:37.720 Which, by the way, we're going to teach at heritage 339 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:38.399 in a few weeks. 340 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.399 Oh yeah, yeah, so I was. I've got a photo 341 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:43.720 of that, by the way, Oh, I'd love it. Yeah, 342 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:47.440 So you told me that in Jordan is where Mount 343 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:52.000 Nebo is. Mount Nebo is where Moses died, and there's 344 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:56.480 there's ben for a thousand years, more than a thousand years, 345 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:00.279 fifteen hundred and seventeen hundred years, there's been various little 346 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:03.879 churches and chapels right in that on that cliff that 347 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.359 overlooks the Jordan Valley. God brought Moses to the edge 348 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:10.720 of this mountain, and you can see everything. You see Jericho, 349 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:12.400 you can see the Dead Sea, you can see the 350 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.079 the River Jordan, you can see the plains that Joshua 351 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.200 led the people across. You see it all. You can 352 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.079 look all the way across and at nighttime you can 353 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:23.519 see Jerusalem. Right. So it's just it's everything, and that's 354 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:29.920 where Moses died. So an artist created this cross of 355 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:33.720 a serpent in the form of a cross. There and 356 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:36.519 it sits right on the edge of this cliff, looking 357 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:39.119 over that valley there, and it has the whole story 358 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.279 of as Moses left of the serpent. So here's the 359 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:45.640 story painting. No, no, no, no, no, no, it's a giant art. 360 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:46.799 Oh there's a physical cross. 361 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:52.720 It's like a sculpture. Oh phenomenal. Yeah, it's fabulous, ten 362 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:53.799 ft fifteen feet tall. 363 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:56.240 Okay, so not but you can see it from a 364 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:56.880 great distance. 365 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:01.400 Yeah, and it's overlooking the big valley. I'll show it 366 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:01.519 to you. 367 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:02.519 Yeah, yeah, that's cool. 368 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:07.160 But so the story that Jesus is referencing here, the 369 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:11.079 Israelites had rebelled against God. God is done with them. 370 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.880 He's just sick to death of these rebellious Israelites, and 371 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.240 so he allows these snakes to come into the camp. 372 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.880 And Moses goes to God, say, God, don't just wipe 373 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.039 out all the people. And God said, okay, make this 374 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:27.559 bronze serpent. Put it on this pole and lift it up. 375 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:29.720 It's where we get the medical Have you ever seen 376 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:32.039 the medical symbol? And it has the snakes on the symbol. 377 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:34.160 That's where it comes from. It's from that passage, right, 378 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:38.519 So that's what Moses does he lifts up this snake 379 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:42.359 that's wrapped around this pole, and if the people would 380 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:45.480 look to that in faith, God would heal them. And 381 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.559 Jesus is saying, when I'm put on the pole, if 382 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:51.720 people will look to me in faith, it'll have the 383 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.720 same effect on a spiritual level that that faith had 384 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:58.759 on a physical level, healing him from the snake bite. Well, 385 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:02.039 we're all snake bit by sin, right right, right, Literally, 386 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:05.200 this Satan was a serpent, is, you know, in the 387 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:07.279 form of a serpent when he tempted Eve. We've all 388 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.119 been snake bit ever since. And Jesus is saying, when 389 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:11.799 I'm lifted up on the pole, when I'm put on 390 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.359 the cross, if you look to me by faith, you'll 391 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:18.680 be brought back to life spiritually in the same way 392 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:21.319 that by faith when they looked at the snake, they 393 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:24.880 were brought back to life physically from the snake bite. 394 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:28.160 Which goes along with him saying born again, born physically, 395 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:30.200 born spiritually, right right, right, yeah, which is great. 396 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:31.000 Yeah. 397 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:35.079 Yeah, it's actually incredibly rich, isn't it. 398 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:36.400 Yeah, it's incredible. 399 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:37.279 Yeah, it's really rich. 400 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:39.960 So then that leads into verse sixteen, which is where 401 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:40.799