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- Subject: NCS--John 3:1-36
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- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 8:27:00 -0500 (EST)
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- John 3:1-36
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- JESUS TEACHES NICODEMUS
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- John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a
- member of the Jewish ruling council.
-
- John 3:2 He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a
- teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous
- signs you are doing if God were not with him."
-
- John 3:3 In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can
- see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."
-
- John 3:4 "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked.
- "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be
- born!"
-
- John 3:5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the
- kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
-
- John 3:6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to
- spirit.
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- John 3:7 You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born
- again.'
-
- John 3:8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but
- you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is
- with everyone born of the Spirit."
-
- John 3:9 "How can this be?" Nicodemus asked.
-
- John 3:10 "You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not
- understand these things?
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- John 3:11 I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we
- testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our
- testimony.
-
- John 3:12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not
- believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?
-
- John 3:13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came
- from heaven--the Son of Man.
-
- John 3:14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son
- of Man must be lifted up,
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- John 3:15 that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
-
- John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
- Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal
- life.
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- John 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the
- world, but to save the world through him.
-
- John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does
- not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in
- the name of God's one and only Son.
-
- John 3:19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men
- loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
-
- John 3:20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come
- into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
-
- John 3:21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that
- it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through
- God."
-
- JOHN THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY ABOUT JESUS
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-
- John 3:22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean
- countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.
-
- John 3:23 Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because
- there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be
- baptized.
-
- John 3:24 (This was before John was put in prison.)
-
- John 3:25 An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a
- certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing.
-
- John 3:26 They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was
- with you on the other side of the Jordan--the one you testified
- about--well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
-
- John 3:27 To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given
- him from heaven.
-
- John 3:28 You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ
- but am sent ahead of him.'
-
- John 3:29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends
- the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he
- hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now
- complete.
-
- John 3:30 He must become greater; I must become less.
-
- John 3:31 "The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is
- from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth.
- The one who comes from heaven is above all.
-
- John 3:32 He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one
- accepts his testimony.
-
- John 3:33 The man who has accepted it has certified that God is
- truthful.
-
- John 3:34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for
- God gives the Spirit without limit.
-
- John 3:35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his
- hands.
-
- John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever
- rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
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