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May 9, 2012
Apart from the new birth described in John 3, we are spiritually dead and love the darkness and sin that enslaves us. This is why it is necessary for us to be born again. But how does the new birth happen? What causes hearts of stone to be turned to flesh? How does this supernatural life become ours? John Piper answers these questions as he unpacks the magnificent doctrine of regeneration.
1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named hNicodemus, ia ruler of the Jews. 2This man came to Jesus1 jby night and said to him, k“Rabbi, lwe know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do munless God is with him.” 3Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is nborn oagain2 he cannot psee the kingdom of God.” 4Nicodemus 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?” 5Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born qof water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6rThat which is born of the flesh is sflesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.3 7tDo not marvel that I said to you, ‘You4 must be born uagain.’ 8vThe wind5 blows wwhere 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.”
9Nicodemus said to him, x“How can these things be?” 10Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel yand yet you do not understand these things?
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