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Day 5 of 47 going through John's gospel - more info at https://www.severnvineyard.org/time-space-jesus

What could happen if you take time and make space with Jesus today? This ten-minute podcast is part reading, part music, and part silence, all designed to help you create a space to picture and feel the scene with Jesus in it. You can use this space in lots of ways, including meditation, prayer, re-reading the passage or thinking about what it means for you today.

Today's reflection: What does it mean to you to have new life because of Jesus?

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Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a ruler among the Jews. He came to Jesus at night and said to him, \u201cRabbi, 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.\u201d

Jesus answered him, \u201cMost certainly I tell you, unless someone is born again, they will never see God\u2019s Kingdom.\u201d

Nicodemus said to him, \u201cHow can a man be born when he is old? Can he re-enter his mother\u2019s womb to be born?\u201d

Jesus answered, \u201cMost certainly I tell you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God\u2019s Kingdom. Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh. Whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit. Don\u2019t be amazed that I said to you, \u2018You must be born again.\u2019 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don\u2019t know where it comes from and where it is going. It\u2019s the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit.\u201d

Nicodemus answered him, \u201cHow can these things be?\u201d

Jesus answered him, \u201cYou are the teacher of Israel, and you don\u2019t understand these things? Most certainly I tell you, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, and you don\u2019t accept our testimony. If you didn\u2019t believe when I told you earthly things, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ever gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life.

\u201cFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, so that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God didn\u2019t send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not judged. Whoever does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed and trusted in the name of the one and only Son of God. This is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn\u2019t come to the light, for fear that their works would be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes to the light, so that their works may be revealed as being accomplished in God.\u201d