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Welcome to Day 2138 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom The Gospel of John \u2013 5 \u2013 Brainstorming the New Birth \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 02/27/2022 The Gospel of John \u2013 Part 2 Presentation Of The Word \u2013 Brainstorming The New Birth Today we continue our Good News series according to John the Apostle. This message is the dialog between Nicodemus and Jesus Christ.\xa0 Like last week\u2019s cleansing of the temple, we should note that this episode occurred later in Jesus\u2019s public ministry. However, because it is crucial to John\u2019s overall dialog, he placed it early in his version of the Good News. Let\u2019s read John 3:1-21. Please follow along on Pages 1649-1650 in the Pew Bible. I would recommend keeping this passage open as we go throughout the message today: John 3:1-21 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, \u201cRabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cVery truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.\u201d \u201cHow can someone be born when they are old?\u201d Nicodemus asked. \u201cSurely they cannot enter a second time into their mother\u2019s womb to be born!\u201d Jesus answered, \u201cVery truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. \xa0Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, \u2018You must be born again.\u2019 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.\u201d \u201cHow can this be?\u201d Nicodemus asked. \u201cYou are Israel\u2019s teacher,\u201d said Jesus, \u201cand do you not understand these things? Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven\u2014the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.\u201d 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God\u2019s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God. \xa0 \xa0 \u20143:1\u20132\u2014 Here we meet a man confused in his religion. If Judaism had an office like the pope, Nicodemus (Greek for \u201cconqueror of the people\u201d) would have been the ideal candidate. As we observe his encounter with Jesus, we discover that he...