Born Again: Jesus Fixes the Heart, Not Symptoms

But in this case, Jesus came to reveal the greater purpose, the real reason behind what he was trying to do. See, the teachers of the law, like Nicodemus, they were they were trying to go about things, but they kept trying to deal with symptoms. They kept trying to deal with all the outside stuff, trying to get us to look good, do the right things, all of that thing. But Jesus came to deal with the real issue at hand. It's inside there's a brokenness. There's a brokenness, and he came to fix it. He came to fix it. [00:49:38] (43 seconds)  #HealTheHeart

This whole time, Nicodemus was looking for something, but he was looking in all the wrong places. He was trying to take what his preconceived ideas were of what Jesus should look like and all that, and right in front of him was the one he was looking for, but he couldn't see it because he had something misunderstood about who Jesus really was. But this is who Jesus is. He came to save each and every single one of us, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. [00:51:15] (45 seconds)  #RecognizeTheSavior

Born of water. Well, this would be referencing John the Baptist's baptism of repentance, is knowing that, hey, we've all sinned. We all need a savior. We've all sinned. We all need a savior. Born of the spirit. You gotta be born of the spirit. What? Your spirit needs to be fixed. I came to fix everything. You see the whole time when Jesus was teaching and you see many of the conversations he has with his disciples, they often were very confused or, like, what's going on? Because in their head, [00:47:53] (46 seconds)  #BornOfSpirit

He came to deal with all of us, not just part of us. He came to work in every area of our life, and that should bring us great hope. To know that Jesus loves us so much that he didn't come just to fix our spirit. He came to deal with and help us not only with our spirit, to fix us in right relationship with God, but also to heal our soul and our body, all of it. [00:52:01] (32 seconds)  #WholeLifeHealing

We've all sinned. We all mess up. But yet Jesus came with a plan, a solution. God put that plan in motion the moment sin entered our world, and we now have an opportunity to step out of the darkness and into the light, to leave the darkness to step into the light, which signifies a life of hope, full of love, which signifies a transformed life. [00:37:40] (27 seconds)  #FromDarknessToLight

For generations, this is what we get to do. When we say yes to Jesus, when we realize I'm broken, I say yes to Jesus. I come to him and say, fix my life, and he fixes my life while he begins to. Because I know everyone's life here, though, it's perfectly fixed when you said yes to Jesus. Right? No. But it's this beautiful journey you get to go on where he continually is fixing areas of your life as you focus on him. [00:53:43] (26 seconds)  #OngoingRestoration

And then one beautiful day, we don't know when. He is going to return, and he's gonna make everything perfect and brand new. But in the meantime, what happens in the meantime? So in this story, we hear that, well, God loved the world, so he sent his son to help fix the sin problem. But then what do we do in the meantime? Is it just, well, I say yes to Jesus, and then I hold on until he comes back. Right? No. [00:52:33] (37 seconds)  #HopeInTheMeantime

But here, Nicodemus is saying, hey. We know you must be a teacher because of these signs, but Jesus, as Jesus does, always changes the conversation. Because Nicodemus was focused on the cool things that were happening, whereas Jesus said, listen. I came for a greater purpose. He was folk Jesus was directing Nicodemus for the reason behind the signs. You see, Nicodemus was seeing the amazing things, but what was the purpose of the amazing things? They were to point to Jesus. [00:45:32] (33 seconds)  #SignsPointToJesus