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John. 3:9 Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"
3:10 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?

Here is the ultimate question each of us must consider, is the bible a text book unraveled by by human education? Can a person go to school and teach the bible and know God? Nicodemus a powerful teacher in Israel could see Christ was doing works of God, but he could not understand by his education? What a shocking realization, remembering people were killed, destroyed over law, how small Nicodemus must of felt in not knowing what Christ was speaking?

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

Many Christian's have this idea that Christ obeyed physically every rule of law that the teachers of Israel put upon people, but actually he did not. Most of what Christ taught directly contradicted the teachings of his times. In fact, Christ often made shocking statements to where the teachers of Israel struggled trying to bring his thoughts into their understanding of law. Here, in this part of John's letter we find one of those shocking statements of Christ that could not be understood by the law, that is, one must be born again. Who of all the prophets taught such a thing, where was this found in the law, was Christ breaking the law by such teachings, going outside of the law?

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

You see, the law was given for sinners, not the sinless, a sinner like
Nicodemus could not imagine that Christ being sinless was not evil, evil of sin imputes evil to all human. In other words, we are all sinner having evil motivates which we hid by our teachings, but not Christ. The flaw is to think from the fleshly mind judging Christ the sinless lamb of God as having evil motives the law checks! This concept for teachers of the bible is hard to grasp, but it is true. If a person is sinless the law declares them righteous it does not condemn them as evil needing redemption. In fact, there is no law for the sinless, but love, there is no need to check conduct by laws punishing sins, because they are sinless perfect in God's judgment of the person.

If a person gets this backwards, which is, God created the law with evil intention only to condemn people instead help them up to faith in His love than they misjudge God, by their own evil thoughts.

1Tim.1:7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine.

Certain Nicodemus was a teacher, he had a given position by powerful authority within Israel, but he did not know God, he knew the law created for sinners. Soon the teachers of Israel would misjudge Christ killing him thinking he was evil, by their own evil eye. But what lesson can we as Christian's learn from Nicodemus? We are born again, out of sin, into the life of Christ perhaps we impute evil knowing as we do all men our sinners, and we all have bad motives at times, but do we only see Christ and those in Christ through the glasses of evil, that is, the laws of the bible?

Rom.8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"} 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

This is important, because we are not under the laws for sinners, we are freed from the law of the flesh in Christ, but how do we honestly teach? Is it from our fleshly mind of judgment, or from the mind of freedom Christ Jesus? Here one can simply check themselves; do you really believe there is only one Lawgiver and King, and when we judge by sins laws we have made ourselves a judge of law? Do we really comprehend Christ words when saying stop judging?

James 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

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