The document discusses the concept of sin and the root of man's problems according to various Bible passages. It then describes an encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus, a Pharisee and member of the Jewish ruling council. Jesus tells Nicodemus that no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. Nicodemus does not understand, so Jesus explains that one must be "born of water and the Spirit" to enter the kingdom of God. The document ends by reiterating that Jesus came to save the world and that one is justified not through self-righteousness but through humbling oneself before God.

1. THE RELIGIOUS MAN: NICODEMUS

2. What Is The Root Of Every Man’s Problems?
Proverbs 16:2 All a man's ways seem
innocent to him, but motives are weighed by
the LORD.

3. What Is "Sin"?
Roman 3:23… since all have sinned and
fallen short of the glory of God.

4. What Is "Sin"?
Isaiah 53:6 We all, like sheep, have gone
astray, each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity
of us all.

5. What Is "Sin"?
James 4:17 Whoever knows what is right to
do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

6. What Is "Sin"?
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made
my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

7. What Is "Sin"?
Isaiah 64:6 All of us have become like one
who is unclean, and all our righteous acts
are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a
leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us
away.

8. What Is "Sin"?
1 John 1:8 If we claim to be without sin, we
deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

9. THE RELIGIOUS MAN ENCOUNTERS JESUS

10. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:1 Now there was a man of the
Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of
the Jewish ruling council.

11. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:2 He came to Jesus at night and said,
"Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has
come from God. For no one could perform
the miraculous signs you are doing if God
were not with him."

12. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:3 In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you
the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God
unless he is born again."

13. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
What does "born again" mean?

14. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:4 "How can a man be born when he
is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot
enter a second time into his mother's womb
to be born!"

15. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the
truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God
unless he is born of water and the Spirit."

16. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
Exodus 20:2 "I am the LORD your God,
who brought you out of Egypt, out of the
land of slavery.
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"You shall have no other gods before me."

17. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
Matthew 3:11 "I baptize you with water for
repentance. But after me will come one who
is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am
not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit and with fire."

18. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 1:33 "I would not have known him,
except that the one who sent me to baptize
with water told me, 'The man on whom you
see the Spirit come down and remain is he
who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.'"

19. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the
Spirit gives birth to spirit.

20. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:7 You should not be surprised at my
saying, 'You must be born again.'

21. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:8 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.

22. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
Galatians 5:22-23 The fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and selfcontrol.

23. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:9 "How can this be?" Nicodemus
asked.

24. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:10 "You are Israel's teacher," said
Jesus, "and do you not understand these
things?

25. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
John 3:16 "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.

26. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
Luke 18:10 "Two men went up to the
temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the
other a tax collector.

27. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
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The Pharisee stood up and prayed about
himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not
like other men--robbers, evildoers,
adulterers--or even like this tax collector.

28. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
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I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all
I get.'

29. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
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"But the tax collector stood at a distance.
He would not even look up to heaven, but
beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy
on me, a sinner.'

30. What Is The Root Answer To Man’s Root Problem?
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"I tell you that this man, rather than the
other, went home justified before God. For
everyone who exalts himself will be
humbled, and he who humbles himself will
be exalted."

31. THE RELIGIOUS MAN: NICODEMUS