Reflection Seeing & Entering the Kingdom of God

Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given by our priest in charge Rev’ Nick Mwandia entitled ‘Reflection Seeing & Entering the Kingdom of God’ given on the 30/5/21. Sermon starts at 2:30 Download Mp3 HERE! John 3.1-17 1 … Continue reading →

Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given by our priest in charge Rev’ Nick Mwandia entitled ‘Reflection Seeing & Entering the Kingdom of God’ given on the 30/5/21.

Sermon starts at 2:30

Download Mp3 HERE!

John 3.1-17



1 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.



2 He came to
Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has
come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence
of God.”



3 Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of
God without being born from above.”



4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be
born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb
and be born?”



5 Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the
kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.



6 What is born of the flesh is
flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.



7 Do not be astonished that I said to you,
‘You must be born from above.



8 The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the
sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with
everyone who is born of the Spirit.”



9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things
be?”



10 Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not
understand these things?



11 “Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen;
yet you do not receive our testimony.



12 If I have told you about earthly things and
you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?



13 No
one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the
Son of Man.



14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the
Son of Man be lifted up,



15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.



16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who
believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.



17 “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in
order that the world might be saved through him.