Today’s sermon was given by our reader Julie Taylor on Trinity Sunday, 26th May 2024. Download Mp3 HERE! Sermon starts at 2:50 John 3 v 1-17 Jesus Teaches Nicodemus 1 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was … Continue reading →
Today’s sermon was given by our reader Julie Taylor on Trinity Sunday, 26th May 2024.
Download Mp3 HERE!
Sermon starts at 2:50
John 3 v 1-17
Jesus Teaches Nicodemus
1 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of
the Jewish ruling council.
2 He came to Jesus at night and said, ‘Rabbi, 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.’
3 Jesus replied, ‘Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God
unless they are born again.’
4 ‘How can someone be born when they are old?’ Nicodemus asked. ‘Surely
they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!’
5 Jesus answered, ‘Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God
unless they are born of water and the Spirit.
6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the
Spirit gives birth to spirit.
7 You should not be surprised at my saying,
“You must be born again.”
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.’
9 ‘How can this be?’ Nicodemus asked.
10 ‘You are Israel’s teacher,’ said Jesus, ‘and do you not understand these
things?
11 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.
12 I have
spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you
believe if I speak of heavenly things?
13 No one has ever gone into heaven
except the one who came from heaven – the Son of Man.
14 Just as Moses
lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted
up,
15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.’
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.
17 For God did not send
his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through
him.