JOHN 3
The most famous Bible verse comes from this chapter!
JOHN 3.16
WHO WAS JESUS SPEAKING TO IN THIS CHAPTER?
This conversation took place AT NIGHT
On the out skirts of Jerusalem
With a PHARISEE!!!
A ruler of the Jewish court - the SANHEDRIN
N I C O D E M U S
LETS LOOK AT VERSE 3
He pays Jesus a compliment (I can see that you come from God - by the miracles you preform)
But Jesus responds by saying - you can not see the Kingdom of God unless you are BORN AGAIN
Discuss what does it mean to be BORN AGAIN
(When you truly accept Jesus as your Saviour and repent from your sin - the Holy Spirt comes to live in your heart - YOU ARE BORN AGAIN
others will know by you FRUITS)
Jesus said that we must be born of WATER & the SPIRIT to enter His Kingdom
What does that mean?
We know that BAPTISM doesn’t save us - so this WATER isn’t that - but either it is our natural birth or symbolic of cleansing
IN VERSE 16 - Jesus explains how to be SAVED - BELIEVE
But believe so that your HEART changes and you turn away from your old sinful ways
(even demons believe in Jesus)
WHERE ELSE IS NICODEMUS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE?
Does his heart change?
John 7:51. John 19:38
DID YOU KNOW?
DID YOU KNOW THAT HE PREPARED JESUS BODY FOR BURIAL?
HE ASSISTED JOSEPH WRAPPING HIS BODY & PLACING IT IN THE TOMB!!!
DID YOU KNOW ?
THAT JESUS SPOKE ABOUT MOSES AND THE SNAKES IN THIS CHAPTER TOO?
VERSE 14
How they were SAVED from snake bites
and Jesus says HE too will be raised up (on the cross) and if you look to Him you will be SAVED
