No One Can See the Godã¢â‚¬â„¢s Kingdom Without Being Born Again

Bible Reading

John iii:1-17

In that location was a Jewish leader named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees. One dark he went to Jesus and said to him, "Rabbi, nosotros know that you are a instructor sent by God. No ane could perform the miracles yous are doing unless God were with him."

Jesus answered, "I am telling you the truth: no one can see the Kingdom of God without beingness born again."

"How tin can a grown homo exist born again?" Nicodemus asked. "He certainly cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a 2d time!"

"I am telling you lot the truth," replied Jesus, "that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of h2o and the Spirit. A person is born physically of man parents, merely is built-in spiritually of the Spirit. Do not be surprised because I tell you that yous must all exist born once again. The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound information technology makes, but you lot practise not know where it comes from or where it is going. Information technology is similar that with everyone who is built-in of the Spirit."

"How can this exist?" asked Nicodemus.

Jesus answered, "You are a swell teacher in Israel, and you don't know this? I am telling you the truth: nosotros speak of what we know and study what we have seen, yet none of you is willing to have our message. You do not believe me when I tell you about the things of this earth; how volition you e'er believe me, then, when I tell you lot about the things of heaven? And no one has always gone upwardly to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from heaven."

As Moses lifted upward the bronze snake on a pole in the desert, in the same mode the Son of Homo must be lifted up, and then that everyone who believes in him may take eternal life. For God loved the world so much that he gave his simply Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die merely accept eternal life. For God did not ship his Son into the world to be its gauge, but to be its saviour.

Explanation

I wonder if you lot've ever thought most how strange it is that we can't see God.

We believe in God.

We come to church to worship God.

Just sometimes it seems like loving God would be so much easier if nosotros lived back in Jesus' time. I beloved the stories of the Bible about Jesus. As Christians we believe that Jesus is God in the flesh. So when Jesus was there, walking effectually, helping people, we really practice see God in activeness.  If nosotros lived in Jesus' fourth dimension, we could always know exactly how God thinks and feels. If nosotros had large questions for God, we could but discover Jesus and ask him.

Today'southward Bible passage is a conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus, they talked about was how difficult it is to know God when we can't meet God.

Jesus told Nicodemus that God's Holy Spirit is kind of similar the wind that blows all around us.  This is merely like not being able to run across the wind.  You can see trees waving back and along. You know by looking at the trees that the air current is blowing. Just you can't come across the wind.

I wonder if you've e'er been out walking on a really stormy day. Mayhap the air current was pushing you right over and you lot had to lean over while yous walked just to stay on your feet. Y'all tin experience the wind. Information technology's powerful. But yous tin can't see the wind.

Hither'southward how Jesus said it when he was talking to Nicodemus:

The wind blows where it chooses,
and you hear the sound of it,
but you exercise non know where it comes from or where it goes.
So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." (John three:8 NRSV)

I remember Jesus was telling united states that God is effectually us all the time, moving like the wind. And simply like the wind, we can't see God. But just as we encounter the trees move and know the current of air is blowing, sometimes we tin run into how God moves things in the world.

Remember about

• I wonder if when you've been sick and got meliorate, if maybe God'due south Spirit was blowing through to heal you.

• I wonder if when you were hurt or distressing, and your favourite grown-up gave yous a big hug, if maybe God'due south Spirit was blowing through to comfort you.

• I wonder if when you saw someone at school who was lonely and you talked to them, and were kind to them, if maybe God's Spirit was bravado in you, and through yous, to assist them know they are okay.

Prayer

Holy Spirit, we ask that you lot be in us and around us, fifty-fifty though we can't see you lot, help us to feel your guiding presence.  Amen

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