Rossville Christian Church
Sunday, January 23rd
  • In Christ Alone
  • Come Thou Fount
  • Intro:
    What have you come to seek today? Was it comfort, you may yet get some of that. What it knowledge, surely you will gain that. Was it conviction, I can guarantee that. Or what it relationship, ah relationship, now that’s all about love right? Of course, we have come to seek love and not the love of the World which seeks to dissuade every hard truth, but the Agape love of God, which stairs into the face of truth and is changed, even though it may cost me everything because:
    John 3:16 NASB95
    “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
    Pray
    Turn if you will over to John, as we continue our quest through the Gospel of John to reveal the theological and loving nature of God through Jesus Christ. This has already been one of my favorite series to work through as a pastor. I have always loved the book of John, it has always been challenging and yet encouraging in its message on my heart. And now we pick up in John 3, containing the most famous verse in the Bible. But before we get there, let’s find out why John eventually gets to that point, it starts in verse 1.

    Born Again

    A. Nicodemus
    John 3:1–2 NASB95
    Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
    1. Pharisee
    a. Teacher of the Law
    b. Ruler
    i. Public position
    ii. People would recognize him
    2. Came by night
    a. Consorting with bad people
    b. Hidden
    i. The Irony
    John 3:19 NASB95
    “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
    3. Rabbi
    a. What did this mean?
    b. We know
    i. Who is he speaking for
    ii. Perhaps he was voted on to go to Jesus to get answers
    B. Spirit and Water
    John 3:3 NIV
    Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
    1. Setting up the conversation
    a. What was about to be taught
    b. Also to catch Nicodemus in his flattery that he did not believe
    2. Flesh and Spirit
    a. Born of our mothers
    i. Leads to death
    b. Born of the Spirit
    i. Leads to life
    ​
    1 Peter 1:3 NIV
    Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
    c. This is our battle each and every day
    Galatians 5:17 NASB95
    For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.
    C. From death to life
    John 3:4–6 NASB95
    Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
    1. Born to a world of sin
    a. Started with Adam
    b. Even today
    Romans 3:23 NASB95
    for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
    2. Reborn into Salvation
    a. Where we get the term born again
    b. Fleshly things cannot be Spiritual
    i. Must die to one and live for the other
    2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB95
    Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
    Have an apple - As much as I want this to be a tree it isn’t. It will be an apple until it dies and is buried in the earth, only then is it born again as a tree.
    ​

    Judgement

    John 3:16–17 NIV
    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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
    A. Jesus came to save
    1. God gave of Himself
    a. Remember the trinity in all things relating to God
    b. God gave His Word and sent sent His son the Word
    i. Fulfilled the promise of salvation
    Habakkuk 2:4 NIV
    “See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness—
    Ezekiel 18:23 NASB95
    “Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares the Lord God, “rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?
    2. Will not perish
    a. The eternal punishment
    i. Hell - Eternal separation
    b. We all need to shed the flesh
    i. That which is sinful
    B. World stands condemned
    John 3:18 NASB95
    “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
    1. The Law has judged
    a. Only thing the Law was good for
    Romans 8:3–4 NASB95
    For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
    b. Those not in the blood of Christ already stand condemned
    i. There is no hope for them
    ii. So many times and at so many funerals I have cried for those not in Christ
    iii. Why we need urgency in sharing the good news
    2. Only one way out
    a. Jesus Christ
    John 14:6 NIV
    Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
    b. No other way
    i. can’t live good enough
    ii. Can’t be a nice enough person
    iii. Only in Christ Jesus
    Conslusion:
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      • John 3:16NIV2011

      • John 3:1–2NIV2011

      • John 3:19NIV2011

      • John 3:3NIV2011

      • 1 Peter 1:3NIV2011

      • Galatians 5:17NIV2011

      • John 3:4–6NIV2011

      • Romans 3:23NIV2011

      • 2 Corinthians 5:17NIV2011

      • John 3:16–17NIV2011

      • Habakkuk 2:4NIV2011

      • Ezekiel 18:23NIV2011

      • John 3:18NIV2011

      • Romans 8:3–4NIV2011

      • John 14:6NIV2011

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