In today's culture and society, especially with countless denominations out there, it can be super easy to misunderstand and/or be misinformed how one can enter into the Kingdom of God. One of the most trending ways people follow or believe, is that it's based off a works, or an achievement-type premises which unfortunately leads to spiritual death. Well Jesus wanted to tell us that our "works" don't work, that the one thing we must do is to be born again. Although there are several notations that support that "works don't work" within the Bible, this episode, however, is centered around an in-depth conversation between Jesus and a curious religious Pharisee named Nicodemus that I break down to the best of my knowledge. This scene takes place in the Gospel of John chapter 3:1-18 regarding being born again and what it entails of that also triggers his question to Jesus, "how can these things be?"
**MESSAGE NOTES UPDATE**
Not long after I published, I realized that I misspoke about a couple of things that I wanted to further specify and/or clear up. The first being that Nicodemus was not just familiar with the Old Testament, rather the former prophets of his time, too....so I did not specify and/or add that the Torah is not the only place in the Old Testament that speaks of or alludes to as far as the coming and/or arrival of Jesus when Nicodemus was reading and learning about who He is.
The second is when I mentioned that we are also descendants of Abraham, it is meant through Jesus Christ, thus making us a all believers through Abraham. Since I am not Jewish, I am a gentile - so anyone who is not of a Jewish heritage is a gentile, but everyone is a child of God no matter our nationality through our faith in Jesus.
02/13/24 • 65 min
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