The Sights and Sounds of the Kingdom of God

A Full Life I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are wri=en that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. John 20:30-31 The one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

A Full Life The Sights and Sounds of the Kingdom of God Nicodemus Meets Jesus John 3:1-21

4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. John 1:4-5; 9-10

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. John 3:16 Nicodemus Night Jew Religious Leader Respected Christ who gives eternal life ImperaRve: You must be born of the water and the Spirit Gradual conversion Secret Samaritan Woman Noon Samaritan Outcast Disgraced Christ who is Savior of the world ImperaRve: You must worship God in Spirit and in truth. Immediate TesRfies

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 John 3:1-2

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover FesRval, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name. 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. 25 He did not need any tesrmony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person. John 2:23-25

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. John 3:1-2

13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moses li`ed up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be li`ed up, 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. John 3:13-15

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. John 3:2-3

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 Rme into their mother s womb to be born! John 3:3-4

9 How can this be? Nicodemus asked.10 You are Israel s teacher, said Jesus, and do you not understand these things? John 3:9-10

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. John 3:5-6 ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, EZEKIEL, JOEL

25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurires and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Ezekiel 36:25-28

9 How can this be? Nicodemus asked.10 You are Israel s teacher, said Jesus, and do you not understand these things? John 3:9-10

19 Therefore go and make disciples of all narons, baprzing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. Ma=hew 28:19-20

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. John 3:7-8

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Blowing in the wind Candle in the Wind Anywhere the wind No Answers Betrayal Blows: Despair Dust in the Wind Summer Breeze Against the Wind Pointless Security: Bahá í Faith Rebellion

do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor homosexuals 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sancrfied, you were jusrfied in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men love darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God. John 3:19,21

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. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God s one and only Son. John 3:16-18

43 Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. 44 Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. 45 Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, Why didn t you bring him in? 46 No one ever spoke the way this man does, the guards replied.47 You mean he has deceived you also? the Pharisees retorted. 48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? 49 No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law there is a curse on them. 50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, 51 Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing? 52 They replied, Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee. John 7:43-52

38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate s permission, he came and took the body away. 39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. 40 Taking Jesus body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. John 19:38-40