Position means Nothing

Undercover Boss

Everything is about position

No body wants to be the mail room boy

Everybody wants to be the CEO

The point of this whole series is to teach us that its not about religion, but a relationship!

we will look at a conversation over these next weeks leading to Easter and to the start of our revival services with Kenny to be able to let the Holy Spirit to move freely within us.

Fasting every at least one day of the week from now until Easter Sunday!

Religion: a personal set or institutional system of religious beliefs, attitudes, and practices.

Relationship: a state of affairs existing between those having relations or dealings.

there is a difference

Read John 3:1-8 “1 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 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.” 4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!” 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. 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.””

PRAY

He was a Jew!

as growing up would have been taught the law of Moses

he had remembered all that he had been taught

recalled all that he had seen

He was a Religious teacher!

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Introduction

The Pharisees developed a tradition of strict interpretation of the Mosaic law, developing an extensive set of oral extensions of the law designed to maintain religious identity and purity

part of the Sanhedrin

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Sanhedrin

a group consisting of priests and religious teachers who meet to decide on legal matters with religious, political, and social ramifications.

he came to in a religious mindset

The Wesleyan Bible Commentary, Volume 4: Matthew–Acts B. The New Birth (3:1–15)

In Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus, He sought to enforce the same central truth that we found in the cleansing of the Temple—that the Old was being replaced by the New in God’s design for salvation

He was searching!

freedom of the wind blowing

NIV Study Bible: Notes (Fully Revised Edition) Chapter 3

Repentance is not merely a change of mind but a radical change in one’s life as a whole that especially involves forsaking sin and turning or returning to God

Closing

3 times Nicodemus is mentioned in John’s Gospel

his meeting with Jesus John 3

standing up for Jesus John 7

burial of Jesus John 19