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No it I mean, I see it at a football game. You see the baseball games.

Clarence Jordan who's the

oh, okay. I didn't put that in there Clarence Jordan. Who's the author of Cotton Patch? the New Testament translation and founder of the interracial interracial

going to Nia Farm in America's in Americus, Georgia. Was getting a red carpet tour of another ministers Church. With great pride the minister pointed to the rich imported pues. and luxurious decorations as they stepped outside Darkness was falling and Spotlight shown on a huge cross at the top of the steeple. That cross alone. cost us $10,000 Minister said was satisfied. It was a satisfied smile. You got cheated? The Jordan times were when Christians got these for free.

Don't reply Sunday kind of harsh. certainly This other Pastor was quite taken by the things that were hanging on the walls.

1 things I love about this churches. Although we do have decorations.

Stations of the Cross those are hundreds of hours by one of our members couple of our members. They're beautiful. Ink cost us $10,000.

We tend to want to do that. Look at our beautiful church WIll, you know, it is nice to have some place to go and worship where it's comfortable where the air conditioning works where we can be together.

But you can also do it out in the middle of a field. Worship isn't dictated by your surroundings.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. What a glorious thought.

Let us pray. Lord for the next few moments mail you words be spoken mail your words be heard. May the words of my mouth and meditation by heart be acceptable in thy sight my rock and my redeemer.

Like I said, most people who they here though. They see the John 3:16. And I remember when I was in the Royal ambassadors Baptist Church down the South Texas every single Thursday night.

I don't think any of us knew what it meant. We had just come come in from playing outside rolling in the grass playing steal the flag any other many other game so that we burned off enough energy that are adult advisors could stand to be around us.

And we quoted that every night every Thursday night John 3:16 over and over and over but I accepted Christ.

I remember the verse.

but I didn't remember where was I had to go hunting and back then you didn't have a computer. Just see John * for God so loved the world John 3:16 in the Bible there more 3/16 amazingly is it? Actually reflect on our Salvation And I think you'll find it. At least a little interesting as we move forward. the other three important truths I'm going to share with you. It's not the only 3 in the world, but

that's that's the three first off Nicodemus was at the top of a pyramid of Israelites Society. is sifted and tested and voted on and scrutinized

is a resume as long as you are and he's powerful knowledgeable and extraordinary man in a culture devoted to God.

In his day if you ask an Israelite is Nicodemus going to heaven. He'd likely respond if Nicodemus isn't going to heaven nobody is going to heaven. Is a Pharisee a member of the Sanhedrin is scrupulous in his obedience to the law blameless in the sight? a man so the first of these three truths

I'll come on now and run this way works much better.

The first of these three truth is God and but invites are questions.

There's nothing wrong. with asking questions

that same little church that I was talking about down in South Texas just small town in South Texas town at that time about 7,000 people.

but if you challenged your Sunday school teacher you irritating because you don't challenge God. First time you told me that I'm saying I didn't think you were God.

I wasn't very nice little boy all the time.

Done invites are questions are challenges. if if you just accept that Jesus Christ is real and it's some Pastor has told you what scripture says and you don't question it. You're easy. Because you can't tell me that you understand every single challenge in the Bible every single word in the Bible every single piece scripture.

I've been doing this for a little while now. and I still have to go digging sometimes.

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him rabbi. We know that you are a teacher come from God. or to us

For No, One Can Do the signs? Did you do unless God is with him? Jesus doesn't rebuke. Nicodemus for his questions for his challenge invite some

because Jesus answered and truly truly. I say to you unless one is born again. He cannot see the kingdom of God now if you told that to you.

Back in the I don't know II first. second

Century BC

You can probably been. Very closely scrutinized but Jesus didn't do that. Just give me your questions. Let me have them.

I really truly I say to you unless you are born again.

You cannot see the kingdom of God. Let us pray. For the next few moments me only your words be spoken mail your words be cured.

In the words of my mouth and meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight my rock and my redeemer.

You think you can shotgun?

How can you shot god he created you. Before you acting knows what you're going to do. Who created your heart? Define why did God create heart hearts?

I don't think you did. some people just find a way to dislike people to not Love Field.

And when I was when I first started teaching Sunday school at Bayside I started with the middle schoolers about drove me crazy. I've got a question for why you drink water? Why do we use grape juice? What is the bread mean what I mean, it goes on and on and on.

I did one. There it took me three days or three Sundays to teach one lesson. play Don't expenses but Drive you crazy, but my job is to answer the questions that the senior has made it easier on me except for one summer. They taught me this out foolish I could be they talked me into allowing them to pick the subject. We discussed it Sunday School. Senior High School students We talked about prayer that was at the end of this thing. They didn't tell me what subject was until that Sunday. So I do some scrambling. They started out being nice to me. We talked about the death penalty. We talked about suicide. We got to the hard stuff. dykes

I learned way too much.

One of our one of our youth has been out for the past few Sundays. and she want to talk about things as date rape which we already covered and One of the older senior high school students has we done sex for the last 3 weeks. We're not doing it this week.

Young lady said what did I miss? Didn't miss another day another Sunday school the rest of the summer.

God expects our response

God expects our response

doing nothing is a response.

We see something wrong.

And we don't do anything. We don't say anything. That's our response. Doesn't have to be a an action that can actually be the absence of an action. Really truly I say to you unless one is born.

What's one is born of water and spirit? He cannot enter the kingdom of God. and John 3:7

that which is born of the flesh is flesh that which is born of the spirit is Spirit. Do not Marvel that I say to you. You must be born again. He's answering you could do mrs. Questions. It's just a little confusing to Nicodemus because he comes up and he goes. How can these things be?

He's trying to figure out literal translations.

Jesus comes back to him again. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. forgot Did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already. Because he is not believed in the name of the only son.

God didn't come to condemn to condemn his creation. He loves his creation.

You don't trash what you build unless you don't like it. When you feel something and call it, right?

What's a little girl was talking to her teacher about whales? And the teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a large mammal its throat is very small. And the little girl stated emphatically little whale swallowed Jonah, which is incorrect. It says big fish but it probably was a whale. Irritated the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human being. It was physically impossible in the little girl said when I get to heaven, I'll ask Jonah. The teacher asked what if Jonah went to hell? blue girl replied then you ask

I like that little girl.

The fact is hell is a laughing matter. But you know the thought of people who go there is the cause for great concern.

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise.

as some count slowness

What is patient towards you not wishing that any should perish but all should reach repentance. He desires that his creation comes to him in confession and repentance. That's his desire. He doesn't want it want anybody left behind? But we make that decision.

We decide that this other religion is correct.

Or that there is no God.

That's our decision. We have the right to do that.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord declares the Lord God And not rather that he should turn from his way and live another words. Do I take pleasure in the death of someone Wicked someone who's evil? No. No my desire is that he chooses? rightly

God Demands a life change Jesus answered what will say this again truly truly I say to you unless one is born of water and spirit. You cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Over and over again. We had the same phrase you cannot. the other phrase

Is more of more of the same that I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me. That means your dog can't get you to heaven.

No matter how much you love it.

Are you kept my drive you crazy and you end up going to heaven, but you know.

What about this is this is the kind of questions we get from time to time. What happens if I accept Jesus Christ, and I'm not I don't get baptized. Thank God. Okay, you didn't follow that other law. But you're not going to heaven.

We're looking at obedience here. That's what God's asking is for.

This is what I want you to do. Obey.

I put it in here or not. Yes. When you get home look up John 3:36. Listen carefully cuz I'm not going to bring up the scripture right now. Whoever believes in the son has eternal life. Okay, I didn't hear that you have to do this or that it's just whoever believes in the son. You'll have eternal life. But whoever does not obey the son.

donut sea life does the wrath of God remains on him? Think about these things.

God wants us. Be there. You two, behave yourselves.

You know, I don't remember God saying anything about obeying John.

there might be something in there about Joanne, but I don't think

God wants to give us new eyes a new heart to comprehend what's going on around us and the comprehend him.

beginning of John 3:19 and this is the Judgment the light has come into the world and people love the darkness rather than the light because their works are evil.

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light lets his Works be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light? So that it may be clearly seen that his Works have been carried out in God.

Read lines of scripture that say basically the same thing.

if you like if you don't like the light, why don't you Took when you want to go to sleep course.

You got something to hide.

Is there something in your life that you want to get rid of get rid of it?

The most of it to your old enough that we've we've been through enough bad stuff that we shouldn't be doing it again.

And most of us are capable of doing that.

But this new birth of Jesus Christ. promises this new life this new

I'll put it this way when ice.

what led to my accepting Jesus Christ was a woman. Tell my wife. A woman if I just accepted a woman who loves Jesus Christ so much. It looks his creation so much that she wasn't willing to give up on me.

And she finally fix me into going to church. end I've been thankful for ever since now she's serving over in.

In Africa. Yeah, I would have never seen this young lady this lady. You're not young anymore. She was going to near then. This lady is a little trim and our was little prim and proper. Didn't like getting her hands dirty didn't like bugs. He's in Africa sleeping in a tent.

I would never believe it, but she loved God so much. That's what she had to do.

And there's a scripture whoever believes in the son has eternal life. Whoever does not obey now that obey that isn't obeying all of the laws that's obeying Jesus Christ commandment to love. That's what he's talking about.

love Right now it's kind of hard to do. Sometimes we get angry.

There's a lot that we can that we can learn just from John 3:16 in John in the Book of John. There has to be at least five hundred sermons. and

I'm not going to preach all of them, but we're going to look at more of the Bible's threes. As we come back next week. Remind my challenge to you.

Getting questions about God. Any questions about Jesus Christ ask him. Ask your spouse ask your pastor asked. And those who haven't heard me say this before. if you disagree with something I say I'm talk to me. Because if I'm wrong I want to know about it. I have no fear of discussing it. I don't enjoy this matter fact. John and I've done it a few times.

But my challenge to you is don't just listen to the pastor. Don't just be a one-hour Christian.

In order to know your savior. There's only one place that you can learn about him. That's in the Bible. How do you have a relationship with someone without?

That's how you're going to learn to know God. amen