Born Again
John’s Gospel • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Christian Book of Records (Patrick’s Most Famous Prayer)
PATRICK’S MOST FAMOUS PRAYER
‘I rise today with the power of God to guide me,
the might of God to uphold me,
the wisdom of God to teach me,
the eye of God to watch over me,
the ear of God to hear me,
the word of God to give me speech,
the hand of God to protect me,
the path of God to lie before me,
the shield of God to shelter me,
the host of God to defend me
against the snares of the devil and the temptations of the world,
against every man who meditates injury to me,
whether far or near.’
THE BREASTPLATE OF ST PATRICK
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
PHARISEES (Φαρισαῖος, Pharisaios). Members of a Jewish party that exercised strict piety according to Mosaic law. The Pharisees were a sect within early Judaism, becoming active around 150 bc and enduring as a distinct party until being subsumed into the Rabbinic movement around ad 135.
SANHEDRIN (Greek συνέδριον, synedrion; Hebrew סַנְהֶדְרִין, sanhedrin). The supreme council in charge of Jewish affairs in Roman Palestine.
While the exact makeup and nature of the Jewish governing body in first-century Palestine is uncertain, the varying depictions of the Sanhedrin reveal a group consisting of priests and religious teachers who meet to decide on legal matters with religious, political, and social ramifications.
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
There has been much said about him coming at night. Why do you think he came at night?
So others might not hear.
He was unsure about Jesus.
This was the only time he had.
Little church history
John The New Birth
The words by night encouraged the ‘Nicodemians’ of Calvin’s day to cloak their Protestant sympathies
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