Sermon Tone Analysis

*John 3:1-18*

1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.

2 He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God.

For no-one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him." 3 In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, *no-one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again*." 4 "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked.

"Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" 5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no-one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is 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."

9 "How can this be?"

Nicodemus asked.

10 "You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these things?

11 I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.

12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

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

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 he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

 

·         a member of the Jewish ruling council

·         came to jesus at night./ (are we afraid of finding the truth//?)/

 

·         no-one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again v:3

·         no exceptions to this one…I think that if I try to be good, and if I don't do this and If I,…… If I If I….

·         this is the only way that works.

·         V:12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

·         "How can a man be born when he is old?" v:4-13

·         trying to understand Gods way with man's system cannot work.

V:6

·         you should not be surprized… the wind.. this is something that happens, that you cannot see happening, but you can experience the results….

·         I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe…

 

·         Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up v:14-18

*Num 21:4-9*

4 They travelled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go round Edom.

But the people grew impatient on the way; 5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said*, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert?*

/(Isn't it amazing how many don't believe in God enough to Love him, but we all believe in him enough to curse him?)/

There is no bread!

There is no water!

And we detest this miserable food!" 6 Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.

7 The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you.

Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us."

So Moses prayed for the people.*

8 The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole.

Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.

(NIV)*

 

*2 Cor 5:14-21*

14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

16 So from now on we regard no-one from a worldly point of view.

Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, *not counting men's sins against them*.

And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.

We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.

21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

(NIV)

 

·         because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died

·         He paid for the sin of all by his death, then all that identify with this death are free of the penalty that he took.

·         *not counting men's sins against them*

·         *God made him who had no sin to be sin for us*, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God ( I have the same position as Jesus!!)