My Meeting with Nicodemus

The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ

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October 26, 2012    My Meeting with Nicodemus        Page 57-58   John 3:1-21

“Are you born again?” Some evangelists are fond of asking that question because their focus is on identifying a particular time and place where a person confessed faith in Jesus. However, Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus was not about a once in a lifetime experience. Notice Jesus said we must be born of water and the Spirit. Some people take his reference to water as our earthly birth because there is a discharge of water as a natural part of the birthing process. I believe Jesus has in mind our water baptism.

Water baptism marks our initiation into the Kingdom of God and into the church, through our confession of faith. The Apostle Paul expounds on our being born of the Spirit in Romans six where he discusses our being baptized by the Holy Spirit into the life of Jesus. When you bring these two together, baptized by water and the Spirit, you can see that Jesus anticipates that the evidence we have been born again will be the life we are living, as opposed to only identifying a particular time and place where we made our confession of faith. When we are born into the Kingdom of God, we then begin the process of learning the ways of God. We learn how to come out of the darkness of sin and live in the light of God’s love.

In Numbers 21, Moses made a bronze image of a deadly serpent and placed it on a pole. In Moses’ hands, when the serpent, a symbol of evil and death, was lifted up and the people looked upon it, they were healed. Jesus is saying that he must be nailed to a cross and lifted up, so that the whole world can see the result of sin and evil; but in the hands of God, that cross turns into the pathway to salvation. When Jesus is lifted high, we have the opportunity to come out of the darkness and live in the light of God’s eternal love.

Jesus says when we are living in God’s light others will see and will have the opportunity to join us in God’s love. Does your lifestyle reveal you are living in God’s light?   

Sē’lah

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What word or phrase in today’s reading attracts your attention?

Reflect on that word or phrase.

What insights come to you?

How does this passage touch your life today?

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

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The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ

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October 29, 2012    Again My Cousin Testified about Me & is Arrested     

Page 58-59   John 3: 22-36; Luke 3:19-20