An Encounter in the Evening (John 3:1-210)

Many Believed but did not have faith (John 2:23-25)

We see that many people came to believe in Christ through seeing His miracles, but they did not put their faith in Him.  They got all excited about Christ for the moment but once that moment was gone, they to were gone.  Christ knew their heart He knew that they were not truly converted.  He knew this because, “he knew what people were really like. ²⁵ No one needed to tell him about human nature” (John 2:28).  Christ understood the moment that they were all excited for the time but they truly where not following him in their hearts.  Christ is wanting us to give Him a deeper comment then just saying that we are for Him, which leads us right into Christ encounter with Nicodemas.

An Encounter in the Evening (John 3:1-210)

    We have an encounter at night with a man named Nicodemas and Christ told him, “I assure you, unless you are born again, you can never see the Kingdom of God”(John 3:3).  Christ is telling him, I want more from you than just a I believe in God, and go through all the rituals and say all the right things.  I want there to be a rebirth of who you are.  I want you to have a new life in me, a life with no shame and starting over.  You no longer have to live as you once lived.  How exciting is this that we have used the phrase born again to the point of forgetting how exciting it really is.

    We all have been given a chance to be born again, born not of a physical birth but of a spiritual birth.  Roger L Fredrikson explains this experience of being born again as “There is also a spiritual act of divine grace in which God gives Himself to a particular person, who, in receiving Him, is born anew. It is in the union of the divine and the human, the supernatural and the natural, the heavenly and the earthly, that new life comes.”

We are to Be a new Creature in God (Titus 1-8)

   Paul reminds us in Titus that we are not be like those in Jerusalem who believed in Christ for only a moment.  No, we are to be born again in Christ allowing there to be regeneration of our soul.  We are no longer to be a part of this world; we are to longer think as the world thinks.  We are to allow God to work in our hearts.  For we have been given the gift of the Holy Spirit who comes into our bodies and begins the process of us being reborn.

    Jesus explained to Nicodemus that just as one cannot see the wind but see the effects of the wind, one cannot see the Spirit they can see and feel the effects of the Spirit.  Christ wants us  not to just believe in Him, but to put our trust in Him, to follow Him, and allow the Holy Spirit to enter into our lives, and for us to be reborn.  We are to walk away from our old lives and crave a new life in Christ.   Peter tells us “²³ For you have been born again. Your new life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God”(1^st Peter 1:23).  We are to be guided by the Holy Spirit and feed through the Word of God, so that we can have a new life in Christ.  Who came not to Judge but to give us life.