ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS

READ JOHN 3:9-21
9) Nicodemus continues to question Jesus: How can these things be? These things refer to what Jesus had just told Nicodemus about being born of the water and the Spirit.
10-21) Jesus answers: You are a teacher of Israel and you don't understand these things?
Jesus was not telling Nicodemus anything that had not been revealed in the Old Testament through the fathers and the prophets. Look up the following verses and write down all that you learn about water and the Spirit.
WATER: Numbers 8:5-7, Amos 5:24, Jer. 2:13;17:13
SPIRIT: Isa. 11:2;42:1;59:21, Ezekiel 59:4, Jer. 31:34
These are just a few verses that declare the cleansing of water and the role of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was challenging Nicodemus to take what he knew of the Old Testament and put it together with the fact that Jesus is the promised Messiah. Nicodemus if you cannot believe the earthly things, then how can you believe the heavenly things? The way of salvation, Nicodemus, is this:
v.13-15 Cross - Son of Man must be lifted up in the same manner as the serpent was lifted up in the time of Moses.
v.16-17 Etermal Life: through the Son, who was sent by God.
v.18a Believe in Jesus: not judged
v.18b Not believe in Jesus: judged already (born condemned, only way out is through Jesus)
v.19 Judgment: light has come into the world, but men have refused that light and preferred the darkness.
v.19-21 Deeds is applied to conduct of men, measured by the standard of religion and righteousness, whether bad and become exposed, a non-believer (v.20), or good and manifested as from God, a believer (v.21) Practice truth means to act uprightly in a continuous or repeated action. Comes to the Light means to committ one self to Jesus and enter into fellowship with Him. Wrought in God means that believers works are from God.
FATHER, THANK YOU THAT JESUS HAS COME AND THROUGH HIM WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE! AMEN