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Born from Above John 3:1–8 · Jesus and Nicodemus · Come and See – Week 10
Night→Born→Spirit→Wind
MAIN IDEA OF THE SERMON
Admiring Jesus is not the same as being born of Him. New life is never achieved. It is received as a gift from the Spirit.
THE BURNING QUESTION
Have I only admired Jesus from a distance, or have I been born from above?
Four movements
MOVEMENT 1 · JOHN 3:1–2
Night Seeking is not the same as being born.
SAY IT SIMPLY - Nicodemus knows a lot about Jesus. He still needs to meet Him.
MOVEMENT 2 · JOHN 3:3–4
Born Nobody earns a birth.
SAY IT SIMPLY - You cannot climb into the kingdom. You must be born into it.
MOVEMENT 3 · JOHN 3:5–6
Spirit God gives new life.
SAY IT SIMPLY - God washes us clean and God makes us new. We receive both.
MOVEMENT 4 · JOHN 3:7–8
Wind You can’t see it. You can see what it does.
SAY IT SIMPLY - No one controls the Spirit. A changed life shows He is at work.
Respond
The invitation
HEAD
Know - New birth is a gift from God through Christ. It is not built from your résumé.
HEART
Leave - Leave the night-time safety of “good enough” and come into the light.
HANDS
Receive - Open them to take the gift. Then let the Spirit move you into obedience.
Three practices
1 Check your credentials.
Write down what you have trusted: church, family, morality, knowledge. Lay each one at the feet of Jesus.
2 Ask for the Spirit.
Pray daily for the Spirit to renew your heart, expose what is false, and grow visible fruit. What if we measured by the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), the gauges of our Christlikeness?
3 Keep a lamp on.
Welcome the questioning, the curious and the almost-believers with patience and truth. Nicodemus took years to come into the open (John 7:50; 19:39).
CLOSING REMARK
You cannot work your way into the kingdom or wait for it to blow past you. So come out of the night, bring nothing but your need, and let the Spirit of Jesus make you new at the altar today.
27 Sept 2026
John 2v12-25 "Cleansing the Temple"
Come and See, Week 9 | Cleansing the Temple | John 2:12–25 | Opening Reading: John 2:19-22
Big Idea: Being impressed by Jesus is not the same as being known by Jesus.
Open — "Same Man, Five Verses"
Cana: best wine saved for last. Five verses later: a whip, flipped tables, coins flying. Same chapter. Same man. Don't smooth that tension — sit in it. That's your hook line: "He didn't come to clean up your religion. He came to replace it with Himself."
1. Zeal and a Whip (v.12–16) —
He makes the whip before He acts. That's not rage — that's resolve.
REMEMBER: "The problem wasn't corruption. It was crowding." The merchants weren't scamming anyone — they were legitimate infrastructure, sanctioned by the priests, solving a real pilgrim problem. The wrong was location: they'd taken over the Court of the Gentiles — the one square foot of temple real estate set aside for outsiders to pray.
LAND IT HERE: "Legitimate business. Wrong address."
"My Father's house" — not "our." Quiet, massive claim.
2. A Verse and a Demand (v.17–18) —
Disciples remember Psalm 69:9 — a psalm about suffering for devotion. They're filing this moment under suffering, not victory. (This same psalm resurfaces at the cross — John 15:25, 19:28-29. Zeal here previews Calvary later.)
Leaders skip "was He right?" and jump straight to "prove your credentials."
Sticky line: "Demanding credentials is easier than doing self-examination."
3. Two Words, One Move (v.19–22) —
Standing in the outer courts (hieron) He just cleared, Jesus points somewhere else entirely — the Holy of Holies itself (naos): "Destroy this temple, and I'll raise it in three days."
He's not defending His actions. He's relocating God's address.
Sticky line: "He's not reforming the system. He's replacing it — with a person."
Nobody in the room gets it. It only makes sense after the resurrection. Say that out loud — the confusion was real, not stupidity.
4. Impressed Isn't the Same as Known (v.23–25) —
Same Greek word (pisteuo) both directions: many believed in Him; He did not entrust Himself to them.
Sticky line: "You can applaud from the cheap seats and still be a stranger to Him."
Why the caution? He already knows what's in a person. This isn't cynicism — it's clarity. (Sets up Nicodemus in ch.3 — someone Jesus does eventually trust, but only after real cost.)
Close — Two Invitations
To the impressed: Stop admiring from the edge. Come be known.
To believers: You're being built into His house — let Him clear whatever's crowding out worship.
Send-off line: "He's not just cleaning house anymore. He IS the house. Come be known in it."
24 Sept 2026
Habitudes - 3. Be With Jesus (Wednesday Nights)
HABITUDE 3 — BE WITH JESUS
Abide in His Presence "He appointed twelve... to be with him." — Mark 3:14
Enter: Before the Twelve did anything for Jesus, they were called to be with him. Function follows presence, not the other way around.
Examine: Mark 3:13–15 — the appointment of the apostles lists "to be with him" before "to send them out."
Expose: Modern discipleship often reverses this order, measuring maturity by output before formation has had time to take root.
Encounter: Jesus values relationship over performance. He forms his followers in proximity long before he deploys them in mission.
Embody: Prayer, Scripture, silence, worship, Sabbath, abiding.
Extend: People can only demonstrate a life they've actually lived to someone else. Abiding is what makes discipleship transferable.
Cross-references: John 15:4–5; Psalm 27:4; Luke 10:38–42
Scholar's voice: Dallas Willard argued that spiritual transformation happens not through sheer effort but through arranging our lives around practices that keep us in Jesus' presence. Formation is a byproduct of abiding, not a substitutefor it.
Application / development process: Establish one unhurried, undistracted fifteen-minute block daily this month with no agenda but presence; no study plan, no output required.
Discussion questions:
What's the difference between learning about Jesus and living with Jesus?
What crowds out unhurried time with him in your week?
What would it look like to measure your week by presence rather than productivity?
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