John 3:1-8

John 3:1-8  “Wherever It Wills”

We all know people we would like to see become believers. People who we pray for and hope for and yet they never seem to come around to believe. We wish for some magic formula that would be said like an incantation that would open the minds and hearts of nonbelievers. There are booklets and sales pitches that have been developed that sometimes work. In this passage we learn something important about faith.

Jesus seems to be a master of strange conversations, and His conversation with Nicodemus is one of them.

1. I believe you are from God

2. No one can see the kingdom unless they are born again
A. Jesus is saying “Nicodemus you have been born again”
B. Jesus is saying “Nicodemus you need to be born again”

3. What is born again mean
a. the need for a spiritual rebirth
b. coming into a whole new world
c. to know there is a physical reality and a spiritual reality
d. 1 Cor 2:14

4. How does it work?
A. the wind blows wherever it wills
b. so it is with people born of the Spirit

A life event, a friendship, a song on the radio, a Sunday school lesson, a Bible found in a motel.

Business men, little children, High school student on a youth trip, a junkie in a gutter, a drunk on a bar stool, a person who has attended church every Sunday for years.

5. How do we live this
a. Always be ready 1 peter 3:15
b. Never count someone out
c. do not be afraid to take a chance.