TEACHER
Second
part of nine in Who is Jesus? Advent series
John
3:2: “He [a Pharisee named Nicodemus]
came to Jesus at night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has
come from God. For no one could perform
the miraculous signs You are doing if God were not with Him.’”
Jesus loved Nicodemus just like He
also loves you and me (like a big Brother).
He tells Nicodemus a confusing truth.
What great teachers—like Jesus—care most
about is students’ growth. They
challenge students to learn truths for victory in life.
“I tell you
the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless his is born again.” Jesus
declared in John 3:3.
Nicodemus was stunned.
Jesus explained in John 3:5, “No one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of
water and the Spirit.”
Nicodemus
exclaimed, “How can this be?”
Jesus cut Nicodemus to his very core
in John 3:10 and 12. “You are Israel’s teacher, and you do not understand these
things? … I have spoken to you about earthly things and you do not believe; how
then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven except the
one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.”
Jesus then
taught the heart of His message, in John 3:16: “For God
so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in
Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
The
Pentecostal church preached this same message in the 1960s. “Are you born again?” became a question their
members asked people on the street. Wise
Believers know that God’s Spirit enters a person’s heart when confessing belief
in Jesus as Savior. We would smile and
say, “Definitely!” Meeting a fellow
child of God on the street can be fun!
When God’s Spirit comes inside, Believers become new creations, or “born
again!”
See the lesson liked below.
Take
Home Nugget
Many Believers forget that Jesus is also the son of
David. Matthew 1:1 begins, “A record of
the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham,…”
There are fourteen generations from Abraham to King David,
fourteen generations from David to Israel’s exile to Babylon, and fourteen generations
from the exile to the birth of Jesus.
(Matthew 1:17).
Psalm 132:11-12 says, “The Lord swore an oath to David, a
sure oath that He will not revoke: One
of your own descendants I will place on your throne—if your sons keep My
covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their son will sit on your throne
for ever and ever.”
Jesus is next to sit on David’s throne at
his millennia reign!
Adapted from
“There’s a Title for That” by John UpChurch.
Crosswalk.com Contributor.
November 4, 2016,
J.D. Griffith
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