Hey everyone I’m Pastor Gary Hoban and welcome to Refinery Life Australia.
This year our goal is to release a new video / Podcast every Monday Wednesday and Friday.
As we head towards Easter we are going to move through a series titled “The Centrality of the Cross.”
Today is part 4 The Serpent and the Saviour.
Text
John 3:14-15 (ESV)
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
Scripture Reading
John 3:1-21 (ESV)
In all the Gospels, no conversation is so carefully recorded in regard to detail as the one between our Lord and Nicodemus in John 3.
The reason for this thoroughness in obvious, Jesus was relating to Nicodemus the very essence of the good news.
When conveying God’s truth, our words must be clear and understandable, and they must find their way into the hearts of people just as Jesus’ words penetrated the heart of Nicodemus.
Jesus' words were so explicit that everyone who has read them in the generations since Nicodemus have found them to be clear signs marking the way to eternal life.
Nowhere else in Scripture is there any more concise, easily understood presentation of the new birth,
And, as with practically everything Jesus did, across the beauty and symbolism of these words spoken to Nicodemus, there was the shadow of the cross.
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