You Must Be Born Again | The Heart Of The Gospel

Nicodemus is the teacher of Israel. He has studied the Torah his whole life. He knows the Law backwards and forwards. He has credentials most people would spend a lifetime chasing.

And he comes to Jesus in the middle of the night.

Not because he has questions about theology. Because somewhere in his chest, despite everything he has built and earned and learned, he knows something is missing. And Jesus meets him right there in the dark and says: you must be born again.

This week we open a three-week series called Heart of the Gospel, walking through some of the most familiar passages in the Gospel of John and trying to hear them again for the first time. We look at what born again actually means in the original Greek, why Jesus connects the Spirit to wind, and how a story about a bronze serpent on a pole in Numbers 21 turns out to be one of the clearest previews of the cross in all of Scripture.

The door Nicodemus walked through that night is still open.

Scripture: John 3:1-21 | Numbers 21:4-9 | Ezekiel 36:25-27 Series: Heart of the Gospel, Week 1 of 3