{"id":12780,"date":"2024-04-21T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nwbaptistks.org\/staging\/6703\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=12780"},"modified":"2024-04-21T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T18:07:09","slug":"is-it-a-religion-or-a-relationship","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.nwbaptistks.org\/staging\/6703\/sermons\/is-it-a-religion-or-a-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It a Religion or a Relationship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April 21, 2024 am Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John 3:1-21 (KJB)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3&nbsp;<\/strong>There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>2&nbsp;<\/sup>The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>3&nbsp;<\/sup>Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>4&nbsp;<\/sup>Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother&#8217;s womb, and be born?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>5&nbsp;<\/sup>Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>6&nbsp;<\/sup>That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>7&nbsp;<\/sup>Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>8&nbsp;<\/sup>The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>9&nbsp;<\/sup>Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>10&nbsp;<\/sup>Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>11&nbsp;<\/sup>Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>12&nbsp;<\/sup>If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>13&nbsp;<\/sup>And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>14&nbsp;<\/sup>And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>15&nbsp;<\/sup>That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>16&nbsp;<\/sup>For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>17&nbsp;<\/sup>For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>18&nbsp;<\/sup>He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>19&nbsp;<\/sup>And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>20&nbsp;<\/sup>For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>21&nbsp;<\/sup>But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21, 2024 am Service John 3:1-21 (KJB) 3&nbsp;There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2&nbsp;The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[332],"ctc_sermon_book":[489],"ctc_sermon_series":[596],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[518],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12780","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","hentry","ctc_sermon_topic-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_book-john","ctc_sermon_series-and-we-beheld-his-glory","ctc_sermon_speaker-pastor-tad-legros","ctfw-no-image"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is It a Religion or a Relationship? 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