Sunday, January 17th, 2021 | Michiana Chinese Christian Church | English Worship service
WORSHIP: ENGLISH WORSHIP MUSIC:
10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord) | Matt Redman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KaHr_5U9Cg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBjCrXClNNk
Agnus Dei by
Michael W. Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVFzxazTQNM
John 3: 1-21
There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a
ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi,
we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs
that You do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I
say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when
he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell
where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the
Spirit.”
9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these
things be?”
10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the
teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to
you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not
receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not
believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has
ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man
who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even
so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should
[c]not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting
life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but
that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he
who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the
light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light
and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who
does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that
they have been done in God.” John
3 NKJV
You Must Be Born Again!
5 Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in
man
And makes flesh his strength,
Whose heart departs from the Lord.
6 For he shall be like a shrub in the
desert,
And shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched
places in the wilderness,
In a salt land which is not
inhabited.
7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in
the Lord,
And whose hope is the Lord.
8 For he shall be like a tree
planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the
river,
And will not fear when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year
of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit. Jeremiah 17: 5-8
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
10 I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to
his ways,
According to the fruit of his
doings. Jeremiah 17: 9, 10 NKJV
3 Jesus answered and said to him,
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.”
12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
Like Moses, when
he lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, those who looked on that serpent
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We
have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the
Lord that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery
serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten,
when he looks at it, shall live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it
on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the
bronze serpent, he lived.
Numbers 21: 9
NKJV
*We who live under
Christ must believe in Jesus Christ and be changed, become heavenly minded by
the power of His Holy Spirit or we shall certainly perish.
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
