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Sunday, January 17th, 2021 | Michiana Chinese Christian Church | English Worship service

 Sunday, January 17th, 2021 | Michiana Chinese Christian Church  |  English Worship service

Chinese Worship and Service: click here: http://mcccin.org/
Sunday school Materials for the Youth:  
CALL TO WORSHIP:

WORSHIP:  ENGLISH WORSHIP MUSIC: 

10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)  |  Matt Redman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KaHr_5U9Cg


Agnus Dei by Michael W. Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVFzxazTQNM


BEGIN PRAYER | SCRIPTURE | SERMON VIDEO LINKS: 

ENGLISH SERVICE

CLICK HERE> https://youtu.be/PVMhKymhWPk <CLICK HERE               

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER

SCRIPTURE READING:       


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


SERMON:

You Must Be Born Again!

*Only some men will ask the right questions while others go about completely oblivious simply because they do not care to know.
*Spiritual things must be spiritually discerned.
*Further up and further into the great mystery of God.
*He is an amazing God and the more we get to know Him, the more we realize just how small our vision and understanding is. 
*An article written by Ed Stetzer. ‘We must live up to our calling as evangelicals: to proclaim Jesus Christ to the world, rather than betray Him to sustain worldly power.’
*Our trust must be in God alone and not in any other person.

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

*9 “The heart is deceitful above all things,

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

*We must recognize our hope, our faith and trust in Christ alone and not even in our own wisdom and understanding.  For even our own hearts will mislead us.
*Nicodemus comes by night to learn what Jesus says in John 3:

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.”

*Jesus is telling him that to understand what the kingdom of God is about, you have to change, to become a new man. 
       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.”

*Spiritual things must be spiritually discerned.  That is the only way we understand!
*Do you hear it?  Do you hear when the Spirit of God speaks to you?
*We are not OK the way we are!  If you are not willing to be changed by God, then you can never be a Christian.  We have to change.  We have to be born again by the Spirit of God!
*Being ‘Born again’ literally implies that as Christians, we become heavenly minded and earthly good.  The Holy Spirit begins to move in us to do His will.
*There is no higher calling in any of our lives than to beckon people to follow Christ for their eternal salvation. 
*Consider the words of Jesus to Nicodemus:

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

 *God is a God of salvation and life, but we must live our lives as He commands.  The people before Moses HAD to look on the serpent to live.  If they didn’t, they would certainly perish.

*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.

 *You must be born again!  You must be born of the Spirit of God!  God wants to do a great work in your life, He wants to rebirth you to become the man or woman of God that He will change!  But that can only be done in the power and the Spirit of God in you!  Set your life and eyes on the heavenly things!
*This is a time for our faith to become real!  Trust Him.  Hear Him!

BENEDICTION

RESPONDING HYMN: ENGLISH

Turn Your Eyes • The Glorious Christ Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2tKVqZZiI4


English Pastor                          
Pastor Kevin Haislip                
972 800-0307                           
vinzeig@gmail.com                

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Sunday, January 17th, 2021 | Michiana Chinese Christian Church | English Worship service

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