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Show Eev. Robert H. Harper Jesus and Nicodemus: John 3: 1-16 Golden Text: John 3: 16 , Nicodemus is known as the man who came to Jesus by night, and many have believed he was afraid to come by day. But later he cooperated coop-erated with Joseph of Arimathaea in laying the body of Jesus away. Though one , of the teachers of Israel, he was greatly in need of being taught. And he was humble enough to come to Jesus for Instruction. In-struction. He could not understand how a man could be born again. And there are many to the present time who have never learned the way and the how of the new birth. A great preacher in London, hearing hear-ing the celebrated young Summer- , field preach, afterward asked the young man where he had been born "In Dublin, and in Liverpool." was the answer "How can that be?" the great preacher asked. Summerfield replied with a question, ques-tion, in the words of Jesus in 3peaking to Nicodemus. "Art thou a master in Israel and knowest not these things?" By faith In Christ, men may be born again and enter into new life for the souX Reader, do you trust In Jesus as the savior of your soul? John Wesley was long without the assurance that he was the redeemed re-deemed child of God, a new-born maa But In his memorable experience experi-ence In the Aldersgate Street Church In London, as one was reading read-ing the Scripture, he felt his heart strangely warmed, and was given the assurance that God for Christ's sake had forgiven his sins and made him an heir of everlasting life. Let us find such an assurance through our faith In Jesui Christ, the Savior of men. |