Sermon
[BORN]²: John 3:1-21
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
November 3, 2022 · 42 min
Summary
Jesus tells Nicodemus that entering God's kingdom requires being born again—a radical spiritual rebirth, not mere religious reform. Through the serpent illustration and John 3:16, the pastor explains that salvation comes through faith in Christ's sacrificial death, and that people reject this truth primarily due to moral resistance to God's authority, not intellectual doubt.
Highlights
If I need to reform my behavior, I'm going to look for a guru or a self-help book. But if I need a new heart, I'm going to look for a savior.
The reason that people don't come to Christ, they don't look and live is because they love the darkness.
A profoundly humble person because I didn't fix my heart through spiritual diet and exercise. I received an entirely new heart by sheer grace.