Sermons
The Effect of Jesus
Source text: John 3:1-5
What in my life tends to influence me most?
A – Friends B – Family C – God
____________ came to Jesus by night for fear of his friends.
Jesus said unless someone is _______ of _______ and the ________, he __________ enter the kingdom of God. (Jn 3:5)
Nicodemus defended Jesus to the ____________ when he said, “Does our _____ _______ a man without _______ giving him a ____________ and ____________ what he does?” (Jn 7:51)
By the time of Jesus’ death we see a great change in the life and faith of Nicodemus. Can the same be said of us?
AM I WILLING TO LET GOD HAVE GREATER INFLUENCE IN MY LIFE?
List a few things Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea were willing to risk because of their love for Jesus:
________________________________, ____________________________, ___________________________
People should see a change in us when we try to live like Jesus did!
Closing Thought:
If anyone has the world's ________ and sees his __________ in ________, yet closes his _________ ___________ him, how does God's ________ ________ in him? Little children, let us not _________ in word or talk but in _________ and in __________.
(1 John 3:17 & 18)