{"id":743,"date":"2023-03-05T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.32.240.45\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=743"},"modified":"2023-03-05T15:11:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:11:16","slug":"access-to-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2023\/03\/05\/access-to-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Access To The Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. This sermon given our priest in charge Rev Nick Mwandia in the second Sunday of Lent on the 5\/3\/23. The sermon entitled \u2018Access To The Kingdom\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/050323\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"70\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/050323\/050323.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 2:41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">John 3 v 1-17 \n<br><br>\nJesus Teaches Nicodemus<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>1<\/b><\/font> Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>2 <\/b><\/font>He came to\nJesus by night and said to him, \u2018Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has\ncome from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence\nof God.\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>3<\/b><\/font> Jesus answered him, \u2018Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of\nGod without being born from above.\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>4<\/b><\/font> Nicodemus said to him, \u2018How can anyone be\nborn after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother\u2019s womb\nand be born?\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>5<\/b><\/font> Jesus answered, \u2018Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom\nof God without being born of water and Spirit.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>6<\/b><\/font> What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>7<\/b><\/font> Do not be\nastonished that I said to you, \u201cYou must be born from above.\u201d \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>8<\/b><\/font> The wind blows\nwhere it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes\nfrom or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>9<\/b><\/font> Nicodemus\nsaid to him, \u2018How can these things be?\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>10<\/b><\/font> Jesus answered him, \u2018Are you a teacher\nof Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>11<\/b><\/font> \u2018Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen;\nyet you do not receive our testimony. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>12<\/b><\/font> If I have told you about earthly things and\nyou do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>13<\/b><\/font> No\none has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the\nSon of Man.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>14<\/b><\/font> And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man\nbe lifted up, \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>15<\/b><\/font> that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>16<\/b><\/font> \u2018For God so\nloved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may\nnot perish but may have eternal life. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>17<\/b><\/font> \u2018Indeed, God did not send the Son into the\nworld to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. This sermon given our priest in charge Rev Nick Mwandia in the second Sunday of Lent on the 5\/3\/23. The sermon entitled \u2018Access To The Kingdom\u201d. Download Mp3&nbsp;HERE! 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