My Notes for PAZNAZ Worship for Sunday, 11 March 2018

My Notes for PAZNAZ Worship for Sunday, 11 March 2018:
Senior Pastor Tara Beth
Redeeming Power: Lenten Series
Week 4: Creation
After fall, power was abused
Prayer
Remembering people in our past who were cranky and critical.
Will people really change?
John 3:1-21
1 There was a man among the P’rushim, named Nakdimon, who was a ruler of the Judeans. 2 This man came to Yeshua by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know it is from God that you have come as a teacher; for no one can do these miracles you perform unless God is with him.” 3 “Yes, indeed,” Yeshua answered him, “I tell you that unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
4 Nakdimon said to him, “How can a grown man be ‘born’? Can he go back into his mother’s womb and be born a second time?” 5 Yeshua answered, “Yes, indeed, I tell you that unless a person is born from water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 6 What is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the Spirit is spirit. 7 Stop being amazed at my telling you that you must be born again from above! 8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it’s going. That’s how it is with everyone who has been born from the Spirit.”
9 Nakdimon replied, “How can this happen?” 10 Yeshua answered him, “You hold the office of teacher in Isra’el, and you don’t know this? 11 Yes, indeed! I tell you that what we speak about, we know; and what we give evidence of, we have seen; but you people don’t accept our evidence! 12 If you people don’t believe me when I tell you about the things of the world, how will you believe me when I tell you about the things of heaven? 13 No one has gone up into heaven; there is only the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moshe lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up; 15 so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life.
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but rather so that through him, the world might be saved. 18 Those who trust in him are not judged; those who do not trust have been judged already, in that they have not trusted in the one who is God’s only and unique Son.
19 “Now this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness rather than the light. Why? Because their actions were wicked. 20 For everyone who does evil things hates the light and avoids it, so that his actions won’t be exposed. 21 But everyone who does what is true comes to the light, so that all may see that his actions are accomplished through God.” (Complete Jewish Bible)
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Beginning of a series of conversation with people whose lies were changed.
Why did Nicodemus at night?
Nicodemus was man hungry for more spiritual knowledge.
Jesus is a teacher straight from God.
How can a person be  born a second time?
There physical birth and spiritual birth.
Numbers 21
The bronze serpent was a sign of the Messiah to be lifted up to redeem all people.
God's power is abused by people for their benefit, God's power by God is used to heal and redeem people.
Abused power leads to heartache, God's power leads to redemption.
The power we in God  will us to fully include the marginalized especially the people who are differently abled as full and active part of the church where God uses their God given gifts for churches and God to use to build His Kingdom earth as it is in Heaven.
How is God speaking to you to change your attitude and behavior towards people who are differently abled?
Benediction
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