John 3:1-16 ASV

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:5-6

John 3:5-6 I. By "being born again" is meant exactly the same thing as by "rising again;" or, rather, the same two things are meant by it. In its literal sense it means what is meant by the Resurrection literally; that is, our entrance upon a new state of being, after our present one is over. By being born, we came into this world from a state of nothingness; by being born again, we shall pass into another world from a similar state of nothingness that is, from death. This is being born again... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:8

John 3:8 The Fruits of the Spirit. I. Such words as those of the text must sound as dreams to those analytical philosophers, who allow nothing in man below the sphere of consciousness actual or possible; who have dissected the human mind till they find in it no personal will, no indestructible spiritual self, but a character which is only the net result of innumerable states of consciousness; who hold that man's outward actions, and also his inmost instincts, are all the result either of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:9

John 3:9 The Christian Mysteries. The Feast of Trinity succeeds Pentecost; the light of the Gospel does not remove mysteries in religion. This is our subject. Let us enlarge upon it. I. Consider such difficulties in religion as press upon us independently of the Scriptures. Now we shall find the Gospel has not removed these; they remain as great as before Christ came. Why does God permit so much evil in His own world? This was a mystery before God gave His revelation. It is as great a mystery... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:13

John 3:13 Resurrection the Key to the Life of Christ. Resurrection is the natural, inevitable issue of the life of the Man of Sorrows, the Lord of glory. Unless the universal life is one great tragedy, that life which from the first moment of its conscious activity had looked on, though it would not press on, to Calvary, could not find the term of that conscious activity in the rock-hewn tomb, where loving hands laid the crucified body of their Lord. I. It was the force supplied by faith in the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:14-15

John 3:14-15 Consider some of the lessons of Gospel truth which seem to be foreshadowed in the story of the brazen serpent. I. There was contained in it a significant intimation that Christ would die. I say significant, because to these Israelites it could hardly be a direct and positive intimation. They must connect it with other types and prophecies, intimating that it would be by His own death that the Seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head, and then the death of Him who was to... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:16

John 3:16 I. A difficulty arises in considering this text. If God so loved the world, why did He allow the fall of man. I answer, Never was a kinder act in God's whole government than that fall of man. For, from what did He fall? A garden. To what does he rise? A heaven. But how can a loving Father permit so much pain, and sin, and misery among His creatures? Two keys unlock that mystery. (1) One is Christ. This world of ours was made to be a platform for the manifestation of the Lord Jesus... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:16-17

John 3:16-17 The Atonement. I. As one of the wisest of the heathens said, everything has two handles one by which it may, and one by which it may not, be taken hold of. The handle by which this blessed truth of the Atonement should be taken hold of is that which Christ Himself pointed out to us. It is the moral it is the practical handle of it, not the theological, not the speculative. We need the doctrine, surely, as a comfort, and not as an anathema. We need it as a bond of unity, not as a... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - John 3:3

DISCOURSE: 1608THE NATURE AND NECESSITY OF REGENERATIONJohn 3:3. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.AS there is an essential distinction between divine and human knowledge, so is there a very great difference in the ways by which each of them is to be obtained; the one being attainable only by rational investigation, the other only by faith. Reason indeed must judge whether such or such things be... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - John 3:14-15

DISCOURSE: 1609THE BRAZEN SERPENT A TYPE OF CHRISTJohn 3:14-15. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.A MORE instructive portion of Scripture than this before us we cannot easily find. The conversation of our Lord with Nicodemus was intended to lead him to the knowledge of salvation: and, being directed to a person of his rank, and high attainments in morality, it will... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - John 3:16

DISCOURSE: 1610THE LOVE OF GOD IN GIVING HIS SON FOR MANJohn 3:16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.THE doctrine of our reconciliation with God through the death of his Son, is calculated to impress our minds with a deep sense of the love of Christ in undertaking for us; but, if not cautiously stated, it may give us very erroneous conceptions respecting the Father. If, for instance, we... read more

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:5-6

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:8

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:9

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:13

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:14-15

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:16

Sermon Bible Commentary - John 3:16-17

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - John 3:3

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - John 3:14-15

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - John 3:16

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