{"id":5638,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/nicodemus-double-delivery\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:59","slug":"nicodemus-double-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/nicodemus-double-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicodemus &#8211; Double Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in John series.   Nicodemus.                         John 3:1-8,16<\/p>\n<p>                          ===========================<br \/>\n                          NICODEMUS &#8211; DOUBLE DELIVERY<br \/>\n                          ===========================<\/p>\n<p>     I. The Miracle of birth.<\/p>\n<p>    II. The man Nicodemus.<br \/>\n         A. Rigidly spiritual &#8211; a Pharisee.                            3:1<br \/>\n         B. Powerful and respected &#8211; ruling council (Sanhedrin)<br \/>\n         C. Chicken?                                                   3:2<\/p>\n<p>   III. A painful proposition.<br \/>\n         A. You must be born again.                                    3:3<br \/>\n         B. Water and spirit.                                          3:5<br \/>\n         C. Kingdom of God.                                            3:5<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Christians are different creatures.<br \/>\n         A. Starting over has its attractions.<br \/>\n         B. God has to do it.<\/p>\n<p>     V. Is real change possible?<br \/>\n         A. Being a &#8220;born againer.&#8221;<br \/>\n         B. Can God really change people?<br \/>\n         C. Bible is clear that God can change us, and we must change.<br \/>\n         D. YOU must change.                                           3:7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in John series. Nicodemus. John 3:1-8,16 =========================== NICODEMUS &#8211; DOUBLE DELIVERY =========================== I. The Miracle of birth. II. The man Nicodemus. A. Rigidly spiritual &#8211; a Pharisee. 3:1 B. Powerful and respected &#8211; ruling council (Sanhedrin) C. Chicken? 3:2 III. A painful proposition. A. You must be born again. 3:3 B. Water and spirit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[835,991,391,2527],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}