Believe! The Gospel of John

WK 7– “Nicodemus Part 2”

John 3:16-21 NASB

April 26, 2026

Justin Scarberry

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CONTEXT

God says He __________ changes (Malachi 3:6).

His word __________ changes (Isaiah 40:8).

__________ gives us a good understanding of what God means by the verse.

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CONTEXT OF JOHN 3

Jesus is talking to _______________, a Pharisee, a Jewish teacher. The Pharisees read and understand _____________, which the Scriptures were written in. The Oral Torah, rules and regulations added by the Pharisees to achieve what God says in the Bible, was a _____________ tradition passed down from generation to generation. The Old Testament (their Bible) had ________ rules they had to follow (they added thousands more). Jesus tells Nicodemus he must be “_________ _________,” meaning born from above or born with the ___________ of God inside you. When we Believe that Jesus _______ to pay for our sins, the Spirit of God _________ the believer and we are “born again.” Our Spirit is _________ and we reconnect with God.

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John 3:16 Believing is THE KEY to Eternal Life

¹⁶ “For God so loved the world, that He gave up His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.”

God so loved THE WORLD- It’s the entire __________ that God loves, not just the Pharisees or the Jews. The gift of eternal life in heaven with Jesus is offered to ________________!

Everyone who believes IN Him- The requirement for eternal life according to Jesus. You take everything the Bible says about Him as absolute ________. Believing the greatest thing He did was die, bridging the gap, ____________ you with God. You ___________ out loud that Jesus is the Lord of your life (Romans 10:9). You turn away from your old ___________ life and commit your life to following Him. You believe God ___________ Him from dead so that you will also be raised from the dead forever in eternity.

His ONLY Son- The Greek word monogenēs; can be one child, can also mean “______ ___ __ _______.” Prophesied in Psalm 2:7 “I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, ‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you.’”

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John 3:17-18 Saved THROUGH Him, Judged ALREADY

¹⁷ For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸ The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

How can the world be saved? ___________ Him!

Why didn’t Jesus come to judge? Because the world is already judged. The Bible says we were conceived in ______. To sin means to “________ _____ ________” of God’s perfection. God Gave Adam and Eve the same option we all have today: Choose _______ or choose the __________.

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John 3:19 Loving darkness and turning backs to Jesus

¹⁹ And this is the judgement, that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil.

Adam and Eve’s perfect fellowship with God was ___________. They hid! Noah’s Ark: God brought ____________ but He also provided a way to be _________. The Ark kept the people on it _____________.

The Bible says Jesus is the _________ of the world! But since people loved _______________, they _________ their backs on Him.

The Bible says we are in ____________ to our sin (John 8:34) and we don’t even know it! _______ is darkness. It _____________ us from God. The Bible shines a _________ on what God calls sin.

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John 3:20 Exposing our broken condition

²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.

The light __________ the reality of our broken condition.

When we are living _______ from God, we are living in __________.

The Bible says that _____ sin has to be paid for. No exceptions!

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John 3:21 Practice, not perfection

²¹ But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed by God.

Practicing the truth is not a _____ – ________ thing!

We have to practice what God _________ us to do. When we mess up, we learn from it and ________ back to God for forgiveness.

We will never be __________ because the Law is _____________ to keep. Then how are we saved from going to hell? We are saved by __________ (Ephesians 2:8-9)!

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John 3:3 NIV  

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see

the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

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1. What is the context of chapter 3 of John’s gospel?

2. Who are the Pharisees and what are some things we know about them in scripture?

3. What language was spoken in/around Judea at the time of Jesus?

4. Read John 3:16-21, what does it mean to be born again? Can you be a Christian and not be born again?  Why or why not?

5. If someone who was not familiar with the church asked you how they could be saved from going to hell, how would you answer them?

6. What is meant in verse 16, “only Son”? Does God have only one son?

7. Why was Jesus sent into the world? What does it mean in verse 18 “the one who does not believe has been judged already,”?

8. What kept us in sin before we turned our lives over to Jesus?

9. What is meant in verse 21, “practices the truth”? What word for “practices” is used in some of the other translations?    What are some ways that we can practice the truth”?

10. If someone who was not familiar with church asked you what grace is, how would you explain it.

11. Please continue to pray for God’s continued guidance for the church.