TODAY’S “GOOD NEWS” – July 13, 2003      

MESSAGE:  “LIVING IN KINGDOM COME:
                            …How To Take A Peek Inside!”

SCRIPTURE: John 3:1-8

KEY VERSE:  v. 3  “With all the earnestness I possess I tell you this: Unless you are born again, you can never get into the Kingdom of God.” (Jesus)

FOCUS:  There is a way for you to get into God’s Kingdom today!

INTRODUCTION:  “Our Lord had brought Nicodemus abruptly face to face with the central fact that if the new life is ever to be lived there must be a new creature, wholly new, built up in a new way; that mere tinkering at oneself is of little or no use.  What is required is a new kind of man.  We must be born anew.”                            ~ Arthur John Gossip

I.      KINGDOM LIFE REQUIRES AN AUTHENTIC SEARCH

II.   CITIZENSHIP IN THE KINGDOM IS THE GIFT OF GRACE

III.    GETTING INSIDE THE KINGDOM IS A CATACLYSMIC EVENT

CONCLUSION:  “The New Testament writers could not have anticipated all the ways the free Spirit of God would reproduce the life of God in the Kingdom’s citizens.”                                 ~ Al Truesdale and Bonnie Perry              

PREACHING:  Pastor Holland Lewis