Jesus and Nicodemus meet under cover of night in John 3, yet that is only the beginning of Nicodemus's story. In this sermon, Henk Viljoen opens with Nicodemus and follows him through John 3, John 7 and John 19, from a cautious ruler who feared what others would think to a man who stood publicly with Jesus at His burial.

Why did Jesus tell a respected teacher, "You must be born again"? Henk unpacks the new birth of water and the Spirit, and shows how self-sufficiency can blind even religious leaders to basic spiritual truth. He then sets Nicodemus beside Mary Magdalene, healed by Jesus, whose place at His feet and costly ointment reveal a surrender that was not held back by reputation.

The message presses a personal question: what if our pride, our standing, or our fear of what others think is keeping us from fully surrendering to Christ? Drawing on the parable of the two sons in Matthew 21, the contrast between Mary anointing Jesus before His death and Nicodemus after it, and Jesus' words about the serpent lifted up in the wilderness, this study of Nicodemus being born again points every listener to the cross and urges them not to put off the decision.

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Timecodes
- 0:00 Welcome and introducing the Nicodemus miniseries
- 1:54 What the name Nicodemus means
- 3:00 Nicodemus comes to Jesus by night (John 3:1-2)
- 5:34 "You must be born again" (John 3:3-8)
- 9:16 Nicodemus's self-sufficiency exposed (John 3:9-15)
- 11:27 Signs of progress in John 7
- 12:40 Mary Magdalene: a very different story (Luke 8, Luke 10)
- 15:42 Mary anoints Jesus' feet (John 12:3-7)
- 17:30 Why surrender seems easier for those with nothing to lose
- 19:05 Nicodemus comes to bury Jesus (John 19:39-40)
- 20:30 A changed man: Nicodemus's later life
- 23:06 Two anointings: Mary and Nicodemus compared
- 25:48 The Nicodemus condition in the church today
- 27:15 A personal testimony from high school
- 30:24 Anointing before death or after: don't procrastinate
- 31:50 The parable of the two sons (Matthew 21:28-32)
- 33:13 The cure for the Nicodemus condition: look to the cross
- 34:14 A call to surrender and closing prayer

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