My neighbor is attending a funeral for her late uncle, who was a big time sports fan, and they asked everyone to come in the gear of his favorite team, our local team. She asked if I had any related jewelry, I only have a T-shirt for wearing at local work or other rallies, after a previous superbowl victory, I am a fair weather fan – not being born and bred here…

Her uncle sounds like a deep devoted fan – and surely he is now cheering in Heaven! Why shouldn’t we CHEER in Heaven – especially the big realization of salvation for the sake of us individually and for the world. Jesus Saves – Heaven raves… Hope Hope Hope Hooray!!!

I suggested perhaps she bring and hold up a football mainstay – ever since the 1980s and football on TV – the classic sign that was and is held up at many games: “John 3:16″…  

I think is it funny and fitting a the same time…

Yes, since the 1980’s folks have been doing that – thanks to one earthly man and the Lord’s Holy Spirit push… The earthly man, I learned, was named Rollen Stewart. Well, wikipedia explains a checkered life…  But the tradition of John 3:16 at games was born – and honestly the Word of God never changes…

SO – let us John 3:16 give hope today and all days – let us get IN this game…  

Share the Word!!! SHARE THE HOPE OF JESUS!

John 3 – New King James Version

The New Birth

There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”