A New Way | Rev. Wil Cantrell

Nicodemus, a Pharisee, comes to Jesus at night.  Their conversation focuses being born again.  Jesus explains that this is a birth of the spirit not of the flesh.  In John Wesley’s sermon, The New Birth, he speaks of justifying and sanctifying grace.  Wesley used the analogy of a house to describe grace.  The driveway/porch is prevenient grace, God’s love drawing us to him.  Justifying grace is the door entering the house.  We walk through.  We move from unbelief to belief.  This is not our own doing, but God’s work in us. Sanctifying grace is God’s grace in our lives as we seek to live a life following him.  The inside of the house completes Wesley’s analogy of grace, signifying our lives are a process of God’s love at work in and through us.  Coming to faith is not an event, it is a process for a lifetime. 

Scripture - John 3:1-17