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INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON JAN. 27, 1952
1
A HESITANT FOLLOWER
Memory Selection: “Verily, ver
ily. 1 say unto thee. Except a man
be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.” John 3:3. Les
son Text: John 3:1-10; 7:45-52.
During his first public appear
ance in Jerusalem, during the
Passover, Jesus must have made
such a deep impression on those
who heard him that his influence
reached even into the Sanhedrin.
Nkodemus, an outstanding teach
er in Jerusalem, and a cultured,
prominent and highly respected
member of the Jewish Sanhedrin,
was moved by what he heard and
sought a private interview with
Jesus
Just why Nicodemus chose the
night time for his visit is a mat
ter of conjecture. Some believe
he was afraid to be seen talking
with Jesus, while others believe
that he chose an evening inter
view so that he might have an
uninterrupted talk with the Mas
ter, who, during the day, was so
pressed by the throngs.
In addressing Jesus as ‘Rab
bi,” Nicodemus acknowledged him,
not only as a teacher, but as a
“teacher come from God.” He
must have asked him a question,
such as “How can one enter the
kingdom of God?” because, in
the recorded conversation between
them. Jesus answers that unless
one “be born anew, he cannot see
the kingdom of God.”
This was astonishing news to
a ruler of the Jews and a Phari
see of the Pharisees, who was
Surprised that^ he would be re
quired to undergo any change
whatever in order to enter the
kingdom of God. Jesus explained
that one’s physical birth was not
enough, but "except one be born
of water and the Spirit, he can
not enter the. Kingdom of God."
“Of water”—a reference to the
; necessity of repentance and wash
| ing a^ay of sins, symbolized by
the act of baptism, and “of the
Spirit"—referring to the need of
a positive attachment of the in
net life to an abiding source of
moral help, which, according to
Charles R. Brown, “When a man,
by repentance and faith, has been
horn anew of water and of the
Spirit, he has already entered the
Kingdom of God.”
N'icodemus could not compre
hend the saying of Jesus, which
was not surprising as his piety
was cold and mechanical, an obed
ience to the outward ritual rather
than to the inward movings of
the heart. Jesus referred him to j
the marvels of nature—the wind
whose force we know but whose
origin we know* nothing of and,
yet, we know it is present in the
world.
He declared: “Verily, verily,
I say unto thee. We speak that
which we know, and bear witness
of that which we have seen; and
ye receive not our witness. If I
told you earthly things and ye
believe not, how can ye believe
heavenly things?’
The next time we set* Nico
demus, he is sitting in the San
hedrin. waiting to hear the report
of the men who had been sent
to arrest Jesus. These men had
heard Jesus teach and were
greatly affected by his message
The Pharisees were disgusted and
aneeringly asked: “Are ye also
deceived? Have any of the rul
ers or of the Pharisees believed
on him ? But this people who
knoweth not the law are cursed.”
This was more than Nicodemus
could take and he arose and
asked, “Doth our law judge any
man. before it hear hjm, and
know what he doetA?” When he
| accused them of manufacturing
, flimsy excuses to bolster their
prejudices, they turned their
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sneering: upon him, with the ques- ,
tion: “Art thou also of Galilee?
Search and look: for out of Gali
lee ariseth no prophet?"
While our lesson text does not
cover it, we would be unfair to
Nieodemus if we failed to men
tion the third scene in which he
ia prominent: John, in his groapel,
describes the touching Scene when
Joseph of Arimathea, joined by
Nieodemus, minister tenderly and
lovingly to the body of Jesus,
after his crucifixion. This is a
record of the triumph of his
faith. All those things which had
heretofore caused him to be a
“hesitant follower"—fear of ridi
cule. love of ease or even coward
ice—were overcome in an open
confession in this dark hour.
While others, including most of
his disciples, forsook him and fled,
we find this man boldly proclaim
ing his love for Jesus, demon
strated in loving service.
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ord of Nieodemus, we cannot be
lieve that he returned to Ids ofd
life but was a “new man" in
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