John’s gospel is a journey that begins by declaring the truth of who Jesus is and then, from that declaration leads us through Jesus’ life, not to prove Him to be God, but to teach us what God is like, His character, His heart, His plans and His purposes. This morning I want us to see that everything that everyone has said about Jesus in the first 2 chapters of John builds to what Jesus will say about Himself in John 3. Today we discover that the Word that became flesh and dwelt among us, that revealed to us the glory of God and walked in the fullness of grace and truth, did all of it so that we would surrender to Him as our Redeemer, so that He could do for us what we cannot do for ourselves and so that He could lead us to the relationship that we were all created to have. This morning we begin to learn that redemption is the outcome, it is what happens when God begins to answer our prayer that His kingdom come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Everywhere redemption has occurred heaven has touched earth because that’s what redemption is, it’s not when men get to God, it is when men believe that God has come to them. Nicodemus had a simple question that all men have had and most continue to have, “How can these things be?” “How can we be redeemed? What must we do to taste of this great gift of redemption?”