Amen and amen. How we doing church? Are you all right? Have you enjoyed saturated? How many were here for saturated? Were you here? Praise God. Hey, this is how much I love you. I love you so much that I would bring preachers that are way better than me. You see what a bunch of insecure preachers would do would bring a bunch of carapid dudes so that you'd think, man, our guy's really good.

But I don't know if you remember the miracle where Jesus turns water and wine, and they say, you know what most people do is they bring out the good stuff first, and when everybody has had their fill, then we bring out the rest of it.

I'm the rest of it.

All right, so that's just kind of how it is.

All right.

Hey, if you got your Bibles, this is crazy.

We're not in Romans anymore.

What are we going to do, huh?

If you got your Bibles, go to John Chapter 3, John chapter 3.

If you go to Romans and then go left, a little few books, you'll find your way to John.

The reason we're going to go to John chapter three is there's a conversation that Jesus has with a man that shows up.

It's got questions about who Jesus is, and what Jesus is going to do is he is going to get at the heart of what it means to be a believer or a follower in Jesus Christ.

And so that's where we're going to spend our time.

Today could be a really, really good day.

A really good day.

I don't have much control over this afternoon, but we're going to start out really, really good this morning,

and then we'll see what happens from there.

Chapter 3, verse 1 says this, now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus. Now, Nicodemus means victor over the people. So he was kind of into himself,

or at least his mama was. And so he thought he was awesome. And he was a member of this group called

the Pharisees. Pharisees means separated ones. And what that means is the Pharisees would spend their

entire life studying the Bible

and creating rules about the rules about the rules so that they were sure to be

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