Missing the Gospel in John 3

In listening to a lot of preaching today, it's clear that it's possible to talk about the gospel, or to even talk about the work of God, but not actually ever get around to preaching the gospel itself, preaching Jesus

Christ for sinners.

Now, this can happen from any number of passages, but today, John and I are going to have a conversation about a well-known text, and that is the interchange between Jesus and Nicodemus from John chapter 3.

There's a lot of really epic stuff in there: the sovereign grace of God, the work of God and regeneration and the new birth.

And there is a lot of gospel in this passage that sadly is often not talked about enough.

And that message is the Son of Man being lifted up for us.

We hope that this is encouraging and clarifying for you.

Stay tuned.

If you're new to Theocast, you may not have heard of this word.

It's called pietism.

Have you ever felt like the Christian life is a heavy burden versus rest and joy?

That you wake up worrying about how well you're going to perform instead of thinking about what Christ has done for you, it's dread versus joy, really.

That's pietism.

Pietism causes Christians to look in on themselves and find their hope, not in what Christ has done, but what they're doing.

And we have a little book for you.

It's free.

We want you to download it.

And we're going to explain the difference between Pietism and what we call confessionalism, Reformed theology, really, how it is that we walk by faith, seeing the joy of Christ, and when Jesus says, Come to me and I will

give you rest, what does that look like?

You can download it at our website, just go to theocast.org.