- Truly, truly, I say to you…by Ascension
1 March 2026
“Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:1-3
Greetings in the name of Jesus!
Jesus’ opening line “Truly, truly” is a statement that the truth is not a proposition to be debated and hammered into some sort of shape. But that it is revealed overtime through following Him, which means that, if there is no following Him, our natural course can only be “wandering away from the truth.” Also, the truth is not a one-off epiphany followed by a tweak of behaviour. But a living in and by the truth, a radical spiritual restart akin to rebirth – the rebirth we undergo in baptism and that leads us to Jesus’ cross, which truly and fully sums up the statement that “God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Pastor Jaime