The Kingdom In Plain Sight: The Gospel of John Series Week 5

John 3:16 is the most recognized verse in the Bible. It's also one of the most misread. Stripped of its context, it gets flattened into a slogan. But Jesus gets to verse 16 through a strange midnight conversation and an even stranger story from the wilderness — and both of them change everything about what the verse actually means.

In this message, we slow down and read John 3 the way it was meant to be read: a late night visit from a powerful religious leader who can't quite see what's standing in front of him, a bizarre image from Numbers 21 involving bronze serpents and poison, and a word about salvation that sounds far more like medicine than law.

Jesus didn't come to change your legal status. He came to heal what's killing you.