Fear not, Believe and Trust

1John 4:15-21  Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 
16  So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 
17  By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 
18  There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 
19  We love because he first loved us. 
20  If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 
21  And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. 

You must be born again

                           You Must Be Born Again

John 3:1-17  Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 
2  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.” 
3  Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 
4  Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? .....
5  Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 
6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 
7  Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 
8  The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” 
9  Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” ..... 
10 Jesus answered him,........
11  Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. 
12  If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 
13  No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
14  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 
15  that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 
16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 
17  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 

Tongues of fire

                            The Coming of the Holy Spirit

Acts 2:1-4  When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 
2  And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 
3  And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 
4  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. 

We have a helper

John 15:-16:4 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 
27  And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. 

16:1  “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 

16:2  They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 

16:3  And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. 

16:4  But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.