21/05/2026
*UFIC Port Elizabeth | Sunday Service with Pastor C Flour*
*17 May 2026*
*Theme: The Jesus Encounter*
*Scripture: John 3:1-10*
An encounter changes you, not Him.
An encounter with Jesus doesn’t only happen when He comes to you. Sometimes you have to make the effort to seek Him where He is.
Jesus didn’t go to Nicodemus but Nicodemus went to Jesus.
Put in the effort to look for Him because the encounter is meant to transform you and not Him. You are the one to benefit.
Nicodemus came at night, because of his position as a teacher, he was afraid of what his peers would say if they saw him with Jesus.
When you are serious about your life changing, stop fearing people who have no power to change your life.
When Jesus spoke about being “born again,” Nicodemus took it literally and thought about re-entering his mother’s womb. Thank God he asked for clarity, and Jesus explained it to him.
If he hadn’t asked it would have been a disaster seeing Nicodemus bothering his mother.
This is a reminder for us when spiritual things are spoken don’t just hear it once and run with it. Listen again. There is often deep meaning behind simple words.
Growing up, our mothers would sometimes say “urase” and hand us something. If you threw it away you would be in trouble because urase yavo didn’t mean “throw it,” it meant _usarase_“don’t throw it.”
How many of us have run with the story yet we didn't clearly understand what was exactly meant. How may of us lost blessings simply because we didn’t get the meaning.
Like Nicodemus, how many of us today willing to risk their position, friendship, identity for an encounter with Jesus.
