In this morning sermon from John 3:17-21, Pastor Rockhill brings the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus to its climax, unfolding the true purpose for which God sent His only begotten Son. Contrary to the popular Jewish expectation of a political Messiah who would come to condemn the Gentile oppressors, Pastor Rockhill shows that Christ came not to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved. The world already lay under condemnation because of sin, and its deepest need was not judgment but salvation and deliverance.

In this sermon from John 3:9-15, Pastor Rockhill draws a sharp distinction between merely knowing about the truth and actually believing it. His central burden is that knowledge of Scripture, however vast, profits nothing apart from saving faith, and that such faith is impossible without the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. He illustrates this with the figure of Nicodemus, “the teacher of Israel,” a learned and revered Pharisee who nonetheless could not grasp the necessity of the new birth.