HTB Sunday Talks Podcast: Trinity Sunday
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MP3 length: 32:43
For the week following Trinity Sunday, here is a talk from Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) on John 3:1-16 – where Nicodemus is born again.
Naturally, all three Persons of the Trinity are mentioned in this passage: God the Father – in that much-loved verse, John 3:16: 'For God so loved the world that he sent his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.'
However, what Miles Toulmin, the speaker, is principally trying to bring out in this talk is that we need to learn to be born of water and the Spirit to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. For all of Nicodemus' initial confusion – natural, surely – by Chapter 7 he is tentatively speaking up for Jesus, and is mocked for it. By Chapter 19, he is the one who – along with Joseph of Arimathea – has the courage to take Jesus' body to tomb – 'something of eternal significance', since the Christian faith is founded on Jesus' resurrection from the tomb.
HTB is on the Evangelical end of the Church of England, and the speaker, Miles Toulmin, quotes some amazing physical and spiritual healings brought about in members of the HTB congregation by the Holy Spirit.
