John 3:4-21

If we hold up the Son of God and His righteousness others will be drawn to Him.

It is not about our righteousness but about His.

The flesh refers to the physical body in contrast to what is spiritual. This becomes the fundamental change in living for God’s kingdom versus a human kingdom (paralleled by light and darkness throughout John’s Gospel). People are transformed by the work of the Holy Spirit.  John uses the metaphor of the wind as a power that is felt but unseen to explain the power of the Spirit of God. Faithlife Bible.

Jesus used the wind as an illustration of the work of the Holy Spirit. The Greek word translated Spirit also means “wind.” As the wind seemingly blows where it wills, so the Holy Spirit sovereignly works. Likewise, no one knows the origin or destination of the wind, but everyone knows it is there. The same is true of the Holy Spirit. Jesus rebuked not only Nicodemus, but the other Pharisees as well. New birth is by the Son, by the Cross, and by faith.

God’s love is not restricted to any one nation or to any spiritual elite. World here may also include all of creation. 

At His first coming, Jesus came so that the world through Him might be saved. When Jesus comes again, He will come in judgment upon those who refused His offer of salvation.To believe is to receive life and avoid judgment. A person who does not believe not only misses life, but is condemned already.  A person who comes to the light not only believes, but also openly identifies with the light so that his or her works can be seen as things done in union with God. NKJ Bible

John 3:4–21 (NKJV): Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

Nu 21:9

So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

Mk 16:16

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

Jn 1:18

No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

1 Jn 4:9

In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.