WeChat ESL Class on January 2, 2016 We Must Be Born Again.

A. High Lights of your week

B. Breaking News in the world

C. Short Story:  The Ugly Sister

Lisa grew up in a huge family. She had six older sisters. All of them were very beautiful. This made Lisa feel very bad. She knew she looked nothing like them. Lisa had even heard people say she was the ugly sister.

As teens the girls spent every weekend out on dates. Lisa always stayed home alone. Her sisters spent their days combing their hair and putting on makeup. Lisa spent her days reading and studying. Her sisters laughed at her a lot.

As adults, all her sisters got married young. They all had handsome husbands with no brains or jobs. Lisa went to college. She became a rich scientist and traveled the world. She was the one laughing now.

D. Idiom - Fill in the blanks

1. Lisa broke Michael's _________ when she refused to marry him.

2. Wow! It's raining ______  and ________ today! I wish I'd brought my umbrella to school!

3. Jean: How did you know it was my birthday today?

    Susan: Oh, a little ___________ told me!

4. When I told my mom I would be home around 2 am, she had a ______________!

5. Frank: Why didn't your brother ride the roller coaster with us?
    Sam: Oh, he's such a scaredy ___________! He won't get on any fast ride.

6. He was all ____________ when his boss talked.

7. He is a ___________ off the old block.

8. His comments threw a wet _____________ on the discussion.

9. The house fire meant we had to start from ______________.

10. They were __________ after three days of hard work.

11. Can you give me a ________ figure of what this project will cost?

12. The gangster told the cops they were ________ up the wrong tree in thinking he was responsible for the robbery.

E. Bible Story - John 3:1-21

You Must Be Born Again

1 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? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” 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,“Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you[f] 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.

For God So Loved the World

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. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

A. Write T (true) or F (false) on the line next to each sentence. 

 1. Nicodemus was a Jewish leader. 

 2. Nicodemus came to see Jesus at noon. 

 3. Nicodemus knew that God sent Jesus to teach the people. 

 4. Jesus said that Nicodemus must be born a second time. 

 5. Only God's Spirit can change a person into a child of God. 

 6. Nicodemus has gone up to heaven. 

 7. God loved the people of the word and sent his only Son. 

 8. Everyone who has faith in God's Son will be condemned. 

 9. People who do evil things love the light and come to the light.

B. Answer the following questions by writing a complete sentence. 

1. When did Nicodemus come to see Jesus? 

2. What did Nicodemus think about Jesus?  

3. What did Nicodemus need to do before he could see God‟s kingdom?  

4. Who will have eternal life?  

5. What did God send his Son into the world to do?  

6. Who is the light?