On this Second Sunday of Lent, this sermon preached by Dr. Elizabeth Shively focuses on Jesus’s nighttime conversation with Nicodemus in John 3:1–16. Jesus speaks of a birth “from above,” a work of the Spirit that no one can engineer or achieve. To see the kingdom is to receive eternal life—God’s own life breaking into the present. Pointing to the Son of Man lifted up, this sermon explores surrender, faith, and the Lenten call to die to self so that we may truly live.