1 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,600 All right, if you have your Bible with you, open the Romans 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:11,900 chapter 11, Romans chapter 11, we are beginning our Advent 3 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:14,600 Series today. And well, if you're visiting 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,200 with us, I want to say, welcome to you. 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:17,600 You've picked a good time to come. 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,800 Visit, my name is Kyle a service lead Pastor here and we're 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,600 jumping into Advent, which is advent, just means coming. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,400 And when we talk about Advent, what we're talking about is the 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:34,100 Advent of Christmas time, the Advent of Jesus Christ. 10 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:37,100 First coming, we're talking about the coming of our Lord and 11 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:39,400 Savior Jesus Christ. As a child, as Patricia 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,800 mentioned earlier, born to the Virgin Mary, according to God's 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,100 plan for salvation. And so that's what we're fixing 14 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:50,500 our eyes on. I think, if we're honest with 15 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:52,900 ourselves honest, with one another Christmas time, as a 16 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:56,500 Time, full of distractions. It's a Time. 17 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:59,100 Full of lots of other things going on in our lives. 18 00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:01,400 It's a time, really? It's a time. 19 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,700 Kind of full of self-centeredness can be Anyway, 20 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,700 it highlights self-centeredness Even in our materialism, 21 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:11,000 especially that begins to kind of show up. 22 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:16,800 And so it's a time where the focus can be on very quickly and 23 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:18,700 I think it's exactly what the enemy wants. 24 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,100 It can be very quickly on everything except Christ 25 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:29,000 everything, besides, the reason for the season as the yard signs 26 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:33,100 say, right? And that's that's the case I 27 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:35,900 think in our world I think often times it's the case in the 28 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:39,600 church after the Christmas time, becomes about the idea of Christ 29 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,100 being born more so than about worshiping Christ as Lord. 30 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,300 Does that make sense. We can, we can almost idolize 31 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:50,900 the Virgin birth. We can almost idolize Christ 32 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:56,500 being born on a, on a silent night outside of the N or where 33 00:01:56,500 --> 00:02:00,200 there was no room for him and and we can idolize the things 34 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,100 about Christmas without understanding the god. 35 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,900 Who has come to us and that's what we don't want to do as 36 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:11,400 Christians. We don't want to idolize the 37 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,200 things about our God. We want to, we want to worship 38 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:15,900 God. We don't we don't want to 39 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:18,400 worship just the ideas about God. 40 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:24,800 We want to worship who God truly is and so Christmas time, is it 41 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,200 makes it easy? If you will to either Focus On 42 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:33,000 Christ because it's in the songs, it's in the decorations. 43 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:37,400 It's in the Patience. If you're, if you're paying 44 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:42,300 attention but it's easy to miss Christ in Christmas, it's easy 45 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:47,600 to miss God, the significance of the Season at Christmas time. 46 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:51,100 So it's my hope that through this Advent series, what will 47 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:54,700 get a chance to do is that it's going to draw our attention back 48 00:02:54,700 --> 00:03:00,900 to God, that our attention will be on God that our gaze may be 49 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:04,100 fixated if you will on the glory of God and the communion. 50 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:09,200 Coming of God, the son and so may the season. 51 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:14,000 My prayer is that the season be a time where we are all as 52 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,900 Christians as men and women boys and girls who love the Lord 53 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:21,900 Jesus Christ. Where we are worshipping God? 54 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,800 So, with our Advent series, I want us to do something. 55 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,300 Not really different, not really unique. 56 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,300 I hope to what we do normally, but I want us to talk about God, 57 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,500 I want us to focus on who God is. 58 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:43,900 I want us to Marvel at this, this fact For unto us. 59 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:50,400 God Has Come For unto us. God has come, this is what the 60 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,100 Advent season is about. And so the over the next few 61 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:58,200 weeks were going to study God. And we've broken it down the 62 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,400 series into these, these topics if you will. 63 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:05,100 The first one today, we're going to talk about the try Unity of 64 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:09,200 God or God exists in Trinity. Next week, we're going to talk 65 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,600 about the overflowing love of God. 66 00:04:13,300 --> 00:04:15,000 Week after we're going to talk about a god. 67 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,100 Unlike all others will be the Sunday before Christmas are 68 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:23,300 going to look at a God who comes to us, not a God who remains 69 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:29,000 distant from us. And then finally, as we set to 70 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 enter into the New Year, we will talk about how to have 71 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,400 fellowship with this Triune God. And so I'm excited for the 72 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,300 season, the Christmas lights, the trees, the all the decor, 73 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:44,200 the music, all of it gets me excited. 74 00:04:44,700 --> 00:04:47,700 I'd be a little happier if I wasn't having to wear summer 75 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,100 clothing this morning, right? But it is what it is. 76 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:52,700 We'll just pretend we're in Florida. 77 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:57,900 All right, let me pray for us and then we'll enter into this. 78 00:04:57,900 --> 00:05:02,800 I've got a whiteboard today and so I'm I invite Nathan or 79 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,900 Kimberly up here to draw for me. But I'll try Alan. 80 00:05:05,900 --> 00:05:09,000 I can't do a squirrel but your squirrel always kills it. 81 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,800 So I may may have you come dressed? 82 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,500 Draw a squirrel after church. Let's pray. 83 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:19,500 Heavenly Father. We love you and God. 84 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:26,300 We are approaching Really a topic that's that's bigger than 85 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:28,300 I am. It's bigger than any of us. 86 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:38,300 It's it far exceeds our level of understanding father, we are 87 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,200 limited to your own revealing of yourself. 88 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,900 As we think about the Trinity, we cannot say anything. 89 00:05:47,900 --> 00:05:50,800 We cannot assume anything outside of what you have said, 90 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,500 already outside of the way that you have revealed yourself. 91 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,800 Not only in creation, not only in the way that you act in the 92 00:05:57,808 --> 00:06:02,200 world but especially In your word. 93 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:09,900 Father, would you open our hearts today? 94 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:16,900 You open our minds today to see and to understand who you are. 95 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:23,100 Father, what we're not after is Morehead knowledge. 96 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,200 We're not after knowledge that puffs up. 97 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,300 Lord, I don't want us to walk out of here with head spinning 98 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:37,100 in such a way that we feel like we gained a bunch of knowledge 99 00:06:37,100 --> 00:06:39,100 and we're kind of wrestling to put together the pieces. 100 00:06:41,700 --> 00:06:44,500 It's My Hope father that by the help of your spirit today that 101 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:47,100 we walk out of here, maybe with head spinning. 102 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:53,300 But with hearts that are aflame, I pray that your spirit would 103 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:58,400 have noddin us a fire. A deep love of God. 104 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:08,100 I think the fact that you are trinitarian, Well, one that's 105 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:11,000 unique, there's no other trinitarian God. 106 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,300 So you are the one true. God, we confess that. 107 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:18,700 But the fact that you're trinitarian makes it possible 108 00:07:18,700 --> 00:07:24,800 for us to know you to understand you on some level, maybe even a 109 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:29,700 level that's growing and especially it makes it possible 110 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:34,900 for us to fellowship with you. And so, Lord help us today to 111 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:38,600 have hearts that are filled with worship hearts that are filled 112 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:48,000 with awe. as we behold the one true, God this morning, God. 113 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,500 I am finite. I am imperfect. 114 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,300 I am oftentimes unfaithful to you. 115 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:02,800 I am a sinner with darkened. Eyes gazing upon the 116 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:10,000 excellencies of God today. And so, the task is to daunting. 117 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,300 And I pray that your spirits speak today. 118 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:19,900 You help us to know you as only you could do Lord. 119 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:22,200 We ask these things in the name of your son. 120 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:23,800 Jesus Christ. Amen. 121 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:31,700 Amen. So there are a great many things 122 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:36,100 to be said about God and it is my hope that I can show you some 123 00:08:36,100 --> 00:08:40,900 of those today and what will look at but we cannot exhaust. 124 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,000 What is to be known about God. In fact, one of the Beauties 125 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,400 about heaven, one of the realities of heaven. 126 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:52,900 When you get to, when you as a Christian passed from this life, 127 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:57,200 from Death to life, eternal, one of the Beauties We Know About 128 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,100 Heaven is that we will go On growing in our understanding 129 00:09:01,100 --> 00:09:04,100 growing in our knowledge of God for eternity that there will be 130 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:07,200 new excellencies, new things. In many ways. 131 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:10,500 We will no longer see in part will see in full but there will 132 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:13,200 still be things to discover about God. 133 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,600 This is one of the realities, one of the beautiful realities 134 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:20,500 of Heaven. You'll never reach the end of 135 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:23,000 what is to be known about God. This is one of the things that 136 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,100 makes being a Christian now today in this life so wonderful 137 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:32,700 is you'll never get to the end of the knowledge of God. 138 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,600 You'll never go beyond who God is. 139 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,900 You'll never arrive at something and say well, I figured God out. 140 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:45,600 And if we could figure God out, totally, if we could totally 141 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,200 know who he is, we can know everything about him. 142 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:53,600 Well then I declare that he would cease to be God. 143 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:59,700 Something else must be God. And so, we would probably grow 144 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:01,600 tired of him. We would grow weary of him 145 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,100 because he would be known already. 146 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:07,500 We get bored with God, and some of you today, may find yourself 147 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:11,100 bored with God, but it's not because God has been exhausted. 148 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,900 It's that your Pursuit is waning. 149 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:19,700 Your pursued is felling. Maybe sin has crept in maybe 150 00:10:19,700 --> 00:10:23,100 something's keeping you from going deeper with the Lord. 151 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:28,600 And so today, I hope that some of that will be ignited in you 152 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:33,600 again, but we will not exhaust. God, that's one thing that Paul 153 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:39,100 gets out, in Romans chapter 11, it's one of the great short. 154 00:10:40,100 --> 00:10:42,900 Statements about God and it comes at the end of Romans 155 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:44,800 chapter 11. Now if you, if you've read the 156 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,400 book of Romans, what you know about Romans 1 through 11, is 157 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:52,700 that Paul is, he's exclaiming that the sovereignty of God 158 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:58,500 especially in Salvation And he's talking about the relationship 159 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:00,200 of God to Abraham. He's talking about the 160 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,700 covenants, he's talking about how righteousness is by faith 161 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:05,800 alone. In Christ alone, he's talking 162 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,300 about how God has come to us in Christ Jesus that he became for 163 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:11,500 us, what we could not be which is sin. 164 00:11:11,500 --> 00:11:14,300 So that we might become the righteousness of God and he's 165 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:17,400 laying it all out there. He's saying that man is sinful. 166 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,600 All mankind have fallen short of the glory of God and they're in 167 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,800 need of a savior, he goes on and on, And he gets to these 168 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:29,600 realities and Romans 8, we will never be separated from the love 169 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,100 of God. He talks about life in the 170 00:11:33,108 --> 00:11:35,700 spirit chapter six and seven and eight. 171 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:38,000 And chapter 9. We see the sovereignty of God in 172 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,800 ten over salvation, chapter 10. He talks about how he's using 173 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,300 mankind to preach the good news that men and women boys and 174 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:49,200 girls might come to know Jesus Christ and faith comes by 175 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,100 hearing hearing by the word of God. 176 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:55,000 How will they know unless they are told? 177 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,900 And so every believer is in commission to be a missionary or 178 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:03,100 at least missional in the way that they live spreading the 179 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:08,600 good news of Christ, Jesus. And chapter 11 is talking about 180 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,700 Israel. And And how he hopes for their 181 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:15,800 Redemption. And how there's a new Vine 182 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,600 that's been grafted in the Gentiles. 183 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:23,400 And, and then and then he just ends in Romans 11:33 3:36. 184 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:27,500 He says he just burst into doxology, do you know what? 185 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:29,800 Doxology is? Doxology is praise. 186 00:12:32,700 --> 00:12:35,900 You can't have doxology without theology because if you're 187 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,900 worshiping without right, understanding your likely 188 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:43,400 worshipping a false god, you're worshiping something you've made 189 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,700 up. That would be idolatry. 190 00:12:46,700 --> 00:12:49,600 And so worship with theologies laid out, 11 chapters of 191 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,800 theology. This is who God is in your 192 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:59,000 salvation, Roman Believers. And then he burst into doxology 193 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,700 and he says, Oh, The Depths and the riches and the wisdom, and 194 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:09,800 the knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his 195 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:15,100 judgments and how inscrutable his ways for who has known the 196 00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:19,400 mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor? 197 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,700 Another one another words who can know him? 198 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:24,900 Who could teach him something? Who could tell him something? 199 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,400 The verse 35 he says or who has given a gift to him that he 200 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,600 might be repaid. Another word who has given 201 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:37,300 something to God that. Now, God owes you The reverse is 202 00:13:37,300 --> 00:13:39,200 true, right? That God has given everything to 203 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:44,100 us, and so we owe him our lives. Gladly, oh, him our lives. 204 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:47,600 And then in verse 36 we have, what is? 205 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:53,300 I think one of the best short statements about the nature of 206 00:13:53,300 --> 00:14:00,700 God, he says for from him and through him, and to him are all 207 00:14:00,900 --> 00:14:06,500 things to him, be glory forever. Amen. 208 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:14,700 Wow, for from him is saying something about God, that all 209 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:19,700 things. Every thing in our world and the 210 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:24,000 universe everything in creation comes from God. 211 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,900 Now, we're not talking about just created things. 212 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:29,400 We're talking about salvation, we're talking about any kind of 213 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,600 blessings from the Lord, everything Paul is saying comes 214 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:38,100 from God. It doesn't just come from God 215 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:41,900 though. It comes through God, which 216 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:45,200 gives us an insight into how the Trinity works. 217 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,700 There's going to be different persons as we look at this. 218 00:14:48,700 --> 00:14:51,300 There's different persons in these persons have different 219 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,300 different roles if you will and expressing God. 220 00:14:57,300 --> 00:14:58,900 And I'll walk through this in a moment. 221 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,700 But through God, we receive all things from God, come all things 222 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:09,300 through God, we receive all things and to God, all things 223 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:13,800 exist, which is why Paul says to God be the glory forever. 224 00:15:13,900 --> 00:15:17,700 Amen. So everything exists for him. 225 00:15:18,100 --> 00:15:20,800 Everything comes from him, everything comes through him and 226 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,800 then exists to be given unto him. 227 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:29,400 Especially in ascribing Him. Praise ascribing Him Glory. 228 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:34,000 It's the last line there that really ought to stop us in our 229 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,400 tracks and lead us to worship God. 230 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:40,800 I don't think we can hear it too many times, so I'll read it one 231 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,700 more time for from him and through him. 232 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,200 And to him are all things, everybody say. 233 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:53,700 All all things. The thing I want to lay before 234 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:56,000 you today is this is that if you're taking notes, you can 235 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,300 write this down, God is self-existent. 236 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:05,100 For from him and through him. God is all sufficient. 237 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:09,600 So got a self-existent all-sufficient and he is trying. 238 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,600 From him through him to him all things. 239 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:22,400 Now it is the try Unity of God, that makes him self existent in 240 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:26,200 all sufficient. It's this tri-unity that 241 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,100 separates him from all other gods. 242 00:16:29,300 --> 00:16:32,200 And so when we consider the try Unity of God, there's there's 243 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,100 three things that we need to have on our mind. 244 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:36,300 There's three things that we need to think about. 245 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:38,000 When we think about the try Unity of God, we might call 246 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,800 these pillars. If you will foundations there. 247 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,600 What uphold the try Unity of God. 248 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,600 Their kid. Their core beliefs. 249 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,100 And we must believe these things to Christians. 250 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,500 The first is this that there is one Essence in God. 251 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:04,500 There is one Essence in God. The second is that there are 252 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:09,900 three persons in God. So there's one Essence three 253 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:13,599 persons. And then finally each person is 254 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:16,800 fully gone. These are the three pillars of 255 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,200 the Trinity that we must believe to be trinitarian Christians. 256 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,400 In other words, Orthodox Christians. 257 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,000 True Christians. There's one, Essence, three 258 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,300 persons in each person is fully God. 259 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:34,700 So let's consider this first one. 260 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:41,300 God is one in essence. How is it that from him and 261 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:44,600 through him and to him are all things. 262 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:48,300 Well, it's because of his essence. 263 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:58,300 The word essence means being God is his Essence God is. 264 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:05,300 His being God is God. That's about as close as we can 265 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:07,100 come to describing the essence of God. 266 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:09,600 I'm going to take some shots at it here in a little bit. 267 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:14,300 But ultimately, the best way to describe God is as God describe 268 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:18,000 God, when he said about himself, I am who I am. 269 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:20,600 I am. God. 270 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:24,300 God is describing his Essence. When he says, I am. 271 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:27,100 He's describing exactly who he is. 272 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:29,100 And we might say, well, how does that describe who he is? 273 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:33,600 Because he's saying, he is who he is and it's not dependent on 274 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,100 anything outside of him. He is. 275 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:41,100 So, if I say I am, my husband was dependent on something 276 00:18:41,100 --> 00:18:43,000 outside of me, is, depending on whether or not, I really have a 277 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,700 wife or not, right? I had a thought this morning as 278 00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:53,400 I was thinking about this sermon, this is like, you know, 279 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,200 boxing outside your weight class a little bit thinking about the 280 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,300 Trinity. And I thought to myself, well, 281 00:18:59,300 --> 00:19:01,700 you've done that at least once, before you convince Patricia to 282 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:07,700 marry you, right? It's okay to agree. but even 283 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:10,600 that pales in comparison to trying to understand the 284 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,700 trinity, But we are fighting outside of our weight class of 285 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:19,600 it here. But God's Essence, is his being 286 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,100 Essences. What you are. 287 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:25,100 It's now we can only speak of God's Essence by analogy because 288 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:29,200 we can't fully comprehend the essence of God in a physical 289 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:33,100 form. God is Spirit, John says, and 290 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:35,800 the Apostle, John writes in John 4:24. 291 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:42,100 Further God is not made of a bunch of ingredients. 292 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:43,900 God is not like your Christmas dinner. 293 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:46,300 There are not a bunch of ingredients that have come 294 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:51,000 together to make a meal. This is not what God is God. has 295 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:56,700 a being, he is a being and so the substance of God is God. 296 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:05,600 He is divine, amen. Now, there are these documents 297 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,300 in church history called confessions and and we can think 298 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:11,400 what we want about. Confessions maybe you've never 299 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,500 read a confession, maybe you have read confessions might be 300 00:20:13,508 --> 00:20:15,500 your for them, maybe you're against them, but one of the 301 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:20,100 things that make confessions helpful is that they summarize 302 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,500 core beliefs really well. They do a good job of 303 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:25,600 summarizing core beliefs of the Christian faith. 304 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:32,200 And so whether you see it in confessions or like the Apostles 305 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,700 Creed, Is one that maybe you guys are familiar with. 306 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:37,500 There's different Creed's out there that summarize what we 307 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:40,200 believe about God. And so a confession is similar 308 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,700 to a Creed except it's much more exhaustive. 309 00:20:43,900 --> 00:20:47,600 It's not a few paragraphs. It is hundreds of paragraphs. 310 00:20:48,700 --> 00:20:50,900 and so there's one called the London, Baptist confession of 311 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:56,500 faith and it describes God, And this way and I just want to read 312 00:20:56,500 --> 00:20:59,500 this to you says the Lord our God is one. 313 00:21:00,700 --> 00:21:06,400 The only living and true God. He is self-existent. 314 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:12,200 And infinite and being and Perfection is Essence. 315 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,500 Cannot be understood by anyone, but him. 316 00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:21,300 Okay, I'm going to read a little further, but I want to, this is 317 00:21:21,300 --> 00:21:23,500 another problem. This is a bit more like a Sunday 318 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:27,000 school class by the way. This is a another problem with 319 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:32,200 the Trinity is if we try to describe him, we tend to get 320 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,700 into heresies. You know, if you say that he is 321 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:38,400 like, he's like water, he can be icy can be Vapor, he can be 322 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:43,700 water or fluid, that's actually a heresy that's called modalism. 323 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:46,700 And so that is not a good way me. 324 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:51,600 I'm a father, I'm a husband. I'm a pastor would be modalism. 325 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:54,500 And so thatís, not three distinct persons. 326 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:57,100 I'm describing one person who does three different things. 327 00:21:57,300 --> 00:22:01,100 This is not what God is, God is we're not Believers in modalism, 328 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:05,100 modern-day example of modalism, is the United Pentecostal church 329 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:09,900 and their view of Oneness? God, which is to say that God 330 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:15,800 exists in three modes or moods. He can be the father, he can be 331 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,800 the sunning. Be the But he's not all three is 332 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,300 not distinct at different times. I've got three distinct persons. 333 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:24,100 So so this is a problem so we want to be careful, not to get 334 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:26,200 into that. You can equally fall into 335 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,900 trouble and start trying to draw things on a board for people. 336 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:34,200 And so, what were attempting to do is really dangerous. 337 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,500 I know you can feel the fear, right? 338 00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:40,900 So, but what I want to do is I want to, I want to try to show 339 00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:44,700 you in a picture, what it is, we're saying because this, this 340 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:48,400 helped me comprehend. And I'm still in this from, from 341 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,600 my professor in seminary, Jeff Johnson, because he draws really 342 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,400 good art on the board. Often post pictures of one day, 343 00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:00,400 but what I want to do is make a mark up here for his Essence, 344 00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:02,300 okay? So let's just assume that God's 345 00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:04,400 Essence. Is this circle? 346 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,800 Okay, this is God. This is this is his Essence, 347 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,000 okay? Now let me further describe for 348 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,200 you, what, I know that small for many of you back there, I 349 00:23:14,208 --> 00:23:17,600 apologize. We're being a back road. 350 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:22,800 Baptist doesn't pay off today. So God, this is the essence of 351 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,500 God. And let me explain to you a 352 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:29,300 little bit for continuing to read from the confession. 353 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:31,400 What we're saying about the essence of God. 354 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,400 Remember, it's only understood by God. 355 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:37,900 But it is who he is. It's his being, he is a 356 00:23:37,908 --> 00:23:44,300 perfectly, pure spirit. He is invisible and has no body, 357 00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:50,300 no parts, no changeable Passions. and so, when we read 358 00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:54,300 things like the right hand of God, the backside of God, these 359 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:59,000 are See if I can. Anybody remember the word you 360 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:05,400 learned in Sunday School? And throw for morphisms super 361 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,700 exciting work, right? I'll not try to spell it but 362 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:13,200 anthropomorphism is where we try to ascribe to God human 363 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,100 characteristics so that we can understand him better. 364 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:19,500 God speaks to us in his word and anthropomorphism is because we 365 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:22,400 are finite and he is not so he helps us to understand some 366 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,300 things about who he is, all right? 367 00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:27,700 But God is Spirit, you get to heaven. 368 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:31,800 You're not going to see God. The father. 369 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:38,400 You will see God, the son, amen. God the son will be present. 370 00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:42,700 And you'll know the presence of God the father. 371 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,800 So he's a perfectly pure Spirit. He has he's invisible. 372 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,200 No body parts, so changeable passions, he alone has 373 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,800 immortality dwelling in life that no one can approach. 374 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,400 Again, I'm still reading from the confession, here he is. 375 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,900 Unchangeable You might call this immutable, he's unchangeably 376 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:05,500 doesn't change. He's immense, which means he can 377 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,300 be near to us, but he is eternal all sorry. 378 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:10,500 Eminent would be near to us, he's immense, which means he's 379 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:13,600 large. Eternal means that he has 380 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:18,400 neither beginning, nor ending he's in comprehensible, not 381 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,000 totally but fully right we can know something. 382 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 When comprehend some things about God, which can't fully 383 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:30,400 knowing At least not now he's Almighty and every way he's 384 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,900 infinite he's absolutely holy. So we might just I'm just going 385 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:36,300 to write a few words up here to help us. 386 00:25:36,700 --> 00:25:44,800 He's holy he's eternal. He's wise. 387 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:52,200 He's free. God is not bound. 388 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,400 As we are bound, he's completely free. 389 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,400 And he's absolute. Amen. 390 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:07,000 He's absolutely. So what we're thinking of God 391 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,400 and right now, I'm just describing the Triune God, I'm 392 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,400 subscribing, the Father, the Son, the spirit. 393 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:15,300 This is some of the things, not all of the things, some of the 394 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:21,400 things about who God is, Okay, the this is the essence of God, 395 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,600 he's completely self existent. Now, the second thing we see 396 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,100 about God says, since is that he is all-sufficient, so he 397 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:30,800 self-existent, he's not dependent on anyone else and so, 398 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:36,200 therefore he is all sufficient. Now, again the London, Baptist 399 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,000 confession of faith is helpful. It says that God has all life. 400 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:42,600 Oh, Glory goodness and blessedness in and of himself. 401 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,900 He alone is also sufficient and himself. 402 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,500 You and I are not all sufficient and ourselves, we're dependent 403 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,200 one on God, but even more than that, were dependent on many 404 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,800 other things. God is Not. 405 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,800 So he is all-sufficient. He does not need any creature. 406 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,900 He is made. He's not needy of us. 407 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,400 Will talk about this more next week as we talked about. 408 00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:07,600 Creation. But we're a product of his love. 409 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,500 He has made, he's not need of any creature. 410 00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:17,000 He's made, nor does he derive any Glory from them so it 411 00:27:17,008 --> 00:27:20,700 doesn't doesn't gain his glory from creationist not in creating 412 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:23,900 that he gets Glory. Now it said he's glorious before 413 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,900 but what he does is he demonstrates his glory in 414 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:29,900 creation him, right? He demonstrates his glory in 415 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,200 them. The confession says, buy them to 416 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,800 them and upon them. He alone is the source of all 417 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,400 being and everything is from him through him and to him which 418 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,000 again comes from our passage in Romans 11:36. 419 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,800 He has absolute Sovereign rule over All Creatures to act 420 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:53,700 through them, for them, or upon them as he pleases and his side, 421 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:57,600 everything is open and visible. There's nothing hidden from God, 422 00:27:57,900 --> 00:28:02,600 he sees all things, always all the time from eternity past to 423 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,700 Eternity future. God is Bound by time, he's not 424 00:28:05,700 --> 00:28:08,500 bound by perception. He's not bound by anything. 425 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:12,100 He's Limitless. His knowledge is therefore 426 00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:17,400 infinite's and it's infallible. There's no fault in God. 427 00:28:18,700 --> 00:28:20,600 It doesn't depend upon any creature. 428 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:25,100 So for him nothing is contingent or uncertain. 429 00:28:25,100 --> 00:28:31,800 God is certain amen. How many of you want to worship 430 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,800 a wishy-washy? God, a God, who is uncertain? 431 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,800 As you are uncertain. Have you ever gone through an 432 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,100 uncertain time? Am I alone in this? 433 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,200 There's two of us. Cool, 34. 434 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,400 All right, now you get the drift. 435 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:48,200 Alright, it's everybody. We've all gone through 436 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,100 uncertainty and what we know about God is that he is not 437 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,800 uncertain. God is certain Because 438 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,700 everything is ordered by his hand. 439 00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:00,300 He's absolutely holy and all his plans. 440 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:05,000 Again, I'm reading and all his works and then all his commands. 441 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:09,300 And isil in the Baptist confession of Faith chapter 2 442 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:12,100 paragraph 2. Now this is the essence of God. 443 00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:16,700 What we see is that God is completely self existent in all 444 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:20,700 sufficient. He's completely self existent in 445 00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:22,800 all sufficient, just in his Essence. 446 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,500 Justin, who who he is. Let me read you some verses. 447 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,400 Therefore as student the eating of food offered to Idols, we 448 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,200 know that an idol has no real existence, and that there is no 449 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:40,000 God, but one 1st Corinthians, 8:4 First Corinthians 8:6 yet 450 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,000 for us. There is one. 451 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,100 God the father from whom are all things and for whom we exist and 452 00:29:45,100 --> 00:29:48,800 one Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things and through 453 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:53,200 whom we exist Deuteronomy 6:4 hear o Israel. 454 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:58,800 The Lord Our God. The Lord is one Exodus 3:14. 455 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:04,300 God said to Moses, I am who I am and he said, say this to the 456 00:30:04,308 --> 00:30:08,000 people of Israel, I am has sent you. 457 00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:15,200 Sorry, sent me to you. First, Timothy 1:17 to the king 458 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,700 of the ages Immortal invisible, the holy God. 459 00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:21,000 The only God be honor and Glory forever and ever. 460 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,900 Amen. You see what we're getting? 461 00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:27,100 I have this one God. This God is eternal. 462 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,900 Is all-sufficient, he self-existent? 463 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:37,500 For I the Lord do not change. Therefore, you are children of 464 00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:38,800 Jacob. Are not consumed. 465 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,300 Malachi 3:16 unchangeable, Jeremiah, 23, 23. 466 00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:47,300 Am I am I a god at hand? Declares the Lord and not a god, 467 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:51,000 far away, his Eminence, he's near to us. 468 00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:56,100 God can be both out there in both right here. 469 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:03,600 Isaiah 63 and one called to the other and said, holy holy, holy 470 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,600 is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his 471 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,400 glory. Everything exists to him, it's 472 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,400 full of his glory. Psalm 115 3, our God is in the 473 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,500 heavens, and he does all that. He pleases, there's nothing 474 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:22,600 forwarding the plans of God, there's nothing disrupting the 475 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,000 plans of God. He is in heaven, and he's doing 476 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:31,100 all that he pleases. One of the things that that were 477 00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:34,700 we try to help our children understand at an early age that 478 00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:38,900 God and Satan are not on the same playing field. 479 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:47,600 They're not both all-powerful all-knowing all presence, Satan 480 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,100 is limited. He's a Satan is created by God 481 00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:55,800 and so he's bound and ways that God is not bound. 482 00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:00,200 And so God and Satan are not up here together. 483 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,600 God, God is won the battle. Amen. 484 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:08,600 They do oppose one another. And make no mistake. 485 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,900 Satan is certainly wanting to influence. 486 00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:16,100 And destroy the lives of people, especially believers. 487 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,900 But God is one the Bible. Amen, he can be trusted. 488 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:25,900 He is faithful. John 5 26 for as the father has 489 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:28,200 life in himself, this is Jesus speaking. 490 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,000 So he has granted the son also to have life in himself. 491 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,100 All sufficient, 148 13, Psalm 148 13. 492 00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:41,800 Let them praise the name of the Lord for his name alone as 493 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,200 exalted. His majesty is above Earth and 494 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,800 Heaven Hebrews 4:13. And no creature is hidden from 495 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,800 his sights, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him 496 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:57,900 to whom we must give account. So not only is this God, holy 497 00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:04,500 and eternal, and absolute wise and free and so on and so on, In 498 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:07,800 other words, what we describe as if this God is unlike you. 499 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:14,000 He's unlike me, he's perfect. And I'm imperfect, and I must 500 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,600 give an account to him one day. You must give an account to him 501 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:24,100 one day. Psalm, 145 17, the Lord is 502 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:27,100 righteous in all his ways. Again, there's something I can't 503 00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:32,800 say about myself and he's kind and all his works. 504 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,300 I still can't say that about myself. 505 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,400 God is altogether different than you and I, and he's altogether 506 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,000 different than other gods as we'll see in the coming weeks. 507 00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:48,100 Now here's what we know about God is that he exists in three 508 00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:49,900 persons. So, this is pillar number two, 509 00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:53,400 he exists in three persons in regards to the Trinity, we might 510 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:58,200 use the word person and we were right to use the word person. 511 00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:00,800 But what we know about the word person is that it has a quite 512 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,900 different meaning now than it did, when it was first 513 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,100 established, its used differently. 514 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:12,000 As we're thinking about the person's of God, Then it is as 515 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,900 we think about person the word in everyday life, so it's not 516 00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:18,600 like me. Describing myself an allen me 517 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:23,199 and Alan are two separate individual and sorry, 518 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:28,000 independent individuals, right? We exist outside of one another 519 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:33,100 apart from one another. But God is not this way. 520 00:34:33,100 --> 00:34:37,900 His persons are not this way. God exists in three persons, the 521 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:40,400 Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 522 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:45,500 Another word that was introduced and the early church is they're 523 00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:51,699 trying to explain who God is. And that the Council of nicaea 524 00:34:51,699 --> 00:34:54,500 they begin to and AD 325, they begin to get some of these 525 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:57,100 things nailed down so that people could understand it. 526 00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:00,500 One of the things about that Council, that's quite funny is, 527 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:05,400 there's a There's a story about a man named Saint Nicholas. 528 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,800 Anybody knows? Saint Nicholas right? 529 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,900 You know, Saint Nicholas was a bishop in a place called Myra 530 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:16,000 and I know that Saint. Nicholas was a bishop in a place 531 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,800 called Myra Saint. Nicholas was present at the 532 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,000 Council of nicaea Council of nicaea was assembled because 533 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,300 there was a man named areas who was claiming that Jesus was not 534 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:29,500 Eternal, like God, is that he had, he had a beginning. 535 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:35,800 So he was saying he's not God. It's different than God is Not 536 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,900 eternally begotten. And so they assembled this 537 00:35:39,900 --> 00:35:41,900 Council because he's teachings were getting out of control. 538 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:45,200 They symbolize Council of nicaea to settle this debate and at one 539 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:50,500 point, in the debate, or in the, the talks, Saint Nicholas took 540 00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:54,700 offense to the fact that Arius was claiming that Jesus is not 541 00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:59,200 God. How could someone disrespect God 542 00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:02,900 this way? The Son of God this way and so 543 00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:08,100 Saint Nicholas Santa Claus goes across the room. 544 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:18,600 Slaps areas in the face. How dare you speak this way? 545 00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:24,000 About the son of God. It was a big deal, it's a really 546 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,000 big deal. And so he ends up on suspension 547 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,800 for a little while investigation done, he's reinstated. 548 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,400 But it's quite interesting Council of nicaea settled this 549 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,500 debate about the Trinity, it's settled. 550 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:37,900 This debate about is Jesus, the son of God. 551 00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:40,500 And one of the things that come out of, that is an understanding 552 00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:44,100 of God, the Father God, the son, and God, the spirit, being the 553 00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:52,300 three persons in God, The word they use was the word 554 00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:56,500 subsistence now. The word subsistence is this 555 00:36:56,500 --> 00:37:00,500 idea that it it is again, we're we got to get, we got to be 556 00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:03,800 careful with word pictures but it's the idea that this is under 557 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:11,800 the essence. that the essence is Is primary and the subsistence 558 00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:15,000 is something comes out of the essence of it, but it's not a 559 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000 part from, it's not separate from it. 560 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:22,500 And this is where we get the person's, this is where they 561 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:24,700 come in. So, one of the ways we met, if 562 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:29,300 we're going to draw this and border on heresy, one of the 563 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:32,400 things you might do is you would, you know, have your 564 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:37,600 circles in their lap? Where you have the father? 565 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:44,200 The son. Spirit. 566 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,400 But holy spirit. So what we know about the 567 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,200 Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is that they are of the 568 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,400 essence of God that they're not apart from the essence of God, 569 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,700 they exist, within the essence of God, right? 570 00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:05,700 And even drawing it this way, is not great, but what I'm trying 571 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:09,400 to show is that there are characteristics that the sun has 572 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,200 that the father doesn't have and that the spirit has that the 573 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,400 father, and the son don't have, there's characteristics about 574 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,300 how they operate so we might say that the son is God. 575 00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:22,900 The father is God, the holy spirit is God, but the spirit is 576 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:24,500 not the son. The spirit is not the father of 577 00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:26,300 the father is not the son. The father is not the spirit, 578 00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:29,500 and the sun is not the Father, the Son is not the Holy Spirit. 579 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:40,100 Clear as mud right there are three distinct persons in God. 580 00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:43,800 Again the London Baptist confession of faith is helpful 581 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:45,800 here. This was written in 1689. 582 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,300 So again, it was at a time where they're trying to Define things 583 00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:52,800 for the church especially as they were up against Roman 584 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,100 Catholicism. This Divine, an infinite being 585 00:38:57,100 --> 00:39:00,300 consists of three, real persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy 586 00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:02,900 Spirit, these three have the same substance power in 587 00:39:02,900 --> 00:39:05,300 eternity. Each having the whole Divine 588 00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:12,300 Essence, without this Divine Essence, being divided So each 589 00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:16,300 has the Divine Essence without it being divided. 590 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:22,000 So again, just using a few turns, not all the things that 591 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,100 we would use to describe the character of God the nature and 592 00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:27,500 character of God is attributes just using a few of his 593 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:29,200 attributes. We would say that the holy 594 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,100 spirit is all-wise, all wholly free Eternal absolutes. 595 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,000 We said the sun, possesses all of those things. 596 00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:39,000 The father possesses all the things because that is the 597 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,400 essence of God. There's nothing in his Essence 598 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,200 that the spirit doesn't have or that the sun doesn't have. 599 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,100 The father doesn't have. They all have the essence of God 600 00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:50,400 though. They might operate in a 601 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,700 different fashion again. Will see the their operation 602 00:39:53,700 --> 00:39:56,300 more in the coming days, coming weeks. 603 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,600 So let me go to some proof text. Again just to show three, 604 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,700 distinct persons, first John 5:7, for there are three that 605 00:40:04,700 --> 00:40:08,800 Testify the father, son and spirit Matthew 28:19. 606 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,600 Go therefore and Make Disciples of all Nations, baptizing them 607 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,500 in the name of the father, and of the son and of the holy 608 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:18,000 spirit's. Jesus would not say this. 609 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:24,800 If they were not all three God, second Corinthians 13:14 Again, 610 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,300 probably one of the best short statements about the Trinity 611 00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:31,900 that we have in scripture, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, 612 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,900 the love of God, the Father And The Fellowship of the Holy 613 00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:39,600 Spirit, be with you all, John 14 11. 614 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,400 Jesus is speaking says, believe me that I am in the father and 615 00:40:42,408 --> 00:40:44,800 the father is in me. Other words, we have the same 616 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,400 essence or else. Believe on account of The Works 617 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,200 themselves, John 1:14, the word became flesh and dwelt among us. 618 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,700 And we have seen his glory. Glory, as of the only son from 619 00:40:55,700 --> 00:41:02,100 the father full of grace and truth, Versus at Patricia. 620 00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:04,800 Read this morning, John chapter 1 verses 1 through 5. 621 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:09,600 We see that the word existed in the beginning with God. 622 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,800 The word is Jesus. John 1:18. 623 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,600 No one has ever seen God. The only God who is at the 624 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:23,000 father's side, but Jesus Christ has made him known to us John 625 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,100 15:26. But when the helper comes 626 00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:28,300 talking about the Holy Spirit, whom I will send, so, Jesus is 627 00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:32,300 speaking to you from the father. So, again, holy spirit is coming 628 00:41:32,300 --> 00:41:35,400 to you. I will send him from the father, 629 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,500 Jesus sang, the spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the father, he 630 00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:43,100 will bear witness about me. So again there's three distinct 631 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:48,400 persons. But all of the same Essence, 632 00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:52,300 Galatians 4:6 and because you are Sons, God has sent the 633 00:41:52,300 --> 00:41:54,200 spirit of his son into our hearts. 634 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:58,300 Crying Abba Father. So, because you are Sons, the 635 00:41:58,300 --> 00:42:01,500 father has sent the spirit of Christ. 636 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,000 The Holy Spirit into your heart that you too might cry of a 637 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,400 father, just as Christ has and maybe one of the best instances 638 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,800 is the baptism of Jesus Christ. When our Lord goes down into the 639 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,900 water and he comes up at John's baptism. 640 00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:20,000 The Holy Spirit descends on him like a dove. 641 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,800 And so we have the we have Jesus, the son, present the Son 642 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,500 of God present at the Holy Spirit, descending on him like a 643 00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:27,600 dove. And then we have the voice of 644 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,400 the father from Heaven speaking and saying this is my son in 645 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:36,300 whom I'm well pleased three, distinct persons each of these 646 00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:43,900 persons finally third pillar I'll Rush a little from here is 647 00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:48,900 fully God. Each person is fully God, the 648 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:51,000 father is not derived from anyone. 649 00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:58,200 In the beginning Genesis 1:1 declares was God. 650 00:43:00,300 --> 00:43:02,500 When was in the beginning, I don't know. 651 00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:09,200 Just in the beginning was God. He's neither forgotten. 652 00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:12,500 Nor is he proceeding from anyone? 653 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,000 The essence of God existed in the beginning, God has always 654 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,700 been. And we know about the sun is 655 00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,800 that he is eternally, begotten of the father, there's never 656 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,700 been a time without the son. The Holy Spirit proceeds from 657 00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:31,000 the father and the son is Jesus makes clear in John chapter, 16, 658 00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:34,900 all three are infinite's. All three are without beginning. 659 00:43:34,900 --> 00:43:39,300 All three our presence in creation have the spirit of God 660 00:43:39,300 --> 00:43:46,000 hovering over The deeps. You have Jesus. 661 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,700 The word is it subscribe to him later and especially in 662 00:43:48,707 --> 00:43:55,200 Colossians. And in John you have the word of 663 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:59,600 God speaking. And you have the father there, 664 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,100 orchestrating the whole thing. And so all three are infinite 665 00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:08,300 without beginning and therefore only one God who is not to be 666 00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:12,100 divided in nature or being. If these three are distinguished 667 00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:15,600 by several distinctive characteristics and personal 668 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,700 relations, and that's where I'm saying, we'll get into some of 669 00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:19,700 that as we go through the series. 670 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:25,600 So God is Not 3 and 1 in the same way, we don't have a 671 00:44:25,607 --> 00:44:28,700 contradiction here. It sounds like a contradiction 672 00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:31,200 but it's not a contradiction because he is, he is one 673 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,400 essence. But three persons in each of 674 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,600 these persons are the essence, or of the essence. 675 00:44:39,100 --> 00:44:42,600 And so each person is distinct in characteristics. 676 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:47,200 And in relation yet fully God. Amen. 677 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:55,300 This is the prime tenets of our faith. 678 00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:01,300 If we can understand the Trinity, we can be in fellowship 679 00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:06,700 with God. In a right way, in a way that is 680 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,200 delightful in a way that has life to it. 681 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,500 I don't think you have to fully understand it to be in 682 00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:14,200 Fellowship. I'm just saying, as you begin to 683 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,700 understand these things more and more, your fellowship flourishes 684 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,200 right. There are many people who don't 685 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,500 understand any of these things who are True Believers because 686 00:45:23,500 --> 00:45:27,500 God has saved them, amen. I'm just saying as we grow in 687 00:45:27,500 --> 00:45:30,900 our faith, we want to know these things so that we can have right 688 00:45:30,900 --> 00:45:32,500 fellowship with God. God. 689 00:45:35,300 --> 00:45:40,100 Isaiah 45:21 through 22 declare and present your case. 690 00:45:40,700 --> 00:45:44,400 Let them take counsel together who told this long ago, who 691 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:49,100 declared a devold was it? Not I the lord and there is no 692 00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:53,200 other God besides me a righteous God and a savior. 693 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,700 There is none besides me. Everybody. 694 00:45:57,700 --> 00:46:04,200 Listen, turn to me and be saved. All the ends of the Earth for I 695 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,300 am God, and there is no other thus, says the Lord, the king of 696 00:46:07,300 --> 00:46:10,300 Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts. 697 00:46:10,500 --> 00:46:13,500 I am the first and I am, the last besides me, there is no 698 00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:16,500 God. Who is like me, let him Proclaim 699 00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:18,300 it. Let him declare and said it 700 00:46:18,300 --> 00:46:20,700 before me. Since I appointed an ancient 701 00:46:20,700 --> 00:46:23,800 people, let them declare what is to come and what will happen, 702 00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:28,700 fear not nor be afraid. I have not told you for have I 703 00:46:28,700 --> 00:46:31,400 not told you from of old and declared it. 704 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,200 And you are my Witnesses. Is there a god besides me? 705 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,000 There is no Rock. I know. 706 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,400 Not any God says. Amen. 707 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:48,000 Exodus 15:11 who is Like You O Lord. 708 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,600 Among the gods who is like you Majestic in Holiness. 709 00:46:51,900 --> 00:46:55,300 Awesome and glorious Deeds doing wonders. 710 00:46:57,100 --> 00:47:00,800 Brothers and sisters. I asked you, who, who is like 711 00:47:01,100 --> 00:47:10,300 our God No. Deuteronomy 435 to you. 712 00:47:10,300 --> 00:47:14,300 It was shown that you might know that the Lord is God, there is 713 00:47:14,300 --> 00:47:18,200 no other besides him Deuteronomy, 32 29. 714 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:24,600 See now that I even I am he and there is no, God beside me, I 715 00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:28,800 kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, and there is none 716 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,700 that can deliver out of my hand, amen. 717 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,800 For Samuel to to there is none. Holy like the Lord for there is 718 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:40,600 none besides you. There is no Rock like our God 719 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,000 first Kings 860. That all the peoples of the 720 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,900 earth. May know that the Lord is God, 721 00:47:46,900 --> 00:47:51,400 there is no other. Amen. 722 00:47:53,900 --> 00:47:58,300 There is one God. And he is the God and this the 723 00:47:58,300 --> 00:48:02,400 Christian God and this God is one in essence, three in persons 724 00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:06,200 all of which are equally God, fully God. 725 00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,700 He self-existent, he's all sufficient, he's Triune, and he 726 00:48:11,700 --> 00:48:16,000 is worthy worthy of our worship. He alone is worthy of our 727 00:48:16,008 --> 00:48:18,500 worship. He alone is worthy of ascribing 728 00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:25,000 Glory to our lives. Are meant to be spent for his 729 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,600 glory and make no mistake, whether you live for God, or you 730 00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:34,800 live against God, you will bring God glory because he is just in 731 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:42,800 all his judgments. We need to be a people who amen 732 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,300 a little better. He is just and all his judgments 733 00:48:46,300 --> 00:48:51,800 you will not you will not rebel against God in such a way that 734 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:55,300 you proved him to be a liar or prove him to be false. 735 00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:00,600 You will not mock. God, God sits in the heavens and 736 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:05,600 he does all that, he pleases. There is one true God. 737 00:49:08,100 --> 00:49:10,200 Now we're going to learn more in the coming weeks about his 738 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:14,100 character. I encourage you but because some 739 00:49:14,100 --> 00:49:18,100 of this seems a bit maybe heavy-handed that this is who 740 00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:21,800 God is but we must understand who God is before we can talk 741 00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,200 about the overflowing of God's love. 742 00:49:25,300 --> 00:49:29,100 It just won't matter to us if we don't know who God is so we must 743 00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:32,400 have an understanding of who God is if we want to know the love 744 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,500 of God and next week, we're going to talk more and more 745 00:49:36,900 --> 00:49:39,800 about this overflowing love of God. 746 00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,900 The point of today the point of knowing who God is is that he's 747 00:49:46,900 --> 00:49:49,700 worthy of our worship, he's worthy of our service. 748 00:49:49,700 --> 00:49:53,600 He's worthy of our obedience and whatever else he might ask us to 749 00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:57,300 do. Whatever else he might demand of 750 00:49:57,300 --> 00:49:59,100 us. He's worthy of it. 751 00:50:00,100 --> 00:50:03,000 And the thing is is you can trust that his demands are good 752 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,000 and right because he's righteous. 753 00:50:05,300 --> 00:50:07,600 He's holy, he's perfect, he's not evil. 754 00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:15,100 Again, the confession in Chapter 2 paragraph. 2, it says angels 755 00:50:15,100 --> 00:50:19,100 and human beings 02, him all the worship, all the service, all 756 00:50:19,100 --> 00:50:22,000 the obedience that creatures Odes of the Creator and whatever 757 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,800 else. He's pleased to require of them. 758 00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,600 In Chapter 2 paragraph 3. It says the truth of the Trinity 759 00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:35,300 is the foundation of all of our fellowship with God and of our 760 00:50:35,300 --> 00:50:40,300 comforting dependence on him. The beauty of the Trinity is 761 00:50:40,300 --> 00:50:42,500 that we know that he is not like us. 762 00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,500 The beauty of the Trinity is that he is unlike all other 763 00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:48,800 gods. The beauty of the Trinity is 764 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:53,900 that he's Dependable. He is worthy of our worship. 765 00:50:54,700 --> 00:50:59,900 He's worthy of Our Lives. He's worthy of our faith or 766 00:50:59,900 --> 00:51:03,800 trust. And if you haven't depended on 767 00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,300 God, yet, if you haven't put your faith in God, yet for the 768 00:51:07,308 --> 00:51:10,900 Salvation of your sins. Then today is the day of 769 00:51:10,900 --> 00:51:14,900 salvation don't, wait, don't tarry place. 770 00:51:14,900 --> 00:51:16,400 Your faith in Jesus Christ today. 771 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:19,500 God, the Father sent God, the son. 772 00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:21,200 Again, I'll get into more of this but I can't leave you 773 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:25,500 hanging. I read a story. 774 00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:30,400 Once Martyn, lloyd-jones fantastic preacher used to 775 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,400 preach a, an Evangelistic sermon in the mornings, and then on 776 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,900 Sunday, well thing is other way around. 777 00:51:35,900 --> 00:51:38,000 But on Sunday nights, he would kind of bring a close to 778 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,600 whatever Cliffhanger he left on Sunday mornings. 779 00:51:41,700 --> 00:51:44,600 Well, between Sunday morning and Sunday night, some fires broke 780 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,400 out across England. And many of the people who were 781 00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:51,000 present Sunday morning were not present Sunday night. 782 00:51:52,100 --> 00:51:54,900 Many of which died. And Martin lloyd-jones said, I 783 00:51:54,900 --> 00:51:58,000 never again left the congregation hanging. 784 00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:01,600 He had to know. I don't want to leave you 785 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:04,500 hanging this morning, there's a lot to say and we will say, but 786 00:52:04,500 --> 00:52:07,100 what we need to know this morning is that God is worthy of 787 00:52:07,100 --> 00:52:12,500 faith that you should place your faith in God. 788 00:52:12,500 --> 00:52:15,600 God sent his only son Jesus Christ to be what you couldn't 789 00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,600 be which is perfect to die death, which you couldn't die. 790 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,100 A perfect death. That would that would become the 791 00:52:23,100 --> 00:52:25,500 atonement for sins. You couldn't do that. 792 00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,500 So that you might believe in Jesus Christ and be saved today. 793 00:52:31,100 --> 00:52:36,900 This is why a baby was born. In a Manger as the Legacy goes 794 00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:42,100 but a baby was born is that man kind might be saved through 795 00:52:42,100 --> 00:52:47,100 Jesus Christ. The son of God, the second 796 00:52:47,100 --> 00:52:51,100 member of the Trinity and so the Trinity is the foundation for 797 00:52:51,107 --> 00:52:53,100 worship, is the foundation for dependents. 798 00:52:53,100 --> 00:52:56,900 Psalm 148 1. Through 14, praise the Lord, 799 00:52:56,900 --> 00:52:58,900 praise the Lord from the heavens. 800 00:52:58,900 --> 00:53:02,000 Praise Him in the Heights, praise him all his angels, 801 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,800 praise him. All his His host, Praise Him, 802 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:07,500 sun, and moon. Praise him. 803 00:53:07,500 --> 00:53:09,800 All you shining stars. Praise Him. 804 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,900 You highest heavens and you Waters above the heavens. 805 00:53:13,100 --> 00:53:16,500 Let them praise the name of the Lord for he commanded, and they 806 00:53:16,500 --> 00:53:19,700 were created and he established them forever and ever. 807 00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,600 He gave a decree. And it shall not pass away. 808 00:53:23,700 --> 00:53:27,200 Praise the Lord from the earth. You great sea creatures, and all 809 00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:32,400 deeps fire, and hail Snow, and Miss stormy, wind fulfilling his 810 00:53:32,500 --> 00:53:35,600 word, even the storms. Sprays, the name of God 811 00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:40,200 mountains and all Hills fruit trees and all Cedars beasts, and 812 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:44,500 all livestock creeping things, and flying birds Kings of the 813 00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:48,700 earth, and All Peoples, princes, and all rulers of the earth, 814 00:53:49,100 --> 00:53:53,700 young man and maidens together, old men and children, let them 815 00:53:53,700 --> 00:53:57,100 praise the name of the Lord, for his name. 816 00:53:57,100 --> 00:54:01,400 Alone is exalted. His majesty is above Earth, and 817 00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,900 Heaven. He has raised up a horn for 818 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,900 People praise for all his Saints for the people of Israel who are 819 00:54:07,900 --> 00:54:11,000 near to him. Praise the Lord. 820 00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,900 All ye people of God, praise His name. 821 00:54:14,700 --> 00:54:20,500 God is so unlike you He's worthy of praise. 822 00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:25,900 He is faithful when we are unfaithful. 823 00:54:27,500 --> 00:54:30,800 Because he is not dependent on anything outside of himself. 824 00:54:33,100 --> 00:54:36,800 And so, I beg you to come to God and faith today. 825 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:42,700 If you have not, and if you are a Believer today, let your heart 826 00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:48,400 soar and praise, follow the command of Psalm 148, praise 827 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:55,100 him, all you peoples of the Earth. amen, would you stand 828 00:54:55,100 --> 00:55:04,500 your feet worship team, you can come Get rid of my beautiful 829 00:55:04,500 --> 00:55:17,000 artwork. I want to pray for you and then 830 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,800 we're going to sing a new new song, Right? 831 00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:27,600 Oh, Come All Ye unfaithful. And the words are incredible, 832 00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,500 but it's an invitation. As those who are unfaithful to 833 00:55:30,500 --> 00:55:33,300 come to The God, Who is faithful this morning. 834 00:55:33,900 --> 00:55:35,400 Amen. So I invite you to sing it with 835 00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,400 us to spend some time with the spirit and prayer. 836 00:55:39,300 --> 00:55:41,500 Let me pray for you. Heavenly Father, we love you, we 837 00:55:41,500 --> 00:55:43,600 thank you for your word. Thank you. 838 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,700 God. That you were unlike all the 839 00:55:45,700 --> 00:55:50,100 others that you alone are God, you're the one true God. 840 00:55:50,100 --> 00:55:54,400 And so our hearts today, abound with praise God, would you feel 841 00:55:54,500 --> 00:55:58,000 Plus with passion and desire. Help us to burn within that we 842 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,100 might know you love you, pursue you. 843 00:56:02,500 --> 00:56:06,200 More fully. God, would you rid of our rid, 844 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:10,200 Our Lives of anything. That's contrary to your nature. 845 00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,800 It's contrary to righteousness, rid us of all sin, all 846 00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,300 unrighteous Behavior, unrighteous thoughts. 847 00:56:16,300 --> 00:56:20,300 Lord drive it far from us that we might worship you in spirit 848 00:56:20,300 --> 00:56:26,800 and Truth. Father, I pray for anyone in 849 00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:30,500 here. Who doesn't know you as Savior 850 00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:32,200 has not placed their faith in you. 851 00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,400 Would you grant them salvation today? 852 00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:40,700 Would you call them to yourself? If they too might Delights in 853 00:56:40,700 --> 00:56:44,500 God that they too much surrender themselves to you too. 854 00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:49,500 Love you forever to know you fully Lord. 855 00:56:49,500 --> 00:56:51,000 We love you. We thank you for the Light of 856 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:55,000 Christ that has Dawn and the birth of your son. 857 00:56:55,800 --> 00:57:01,300 We celebrate that at this time, every year it's on our hearts 858 00:57:01,300 --> 00:57:06,100 and it's on our minds. But help us father to not forget 859 00:57:06,500 --> 00:57:10,400 that, that baby born is the very Son of God, the King of Kings, 860 00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:15,700 the Lord of hosts. There's no name given among men. 861 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,800 No other name given among men by which we must be saved. 862 00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:21,900 Help us to call on the name Jesus Christ. 863 00:57:22,900 --> 00:57:25,000 Father, we love you, amen. Father, we love you, amen.