Soli Deo Gloria
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Vision 2023
Vision 2023
"We are a family of Jesus seeking believers home to 50 members who are actively participating in discipleship and functioning within our designated pathway. We are a safe place for the hurting and suffering to receive hope and care. Currently, we are entering into our third generation of disciple making. By the grace of God, we have celebrated 10 baptisms this year. We are engaged in mission and ministries that allow us to reach our neighborhoods and the nations."
20 Members
15 Baptisms
Mission/Ministry
Wednesday Nights
Food Bank
Uganda
New Mexico
Announcements
Announcements
Mission Trips
Reading Plan
Wednesday Nights (Fasting)
Introduction
Introduction
The 5 Sola’s
Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone)
Sola Gratia (Grace Alone)
Sola Fide (Faith Alone)
Solus Christus (Christ Alone)
Soli Deo Gloria (To the Glory of God Alone)
Tom Richter - “My job should be easy!”
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
― A.W. Tozer
36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.
I. From Him - He is Creator
I. From Him - He is Creator
Genesis 1
Day 1 - Genesis 1:3
Genesis 1:3 (NASB95)
3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
Day 2 - Genesis 1:6
Genesis 1:6 (NASB95)
6 Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
Day 3 - Genesis 1:9
Genesis 1:9 (NASB95)
9 Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
Day 4- Genesis 1:14
Genesis 1:14 (NASB95)
14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;
Day 5 - Genesis 1:20
Genesis 1:20 (NASB95)
20 Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.”
Day 6 - Genesis 1:24
Genesis 1:24 (NASB95)
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.
Genesis 1:26 (NASB95)
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Day 7 - Genesis 2:1-3
Genesis 2:1–3 (NASB95)
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. 2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
II. Through Him - He is Sustainer
II. Through Him - He is Sustainer
Our Goodness (Law)
2 Corinthians 3:5 (NASB95)
5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,
Our Ministry
2 Corinthians 4:7 (NASB95)
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;
Our Source
John 15:5 (NASB95)
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
Psalm 46:1-3 - He is qualified because He is our refuge and strength
Psalm 46:1–3 (NASB95)
1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea; 3 Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah.
III. To Him - He is Holy
III. To Him - He is Holy
Holy - set apart; commanding respect; awesome; subject to special treatment; separate from human infirmity, impurity, and Sin.
Psalm 46:10–11 (NASB95)
10 “Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” 11 The Lord of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.
Matthew 5:16 (NASB95)
16 “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
1 Corinthians 10:31–33 (NASB95)
31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; 33 just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.
Conclusion
Conclusion
the fall of man…”Has God really said...
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; 3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’ ” 4 The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die! 5 “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”