Conceived, Born, Suffered

Mission and Vision

Read the Apostles’ Creed

The Apostles’ creed is an ancient text that helped the church define some essentials to the faith in the midst of a turbulent time that sought to introduce false teachings to the community of Believers

It has served the church as an anchor point of orthodoxy.

A place where we can go back and see what the foundations of our faith have been so that we can hold tight to the truth of our God

A creed is simply a statement of belief

To believe in our context isn’t to mentally acknowledge as true… but to fully rest in the truth.

To allow the truth to change how you live your life

The Apostles’ Creed is the Church’s way, not to be churchy, but to declair what it is that we believe in the midst of so much craziness

We have some things we stand on as a community that has historically and biblically kept us grounded in times of chaos

Just to quickly recap

To allow the truth to change how you live your life

Last week Pastor Shelly did an awesome job preaching on Jesus being Lord!

Jesus Christ, meaning Messiah or annointed one, is the only Son of God

Meaning he is also God

Some versions say the only beggoten son, our Lord

Begotten isn’t created. You can only beget something that is the same kind of thing as you are

You create lesser things

As a human I can begat a human. I can create a doll

God begat God. Jesus is the son of God and therefore is GOD. Not lesser than, but co-equal and divine.

He is also our Lord.

Meaning Boss. He’s in control. in the great commission, Jesus tells us that ALL authority in heaven and on earth was given to him.

He is control of it all

he has FULL authority

That means if you are a Christian you Believe, remember to fully rest in, you beleive that Jesus is your Lord

He calls the shots.

You seek his will first

Today we are going to dive into the incarnationality of Christ

Say Incarnationality (I don’t think that’s a word, but I just made it one if not)

This is of utmost importance for the church today in the midst of the Coronavirus

What do we truly believe about the incarnation of Jesus?

The Creed says “Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate...”

It’s very important for you to understand that Jesus Christ

Yeshua ben Joseph

Was a real person Who walked the earth

That the immortal God indwelled flesh

That Jesus was 100% God

co-eternal… Omnipotent, omnicient,All Good

He was also 100% man

Born of the virgin Mary

Concieved by the Holy Spirit… not of the seed of man. Didn’t carry with him original sin

He was born in Bethlehem. Lived in Egypt. Raised in Nazareth

I Believe (fully rest and rely in the fact that) God chose to step into dirty broken life and put on the likeness of sinful man

Jesus, who we already established is God and our Lord

He was also a very real person who dwelled among the people of God

He went to Hebrew school

he was circumcised

He had freinds

he laughed with people

He wept with people

He lived in living color up close and face to face with the reality of all that humanity has to offer

Jesus presented us with pure love and gave us the image of the invisible God

It is in Jesus’ incarnational… that is his real life walking the earth, that we are able to see exactly what God is like

We know that God cares for the widows and orphans, Why? Because Jesus cared for the widows and orphans

We know that God seeks that which is lost

Because Jesus saught lost ones

We know that God cares for the broken, the scared, the lonely, the hurting, the mourning, the sick,

Because Jesus did all those things

The only sinless man, who was also fully God, lived and suffered among us

And we, his people… are called to follow in his footsteps

John 13:35 ESV

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

We believe that Jesus Christ was born through the miraculous, lived in obscurity, and suffered in shame. We believe that as he walked the earth he lived a life with us

As his followers we beleive that he still walks with us through the presence of the Holy Spirit and in his body, the Church

We are supposed to be living incarnationally

WE are supposed to be the hands and feet of Christ

Now more than ever, the church needs to be loving neighbor, checking on shut ins, praying fervently, living in bold faith, proclaiming the truth of God’s word

It is time for us to fully rest in the belief that our God and our King walks with us and is calling us to walk and live as his kingdom ambassadors even in the midst of pandemics, loneliness, heartache, and frustration.

Let’s pray