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Announcements
Tornado Relief Efforts
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Our church did contribute to the cleanup efforts in Pembroke
Most of the work that is left is construction
Shirley’s Ramp
We got it done in one day
Thank you to all who came and helped, and those who prayed
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Business Meeting Next Week
My goal in this next business meeting is to pass our 2022 budget
I am also hoping to adopt a 3-year plan to give us direction into the future
We are also going to take up a special offering next week for our benevolence fund.
A Benevolence fund is used to support those in the local community who are in need such as:
Buying a family groceries
Putting gas in someone’s tank
Paying someone’s electric bill
This Friday we will meet here at 2:00 for our Christmas Eve Service
We will be joining Hilldale in Clarksville
If you would like to go, be here at 2:00
INTRODUCTION
We are going to talk about a very important subject today, “The Son of God”.
Technically this is our Christmas service since we celebrate Christmas this coming Saturday.
And if you notice these first three chapters have been all about Jesus.
Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah
Jesus the King of the World
Jesus’s Kingdom
And now we will see Him declared as the Son of God.
Our topic this morning is going to be the Trinity.
Jesus was declared the Son of God and this is why the Pharisees wanted to kill Jesus.
They claimed there is only one God and it was not Jesus!
But I assure you they were wrong and I am going to show you why today.
Jesus is so much more than a perfect sacrifice for humanity.
He is the eternal Son of God.
“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God” (John 1:1-2).
This matters because how we think about God determines how we live for God.
The more we understand who God truly is it magnifies what God has done for us.
~Prayer for a better understanding of the Trinity~
MESSAGE
Matt 3:13-17
This is the first time in the New Testament that we see the Trinity in one scene.
The Son of God is being baptized by John
The Spirit of God descends and lights upon him
And God the Father speaks from heaven declaring Jesus to be the Son of God.
Question: Is the Trinity a doctrine that began in the New Testament?
Answer carefully!
No, the entire Bible testifies of our Triune God.
The Entire Bible testifies of the Trinity
James 1:17 “Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.”
God never changes
God has been the same from all of eternity.
The God in the OT is the same as God in the NT…the only difference is our view of Him.
Let me point out a few Scriptures where we see the Trinity in the OT
Gen 1:26
Notice God refers to Himself in the plural, “Us”
This is not angels, or heavenly beings, because only God can create something.
This is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Col 1:16-17 “For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”
John 1:3 “All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.”
The Trinity was there at Creation…God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 110:1
Notice David mentions two Lord’s in this verse
In this verse David, speaking by the Holy Spirit hears a conversation between two persons: The LORD (Yahweh) and another Lord to come and sit at His right hand.
Who is this other Lord?
Where did Jesus ascend to?
The right hand of the Father
This is the verse that Jesus quoted to silence the Pharisees about who the Son of David truly is.
He is the Lord!
But there’s much more than this!
The entire sacrificial system pointed forward to the sacrificial Lamb
The distinction between the names: Elohim and Yahweh
Psalm 22 “My God, My God why have you forsaken Me?” is a prophecy of the suffering of Jesus”
The suffering servant in Isaiah is speaking of Jesus
And on and on and on
All of these are Trinitarian Scriptures
So we can clearly see that the Trinity is not a New Testament doctrine, but who God is.
The reason we see it clearly now is because we are standing on this side of the cross
Heb 1:1-2
The coming of Christ perfected the revelation of God in the OT
We can see far more clearer looking back than they could looking ahead.
Even when we look into the OT today, these Scriptures seem so clear to us because we are looking at them after the incarnation.
Anyone ever do those pencil mazes?
A lot of restaurants give them out to kids to keep them occupied
And we were somewhere the other day and they gave Judah one.
So I thought I’d help him out and do it for him.
It took me three tries to get it right.
I want to tell you a secret on how to get it right every single time
Start at the finish line and work your way back
You will always make the right turns and it’ll only take once
It’s the same way with the Trinity
Looking back we can see it so clearly, but looking forward they saw it so dimly
APPLICATION
Just because we do not fully understand something today does not mean we should reject it..
There are so many things about God we will never understand on this side of eternity!
Why the trials?
Why the sufferings?
Why do things have to be so hard?
Why are so few getting saved?
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