All right.
Please turn in your Bibles to 2 John.
2 John, and when you get there, please go to verse 3.
2 John, verse 3.
The title of my sermon is One God in Three Persons.
One God in Three Persons.
So I don't know how many of you
have run into this particular denomination outsolening.
They're called apostolics.
Has anybody ever met these people outsolening?
So in my personal opinion, they're
some of the most annoying people to talk to.
If you want to know how I feel about them,
it's the same way that Pastor Anderson feels about Mormons.
Just because every single one that I've ever talked to,
they want to hear the gospel, but literally none of them
get saved, because they either argue with you,
or you show them something so clear and easy
to understand the Bible, and everything just
goes over their head.
And basically what they are is their oneness Pentecostals.
So they deny the Trinity.
They believe that Jesus Christ is God the Father,
which is a false doctrine.
And the Bible teaches that we must
believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
in order to be saved.
Anybody who does not believe that Jesus is the Son of God
is going to go to hell.
And it's not just claiming to believe it,
but you actually have to believe in your heart.
Just like there's a lot of people out there who will give
lip service to faith alone.
They'll say, oh, yeah, we believe salvation's by faith
alone.
But if you don't repent of your sins,
you don't make in the Lord of your life,
you don't do good deeds, you don't keep the law,
you're not actually saved.
So just because they say, oh, we believe in faith alone,
that doesn't mean they actually do.
Because the other things that are coming out of their mouth
reveal that they don't actually believe that.
The Bible says in John 20, verse 31,
but these are written that ye might
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that believing ye might have life through his name.
So the Bible says that part of believing to have life
is that believing that Jesus is the Son of God.
1 John 5, verse 5, who is he that overcometh the world,
but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
And 1 John 5, 12, he that hath the Son hath life,
and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
So if somebody doesn't believe that Jesus
is the Son of God, again, they don't have life.
They're not saved.
So look down your Bibles in 2 John, verse 3.
This is a scripture that I usually show these people.
And it's, again, something that's very clear.
I think it's something that's very simple,
but everything just goes over their head.
I don't know what it is, if they're demon-possessed
or what it is.
I don't know.
But 2 John, verse 3, grace be with you.
Mercy and peace from God the Father
and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father
in truth and love.
Now, just one experience I had with one of these apostolics
one time is I asked them a question,
because they said they weren't sure if they believed
that in the Trinity.
So I asked them, are you your father?
Like, are you your dad?
And is your dad you?
It's a simple question that a four-year-old
would be able to answer, right?
You're not the same person as your dad.
And then they just looked at me like I was insane
or something.
They just kind of stared at me like a deer in headlights,
like they didn't understand what I just said.
The fact that the Bible calls Jesus Christ the Son
of the Father means that he's not God the Father, right?
That God is three different persons, right?
And then some of them, they'll object to this idea
of there being multiple persons.
They'll say, oh, that's not in the Bible.
Well, Hebrews 1, verse 3, who being the brightness
of his glory and the express image of his person
and upholding all things by the word of his power
when he had by himself purged our sins sat down
on the right hand of the majesty on high.
So the Bible does use this word person.
It's saying that Jesus Christ is the express image
of his person, his referring to God the Father, right?
So how can Jesus be the image of the Father
if he is God the Father, right?
It doesn't make any sense, but these people, they just
have cognitive dissonance.
Now obviously, there's a chance these people will get saved.
That's why I'm giving you these verses.
I think that these verses are helpful
to explain this doctrine, and some people might
just be confused about it, about the Trinity or whatever.
I met some people before.
They weren't apostolics, but they might not have
just understood what the Trinity is.
So you just have to, sometimes you have to be patient
with people and you have to show them these verses
and other verses.
Another good one is John chapter 8, verse 16.
Jesus says, and yet if I judge, my judgment is true
for I am not alone, but I am the Father that sent me.
It is written in your law that the testimony
of two men is true.
I am one that bear witness of myself,
and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
So he's talking about two different persons here.
He says, I am one, and the Father that sent me,
he is another person.
He also bears witness of me.
The testimony of two men is true.
So God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
and of course we know there's a Holy Spirit as well
from other scriptures.
So just all that to say that there's one God,
but God exists as three different persons,
and Jesus Christ, he's not God the Father,
he's the Son of God, and anybody who doesn't believe that
is gonna go to hell.
So yeah, we should be preaching this to people,
out-souling of course,
because a lot of people are confused on this.
So let's pray.
Father in heaven, please fill the next preacher
with your spirit, and please help everybody
to be able to preach your word faithfully and accurately.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.