Right we're doing a Sunday morning series as you know called what we
believe what we believe we've been going through our statement of faith and
explaining what we believe and why we believe it so far we've looked first at
salvation what we believe about salvation then we looked at the Bible
what we believe about the Bible and this week we're going to look at the Trinity
so the title of the sermon this morning is what we believe about the Trinity
what we believe about the Trinity I'd like to pray before we continue with the
sermon father thank you for your word Lord thank you that your word is very
clear about the things that we believe Lord and right now we're going to look
at the nature of God the Godhead Lord today the Trinity help me to just preach
this this sermon just very clearly very accurately Lord I'm in a way that people
just really understand what your words saying and really really be able to just
remember the these clear verses in the Bible Lord help everyone to have
attentive ears film with your spirit please Lord in Jesus name we pray Amen
okay so we like I said we've been going through our statement of faith and we
have quite a long statement about the Trinity for a few reasons it's very long
there's a lot of false doctrine about the Trinity out there our statement says
this we believe in the Trinity which is a belief that there is one God that
exists in three persons the three persons are members of the Godhead of
the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit the three members of the Godhead a
distinct and separate persons each possessing their own body intellect and
will the three are all equally God and eternal meaning that they have
eternally existed as three persons the three members of the Godhead voluntarily
submit themselves under a chain of command we acknowledge that each member
of the Godhead is not partially God or a part of God but believe that each
member is all God and all of God we reject partialism the belief that each
member of the Godhead is a part of God that comes together to make up one God
we reject polytheism the belief that each member of the Godhead is a separate
God we reject oneness a belief that each member of the Godhead is the same person
playing different roles of our proof verses of Genesis 1 26 27 John 1 1 to
3 Colossians chapter 2 and verse 9 of 1st John 5 7 and in case you're
starting to switch off already and you think it is does it sound so exciting
look doctrine is important all right doctrine is important who God is the
nature of God is important and if you can't it's something that you've never
been that interested in hopefully gonna learn a bit today and regardless that
you know we need to we need to know why we believe in what we believe and today
you're going to understand that about the Trinity hopefully so we believe in
the Trinity at this church and I'm gonna give you a simplified reason as to why
we believe that God is a Trinity because we're saved okay because we're
saved and because we believe the Bible for what it says okay so therefore we
believe what the Bible says that how God is revealed through the Word of God and
just to make it clear on that point yeah there are those that change the truth of
God into a lie in various ways and there are those and we just talked about some
of those in that statement of faith and there are those that blindly follow
those lies like the members of false religions okay they're following the
lies they're not those people change the truth got into our however there are
saved people there are babes in Christ that maybe just don't explain the truth
that well okay that say something that maybe doesn't sound exactly right yeah
it doesn't mean that there's some Trinity denying heretic okay because
some people can go too far with this it's like oh they kind of said something
slightly off they must be denying Trinity they must be unsaved right the
question is do they believe the Bible for what it says okay do you believe the
Bible for what it says and there are some clear verses I believe in the Bible
about the Trinity now the Bible has a combination of some pretty clear
statements showing this truth there are many events dialogues that can only be
explained by the Trinity okay really like anything else just has massive
holes in it and is ultimately it's it's let's be honest it's damnable heresy
okay you start denying the Trinity and start trying to go to the Bible and
explain all these different weird versions of God it's it and it never it
just it's always got massive holes in it John chapter 1 where you are in verse 1
says this in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word
was God and and that is a great opening verse the Gospel of John isn't it what a
great opening verse verse 14 being one of a few places shown that the word here
is Jesus Christ because the word was made flesh and dwelt among us we beheld
his glory the glories of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and
truth okay now revelation chapter 19 describes the Lord Jesus Christ and
tells us of the name written upon him King of Kings and Lord of Lords and in
verse 13 revelation 19 says and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood
and his name is called the word of God okay and then this that's two of a few
places where we can say that we know that the word is clearly talk about the
Lord Jesus Christ and here in verse 1 we see that the word was with God and
the word was God I mean how does that work right well the only way that works
because God is a Trinity that's the only way it can work the word Jesus Christ
was with God the Father have the word is God because he's got the Son one God
that exists in three persons for all equally God and all eternal yeah he said
in verse 2 the same was in the beginning with God yeah they're all eternal he was
in the beginning with God because there are those and I would say you know
obviously many unsaved and people maybe just confused just believe that Jesus
Christ only came into existence two thousand odd years ago or something and
sometimes you kind of explain this to people on the door they're like oh okay
because they're just thinking well who is this guy he came a couple of thousand
years ago how's he God right and in fact I don't know anyone ever had the Muslims
try and say that so okay so where was God before Jesus and I think they
really caught you out there or something right well well no Jesus Christ always
was because he's God okay he always was he was in the beginning with God the
Father however all things were made by him and without him was not anything
made that was made so I keep something in John chapter 1 and turn to Genesis
chapter 1 I'm gonna go to Genesis 1 and we look from verse 26 which by the way
also listed on our statement of faith Genesis 1 verse 26 27 is one of our
proof proof text we just read that all things were made by him talked about the
word and we just seen the word is Jesus Christ and without him was not anything
made that was made and most people know the first verse survival Genesis 1 in
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth so we've just seen all things
are made by him and the Bible says that God created the heaven in the earth
because the word Jesus Christ is God Genesis 1 and verse 26 Genesis 1 26 says
and God said let us notice said us make man in our image after our likeness and
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and
over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that
creep upon the earth so God created man in his own image in the image of God
created he him man and female created he then them so in verse 26 God said let us
make man in our image after our likeness and in verse 27 it says so God
created man in his own image so you think wait a second verse 26 God said
let us make man in our own image after our likeness then he says so God created
man in his own image because there is one God there's one God however there
are three distinct persons or one God I remember once when I was newly saved I
had these just bizarre heretics come to my house and they claimed to be
believers and and and on the door I asked them you know they came to my
house they were from some sort of Presbyterian I think Korean
Presbyterians I used to live in there which is very densely populated by
Koreans and they said um and I asked them you know you believe you know Jesus
the Son of God yeah yeah you believe in the gospel yeah okay she said this lady
said oh I've got this this young young lad who wants to present this he's got a
presentation of Christian presentation trying to see if anyone wants to hear it
about God the mother and I was think he's just talking about some like you
know attributes you know you know we can look up and kind of almost be mothered
by God or something you know along and I was thinking what they talk about come
on come on in let's say I wasn't you I shouldn't just told him to get out right
okay so I brought him in and she they went to this passage and said look
that's because there's a God the mother
we ended up in a bit of a row and stuff but she she was a damnable heretic she
was clearly you know she was she was pretty bad but the the kid who was kind
of trying to do this you could see he was really interest cuz I just went into
Bible versions showing how their Bible version was wrong and they were trying
to show me the NIV and stuff like that and I've kind of felt like he kind of
took you can see he was kind of asking she was trying to silence me he's gone
over can you show me that again and stuff like this so it was quite
interesting point being that they were taking this passage and trying to show
there must be a mother no this passage is because God is a Trinity okay that's
what this passage this is how we explain it and again if you don't understand the
word of God if you're not saved you they'll go into all sorts of weird stuff
and we're going to talk about a few of those weird things and for even that God
there's a God the mother up there that's just not talked about in the Bible
anywhere but it did say hours so that must be it right anyway let's keep going
um okay so there's there's one God we've seen here he said however we're seeing
that there's three distinct persons he's talking about in our image and the only
way that you can explain these verses is by what I stated from our statement of
faith isn't it we believe in a Trinity which is a belief that there is one God
that exists in three persons the three persons are members of the God head of
the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit otherwise you start going in a wacky
like God the mother stuff or other bizarre things because in the beginning
was one God and three distinct persons are all one God and then our statement
then says the three members of the Godhead are distinct and separate
persons each possessing their own body intellect and will and by the way
Genesis 1 to talk of the beginning said in the spirit of God moved upon the face
of all this as well and we also see there are the proof text for example
acts 5 when when you got an analysis of fire and he says it you've lied to the
Holy Ghost and he says you've lied to God because the Holy Ghost is God okay
but anyway let's continue the three members of God had a distinct and
separate persons each possessing their own body intellect and will the three
are all equally God and eternal meaning that they have eternally existed as
three persons the three members of the Godhead voluntarily submit themselves
under a chain of command we acknowledge that each member of the Godhead is not
partially God or a part of God but believe that each member is all God and
all of God we reject partialism the belief that each member of the Godhead
is a part of God that comes together to make up one God so for example some
would believe that they're kind of different slices of the pie of the pizza
or something you know but if you take one out it's no longer God's you know
it's kind of a kind of not quite complete no John 1 2 said of the word
Jesus Christ the same was in the beginning with God okay not parts
separate distinct persons right because Genesis 1 26 said and God said let us
make man in our image after our likeness because they're separate persons not
pieces of the pie we reject polytheism our statement of faith says the belief
that each member of the Godhead is a separate God okay there's a lot of
people that believe in multiple gods aren't there John 1 1 said in the
beginning was a word the word was with God and the word was God the word was
God not was a God and by the way there's some full spiral versions out there that
will turn it to a God and put in a little a and suddenly you create a
whole new false doctrine no no the word was God the word was God in Genesis 1
27 after God spoke of creating man in our image and after our likeness it
said so God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him male
and female created he then because there's one God we reject oneness the
belief that each member of the Godhead is the same person playing different
roles John 1 1 said in the beginning was the word and the word was with God okay
how could he have been with God if it's the same person John 1 2 said the same
was in the beginning with God how is he with himself right makes no sense
Genesis 1 26 said God said let us make man in our image after our likeness who
is he talked about them okay again bizarre nonsense now none of those
false doctrines stand up to the test of Bible unless you've got false Bibles so
if you've got a false Bible and you're going into false Bibles and false
so-called versions of the Bible then you look you can create all sorts of false
doctrine but but then they still got a public is none of it seems to add up
with each other so this verse well we can kind of go with that but then we
can't with this and none of it makes any sense turn of first John 5 where there
is a verse in the King James Bible that is as clear as you can get for me no no
wonder modern false Bibles remove and change it cast doubt on whether or not
it's a real verse the Bible etc because they're just constantly all these false
versions are just constantly trying to poison your mind trying to trying to
push in false doctrine trying to put doubt shade cast shade upon the Word of
God and if you're wondering what's he talk about just see our last sermon okay
and I made it very clear why we believe the King James Bible is the Word of God
in this church will always only ever preach out the King James Bible 1st John
chapter 5 you've turned to in verse 5 1st John 5 5 says this who is he that
overcometh the world but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God so
to overcome the world to enter in at the straight gate the narrow way you have to
get saved that's how you've overcome the world you get saved by believing that
Jesus is the Son of God now although that that you know that's a gospel in
its entirety so in case you look at that going oh well as long as someone says
oh yeah they believe Jesus son of God the same no that's believing the gospel
it all goes hand in hand okay the Son of God dying for your sins and and rising
from the dead okay that's believing that Jesus is the Son of God that's all part
of it him being the Son of God though is part of it as well okay him being the
Son of God and I tell you why because it's the only way that there could have
been that sin the sacrifice it had to be the Son of God it had to be God in the
flesh because no one could have paid for our sins without having anything on
their account so it all goes hand in hand believing that Jesus is the Son of
God is is part of the gospel in fact not only part of the gospel it's it's an
essential part of the gospel because he became sin for us who knew no sin that
we might be made the righteousness of God in him had he known sin he couldn't
have become sin for us so the fact that he was the Son of God is is is a massive
part of the gospel God himself coming to die for your sins and by the way being
the Son of God is God is equal with God he's God in the flesh because again if
he was oh well he's like one of just many sons of God well then he's going to
be sin he's going to have sin in his life isn't he no he is the Son of God
he's God in the flesh he came to die for your sins the Trinity is part of the
gospel without the Trinity it's not the gospel it doesn't it can't work okay
it's not it's it's an integral part of the gospel verse 6 says this is he that
came by water and blood even Jesus Christ not by water only but by water
and blood it is a spirit the birth witness because the spirit is truth now
Walter when compared to John chapter 3 talking about the physical birth you
don't have to go there the the amniotic fluid okay that's like coming by water
that's a physical birth I believe he's saying that it wasn't just a virgin
birth of some now you could either there's two ways you can look at it
either he's saying it wasn't just a virgin birth to some sort of spirit like
the blood being physical God manifest in the flesh or you could say that talking
about that he also came of the line through Mary of David as well and he was
a prophesied one and obviously you know being of the line of David as well
either way but it's it's a spirit he was justified in the spirit wasn't it bears
witness of him through the Holy Scriptures doesn't it verse 7 says for
there are three that bear record in heaven okay three did it say one of
three three that bear record in heaven the father the word and we've just seen
the word is Jesus Christ haven't we and the Holy Ghost and these three are one
so three clearly distinguishable but distinguishable persons he didn't say
there is one that bear record bears record in heaven did he there are three
that bear record in heaven the father gave these are three distinct persons
the father the word we've seen that's Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost and
these three are one clearly distinguishable countess three however
one because there's one God one God three separate persons the only way you
can explain so many of these verse in these verse we're going through today is
the Trinity and there are three that bear witness in earth the spirit and the
water and the blood and these three agree on one I believe likely talked
about the witness being the Holy Spirit the virgin birth and the physical
manifestation of God in Jesus Christ verse 9 says if we believe the witness
of men the witness of God is greater for this is a witness of God which he had
testified of his son he that believeth on the Son of God had the witness in
himself he that believeth not God has made him a liar because he believeth not
the record that God gave of his son and that's basically what it comes down to
that's what it comes down to do you believe the record that God gave of his
son his son the Son of God or if he made God a liar and that's that for me that's
such a that's such a key verse when you're talking about it because he that
believes on the Son of God as a witness in himself he that believeth not God
have made him a liar and for me just those verse alone anything else
oneness modalism nonsense you know these polytheistic gods all of this you're
calling him a liar you're making him a liar and look for me look when someone
who saved reads these verses when the with the indwelling Holy Spirit the
witness in himself and the others the other verse we're going to see the
Trinity is clear isn't it for me the Trinity you go through these verses it's
just yeah God's a Trinity now look you you don't have to go through these
verses to get saved right but if you're saved you have the Holy Spirit in you
and you go through these verse you're not gonna I think it must be oneness
right or something else like that no the Trinity is clear now turn to Colossians
chapter 2 those denying the truth and going around preaching and teaching a
false version of God okay they're not saved if you're teaching and preaching
a false version of God you're not saved and in Colossians Paul warns us of these
sorts of deceivers now in case you're thinking yeah but if you're saved you
won't be deceived I think you know sometimes people think that well how
could they get deceived if they're saved well you can have your head turned can't
you you can get to see for a time you you can have your faith shaken you know
enough to pull you out of church right because when I mean there was quite a
famous in in our movement sort of you know won this sort of push and drive and
people whispering and teaching obviously faithful word knows this is this big
issue that came from it right and now look there was a lot of bad people but
I'm sure there were probably some people that were saved that kind of got a bit
mixed up got their head turn kind of lost a bit of faith in the preaching in
in the church because they were being convinced that actually there was this
truth that they weren't being taught right now what what happened to those
people some of those people I reckon some of those people probably that was
the last time they're maybe in a decent church that was maybe the last time that
they're really properly serving God and and that's what a lot of this false
doctrine does is to shake your faith in a biblical church and to start losing
faith in the Word of God being preached everything else yeah but I know
something they don't like how does he not see it is that even a and then they
start doubting and questioning and then they their spiritual life just starts
going downhill and downhill and downhill and yeah okay that person isn't
gonna become on it you can't lose your salvation you're saved you're saved
right they're not gonna go and start teaching and preaching Trinity for the
sorry oneness for the rest of their life they're not gonna stop believing the
Trinity deep down however they're gonna be shaken they're gonna find it hard to
be in church or listen to preaching and everything else because they're thinking
well there's something wrong you know how could they be getting this wrong
because this person is convinced with that and that's what these wolves do
they pray on the week they pray on people that can be shaken they but they
sow a little seed they say a little comment just a little comment in private
and just see where it gets it you know and when you hear that sort of stuff
when you hear people trying to sow a seed which is against the doctrine of the
Bible and it could be in church you could be out of church you need to just
smash it with the Bible smash it with the Bible we had it recently or someone
just a little whisper you know about something separate and the both just
basically that's not biblical that's not scriptural and that was the end of it
and look you that's what you got to do right you got to deal with it quickly
you deal with it with the Bible and how do you do that by knowing your doctrine
by knowing your doctrine and some is like this that's why they're vitally
important and they're not just oh one of those boring ones about the Trinity
come on can we talk about reprobates next week or something so your turn to
Colossians chapter 2 where like I said Paul's warning about these type of
people okay it said in verse 4 Paul said in this I say lest any man should beguile
you with enticing words people want to beguile you with enticing words you know
what's part of the enticement is is that you know something everyone else doesn't
know oh it's like an extra truth it's like a something that the rest of church
don't know now suddenly someone who's probably got a fairly weak spiritual
life suddenly thinks they've been put up here now now they're one of the select
few the elite who know the truth about God or whatever it is that there are the
others don't so it works on the ego a bit as well right they entice you they
beguile you with enticing words for though I'd be absent in the flesh it am
I with you in the spirit joying and beholding your order and the
steadfastness of your faith in Christ I hope everyone here has a steadfast faith
in Christ as you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith okay that's
again why we need these sermons that's why I'm pleased that you know I decided
to go through this series because we need to be rooted up and established in
our faith don't we know what it is why we believe what we believe as you have
been taught abounding therein with Thanksgiving he said in verse 8 beware
lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the
tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ and
that's what so much this false doctrine really is pagan gods molded loosely
with Christ and let me tell you that what they're all either openly or a lot
of the time not openly believing I I reckon a salvation that's the work of
men's hands in one way or another a lot of these people they go off into these
weird stuff they're teaching these weird things but you're not really pretty much
a majority of them all are they just work salvationists subtle quiet ones
maybe they can't push the work salvation so push just this bizarre false version
of God or something else right it's just and then they just they're just making
this God in their own image the one that they want to make verse 9 says for in
him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily suppose saying that Jesus
Christ is God in the flesh okay that's what he's saying here he said in him
dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily he's God manifest in the flesh
and doesn't that upset certain false religions you ever notice that I mean
think the Jews and the Muslims for example the Jews and Muslims who who try
and act like they kind of got it right and that really upsets him because if
you accept he's a son of God then you have to accept why he came don't you
you'll say you're accepting he's the son of God and it wait a second if I'm
accepting he's the son of God and that he died on a cross or why did he come and
on that cross to pay for your sins and basically your works ain't good enough
mate your your your you know following of the of the Torah the Talmud whatever
you want to follow whatever version you want to do that's not going to get you
there you're following of your you know of the pedophile prophet ain't gonna get
you to heaven you've got to put your faith in Christ and it upsets him and it
angers them and it makes them you know they're just so they get so it's a lot
of time it's a bit that they attack isn't it they really attack it because
if you're accepting he's the son of God he's gone to flesh you're accepting the
Trinity then you're accepting why came why done that cross to the point where I
mean I've had a few Muslims over the years that told me that any religion
with a monotheistic so that's one God as opposed to a polytheistic like multiple
God is basically is another is another way to get to heaven so I've had a few
Muslims over the years say to me as long as you believe in a monotheistic God
any God just as long as it's one God and they usually don't use the word
monotheistic as long as you believe in one God yeah I think it's just another
path to heaven basically anything but that Trinity ah because what do they
hate really the truth they hate the truth of God and obviously they're
claiming because what what do they claim because ultimately we are believing one
go but what they claiming they're claiming that we believe in a polytheistic
God no no we believe in the biblical account of God we believe in the
preserved Word of God we believe in the inspired preserved Word of God's clear
for me definition of God and and let me just remind you again our statement we
believe in the Trinity okay this church we believe in the Trinity and we're
gonna be strong on believing in the Trinity as well okay so well we believe
in a Trinity but if you don't really believe that I don't really know no we
believe in Trinity okay it's a key part of the gospel as well it's a key part
it's it's it's a massive part of our faith we believe in a Trinity which is
a belief that there is one God that exists in three persons the three
persons are members of the Godhead of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
the three members of the Godhead are distinct and separate persons each
possessing their own body intellect and will the three all equally God and
eternal mean that they have eternally existed as three persons the three
members of the Godhead voluntarily submit themselves under a chain of
command we acknowledge that each member of the Godhead is not partially God or a
part of God but believe that each member is all God and all of God we
reject partialism the belief that each member of the Godhead is a part of God
that comes together to make up one God we reject polytheism the police the
belief that each member of the Godhead is a separate God we reject oneness the
belief that each member of the Godhead is the same person playing different
roles and I mean that one just how would you explain the dialogues between Jesus
Christ and God him saying things like you know if if it's possible for this
cut to pass me but not my will but lie will be done I mean how does that even
work right it's ridiculous and obviously we've looked at those verses that we
have down there as our proof verses now turn to 1st Timothy 3 because the next
statement I want to also include in our sermon about the Trinity is this 1st
Timothy 3 you're turning to our next statement is we believe that Jesus is
God in the flesh and that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Ghost of the
Virgin Mary and our proof text of John chapter 1 verses 1 to 14 1st Timothy 3
16 Luke 1 27 to 35 Matthew 1 23 and Isaiah 7 14 so we believe in the Trinity
and of course Jesus Christ being the second person in that Trinity is God in
the flesh now 1st Timothy 3 we're gonna look for verse 14 where Paul writes
sister Timothy he says in verse 14 these things right down to thee hoping to come
unto thee shortly but if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou alters to
behave thyself in the house of God which is the church of the living God the
pillar and ground of the truth the pillar and ground of the truth there's
only one truth in life okay there's only one ultimate truth it's the word of God
and the the church has to be a pillar and ground of that truth now what's
interesting for me is that he makes this statement this verse verse 15 then
follows it straight after with verse 16 where he then gives us a very very
important truth he says and without controversy so basically this shouldn't
be a controversial point there's no argument about it okay this isn't one of
those where it's like that come to me after the sermon if you've kind of got a
different interpretation that's cool you know you know let's all put our heads
together and see if we can work out what these verses really say no there's no
controversy there's no argument it's yet this isn't sort of have a little chat
afterwards this it is so it's this there's no controversy it's without
controversy however it's still a mystery okay in that and when I say mystery it's
not oh well just you know maybe it's a Trinity maybe it's not no it's a
mystery in that exactly how the Trinity works understanding all aspects of God
isn't possible all we know is what's revealed to us through the scriptures
right and there is a mystery of godliness however it's revealed through
the scriptures the Trinity is revealed through the scriptures the mystery is
great but but there's no arguing the clear scriptures such as this one so
without controversy great is a mystery of godliness God was manifest in the
flesh okay now manifest means plain open and clearly visible to the eye obvious
to the understanding apparent not obscure or difficult to be seen or
understood so Jesus Christ was the embodiment of God he manifest him
physically on this earth it says God was manifest in the flesh justified in
the spirit seen of angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the world
received up into glory that is clearly Jesus Christ isn't it okay go back to
John chapter 1 I just read statement number 2 which was we believe that Jesus
is God in the flesh and that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Ghost of
the Virgin Mary and then we quoted those verse verse references we're going
to look at them as we go through you're turning to John chapter 1 and back to
John 1 and we're gonna look from verse 1 where where the Bible says in the
beginning was a word and the word was with God and the word was God okay
definitely God right Jesus Christ we've seen as a word the same was in the
beginning with God all things were made by him without him was not anything made
that was made in it was life and the life was the light of men and the light
shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not there was a man sent
from God his name was John the same came for a witness to be a witness of the
light that all men through him might believe he was not that light but was
sent to bear witness of that light that was the true light which light of every
man that cometh into the world about Jesus Christ he was in the world and the
world was made by him and the world knew him not he came unto his own and his own
received him not but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the
sons of God even to them that believe on his name the great verse of the Bible
that isn't it which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor
the will of man but of God and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we
beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of
grace and truth and there are a couple of ways that Jesus Christ is the only
begotten of the Father or the only begotten Son at least he's the only
begotten meaning either procreated or in Revelation 1 5 you turn to Revelation 1
5 if you want I'm going to quote it the only one generated from the dead pro
creator generated from the dead Revelation 1 5 says and from Jesus
Christ who is a faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the prince
of the kings of the earth unto him that loved us and washes for my sins in his
own blood yeah there were those that slept for the purpose of the miracle of
resurrection but no one was ever spiritually dead in hell to then be
begotten of the dead okay that that's never happened before no one's come out
of hell if you know like we saw in fact we talked about on Wednesday in our
Genesis series because the gates of hell did not prevail against him okay he he
he was the only begotten of the dead which is also referred to by the way in
Psalm 2 acts 13 elsewhere in the Bible in fact many times we're seeing it
talking about him being the only begotten of the dead but here in John 1
he's described as the only begotten of the Father being the only pro created
of the Father however don't get confused Jesus Christ always was so it's not that
oh well he only came to existence like I said earlier two thousand years ago he
always was verse 2 says the same was in the beginning with God Micah 5 2 says
but thou Bethlehem afraid to though thou be little among the thousands of Judah
yet out of thee shall come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel whose
goings forth have been from old from everlasting case from everlasting he
always was he's always existed he's eternal but turn to Luke chapter 1
because something amazing happened though for the physical birth of Jesus
Christ when he came to this world 2,000 years ago God manifest in the flesh was
begotten of the Father through the Holy Ghost and Luke chapter 1 and verse 26
Luke 1 26 says this Luke chapter 1 and verse 26 and in the sixth month the
angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a
virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David and the
Virgin's name was Mary and he and the angel came in unto her and said hell
thou that that art faily sorry art highly favored the Lord is with thee
blessed art thou among women and when she saw him she was troubled at his
saying and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be and the
angel said unto her fear not Mary for thou has found favor with God and
behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth the Sun and shall call
his name Jesus he shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest
and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David and he shall
reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end
then said Mary unto the angel how shall this be seeing I know not a man she's
saying I'm a virgin how's this going to happen and the angel answers said unto
her the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall
overshadow thee therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God and by the way that's a Trinity right there in
that verse isn't it said the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of
the highest shall overshadow thee therefore so that only thing which shall
be born of thee shall be called the Son of God but also that the Holy Ghost came
upon Mary for Jesus Christ to have them been born on this earth approximately
2,000 years ago we believe that Jesus is God in the flesh that Jesus Christ is
begotten by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary now turn to Matthew 1 once I read
Isaiah 7 14 you turn to Matthew 1 Isaiah 7 14 says therefore the Lord himself
shall give you a sign behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall
call his name Emmanuel now that was the prophecy of Isaiah nearly 800 years
before the birth of Jesus Christ clearly prophesied isn't it 800 years
odd just just under I think 800 years earlier and in Matthew 1 23 shows the
fulfillment of that prophecy and by the way yes these are different authors no
the Bible wasn't written by one person okay and it's amazing isn't it and this
is just one of many prophecies we see fulfilled in the Bible Matthew 1 23 says
now all this was done and it might be fulfilled which is spoken of the Lord by
the prophets saying talking about this prophecy that I just read of Isaiah 7 14
behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth the Son and they shall
call his name Emmanuel which being interpreted is God with us why is a
virgin birth important because it shows that Jesus Christ was begotten of the
Father and if he wasn't begotten of the Father then he wasn't God in the flesh
and he would never been able to be the sinless sacrifice for our sins okay and
again it's it's a key part of the gospel it all goes hand in hand you can't take
one out without ruining the rest right it's all that the look real clear
doctrine true doctrine all goes together and it all goes hand in hand and then it
leads on to the final statement I want to discuss today in our statement of
faith which is this we also believe that Mary did not stay a virgin so the virgin
birth was massively important right the virgin birth showed that that he was
yes he was God in the flesh that he was God manifest in the flesh he was a
hundred percent God and a hundred percent man at the same time but then we
also believe that maybe did not stay a virgin but had other children that the
scripture mentions and I'll prove verse in Matthew 13 55 mark 6 3 in Matthew 1
25 so we believe in the Trinity okay we don't believe in some mediatrix
perpetual virgin goddess that's contrary to the scriptures contrary to the clear
scriptures contrary to the Bible Matthew 1 from verse 22 Matthew 1 and we'll look
again for verse 20 says now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which
has spoken of the Lord by the prophets saying behold a virgin shall be with
child and shall bring forth the son and they shall call his name Emmanuel which
being interpreted is God with us and then Joseph being raised from sleep did
as the angel of the Lord have bidden him and took unto him his wife and knew her
not till till she had bought forth her firstborn son and he called his name
Jesus yep Joseph knew her a euphemism for a physical relationship however it
wasn't till she'd given birth to Jesus turn to Matthew chapter 13 it said till
she bought forth her firstborn son he called his name Jesus Mary was a virgin
when she was with child of the Holy Ghost however she went on to have
multiple children after the Lord Matthew 13 55 we look for verse 40 verse
54 so in Matthew 13 54 says and when he was coming to his own country Matthew
13 54 when he was coming to his own country referring to the Lord Jesus
Christ he taught them in their synagogue in so much that they were astonished and
said whence had this man this wisdom and these mighty works is not this the
carpenter's son is not his mother called Mary and his brethren James and
Joseph and Simon and Judas and his sisters are they not all with us when
sin hath this man all these things and by the way this isn't just in Matthew's
gospel you have to turn up at mark 6 3 says it's not this the carpenter the son
of Mary the brother of James and Joseph and of Judah and Simon are not and are
not his sisters here with us and they were offended at him so it's clear here
isn't it that there were brothers there were sisters of Jesus Christ of at least
here you know what we're seeing is other children by Mary and Joseph so half
brothers and half sisters however look Mary was it Mary was a great lady okay
chosen to be the mother to Jesus Christ however she she was just that wasn't she
she was a lady okay she was a late she was a normal person and she went on to
have a family after that in fact she called him her say she called him her
Savior right okay she wasn't some sinless goddess she wasn't a perpetual
virgin we believe in this church in one God in three persons the Trinity that's
one God not an extra pagan mother son queen of heaven merged with Christianity
goddess okay we don't believe in that nonsense here we never will believe in
that nonsense here it's completely unbiblical and and you know look do you
know why we believe what we believe so why do we believe all this because we
believe the Bible and and here's a point we believe the King James Bible we
believe the same Bible that people have been believing in English for the last
400 years okay we we believe what the Word of God says we don't believe we
don't go well we got a new Bible come out that's being dug up this there's
something completely different about God oh well let's grab that one let's
grab this on oh well that doctrine sounds cute let's go without see if we
can find a find a Bible to prop it up now we believe the King James Bible and
the King James Bible is for me that those verses are clear aren't they
that's clear scripture right and of course we're patient with unbelievers
and babes in Christ with funny terminology aren't we okay we're gonna
be patient with that stuff we don't need to be on a sort of you know Trinity
denying heretic hunt you know of new believers and stuff like that but we
won't put up with people teaching we won't put up with people teaching some
sort of oneness heresy around here any of the other it's any of that other junk
yeah we won't put up with that it's a false God it's idolatry it perverts the
gospel and it will get you kicked out of our church okay because look and you go
well why would people do that because people have done that people continue to
do that for some of the reasons I mentioned earlier because they just want
to try and pervert the Word of God one way or another and that's one way you
can do it you're perverting who God is and like I said it weakens people it
turns heads it makes people doubt and question and everything else we don't
put up with that first John 5 10 said he that believeth on the Son of God had the
witness in himself he that believeth not God has made him a liar because he
believeth not the record that God gave of his son now we don't we don't want
people make out that God's alive okay we take we don't take too kindly to that
now it's pretty clear and that's like I said without going into all the many
dialogues between Jesus Christ God the Father and many things like that now
what in case you're sitting there going yeah but so what do these people try and
say well how do they try and attack this well one one thing they say is they try
and say the Trinity is a Catholic doctrine this stuff before it's a
Catholic doctrine they say the word is it found in the Bible well do you know
what other words not found in the Bible for example you know that Bibles not
found in the Bible but I quite like the word I think it's quite a useful word to
describe what we're reading right but the word Bible is not found in the Bible
it works fine for me though and you know another word that's not found a
Bible rapture no rapture is not found in the Bible but you know what it's quite a
good word to describe what's going to happen after the tribulation amen and
look the Catholics by the way if you go well yeah but but the Catholics said it
was a Trinity so it must it must be damnable heresy right well the Catholics
had to acknowledge a lot of other truths to pass as Christians okay because they
couldn't pass off as so-called Christians even though really it was a
pagan goddess mother-son goddess that they are worshipping without at least
claiming some other clear truths of the Bible and I think the Trinity they
couldn't deny because the Trinity so clear so look they deny other stuff and
they try and debate and argue other bits and pieces for example like you know
they truck they try and obviously teach their work salvation other things like
that but there's other things that they that they don't deny they've acknowledged
some other truths for example the Catholics acknowledged a virgin birth
now yeah they go a bit far and they start to turn her into this perpetual
virgin but they do acknowledge a virgin birth they acknowledge the crucifixion
don't they they they acknowledge the crucifixion along with the burial and
resurrection maths wasn't their strong point okay and they kind of when they
look at the days they kind of like one plus one equals three but anyway if you
don't want to go don't worry but they kind of think that he died on two days
before the resurrection but it's three days anyway okay they didn't have
calculators back then all right but but a six-day creation they believe as well
don't they as far as I know most most Catholics believe in the six-day
creation although at least people professing to be Catholics you know
claiming to believe and follow they've been blogging the Catholics have been
blogging that they care about children for many years now and rightfully call
abortion baby murder and they rightfully believe that that life begins at
conception now look the Catholics it's not like the Catholic they must just be
wrong about absolutely everything no they acknowledge some clear truths don't
they what should be obvious truths until you know sort of hundreds and maybe
thousand years of brainwash to kind of really wash that out of you right but
regardless whether or not they believe the Trinity or not it makes no
difference to us does it because it's neither here nor there because what do
the scriptures say first John 5 7 said for there are three that bear record in
heaven the father the word and the Holy Ghost and these feel one so I couldn't
give a damn what the Catholics believe and don't believe I care what the Bible
says and the Bible clearly without using the word Trinity explains something that
we that we explained by the word Trinity God is a Trinity and therefore Jesus God
in the flesh he was forgotten by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary there the
other statements we've looked at and Mary isn't some sort of perpetual
virgin goddess okay in case anyone was confused here and that is what we
believe about the Trinity and like I said in those extra truths that go along
with that I hope that that's kind of explained that I hope those verses that
are on our statement of faith are enough for you with that if you ever want to
talk about after your work like I said it's not a debating thing but if you
need some more explanation I'm happy to explain it to you afterwards hopefully
you won't need that that's the Trinity and that was the third one in our series
of what we believe on that we're gonna finish in a word of prayer father thank
you for your word I thank you that your words so clear about the nature of God
that that we don't have to doubt we don't have to wonder we don't have to
question we can just go to clear verse in the Bible and see just just a clear
doctrine that we stand on at this church Lord we stand steadfast on the doctrines
of the Bible clear doctrines like the Trinity Lord help us to to just be
strong on that help us to not get our heads turned by by the the wicked
deceivers out there and help us to Lord go out and and preach you know the
gospel which of which the Trinity such a key part loud and clear this afternoon
Lord help us to just show people the truth of your word get people saved Lord
and be back it for this afternoon service in Jesus name proles amen