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"Exalting Christ, Equipping Christians"Stallings Memorial Baptist ChurchText Box: Volume 40 Text Box: Number 21 Text Box: May 25, 2010 The VOICE of the People's ChurchText Box: This Sunday morning our focus will be on God. Some of you are thinking, it should always be on God, and you are right. But this Sunday, we will be directing our worship on the Trinity, of how God has revealed Himself to us in three different ways. As a result, I am going to print the statements from the Baptist Faith and Message (1963 edition). My prayer is that you will read this and spend time this week thinking about how God has made Himself known to you, and that in the service on Sunday, I will be able to make clear the revelation of who God is and how He makes Himself known. There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being. A. God the Father – God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. He is all-powerful, all loving, and all wise. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. He is fatherly in His attitude toward all men. B. God the Son – Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. Jesus is perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself the demands and necessities of human nature and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His death on the cross, He

made provision for the redemption of men from sin.  He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion.  He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, partaking of the nature of God and of man, and in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man.  He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission.  He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever present Lord.

C. God the Holy Spirit – The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God.  He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures.  Through illumination, He enables men to understand truth.  He exalts Christ.  He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment.  He calls men to the Savior, and effects regeneration.  He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church.  He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption.  His presence in the Christian is the assurance of God to bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ.  He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.

 

     I want to say a big thank you to all that went out on Operation Outreach on Saturday in the rain.  We had several visitors with us on Sunday morning and evening as a direct result of going out and leaving information about our church.  We will be going out again in June if you want to join us in this ministry.

From Your Pastor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  

Sunday, May 30

10:30 AM

6:00 PM

“Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”

Romans 5:1-5, John 16:12-15