Bible Readings:
Isaiah 54:1-17
Galatians 3:13-4:7
Sermon Outline:
Galatians 4:4–7 (NKJV)
4But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
7Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
I Three Persons
II Two Sendings
III One Salvation
The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; Who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge both the living and the dead; Whose kingdom shall have no end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets. And we believe in one holy catholic* and apostolic church. We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
- The word “catholic” refers to the universal church
The doctrine of the Trinity is the differentiating doctrine of the
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Christian faith.
The Trinity is the basis of the gospel,
J. I. Packer
and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
Nothing will so enlarge the intellect and magnify the whole soul of
C. H. Spurgeon
man as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the whole subject
of the Trinity.
What an awful place is the Christian’s closet. The whole Trinity is
Edward Griffin
about it every time he kneels.
It needs to be stressed that the eternal relationship between the Father
Stuart Olyott
and the Son in no way suggests that one is senior and the other junior.