Temple Baptist Church - 8-30-2023
John 10:30
Introduction:
A. One of the most effective of Satan’s devices is division and confusion. Our Lord spoke of the destruction of a house divided against itself and it was recorded in Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
I find it of interest that there was no mention of this device of division in John’s Gospel as that Book of the Bible expresses the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. THERE IS NO DIVISION IN GOD!
B. In our context, Jesus spoke exhaustively about who He was and His relation ship with the believers (sheep) and the Father in verse 30. In verse 31, they took up stones once again to kill our Lord because of His claim to be the Son of God and oneness with God the Father. “I and the Father are one!”
John 10:31-33 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. (32) Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? (33) The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
C. As 21st Century believers, we face the same problem of division. “Divide and Conquer” is a saying that has been used over the years.
1. There is a movement within the Pentecostal movement that are referred to themselves as “Jesus Only.” They deny God the Father and disregard the Holy Spirit in both their Theology and baptism. The are baptized in the name of Jesus while the Bible commands us to be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost!
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
2. During the Transition Period, as God was moving the Jew from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant, Peter command that these New Testament Jews be baptized in the name of “Jesus” because of their national rejection and their crucifixion of the Messiah. It was part of their confession of faith.
3. There are both preachers and people on the pews of Baptist churches who also separate and divide the Trinity.
a) There are those who ignorantly claim that God either allowed to do something or gave them something that is against the truth found in the Bible. Jesus is the Word, equated with the Scriptures, and the Scriptures cannot be broken.
b) God the Father, God the Son, or God the Holy Spirit will never violate the Word of God! The Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth as only the truth will make us free.
4. The Bible teaches Monotheism, that there is one God—not many, and Trinitarianism, that God manifests Himself in three distinct person who are coeternal, coequal, and indivisibly united.
5. I often use a Theological statement that goes like this. “God is one God, manifesting Himself in three Persons, God the Father—God the Son—and God the Holy Spirit. These Three are all co-equal in all power and attributes.”
6. I will probably spend several services one the subject “The Unity of God.”
D. In our text for tonight, we find the words “I and the Father are One”.
1. For this cause, the Jews took up stones once again because Jesus equated Himself with God the Father.
2. Their rejection of Christ, their spiritual blindness, and their hatred concerning the doctrinal truth of the Trinity, of the Unity and Oneness of God is expressed here in verse 31.
E. Now, let us see what the Bible says about the Unity of God.
1. The Unity of God in Creation.
a. We understand that Jesus Christ, Jehovah God in the Old Testament, was the Creator of all things.
John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Colossians 1:15-17 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: (16) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (17) And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
b. “In the beginning God” – The name for God is “Elohim,” which is a plural word. Though Jesus Christ alone was the Creator of all things, we find that the Trinity was together in full agreement.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
c. After the Creation was finished, God made Adam of the dust of the earth, so now we find the plural word “us” found. Not let Us create but lets us make! Make out of what was already created.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let 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 creepeth upon the earth.
The word “God” used here is Elohim, the plural name of God with the personal pronouns also being plural: “us” and “our”.
Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Here, we find a compound name of God: LORD (Jehovah) and God (Elohim) used for the first time. LORD or Jehovah was Jesus Christ and God was the unity of the Godhead together. “LORD God” is used 545 times in the Bible expressing the complete oneness and unity of the Godhead or Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
2. The Unity of God in Salvation.
a. Salvation is an act of God! I must continue to drive this theological “stake” in the ground so as to anchor our salvation in a finished work called the gospel. Salvation is not something that we do, it is something that God does. It is a free gift to the repentant, believing sinner.
Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (17) For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Romans 10:1-4 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. (2) For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. (3) For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. (4) For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Give of your best to the Master in service but personal righteous for salvation is a rejection of the grace of God.
b. Biblical salvation requires the unity of God or Trinity as each has a particular work therein.
c. The necessity of the Father in salvation.
1) The Father gave His Son. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
2) The Father draws the Sinner. John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
3) The Father gives the sinner who comes to the Son. John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
It was the will of the Father that all men be saved, therefore, in God’s amazing love for the world, He gave His only begotten Son.
God the Father also gave the world, every individual who ever lived, to His Son to be saved. As it was the Father’s will that all men be saved, it was also the Son’s will that all men be saved.
1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Will all men be saved because it is God’s will? No! They must exercise personal faith in the Gospel. A notable example are the Apostles, all appointed by Christ, but one rejected and was never saved.
Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
This is not Calvinism because each of these individuals have the ability to come to the Son in salvation. He gave the Saviour to the world and the world to the Saviour.
4) The Father was in Christ in reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:19-20 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (20) Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
5) The Father raised the Son from the dead in the Gospel. Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
d. The necessity of the Son of God in salvation.
1) Jesus, the ONLY name in which we find salvation. Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
2) Jesus, the ONLY way to the Father. John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 3:35-36 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. (36) He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
3) Jesus, the ONLY Door to the “sheepfold,” the Body of Christ. John 10:7-9 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. (8) All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. (9) I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
4) Jesus’ sacrifice—death, burial, and resurrection—gave us a finished work in salvation.
a) His Condensation. Philippians 2:7-8 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (8) And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
b) His Consecration. Isaiah 50:6-7 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. (7) For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
c) His Completion. Romans 14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
John 10:15-18 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. (16) And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. (17) Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. (18) No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
e. The necessity of the Holy Spirit in salvation. At this point, I do not want to do a study in Pneumatology but do feel like we need to know just Who He is and what He does.
1) Holy Spirit vs. Holy Ghost.
a) The King James Bible is the only “bible” that uses the words “Holy Ghost.” All others translate “Holy Ghost” as “Holy Spirit.” Though both are translated from the same underlying Greek word, translating them the same way does an injustice to the Word of God. Here is the reason for the differences between “Spirit” and Ghost.”
b) Holy Spirit speaks of His Person. The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Trinity, coequal and consubstantial with both the Father and the Son. A supernatural Person who is the gift of the Father to mankind in general and the believer specifically.
c) The Holy Ghost speaks of His activity or Agency or His work along with being the Author of the written Word of God. The Holy Ghost is the Voice and Breath of Almighty God in this world by which mankind is convicted of sin, the Lord Jesus Christ is glorified, and the believer is transformed into the image of God. God’s Breath that “bloweth where it listeth”, creating faith through the Word of God.
d) Abstract yet concrete! A Voice, a Person that cannot be seen but can be known, heard, felt, and communicated with. I have known Baptist so-called preachers who said that the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit was not an actual Person but rather an influence or the conscience of man. The Holy Spirit is more than an influence, He is a Person. A man’s conscience can be a good one or a bad one and depends upon the spirituality or lack thereof of the owner of the conscience. My conscience and yours may or may not be the same.
e) The King James Bible is translated right and does not need to be upgraded to an everchanging English language. It is a dead language that is no longer spoken and therefore an unchanging language. God says what He means and means what He says. He needs no help!
f) Now back to the work of the Holy Spirit in salvation.
2) The Holy Ghost gave Mary the Conception. Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
3) The Holy Ghost convicts the Sinner. John 16:7-8 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. (8) And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
4) The Holy Ghost Baptizes the Saint. At the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit baptizes the believer into the Body of Christ, the Church. Romans 6:3-4 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? (4) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
5) The Holy Spirit indwells the Saint. 1 Thessalonians 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
6) The Holy Ghost Empowers the Saint. Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
7) The Holy Ghost Comforts the Saint. John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
8) The Holy Ghost Teaches the Saint. John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
3. The Unity of God in Security.
1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record (witness or give testimony) in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
You cannot separate God in unity; thus our eternal security must be anchored in all three Persons of the Godhead, God the Father—God the Son—God the Holy Ghost.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Romans 8:34-39 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (35) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (36) As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (37) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. (38) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, (39) Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
a. The Father in Security. Kept by God the Father through Profession.
1) The Saved are in the Hands of the Father from which no man can pluck. John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
2) Our Lord prayed that the Father would keep them from THE evil. John 17:14-15 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. (15) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
3) The Father is our Hiding Place. The believer is Hid (cannot be found out) in Christ with God. Colossians 3:3-4 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
4) The Father keeps the Believer through His Power. He is omnipotent! 1 Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (4) To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, (5) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
5) The Father is on our side. Romans 8:31-33 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (32) He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (33)
6) We are God the Father’s Elect. Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. (Election through faith and justified through imputation.) (Innocent, free, righteous, holy. Just as if we had never sinned!)
7) The Believer is the Father’s Workmanship. Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (9) Not of works, lest any man should boast. (10) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
8) The Believer is Hid with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
b. The Son of God in Security. Kept by the Son of God through Representation.
1) His Mediation. 1 Timothy 2:4-6 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. (5) For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (6) Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. (Ransom – a redemption price. To buy back ALL that was sold or lost. Boaz.)
2) His Power. John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
3) His Intercession. Romans 8:34-39 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (35) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (36) As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (37) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. (38) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, (39) Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
4) His Advocacy. 1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: (Advocate - paraklētos – from the word paraklēsis, to summons, to call especially for help, to come along beside of. A consoler, comforter, as well as intercessor.)
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
5) His Person. Colossians 3:3-4 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
6) His Preservation. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
7) His Stabilization. Jude 24-25 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, (25) To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
c. The Holy Ghost of God in Security. Kept through His Indwelling.
1) His Spirit Baptism. Acts 1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
2) His Eternal Presence. John 14:16-17 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; (17) Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
3) His Eternal Seal. Ephesians 1:13-14 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, (14) Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
4. The Unity of God in Sanctification. Sanctified: to set apart, to be declared holy. Sanctification: Consecration, dedication.
a. Sanctification has three difference aspects:
1) Positional Sanctification is a Completed Work that affords us Freedom from the Penalty of Sin.
2) Practical Sanctification is a Continuing Work affords us Freedom from the Power of Sin.
3) Permanent Sanctification is a Coming Work that will ultimately afford us Freedom from the Presence of Sin.
b. Sanctification in the life of the Believer is well stated in this verse. 2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
1) God the Father and Sanctification. “Sanctified by God” Jude 1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
a) The Father gives us His Love. He both loves us and gives us His love!
1a) Love for the Sanctuary. Acts 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
1b) Love for the Saints. 1 John 4:8-11 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (9) In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (10) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (11) Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1c) Love for the Sinners. 1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
2) The Father, in His love, hears and answers prayer. Matthew 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
3) The Father, in His love, gives us all things, both physical and spiritual, to be used and enjoyed. 2 Peter 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: (The Father feeds, leads, and supplies all our needs.)
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
b. God the Son and Sanctification. “Sanctified in Christ Jesus” 1 Corinthians 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
1) The Son gives us new life. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2) The Son gives us New Grace. Acts 20:32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. (Jesus is the Word of God and the Word of God that we hold in our hands gives Biblical Grace. Without the Word of God, we would never see spiritually the grace afforded there! All the grace of God that we will look at is shown the believer in the Bible.)
a) Jesus Christ gives us Singing Grace. Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
b) Jesus Christ gives us Abundant Grace. 2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
c) Jesus Christ gives us Sufficient Grace. 2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
d) Jesus Christ gives us More Grace. James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
e) Jesus Christ gives us Manifold Grace. 1 Peter 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
f) Jesus Christ gives us All Grace. 2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
All of grace is my story
All the way from Earth to Glory
Since by grace He lifted me from sin and woe
Living grace He has extended
As on Him my heart depended
He'll give new grace when it's my time to go.
Grace not yet discovered
Grace not yet uncovered
Grace from His bountiful store
Grace to cross the river
And grace to face forever
But there'll be new grace
I've not needed before.
There's been grace for every trial
There's been grace for every mile
There's been grace sufficient from His vast supply
Grace to make my heart more tender
Grace to love and pray for sinners
But there'll be new grace when it's my time to die.
g) Both Father and Son give grace to Their pastors.
1 Timothy 1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
2 Timothy 1:2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Titus 1:4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
d. The Holy Spirit in Sanctification. He brings us Indwelling Communion. “by the Spirit of God.”1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1) He Abides with Us. Romans 8:14-16 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
2) He Adopt Us. Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
3) He bears Witness in Us. Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
4) He indwells us. John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
5) He Comforts Us. John 14:15-16 If ye love me, keep my commandments. (16) And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
6) He Convicts Us. Galatians 5:16-17 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. (17) For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
7) He Teaches Us. John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Conclusion: “I and the Father are one!” You cannot separate nor divide the unity of the Godhead! “God is one God, manifesting Himself in three Persons, God the Father—God the Son—God the Holy Ghost. These three are coequal in all power and attributes.” And these Three are One!
