THREE THREE – God is THREE Persons united in love TWO TWO – The story of the world is the story of TWO men ONE ONE – Who are you ONE with... Adam or Christ?

Slaves or Sons

“My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.” Matthew 26:38 “Being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.” Luke 22:44 “Abba, Father, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” Mark 14:36

What was there... “In the beginning”?

What was God doing in the beginning? The OmniBeing They were enjoying each other’s company

What was God doing in the beginning? The OmniBeing FATHER SON SPIRIT

4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5 to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. 6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father.” Galatians 4:4-6

4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5 to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. 6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father.” Galatians 4:4-6

4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5 to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. 6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father.” Galatians 4:4-6

4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5 to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. 6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father.” Galatians 4:4-6

Trinity Three Persons united in love

me The OmniBeing

Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, SON FATHER

SON us FATHER Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman,

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SON us 4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, FATHER

SON us 4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law. FATHER

Family manners! No way!

I will! Family manners!

When the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law… Family manners! Of course!

SON us 4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law. FATHER

SON us 4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law. To redeem those born under the law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. FATHER

SON us Galatians 3:26-28 “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ... you belong to Christ.” FATHER

Galatians 3:26-28 “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ... you belong to Christ.”

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Galatians 3:26f; 4:5 clothed yourselves with Christ “Through faith in Christ Jesus... you have clothed yourselves with Christ......that we might receive the full rights of sons..”

SON us FATHER Galatians 3:26f; 4:5 clothed yourselves with Christ “Through faith in Christ Jesus... you have clothed yourselves with Christ......that we might receive the full rights of sons..”

SON us Galatians 4:6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father.” FATHER

Family manners! Of course!

You are my beloved Son

Daddy !

SON us FATHER 2 Peter 1:4 We “participate in the divine nature.”

“My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.” Matthew 26:38 “Being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.” Luke 22:44 “Abba, Father, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” Mark 14:36

Help! I don’t have all the answers! What should I do? What do you do when you don’t know? What are the toughest questions?

Reframe Reflect Reveal

Questions, Questions.... Is the primary way they came to trust each other ‘question and answer’? Will the questions end once they’re married?

Knowledge of God Salvation by God John 8:19 “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also”. John 14:6-7 “I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. John 17:3 “This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”

Knowledge of God Salvation by God To know God is to be saved by God. If you’re not saved by God, you don’t know God.

Knowledge of God Salvation by God

Knowledge of God Salvation by God

Knowledge of God Salvation by God

Knowledge of God Salvation by God

Knowledge of God Salvation by God

Knowledge of God Salvation by God

Knowledge of God Salvation by God Our knowledge of God is just as much a gift as our salvation by God

Therefore evangelism is revelation It means offering Christ

Clearing Away the Clutter Theists Atheists Christians Muslims JewsHindus Higher power “We believe in nothing! We go by evidence! ” New Age Mormons

Clearing Away the Clutter The Question is Always Which God??

Jesus Im- personal forces I believe in... Allah Grandpa in the sky Lots of gods Karma

Reframe – Reframe – in Biblical terms Reflect – Reflect – back on the questioner Reveal – Reveal – the gospel focussed on Jesus

Reframe Reflect Reveal If God is all loving, all knowing and all powerful, how can he allow suffering? If God knows everything, why pray? Religion causes wars

What was there in the beginning? omnibeing FATHER SON SPIRIT

Why did God create? omnibeing Son Father

What does God want? omnibeing Son Father

John 17:24 Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. Jesus wants us to share in the eternal love of God

What is sin? omnibeing Son Father

Adam and Christ

Humanity is not...

US 12 sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned

For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that He may have mercy on them all. Romans 11:32

John Bunyan Born:1628 Died: 1688

“One day as I was passing into the field, and that too with some dashes on my conscience, fearing lest all was not right, this sentence fell upon my soul: ‘Thy righteousness is in heaven.’ And with the eyes of my soul I saw Jesus at the Father’s right hand.

‘There,’ I said, ‘is my righteousness!’ So that wherever I was or whatever I was doing, God could not say to me, ‘Where is your righteousness?’ For it is always right before him.”

I saw that it is not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, for my righteousness IS Christ. Now my chains fell off indeed. My temptations fled away, and I lived sweetly at peace with God.

Now I could look from myself to him and could reckon that all my character was like the coins a rich man carries in his pocket when all his gold is safe in a trunk at home. Oh I saw that my gold was indeed in a trunk at home, in Christ my Lord. Now Christ was all: my righteousness, sanctification, redemption.”

21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation. Colossians 1:21-22

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Pre-destined Pre-destined

Union with Christ Vine and Branches Bridegroom and Bride High Priest and People Champion and Soldiers

"I am the vine; you are the branches.” John 15:5

Royal name Royal power Royal wealth Poverty Weakness Shame

Royal name Royal power Royal wealth Poverty Weakness Shame

Hebrews 4: Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathise with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are— yet was without sin. 16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16

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US My Child! Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need 14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathise with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are— yet was without sin. 16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16

Champion

1 Samuel 2 6 "The LORD brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up. 7 The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts. 8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honour.

1 Samuel 2 "For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's; upon them he has set the world. 9 He will guard the feet of his saints, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness.

1 Samuel 2 "It is not by strength that one prevails; 10 those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder against them from heaven; the LORD will judge the ends of the earth. "He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed."

1 Samuel Saul - Israel’s first king - Tallest man - Failed ruler

1 Samuel 16 David - anointed - messiah/christ - Spirit-filled King

1 Samuel 17 1 Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Socoh in Judah. 2 Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines. 3 The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with the valley between them. 4 A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. He was over nine feet tall.

1 Samuel 17 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armour of bronze weighing five thousand shekels; 6 on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. 7 His spear shaft was like a weaver’s rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of him.

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8 Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me. 9 If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us.”

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10 Then the Philistine said, “This day I defy the ranks of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.” 11 On hearing the Philistine’s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified....

1 Samuel David left his shepherding things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and greeted his brothers. 23 As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. 24 When the Israelites saw the man, they all ran from him in great fear.

1 Samuel David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”...

1 Samuel When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the desert? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.” 29 “Now what have I done?” said David. “Can’t I even speak?”

1 Samuel What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him. 32 David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.” 33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth.”

1 Samuel But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.

1 Samuel Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you.”...

1 Samuel Then David took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. 41 Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. 42 He looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him.

1 Samuel He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

1 Samuel David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

1 Samuel This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

1 Samuel As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

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50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him. 51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the scabbard. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.

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When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. 52 Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath.

1 Samuel 17 Who is David? Shepherd-King Champion Christ

1 Samuel 17 Who is Goliath? Super-human Snake-like Enemy

1 Samuel 17 Who are we? Weak Frightened Victorious

1 Samuel 17 What is gospel encouragement?

1 Samuel 17 What is gospel encouragement? Top tips for soldiering like David.

1 Samuel 17 What is gospel encouragement? Heralding the victory of your Champion.

1 Samuel 17 What is grace?

1 Samuel 17 What is grace? Not the bread to help you fight

1 Samuel 17 What is grace? The victory of your Champion on your behalf.

1 Samuel 17 What is faith?

1 Samuel 17 What is faith? Not a power to summon!

1 Samuel 17 What is faith? Looking to your Champion

THREE THREE – God is THREE Persons united in love TWO TWO – The story of the world is the story of TWO men ONE ONE – Who are you ONE with... Adam or Christ?