WEBVTT 00:00:03.839 --> 00:00:08.720 The title of my message today is What is the Godhead? 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:12.000 What is the Godhead? 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:19.199 We have been preaching through, or attempting to preach through, the Baptist Catechism. 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:27.440 And those sound like very old and church words, and they are, but that's okay. 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:34.079 Catechism just simply means a series of questions and answers. 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:42.079 And it was the habit of saints of old to catechize their children. 00:00:43.039 --> 00:01:09.840 And I'm not for a moment telling y'all that y'all are children this morning, but I do selfishly, and I want to say it that way, I do selfishly want to make sure that our church, that uh you as believers, uh I as the under shepherd of the Lord am properly uh asking the right biblical questions and giving scriptural answers. 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:13.040 Because, brothers and sisters, I want y'all to be strong. 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:15.040 I want y'all to be knowledgeable. 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:24.400 I want y'all to be the person in the grocery store when somebody asks you not only what is a primitive Baptist or what you believe, I want you to be able to answer that question. 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:29.840 I want you to be able to answer your children and your grandchildren and your wife and your friends. 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:33.840 But I I want you to have that knowledge for yourself. 00:01:34.319 --> 00:02:01.760 I want you to know some of the harder questions of the Bible for your own benefit, for your own edification, for your own strengthening, because I believe that you and I live in a world that when we talk about things like doctrine and we talk about these uh things like catechizing and things like that, that the world just kind of automatically just writes that off. 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:03.599 That, you know, well, what are those things? 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:09.919 Or, you know, you know, those, you know, we need to talk about Christ and the love of the Lord and practical living. 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:27.919 And brothers and sisters, when you and I look into the word of God and we see the beautiful truths of the word of God, I can't put it any other way, other than that the love of Christ constraineth us. 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:41.120 In other words, when you see the beautiful things of the Lord in his word and what God has done and how he has done them and why he has done them, that is our actual motivation to serve him. 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:51.199 Because we want to serve this glorious and beautiful and all-powerful God who has uh benevolently sacrificed his son for us. 00:02:51.360 --> 00:03:00.319 I mean, we want, and so in this doctrine and this practical Christian living, all these things are intertwined and they should be. 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:13.360 But we can't just, let me write off all doctrine or, you know, Brother Josh, why are we talking about the quote-unquote Baptist catechism that was written back in the 1600s of all things? 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:15.680 I mean, that is so old and antiquated. 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:22.240 The King James Bible gets it right. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:35.199 The saints of old didn't get it wrong when they felt that they had an obligation to catechize their children. 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.199 And by the way, if you want to put that in modern terms, you know what that is? 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:58.879 That literally means that the saints of old, as they would go through like line by line, week after week, and look at hard questions and answers out of the Bible, and they would train and teach their children in that. 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.439 You know what they were actually doing? 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.800 They were affecting the worldview of their children. 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:07.680 Amen? 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:36.800 Like they were actually affecting how their children would spend money, how their children would think about marriage, how their children would think about uh being compassionate or loving or kind toward other people, about their children and training them up with a godly work ethic, and uh men to provide and protect their families, and ladies to love their husbands and their children, and so on and so forth. 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:57.120 But but the point of these families that would like systematically catechize or train their children with questions and answers was to affect the way that their children thought about these things in the world. 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:03.040 And the saints of old thought that was so very important hundreds of years ago. 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:09.120 Well, brothers and sisters, I can tell you if it was important hundreds of years ago, it's even more important today. 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:09.920 Why? 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:17.199 Because the television and the radio and the internet and social media are catechizing our children. 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:31.439 Like social media is telling young ladies that they should be pencil thin and gorgeous every time they walk out of their house, and if they're, you know, if they're one pound or two pounds overweight, that they need to starve themselves and look like the images of the world. 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:34.959 The world is lying to our children, brothers and sisters. 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:38.160 And it's lying to you. 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:52.639 Do you need to sell your reliable vehicle that's 10 years old, that's got not given you a bit of problems because you need a brand new one because it comes up on every uh click news feed that you see on your phone? 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:53.920 No, you don't. 00:05:54.240 --> 00:06:10.079 You mean you can actually keep a vehicle longer than five years and pay it off and then it then actually it pays dividends back to you and you can just maintain it, and you don't have to buy a new vehicle and be indebted to the lender every five years, cycle after cycle after cycle. 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:15.600 Again, I'm on a soapbox here, I won't get off of this, but I get really tired of subscriptions. 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:27.680 Everybody now wants to not actually sell you a product for you to own, they want to sell you a subscription or that you're perpetually in debt to them and you just keep pumping money into them, the borrower or servant to the lender. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:29.040 I'm gonna get off of that. 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:30.319 But what's my point? 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:32.160 My point is this. 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:40.720 We have been preaching through this Baptist catechism, and all that means is a series of questions and answers. 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:45.519 And it may sound old and antiquated, but it's not. 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:49.199 It's actually absolutely beautiful. 00:06:49.519 --> 00:07:04.000 And I selfishly want to preach through this for the church because I want y'all that are in the pew, I want it to be a reminder to me, but I want it to be of edification to you so that y'all know the answers to these questions. 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:12.319 So it will affect your life and the way you think, and the way you approach life, and the way you approach money, and the way you approach family. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:16.959 I hope that these scriptures change me, and I hope they change you. 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:29.519 And if you and I have been doing anything that's out of the way or not in accordance with God's word, I hope that you and I are convicted and then we repent and then we change and that we actually do different in mind your lives. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:31.040 That is my hope. 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:33.680 You mean Brother Josh is a pastor? 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.160 You want us to change and be like Christ? 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:36.959 Yes. 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:43.759 And do I want to uh do I want the Lord to affect me and to make me change and to be more like Christ? 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:44.560 Yes. 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:47.600 Because you and I do not get everything right. 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.480 But I want to help you today. 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:54.000 So the title of my sermon is What is the Godhead? 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.079 What is the Godhead? 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:09.839 The definition of the word Godhead is simply the character or quality of being God, the supreme being, divine. 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:23.839 So the question in the catechism is actually this how many persons are there in the Godhead, in that person or that character of the one who is God? 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:32.960 The answer to that is there are three persons in the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:38.240 These three are one singular God. 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:42.080 They have the same substance. 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:43.600 What does that mean? 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:49.759 The same substance means that they have the same nature, they have the same core. 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:56.720 In other words, there is no difference of mind between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:06.240 They are in unity in everything that they do, even though that uh even though that Father God, we know, is a spirit, right? 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:08.080 He's not a physical form. 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:10.879 That Jesus Christ is God made man. 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:18.320 He literally became a man and came to this earth and suffered and bled and died and then rose again, and he now sits on the right hand of God. 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:24.720 He took on physical form, and then the Holy Spirit is existing with you and I now. 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:34.080 He literally lives in the side of every believer, and that is how you and I have communion and fellowship, and we meet with the Lord. 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:55.200 But even though they exist in different persons, they have the same essence, they have the same nature, they have the same core, they have the same mind, they are in unison in all things that they do, and they're also equal in power and glory. 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:58.000 We're going to get into that. 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:00.639 Well, let me talk about first. 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:14.080 Oftentimes, when people think about the Godhead or the Trinity, well, Brother Giovanni, isn't Father God the greatest, and Jesus Christ is, you know, a little bit less than that, and then the Holy Spirit is a little bit less than that? 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:14.639 No. 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:16.320 They're not. 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:19.360 They are equal in power and glory. 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.320 Well, why is Father God always mentioned first? 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:26.399 And Christ mentioned second, and the Holy Spirit mentioned third. 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:29.360 Because that's actually their order and time. 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:32.399 Was that when they were created? 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:34.639 No, because none of them were created. 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:42.320 Because if you go all the way back to Genesis chapter 1, in the beginning God, and the word God there is plural. 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:49.360 And we have made, and you read on through Genesis 1, we have made man in our plural image. 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:59.360 And we read in the New Testament in Hebrews that, well, we also read back in Genesis that it was the Holy Spirit that moved upon the face of the waters in creation. 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:16.080 We also read in John 1 and Hebrews 1 that there was not anything made that was made without the hand of Jesus Christ, so that we know that all three persons of the Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, had a direct hand in the creation of all things. 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:24.879 Even though most people in their minds almost automatically only attest creation to Father God. 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:28.080 But that's not the case biblically. 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:35.519 Father God used the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ to make the worlds according to the Scripture. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:50.960 Well, they are equal in power and glory, but they were not, they did not all enter into this world in their direct form of ministry at the same time per se. 00:11:51.679 --> 00:12:03.200 Even though they all created the world, even though we see instances in the Old Testament where we see Jesus Christ, Christologies, or when Jesus actually appeared in the Old Testament. 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:12.639 But far as their ministries are concerned, you see Father God communicating with his people in the Old Testament. 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:13.519 Amen. 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:20.320 He was the one who first communicated and ministered in this world directly. 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:40.720 Well, then we see in the New Testament that God condescended and became the Lord Jesus Christ and entered into this world and had a direct earthly ministry about 2,000 plus years ago and lived for 33 years in human form, and then he suffered, bled, and died, and then rose again and ascended to heaven. 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:45.600 Well, so Father God's ministry took place in time first. 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.799 Jesus Christ's direct ministry took place in time second. 00:12:51.039 --> 00:13:02.559 And now, brother sisters, and Jesus Christ said, and we're going to look at that, that unless he left and went back to the right hand of the Father, that the Holy Spirit would not come. 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:12.080 You and I are now living under the direct ministry, as it were, of the Holy Spirit. 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:23.120 That He lives inside of you and I, and the Comforter, as He's referred to in the Scriptures, was given after Christ ascended and went up to heaven. 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:39.679 So the reason why they are, they're not different in their glory and in their power, but the reason why they're listed the way they are in the scriptures is because the Father God's direct ministry took place first. 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:47.039 Jesus Christ's direct ministry took place second, and the Holy Spirit's ministry is continuing on right now. 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:54.720 So it is their order of when they directly entered into time, is why they're ordered that way. 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:58.720 It's not because this one is quote unquote greater than the other. 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:03.279 No, they're all part of the same Godhead. 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:10.080 They're of the same character, they're of the same substance, they're of the same mind, they're of the same will. 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:12.639 They're never not in unison. 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:19.679 But they're three different persons with three different distinct ministries, and they entered into this world. 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:31.200 Now, again, they were all present all throughout all these times, and yes, at times they would appear, but each one of them's purposeful direct ministry came at different times. 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:47.919 Now, 1 John chapter 5, 7 says, For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Capital W Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.240 These three are one, one God, singular God. 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.480 There's not three gods, there's only one God. 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:01.600 But he has three different persons. 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:04.960 Now, I also found this interesting. 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:13.279 We're gonna park on John chapter 10 for a few minutes, but I wanted to get 1 John 5, 7, and I want to get one more verse. 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:23.600 It's found at the end of the book of Matthew, in Matthew chapter 28, and it's uh linked most often with the quote-unquote Great Commission. 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:41.919 In Matthew chapter 28, uh, verse 19, we read, Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:49.120 Now, there may be one little word in that verse that you and I, I know that I have overlooked this. 00:15:49.600 --> 00:16:07.679 There's one little word in that verse of this, that this is the uh Christ speaking to the apostles, and he's telling them to go ye therefore and teach all nations about him, his word, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Ghost. 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:12.320 But the word that's overlooked oftentimes is the word name. 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:22.480 It says, baptizing them in the name, the word name, brothers and sisters, here is singular. 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:25.039 Why is that important? 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:41.519 Because when it says, when Jesus said, told the apostles, go ye therefore in all the nations, go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the singular name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:54.399 He didn't say, Go ye therefore in all the world, baptizing them in the names plural of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, because they're not three different gods. 00:16:55.279 --> 00:17:05.200 They're one God in three persons, therefore they share the same singular name, the name of God. 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:08.400 They are all part of the Godhead. 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:29.279 So when we go all the way back to Genesis, when it says in the beginning, God plural created the heavens and the earth, and then spoke in the darkness and created the light, and then when it says that let us make man in our image plural, that's referring to all three persons of the Trinity. 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:51.039 Well, then when you come here, and Jesus is speaking, and he tells the apostles, Go ye therefore into all nations, baptizing them in the name singular, in other words, one God, but this one God has three persons: the person of the Father, and the person of the Son, and the person of the Holy Ghost. 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:53.440 Just wanted to point that out to you. 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.559 So, what is the Godhead? 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:00.559 The Godhead is the character or quality of being God. 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:06.880 The Godhead is made up of three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:20.079 But these three persons are only one singular God, and they are one in their substance, in their nature, in their core, in their essence, and they're all equal in power and in glory. 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:23.200 Now, let's look at uh John chapter 10. 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:25.440 We'll begin in John chapter 10. 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.319 We're going to begin reading in verse 27. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:19:08.640 So in John 10 and 27, uh, these are the words of Jesus Christ, and I want to speak to the fact that according to the scriptures, that we always think about Father God as being the most preeminent, the most powerful, and Jesus Christ does honor him, he glorifies him, but in the Godhead they are equal in person, they are equal in power, they are equal in glory. 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:16.079 But in John 10, 27, Jesus says, He says, My sheep hear my voice. 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.759 And I know them, and they follow me. 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:21.839 Stop. 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:25.599 My sheep. 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:29.440 The sheep that Father God gave him. 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:44.319 Father God unconditionally elected and chose them, and then Christ particularly died for them, and then the Holy Spirit particularly borns them again and indwells them. 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:50.079 They all have an operation involved in those sheep. 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:56.160 But I want you to notice that Jesus said, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them. 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.400 Brother Mowles, did you know that Christ knows you? 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:04.960 Brother Blake, Sister Dana, you know that Christ knows you. 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:06.559 Ms. 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:10.720 Karen, you know that Christ knows you personally. 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:13.119 Well, how is he able to know that? 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:17.680 Because he has the power of God, right? 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:19.599 He has all knowledge. 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:21.599 He has all understanding. 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.720 We don't typically think about Christ in those ways, right? 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:32.240 We think about Father God as being the omnipotent one, the omnipresent one, the all-powerful one, right? 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:34.240 He's the one who has all of that knowledge. 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:39.359 But here, Jesus Christ is my sheep, hear my voice, and I know them. 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:42.240 How is he able to know them? 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:45.359 Because he's part of the Godhead. 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:50.160 He has that same power that God does. 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:51.920 He says, and they follow me. 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:53.119 Verse 28. 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:58.960 He says, and I give unto them eternal life. 00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:04.480 Well, yeah, we know that Christ died for them to redeem them, but we know that God called them. 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:09.359 We know that the Holy Spirit born them again, so how is it that I give unto them eternal life? 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:17.039 Because when Jesus is speaking, I, he's not saying anything that is out of agreement with the Godhead. 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:17.680 Amen. 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:22.400 Father God gave us life, Christ gave us life, the Holy Spirit gave us life, amen. 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:23.839 They are all in agreement. 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:31.200 They are all in unison, they are all one, one God, but a trinity of persons. 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:37.519 They are doing different operations, different ministries in the capacity of that. 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:42.079 And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish. 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:44.720 Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:46.799 Now, I want y'all to see this. 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:50.880 I want y'all to see the context of these verses. 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:59.039 The context of these verses are what Jesus just said, and neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.480 So he is talking about salvation. 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:08.160 He's talking about the fact that he has saved his children, his sheep. 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:10.319 He's given them eternal life. 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:15.200 And that no one is able to pluck them out of his hand. 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:20.079 So that speaks of his ability to retain them, right? 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:27.279 It speaks to his strength and his authority and his power that no one, Satan, can't take them out of his hand. 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:30.000 Satan can't steal salvation from a believer. 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:36.799 The believer himself cannot overpower God and remove himself out of the hand of God. 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:39.680 That is impossible because you and I are not greater than God. 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:45.119 Amen and praise the Lord that you and I are not able to remove ourselves out of salvation. 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:46.880 Anybody want to say amen to that? 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:50.319 That you and I can't remove ourselves by our waywardness? 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:52.640 King David, who was a murderer and adulterer. 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:54.640 You know, Samson who messed up. 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:57.359 So many Bible characters. 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:03.920 That went astray at one time or another, you and I the same. 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.200 But they didn't lose their salvation. 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:13.680 Because they're not able to pull themselves out of the hand of Christ. 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:15.359 Why is that? 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:17.920 Because he's part of the Godhead. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:19.119 He is sovereign. 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:20.319 He is almighty. 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:24.480 Satan himself, the dragon, can't tear you away from Christ. 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:26.640 He is not able to do that. 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.079 He doesn't have the strength or the authority or the ability to do that. 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:32.240 You were in the hand of Christ. 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:33.920 Well, let's read on. 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:40.720 So Jesus said, and I gave unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:41.839 Verse 29. 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:48.880 My Father, which gave them me, these sheep, is greater than all. 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:51.359 So Christ is honoring his Father. 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:56.079 And no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:00.559 I and my Father are one. 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:10.000 Jesus is saying, whatever I'm doing is whatever the Father wants me to do. 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:16.240 And if I'm holding the sheep, my father is holding the sheep. 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:24.480 Jesus told a group of folks that if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:44.079 In other words, if Father God were to condescend and become a man and live in this world, and you were to observe and see his character and his words and his actions and his wisdom and his counsel and his miracles and his judgment and all the things that Father God would choose to do in this world, what would that look like? 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:48.160 It would look exactly like the person of Jesus Christ. 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:54.079 Because everything they did was in 100% unity. 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:55.839 It was all in agreement. 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:57.839 They did it all together. 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:01.279 They did it all in agreement. 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:17.039 Now, but what I wanted you to see is the fact that Jesus Christ said, nobody is able to pluck them out of my hand, and my Father is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:18.960 I and my Father are one. 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:20.319 What is that saying? 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:25.039 Jesus Christ is saying that I am equal in power with my Father. 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:30.960 Nobody can plug them out of my hand, nobody can plug them out of my Father's hand, they're in our hands, plural. 00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:33.359 But we're one God, singular. 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:38.640 By the way, you'll remember that the Pharisees got really upset with Jesus Christ. 00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:50.000 I believe it was in John 6 when he was talking to the woman at the will, when he basically told them that he was a Lord of the Sabbath day, and he said, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:53.759 Because I'm Lord of the Sabbath, I have authority to do this. 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:56.160 And they got mad at him, they were ready to stone him. 00:25:56.240 --> 00:25:56.559 Why? 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:02.640 Because they understood what he was saying, because he was saying that he had the authority of God. 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:05.599 He had the same rights as God did. 00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:07.599 And they didn't like to hear that. 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:10.000 They understood what he was talking about. 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:13.359 See, Jesus is part of the God here. 00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:17.200 He's equal in power and glory. 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:20.160 But they're different in their ministry and in their purpose. 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:22.160 Even though it's all together. 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:24.160 Now, I mentioned about John. 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:27.039 I want to give you a super quick summary. 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:32.720 In John chapter 15 and 16, we read a few things. 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:42.160 John 15 and 16, those chapters in the book of John are basically Jesus' farewell address. 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:47.359 It's his farewell sermon, as it were, to the apostles. 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:51.200 He is giving them truth. 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:53.039 He is counseling them. 00:26:53.279 --> 00:27:05.039 But he is also telling them, and most likely he did this at the close of the Last Supper when this quote-unquote sermon was actually delivered. 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:16.640 And then he would, after he gave this address, after he counseled, after he gave truth to his apostles, then he would go to the cross. 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:29.759 But he was preparing the apostles for what they would have to deal with in this world after he left, after he departed, and went to be at the right hand of the Father. 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:39.119 And so I want to pick up in this in John chapter 16, and want to read a few of these verses, several of these verses in John 16. 00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:40.640 We're going to read it very quickly. 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:42.640 And I want you to see something. 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:46.319 So let's begin reading in John chapter 16 and verse 1. 00:27:46.799 --> 00:27:54.319 So Jesus said unto them, These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended. 00:27:55.039 --> 00:28:05.759 In other words, I'm preparing you for what's coming because basically the world, you know, he's already talked about this, but the world is going to hate you because it hated me. 00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:15.200 You're going to suffer persecution, you're going to be put out of the synagogues, you're going to deal with a lot of hardship, trial, pain, persecution because they dealt with me that way. 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:16.559 They're going to deal with you that way. 00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:25.759 And he said, I don't want you to be caught off guard because this is the reality, because you're serving me, the world is going to hate you, and I want to prepare you for this. 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:27.599 So, John 16. 00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:31.920 These things have I spoken unto you that you should not be offended. 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:34.960 They shall put you out of the synagogues. 00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:42.319 Yea, the time cometh that whosoever killeth you a Christian will think that he doeth God's service. 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:48.559 And these things will they do unto you because they have not known the Father nor me. 00:28:49.839 --> 00:29:02.079 So Jesus is saying the reason why the folks in the world do what they do, and they're opposed to you folks, the sheep, is because they don't know the Father and they don't know me. 00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:05.839 That's why they act like they act, because they're not born again. 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:16.880 They have not been made spiritual in the Lord, and therefore they act like heathen, fallen, fleshly people, and they're opposed to you and your truth because it is opposed to them. 00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:18.400 Verse 4. 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:30.319 But these things have I told you that when the time shall come, you may remember that I told you of them, and these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:36.480 In other words, I didn't have to tell you this before, because I was walking with you, I was ministering with you, I was right there with you. 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:41.359 You had me as your rock, you had me as your strength, I was with you. 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:47.279 But now, verse 5, I go my way to him that sent me, that's to the Father. 00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:50.559 And none of you asketh me whether goest thou. 00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:55.680 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. 00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:57.119 Now stop right there. 00:29:58.160 --> 00:29:58.880 I love this. 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:01.119 I also never saw this before. 00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:08.960 That Jesus, when he told the apostles, whom he had been walking with, that I'm leaving you. 00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:10.960 I'm fixing to go to be with the Father. 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:14.640 And after I told you that, sorrow entered your heart. 00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:16.880 The apostles didn't want him to leave, right? 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:18.640 Jesus, you can't leave us. 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:20.480 Don't go away. 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:23.279 And so he said, sorrow entered their heart. 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:24.720 But look at the next verse. 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:25.599 Seven. 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:28.559 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:31.920 It is expedient, that word means beneficial. 00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:36.799 It is good for you that I go away. 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:37.599 Now stop. 00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:38.880 How is that possible? 00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:42.079 How is it good that Christ go away? 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:43.680 Well, by the way, he had to go away. 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:48.000 He had to suffer, bleed, die, be resurrected. 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:52.880 Then he had to have victory over death and hell in order to purchase their salvation. 00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:56.799 He had to have the ultimate victory over that, so he had to finish his work. 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:58.079 That was his ministry. 00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:02.480 That was his work, the redemption of God's children that he was called to do. 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:04.079 But let's read on to this verse. 00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:05.920 He said, So I must go away. 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:14.960 He says, For if I go not away, the capital C, Comforter, will not come unto you. 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:21.839 But if I depart, I will send him unto you. 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:24.240 Jesus said, I've got to go away. 00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:25.440 I've done my ministry. 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:26.480 I've done my job. 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:32.799 I've fulfilled my role as Redeemer, as Savior, as champion of all of God's children. 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:33.920 I've done that. 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:39.759 Now I must leave and go be at the right hand of the Father, interceding for you. 00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:42.079 But I'm going to do something else. 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:47.920 Y'all are sorrowful that I'm leaving, but I'm sending you a comforter. 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.400 Do y'all see that Jesus Christ directly met their need? 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:54.160 And how did he meet their need? 00:31:54.400 --> 00:32:14.079 I'm going to place the Holy Spirit of God, the comforter, the counselor, the one who knows the will of God, who knows the glory of God, that his purpose, his mission is 100% in unison with the Godhead, with Father, with Son, that knows us better than anybody else. 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:20.000 I'm going to place him inside of all the born-again sheep. 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:25.519 So that as a righteous seed, as a deposit of the Holy Spirit. 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:38.640 And that is what enables you to be able to see by the eye of faith and understand by a spiritual mind and hear by a spiritual ear the things that the world actually hates. 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:41.759 The world hates the truth. 00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:42.799 The world hates God. 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:44.240 The world doesn't understand. 00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:52.160 I might as well be up here speaking Russian to non-Russian speaking or understanding people that don't know about the gospel, the good news. 00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.599 It's only good news to those that are born again. 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:57.119 Why is that? 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:10.319 It's because the Holy Spirit that lives inside of you says to my spirit and to your spirit, hey, little child of God, that may not be born again, that may not be following God right now. 00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:14.240 You hear that gospel with your ear, it's a beautiful sound. 00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:15.359 It's glorious. 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:16.079 It's wonderful. 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:18.400 Christ died to save you. 00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:23.519 Oh, by the way, did y'all know that Jesus Christ's ministry didn't end on earth? 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:25.519 He's gone and interceding at the right hand of the Father. 00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:26.400 What else did he say? 00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:28.400 I go to prepare a place for you. 00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:30.400 In my Father's house are many mansions. 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:32.160 Jesus wouldn't build you a house in heaven. 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:33.039 Amen. 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:36.480 That's part of his ministry. 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:47.920 But you and I are most directly affected right now, here and now in time, by the ministry of the Holy Ghost. 00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:48.640 Did y'all know that? 00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:50.160 Have y'all ever thought about that? 00:33:50.400 --> 00:34:01.920 The one part of a Godhead that you and I probably know about the least and think about the least, the Holy Ghost, is the one who directly affects mine and your everyday life more than anything else. 00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:03.920 Isn't that a wonderful thought? 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:05.599 Because he's right there with us. 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:07.599 He's right there in our soul, in our heart. 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:08.800 He's in our chest. 00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:14.000 He directly pricks our minds, he pricks our hearts, he opens our minds to the things of God. 00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:21.599 The reason why y'all and I, you and I understand what we're talking about today is because of him. 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:26.239 In because of Christ, in because of the Father. 00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:31.280 Because the Father chose us, Christ died for us to redeem us, and the Holy Spirit born us again. 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:35.679 It all works together in unity because they're all part of the Godhead. 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:36.480 Amen. 00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:39.280 Not anything they do is separate. 00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:46.480 One God, trinity of persons, all doing different operations. 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:52.000 But this is what I want to get to. 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:52.639 I gotta hurry. 00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:53.440 I'm out of time. 00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:56.079 So, John 16. 00:34:56.400 --> 00:35:01.920 He says, if I go not away, this is verse 7, if I go not away, the comforter will not come unto you. 00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:04.719 But if I depart, I will send him unto you. 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:13.039 Verse 8, and when he has come, he will reprove the world of sin and righteousness and of judgment. 00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:14.239 Stop right there. 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:31.519 This lowly, quote unquote, Holy Spirit that you and I don't talk about a lot, Jesus just said he's the one that is going to reprove or convict the world of sin, the world, the whole world, and of righteousness and of judgment. 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:32.960 He's doing that. 00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:35.119 He has the power to do that. 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:36.960 He has the authority to do that. 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:38.239 What does that mean? 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:41.119 Verse 9, of sin because they believe me not. 00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:45.280 In other words, the Holy Spirit is the one who convicts you and I of our sin. 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:51.199 Verse 10, of righteousness because you and I go to the Father and ye see me no more. 00:35:51.360 --> 00:36:01.280 Who is it, brothers and sisters, that convinced you that Jesus Christ is our righteousness, that he is real and that he is your Savior? 00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:06.960 Who is the one that convicted me and you of our sin and also convinced you that Christ is real? 00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:08.639 It's the Holy Spirit. 00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:11.039 He's the one who taught us that, right? 00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:18.320 He's the one who wrote it in our hearts and in our minds by the commissioning of God and by the finished work of Jesus Christ. 00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:28.400 But he's the one who did that surgical operation of the heart in me and you in real time in this world throughout all the ages to all of God's children. 00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:33.119 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:42.159 Who's the one that convinces us of a Christian worldview that the Bible is true and it's right, and that Satan has been judged, and that Satan is a fallen angel? 00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:45.599 And who is the one who brings this truth to our mind? 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:49.599 Jesus Christ said that his worshipers are going to worship him. 00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:50.000 What? 00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:51.920 In spirit and in truth. 00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:56.320 He is the one who teaches this to our hearts and our minds. 00:36:56.639 --> 00:37:00.159 This is how you and I know and understand the things that we do. 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:03.360 It's by the operation of the Holy Ghost. 00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:07.360 Again, the part of the Trinity that you and I least think about. 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:12.400 The one who directly affects us the most here and now in time. 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:16.559 So, verse 12. 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:21.280 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:24.239 So Jesus is saying, wait a minute, I want y'all to see this. 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:30.320 Jesus said, I have more to tell you apostles, but I can't tell y'all now. 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:33.440 Well, wait a minute, he was fixing to go to the cross. 00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:34.400 Right? 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:39.199 He wasn't going to be able to tell them after this, but oh wait, he was. 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:40.960 Look at the next verse. 00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:45.920 Verse 12, he says, I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:52.239 Howbeit, when he, the capitalist spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:54.880 Jesus said, Don't worry, apostles. 00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:59.519 I have more stuff I need to tell you, but I'm not going to tell you out of my mouthpiece. 00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.480 I'm going to tell you out of the mouthpiece of the Holy Spirit. 00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:03.360