The Trinity
What Do You Believe?
Pastor Steve Abney
November 3, 2021

THE TRINITY

1 John 5:7 says:
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Philippians 2:12-13 says:
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

INTRODUCTION
Once a person has received Jesus as LORD, they are now created unto good works. Look at what God’s Word teaches us about salvation and works.

Ephesians 2:8-10 says:
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Let’s break this down to understand it clearly:

  1. Salvation comes by God’s alone
  2. Faith is God- , and allows us to respond
  3. All of salvation is a of God. There is no preacher, pastor, teacher or religious person that has the power to save anyone
  4. We are the creation and of God. Created in Christ Jesus unto good works.
  5. There is none , not even one person. Our goodness/righteousness is filthy rags compared unto Christ which teaches us that we could have done absolutely nothing to save ourselves
  6. God has had a from the beginning that we should walk in these good/righteous work of His

There is a false religion that declares: “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend upon others.” —Budda

In order for the church, or a believer, to know WHAT they should be doing for the kingdom of God, they should know HOW they were saved and created unto these good works. We as the body of Christ should know why we are saved and how we should now live.

LET’S NOT FORGET WE WORK

As believers in Jesus, we are saved unto work, we do

work to be saved. Look at the beginning of this chapter and see “how” we work.

Philippians 2:1-3 says:
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

LET’S NOT FORGET WE WORK

Asking the question of “why” we work will help keep us focused on the truth of our mission or our task. If we do not understand “why” or “what” we are working for, the Lord and His kingdom, then the chances of just sitting by idle increase greatly.

Philippians 2:5-11 says:
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Salvation has been worked IN us by Grace through Faith, but it is worked OUT from us through obedience and love. —Steve Abney

LET’S NOT FORGET WE WORK

Philippians 2:12-13 says:
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

It is

! It is the fullness of God who works in you to do His good pleasure and use us for the work of the Gospel of His Son.

Let us never forget that Grace we spoke of earlier. Let us never forget of the Grace in which we are saved

good/righteous works. For without Him, we have and are nothing.

WE WORK THROUGH THE

1 Thessalonians 2:13 says:
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

WE WORK THROUGH THE

Ephesians 3:16 says:
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

WE WORK THROUGH OUR

Ephesians 3:20-21 says:
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

“He is

to … exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think…” It is all through the that WORKS IN US.