Nicene Creed

Zechariah 14:9 | Transcription: So this tonight concludes our study over the last several months through the Nicene Creed. So you are all now creedal Christians in that sense. You have been exposed to the Creed, and I hope you understand the Creed, uh, a little bit better. At the very beginning, we talked about how the creed came to be, that it was Emperor Constantine, once the capital of the empire was moved from Rome to Constantinople, summoned, which he humbly named after

Ephesians 4:5 | Transcription: Chapter four. We are studying. If you're just joining us on our evening services, we are studying the Nicene Creed together. And as we've been going through it, we're near the end. The Nicene Creed, if you recall, is broken up into couplets and about really over three quarters of those couplets, three quarters of the Creed is about God. But then the end, you have a couple little lines tacked on, and that's where we find ourselves, um, the last,

Ephesians 4:4 | Transcription: Ephesians four, verse four. I'll read verses four and five or four, five and six together. We'll be looking at verses four tonight and verse five next week. The Word of God says, there is one body and one spirit, just as you were called to one hope that belongs to your call. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. This is the Word of God. We're studying on Sunday nights through the

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1 Corinthians 2:10-12 | Transcription: First Corinthians chapter two, verses ten through twelve. These things God has revealed to us through the spirit, for the spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person which is in him, so also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, that we might understand the

1 Corinthians 15:1-7 | Transcription: I invite you to open your Bibles tonight to First Corinthians chapter fifteen. Michael and Marcy, thanks for that overview of your ministry, and we are looking forward to seeing you serve the Lord there and be encouraged by what we hear. It was a wonderful day today with the doctor orchestra this morning, and I hope that you are all encouraged by that. It's a great way to end your day. Looking at First Corinthians chapter fifteen, verses

Luke 19:10 | Transcription: Tonight we continue our study of the Nicene Creed. Turning to the phrase in the Creed for us and for our salvation. Everything in the Creed so far has been true about God, independent of us, except for maybe the phrase we believe, or I believe that one requires us. But the rest of the first part of the Nicene Creed is just true about God, generally independent of his creation. That all changes tonight. I'll put the Creed so far on the screen. I bel

John 1:3 |Transcription: We're going to look at one verse tonight, but kind of a bigger scope of John chapter one. It's John one, verse three. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made. John in John chapter one begins where Genesis chapter one begins the very beginning of the Bible. The Bible begins with in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And Jo

Revelation 21:23 |Transcription: We'll eventually get to revelation twenty one tonight. Uh, you can open there if you want the other verses until there will be on the screen, but it'll be at the end when we get to revelation twenty one. As I mentioned, this is our fourth sermon to the Nicene Creed. We began by looking at what it means to to confess. We believe. And then from there, we looked at what it means to believe in one God. And if you recall, I said, God is one in thre

1 Corinthians 8:6 |Transcription: First Corinthians eight. I'm going to read verses one. Through seven. Now, concerning food offered to idols, we know that all of us possess knowledge. This knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something he doesn't yet know, as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol has no real existence and that there is no Go

Deuteronomy 6:4 |Transcription: Deuteronomy six, verse four hear, O Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one. This is in Judaism, probably the most fundamental and basic description of God in all of the Bible. It is foundational to Judaism as a whole. This statement comes after the Ten Commandments, which we read earlier tonight for a scripture reading. It is the introduction of Moses's farewell speech to Israel. Moses winds up in his farewell speech in Deuteronomy four, explain

1 Timothy 3:16 |Transcription: You can open your Bibles to First Timothy, although it'll be another seventeen to twenty minutes before we actually get to this text. But when we settle on a text, it will be First Timothy chapter one or chapter three. Let me pray for us before we join God's Word together. Lord, we do ask for your word to aid us tonight. I pray that it would encourage us, convict us, mold us into the image of Christ. We know there's a real sense in which we have