Psalters: 74: 1 – 4;
381: 1 – 4;
Reading: 1 Peter 1: 1 – 25;
Lord’s Day 8
304: 1 – 5;
32: 1 – 4.
Apostles Creed;
B. C. 28.
sermon from Rev. C. Vogelaar
Lord’s Day 8, question 24 and 25, teaching on the Holy Trinity.
1. A great mystery.
2. A revealed truth.
3. A fountain of comfort
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The Holy Trinity is to be believed, we cannot explain this very deep
mystery. Who is able to explain God?
We cannot be saved if we do not believe in the Trinity.
Learn from out of God’s Word the great secrets of the Triune God.
Believe God, and believe in the Trinity, we need not prove God, He is
here, He exists, He proves Himself in nature, He shows Himself to us
in His Word. Are there not here them that know God to be a prayer
answering God?
One true God, consisting of Three Persons, this is a great mystery, but
let God be glorified in this great mystery.
God is a Spirit, He must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
Three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, all three are equal, coeternal and co-essential.
God the Father is judge, also the instigator of the plan of salvation.
The Lord Jesus, the second person, is the mediator, He became the
curse for sinners, Jesus gave His life to save sinners condemned by
the Father, Jesus merited eternal life, poured out His blood for
enemies. The Holy Spirit, third person, is the applicator, the Holy
Spirit brings salvation into the heart, the heart of the believer.
Holy Spirit convinces and reproves of sin, of righteousness and of
judgment. Holy Spirit makes Christ’s merits valuable to the sinner, He
brings that home into your heart when He blesses you with true
saving faith.
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Doctrine of the Trinity is revealed in the Bible, the Word of the Lord.
Genesis 1, “Let us make man.” Genesis 3 and 11 witness of the
Trinity. As well, Psalm 45, Isaiah 48 and 61.
The buds of God’s promise in the Old Testament, while the flower of
His promises of Salvation in the New Testament.
Pause to sing, then the comfort of this truth.
The punishment for sin is experienced by the Lord Jesus on the cross,
the sinner by the light of His Word and Spirit bring that home to the
believer.
Poor sinner in church this evening, do you desire to fear His name, to
know Him more and more? There is no other way, than to look too
Jesus on the Cross, with the eye of a God given faith.
Believe in Him and His finished work, seek the Lord to strengthen
your faith.
Are you jealous to know the Lord, to have the blessing of His love?
Pray, “Lord, make me willing in the day of Thy power, teach me to
pray in truth, make me a seeker, a beggar.”