The Person and Work of Satan
Join Dr. Easley as he completes Part II of Satanology and wraps up our series, Why We Believe What We Believe.
Your church or experience may be a little different doctrinally, but I’d encourage you to listen and think critically.
There will always been new teaching fighting your doctrine.
Theology is seldom hammered out in a vacuum. It’s almost always forged in a fight.
Beliefs about the Godhead:
Modalism: God is 3 modes, like water – liquid, ice, vapor.
Oneness: Jesus only
Trinitarian belief: God is a person who has revealed Himself as a trinity in unity.
Why is it important to have a monotheistic God? He is the only true God, but more importantly, when Israel is going into a polytheistic culture rife with idolatry, God makes it abundantly clear to them: they have one God.
All the things that pull our hearts from God and cause us to doubt are nothing more, and nothing less, than little idols that call to us and promise things they can never deliver.
Believer in Jesus Christ, your God is one. and He’s good. and He’s loving.
God’s goal is always to love his own. He created us for fellowship. Not to be subservient serfs, but for relationship.
Elohim is a plural term. He’s one, but He’s three.
Genesis 1:26-27 uses plural language in a different way, but with the same point.
By the way, we’re the only creature in all creation that are image bearers.
Only we bear God’s image.
Matthew 28:19
Making disciples: we often compartmentalize evangelism and discipleship. In this verse, they appear to be one and the same.
This is also a verse of trinitarian doctrine: the name (singular) of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit. There is unity and connection here.
We have to align ourselves with what scripture teaches, not just our opinion about it. Studying why we believe what we believe is critical, it will shape our doctrine.
The person and work of Christ is the central hope, the key to scripture. He lived, He died, He was buried, and He came back from the dead.
Any and all who trust in Christ and Christ alone are promised a free gift of eternal life.
It doesn’t matter your situation in life, what you’ve done, whatever shame or guilt you feel, He loves you.
He loves you so much that Christ died in your place, on your behalf, instead of you.
There’s nothing more important in life than coming to terms with this, and knowing Him.
If you feel led to respond to this in faith, you can pray a prayer as simple as this:
Father, I am a sinner. I realize, maybe for the first time, that I am in desperate need, and that You love me and that Christ died for me, in my place, instead of me and on my behalf. He was so good to do for me what I could never do for myself. I put my faith in You. I trust You and believe in You, and by that faith You promised me a gift called eternal life.
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Join Dr. Easley as he completes Part II of Satanology and wraps up our series, Why We Believe What We Believe.
The Holy Spirit, which seals our Salvation, is a person at work. How does He empower us, fill us, indwell us?
Our culture has become increasingly opposed to black-and-white ideas, particularly in the area of theology. To hold firm convictions as a Christian is often difficult.
Learn more about the controversial Doctrine of the Holy Spirit and the ways some academic approaches challenge our beliefs in Episode 11 of Why We Believe What We Believe.