What We Believe – Part TWO (September 21, 2025)

 

 

 

Sermon Outline for Sunday, September 21, 2025

 

PASSAGES: Matthew 28:18-20; Psalm 51:7; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Romans 12:1-2; John 14:15-17; Acts 2:4

 

For the month of September, we are going to be looking at the Declaration of Faith in the Church of God. This is the core of what we believe, not only as a Christian, but also as a church, being a part of the Church of God. Please note, everything that we believe MUST be backed up by Scripture and we are looking at not only what we believe, but WHY we believe. 
 

Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV) ~ And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

 

  • In sanctification subsequent to the new birth, through faith in the blood of Christ; through the Word, and by the Holy Ghost.
    • Sanctification is an act of divine grace.
    • Psalm 51:7 ~ “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.”
    • 1 Corinthians 6:11 ~ “And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

 

  • Holiness to be God’s standard of living for His people.
    • The believer is wholly dependent on the Word and Spirit of God. He is incapable of achieving a holy life through self-discipline, obedience to law or ordinances, self-affliction, or any other device of the flesh.
    • Romans 12:1–2 ~ “1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
    • Why?
      • The world desperately needs to get right with God (Romans 1:18 – 3:20)
      • The way for the world to get right with God is now clearly revealed through God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The way is justification: believing in the Lord Jesus Christ and having God count one’s faith as righteousness (Romans 3:21–5:21)
      • The believer in Christ can now be sanctified, that is, set apart to God and set free from sin to life eternal by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Holy Spirit (Romans 6:1–8:39)
      • The believer or the church, not Israel, is now God’s choice to carry the gospel of His Son to the whole world (Romans 9:1–11:36)
    • If there is anything in Scripture that must be heeded by Christian believers, it is these two verses (Romans 12:1-2).
      • The believer is to present his body as a living sacrifice to God.
      • God is not interested in just a man’s spirit, but all that man has, his whole body. The dedication of all that man is to be; the dedication is not to be made to self, is not to be made to others, is not to be made to something else; it is to be made to God and God alone.
      • This living sacrifice is a constant, continuous sacrifice, not just an occasional dedication of one’s body. All man’s desires needs to be for God. A holy, righteous, pure, clean and moral life for God.
 

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Pastor Andy Lambert

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