John K. Jenkins Sr - The Doctrine of God

Praise the Lord! Good evening, everyone! Praise the Lord! God bless you! I’m so glad to have you here with us tonight, and I know we have a ton of people tuning in from all over. I’m grateful for your presence and thankful for all of you. People try to tell me every week where everyone is tuning in from, and I appreciate all of you who come. We have people from Brazil, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Texas, and more. We have people from all over! So wherever you’re from, I’m eternally thankful for you dedicating your time and setting it aside in your schedules to be a part of our Bible study tonight. Thank God for you! I truly appreciate it, and I hope everybody has had a great day. Today has been a beautiful day here in the DMV, and I hope it has been wonderful wherever you are. I’m excited to share this series we’re currently in because I want you to know what you believe. I want you to be persuaded, convinced, and convicted about where your hope rests and what you believe, because what you believe determines what your destiny will be. Your faith will dictate your choices, behavior, actions, and lifestyle, and I want you to believe the right things. So, I’ve been going through this series on the six key doctrines of the Christian faith, looking at what we believe while also comparing our beliefs to those of other religious organizations. I want you to be absolutely persuaded and not tricked or fooled by anyone else. So that is what we are doing. Let 's begin with prayer. Let 's take a moment and pray.

Father, thank you for waking us up today to see a brand new day. Thank you for opening our eyes to a day that was never created before; nobody has ever seen this day, but yet you have blessed us to experience this ninth day of May 2023. Thank you, Father! Thank you for life, health, and strength-the activities of our limbs and the opportunity you have extended to us to simply live. We pray that you bless our time in your word today. Make your truth relevant, real, vibrant, and alive-not just here in the DMV but for people all over the world and across the country: Nigeria, India, Brazil, Michigan, California-wherever they are, Lord! North Carolina, Georgia, and beyond. We pray their eyes will also be opened. Help us to have revelatory knowledge to gain understanding, and if there is anyone here, God, who has been fooled, tricked, or deceived in what they believe, bring clarity so they might stand in the truth. It 's in Jesus' incredible and matchless name we pray. Amen.

Alright, let me take a moment to recap that we started this series last week discussing the doctrines of God -the six key doctrines. We began with something we discussed just a few weeks earlier regarding the authority of the Scriptures. We explored where the Scriptures come from, why we place so much confidence in them, why we believe in them, why we govern our lives by them, who wrote the Bible, how it was compiled, and why some books are in the Bible while others are not. We spent time addressing all of that as we began our exploration of these six doctrinal beliefs. These key doctrines are essential for you to know, understand, and believe, starting with the authority of Scripture. That was our discussion last week. So if you missed it, I encourage you to go back, watch the video, and get the notes.

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We discussed what we believe, why we believe what we believe, and we distinguished our beliefs from those of other groups. The bottom line is that some other groups introduce another book, their " scriptures,» as the basis of their authority. Roman Catholics give authority to the pope and tradition, the Mormons use the Book of Mormon, the Jehovah’s Witnesses have their own New World Translation, and different groups have different additions to the Bible. However, we believe that the Scriptures, as given by God, do not need anything added to them. We started with that last week.

Now, there were some questions that people asked last week, and I tried to answer as many as I could, but I didn’t get to all of them. So let me address that...