The Practical Trinity: Living Out God’s Revelation

• The Great Commission [00:17:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > The children's moment introduces the theme of the Great Commission, using a juice box as a prop to discuss the idea of sending messages out.
• Discipleship and Evangelism [00:20:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > The speaker clarifies that discipleship involves 'going' and being kind/loving to others, rather than just passive actions like mailing bottles.
• Trinity Sunday [00:29:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > The speaker notes the significance of Trinity Sunday, focusing on God's self-revelation and how believers should move and breathe in the world.
• God's Sovereignty and Creation [00:26:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > Scripture reading from Psalms 8 highlights God's majesty, His care for humans, and His dominion over creation.
• The Great Commission and Baptism [00:52:15 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor reads Matthew 28 and redefines 'baptizing' not just as a ritual, but as being enveloped and covered by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• Divine Vastness vs. Human Limitation [00:55:31 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using the ocean as an analogy, the pastor explains that God's knowledge is vast like ocean molecules, but He makes Himself tangible so humans can know Him.
• The Role of the Holy Spirit [00:58:56 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor describes the Holy Spirit as the 'living water' that quenches thirst and empowers believers, contrasting the 'empty cup' without the Spirit.
• Trinitarian Living [01:04:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that the Trinity is a 'concept to live' rather than just understand, urging believers to walk, live, and breathe with the Triune God.

• Sermon Illustration [00:18:28 ▶️ 📄]
  > A story about a young man on a cruise ship who threw bottles with messages and money into the ocean, receiving letters back from people in different countries.
• Sermon Illustration [00:53:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > The speaker recounts a personal experience at a beach retreat where he initially thought the sun wouldn't rise due to overcast clouds, but it eventually broke through.
• Sermon Illustration [00:53:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts a personal experience at a beach retreat where he initially thought a cloudy overcast would block the sunrise, but then watched the sun breach the horizon and vaporize the clouds, using this as an analogy for God's vastness and revelation.
• Sermon Illustration [00:57:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a cup: humans are like cups that cannot hold the vastness of God unless God provides something tangible (Christ) to fill them, and the Holy Spirit acts as the water that quenches thirst.

• Pastoral Charge [00:22:14 ▶️ 📄]
  > Invite someone to the upcoming Bible school event.
• Pastoral Charge [00:22:12 ▶️ 📄]
  > Commit to practicing kindness, love, and obedience to Jesus' teachings in daily life during the coming week.
• Pastoral Charge [01:03:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > To go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them, and teaching them to look at the vastness of God.
• Pastoral Charge [01:04:53 ▶️ 📄]
  > To pray for God to 'wreck' and restructure their lives to align with His image.
• Pastoral Charge [01:06:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > To open their lives to make disciples and proclaim God's presence.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:06:23] Good morning, church. It is good to be in God's house as we gather together today.
[00:06:32] We've got a couple of announcements to get through. As one might notice in the bulletin, I do not look like Todd. So I just want to offer up a quick note. We'll have prayer later on,
[00:06:45] but he is actually at the hospital today, right now. And so just keep him in your prayers as we so he is at the hospital, and hopefully, fingers crossed, he will be released even before we
[00:07:02] finish worship today. So just keep him in your prayers. Our opening announcements, first of all, it is Fifth Sunday, so there will be a special offering later on in the service, but also the youth are going to be having their Fifth Sunday luncheon down at the pavilion. They are hamburgers.
[00:07:23] if you are wanting to have some and don't want to sit outside to eat them, there are to-go boxes.
[00:07:30] All of this goes to help out our youth program. So if you would please stay after and join us for that as well. So next Sunday, we have graduation Sunday. We're looking forward to celebrating our
[00:07:43] class of 2026. We'll also be presenting the Knox, Elizabeth Knox scholarship recipients with that.
[00:07:52] So if you are wanting to see and celebrate with our graduates, please make note of that and come next Sunday so that we can do that.
[00:08:02] Our annual Father's Day choir has been rehearsing already.
[00:08:06] If you would like to be a part of it, all the men are invited for the 15 minutes following after the service to stay in our choir loft and to sing.
[00:08:16] I would love to see and hear all of your beautiful voices.
[00:08:20] I will be at conference that weekend, but I will watch, so please do come and be a part of that.
[00:08:29] The Fairview kids are once again creating a special Father's Day bulletin that is found in your bulletin. Please fill that out with the names that you want to put in memory and honor of and make that donation out to the church for that.
[00:08:49] The collection will run all the way up until June the 17th.
[00:08:56] Please see Crystal if you have any other questions.
[00:08:59] Be sure to check out our VBS table in the Narthex to see how you can help.
[00:09:05] This list up here is where they're colored in.
[00:09:08] Those are the ones we're good at.
[00:09:10] We've got a couple of open spaces, station leaders.
[00:09:13] We have station assistants.
[00:09:16] We need some crew leaders.
[00:09:18] And all of those are important pieces we need to be filled.
[00:09:22] So if you are willing and able, please sign up at the table.
[00:09:26] There's also the adopt-a-prop bags back there with informational, the items.
[00:09:32] You can make that at home.
[00:09:34] So please help out where you can.
[00:09:39] Also, if you are willing to serve, those dates for the VBS is July 13th through the 17th.
[00:09:47] If you can volunteer, great.
[00:09:49] If you can invite somebody to come and be a part of it, have one of the kids come and be a part of VBS, please let them know and slate out the time.
[00:09:59] That is, again, July 13th through the 17th.
[00:10:04] I also would like, and I left it behind there, I apologize.
[00:10:09] I also would like to take a moment and to acknowledge some change in our worship and in our staff. As you may know, a lot of us are enjoying worship every Sunday. And one of the
[00:10:22] reasons why you do is because our AV crew back there work hard and tirelessly to make sure that the sound comes through and for those online so that you can hear it as well. Well, here's the
[00:10:36] thing, one of our staff members is moving on. She is leaving us. That is Kimmy Stutz. We are, excuse me, Kimmy. We are so thankful for you being here. She is going to hide even further
[00:10:51] down in the sound booth because she does not want to be seen. But I want to give a moment of appreciation to her. We will give her the gift afterwards because she said no to coming down
[00:11:02] here. So let us go take a moment and applaud and give thanks for that. Kimmy Turner has been with us for many years and she has helped us out not only in the AV, but she was our chair of our
[00:11:25] nursery program for the longest time and in the last few years has done it for volunteer position to save the church money. We are so thankful and blessed to have had her and we offer up this
[00:11:37] blessing. May your work be ever present with the God you serve, and may the God who you serve be glorified in all that you do, Kenny. This is the end of our announcement. Is there any other
[00:11:53] announcements that we need for the betterment of the good, the good of the group? Then let us bow our hearts and help ourselves enter into worship as we go before the Lord and hear this chiming of
[00:12:08] the hour and the prelude into worship morning fairview please join me in our responsive reading

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:15:17] may the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god our father and the communion of the holy

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[00:15:26] spirit be with you all and also with you let us praise god together morning if the children would

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:17:03] like to join me? Good morning. Oh, my chair disappeared. I might not be able to get back up if I get down there. Okay, and that's not going to work either. All right. How are you
[00:17:25] this morning? Good. Did you have a good week? Okay. Good. It's good to see you this Sunday.
[00:17:33] Today we have a special Sunday, and our theme today in church is the Great Commission. Well, that sounds like a big job, doesn't it? Well, I brought a little something with me that kind of
[00:17:48] reminds us of a commission. Kind of? What is that? A gift card? It is. It is a juice box. It's kind of like a, have you ever read a book or watched a movie about message in a bottle? Nope. You have,
[00:18:11] haven't you? Well, it's kind of cool, isn't it? I'm going to tell you a little story about, this is a true story about a man, a young man that went, what honey? A story about a man
[00:18:28] that he went on a cruise ship and while he was on the cruise ship, he thought it would be really cool if he got some glass bottles and he put his name and his address in the bottle and he sealed
[00:18:43] it up with a cork and a dollar bill. And his friends laughed at him and said, you're just throwing your money away. And he said, well, it just might be fun. So we threw those bottles over
[00:19:00] and he waited and waited. And then all of a sudden he got a big surprise. Can you think what that surprise was. Two of those people actually wrote him a letter and said, we got your message in a
[00:19:18] bottle. And we're from this country and we're from another country. And he was so surprised.
[00:19:26] And that was so cool. Well, I was just thinking, what if as Christians, well, let's just start start with our scripture first. I'm going to read the scripture, and then I'm going to tell you my
[00:19:42] idea. It says, Jesus came to them and said, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
[00:20:00] and the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
[00:20:08] And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age. That's a big job for us as a church, isn't it? Being disciples. Well, I had this idea. What if we, all of us, just got these glass
[00:20:27] bottles and we put a Bible verse in them and we just shipped them off somewhere. What do you think about that idea? That'd be fun, wouldn't it? Hmm. Do you think that's what Jesus meant when he said
[00:20:44] be good disciples? What did he mean? Well, that's true too. Don't throw the money away because it's important. He can use our money. But the key word here is go. Go and be disciples. What if we just
[00:21:09] sat in the church, and we just kind of invited people along the way, which is very important.
[00:21:16] But what else do we have to do? We have to greet people, and we have to make them feel welcome.
[00:21:28] and in everyday life when we go out of this church, what are some things that Jesus taught the disciples?
[00:21:39] Be kind, very good, and to obey.
[00:21:48] Boy, Ollie, you are on a roll.
[00:21:50] And what else?
[00:21:51] What else?
[00:21:53] Love others.
[00:21:57] So if we go out, it's important for us to invite people, But it's also important for us to tell them about Jesus, but to act like Jesus taught the disciples.
[00:22:09] In our hearts, we have to be good to people.
[00:22:12] You think you can work on that this week?
[00:22:14] We have Bible school coming up, and that would be a wonderful opportunity for you to invite somebody.
[00:22:20] But it'd be awesome for you to show your love and kindness, not just to our friends, but people on the playground that look a little lonely and things like that.
[00:22:31] That's very important.
[00:22:33] That is our big commission.
[00:22:35] You think you can work on that this week?
[00:22:37] Let's have a prayer.
[00:22:39] Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this wonderful church, and we thank you that we have the opportunity to worship you and help us to be kind and loving and gracious to others and help us to teach them your word.
[00:22:56] In your name we pray. Amen.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:22:59] And now let's rise to sing our opening worship song, number 64 in your red hymnal.
[00:23:28] Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. Please stand.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[00:23:32] Today's first scripture reading is from Psalms, chapter 8, verses 1 through 9.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[00:26:44] O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
[00:26:50] You have set your glory above the heavens.
[00:26:53] Out of the mouths of babes and infants, you have founded a bulwark because of your foes to silence the enemy and the avenger.
[00:27:05] When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established, what are humans that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?
[00:27:19] yet you have made them a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor you have given them dominion over the works of your hands you have put all things under their feet
[00:27:36] all sheep and oxen and also the beasts of the field the birds of the air and the fish of the sea whatever passes along the paths of the seas O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:27:56] Good morning. Please join me in our affirmation of faith.
[00:28:13] I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried the third day he rose from the dead
[00:28:35] he ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the Holy Spirit the Holy Catholic Church the communion of saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body
[00:28:56] and the life everlasting. Amen. I believe in God the Father Almighty. I believe in Jesus Christ.

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:29:20] I believe in the Holy Spirit. Today is Trinity Sunday. As we stand here today, we are reminded that God's self-revelation and how he moves and breathes in this world teaches us how we might move and breathe and exist in this world as well. And as we do that, we commune with God,
[00:29:47] and we'll get into some of that in our sermonette after our fifth Sunday. But I want you to hear this right now before we go into prayer. God is revealing something new about himself each and
[00:30:04] every day, and that doesn't preclude today's prayer. May God's Holy Spirit move in you and through you. May the revelation of who Christ is come to you in this prayer today as we give ourselves some time for the vastness of God, of the unknown God that we still haven't
[00:30:28] fully grasped, to come in contact with our lives, where we are. Maybe you're struggling today.
[00:30:39] Okay, let that God touch you. Maybe you're praising God today. Maybe you have that gift today.
[00:30:49] Praise God in that spirit as well. Wherever you are, let us meet the God who reveals himself to us.
[00:30:58] let's pray holy and living god father son and holy spirit come to us this moment come to us in our vastness and and in our insignificance come to us in our our ability to move forward with boldness
[00:31:30] and in our doubt. Come to us, oh God, in our fullness and in our emptiness. Come to us, God, in this space today with the fullness of who you are. Remind us, oh God, that even though we may
[00:31:50] not be able to see it, you still pour yourself out. Just as you did when you said, let there be light and there was. Just as you spoke into existence the stars and the planets, as you spoke into
[00:32:07] existence the sea and the dry land, just as you spoke into existence all that we see and all that we know and all that we don't see and we don't know. Holy God, we come and marvel at who you are
[00:32:26] and the expressions of your creation teach us who you are.
[00:32:33] Forgive us, oh God, when we box you up and say this is all that you are.
[00:32:42] Forgive us when we close our ears and not be able to see where you might be leading us tomorrow.
[00:32:48] Help us, oh God, in the midst of our pain and our struggles of life, be able to see that you are still God.
[00:33:01] And may we touch and see.
[00:33:06] May we grasp a hold of who Christ is for us so that we may hold on to you when we cannot stand ourselves.
[00:33:22] We may reach out to you when we plunge beneath the waters, when we can't walk upon the waters without looking to you.
[00:33:33] Help us, oh God, in the midst of this, offer up our families, our friends, our lives, trusting you oh God because if you oh God would send your son into this world to be with us
[00:33:51] what else would you hold back you gave us the best gift and we thank you we praise you and even if we were given the best even though we squandered it and even as we said crucify him
[00:34:14] you loved us still we come now oh God offering a confession, offering up our hearts, saying we didn't get it. We didn't understand our grief, our anxiety, our way didn't work, but you made a way through it. So holy God,
[00:34:51] we surrender to you and ask you to move in our hearts and in our situations. You say in your word, oh God, that you make all things good. And if it's not good, God, then you're not done working
[00:35:12] on it. So holy God, continue to work on it. Continue to work on our hearts. Continue to work on the situations. Continue to bring about your good in this world. And God, use these hands. Use these
[00:35:26] feet. May they be ever moving toward the places you are. May my hands touch the hurting and the broken. May my hands reach out to the ones who need the embrace. May your hands, oh God,
[00:35:41] overshadow mine and remind us of who you are. And may your spirit breathe new life into us.
[00:35:56] Thank you, God, for being a God who's holy in relationship with within yourself and within us.
[00:36:09] Holy God, lead us, change us, and transform this world through us.
[00:36:17] For this we offer up as a prayer.
[00:36:20] As this we lift up, as we lift up the numerous names that you already have heard on our hearts.
[00:36:31] Holy God, we lift this up in glory and honor to you.
[00:36:34] As we pray this day, your prayer for us.
[00:36:39] our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses
[00:36:56] as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not to temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. As we finish up our prayer, we are not done
[00:37:17] with lifting up things to God. As we go forward in this service, we are going to be given two opportunities to give our gifts back to God. This one, which is our regular tithe and our offering,
[00:37:32] And I missed this in our announcements.
[00:37:35] This is Fifth Sunday, so we will be singing.
[00:37:38] But during our last hymn, we will also take up a special offering for our Feed NC partners in ministry.
[00:37:47] So remember that as we go into the end hymn, to please bring that up as well.
[00:37:57] As the ushers are coming forward to receive our tithe and our offering, may we offer up our hearts, our service, our lives, and our witness and mission to God.
[00:38:11] Please come forward.

[00:38:12] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[00:38:12] Brothers and sisters, as we lift up these offerings,

[00:40:49] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:40:49] may they be an offering of our lives and the gifts and the presence of our lives to service of God.
[00:40:58] Holy God, receive these gifts.
[00:40:59] bless them multiply them and use them for your kingdom that we might glorify you in all that you are father son and holy spirit amen you may be seated favorite sunday we have four hymns today

[00:41:42] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:41:42] that we are going to sing the first hymn is on eagle's wings it's in our red hymnal page number

[00:41:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[00:41:51] 143 and we're going to sing through it twice black book the faith we sing book it's number 2130 and we're going to sing all five verses going back to the red book page number 347
[00:46:11] spirit song and we are going to sing both verses okay so that one got me sorry

[00:48:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:48:51] the last song is number 357 also in our red hymnal just as i am without one plea

[00:49:01] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[00:49:01] and we're gonna sing verses one three and six thanks for singing with me brothers and sisters

[00:51:12] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:51:12] our scripture today comes from the final verses in the gospel of matthew in the 28th chapter verses 16 through 20. And as the children's sermon has already said, this is the Great Commission, but it is also Trinity Sunday. So I want you to listen in closely to how God wants us to accomplish
[00:51:37] this Great Commission he has sent us out to do. So if you will, please join me in Matthew 28.
[00:51:47] Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain in which Jesus had directed them.
[00:52:01] And when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted.
[00:52:07] And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
[00:52:15] Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.
[00:52:32] And remember, I am with you always to the end of the age.
[00:52:39] This is the word of God for us, the people of God.
[00:52:42] Thanks be to God.
[00:52:43] Will you pray with me?
[00:52:45] Come Holy Spirit, come Father above, And come, Jesus, our wondrous teacher, and give us words of wisdom as we go about the mission you have sent us out to do. Teach us this morning about who you are in this space.
[00:53:07] In your mighty name, we pray. Earlier, a couple of months ago, actually, it's actually been a year, over a year now. I remember going to the beach, and as I was going to the beach, I got out. It
[00:53:24] was a retreat, so we were able to go out on the beach. It was a little bit cool, but we got there, and as we did, the sun started to rise, and it was a really cloudy overcast at first.
[00:53:37] And as I looked at the horizon, I said, well, we're not going to get to see the sun rise today because this cover cast, it's going to block it.
[00:53:46] But one of the biggest things is as I was sitting there and the rush of the waves coming in, the vastness of this humongous waters that were right there, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, the colors started to come up
[00:53:59] and I said, well, it's still going to block him.
[00:54:01] We're not going to be able to see him.
[00:54:03] We're not going to be able to see the sun rise.
[00:54:06] But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, the sun breached the horizon and as if it was to vaporize all the clouds around it, it shot across the things and all of a sudden, as the sun broke the surface, the tension of the waters,
[00:54:25] the clouds vaporized and I was able to see this beautiful sunrise.
[00:54:31] I sat in awe of this beautiful expression of God in our midst.
[00:54:36] and I wonder I wondered at the vastness of God and how the trinity might exactly be that a practical way of experience and living with God see I want to tell you that because I was
[00:54:58] sitting there on the shorelines and if you've ever been able to do that I pray that you all get the opportunity, if you haven't already, to go to the ocean and just stand there. I don't want
[00:55:10] you to listen to all the people. I just want you to stand there and look out at the oceans.
[00:55:18] Scripture says, I mean, it says that so vast is the knowledge of God. So vast is God. It is as if we as human beings were looking out at the ocean, and every molecule of water out in those oceans
[00:55:31] is a new and wondrous object, a lesson about God.
[00:55:37] I, in all of my life, could not experience all of that.
[00:55:44] That's God the Father, folks.
[00:55:48] God the Father in all his wonders, but yet he doesn't want us to wonder.
[00:55:54] He wants us to know him.
[00:55:56] God wants us to know him.
[00:55:58] He wants them to know everyone.
[00:56:00] And he also wants you to know that he sees you.
[00:56:03] He sees you.
[00:56:06] Just as I'm a speck of dust on the side of that shoreline looking out at all of this, God looks out from the vastness of this ocean back toward us and says, you are my prize, possession.
[00:56:26] I made the heavens and the earth.
[00:56:29] I made light and darkness.
[00:56:31] I made all things because I wanted to get to have a relationship with you.
[00:56:36] The only way one person can have a relationship with them is if they reveal themselves.
[00:56:43] Vulnerability is a part of a relationship.
[00:56:46] I know a lot of guys would probably say, I don't like that part.
[00:56:49] Yes, but it's a part of a relationship.
[00:56:53] We have to be vulnerable enough to express ourselves, to lay it down on the line, to allow ourselves to be seen and to know, to allow our character to come forward.
[00:57:04] And that's exactly what it is.
[00:57:05] When I look out at the vastness, I can't know everything, but God needed to come a little closer to me, to reveal himself to me so I can understand him. You see, I am a cup and I want
[00:57:25] to know him, but I can only hold this. I can only see it when it is tangible. And here's the thing, God said, I am the vastness of the waters of the ocean. I have all of this to explain to you,
[00:57:39] but you won't understand it.
[00:57:40] So I will give you something that you can tangibly hold on to.
[00:57:47] So at a perfect time, he made Christ.
[00:57:52] The living water, the word made flesh.
[00:57:57] He made something that we could touch, taste, and understand.
[00:58:01] He allowed us to visibly see something we could not contain and understand.
[00:58:08] He was fully God, yet he came to be one of us.
[00:58:11] that's who jesus is that's who jesus is that's that's what the first two people of the trinity are but here's the wondrous thing and something that we forget too often we love to be binarians
[00:58:30] to father and son but we forget the last part you see god wanted us to let the holy spirit pour into us, to breathe into us, to give us life and hope, to take on the same characteristic, the
[00:58:56] wetness, to quench thirst of other people. He wanted us to understand who he was so that we could then turn around and pair our house and allow other people to drink deeply of us and of
[00:59:11] this Holy Spirit that builds and lives in us, empowers us to live out this life. You see, I couldn't understand God. See, if I'm standing on the shoreline, I don't understand, but God came near to me. He revealed himself to me. Then he gave something that I could touch, taste,
[00:59:35] and understand. He could understand who he is. Then he said, I will pour out my Holy Spirit on you. You see, this is all in the context of him giving. This is one of the most clear, distinctive
[00:59:51] moments of Trinitarian thought in the whole of the Gospels, Matthew 28. When he says, go and baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, I want you to understand what
[01:00:07] the word baptize means. And I know we get that mixed up and we're talking about baptism. I don't want to discredit what it means we do need to baptize. That's not what I'm saying. But what
[01:00:17] he means is to be covered in, consoled, be enveloped by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. How many of you live your lives each and every day being poured out, poured into?
[01:00:40] How many of you start your day looking out over the vastness of the ocean, not literally, but figuratively. God, this is all you. You did this. I am here today because of you.
[01:01:05] That breath because of you. I stand forgiven because you saw I needed something and you came to me. When I couldn't understand how healing happened, you met me in my brokenness and you healed me. When I didn't understand how the tapestry of my life was going to work out,
[01:01:28] you did. And you reached out to me and you walk with me in and through all of these things.
[01:01:43] See, when I was a young man, first new in the Christians, Christian walk, it was a thing back in the day when you would sign somebody's yearbook, sign somebody's Bible. I would write this one verse, Matthew 28, 20, and lo, I am with you always to the ends of the earth. You see, the
[01:02:15] Holy Spirit, Son, the Father, all of that baptizing, being enveloped in that, is to help us walk, live, and breathe with God. So my brothers and sisters, without the Holy Spirit, we are an empty cup.
[01:02:46] Without looking to Christ for his teaching and his understanding, we are dry cup. And without going to the source of revelation of who God is, we don't even know what to fill our cup with.
[01:03:14] There's a reason why those disciples stood there. They worshiped him on the mountain.
[01:03:18] and it says in scripture and some doubted I can't do this Jesus I can't do what you did I can't even understand what tomorrow brings I don't have a plan I don't know God and he said
[01:03:39] so he told them

[01:03:41] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:03:41] go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them

[01:03:55] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:03:55] just as I am baptizing you right now teaching you all the commandments so that you would look out at the vastness of God.
[01:04:09] Soak it in.
[01:04:10] You could take in my teachings and then the Holy Spirit would pour into you.
[01:04:19] You see, the Trinity is so confusing, but it doesn't have to be.
[01:04:28] It wasn't a concept for us to understand.
[01:04:30] It was a concept to live.
[01:04:36] So I pray today as we close this time that the Holy Spirit might open our eyes.
[01:04:47] I pray that the sun might come tangibly into our lives and wreck it.
[01:04:53] Yes, I said it.
[01:04:55] Wreck it.
[01:04:58] Put it in the right places.
[01:05:01] Restructure my life and your life to look like his.
[01:05:06] So that when we are in the right posture and the right mindset, after being urged by the Holy Spirit, being taught by the Son on our Savior, we might look out into the vastness of what God has created for us today
[01:05:24] and say, today is the day the Lord has made.
[01:05:29] Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
[01:05:32] Let us stand firm today and say, you are with us to the end of the age.
[01:05:43] Amen, amen, amen.
[01:05:48] Will you pray with me?
[01:05:50] Holy Spirit, Father, Son, come now into our space.
[01:05:57] Open our eyes that we might see you.
[01:06:00] Open our hearts that we might feel you.
[01:06:02] And open our lives that we might go therefore and make disciples of all nations.
[01:06:10] Proclaiming how you live in, through, and about us.
[01:06:14] teach us oh God how to walk with you in dance with this holy trinity holy mystery you have revealed to us that we might have the thirst quenched and our dryness evaporated as we stand hand in hand
[01:06:33] with the one who created the one who sustains and the one who saves in your mighty name we pray Our final closing worship song Is for the beauty of the earth We will be singing
[01:06:53] And that's on page 92 We'll be singing verses 1, 2, 4, and 5 And as we reminder The offering plate is up here For our second mile giving Four feet and see As you are able, please stand

[01:07:08] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[01:07:08] Brothers and sisters

[01:09:24] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:09:24] Ones who are baptized In the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit Go now into the world live out the presence of God in your heart and through your lives.
[01:09:38] Go and teach those around you who you've met and who you know.
[01:09:45] Go and live out the presence of God.
[01:09:49] In the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit.
[01:09:52] Amen.