Music. Last week, our discussion centered around the confessions, all of these different confessions. Remember, Baptists are people of confessions, not creeds, even though the general Baptist did have one entitled The Oxford creed, that I couldn't really figure out about that, but no one else must have been able to either, because all the research that I did, no one, no one wrote about why they called it a creed. So I don't feel so bad now, but so we we discussed the the confessions of faith, what they believe, and things like that. Tonight, our discussion is going to be focused around the contents of that faith. What? What are the doctrines? What? What did they put in these creeds that was so major to their faith. And there are 10 different things doctrines that the early Baptist believed, and many of these align with some of the things we believe today. Now you're going to see differences. We've been talking about the general Baptist, the particular Baptist, you're going to see some differences in the way that they align in some of these things. But today, we don't necessarily have general Baptist. In particular Baptist, we have what we would refer to as probably the closest people to particular Baptist would be the people that identify as Calvinist or Reformed with their Reformed theology. So even though a little bit of general Baptist, the doctrine kind of nod, nodded to that from time to time as well. But the 10 early doctrinal beliefs of Baptist, and we're not, we're only going to get to the first three tonight. We'll we'll do just these in segments when we start back in January. January 8 will be our first Wednesday night back. We will have dinner that night as well. So come hungry for food and for my great teaching. And I'm very humble. So the first I'm I'm the most humble person you'll ever meet. And I'm not afraid to tell you. So the first doctrine, doctrinal belief, of the early Baptist was dealing with the Holy Spirit. I mean, the the Holy Trinity, God the Father, God the Son God, the Holy Spirit, what? What do? What do we believe about that? What do they not believe about that? And so on and so forth. Number two would be scripture. You know, Baptist have always been a people of the book. So scripture. The third one that we're going to get to tonight deals with atonement, atonement for sin. Who did Jesus die for? Did he die for everyone? Did he only die for elect few? What, and what does that look like in terms of maintaining your salvation the other six that we'll get to eventually, doctrinal beliefs about the church, about the ministry of the church, baptism, communion, our relationship to the government, religious liberty and the future hope so. These are the these are the 10. The Big 10. How about that? They may not be a very good football program, but they're, pretty the Big 10 is good for for these doctrinal beliefs of Baptist. So Trinity, scripture, atonement, the church, the ministry, baptism, communion, relation to the government, religious liberty and the future hope. So let's begin where it's always wise at the beginning. Number one, the Holy Trinity. Like I said, the the Holy Trinity deals with God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. How many times in the Bible is the word trinity used? None, very good. I'm so proud of you. None, none. That is the term that we came up with. You know, you derive Trinity. Try being three. And so the when we think about the Holy Trinity, a simple way to explain it to someone without blowing their mind or giving yourself a headache, trying to pull all of these doctrinal things scripture references is to simply say that the Holy Trinity is about God revealing himself to mankind in the form of a father in the form of the Son, in the form of the holy. Spirit. So just like that. Now it's it's hard for our finite minds to wrap it wrap around our minds something like that of one entity being three entities, okay? But the day that we have, God figured out he's no longer God. So some things we have to be okay with understanding that God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Remember, last week we talked about Modalism, that he can be three, all three distinct persons at any given time, at one given time, altogether. And what was the example in scripture that we looked at of God the Father, God the Son, God, the Holy Spirit being present at one time. Jesus is baptism. I think this battery is going dead, so I'll make sure I talk loud enough for y'all to hear me. So so you don't feel like you're that So Richard doesn't regret not being in the security office that we're getting and getting in trouble. So God revealed Himself to mankind as Father Son, Holy Spirit. That's that's the Trinity most Orthodox Christians, and including Roman Catholics and the various Protestant groups, even Baptists, Methodists, they're going to largely agree about this nature of God. You know, if you want to find common ground with Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians and other Protestants, you're going to find a lot of common ground when it comes to the Trinity, God in three distinct forms. But when we talk about God as the Holy Spirit, the Baptist accepted the personality and the deity of the Holy Spirit and defined his work from a biblical perspective in such areas as inspiration, comfort and illumination of Scripture. Now let's break those down. Early Baptist and even us today. They looked at the personal and the deity, framework characteristics of God, of the Holy Spirit. They looked at the deity, the personality of it. And they they measured it with scripture. What does scripture say about the Holy Spirit, and what the areas, these three areas that they found comfort in was, or found to be of much help, was that the Holy Spirit assist in inspiration. The Holy Spirit assist us in our comfort, and the Holy Spirit assist us in the illumination of Scripture. Could you imagine trying to read Scripture without the help of the Holy Spirit? You know, often times we'd be lost, or we would be you know, what's the point of this? But when the Holy Spirit illuminates scripture to the point of helping us understand that it has a salvific point to it, that it makes all the difference in the world. So the Baptist looked at it and said, you know, from these perspectives, the Holy Spirit helps with inspiration, comfort and illumination. When it came to the part of the Trinity that dealt with Jesus, the son. There was some diversity in the 17th century. In the 1600s there was the little bit of diversity, specifically between the general Baptist and the particular Baptist. For example, general baptist had a very weak Christology when it came to God as the son, you know, they, they inherited this thought process about Jesus from the early Anabaptist. And so they one of the the men who kind of came up with this Christology, this understanding of who Jesus is in relation to the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, was the guy, the last name of Hoffman and he came up, and they ended up calling this hoffmannite Christology. Christology is a fancy word, the study of Christ, you know, ology, study of Christ, study of Christ. Christology is, well, hoffmanite, hoffmannite Christology. And so this view says that Jesus did not take on the physical flesh from Mary, his mother. You ever, God gave it to him. Of course. What's that second? Hezekiah, okay, well, I was watching a movie last night, Tyler Perry movie, and Madea was telling the Christmas story from the perspective of second. Do. Geronimo. So yeah, same thing. There you go. I'll cut that part out the video. But according to this view, according to this hoffmannite Christology view, that Jesus did not get his flesh from his mother, according to this view, Jesus came through the body of Mary without partaking of her physical human nature. Okay, have you ever heard that? Anybody ever heard that before? It's very interesting. Why is that a problem? What's wrong with that? The area exactly that. So, this doctrine, this type of Christology, this type of way of looking at Jesus, while intended to safeguard the deity of Jesus, it collapses the humanity of Jesus. So we know by Scripture he is 100% God and 100% human. And so there what, what they were, early Anabaptist, and this Hoffman guy was attempting to do was to protect the deity of Jesus, to recognize him as God. They diminished the humanity of Jesus, and that's why that was such a big problem. Particular baptist had many theological problems, many theological problems. However, they never doubted the full humanity and the full deity of Jesus, neither did the demons. There you go. So yeah, you look at all their other problems and and see that they had issues there. And just because you believe in one thing, Jesus doesn't mean you've got salvation, right? You.