Awaken Baby Dedications: Commitment to Love and Raise Children in Faith

1. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary Creed part II

2. Awaken Baby Dedications Gloriana Kirk [Larry and Jessie Kirk] and Charlie Freeman [Stephen and Caroline Freeman]

3. Awaken Baby Dedications Do you commit to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, strength and pledge to teach and lead your child to do the same? Will you commit yourselves to modeling God’s love and devotion to your children all the days of their lives?

4. Awaken Baby Dedications Before God and before these Awaken Saints, do you pledge to dedicate yourselves and your children to the Lord?

5. Awaken Baby Dedications So your child may walk in the abundant life God offers, do you promise, with God’s help and in partnership with the church, to provide your child with a Christian home of love and peace. To raise them in the truth of God’s instruction and discipline, and to encourage them someday to trust in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord?

6. Awaken Baby Dedications Awaken Saints: So that these young babies may walk in the abundant life offered by Christ, do you…church…vow by God’s help, to be faithful in your calling as members of the family of Christ, to help these parents be faithful to God? Will you support these parents to teach and train their children in the ways of the Lord so these children might someday trust in Him as Savior and Lord? If you accept this responsibility, please respond by saying “We do.”

7. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com Creed = ‘a formalized confession of faith.’ Creeds were how Christians were able to distinguish Truth from the Lies dressed like Truth

8. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth And in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary

9. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com Jesus and his followers went to the towns around Caesarea Philippi. While they were traveling, Jesus asked them, “Who do people say I am? “Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the other prophets.”– Mark 8:27-28

10. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com • Ebionites – Jesus was an obedient Jew who became Messiah • Docetism– Jesus not really a man, but seemed like He was • Arianism – Jesus was of God, but not equal to God. • Gnostics– Jesus was God, but denied being born and having an actual, physical body.

11. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com And in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord:

12. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” – C.S. Lewis

13. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com “Your father Abraham rejoiced as he looked forward to my coming. He saw it and was glad.” The people said, “You aren’t even fifty years old. How can you say you have seen Abraham? Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I AM! “At that point they picked up stones to throw at him.” – John 8:56-59a

14. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com The Father and I are one.” Once again the people picked up stones to kill him. Jesus said, “At my Father’s direction I have done many good works. For which one are you going to stone me?” They replied, “We’re stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God.” – John 10:30-33

15. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com “while we look forward with hope to that wonderful day when the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be revealed.”– Titus 2:13

16. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary

17. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com Asked of Larry King: ‘If you could select any person in history to interview, who would it be and what would you ask them?’ - Jesus Christ - Were you indeed Virgin-born?’

18. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com Conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary WHY? • First, it was so Jesus would fulfill prophecy. “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [God with us].” – Isaiah 7:14

19. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com Secondly, to give Jesus authority The angel replied, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby born to you will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.” – Luke 1:35

20. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com Finally, there’s the blood issue “How can the blood of Jesus be pure enough to redeem mankind if the blood of every human born it is already tainted with Sin?”

21. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com “And he said to them, "This is my blood, poured out for many, sealing the covenant between God and his people.”– Mark 14:24

22. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com Hypostatic Union: idea that Jesus is BOTH fully God and fully Man

23. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com

24. And in Jesus Christ God’s only Son, Our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Maryawakenqna@gmail.com And in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary awakenqna@gmail.com

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