First Baptist Church - Dickson, Tennessee Podcast

Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus, so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Rm. 15:5 -6 ...

The one who has seen Me has seen the Father… ...

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor

"Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me" ...

Focal Truth: Jesus promises His disciples that He is arranging a place for each of them in heaven and will come to get them when things are ready.

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love

Focal Truth: Jesus promises when believers love each other they will prove to the world they are His disciples.

Believers are members with one another connected like the parts of a body

Focal Truth: Jesus Christ prepares the disciples for His return to God the Father.

But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another 1 Cor. 12:24 -25 ...

Focal Truth: Jesus Christ the great mystery of godliness was taken up in glory

Using our spiritual gifts

Jesus Christ the mystery of godliness has been believed on in the world.

Focal Truth: Jesus Christ is the mystery of godliness proclaimed among the nations

In the Old Testament only select people were empowered by the Holy Spirit for spiritual service. However, in the New Testament every believer is gifted to serve in the body of Christ, the church

By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness…He was vindicated in the Spirit ...

Focal Truth: Jesus Christ revealed in the flesh is the great mystery of godliness

Focal Truth: Jesus Christ is the great mystery of godliness ...

A lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And He said to him, what is written in the Law? How does it read to you? And he answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself. And He said to him, you have answered correctly, do this and your will live. – Luke 10:25 - 28

And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, if anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me – Mark 8:34 ...