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There is one God. God eternally exists and reveals Himself to us as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Trinity
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There is one God. God eternally exists and reveals Himself to us as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Trinity. Trinity. Last week: 1) There is one true God who eternally exists and always keeps His promises. His name is Yahweh. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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There is one God.
God eternally exists and reveals Himself to us as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Trinity
Last week:
1) There is one true God who eternally exists and always keeps His promises. His name is Yahweh.
2) From the beginning, Yahweh has described Himself as being three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Trinity
We will never understand our purpose or role in life if we don’t understand the Trinity.
John 1:1-18 Jesus’ Reality: Eternal Intimacy with the Father 1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… 14 The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.17 for although the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. The One and Only Son— the One who is at the Father’s side— He has revealed Him.”
John 1:1-18 Jesus’ Role: Revealing the Father 1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… 14 The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.17 for although the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. The One and Only Son— the One who is at the Father’s side— He has revealed Him.”
1 John 4:7-15 Our Reality: New Intimacy with the Trinity7 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God…12 No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 15
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.”
1 John 4:7-15 Our Role: Revealing the Trinity7 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God…12 No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 15
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.”
-The church has been given profound intimacy with the Trinity.
-In the absence of Jesus, we now have the role of explaining the Trinity by the way we live.
How do we put the Trinity on display?
Reality: -The three people of the Trinity have lived in perfect relationship; perfect love and unity for all eternity.
-We are made in the image of the Trinity
Result: -We are intensely relational by design.
Our role on earth is to put the Trinity on display by the way we live.
Displaying the image of the Trinity is accomplished primarily in our relationships with one another.
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Colossians 3:10-1410“put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him…” 12“as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. 14
Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.”
Point: We reflect our Triune God as we live in loving unity with one another.
Our Pattern is Trinitarian: -We are made in the image of the Trinity-The three people of the Trinity have lived in perfect relationship; perfect love and unity for all eternity.Our Purpose is Trinitarian : -We were made to display the Trinity by our loving unity with one another.
Our Plight is Trinitarian : -We are intensely relational by design.-We crave community: to know and be known, to love and be loved…
We will never understand ourselves or our purpose without understanding the Trinity in whose image we were created.
The Deal of
a Lifetime
We get to enjoy Christian love and unity.
The world sees our glorious Triune Creator.
1) There is one true God who eternally exists and always keeps His promises. His name is Yahweh.
2) From the beginning, Yahweh has described Himself as being three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
This Week: 1) What does it mean that God is a person?
2) How can one God be three distinct persons?
3) The Father is Yahweh God.
Trinity
There is one God.
God eternally exists and reveals Himself to us as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Trinity
There is one God.
God eternally exists and reveals Himself to us as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Trinity
There is one God.
God eternally exists and reveals Himself to us as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Trinity
“three distinct persons”
Personhood-Not humaness-Not a physical body
God thinks, feels, communicates, loves, acts, has relationships…
The Son became a human (Colossians 2:7-8)
-Before His birth, the Son existed for eternity past as a person.
-At His conception, the Son became a human.
1. For Representative Obedience2. To Be a Substitute Sacrifice3. …4. …5. …6. …7. …
full article on class website
7 Reasons why Jesus had to Become a Human
“three distinct persons”
Personhood-Not humaness-Not a physical body
God thinks, feels, communicates, loves, wills, acts, has relationships…
There is one God.
God eternally exists and reveals Himself to us as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Trinity
POLYTHEISM: There is more than one god. Who? Hinduism, Mormonism
ARIANISM: Just the father is god. Jesus is not really God. Who? Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses
MODALISM: God is not three distinct people. He only acts like different people at different times Hat god, Actor god
Who? Confused “Christians”, The Shack Father says “in Jesus I am truly human”
The Trinitarianism is NOT…
One God in three distinct persons should not be confusing or seem illogical. We are saying: “One God is three persons.”
This is not a contradiction like “A is not A”One God is not One GodThree persons are not three persons
This is not a mathematic impossibility like “A= A+A+A”One God is three Gods = + + One person is three persons
One God is three persons. A = B+B+B = + +
The Problem: People are confusing God with humans.
It is true: One human is made up of one person.one human = one person =
Problem?
God is not a human. God is one of a kind. God is in His own category.
General Revelation We needed…?
Special Revelation: God’s WordGod defines Himself as: One God in Three Persons
= + +
John 14:16-17Jesus said “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth”
Mark 1:19-11 (Baptism of Jesus)“Immediately coming up out of the water, Jesus saw the heavens opening, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him; 11 and a voice came out of the heavens: “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct persons
Dialogue
Interaction
Relationship
You cannot appreciate the Gospel or your own salvation without understanding the Trinity and their distinct roles.The
Father chose us
to be saved.
The Father gave up His Son sending
Him to earth.
The Son humbled Himself
taking on the form of
a man.
The Son followed the Law perfectly
so He could be a perfect sacrifice for sin.
The Son died on
the cross to pay
the penalty for our sins.
The Father
accepted the Son’s payment for our sins.
The Holy Spirit raised Jesus
from the dead proving that our debt had been paid in
full.
The Son commission
ed His followers to
tell the world the
good news.
The Holy Spirit gave
Jesus’ followers power to
spread the good news.
The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the Gospels and
the NT to accurately record everything for us.
The Holy Spirit
convicted us of our
personal sin.
The Son, His death and
resurrection, were the object
of our faith.
The Holy Spirit made
us spiritually alive from the dead
causing us to be born
again.
The Father sent the
Holy Spirit to live
inside of us.
The Father keeps our salvation secure until
Heaven.
The Holy Spirit changes us to be more
like Jesus.
The Son intercedes on
our behalf continually.
The Holy Spirit guarantees our
place in Heaven.
The Son receives us into Heaven
when we leave this body at death.
The Father gives us all new
resurrection bodies.
We enjoy eternal
fellowship with the Trinity
because of their joint effort for our salvation!
There is one God.
God eternally exists and reveals Himself to us as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Trinity
The Bible teaches that:
1) The Father is Yahweh God2) The Holy Spirit is Yahweh
God3) The Son Jesus is Yahweh
God
The Father is Yahweh God
-Prominent and Accepted-Meaningful only within the context of the Trinity
“father worship, removed from the Trinity, is no more legitimate than the worship of angels.”
“through Christ we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.” -Ephesians 2:18
“Jesus said, “I am the
way, and the truth, and
the life; no one comes to
the Father but through
Me.” -John 14:6
First, God the Father is eternally the father in His relationship to Jesus the Son.
Jesus uses “My Father”26 times in John
Relationship Out-dates Humans John 17:4-5 Jesus said, “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 “Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.”
Always “My Father” Except John 20:16-17After the resurrection: 17 Jesus said to Mary, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’ ”
Full Circle back to John 1:12“as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name”
Second, God the Father becomes ..father to us by adoption through Jesus.
The Father planned our adoption in eternity past.
Ephesians 1:3-5
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ… He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself”
Second, God the Father becomes ..father to us by adoption through Jesus.
The Father planned our adoption in eternity past.The Father executed our adoption in history.
Galatians 4:4-5
“when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, 5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.”
In our WORSHIP we get to praise the Father for His loving and sacrificial plan to adopt us.
The Father deserves and desires to be praised for His grace in your redemption.
In our WORSHIPIn our WITNESS we get to tell the world that God the Father has reached out to us personally by giving His Son to die.
-we were wanted by the Father-we were pursued by the Father-we are adopted children of our Father
1) The Father is Yahweh God2) The Holy Spirit is Yahweh
God3) The Son Jesus is Yahweh
God
The Holy Spirit is all over the OT 24 times “Spirit of Yahweh”Judges 6:34 “So the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Gideon…”
The Holy Spirit is all over the NTActs 5:3-9
Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?...You have not lied to men but to God.”
The Holy Spirit is Yahweh God
The Holy Spirit is a He not an It. He is a person not a force.
John 14:25 Jesus said “the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things”
The Holy Spirit is a Person
John 16:7-14 Jesus Said “if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 8 “And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment…13 “when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. 14 “He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you.”
Notice again, the Holy Spirit is distinct from the Father and the Son.
1) The Holy Spirit is Yahweh God
2) The Holy Spirit is a Person not a force
3) The Holy Spirit is distinct from the Father and the Son
The Holy Spirit is Yahweh God
The Holy Spirit is our most intimate member of the Trinity.John 14:16-1716 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you”
The Holy Spirit helps us from the beginning to end of our spiritual life.
He convicts us of sin (John 16:8)
He opened our spiritual eyes (John 3:5)
He made us spiritually alive (Titus 3:5)
He inspired the Bible (2 Peter 1:21)
He helps us to understand the Bible (1 Cor 2:12)
He sanctifies us (Rom 15:16)
He helps us to pray meaningfully (Rom 8:26)
He reminds us of our eternal inheritance (Eph 1:14)
1) The Father is Yahweh God2) The Holy Spirit is Yahweh
God
3) The Son Jesus is Yahweh God
Class Outline: Trinity Session 21) Personhood
-Not humaness-Not a physical body
Saying the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are persons means that they each think, feel, communicate, love, act, have relationships…
2) The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct persons You cannot understand the Gospel or your own salvation without understanding the Trinity and their distinct roles
3) The Father is Yahweh GodA) God the Father is eternally the father in His relationship to Jesus.B) God the Father becomes father to us by adoption through Jesus.
4) The Holy Spirit is Yahweh GodA) The Holy Spirit is called the “Spirit of Yahweh” 24 times.B) The Holy Spirit is a person not a force.C) The Holy Spirit is distinct from the Father and the Son. D) The Holy Spirit is our most intimate member of the Trinity because He lives in us and helps us constantly.
