What is the Trinity?
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6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Different Views of Jesus
Different Views of Jesus
Judaism
Judaism
Born of Mary
Was a teacher
Had disciples
Well respected
Worked miracles
“Claimed” to be the Messiah
Was crucified
Followers “claimed” He rose from the dead
Islam
Islam
Born of a Virgin
Was to be revered
Was a Prophet
Was a Wise Teacher
Worked Miracles
Ascended to Heaven
Will return again
Hindu
Hindu
Was a holy man
Wise teacher
Is “a god”
Buddhism
Buddhism
Was an “enlightened” man
Wise teacher
Holy man
New Age Movement
New Age Movement
A good moral teacher
Mormonism
Mormonism
Is a god, receiving status through good moral living
Was conceived in a physical relation between God & Mary
16 Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:
He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.
2 It is the glory of God to conceal things,
but the glory of kings is to search things out.
Matthew 28:19 (ESV)
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Genesis 1:1 (ESV)
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
God = Elohim (Hebrew, Plural of El/Eloah
God = Elohim (Hebrew, Plural of El/Eloah
Genesis 1:2 (ESV)
2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:26 (ESV)
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
John 1:1 (ESV)
1 In the beginning....
John 1:1 (ESV)
1 In the beginning was the Word...
John 1:1 (ESV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God....
John 1:1 (ESV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Truths about Jesus in John 1:1-18
Truths about Jesus in John 1:1-18
He was in the beginning (vs 1)
He was with God (vs 1)
He WAS God (vs 1)
All things are made through Him (Vs 3)
Life is found in Him (Vs 4)
He was rejected by the world (Vs 10-11)
He is the source of adoption to God (Vs 12)
He became flesh (man) and dwelt among us (Vs 14)
He is the source of grace and truth (Vs 17)
He is how we see and know God (Vs 18)
Deuteronomy 6:4 (ESV)
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
THE FATHER IS GOD
THE FATHER IS GOD
27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
JESUS THE SON IS GOD
JESUS THE SON IS GOD
John 6:20 (ESV)
20 But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
IT IS I = I AM
IT IS I = I AM
John 18:5–6 (ESV)
5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
John 8:48–59 (ESV)
48 The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?” 49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 50 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge. 51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.” 52 The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?” 54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’ 55 But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” 57 So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” 59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.
7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
16 Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”
I AM = HYH
I AM = HYH
HYH became YHWH (Tetragammatron), said as Yahweh/Jehovah
YHWH is written as LORD in the Old Testament
Jews wouldn’t say or write this name (G-d, L-rd)
“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 a 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 patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. — C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD
Acts 5:3–4 (ESV)
3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? 4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”
16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
The Father is….
The Father is….
The Creator/Ruler of All Things
6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
7 everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made.”
The Giver of Salvation
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Jesus the Son is...
Jesus the Son is...
The source of salvation
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
The image of God that we see
18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
The Holy Spirit is....
The Holy Spirit is....
The power of God working through His people
1 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
The God that dwells in us
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
Our intercessor with God
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”