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! Introduction:
The Scripture has its own mysteries—just as intriguing, just as captivating as any mystery crafted by the latest best-selling author, yet they are infinitely more baffling.
No human mind can plumb their depths.
Who can fully explain how God can be sovereign and yet give man and women free will?
How could Jesus be 100% human and 100% divine?
A thousand such puzzles confront us throughout the pages of the Bible.
But perhaps the greatest biblical mystery of all is the Trinity.
A.
Understand it is a Mystery.
1.
Great is the mystery of godliness – 1Tim.3:16
a) Our minds cannot fully understand this truth.
/(1) //We are dealing with an infinite God/
· Job 5:9; 11:7-9; Eccl.3:11
(a) Just because one is unable to fully comprehend a doctrine does not mean that it is false.
(b) For humans to be able to understand everything about God, they would have to have the very mind of God.
(c) Do you think it is possible for humans to understand everything about the nature of God?
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable /are/ His judgments and His ways past finding out! (Romans 11:33 NKJV)
For My thoughts /are/ not your thoughts, Nor /are/ your ways My ways," says the LORD.
"For /as/ the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.
(Isaiah 55:8-9 NKJV)
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face.
Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
(1 Corinthians 13:12 NKJV)
The secret /things belong/ to the LORD our God, but those /things which are/ revealed /belong/ to us and to our children forever, that /we/ may do all the words of this law.
(Deuteronomy 29:29 NKJV)
(d) A child cannot understand everything his father says, so also we as God’s children cannot understand all there is to know about our heavenly Father ILLUS.
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GEOM.TO BRITT.
b) According to the Scriptures, how is God manifested in the Trinity?
/(1) //There is one God manifested in three Persons:/
(a) The Father
(b) The Son
(c) The Holy Spirit
/(2) //There is nothing that can adequately picture the Trinity of God/
(e) Egg (shell, yolk, white)
(f) Water (liquid, frozen, steam)
(g) Whatever we use to try and describe God, it always falls short of who He is!
To whom then will you liken God?
Or what likeness will you compare to Him? (Isaiah 40:18 )
To whom will you liken Me, and make /Me/ equal And compare Me, that we should be alike?
(Isaiah 46:5)
2. Beware to never deny the Trinity!
a) Denial of the Trinity always denies the deity of Christ & Personality of the Spirit.
/(1) //Is it a mathematical problem?/
(a) You can’t disprove God mathematically.
· 1+1+1=3
· 1x1x1=1
(b) We must stick to what the Bible declares about the nature of God
/(a) /There is One God, manifested in 3 Persons: /the Father, the Son, & the Holy Spirit.
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/(b) /The Westminster Confession: /There is but one living and true God.
In the unity of the Godhead there are three persons.
One God of one substance, power, and eternity.
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit./
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In the Old Testament
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The Holy Spirit is mentioned just under 80 times in the Old Testament
a) The First Mention of the Holy Spirit by name comes in Genesis 1:2
/(1) //The Old Testament Names of the Holy Spirit are often:/
(a) “the Spirit of the Lord”
(b) “the Spirit of God”
(c) “the Holy Spirit”
b) There may be a hint of the Spirits existence in the first verse of the Bible
/(1) //Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God” /
(a) The Hebrew word translated “God” is /“Elohim”/ a plural from (the singular is /El/ )
(b) The first mention of God in the Bible uses a plural rather than a singular form.
Then God [/Elohim/] said, "Let /Us/ [plural pronoun] make man in /Our/ image, according to /Our/ likeness” (Genesis 1:26).
c) The Trinity in the Shema.
/(1) //The Shema, the foundation stone of Judaism, is found in Deuteronomy 6:4./
(a) The Hebrew word for God in the plural, Elohim, is used here again.
(b) The Hebrew word for "one" is echad which is a compound unity rather than the word yacheed which is an absolute one.
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The triple use of the Divine Name.
a) The names are repeated 3 times
/(1) //Why is the word used 3 times and what is its significance?/
· Numbers 6:24-26 /The Trinity of blessing in unity /
· Psalm 29:3-5 /The Trinity in Power/
· Isaiah 6:3 /The Trinity in Holiness/
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The New Testament
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The Trinity of God is taught from Matthew to Revelation.
a) All Three Members of the Godhead are clearly seen.
· Matthew 3:16 – /the Baptism of Christ/
· John 14:16-17 /cf.
/14:26 – /At the request of Jesus, the Holy Spirit was to be sent from God./
· Matthew 28:19 – /the Great Commission/
· Acts 10:38 – /all Three Persons of the Godhead are clearly mentioned in this passage./
· Ephesians 4:4-6 – /once more the Trinity is being proclaimed /(1x1x1=1).
· Jude 1:20-21
b) Order does not make a difference.
/(1) //Being the “Third Person” of the Trinity does not mean inferiority./
(a) In other passages the Spirit is mentioned other than 3rd.
· Ephesians 4:4-6
· Romans 15:30
· 2 Corinthians 13:14
What can we say with confidence concerning the Holy Spirit?
– The New Testament teaches:
– There is One God, manifested in three coequal persons.
– They are the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit, yet they are distinct & separate.
– This means that the Spirit of God [the Holy Spirit] is just as much God as the Father & Son.
D.
The Attributes of Deity
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Looking at His attributes is another way of seeing the Holy Spirit’s Deity.
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