The God-head The tri-une revelation of God to man

WHAT WE'LL BE GOING OVER THIS EVENING

*Does the Old testament (Hebrew writings & Prophets) reveal God in three persons?

*Is the New testament clear on 3 distinct persons but the same God

*Why does the foundational teaching of the God-head matter.

*Is the Tri-une revelation of God in scripture 3 separate God's?

Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Same heresy in our day

SABELLIANISM: A form of Unitarianism named after Sabellius, a third-century African bishop; the heresy of modalistic monarchianism. It is the view that God is not only one single essence but one single person. Thus, the names Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not personal names but modes or relations of the one divine person in His dealings with man.

Monotheistic religions

Talmudic Judaism denies the deity of Christ(Yahweh was not in Christ)

Islam also denies the deity of Christ(How can God be a man)

Denying The Father &The Son makes them in essence anti-Christ religions

Deity: divine status,in quality, or in nature

1 John 2:22–23 “Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.” “Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.”

Another example of the Father and Son relationship dwelling together in believers is contingent on keeping the teachings of Christ

John 14:23 “Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.”

The destruction of the foundations

Psalm 11:3 “If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?”

The doctrine of the God-head is a foundational teaching of the Christian faith

The Two Powers in Heaven

Daniel 7:9–10 ““I watched till thrones were put in place, And the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, Its wheels a burning fire; A fiery stream issued And came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, And the books were opened.”

The Ancient of Days?

“Wheels Burning a fire”

Ezekiel 1:15 “Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces.

“Thrones were put in place”

The ONE coming on the clouds

Daniel 7:13–14 ““I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him. Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.”

The One like the Son of Man

Coming with Clouds

Jesus’s declaration to Caiphais at His trial that he is this same person

Matthew 26:63–64“But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, “I put You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Jesus said to him, “It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.””

Old & New Testament confirm the Tri-une nature of God, His revelation to humanity, and His operation within the nation of Israel, before the incarnation of Jesus

Exodus 23:20–22 ““Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him. But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.”

Examples in the New testament

1 Corinthians 10:1–5 “Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.”

Jude 5 “But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.”

(kyrios), n. Lord: the sovereign master of the inhabited world; often of Jesus as sovereign master of all creation or of Caesar, the emperor.

Where is The Holy Spirit

Isaiah 63:7–10 “I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord And the praises of the Lord, According to all that the Lord has bestowed on us, And the great goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses. For He said, “Surely they are My people, Children who will not lie.” So He became their Savior. In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the Angel of His Presence saved them; In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them and carried them All the days of old. But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, And He fought against them.”