The Triunity of God Magnified

Introduction

To begin this mornings sermon, I have some probing questions for all of us to ask: If you removed Father, Son, and Holy Spirit from your vocabulary, would that change anything about how you think about God? Would it change your prayer life? Would it change your faith & hope? Would it affect the way you explained the Gospel? Would it change anything? Or are we practically Unitarians? No different from the Jehovah’s Witnesses who deny the Trinity … believing in a one-person-God, a lonely, cold, and distant being?Brothers and sisters, members & visitors: what we’re going to learn today is that the Trinity changes everything!

Title: The Triunity of God Magnified

The Christian life is one of growing in our understanding of, and knowledge of the LORD—the Triune God of Scripture. This is of utmost importance… b/c if you reject the Trinity then you are a heretic and are under God’s wrath—but if you receive the Trinity in faith, hope, and love, then you are a true Christian, saved by God’s grace. Quite literally… our eternal destiny hinges upon the doctrine of the Trinity (See. 1 John 4; 2 Jn. 9-11).

In light of that: how often do you think about the Trinity? Can you articulate who your God is, and what you believe about Him? How often do you think about each person of the Godhead? How much of an impact does the Trinity have in your faith and practice? This is what Michael Reeves says about the importance of the Trinity:

“For there is a vast world of difference between the triune God revealed by Jesus and all other gods. At bottom this God is different, for at bottom, he is not Creator, Ruler, or even ‘God’ in some abstract sense: he is the Father, loving and giving life to his Son in the fellowship of the Spirit. A God who is in himself love, who before all things could never be anything but love. Having such a God happily changes everything” (Michael Reeves).

With these thoughts in mind, I want to answer three main questions with you all this morning: (1) What is the doctrine of the Trinity, (2) Where is the Trinity found in Scripture, and (3) Why should we care about the Trinity? In all of this—let us pray that the Spirit of Christ would reveal to us the deep things of the living God, which only he can declare to us!

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(1) What is the doctrine of the Trinity? (Stated).

(A) There is only one, true and living God (Monotheism).

The first foundation for the doctrine of the Trinity is known as monotheism. Mono (one), theism (God). That is, a belief in only one, true and living God. We are not polytheists. That is, a belief in many gods. No. We are monotheists. We believe that there is only one true and living God, that He has revealed Himself to us in creation, in our consciences, and ultimately in Scripture! The LORD is one.

The Bible never argues for the existence of God—it assumes it as the ultimate truth—the ultimate presupposition. In the beginning, GOD created the heavens and the earth. And the Bible is God’s self-revelation, His living Word that reveals to us what and who He is as the great King of Eternity.

His name is YHWH, the great I AM, the Lord of Heaven and Earth! He is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. Besides the LORD, there is no god, there is no rock—God is the first and the last, the Alpha and the Omega! And it is upon this Rock—that the doctrine of the Trinity is built. There is only one, true and living God!

(B) This God exists as three distinct Persons (Plurality).

The second Pillar is the area of difficulty and controversy. It is here that Christianity diverges from modern Judaism, from Islam, from Deism, from Jehovah’s Witnesses, from Unitarians, and from all who believe that God is a single-person—a god who is not relational, personal, or in fellowship. This sets apart Christianity from every other religion on planet earth—this sets apart Christianity as the true religion, as opposed to every other religion on planet earth. Yes, God is one—there is only one God—but God is also three—there are three Persons in the Godhead! God is both a unity of Being—one God—and a plurality of Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

And these three Persons are not three masks. God doesn’t switch from being father one day, to being the son the next day, to being the spirit for the rest of the week. God doesn’t go from Father in the OT, to Jesus in the NT, and then to the Holy Spirit after Pentecost. NO. That is a heresy known as modalism. God doesn’t wear different masks. God eternally exists as three Persons.

Each person of the Trinity has always existed, and more than that, has always coexisted with each other: the Father has always been with the Son, and the Father and the Son have always been with the Spirit. The second pillar of the doctrine of the Trinity is that God exists as three distinct Persons.

(C) Each Person is co-equal in power and glory (Unity).

The third pillar of the Trinity preserves both the unity and the plurality of the Godhead. There is unity of Being. Whatever makes God, God—His Godness—being the infinite, eternal, unchangeable LORD of glory—being gracious, merciful, loving, just, holy, righteous, and sovereign—whatever God is: each person is. That is to say—it’s not that the Father is just, but the Son is loving, and the Spirit is merciful. No. God is ONE… all that is in God, is God—God is just, loving, and merciful—and therefore each Person of the Trinity is also just, loving, and merciful—entirely, completely, and exhaustively.

God is not like a Pie. You can’t slice him up into parts. God is not 33% just, 33% loving, and 33% merciful. God is 100% just, 100% loving, and 100% merciful. God is the GREAT I AM, not the GREAT I HAVE. God is light—God is love—God is truth. All that is in God, is God! This is good news … though it is impossible to fully comprehend. This means that if God is your God—then you get all of God, because all of God is God! You cannot separate God’s character from His Being. And therefore, if each Person of the Trinity is God, and shares the fullness of what God is—then the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are fully, completely, entirely, and wholly God.

The Father is just, the Son is just, the Spirit is just. The Father is love, the Son is love, the Spirit is love. The Father is merciful, the Son is merciful, the Spirit is merciful. And yet there are not three God’s, but one God—in three eternal persons. The Father is not more God than the Son. The Son is not less God than the Father. The Spirit is not lesser or greater than either the Father or the Son. Each person is fully and entirely God in all of his Godness! This is the third pillar of the doctrine of the Trinity: each person is coequal in power and glory (preserving the Unity of the one God, and the unity of God’s Being in each of the three Persons).

(D) Each Person has distinct eternal relations (Personality).

So far we’ve learned that there is one God, that He exists in three Persons, that each Person is fully God, and now we see how each Person relates to one another. If each Person is fully God, then what makes each Person unique? It’s not their being, it’s not their essence—it’s not what they are, it’s who they are. The Father, Son, and Spirit are all equally God—but the Father is not the Son or Spirit—the Son is not the Father or Spirit—and the Spirit is not the Father or Son. The only thing that makes the Persons unique is how they eternally relate to one another. If we make anything else the thing that distinguishes the Persons then we cut up the Trinity like a Pie—making the Persons more or less God than the other Persons. That won’t do. That is heresy. Each Person is fully God—but each Person is also unique! Here’s how it works, as best as our feeble minds can understand.

The Father is neither made, nor begotten, nor proceeding. He is the fountain of the Godhead. The Son is neither made, nor proceeding, but He is begotten of the Father (That is to say, he eternally relates to the Father via Sonship). The Spirit is neither made, nor begotten, but proceeds from the Father and the Son (That is to say, he eternal relates to the Father and the Son by being Breathed Forth). The Father gives life to the Son—and the Spirit receives life from the Father and the Son. AND YET THEY ARE ALL ETERNAL. This is a Divine Mystery. The Father didn’t create the Son, and the Father and the Son didn’t create the Spirit. They are co-eternal and co-equal in power and glory. But the way in which they relate to each other is as Father, Son, and Spirit. As we sing in the Gloria Patria: (As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, amen, amen).

The best way to think about this is the baptism of Jesus Christ! Because there, as the early church fathers said—there we see the Trinity. At the baptism of Jesus we see a picture of the eternal Trinity—the Father declares: this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased … and the Spirit in the shape of a Dove descends upon Jesus as a token of God’s love. How the persons work in time, reveals how the Persons relate to one another in eternity. The Father eternally delights in the Son by giving Him the Spirit of love. God has always existed in love, in relationship, in fellowship—as the Father, delighting in the Son, by the Holy Spirit of love. How? God the Father eternally gives his being to the Son—which being is Deity—and so the Son of God is also God—and the Father and the Son eternally give their being to the Spirit—which being is Deity—and so the Spirit of God is also God. This is why we say that Jesus is the only-begotten Son of God. Forever and ever and ever and ever—God the Father has loved his Son, in the presence of the Spirit. Each Person is fully God—and thus the only thing that makes the Persons unique is how they relate to one another in the fellowship of the Trinity.

(E) The living God is One in Three & Three in One (Trinity)

And so putting all of this together … all of these pillars—we come to a summary conclusion. God is Triune. God is both One and Three—both One and Many—and both the oneness and the threeness are equally ultimate and eternal and true and beautiful and glorious! An early church father said: “no sooner do I think of the One that I must think of the Three, and no sooner do I think of the Three that I must think of the One” (St. Gregory of Nazianzus).

God is One and Three and Three in One. There is one God—in three Persons—Father, Son, and Spirit. Each Person is fully God, and yet each Person is relationally unique. Welcome to the foundation of Christianity—the mystery of mysteries—the divine Trinity.

“The [mystery] of the Trinity is the only doctrine that saves us from the desolation of a lonely God, or the chaos of a crowd of gods. In it we find both unity and variety, both love and liberty, both the one and the many.” (Chesterton).

The foundation of our faith is mysterious … we cannot rationally comprehend the Trinity—and yet—without Him there is no rationality, truth, beauty, goodness, or reality. The Trinity is the sovereign Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth. And so we would do well to worship Him in spirit and truth—bowing before our Creator to glorify and enjoy Him forever—magnifying His holy name as Father, Son, and Spirit. Because our eternal destiny hinges upon the doctrine of the Trinity—and whether or not we receive Him in the Gospel.

(1) What is the doctrine of the Trinity? (Stated).

Phew! That was the hard doctrinal & theological work. And all of this is what we mean when we baptize someone in the ONE NAME of God … in the THREE PERSONS of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Now let’s see where this all comes from in Scripture. If our first point states the doctrine—our second defends it:

(2) Where is the Trinity found in Scripture? (Defended).

I hope you’re all skilled surfers! Because in this second point we are going Bible surfing! We’re going to look at: (a) OT passages, then (b) NT passages, and then (C) how the NT uses the OT passages.

(A) OT Passages: Deut. 6:4; Gen. 1:1-2; 1:26-27; 3:22; 11:7; Isa.6:8; Gen. 16:7-13; 22:11-18; Ex. 3:2-6; Judges 13:17-22; Num. 11:25-29; Isa. 11:2; 42:1; 61:1; Ezk. 36:26-27; Ps. 2:7-12; 45:6-7; 110:1; Pr. 30:4; Isa. 7:14; 9:6; Dan. 7:13-14; Gen. 19:24; Hos. 1:7; Zech. 2:9-11; 12:10; Mal. 3; Job. 33:4; Ps. 104:30.

Right off the bat, in the verse first chapter of the Bible, we see the Trinity!

Genesis 1:1–3 ESV

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 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. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

God the Father creates, through his speaking-Word, and by the Spirit of God. Each person of the Trinity is in the first three verses of the Bible!

And in the very next chapter we see hinds of a plurality of persons in the Godhead as mankind is created:

Genesis 1:26–27 ESV

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.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Let US make them? Who makes them? The Trinity. In the image of God he created THEM. The personal-infinite God creates personal-finite creatures in God’s image.

How many gods are there? There is but one living and true God:

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Jeremiah 10:10 (ESV)

But the Lord is the true God;

he is the living God and the everlasting King.

Isaiah 43:10–11 (ESV)

Before me no god was formed,

nor shall there be any after me.

I, I am the Lord,

and besides me there is no savior.

In the OT we also see the deity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God:

Isaiah 7:14 ESV

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

In the OT we see the deity of the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life:

Job 33:4 ESV

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Psalm 104:30 ESV

When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

And we even have verses that mention all three of them in the same breath, as distinct and eternal Persons:

Psalm 33:6 ESV

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

Isaiah 42:1 ESV

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 48:16 (ESV)

And now the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.

(B) NT Passages: Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 4:4-6; 1 Pet. 1:2; Jude 20-21; Jn. 1:1-18; 8:58; 10:30; 14-16; Rom. 9:5; Phil. 2:6-11; Col. 1:15-20; Heb. 1:3-12; Rev. 1:8; 1:17-18; 22:13; Matt. 12:31; Acts 5:3-4; 13:2; 1 Cor. 2:10-11; 8:4-6; 12:4-6; 1 Tim. 2:5; Jam. 2:19.

We’ve seen the OT, but what about the NT evidence? How does the NT prove the doctrine of the Triune God?

Firstly, the NT affirms the existence of one God:

Mark 12:29 ESV

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

1 Timothy 2:5 (ESV)

For there is one God.

James 2:19 (ESV)

You believe that God is one; you do well.

Secondly, the NT affirms the deity of Jesus Christ:

John 1:1 ESV

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

1 John 5:20 (ESV)

we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

2 Peter 1:1 (ESV)

To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

Thirdly, the NT affirms the deity of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 5:3 (ESV)

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit.

Acts 5:4 (ESV)

Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”

2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

And the NT also speaks of all three Persons in the same breath:

Matthew 28:18–20 ESV

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 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, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Ephesians 4:4–6 ESV

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

(C) NT use of the OT: Ps. 2:7 + Heb. 1:5; Ps. 45:6-7 + Heb. 1:8-9; Ps. 110:1 + Acts 2:34-36; Isa. 6:8-10 + John 12:41 + Acts 28:25-27; Isa. 7:14 + Matt. 1:23; Isa. 9:6 + Luke 1:32-33; Isa. 40:3 + Mark 1:3; Joel 2:28-32 + Acts 2:17-21; Zech. 12:10 + Jn. 19:37; Gen. 19:24 + Jude 7; Pr. 8 + 1 Cor. 1:24; Dan. 7:13-14 + Matt. 26:64.

And now I want to show you the logic of the NT Apostles and how they use the OT to prove the Trinity in their NT books:

Firstly, the author of Hebrews and the Divine Son of God:

Psalm 2:7 ESV

I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.

Hebrews 1:5 ESV

For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?

Psalm 45:6 ESV

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;

Hebrews 1:8 ESV

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.

Secondly, the Apostle John & Paul on the divine Son and Spirit:

Isaiah 6:3 ESV

And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”

John 12:41 (ESV)

[Speaking about how many weren’t believing in Jesus … John references back to Isa. 6 and says that]: Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him [who’s glory? the glory of Jesus—the one who is holy, holy, holy, the LORD of hosts! The whole earth is full of his glory]..

Isaiah 6:8–9 ESV

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “ ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

Acts 28:25–26 (ESV)

Paul had made one statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:

“ ‘Go to this people, and say,

“You will indeed hear but never understand,

and you will indeed see but never perceive.”

And thirdly, the Apostle Paul adjusting the Jewish Creed to explicitly include Jesus Christ the Lord:

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV

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.

And in all of this: in the OT itself, in the NT itself, and in how the NT uses the OT … we have irrefutable proof of the biblical doctrine of the Triune God! In this faith we stand fast—immovable and unshakeable—on the LORD our ROCK!

(2) Where is the Trinity found in Scripture? (Defended).

Calvary, this is our God! So let us see how our God changes everything! How the Trinity ought to be our greatest joy:

(3) Why should we care about the Trinity? (Applied).

(A) Because Jesus Christ our Lord is the Spirit-Anointed Son of God.

We are followers of Jesus! Right? Which Jesus? The one who is the second person of the Trinity, the eternal Son of God—God the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us—Immanuel, who is God with us—the Messiah, the prophet, priest, and king of the church. This is Jesus Christ, the altogether lovely, and altogether wonderful Saviour. This is the Jesus whom we follow. Don’t settle for anything less—because anything less than this is a false-Jesus!

To proclaim the name: Jesus Christ, is to proclaim the Son of God, who is anointed by the Holy Spirit. The name Jesus Christ only makes sense given the backdrop of the Trinity. Therefore, as we follow Jesus, we profess faith and obedience in and unto the Triune God. We should care about the Trinity, because we are followers of Jesus!

Matthew 16:15–17 ESV

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

(B) Because Loving-Fellowship is impossible without the Trinity.

We cherish the truth that: God is love. But think about it, love requires relationship. To love requires you to love someone. To give yourself to someone. To do good to someone. To delight in someone. To serve someone. Love is relational. Thus, a single-person God cannot be love … in and of himself. In order to love he would have to create someone to love. Which would mean that in order to love he would be dependent upon his creation. That would be a weak and unworthy god. But, beloved, the Trinity means that indeed God is love. God the Father has always been loving God the Son with the gift of the Holy Spirit. But even more than this, the elect enjoy the eternal love of God in Christ. The same love with which the Father has loved the Son, is the same love which adopted sons and daughters enjoy in salvation. How great the Father’s love for us! How vast without measure. Blessed assurance is possible, with the sovereign grace of the Triune God!

And because God is love, and we are made in his image, then we are able to also live in love and fellowship. All love is a mirror of the love of the Trinity— self-giving & overflowing goodness. Because God is Triune, we are able to love God, we are able to love our neighbour, we are able to love one another, and we are able to love our enemies. True love is the most divine action we can show to the world. And basking in God’s love is the greatest thing a creature of the dust can ever do:

1 John 4:9–12 ESV

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

(C) Because Verbal-Communication is impossible without the Trinity.

Think about it—communication also requires a mind, a word, and breath. A subject, predicate, and an object. Only the Trinity is a speaking God. God speaks creation into existence. Jesus is the Word of God. And the Spirit is the breath of God. God speaks through His Word and by His Spirit. The Trinity is a rational, communicating Being—because He is Father, Son, and Spirit who have been in an eternal conversation of truth, beauty, and goodness. Because God communicates—He can reveal Himself to us—and because he reveals Himself to us (in creation and Scripture), then we can know Him truly! And we can come to the Father in prayer, in the name of Christ, and by the help of the Spirit.

And because we are in the image of God, made with rational souls—with minds that can think and lips that can speak—then we too can communicate the wonderful works of God with one another, as we delight ourselves in the truth of God’s world and God’s Word. What an incredible thing it is to know the Trinity—the God who speaks.

Hebrews 1:1–3 (ESV)

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.

(D) Because Abounding-Joy is impossible without the Trinity.

What is joy? It’s taking delight and feeling happiness in someone or something. Joy is also a relational reality. A one person’d god isn’t able to live in eternal joy—because there is no one to take joy in. But the Trinity is a God of abounding-joy. For all eternity the Father has been taking deep delight in His precious Son in the presence of the Spirit of Joy. God is a fellowship of overflowing joy, love, delight, and beauty. The Trinity is a beautiful God. Truly with this God, the true God, there are eternal pleasures at His right hand—because He is eternal pleasure itself.

And because we’re made in the image of God, then we can taste and see that He is good! We were made with the capacity to reflect God’s joy, by experiencing true happiness in our Father’s world, in the Gospel of Christ, and by the fruit of the Spirit!

Psalm 16:11 ESV

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Neh. 8:10: for the joy of the Lord is [our] strength.”

(E) Because Personal-Salvation is impossible without the Trinity.

This might be just the greatest thought one can ever think. Only a personal, relationship God can offer a salvation that is more than a get out of hell for free card. A single person’d god might be able to cancel a debt—but he can’t draw us into personal-salvation and joy. He can’t share Himself with us. He can’t bring us into His loving presence, he can’t adopt us into His eternal family, he can’t dwell with us in the Spirit. Only the Trinity offers a salvation that is deeper and richer than a mere ’decision for Christ’. That’s not all there is to salvation.

True salvation is union with God in Christ. It’s being able to say that God is my God, because I am one with Christ, and born of His Spirit. The LORD is my portion! I am adopted into the Family of God. I am a partaker of the divine nature, born again from on high. I am an heir of the kingdom and new creation. I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine! That’s radically different than a bare transaction of a decision for Christ. Oh yes, we must trust in Jesus—but why? That we might belong to the God of the covenant. That we might be drawn into the love of God, the grace of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. This is salvation indeed—communion with God through Christ and in the Holy Spirit. So come to the Father, through the Son, and by the Spirit—come in repentance, come in faith, come to the Triune God for life, salvation, fellowship, and joy! Truly, as Michael Reeves says: “Having such a God happily changes everything!” As we live in communion with God, we find the key to true fellowship with one another:

1 John 1:3–4 ESV

that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

(3) Why should we care about the Trinity? (Applied).

And so in light of all of these glorious truths of the grace and beauty of the Triune God… let’s hear our conclusion for this morning:

(C) Let Us Magnify the Triune God in Reverent Worship, Joyful Adoration, and Humble Faith.

This is why confessing the Apostle’s and Nicene Creed is so important—so that we keep the Triune name in our minds, on our lips, and in our hearts!

“Far from being theological clutter, God’s being Father, Son, and Spirit is just what makes the Christian life beautiful … Why is God love? Because God is a Trinity. Why can we be saved? Because God is a Trinity. How are we able to live the Christian life? Through the Trinity”. - Michael Reeves

“Our happiness depends upon our interest in the blessed Trinity. To have the Father for our portion, the Son for our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost for our Comforter—this is the apex and crown of blessedness.” - Thomas Watson

Brothers and sisters, members and visitors: I hope you now see how the Trinity changes everything! So….

(C) Let Us Magnify the Triune God in Reverent Worship, Joyful Adoration, and Humble Faith.

Amen? Let’s pray.

Discussion Questions:

(1) How would your Christian life change if God was just ‘one person’ rather than being the Triune: Father, Son, and Spirit?

(2) What is the doctrine of the Trinity? State the basic theological definition! (And don’t use the Sunday School analogies).

(3) From the Scripture, can you prove the that there is only one God, and that He exists in three Persons that are co-equal in power and glory?

(4) What difference does it make for our Christian lives, knowing God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

(5) What is the only proper response to the knowledge of the Trinity, as the Lord our God?