What does the Trinity mean?

Intro

End our series on God with one of the most important things

Also one of the most complicated

The Christian God is triune

God is a trinity, 1 God in 3 distinct persons

Not three gods, one God that has 3 forms

Father, Son Holy Spirit

To help us understand, we are going to watch a video

Body

What is the Trinity?

God’s existence as three equal and distinct beings who create the one God of the Bible

Father, Son, Holy Spirit

Father- “Our Father” “Heavenly Father”

Son- Jesus, God in human flesh, existed from the beginning

Holy Spirit- The thing that a believer receives when they follow Jesus, our connection to God

Guides, convicts, prays on behalf of you, actively working

It is a consistent teaching throughout the Bible

All three parts of the Trinity are given the status and glory of God

This isn’t just people’s thoughts on who God is, its what the Bible teaches us about God

Why does it matter?

Different religions teach different things about who God is

Some religions don’t think Jesus is God, some religious think that there are multiple gods, etc.

Its important to know what God we are talking about and giving worship to

The God of the Christian bible is not the same god that other religions talk about

Not Allah, not the mormon god, not the “one supreme being”

The Christian God is the only one describe in terms of a Trinity

If a person doesn’t believe in the Trinity, they aren’t talking about the same God as the Bible

The nature of the Trinity reveals something about us

We are created for community, we are created to love, we are created to exist together and for the good of one another

Conclusion

The Trinity is one of the most complicated things to understand because it is a concept that exists above our understanding

But it is necessary to know because it is the thing that separates the Christian God from other ideas of God