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OPEN IN PRAYER
Starting session 2
Q8 What is the Trinity?
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How can God embody love when love is relational?
How could He love before He created objects of love?
Well, there’s another attribute that shows God’s love from all eternity.
We call it the mystery of the Trinity – one God in three persons.
God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Spirit have Love for each person of the God head.
The Bible speaks of one God.
Moses said, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one’ (Deut.
6:4)
while Jesus said, ‘I and the Father are one’ (John 10:30).
And this one God also reveals Himself in three persons.
After Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River, the gospel writer Mark describes the interaction between the three persons of the Trinity in these words:
Mark 1:10-11 says
When he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased’ (Mark 1:10-11).
Some Common Errors about the Trinity which are still active today that Ken brings out in the chapter are
Wrong -Here, the participants aren’t three separate gods (tri-theism), for that would destroy their ‘oneness
Wrong - Nor are they three appearances of the same God (modalism), for that would destroy their unique personalities and make the story nonsensical.
Correct - Instead, we see three persons – who are all one God – interacting with each other.
Just because we can’t fully wrap our minds around it doesn’t make it any less true.
Our Westminster Standard declare this truth of the Bible as well in Westminster Shorter Catechism questions 5 & 6.
Question 5
Are there more Gods than one?
There is but One only, the living and true God.
(Deut.
6:4, Jer.
10:10)
Question 6
How many persons are there in the Godhead?
There are three persons in the Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
(1 John 5:7, Matt.
28:19)
Next in Question 9
Q9 How is the Son divine?
What purpose does He serve?
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Lets read John 1:1
John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
‘For in him the whole fullness of the deity dwells bodily’ (Col.
2:9).
‘He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature’ (Heb.
1:3).
Identifying Himself with God’s self-disclosure, ‘I am who I am’ (Exod.
3:14), J
Jesus made the following claims about Himself: ‘I am the bread of life’ (John 6:48),
‘I am the light of the world’ (John 8:12),
‘I am the resurrection and the life’ (John 11:25)
‘Before Abraham was, I am’ (John 8:58).
Ken points out that
The Apostle John, in particular, leaves us without any doubt about the divinity of Jesus in the Book of Revelation.
First he recorded, ‘“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty”’ (Rev.
1:8).
Then upon seeing ‘one like a son of man’ in a vision, he ‘fell at his feet as though dead’ (Rev.
1:13, 17a).
This reminds us of Isaiah’s experience, the typical reaction to seeing God through impure eyes.
John’s vision, however, wasn’t finished: ‘But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one.
I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades”’ (Rev.
1:17b-18).
Notice how the Son used the same language as the Lord God to describe Himself (e.g., ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega’) with one exception: He also mentioned that He died.
God the Father never died, but His Son Jesus Christ died on the Cross and was raised from the dead.
What does this mean?
It means that John encountered Jesus in his vision.
It means that Jesus is the Eternal One, even the Infinite One.
He is God.
Why is this important?
It matters a great deal in the plan of salvation, but for now it serves a specific purpose: the Son reveals the Father to His people.
We wouldn’t know God and His salvation if Jesus hadn’t come.
He said as much in John 14:6-7: I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.
From now on you do know him and have seen him.
For centuries, people have desired to see God
The countless statues and images that fill our museums testify to this truth.
Jesus, however, had a different answer for His disciples: ‘If you want to see God, you’re looking right at him!’
The last question for chapter 2 says
Q10 How is the Spirit divine and a person?
What purpose does He serve?
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He is called the Holy Spirit.
Some groups consider Him nothing more than a force, but the Bible doesn’t support such an idea.
When the Apostle Peter confronted Ananias about his deception, he mentioned this specific person of the Trinity.
He 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?
… You have not lied to men but to God’ (Acts 5:3-4).
Notice that Peter specifically referred to the Spirit as God.
Also notice that he considered the Spirit a person.
Only a person can be lied to and only a person can be grieved (Eph.
4:30).
Eph 4:30 “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”
The Spirit is just as personal as the Father and the Son.
But isn’t it enough to have the Father and the Son?
Why do we need the Spirit?
Ken will later in the book discuss this in more detail, but for now
He serves a specific purpose: the Spirit reveals the Son to His people.
Jesus said, ‘But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me’ (John 15:26).
Paul reminded his readers that ‘no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit’ (1 Cor.
12:3).
1 cor 12:3 “Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!”
and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.”
The Trinity is essential in understanding who God is.
The problem is that many Christians don’t know what to do with it.
Many regard it as intellectual dogma with few practical benefits.
As we will see, the Trinity isn’t some irrelevant doctrine to be acknowledged and then ignored.
Rather, it describes God’s love from all eternity, three persons working together for the good of God’s people, demonstrated in the gospel.
If their was only one thing this is the one you want to get correct.
How we think about about God as One God and three person.
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