The Triune God

If you were trying to invent a religion, would you sit down and think up the Trinity and say, “Okay. There’s one God, but three gods in one God. Well, not three gods … three persons in one God. God is not more one than he is three, and he’s not more three than he is one in the doctrine of the Trinity. Great! Now we’ll go out there and everybody in the world will want to believe this”?

Don’t we always want to be in the room where things are happening? Aren’t we always wanting to see behind the curtain? I love making of documentaries. I want to know how the movie was made. I want hints and clues.

“The historic formulation of the Trinity (derived from the Latin word trinitas, meaning “threeness”) seeks to circumscribe and safeguard this mystery (not explain it; that is beyond us), and it confronts us with perhaps the most difficult thought that the human mind has ever been asked to handle. It is not easy; but it is true.”

-JI Packer

Truths of the Triune God

1. There is only one God

John 17:3 CSB

3 This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent—Jesus Christ.

John 17:11 CSB

11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.

Name is the nature or being of someone. At camp we used to write names on cabins. Is that what it means when God tells them to build a temple and I will put my name there? No it means his glory, some part of his actual being will be there.

John 17:22 CSB

22 I have given them the glory you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.

According to the Old Testament, Israel said there is only one God who is over everything. If you really want to see some of the strongest monotheistic statements ever written anywhere, go to Isaiah 43, 44, and 45, where you see things like this, where God says, “Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me … apart from me there is no God … Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”

God is one being

Isaiah 43:10–11 (CSB)

10 ...No god was formed before me, and there will be none after me. 11 I—I am the Lord. Besides me, there is no Savior.

1 Corinthians 8:4 CSB

4 About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Philippians 2:5–8 (CSB)

5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, 6 who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. 7 Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, 8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross.

The Old Testament and the New Testament agree there is only one God, one nature, one name, one being.

2. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are all equally God

John 17:5 CSB

5 Now, Father, glorify me in your presence with that glory I had with you before the world existed.

John 17:10–11 CSB

10 Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.

John 17:21 CSB

21 May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe you sent me.

John 1:1 CSB

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

Jesus is beginning-less. Go to the beginning of the book of John. You know Jesus, in the book of John, is called the Word. The first verse says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” What? That’s like saying, “Here’s Sally and here’s Susan. Sally is Susan, and Sally is with Susan.” It’s the same thing.Jesus is in the beginning, and also, in the beginning, Jesus already was. Jesus wasn’t begun. See? Jesus is the uncreated Creator. Of course, all through the Gospels, you just see Jesus doing things like forgiving sins. “I forgive everybody’s sin.” Then people say, “Only God can forgive sins.” “Yeah.” Then he says, “I’m going to come back to judge the earth.”“Wait a minute! Only God can come back to judge the earth!”“Yeah.”

The Spirit is also beginningless

Genesis 1:2 CSB

2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

And why a dove? Mark may be reminding us of the very beginning of the world. Genesis 1 does not mention a dove, but I (who know no Hebrew) am told that the “hovering” of God over the waters evokes the gentle flight of a dove:

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. (Genesis 1.1-2)

A later Rabbinic treatise makes explicit the hint at a comparison to a dove:

"Ben Zoma explained: I was gazing between the upper and the lower waters, and there is only a bare three fingers’ breadth between them, for it is said: And the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters — like a dove which hovers over her young without touching them. (In the treatise Hagigah, Babylonian Talmud 15a)

John 16:13–15 CSB

13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. 15 Everything the Father has is mine. This is why I told you that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.

Okay so you think you have a handle on it now? They each are a third of the pie. No we said there is only one God and

Colossians 2:9 CSB

9 For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ,

Jesus has the fullness in him and he in the other two. One being in three persons.

3. The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are distinct persons

John 17:7–8 CSB

7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you, 8 because I have given them the words you gave me. They have received them and have known for certain that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

Someone might say well God just puts on different hats at different times. Who does jesus pray to? The father. Does he wear two hats at once?

Only one God with one person-unitarianism

3 Gods then polytheism or tritheism

God the father is the one God and the other are derivatives of that God that is subordinationism

One person and one God but he puts on different hats at different times that is modalism.

There is one God in three persons, and all of the Christian church has always said, throughout all the centuries, this is true. Without this, your understanding of everything else goes wrong.

Inside out where they go in as 3 dimensional characters and are coverted to 2D characters. Bringing a 3d character into a 2d world would leave a lot left hidden.

Inside out

What is important is not that you have every detail of how this works figured out. It’s that you understand the implications of the triune God

Implications of the Triune God

John 17:24 CSB

24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation.

1. Love is our ultimate reality

One of the things he always used to say is if God was unipersonal (if God was one person), then he wouldn’t be intrinsically love, would he? He wouldn’t have been, in the beginning, love. Love would have come in later. Love would have been secondary. Love would have been an option. He was able to be God without love. Why? It’s because until he created the world, until he created other beings, until he created someone, he couldn’t love, because love is something one person feels for another person, something one person does for another person.

If God was unipersonal, then he wasn’t love in his essence, and he wouldn’t have experienced love until he started accomplishing things, until he started to make and create things. Then he would experience love. But Augustine says if God, from all eternity, has been a community of beings loving one another, glorifying one another, communicating with one another, then God was love before he was anything else. Love is ultimate reality. Love is the meaning of the universe, because God is a family. God is a friendship, and he was love before he began to do or create anything. What this would mean is if you and I are created in the image of God, and God was love before anything else (before he created things or did other things), then love is the meaning of things. Love is the ultimate reality. Love is cosmic ultimate reality.

polytheism gods fighting-power is ultimate reality

Eastern religion-god is a force and you need to detach then isolation is ultimate reality

If God is a triune God, and if love and communication was at the very being of God from all eternity, then friendships, family, and loving relationships are more important than anything else in your life.

What do we long for when worlds come crashing down? relationships. Love. Not accomplishments and success. No one ever said I spent too much time with my family. I had too many friends.Why is it, in spite of everything we’re trained to say, as we lie dying, we long for relationships more than anything else? It’s because that’s ultimate reality, because we’re made in the image of God, because we can’t escape our nature. We can’t escape the fabric of the universe

John 17:1–5 CSB

1 Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. 3 This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent—Jesus Christ. 4 I have glorified you on the earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 Now, Father, glorify me in your presence with that glory I had with you before the world existed.

I’m thinking about verses 1–5. There we see, in verse 1, and then we see again, in verses 4 and 5, Jesus says, “Glorify me that I might glorify you.” The Father is glorifying Jesus; Jesus is glorifying the Father. That’s happening now, but verses 4 and 5 show us that’s been happening from all eternity, because the Father has been glorifying the Son, and the Son has been glorifying the Father, “… before the world began.”

Therefore, the Father and the Son have been glorifying each other mutually and eternally. What does it mean to glorify? To glorify actually means, first of all to praise, appreciate, and adore someone. Secondly, it means to serve and please that someone. Thirdly, it’s done all out of love. Jesus says it twice, but down here in verse 24, “… I want those you have given me … to see my glory, the glory you have given to me because you loved me …”

We’re told here that the Father and the Son have not only been doing that from all eternity, but if you actually go one chapter earlier into John 16:14, we see the Holy Spirit has been participating in that too. Therefore, this is the teaching. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, from all eternity, have been communicating and pouring glory, love, and joy into one another’s hearts in infinite amounts and degrees we cannot imagine. That’s what God has been doing since before there was time. Now what does that mean? That’s the nature of God, this ancient love. There are three things I’m going to get out of this.

God is infinitely happy. Love is something one person feels and does to another person. If there was only one person, if there was just god before anything else was created, then that god could not have had this love and therefore, would not have had this infinite happiness.When two people are in love, what do you do? You glorify each other. You praise each other. You tell each other what’s so great about them, and you please them. You say, “What will make you happy? What can I get you? I’m on it.” That’s the language of love. What we have here are three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), and these three divine persons are not seeking their own glory, but they’re giving glory to the other two. Love is never as satisfying if it is demanded but if it is given freely. No greater happiness that saying what makes me happy is if you are happy. Inside God, those three persons were knowing, loving, and pouring joy into one another. Each person was not seeking his own glory, but seeking the glory of the others. As a result … infinite happiness.

A tripersonal God does not need servants, or worshipers or adoration. He infinitely gives and receives it within his being. This is the best hint at the purpose of creation. Not to get a creation to tell him how great he is or to have someone who would love him, but to share the infinite love he had within himself.

John 17:22–24 CSB

22 I have given them the glory you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one. 23 I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me. 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation.

What Jesus is saying is the whole purpose of creation and the whole purpose of redemption is not for God to get love, adoration, and glory, but to share it.

That leads to the most important practical thing you need to realize. If this is true, if this is how God created the world, then your absolute highest purpose, your meaning, and the only way you’ll ever be happy is if you are glorifying God above all other things.

2. Servanthood is ultimate purpose

if we were created to share in God’s joy and delight, then we have to do so as God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit do. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit already rejoice in divine glory. Each person does not live for his own glory but for the glory of the others.Therefore, you will only be happy if you’re doing the same thing. You’re created to do exactly what they do and to have the happiness they have. The only way that will happen is if God is the very center of your life and if you give God glory above everything else.

Now what does that mean? Let’s get really practical. God says, in the first commandment, “Worship me rather than something else.” Would you please notice he doesn’t hold out the possibility of worshiping nothing? He says, “If you don’t worship me, you will worship something else.”There is no such thing as worshiping nothing. Why? It’s because you’re made in God’s image! You’re made in the image of God, and what is God? God is tripersonal, and each person glorifies the other. You will glorify something! I don’t care how much you say, “Oh, I’m a skeptic. I’m an atheist. I’m a New Yorker.” It doesn’t matter what you say. You say, “I’m not religious at all.” You’re glorifying something. You are worshiping something. You are serving something. You were made to!

What we understand is the Father glorifies the Son and the Son glorifies the Father and the Spirit glorifies the Father and the Son. What does glorify mean? It means to adore. It means to serve. It means to delight. It means to bless. We’ll talk about that. What it means is each of the persons of the Trinity does not demand glory. They give glory. That means there’s an other-orientation within the Godhead. Each of the persons of the Trinity defers to, loves, and adores the others. What this means is servanthood, giving up your rights, giving up power, serving and caring for other people instead of for yourself, seeking their interests ahead of others, is, again, at the very heart of the universe.

“In self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being. For the Eternal Word also gives Himself in sacrifice; and that not only on Calvary. For when He was crucified He ‘did that in the wild weather of His outlying provinces which He had done at home in glory and gladness.’ From before the foundation of the world He surrenders begotten Deity back to begetting Deity in obedience. And as the Son glorifies the Father, so also the Father glorifies the Son…There is joy in the dance, but it does not exist for the sake of joy. It does not even exist for the sake of good, or of love. It is Love Himself, and Good Himself, and therefore happy. It does not exist for us, but we for it.”

When Jesus Christ went to the cross to die for us, he was only living out in history what has been going on in the very heart of God forever. Jesus’ Godhood is not diminished because he submits to the Father when he’s on earth. The Holy Spirit’s Godhood is not diminished when the Holy Spirit never speaks of himself but only speaks of the Son. We’ll look at all that.

What that means is even inside the Godhead, the way up is down. The way to influence is to serve. The way to power is to give up power. It’s to not seek your own. It’s to not promote yourself. It’s to not always demand that people do what you want. Absolutely not.

You will glorify something! I don’t care how much you say, “Oh, I’m a skeptic. I’m an atheist. I’m a New Yorker.” It doesn’t matter what you say. You say, “I’m not religious at all.” You’re glorifying something. You are worshiping something. You were made to! Therefore, for example, if you have recently felt like a failure or you’ve lost face, or if you’ve been criticized really strongly and it’s just eating you up, do you know why? It’s because you’re giving more weight and glory to what people think about you. Maybe, you say you believe in God, maybe you believe God loves you in some kind of abstract way, but let me tell you what you’re really glorifying, what you’re really ascribing ultimate value to, what you’re really worshiping. It’s what people think of you.

As long as you’re trying to get your own glory through success, looks, status, popular opinion, or whatever, or if anything is more important to you than God, you will never be happy. Do you know why? It’s because you were made for this. You were made for worship.If you aren’t worshiping God, and if he’s not the number one thing in your life, not just in your head, but in your heart too, you’re cut off from your real origins. You’re cut off from your real design. You’re going against the grain of your own being

Jesus is the greatest demonstration of this. You know the opposite of glory is ugliness. Jesus is going to be beaten to a pulp. It’s going to be horrible. It’s going to be repulsive. We’re not going to be able to look at, so maybe what he’s saying is, “Father, the hour has come. I’m about to die. As soon as the death is over, as soon as the shame and horror of the death is over, then glorify me! Resurrect me!” The resurrection, the ascension, the session at the right hand … That’s the glory.

At first we say, “Well, what he must mean is, ‘I’m going to die, and as soon as that’s over, then glorify me.’ ” That’s not what he says. He’s saying, “Glorify me now. Glorify me at this hour.” To be sure we’re right, you go back to 12:23, where Jesus says, “The hour has come [now] for the Son of Man to be glorified.”

John 17:1 CSB

1 Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you,

Do you know what this means? It’s pretty amazing. Jesus is saying, “I want to be glorified in the cross. Notice he says, “Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you” (verse 1). Later on, he says, “Glorify me on the cross so they can see my glory.” In other words, Jesus Christ’s ultimate glory, the ultimate expression of God’s glory, is not after the shame of the cross. It’s in the shame of the cross.

A friend of mine, Don Carson, wrote a great commentary on the book of John. He says this verse is amazing because what Jesus is saying is, “Glorify me now. I’m going to be glorified now. When I’m lifted up and I’m beaten to a pulp and I’m repulsive and I’ve given up everything and I’ve lost everything, that will be the ultimate expression of the glory of God.” The glory of God does not follow the shame of the cross. It’s displayed in the shame of the cross. It means there is no greater glory than to give up your glory to glorify somebody else. There’s no greater beauty than to give up your beauty to beautify somebody else. It shows us this is what’s in the heart of God. In the heart of God from all eternity, each person has been seeking not his own glory, but the glory of others. Therefore, what Jesus Christ is doing on the cross is something that is actually showing us the heart of God.

Mark 10:45 CSB

45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

When Jesus Christ went to the cross, he was doing what the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit had been doing inside the Trinity, in a sense, forever, which was each deferring to the other, each seeking not their own glory, but the glory of others. Therefore, there’s an unselfishness in the heart of God. There’s an other-orientation in the heart of God that is profound.

You and I live in a culture that blasts us with the idea that what’s most important is to be true to yourself. Whatever else you do, be true to yourself. Follow your dreams. Do what’s really important to you. You can serve people and you can have friends, but in the end you have to do what’s important to you. Do you know where that came from? Basically it’s a Western idea. It came from the Enlightenment, and whenever you read in the philosophy books and the books of the history of intellectual thought in the West, they always say, “What was the Enlightenment?” It usually has to do with the importance of science and rationality. Not really. The essence of the Enlightenment was there is no authority outside of the self. There is nothing more important than you being true to yourself. There’s nothing more important than what you think is right or wrong for you. The self must be sovereign. We are told here that is an utter lie. Servanthood is in the heart of God. Each of the three persons have always deferred to the others. They’ve always surrendered to the others. You will only be happy, not when you seek your own selfish interests and live for yourself, but when you say to God, “Thy will be done, not mine,” when you put God first, and when you put your neighbor first. The irony!

“From the highest to the lowest, self exists to be abdicated, and, by that abdication, becomes the more truly self, to be thereupon the more abdicated, and so on forever. This is not a heavenly law which we can escape by remaining earthly, nor an earthly law which we can escape by being saved. What is outside the system of self-giving is not earth, nor nature, nor ‘ordinary life,’ but simply and solely Hell.”

The more selfish you get, the more unlike God you get, and the more like Satan you get, and the closer you get to hell. There are ways of looking like you’re giving to people and sacrificing for people that are really selfish, and ways of manipulation. We could go into that, but I don’t have time. I’m trying to give you the main point. The main point is the life of the Trinity shows self was meant to be abdicated. When I say, “I am not going to live for myself, but for God and for other people,” I find who I am. That’s why Jesus Christ says, “Lose yourself to find yourself.”

Matthew 10:39 CSB

39 Anyone who finds his life will lose it, and anyone who loses his life because of me will find it.

3. We need all three persons

John 17:20 CSB

20 “I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word.

He says this is for us.

John 17:24 CSB

24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation.

“I want them to be in the circle, in the middle, of this incredible love and joy we’ve had forever. I want them to see our glory, my glory. I want them to receive that glory. I want them to have all that!” C.S. Lewis, in his Weight of Glory address, puts it like this. He says we all pine. There’s a longing we all have because we sense that in this universe we are strangers. We are cut off from something. We try so hard through achievement. We try so hard through love and romance. There’s something missing. There’s a joy and a love and a glory that is missing, and we’re trying to fill it. We can’t find it. Then Lewis says, “And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgement, and welcome into the heart of things.”

Through faith in Jesus Christ, you are going to get into the heart of things. That’s your future. Every other person who is on the same journey into the heart of things is your brother or sister, so be one with them. Love them. Know his love and be excited about the future because the glory of God will welcome you. You’re going to be where he is. You’re going to see his glory. You’re going to finally get the thing you’ve been searching for all of your life here. You don’t even know what it is, in many of your cases, right? Welcome into the heart of things. These are the deep things of God, and they’re all ours in Jesus Christ.

Imagine the most loved you have ever felt. When someone loved you and served you and got nothing or expected nothing in return. I don’t know exactly what this means, but I know that feeling you felt will be nothing compared to witnessing the full glory of the resurrected, ascended Jesus.

If you put all the emphasis on the Holy Spirit, if you’re only baptized into the name of the Holy Spirit, you’d be too much of a mystic, you’d be all experiential … not enough doctrine, not enough will, all feeling. If you put all your emphasis on the Father, you just think of the Father and you kind of ignore the fact you can only get to the Father through Jesus, it will probably make you a Pharisee. It will probably make you somebody who says, “I can just obey the Father.” No, no, no. The doctrine of the Trinity is you can only come to the Father through the Son and his work, because we are sinners and we can’t possibly do that. If the Father gets too big in your sight, you might actually lose that and become a legalist. If the Spirit becomes too big, you become a mystic.

If you think only of the Son, Jesus, and you forget the fact that the Son took the wrath of the Father on the cross for you, you might find, in a way, Jesus becoming this wonderful, beautiful person. You try to be like Jesus. “What would Jesus do?” It will crush you, because nobody can be like Jesus. You may forget the spirit. Then who is the counselor, helper sent to sanctify you and declare to you the truth of the good news of Jesus. So pride, legalism, self-loathing, and mysticism … Unless you have balance of doctrine in your life, you’re going to have an unbalanced Christian life.

Why would a unipersonal God create the world? Why would a unipersonal God create a world of beings? You say, “Well, maybe to get people to worship him and to love him.” Maybe, but is that why a triune God would do it? No. Why? Because in a triune God, each of the persons of the Trinity already has all the love and adoration they could ever want. They give it to each other perfectly.Well, then why would you create a world and call people to adore God? The answer is the Trinity wants a world full of people who are as happy as God is. God is infinitely happy. I’m getting into next week, but I’ll just say it here. When have you been happiest in your whole life? It’s when you have somebody who adores you and who you adore.It’s when you’re just sitting there basking in somebody’s love and they’re basking in your love. Right? That could be parent and child. It could be friend to friend. It could be romance. It could be marriage. That’s just a dim hint of the incredible happiness the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have had for all eternity.Since they had that, then they created a whole world of beings saying, “We want you to adore. We want you to love each other. We want you to love us, me, God. I want to love you.” What they’re doing, what God was doing when he created the world was trying to share the glory and joy he had inside himself. There’s no other good reason for it.If you are a Christian and you are a disciple, and you’ve been made in the image of this God, there’s a dynamism, there’s a “Go ye …” about your life. There’s a sent-ness rather than a stasis, because God himself, as the Trinity, is a dynamic being. There’s a dynamism, not a static-ness about him.

Jews believe with all their being, fanatically so, there is only one God. Yet when they saw the incredible greatness of Jesus, they were forced back to see that though there may only be one God, there must be depths in that God they had not imagined. The greatness of Jesus, the wonder of Jesus, the worshipfulness of Jesus forced these early Jewish people who absolutely believed there is only one God and refused to disbelieve that … yet here I am, worshiping this human being … to see there must be a fullness and depths in God we never knew. It was Jesus himself who forced an understanding of the Trinity. Once you have Jesus, you look back and you see the angel of the Lord sometimes being sent by God, sometimes speaking as if he is God. You go back to the Old Testament and you see God in the very beginning, Genesis 1, saying, “Let us make man in our image …” Who is he talking to? The angels? No. The angels didn’t make human beings. Who is God talking to? He says, “Let us make man in our image …”

In other words, once you get the light in, once Jesus and his greatness exploded on the consciousness of these Jewish people, these first Christians, they looked back and they saw it everywhere. Jesus forced people to realize the Bible, all along, had been teaching the doctrine of the Trinity. Why did they worship Jesus? The answer is the resurrection. He was raised from the dead. That’s the reason why.Of course you know the answer … the answer is Jesus. Jesus Christ and his resurrection revealed to the world, and especially to the last people on the face of the earth to believe (all these Jewish people who were his friends) that you could worship a human being … Because of who he was and because of his resurrection, he showed us inside one God there is multiplicity. There is plurality

How can we find the love, service, and glory of the Triune God?

Matthew 28:18–20 (CSB)

18 Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. 19 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, 20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

You can literally be immersed in the community of the triune, eternal, loving, serving glorifying God. The name. Singular and means the nature the very being. You don’t just gain community with the believers here when you are baptized but you are immersed, overwhelmed, flooded with the glory of the eternal Triune God. You will find your ultimate reality. That love is the ultimate reality of the universe. You will find your ultimate purpose in service to others and to God. You will lose yourself but find yourself. You will be able to call the creator of the universe, Abba. Father. His eternal word will be your brother. His eternal spirit will be your helper.

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