That’s not logical, but it’s certainly true. God never had a beginning, and God is everywhere. If you think about it, those things are absolutely contradictory to logic, and yet they are true. Can you think of a God that is everywhere at the same time?.Can you think of anything else that never had a beginning?.Can you understand a God that never had a beginning?. There are a lot of things we don’t understand about the one true God. That sounds like you’re worshipping three Gods.” No. When we say there’s a divine Trinity, one God in three Persons, some people say, “Well, that’s contradictory to logic. John Wesley, a great man of God, said, “How can a worm understand a man, and how can a man understand God?” The only way you can know about the Trinity is what God says in His Word. Don’t get the idea that on your own you “discover” the Trinity. You will never understand the Trinity by human investigation, logic, philosophy, or science. The only way we can know about the Holy Trinity is by divine revelation. The Sublime Mystery of the Trinity Divine Revelation We’re going to look in both the Old and the New Testament and see the Trinity. How often on Sunday morning have you sung, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, God in three Persons, blessed Trinity,” and not understood the implications of what you were singing? Read verses 3 and 4 together to see this clearly. 4) Peter says, “You have not lied unto me, but unto _.” The Holy Spirit is _. In this same story of Ananias (Acts 5), in the next verse (v. See Acts 5:3 “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to _ to the Holy Spirit…?” “Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and _ the Spirit of grace?” “But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He _.”į. “Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the _ of the Spirit….”Į. In this same verse, Acts 13:2, what pronouns does the Holy Spirit use to refer to Himself? _ and _Ĭ. Let’s look at some of these, and as we do, fill in the blanks from these Scriptures:Ī. Indeed, He has all the characteristics of a person. Sometimes believers get a little removed from the Person of the Holy Spirit and refer to the Holy Spirit as an “it.” He is not an “it.” The Bible teaches that He is a person, just as much a person as God the Father and God the Son. Some factions say that the Holy Spirit is merely a force. If you missed that, you may want to review it now. Last month we looked at a number of Scriptures that clearly proclaimed Jesus Christ to be God…God the Son. There’s God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. When someone is asked “What do you mean by the Holy Trinity?” they sometimes answer, “There’s God, then Jesus, and then the Holy Spirit.” No. If someone asked you to explain it, what would you say? At the end of the study, see if your understanding has changed. The doctrine of the Trinity is the dividing line between true, orthodox Christian faith and aberrations from the faith.īefore we begin, take a moment and write your definition of the Trinity. Not just other religions, but even those faith systems that claim to be “Christian,” like Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses, which do not hold to the doctrine of the Trinity. It separates Christianity from all other beliefs. The doctrine of the Trinity is the great Christian distinctive. The concept of the Trinity is so basic that if you miss it, you miss all of Christianity. If you haven’t seen that study, you can find it on this page to your right under “Recent Bible Studies.” This month, a continuation of that study, we again look deeply into the Trinity. We saw that in the very Scripture where the angel Gabriel announced Jesus’ coming birth (Luke 1:35), all three Persons of the Trinity are present. God in Three Persons, Blessed TrinityLast month, we studied the truth that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is also God the Son and the Second Person of the Trinity, fully God.
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