TITUS 2:1 (AMP)
But as for you, teach the things which are in
agreement with sound doctrine [which
produces men and women of good character
whose lifestyle identifies them as true
Christians].
“If you deny the
trinity you lose
your soul, if you
try to explain it
lose your mind.”
-Augustine
No people can rise above their concept of
God, that God is for us the highest ideal and
the greatest example. If we have a faulty
view of God that means that we absolutely
suffer in every way because we lack a
correct understanding of what God is like,
and subsequently, what we are to be like.
What is the Trinity?
The word was perhapsfirst used by the earlychurch father Tertullianwho lived 155 to 220AD. And it was used,rather, in an effort tosummarize the totalityof biblical teachingregarding who God is.
Trinity is one God who eternally exists as
three distinct persons, Father, Son, and
Spirit, who are each fully and equally God.
Two Truths about the Trinity
There is one God.
(1) plural and collective
The Father, Son, and Spirit are God.
(2)
God The Father
God creates everything.
(1)
He is the beginning of everything
Nobody created Him
JOHN 6:27
Do not work for food that spoils, but for food
that endures to eternal life, which the Son of
Man will give you. For on him God the
Father has placed his seal of approval.”
God is the SOURCE everything.
(2)
He provides
He is the start and the end
1 CORINTHIANS 8:6
yet for us there is but one God, the Father,
from whom all things came and for whom we
live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ,
through whom all things came and through
whom we live.
God The Son
Jesus transcends TIME.
(1)
Jesus is present even before time
Jesus is not bound by time
JOHN 6:27
The Word became flesh and made his
dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,
the glory of the one and only Son, who came
from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jesus
Jesus transcends GENEALOGY.
(2)
Family tree
JOHN 8:58
“Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered,
“before Abraham was born, I am!”.
Ishmael Isaac
Muslim Christian
Jesus transcends DEATH.
(3)
End of life and start of eternity
JOHN 20:28
Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
Disciple of Jesus
Scholar but he doubted
master savior
HEBREWS 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who is
unable to empathize with our weaknesses,
but we have one who has been tempted in
every way, just as we are--yet he did not
sin.
Jesus
God The Spirit
The Holy Spirit sets us FREE.
(1)
Free from sin, poverty and slavery
2 CORINTHIANS 3:17-18
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we
all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from
glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the
Spirit.
Sets free
The Holy Spirit is ALWAYS with us.
(2)
ACTS 5:3-4
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled
your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to
keep back some of the price of the land?
“While it remained unsold, did it not remain
your own? And after it was sold, was it not
under your control? Why is it that you have
conceived this deed in your heart? You
have not lied to men but to God.”
JOHN 14:25
“All this I have spoken while still with you. But
the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in my name, will teach you all
things and will remind you of everything I
have said to you. Peace I leave with you;
my peace I give you. I do not give to you as
the world gives. Do not let your hearts be
troubled and do not be afraid.
1. There’s one God.
2. God The Father is God.
3. God The Son is God.
4. God The Holy Spirit is God.
IMPORTANT NOTES ON TRINITY
GOD DOESN’T NEED US.
Within the very Trinitarian nature of God there was perfect love – relationship, friendship,
harmony, unity, communication.
Does the Trinity appear in the
Old Testament?
GENESIS 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth.
GENESIS 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our
image, in our likeness, so that they may rule
over the fish in the sea and the birds in the
sky, over the livestock and all the wild
animals, and over all the creatures that move
along the ground."
GENESIS 11:7
Come, let us go down and confuse their
language so they will not understand each
other."
ISAIAH 61:1
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on
me, because the LORD has anointed me to
proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent
me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
freedom for the captives and release from
darkness for the prisoners,
Does the Trinity appear in the
New Testament?
LUKE 1:35
The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will
come on you, and the power of the Most
High will overshadow you. So the holy one
to be born will be called the Son of God.
MATTHEW 3:16-17
After being baptized, Jesus came up
immediately from the water; and behold, the
heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit
of God descending as a dove and lighting on
Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens
said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am
well-pleased.”
1 PETER 1:2
who have been chosen according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through
the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be
obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with
his blood: Grace and peace be yours in
abundance.
Council of Nicea in
325 AD, Council of
Constantinople in 381
AD where, again, the
Bible teachers get
together and they lay
down the doctrine of
the Trinity.
Augustine of Hippo.
And from 400 to 419
– he spent 19 years
studying the doctrine
of the Trinity.
Three ways to contradict the doctrine
of the Trinity
Some would say there is not one God.
(Many Gods that leads to heaven)
(1)
polytheism, where there’s multiple gods, or tritheism, where there are three gods.
The other way you can error is to deny that God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Spirit are not three distinct persons.
(2)
This is called Modalism, or Oneness orJesus Only
Deuteronomy 6:4
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is
one (echad = to unite as one )
ECHAD vs. YACHID
Genesis 22:2
He said, "Take your son, your only son (yachid –
singular one) Isaac, whom you love, and go to the
land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering
on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
To deny that the Father, Son, and Spirit are equally God.
(3)
Facts about the Trinity
It’s Trinitarian.
(1)So now all of our life is Trinitarian: all of my worship, all of my prayer, all of my service, all of my ministry is by the Spirit, through the Son, to the Father. That’s all of life.
Trinitarian is loving.
(2)
Trinitarian is communal.
(3)
Trinitarian is transparent.
(4)
Trinitarian is humble.
(5)
Trinitarian is submissive.
(6)
Trinitarian is happily connected.
(7)
Three ways to get connected
Visit our Website: www.faithworkschristianchurch.com.
(1)
Join a Faith Group.
(2)
Become a member of FCC.
(3)
Enroll in FLI.
(4)
FAITHWORKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH GLOBAL
Presented By:
Ps. Alvin GutierrezFCC Main San Mateo, Rizal, PH
10AM Morning Worship Service
April 9, 2017