One God Three Persons, The Trinity

"Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, 'Thou art My Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."

-Luke 3:21-22

 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen"

-II Cor 13:14

                  This is likely to be a blog that inspires some controversy... With the Christadelphian movement, Anti-Trinarian sect of SDA, Jehova's Witness, Anti-Trinitarian Pentacostal Charismatism and many other movements claiming some form of Anti-Trinitarian doctrine. This however is an attack on the plain teaching of Scripture. Don't take my word for it by any means, let's see what the plain Word of God teaches.

                 First of all my beloved reader, if you are struggling with the question of weather or not the lovely Jesus is in-fact God, I encourage you to read these two posts, they more fully answer this question specifically, laying out Biblical proof for why Jesus is God; whereas this post will be dealing with the issue of the Trinity.

   http://jesuswilldeliverhischildren.blogspot.com/2014/04/john-grosball-sermon-3-29-2014.html

http://jesuswilldeliverhischildren.blogspot.com/2014/05/jesus-friend-of-sinners-bible-study.html

     With all that said let's delve right into the Holy Word of God, I pray that You're blessed.

Important points early

  "And God said, 'Let US make man in Our image...'" 

-Gen 1:26

• Obviously God is speaking to someone when He says this, and it isn't the angels because angels are not necessarily made in the image of God, so it would not be "Our image" if it was the angels. No where in scripture are the angels described as being in the "image of God" as man is described. Christ however is described as the "Express Image" of God the loving Father. (Heb 1:3)

A Prophet's Vision!

"In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, hight and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twin he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another and said Holy Holy Holy is the LORD of hosts: the whole earch is full of His glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that criedand the house was filled with smoke."

-Isaiah 6:1-4

•  Not only does God in verse 8 of the same chapter again say "US" in reference to Himself as a Triune Godhead, but in v 1-4 Isaiah says that he looks upon "The LORD" sitting in His throne. 

"No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him."

-John 1:18

• so was Isaiah mistaken, lying or was there a farther light shown? Let's explore!
• Isaiah was actually right, He saw the Son Jesus and therefore saw God, but John is also right because no one at any time has seen the Father. Even Moses was allowed to see God only from behind lest he should be destroyed (Exo 33:20)

  We can see between these verses that Isaiah did see God, but not God the Father, He saw Jesus, now this is a problem if you do not believe that Jesus is God, but the fact that He is God gives us farther light on the issue; this is also a problem for anyone saying that Jesus and the Father are the same person, because then if that's the case than who has no one seen? And who did Isaiah see? Jesus and His Father must both be God, as Jesus so beautifully said "I and my father are one." (John 10:30)

For more Trinitarian references from the old testament please send the LORD's servant an e-mail, for farther study on the issue.

The Gospel Writers Teach the Trinity.

"Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, 'I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?' And Jesus answering said unto him, 'Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.' And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto Him and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dobe, and lighting upon Him: And lo a voice from heaven saying, 'Thou art My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.'"

-Matt 3:13-17

See also Luke 3:21,22

• In this verse we can see that God the Father, Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all three separate entities, Jesus being God, was dwelling in the body of a man; God the Father being God was dwelling in heaven; and the Holy Ghost was descending upon the Savior in the likeness of a dove. 
• They are obviously not all just one entity lest there would be no purpose for this display. They are all God, and yes they are one, acting in unison, but they are three separate entities.

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."

-Matt 28:19

• If Jesus was not God, or the Holy Ghost not God, or the Father not God, than there would have been no need for Him to list all three.
• The fact that Jesus plainly tells His apostles to teach the world of, and baptize them in the name of all three entities it can only be that all three of them are important to the function of the Godhead. Jesus, His Father, and the Holy Ghost are all necessary, not only in heaven, but for the Gospel work. 
• Notice they must all three be taught of, and are all three a part of the baptism, that means this is by no means a "secondary issue" if you reject a member of the Godhead you have rejected the whole of it beloved! (I John 2:23)

"And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was lead by the Spirit into the wilderness." 

-Luke 4:1

• Jesus is "full of the Holy Ghost" and lead of "The Spirit" 
• Well it doesn't make sense that He was, "full of an electrical current," or, "lead of His own breath." The Holy Ghost must be a separate entity that is one with the Godhead and is God just as the others

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made."

-John 1:1

• This is referring to Jesus (Verse 14) and pointing out His divinity, but it also references the Trinity (With God... was God...)
• This means that Jesus is God, but also was with God; well it is safe to assume He wasn't beside Himself, so it is referring to God the Father being with Jesus, that they created the World together.

"Peace be unto you: as My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you."

-John 20:21

• Jesus by His own divine words was sent of the Father. Making them two separate entities both aspects of the one divine person-hood of God. 

Jesus continued, "And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost." 

-Verse 22

• Now the Holy Ghost comes into play as well, and thus all three members of the Godhead are plainly shown

The Trinity Taught in the Book of Acts

"This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear."

 -Acts 2:32,33

• All three members of the Divine Godhead again clearly displayed. Jesus whom is glorified, the Father at who's right hand Jesus sits, and the Holy Ghost who ministers to mankind

"But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly, into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, 'Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God."

-Acts 7:55

• Again Jesus is seen at "The right hand of the Father" and the Holy Spirit is filling the LORD's servant Stephen. They are each displayed as a distinct entity.

"The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, for repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins."

-Acts 5:30,31

• There is no forgiveness for sins without Jesus, without the cross and the full meaning of the fact that God Himself descended and took on the filthy rags of humanity to live as a human being; and not a human being when our first-parents lived, no He took the form of a race that sin had degraded for 4,000 years and lived as a poor man. The God of heaven lived with no place to rest His head and was crucified by His own creation, humiliated, mocked, and persecuted, just so that you could have the right to the tree of life beloved! Imagine beloved! God loves you so much that even if you were the only one who would have come to Him He still would have died for your salvation!

"How God impressed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him."

-Acts 10:38

• God the Father anointed Jesus and impressed Him with the Holy Ghost.
• Well if Jesus is the only member of the Godhead that who impressed the Savior? 
• Furthermore if there is no Holy Spirit than what was our lovely Savior impressed with?
• Clearly all three were operating with one purpose and are one divine force in three distinct being

"And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as He did unto us... But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they."

-Acts 15:8,11

The Trinity As seen in The Epistles of The Apostle Paul

"Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, which He had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures, concerning His Son Jesus Christ our LORD, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead."

-Rom 1:1-4

"For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit."

-Rom 8:2-4

• Again and again the Father is shown sending His Son.

"That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost."

-Rom 15:16

• Paul is declaring his work of bringing Gentiles to the fold to be the work of God, and that the offering of Gentiles may be acceptable to Him because of the ministering of the Holy Spirit. Each member of the Godhead having a separate role in the process but each one being fully God and fully needed for the process of redeeming the Gentile world.

Paul continues in Verse 30 "Now I beseech you, brethren, for the LORD Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me"

"And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."

-I Cor 6:11

• we can only be sanctified in the name of Jesus through the work of the Holy Ghost.

"But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ is God."

I Cor 11:3

•  This text makes no sense unless there is God the Father, and Jesus, it makes no sense to say, "the man is head of the woman, Christ is head of every man, and the head of Christ is Christ."
• There has to be God the Father and God the Son, they are both laid out in Scripture.

"Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in out hearts."

-II Cor 1:21-22

 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." 

 -II Cor 13:14

• Here all three members of the Godhead are clearly shown, and clearly distinct. Each member of the one Godhead having it's own being, again all three are revealed in this one text, this is quite possibly the most blatant of all examples of the Trinity doctrine in scripture.

The Trinity in the Epistles of The Apostle Peter.

"Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied."

-I Peter 1:2

• All three members of the Godhead are required to make any one of us one of the saved, or "elect"

"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit."

-I Peter 3:8

• So Jesus suffered for our sins, so that He could bring us closer to the Father, quickened by the Holy Ghost. Not only is the Trinity revealed here but there is simply no way around the fact that the Trinity is Gospel Truth, there is no two ways about it. The Son is needed, the Father is needed, and the Holy Ghost is needed or else there is no salvation. 

In Conclusion

             Thank you so much beloved for reading this! I truly pray that you are blessed by this study, the world is perishing and the Gospel of love must go fourth! God bless you all! I pray that the love of Jesus will be made manifest in each and every one of you, and that you will find your eternal salvation which can only be found in the very word of God.

             Again if this study has brought up any questions, please feel free to e-mail me at hugheskevin117@gmail.com. I do not have all the answers but the sure Word of God does.  

  

  

Jesus Friend of Sinners Bible Study

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

-John 3:16

 I. What does Immanuel mean? (who is Jesus of Nazareth?)

               In Isaiah 7:14 the prophet writes, "Therefore the LORD Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel." This was prophesying the birth of our LORD and Savior Jesus, but how do we know this and why is it important?

              Matt 1:21-23 "And she shall bring forth a son and thou shalt call His name JESUS for He shall save His people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the LORD by the prophet, saying, 'Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel,' which being interpreted is 'God with us.'"

• Jesus is God veiled in humanity that we would be able to behold Him.

See also: Rev 22:13, and Rev 1:8

II. Where was Jesus before the creation of the world?

               "I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. And now, o Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with the before the world was."
-John 17:4,5

• Jesus was in all glory with the Father, and is one with the Father (John 10:30)

See also: John 1:1-4, 14

III. What is Christ also called throughout scripture?

                  "And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ."

-I Cor 10:4

• Jesus is the Rock of our Salvation Beloved!

See also: II Sam 23:3; Psalms 18:2

IV. Why are all our race doomed to perish?

                 "For the wages of sin is death; bur the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our LORD."

-Rom 6:23

                  "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

-Rom 3:23

• All have sinned and the wages of sin is death... we are all doomed to perish. 
• But wait beloved! What about "the gift of God?" freely given that is "eternal life in Christ Jesus?"

V. Jesus does freely give us eternal life, by what means? What has Jesus done to save us?

                   "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men and being found as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." 

-Philippians 2:5-8

• Jesus is God, therefore to come down to this earth in the form of a king would have been degrading enough... Yet He chose not to come in the form of an earthly king, in-fact when the Jews tried to force Him to be king, He had the disciples take Him away in a fishing boat. Jesus became a poor human being.

                  "we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin."

-Heb 4:15

• coming in the form of sinless Adam would have been a degrading thing for Christ; yet He chose for Himself to come after sin had degraded the race for some 4,000 or more! He was tempted at all points and overcame, that in doing so He can show us how to overcome, and can teach us His ways.

                    "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy Him that had the power of death that is, the devil."

• Jesus had to be delivered unto death, despised and rejected of men (Isa 53) and made to suffer pain and death, a death for which He did not deserve, that we may live a life we do not deserve. He died for sinners of which He  was not, that sinners may take upon themselves His righteousness of which we have no part!

        Jesus did so much more than die for us though, as amazing as it is that the King of kings died for sinful human beings, without the Resurrection all else is vein! (1 Cor 15:17) More on that later on...

VI. Can obedience to the law save us?

                   "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."

-Gal 2:16

                  "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin."

-Rom 3:20

• The law does not save us but merely shows us our infirmities

VII. Well if not by the law or how can we be saved?

                  "'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?' and they said, "Believe on the LORD Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved and thy house."

-Acts 16:30,31

• We are saved ONLY by believing whole heartedly that Jesus is God, and therefore our redeemer.
• but is it enough to intellectually acknowledging this fact enough?

VIII. Is faith in Jesus simply realizing that Jesus is God and died to save mankind enough?

                   "Even so faith, if it hath not works is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, 'Thou hast faith, and I have works:' show me thy faith without thy works and I will will show thee my faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: even the devils believe and tremble. But wilt thou know, o vain man, that faith without works is dead?"

-James 2:17-20

• merely knowing Jesus is God and came to save us makes us as Christian as Satan himself, who also knows those things and trembles.
• "I will show thee my faith by my works" it is true no man will be saved by works, but our good works and keeping of the commandments are the outward display of the work which Jesus Christ is doing in His servant, and if there is no change in the person than it is not Christ in their life.

There is a quote that seems to sum up this issue, "Though there will be no man saved by good works, there will be no man saved without good works."

-Ellen G. White

IX. What happens to our past sins when we give our heart to Jesus?

                 "Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God."

-Rom 3:24,25

                "If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin."

-I John 1:7

• Jesus justifies us, and removes the sin from our wicked past, He freely cleanses us from all unrighteous acts of the former life!
• whatever your sin Beloved, lay it down at the feet of the Savior Jesus Christ! Fall in love with the Son of God who first loved you! 
• Give your heart to the Savior that all that once was may be cleansed away and you may be made new!

X. How does God Cleanse from sin?

               "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit."

-Rom 8:1-4

• The lovely Jesus cleanses us each and every one, and fulfills the righteousness of the Law of Liberty in us! 

              "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the LORD; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God and they shall be to Me a people."

• Beloved there is nothing we can do of ourselves for we are but dust, yet look at what can be wrought if you will but whole heartedly give yourself to Christ, He will write the commandments in your heart that you may live in accord with them, not of yourself, but His righteousness to be imputed!

             "For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments and His commandments are not burdensome." 

1 John 5:3

• don't take my word for it, fall in love with Jesus and let Him keep His promises, He always does!

XI. Where did Jesus go after the Resurrection and what is the lovely Jesus doing for us now?

               "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to out profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."

-Heb 4:14-16

• Jesus ascended to the throne in heaven where He now sits doing a great work as our high priest! Beloved, the Good Shepherd is now tending to His flock, and knows just how to help you with whatever is troubling you!

XII. In closing, what motivates the lovely Jesus to do all this for this wretched and filthy race?

               "For God so loved that world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in

Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

-John 3:16

• it is all out of love that the Savior does what He does, I pray that you're blessed by this study and that you will out of love give your heart to the Good Shepherd and come to be a part of His lovely fold! 
• if you have any questions please e-mail me, I do not have all the answers but the Word of God does and He will give His servant the answer if He wills it

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

-John 15:13