The Holy Trinity
ONE GOD
Song: Father, I Adore You
Lay my life before you. Lay my life before you.
Oh, how I love you. Oh, how I love you
2) Jesus, I adore You. 4) Trinity, I adore You.
Lay my life before you. Lay my life before you.
Oh, how I love you. Oh, how I love you.
Understanding the Trinity
Explaining the Trinity
(NOTE: Three letters form one word “G-O-D”.
‘Tri’ - means ‘three’
‘Une’ - means ‘one’
‘Triune’ means three in one.
There are not three gods.
There is only ONE God.
THE TRIUNE GOD
Like the hard-boiled egg
white
yoke one egg
shell
The words ‘triune’ and or ‘trinity’ are not found anywhere in the Bible. However, to begin to understand the Triune God, we begin with the first book of the Bible, Genesis, chapter 1 verses one and two.
Gen. 1:1-2 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
WHAT GOD SAYS
Gen. 1:26a Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…”
IS GOD
Father - God Jesus - God Holy Spirit - God
Jn. 6:27 Do not work for the Jn. 1:1 In the beginning Acts 5:3-4 But Peter said,
food that perishes but for the was the Word, and the Word “Ananias, why has Satan
food that endures to eternal life, was with God, and the Word filled your heart to lie to which the Son of Man will give to was God. the Holy Spirit ... You have
you. For on him God the Father. not lied to man but to God.”
has set his seal
IS ETERNAL
Father - Eternal Jesus – Eternal Spirit - Eternal
Ps. 93:2 Is. 9:6 Heb. 9:14
Your throne was established For to us a child is born, how much more will
long ago; you are to us a son is given, the blood of Christ,
from all eternity. and the government who through the eternal
will be on his shoulders. Spirit offered himself
And he will be called without blemish to God,
Mighty God, Everlasting purify our conscience
Father, Prince of Peace. from dead works to serve
the living God.
WHAT JESUS SAYS
Mt. 28:19 “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…”
Hebrew language about God
Deut. 6:4
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord (is) one (united).
HEBREW: YAHWEH ELOHINU (pl.) ECHAD
What the Father says about Jesus
Heb. 1:8 But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.”
WHAT JESUS TAUGHT ABOUT GOD’S WORK
John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”
The Apostle Peter explains the work of God
1 Peter 1:2 “according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.”