Knowing God III

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Knowing God (III)

• The Trinity of God

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One Divine Essence

• O.T. Monotheism

Dt 435 To you it was shown that you might know
that the LORD, He is God there is no other
besides Him.
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One Divine Essence

• N.T. Monotheism

1 Cor 86 yet for us there is but one God, the
Father, from whom are all things and we exist for
Him and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all
things, and we exist through Him.
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One Divine Essence

• N.T. Monotheism

Eph 44-6 There is one body and one Spirit,
just as also you were called in one hope of your
calling one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one
God and Father of all who is over all and through
all and in all.
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One Divine Essence

• N.T. Monotheism

1 Tim 25 For there is one God, and one
mediator also between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus.
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One Divine Essence

• N.T. Monotheism

1 Cor 86 yet for us there is but one God, the
Father, from whom are all things and we exist for
Him and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all
things, and we exist through Him.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• Trinity defined
• Tri three nity unity.
• Tri-unity Three-in-one or Three who are
  one.

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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• OT Plurality in the Godhead
• Plural pronouns

Gen 126 Then God said, Let Us make man in Our
image, according to Our likeness and let them
rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds
of the sky and over the cattle and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• OT Plurality in the Godhead
• Plural pronouns
• Hebrew Elohim (God) is plural of El (God)
• Holy Spirit Coming Messiah who is God with us.

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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• NT Plurality

Mt 2819 Go therefore and make disciples of all
the nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• NT Plurality

2 Cor 1314 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the love of God, and the fellowship of the
Holy Spirit, be with you all.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• All three are God
• God the Father

1 Pet 13 Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great
mercy has caused us to be born again to a living
hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• All three are God
• The Son

John 11 In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• All three are God
• The Son

Jn 856-58 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see
My day, and he saw it and was glad. So the Jews
said to Him, You are not yet fifty years old,
and have You seen Abraham? Jesus said to them,
Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was
born, I am.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• All three are God
• Holy Spirit

Acts 53-4 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?
You have not lied to men but to God.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• All three are God
• Holy Spirit

1 Cor 210-11 For to us God revealed them
through the Spirit for the Spirit searches all
things, even the depths of God. For who among men
knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of
the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of
God no one knows except the Spirit of God.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• All three are God
• Holy Spirit
• Identity with the Lord Jesus

2 Cor 317-18 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.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• All three are God
• Holy Spirit
• Identity with the Lord
• Spirit of God and Spirit of Christ

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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• All three are God
• Distinct in person

Mt 316-17 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.
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• All three are God
• Distinct in person
• Their Essential Unity

Dt 64 Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the
LORD is one!
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Yet, A Triune (Trinity) Nature

• God is Three Persons
• All three are God
• Distinct in person
• Their Essential Unity

Jn 1721-23 that they may all be one even as
You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they
also may be in Us, so that the world may believe
that You sent Me. The glory which You have given
Me I have given to them, that they may be one,
just as We are one I in them and You in Me, that
they may be perfected in unity, so that the world
may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even
as You have loved Me.
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Lessons For Us

• God is a God of Community cf. 1 Cor 1213-27

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Lessons For Us

• God is a God of Community
• God is a God of Love

1 Jn 48 The one who does not love does not know
God, for God is love.
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Lessons For Us

• God is a God of Community
• God is a God of Love
• God is a God of Unity

Dt 64 Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the
LORD is one!
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Lessons For Us

• God is a God of Community
• God is a God of Love
• God is a God of Unity

Jn 1721-23 that they may all be one even as
You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they
also may be in Us, so that the world may believe
that You sent Me. The glory which You have given
Me I have given to them, that they may be one,
just as We are one I in them and You in Me, that
they may be perfected in unity, so that the world
may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even
as You have loved Me.
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Lessons For Us

• Community
• Love
• Unity