Knowing God IV

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Knowing God (IV)

• Relationships and Roles Within the Trinity

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The Father

• Relationship of the Father to the Son Headship
  and Primacy
• God the Father is the head

1 Cor 113 But I want you to understand that
Christ is the head of every man, and the man is
the head of a woman, and God is the head of
Christ
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The Father

• Relationship of the Father to the Son Headship
  and Primacy
• The Son reigns, but under the Father

1 Cor 1528 When all things are subjected to
Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected
to the One who subjected all things to Him, so
that God may be all in all.
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The Father

• Relationship of the Father to the Son Headship
  and Primacy
• The Son reigns, but under the Father

Acts 233 Therefore, having been exalted to the
right hand of God
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The Father

• Relationship of the Father to the Son Headship
  and Primacy
• The Son came to draw us to the Father

Jn 146 Jesus said to him, I am the way, and
the truth, and the life no one comes to the
Father but through Me.
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The Father

• Relationship of the Father to the Son Headship
  and Primacy
• The Son glorifies the Father

Jn 1413 Whatever you ask in My name, that will
I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the
Son.
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The Father

• Relationship of the Father to the Son Headship
  and Primacy
• The Son glorifies the Father

Jn 174 I glorified You on the earth, having
accomplished the work which You have given Me to
do.
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The Father

• Relationship of the Father to the Son Headship
  and Primacy
• The Son glorifies the Father

Phil 211 and that every tongue will confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.
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The Father

• Relationship of the Father to the Son Headship
  and Primacy
• The Father gets top billing

Eph 13 Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in
Christ.
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The Father

• Role of the Father Designer, Originator,
  Founder, Planner
• In creation

Rev 411 Worthy are You, our Lord and our God,
to receive glory and honor and power for You
created all things, and because of Your will they
existed, and were created.
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The Father

• Role of the Father Designer, Originator,
  Founder, Planner
• In creation

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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The Father

• Role of the Father Designer, Originator,
  Founder, Planner
• In creation

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 through
whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
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The Father

• Role of the Father Designer, Originator,
  Founder, Planner
• In the scheme of redemption

Eph 19-11 He the Father made known to us the
mystery of His will, according to His kind
intention which He purposed in Him Christ with
a view to an administration suitable to the
fullness of the times, that is, the summing up
of all things in Christ, things in the heavens
and things on the earth. In Him also we have
obtained an inheritance, having been predestined
according to His purpose who works all things
after the counsel of His will.
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The Father

• Role of the Father Designer, Originator,
  Founder, Planner
• In the scheme of redemption

Acts 223 this Man, delivered over by the
predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you
nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and
put Him to death.
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The Father

• Role of the Father Designer, Originator,
  Founder, Planner
• In the scheme of redemption
• The Father gave his Son

Rom 832 He who did not spare His own Son, but
delivered Him over for us all, how will He not
also with Him freely give us all things?
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The Father

• Role of the Father Designer, Originator,
  Founder, Planner
• In the scheme of redemption
• The Father gave his Son
• The Father gave the Holy Spirit

Acts 14 Gathering them together, He commanded
them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what
the Father had promised, Which, He said, you
heard of from Me.
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The Son

• Relationship of the Son to the Father Submission
  and Subordination
• Secondary agent in both Creation and Redemption

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The Son

• Relationship of the Son to the Father Submission
  and Subordination
• Son submissive to the Father in all eternity,
  prior to the incarnation (?)
• The Father sent the Son into the world (Jn 3.17)
• The Sons obedience in coming to the world (Phil
  2.5-8)
• The Father eternally purposed his will in the Son
  (Eph 1.9)
• The Sons secondary role in the act of creation
  (1 Cor 8.6)
• Gods self-revelation is through the (submissive)
  Son.
• The Sons submission for eternity future (1 Cor
  1527-28)

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The Son

• Relationship of the Son to the Spirit
• While on earth, submits to the Spirit

Lk 41-2 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit,
returned from the Jordan and was led around by
the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days,
being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing
during those days, and when they had ended, He
became hungry.
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The Son

• Relationship of the Son to the Spirit
• While on earth, submits to the Spirit

Luke 414 And Jesus returned to Galilee in the
power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread
through all the surrounding district.
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The Son

• Role of the Son
• Revealer of God

Jn 118 No one has seen God at any time the
only begotten God who is in the bosom of the
Father, He has explained Him.
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The Son

• Role of the Son
• Revealer of God
• Redeemer/Exemplar

1 Peter 221-25 For you have been called for
this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you,
leaving you an example for you to follow in His
steps, WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT
FOUND IN HIS MOUTH and while being reviled, He
did not revile in return while suffering, He
uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself
to Him who judges righteously and He Himself
bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that
we might die to sin and live to righteousness
for by His wounds you were healed. For you were
continually straying like sheep, but now you have
returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your
souls.
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The Holy Spirit

• Relationship Tertiary to the Father and Son
• The Spirit submits to and glorifies the Son

Jn 1613-14 But when He, the Spirit of truth,
comes, He will guide you into all the truth for
He will not speak on His own initiative, but
whatever He hears, He will speak and He will
disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify
Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it
to you.
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The Holy Spirit

• Relationship Tertiary to the Father and Son
• The Spirit submits to and glorifies the Son

John 1526 When the Helper comes, whom I will
send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit
of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will
testify about Me
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The Holy Spirit

• Role
• Aided in Creation Gen 1.2

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The Holy Spirit

• Role
• The presence of God in the world

John 1416-18 I will ask the Father, and He will
give you another Helper, that He may be with you
forever that is the Spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive, because it does not see Him
or know Him, but you know Him because He abides
with you and will be in you. I will not leave you
as orphans I will come to you.
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The Holy Spirit

• Role
• The source of divine power on earth
• For Jesus

Acts 1038 You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how
God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with
power, and how He went about doing good and
healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for
God was with Him.
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The Holy Spirit

• Role
• The source of divine power on earth
• For the Apostles

Acts 18 but you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be
My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea
and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the
earth.
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The Holy Spirit

• Role
• The source of divine power on earth
• For us

Rom 1513 Now may the God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace in believing, so that you will
abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit

• Role
• The source of divine power on earth
• For us

Eph 316 that He would grant you, according to
the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with
power through His Spirit in the inner man
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Lessons

• God is a God of Order
• A hierarchal, authority/submission relationship.

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Lessons

• God is a God of Order
• God is a God of Unified Diversity
• God is a God of Humility
• Though the Father is supreme, puts the spotlight
  on the Son

John 522-23 For not even the Father judges
anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,
so that all will honor the Son even as they honor
the Father. He who does not honor the Son does
not honor the Father who sent Him.
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Lessons

• God is a God of Order
• God is a God of Unified Diversity
• God is a God of Humility
• Good example for us

Phil 22-5 make my joy complete by being of the
same mind, maintaining the same love, united in
spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from
selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility
of mind regard one another as more important than
yourselves do not merely look out for your own
personal interests, but also for the interests of
others. Have this attitude in yourselves which
was also in Christ Jesus
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Lessons

• God is a God of Order
• God is a God of Diversity
• God is a God of Humility