The Trinity

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The Trinity

• Tri unity Three in one
• Father God
• Jesus God
• Spirit God

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The Trinity Mystery

• Not easy to understand
• The Bible doesnt explain it a lot but it does
  declare it
• Bible talks about The Godhead
• One of the early Church Fathers, Tertullian,
  introduced Trinity as the best word to describe
  The Godhead

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Cherry Pie analogy
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Triangle analogy
Father
GOD
Son
Holy Spirit
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God is one

• Old Testament
• The Lord He is God, there is none beside Him
• Beside Me there is no God
• Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord

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God is one

• New Testament
• The Lord our God is One God
• One God and Father of all
• For there is one God

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God is three

• Old Testament
• God made man in His unity own image, after His
  unity likeness
• And God said man is become as one of us, to know
  good and evil
• The Lord God and His Spirit has sent me (the Son)

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God is three

• New Testament
• Matthew 31617
• Matthew 2819
• John 141618
• 2 Corinthians 1314
• Ephesians 218

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Jesus Evidence

• Pre-existent
• Jesus said, before Abraham was born, I am.

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Jesus Evidence

• To be worshiped
• The Magi from the East worshiped the young Jesus
• When the disciples saw Jesus, they worshiped
  him
• And again, when God brings his firstborn into the
  world, he says Let all Gods angels worship him

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Jesus Evidence

• Claimed to be God
• Once when the Jews were going to stone Jesus,
  they were going to do so for blasphemy, because
  you, a mere man, claim to be God.

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Jesus Evidence

• Revelation 22 who is talking?
• Rev 2212 Behold, I am coming soon
• Rev 2216 I, Jesus
• Rev 2213 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
  First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

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Imagine youre God

• How would you reveal yourself to your Creation?

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Misconceptions

• About 2000 years ago, the people of Palestine
  were expecting the Messiah, but they had
  misconceptions about what he would be like.

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John the Baptist

• This is the One!
• But later,
• Are you the One?

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Born in a barn

• Small, insignificant village
• Born of a virgin
• Ancestry with suspect characters
• Grew up in Nazareth but can anything good come
  from there?

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Common name

• Called Joshua, which comes to us via Greek as
  Jesus
• Means Jehovah is Salvation but there were
  dozens of Joshuas in every street.
• Jesus means Saviour

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Announcement

• Imagine the shock of the angelic choir, which had
  been rehearsing for centuries their audience
  was just half a dozen shepherds!

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Not handsome

• Isaiah 532
• He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
  nothing in his appearance that we should desire
  him.

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Not rich

• No evidence that Jesus owned anything (Matthew
  61921)

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
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Unusual Advance Man

• Advance Man was very unusual
• John wore clothing made of camels hair, with a
  leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts
  and wild honey

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Motley crew

• Rough varied group of followers
• Known as a friend of sinners

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Ugly death

• Ugly and embarrassing execution
• Mocked and laughed at by those he came to reach

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The bottom line?

• Jesus, God, came in a non-threatening way
• Nothing about Jesus that would repel you or make
  you feel unworthy
• Jesus is approachable!

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Things Jesus did

• Healed people
• Prayed
• Raised people from the dead
• Blessed children
• Challenged peoples lifestyle and their concept
  of God
• Walked a lot
• Went to parties, had fun

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Jesus said he was God

• Jesus didnt claim to be another prophet, or a
  teacher, or just a great human being He claimed
  to be God
• Lets acknowledge that as we remember the work He
  did so that we could have relationship with Him