Who is God?

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What comes into our minds when we think about
God is the most important thing about us Without
doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can
entertain is the thought of God
A.W. Tozer
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Gods Being Trinity
God eternally exists as three persons, Father,
Son, and Spirit and each person is fully
God and there is One God
Diversity Equality Unity
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UNITY Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God,
the Lord is one!
Deuteronomy 64
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UNITY Who has announced this from of old? Who
has long since declared it? Is it not I, the
Lord? And there is no other God besides Me, a
righteous God and a Savior there is none except
Me. Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the
earth for I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 452122
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DIVERSITY EQUALITY Your throne, O God, is
forever and ever a scepter of uprightness is the
scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved
righteousness and hated wickedness therefore
God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of
joy above Your fellows.
Psalm 4567
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DIVERSITY EQUALITY I am He, I am the first,
I am also the last. Surely My hand founded the
earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens
Come near to Me, listen to this from the first I
have not spoken in secret, from the time it took
place, I was there. And now the Lord God has sent
Me, and His Spirit.
Isaiah 481213,16
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DIVERSITY EQUALITY Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy
Spirit
Matthew 2819
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DIVERSITY EQUALITY Thomas answered and said
to Him, My Lord and my God!
John 2028
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DIVERSITY EQUALITY 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.
Acts 534
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Gods Being Trinity
God eternally exists as three persons, Father,
Son, and Spirit and each person is fully
God and there is One God
Diversity Equality Unity
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Gods Being Trinity

• United in self-giving love

He said, Father, the hour has come glorify
Your Son, that the Son may glorify You I
glorified You on the earth, having accomplished
the work which You have given Me to do John
171,4
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Gods Being Trinity

• United in self-giving love

Father, I desire that they also, whom You have
given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may
see My glory which You have given Me, for You
loved Me before the foundation of the
world. John 1724
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Gods Being Trinity

• United in self-giving love
• A hierarchy of equals

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Gods Being Trinity
God eternally exists as three persons, Father,
Son, and Spirit and each person is fully
God and there is One God
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Gods Being trinity

1. The Trinity reinforces my faith
2. Only the Trinity explains love

All sorts of people are fond of repeating the
Christian statement that God is love. But they
seem not to notice that the words 'God is love'
have no real meaning unless God contains at least
two persons. Love is something that one person
has for another person. If God was a single
person, then before the world was made, He was
not love. C.S. Lewis
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Gods Being trinity

1. The Trinity reinforces my faith
2. Only the Trinity explains love
3. Why expect to fully understand God?

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither
are your ways My ways, declares the LORD. For
as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are
My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts
than your thoughts Isaiah 558-9
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Gods Being trinity

1. The Trinity reinforces my faith
2. Only the Trinity explains love
3. Why expect to fully understand God?

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and
then I will show you a man that can comprehend
the Triune God. John Wesley
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Gods Being trinity

1. The Trinity reinforces my faith
2. Only the Trinity explains love
3. Why expect to fully understand God?

We are speaking of God, what marvel if thou do
not comprehend? For if thou comprehended, He is
not God. Augustine
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free

The God who made the world and all things in it,
since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not
dwell in temples made with hands nor is He
served by human hands, as though He needed
anything, since He Himself gives to all people
life and breath and all things Acts 172425
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the
only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.
Amen. 1 Timothy 117
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal

with the Lord one day is like a thousand years,
and a thousand years like one day. 2 Peter
38
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal
• Immutable

For I, the Lord, do not change therefore you, O
sons of Jacob, are not consumed. Malachi
36
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal
• Immutable
• Omnipotent

For I know that the Lord is great and that our
Lord is above all gods. Whatever the Lord
pleases, He does, in heaven and in earth, in the
seas and in all deeps. Psalm 13556
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal
• Immutable
• Omnipotent
• Omniscient

O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You
know when I sit down and when I rise up You
understand my thought from afar Even before
there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You
know it all Your eyes have seen my unformed
substance and in Your book were all written the
days that were ordained for me, when as yet there
was not one of them. Psalm 1391,2,4,16
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal
• Immutable
• Omnipotent
• Omniscient
• Omnipresent

Can a man hide himself in hiding places so I do
not see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill
the heavens and the earth? declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 2324
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal
• Immutable
• Omnipotent
• Omniscient
• Omnipresent

• God is Good
• Holy

And one called out to another and said, Holy,
Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth
is full of His glory. Isaiah 63
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal
• Immutable
• Omnipotent
• Omniscient
• Omnipresent

• God is Good
• Holy
• Just

The Rock! His work is perfect, for all His ways
are just a God of faithfulness and without
injustice, righteous and upright is He.
Deuteronomy 324
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal
• Immutable
• Omnipotent
• Omniscient
• Omnipresent

• God is Good
• Holy
• Just
• True

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who
cannot lie, promised long ages ago, Titus
12
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Gods Attributes
We have come to know and have believed the love
which God has for us. God is love, and the one
who abides in love abides in God, and God abides
in him. 1 John 416

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal
• Immutable
• Omnipotent
• Omniscient
• Omnipresent

• God is Good
• Holy
• Just
• True
• Loving

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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal
• Immutable
• Omnipotent
• Omniscient
• Omnipresent

• God is Good
• Holy
• Just
• True
• Loving
• Gracious

Then the Lord passed by in front of him and
proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God,
compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and
abounding in lovingkindness and truth
Exodus 346
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Who is God?
The God of the Bible is infinitely great and
infinitely good, and He eternally exists as
three Persons Father, Son, and Spirit, and each
Person is fully God, and there is One God.
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Gods Attributes

• God is Great
• Free
• Eternal
• Immutable
• Omnipotent
• Omniscient
• Omnipresent

• God is Good
• Holy
• Just
• True
• Loving
• Gracious

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