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Jesus Christ is!
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The Trinity

• The three persons are
• God the Father
• God the Son (Jesus Christ)
• God the Holy Spirit

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The Trinity

• The Persons are distinct
• The Father is not the Son
• The Son is not the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit is the Father

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The Trinity

• 1 God in 3 Persons

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The Trinity

• The Father is God the first Person of the
  Trinity.
• The Son is God the second Person of the
  Trinity.
• The Holy Spirit is God the third person of the
  Trinity.

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The Trinity

• The Bible teaches there is only one God, yet all
  three persons are called God.

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Deuteronomy 64

• Hear O Israel The LORD our God is one LORD.

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The Father is God

• 1 Corinthians 86
• Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from
  whom all things came and for whom we live

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The Son is God

• John 11
• The Word was God

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The Son is God

• Colossians 14
• For in Christ all the fulness of the Deity lives
  in bodily form.

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The Son is God

• Hebrews 13
• The Son is the radiance of Gods glory and the
  exact representation of His being.

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The Trinity

• Arian (250-336) controversy
• Taught heresy regarding the Son
• There was when He was not.
• Excommunicated after church council in Alexandria
  in AD 318

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Athanasius (295-373)

• Devoted his life to defending the scripture
  against Arianism.
• Truth defined to respond to heresy.
• Named the 27 books of the New Testament.

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Trinity

• Modern day Arianism
• Those who do not acknowledge the Son is God

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Salvation

• Acts 4 12
• Salvation is found in no-one else, for there is
  no other name under heaven given to men by which
  we must be saved.

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Assurance

• 1 John 513
• I write these things to you who believe in the
  name of the Son of God so that you may know you
  have eternal life.

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Assurance

• John 524
• I tell you the truth that whoever hears my word
  and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and
  will not be condemned but has crossed over from
  death to life.

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Assurance

• 2 Timothy 112
• I know whom I have believed, and am convinced
  that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to
  Him for that day.