Father - Son - Holy
Spirit
I have been a
Christian for many, many years, and I say that the God who lives in me is a mighty God
in Three Persons. I know me and only a mighty living God could have saved me and
brought me through to where I am today.
The God I worship is no
mystical being who is up there, somewhere, to be called out to.
No! My mighty God is a
Trinity of three persons in one Godhead, the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit. They have existed from eternity and these sacred Persons are co-equal,
co-eternal and co-consubstantial; that is identical in essence though different
in aspect. Each is possessed of the elements of personality, i.e. thought,
feeling, conscience and will, so that there are three separate centres of
consciousness, feeling and action within the Trinity. Yet, these together
constitute one God. The Trinity is a truth superior to our understanding yet not
contrary to our reason.
All three are omnipotent
having unlimited or universal power, when applied to my God, his absolute power
in the physical realm.
It should be noted
however, that in the moral realm God has limited His own power by giving to man
the power of free will, whereby he can act entirely according to his own
dictates and violate his own intelligence and God’s will if he so chooses. The
present state of the world is a graphic and tragic illustration of this fact.
Because of this
self-imposed limitation on His power, God cannot do many things. He cannot make
anyone love Him. When anyone attacks a disciple of Jesus, they are attacking
God. Whatever the disciple and their family have to endure, God also endures it
with them. There is no more sad and pathetic sight than people claiming to be
God's leaders attacking the Lord and his servant, Acts 23:11 & 12.
Omnipotence is a natural
attribute of the Godhead in that it is an unchangeable fact concerning His
being, as opposed to a moral attribute, which is a matter of choice.
They are omniscient,
having infinite knowledge or understanding of all that is knowable.
They are
omnipresent, present in all places at the same time.
They are proven from
Scripture
Mt 3:16-17; Ro 8:9; 1 Co 12:3-6; Eph 4:4-6; 1 Pe 1:2; 1 Jn 5:7;
Jude 1:20-21.
They have special Titles
Ex 20:2, with Jn 20:28 and Ac 5:3-4.
They are Eternal
Ro 16:26, with Rev 22:13 and Heb 9:14.
They are Holy
Rev 4:8; Rev 15:4, with Ac 3:14 and 1 Jn 2:20.
They are True
Jn 7:28, with Rev 3:7.
To the Father I am said
to be His "son" or "child", Jn 1:12-13, and never
spoken of as His "brother".
To the Son I am a
"brother" or together with others "bride" Rom 8:29; Heb
2:11-12 and 17; Eph 5:23-32; Rev 19:7-9; 21:2-9; 22:17, and never called His
"son".
To the Holy Spirit I am
never said to be in the relation of son, brother or bride. He is represented as
Christ’s Deputy, or Vice-regent, or Representative. He indwells the temple of
my body, 1 Cor 6:19. He builds the composite Temple of Christ formed of
living stones, Eph 2:20-22. He acts as my Comforter or Helper, Jn
14:16, but He never appears as my Father, Brother or Bridegroom.
As the relations of the
Members of the Trinity with man are distinct, it follows that the Persons
themselves must be separate. They address one another, as the Holy Bible records
many conversations between them, Ps 2:7-9, alluded to by Christ Himself
in Rev 2:27; Ps 22:1; 40:6-8; with Heb 10:5-10; Ps 110:1; Isa 49:3, 5-9;
50:4-9. Their acts while harmonious and related to a central design are also
quite well defined. The Father sends the Son; the Son sends the Spirit, Jn
16:7.
My Lord God lives Forever! Rev
1:17-18 "Do
not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and
behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades."
