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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
God’s 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
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 45:21–22
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 45:6–7
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 48:12–13,16
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 28:19
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 5:3–4
God’s 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
God’s 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 17:1,4
God’s 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 17:24
God’s Being: Trinity
God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son, and Spirit…
and each person is fully God…
and there is One God
God’s 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
God’s 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 55:8-9
God’s 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
God’s 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
God’s 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 17:24–25
God’s 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 1:17
God’s 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 3:8
God’s Attributes
God is Great
•Free
•Eternal
•Immutable
“For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.”
Malachi 3:6
God’s 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 135:5–6
God’s 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 139:1,2,4,16
God’s 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 23:24
God’s 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 6:3
God’s 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 32:4
God’s 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 1:2
God’s Attributes
God is Great
•Free
•Eternal
•Immutable
•Omnipotent
•Omniscient
•Omnipresent
God is Good
•Holy
•Just
•True
•Loving
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 4:16
God’s 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 34:6
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.
God’s Attributes
God is Great
•Free
•Eternal
•Immutable
•Omnipotent
•Omniscient
•Omnipresent
God is Good
•Holy
•Just
•True
•Loving
•Gracious