Address—C. Hendricks
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I'd like to talk tonight on the Trinity.
The Trinity.
We look at the Old Testament to start with, and we'll see some testimony to it.
Not fully revealed there.
But but it is there.
And then we will look at the New Testament, where it is so beautifully brought out.
When I was in.
Fleetwood, NC.
They put you up in the meeting room. They bought a house.
And it has a living room and a bedroom to the side, kitchen behind the living room, and bedroom to the side. Kitchen is fully equipped. And the visitors sleep, of course, in one of the bedrooms. And we meet in the living room. Saints meet in the living room.
Well, I was leaving once for during the day and two women came up to the door.
And I suspected who they were and the first lady who was the spokeswoman, she said. We are Jehovah's Witnesses and usually they didn't used to do that.
But she came right out with it.
And we engaged in a conversation.
And we got onto the subject of the Trinity, which they do not believe. You will find that all cults and false religions do not believe in the Trinity.
It is the characteristic truth of Christianity.
Three persons in one God, our baptismal formula.
Brings that before us and the one said to me, the Trinity is not found in the Bible and I said what?
Not found in the Bible, the very names of the persons of the Trinity are given to us.
And I quoted to her Matthew 28, baptizing them in the name of the Father.
And of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Well, she didn't have much to say after that.
Look at Genesis chapter 1.
Genesis chapter 1, the very first verse in our Bible.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Now you don't see the Trinity in that verse in our English Bible, but the word for God is Elohim.
If you talk about a cherub, that's singular. 1 Cherub. Cherubim is plural, Many cherub, several cherubs. Every Hebrew word that ends in I am is plural. Elohim L is the singular for God, and I don't know the dual. In the Hebrew language, there's a singular number and a dual #2 and then the plural number, which is 3 or more.
In English singular is 1 and plural is 2 or more, but not so in the Hebrew.
And this word God is Elohim.
Plural cannot be two, it cannot be one. It has to be 3 or more. And we know from other scriptures that it is 3 in the beginning. Elohim 3 persons, one God created, and the word created is a singular verb.
Verb in the singular you have a plural subject, Plural noun with a singular verb. Not grammatically correct, but it sets before us the wonderful truth in the Hebrew Scriptures, in the very first verse of the Bible, that God is a plurality.
You get that same thing later on in Genesis 1.
Verse 26.
And God said, let us make man in our image.
After our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in.
His image.
In the image of God created he him.
Male and female created he them, so you have the singular used many times in referring to God.
For he is 1.
Three persons, one God. Sometimes you have the plural. Let us make man.
In our image.
Verse 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth. So you have the singular and the plural in the 3rd chapter of Genesis after the fall.
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In verse 22 and the Lord God said, behold the man is become as one of us.
To know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also the tree of life, and eat and live forever. And then he was sent out of the garden. Man has become as one of us.
Turn to the 11TH chapter.
The 11TH chapter.
And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plane in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
And they said one to another, go to let us make brick and burn them truly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
And they said, Go to Let us build us a city in a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name.
That.
Let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is 1. And they have all one language, And this they begin to do. And now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to let us go down and.
There confound their language that they may not understand.
One another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from fence upon the face of all the earth.
And they left off to build the city. Let us go down.
And there confound their language.
Unity in plurality.
The Mohammedans believe in one single, solitary, lonely God.
The Jews do too.
They don't believe in the Trinity, though their Bible testifies to the Trinity as we are seeing as we read some of these passages from the Old Testament.
But they reject the Trinity.
Unitarians reject the Trinity.
All false cults, Jehovah's Witnesses, reject the Trinity.
Mormons reject the Trinity and so on.
God has revealed himself in the New Testament as Trinity.
A teacher was speaking to her students once and she was trying to illustrate the Trinity.
And she said it's like a pie.
Cut into thirds.
And each third of the pie represents one of the persons of the Godhead, Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Well, that's a nice illustration. It's fairly close, but it's not the full truth of the Trinity because each piece of the pie is only 1/3 of the pie. It's not the whole pie.
But the Father is all of God.
The sun is all of God.
And the Spirit is all of God, not a part of.
But each person is, in their essence, God.
And we may not understand that.
Our feeble finite minds may not be able to grasp that, but that is the truth. Sometimes the Trinity has been represented by water.
It's in either the solid-state as ice, or the liquid state as water, or the gaseous state as steam.
But it's never all three at the same time.
And so that fails to represent the Trinity. It can't be liquid and gas if it's solid, and it can't be solid and gas if it's liquid, and it can't be solid and liquid if it's gas.
And so that failed. Sometimes the Shamrock 3 leaf Clover is used to.
To illustrate the Trinity, but again it fails because each petal is not the whole.
Of it.
But these are attempts to just convey to the mind of man a three persons in one God.
The famous verse that the Jews used to prove.
Their concept of one God is in Deuteronomy chapter 6 and we might look at that.
And this very verse.
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Proves the contrary to what they are.
Advocating.
Deuteronomy 6 verse 4 here, O Israel, the Lord our God.
Is 1 Lord?
Jehovah, our God is 1 Jehovah.
Now the truth is that the Father is Jehovah, the Son is Jehovah, and the Spirit is Jehovah.
But that word one, they have two words for one in the Hebrew.
And I know Hebrew scholar, but this much I've learned and the one word means.
One absolute one with excluding everything else. And the other word is one in plurality. Like you talk about a bunch of grapes. There may be many grapes, but it's one bunch. A crowd of people. One crowd, but many people.
In fact, that very word one that's used here, the Lord our God is 1 Lord is the very word that's used in Genesis when it says that two shall be 1 flesh.
That one person.
But one flesh, the two persons, the man and his wife, shall be 1 flesh. So there you have unity in more than one.
And that's what this verse really conveys, if they would read it correctly. The Lord our God is 1 Lord unity in plurality. Turn to Isaiah chapter 6.
Isaiah chapter 6.
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Above it stood the Seraphims. Each one had 6 wings with 20 covered his face.
And with Twain he covered his feet. And with Twain he did fly.
And one cried unto the other, and said, Holy.
Holy Holy is the Lord of hosts.
The whole earth is full of His glory.
Not wholly. Wholly.
There are not 2 Persons to the Godhead, but holy, holy, holy three persons. Each person is holy.
The Holy Father, the Holy Son and the Holy Spirit. And so the Seraphim's acknowledging this cry, Holy, holy, holy.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. And then said, I woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lois, hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?
And then said I one of those three persons, he confers.
God confers amongst himself three persons conferring, and then one of those persons the Lord Jesus said, then said, I hear my send me.
And he said go.
Tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not, and see ye indeed but perceive not.
Whom shall I send? There's the singular.
Who will go for us? There's the plural. God is 1 and yet in three persons.
Now let's turn to.
Matthew 28. I've already referred to it, but I want to quote it.
Read it, I should say, from the word itself. Matthew 28.
And this is the.
What we call the baptismal formula. Verse 19 Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Notice it does not say names.
Now the word elohim is found in the Old Testament with a plural verb, and when that's the case, it's referring to the gooden.
Because Elohim is plural, it should be translated God's.
If it's with a plural verb, but when it's with a singular verb, it is God. God in his oneness in plurality.
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God created the heavens and the earth, so Elohim is used in the Old Testament to also describe the false gods, and then it's translated in the plural as it should be. It's the name, not names. The name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. That's a difficult verse for the Jehovah's Witnesses to deal with.
Because it gives you the singular, the name and the plural. The three persons and their names are given. So when this woman said the Trinity is not found in the Bible, I said what?
Their very names are given and showed her this passage of scripture.
I'd like to look at a number of scriptures and I may miss some, and you may think of some that I miss, where the Trinity is found in a single verse in a single verse of scripture.
I'll start with Second Corinthians 13.
And verse 14.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the love of God.
And the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen.
Here you have the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ you have.
God the Father and the Holy Spirit mentioned.
In one verse.
In Ephesians chapter 2.
Ephesians chapter 2.
Verse 18.
For through him the Lord Jesus.
We both have access by 1 spirit.
Unto the Father.
One Spirit unto the Father. So you have the three persons, Him referring to the Son.
And then the Spirit and the Father mentioned you may have noticed. Well, you didn't know what I was going to speak on, so you may not have noticed it. In the hymn that I selected, it says ABBA, Father, thus we call thee.
And then it says in that same verse, God the Spirit with our Spirit witnesses, we're sons of God.
Abba's purpose gave us being when in Christ. In that vast plan, Abbot chose the Saints in Jesus long before the world began.
Oh what love the Father bore us for how precious in his sight when he gave the church to Jesus. His whole souls delight.
Wonderful verse. I was singing that in the room before supper and I said I'll add that to my list of hymns that testify to the Trinity.
There are a number of them that I have written down.
There's only one though that has the word Trinity in it, and Lord willing will sing that later.
Turn to Revelation.
Chapter 1.
Verse 4.
John to the seven churches which are in Asia.
Grace be unto you, and peace from him which is, and which was, and which is to come.
That's a description of God himself, Jehovah.
We call him the Father.
Although each person of the Trinity is Jehovah, and then he says, and from the seven spirits which are before his throne.
Seven spirits, representing, of course, the Holy Spirit in the fullness of His power in a governmental way, which will be administered for the accomplishment of the setting up of the Kingdom and from Jesus Christ.
Who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the Prince of the kings of the earth?
So we have the three persons mentioned again, not distinctly as Father, Son, and Spirit, but there they are.
And it's beautiful to see how they are found in so many passages.
Now let's turn back to John 14, where we have such a wonderful display in these chapters of the Trinity. Naturally, when God is speaking and when He is acting and when He is manifesting himself, it must be all three persons.
In some way or other, because all three persons.
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Make up the Godhead.
The Trinity in John 14. The Lord Jesus says in verse 16.
I, that's the Son, will pray the Father.
And he shall give you another comforter. There you have the three persons.
The Son praying the Father to give the other comforter the spirit of truth, that He may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of truth.
Whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you. Now that's that's spoken of the Holy Spirit, He dwelleth with us, and he is in us. And then later on in the chapter verse 23, Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man loved me, he would keep my words, and my Father will love him.
And we, the Father and the Son, will come unto him and make our abode with him.
He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings, the word which He hears, not mine, but the Father's which sent me. We will love Him, and we will come unto Him and make our abode with Him. So here you have in the same chapter the Spirit dwelling with us, abiding in US, and the Father and the Son also making His abode with us.
Again in verse 26, but the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name again, and we have the Trinity, the Comforter sent by the Father in the name of the Son.
The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
You know Mohammedanism does not.
Have the the thought, the concept, maybe even the word love in its own.
Doesn't know anything about it.
It believes in a singular.
God.
A singular God.
All alone.
Having no companion.
No fellowship.
Doesn't know what love is.
The Trinity is 3 Persons.
Each Father loveth the Son, and the Son loveth the Father, and the love of the Spirit is mentioned. All three are connected with love.
Love speaks of companionship and fellowship.
And a sharing.
One with another, a singular, lonely God like the Unitarians believe in.
Would not be a God of love.
And they don't know the Mohammedans don't know a God of love.
It's a religion of fear.
And so are other false religions.
Because the true Godfather, and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Are not known by them.
In the 15th chapter of John.
And verse.
26.
But when the comforter is come.
Whom I the Son?
Will send unto you from the Father.
Even the spirit of truth.
Which proceedeth from the Father.
He shall testify of me. We have the Trinity mentioned two times in that verse. The Comforter whom I will send unto you from the Father. That's the first time.
Even the spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. That's the second time you have the three persons of the Trinity mentioned in that verse.
In the 14th chapter he says I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter. In this chapter he says I will send him from the Father. And in the 16th chapter the Spirit of God is not spoken of as being sent either by the Father or the Son, but he comes himself. Notice how it's put verse 13.
Albeit when he, the spirit of truth is come.
He will guide you into all truth.
For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak.
And he will show you things to come.
He will glorify. He should glorify me.
For he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. Glorify me the Son. The Spirit glorifies the Son, and then he says, All things that the Father hath are mine.
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Therefore, said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you. Beautiful how John in his ministry, in his writing.
Brings in the three persons of the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, all functioning, working together in a perfect oneness, sameness to glorify the sun.
And to bring blessing to man.
In Hebrews 10.
Can only bring these things to your attention that come to mind.
In Hebrews 10, again we have the Trinity. Sometimes they are in one verse.
Sometimes they're spread through the chapter, and that's the case here.
In Hebrews 10, verse 7.
Then said I, and this is the Lord Jesus the Son, Lo, I come in the volume of the book, it is written of thee to do thy will. Oh God, that's the God the Father. Of course he came to do his will above, when he said sacrifice, and offering, and burnt offerings and offering for sin, But what's not? Neither hats pleasure therein, which are offered by the law. Then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
So here you have the sun coming.
Sent from the Father to do the will of God and accomplish his work. And we read about that in the next verse. You take it away the 1St that he may establish the second verse 10 by the which will, the will that he had come to do, the very will of God that he had come to do.
We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
That's his work on the cross, of course, and every priest standeth daily, ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. But this man?
The Lord Jesus, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down on the right hand of God. So here you have the Lord offering himself, and then sitting down at the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His footstool. For by one offering yet perfected forever them that are sanctified, you have Him coming to do the will of God his Father.
God exalting him to his right hand, having completed the work of redemption, and then you have following this.
The first two persons of the Trinity mentioned, you have the testimony of the Holy Spirit, verse 16, verse 15, whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. For after that he had said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts.
And in their minds will I write them, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
So here we have God sending him.
He coming and doing the will of God, by that very will were sanctified and set apart.
And by that one sacrifice on the cross, and then the testimony of the Holy Spirit to the value and efficacy of that work.
Look at the 9th chapter of Hebrews.
Verse 14.
Well, let me read, let me back up to verse 11. But Christ being common high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal.
Redemption for us, for if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean.
Sanctify it to the purifying of the flesh. Now here's the verse.
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God?
Christ, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot. How much more shall that sacrifice purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Beautiful to see the testimony in the Word of God to the three Persons of the Blessed Trinity, the Godhead.
The Godhead.
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It says in Let's turn to it Colossians chapter 2.
9 for in him that's.
The Lord Jesus dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead.
Badly. Now the word Godhead does not tell us how many persons there are to the Godhead.
But it tells us that there are.
There more than one.
The Godhead and in Christ all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in him bodily. And again you have it in verse 19 of chapter 1. For it please the Father. And then notice the Father is in italics. It's not in the original and it really Mars the full sense of that verse. It would be better rendered. It pleased the Godhead.
All three persons that in Christ should all fullness dwell as a man.
As a man when he emptied himself, according to Philippians 2.
He did not empty himself of deity.
He never ceased to be God when he became a man.
But he took upon him the form of a servant was made in the likeness of men.
And accomplished the work of redemption.
Turn to 1, John.
Chapter 2.
And we have.
In verse.
20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One.
And ye know all things.
I have not written unto you, because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ, He is Antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son, so that unction from the Holy One gives us to know and understand.
Who God is the Father, and the Son, and the Spirit, Whosoever denies the Son the same hath not the Father, but he that acknowledges the Son hath the Father also. So you have the Son and the Father mentioned, you have that unction mentioned, the Holy Spirit. Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning, if that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you.
Ye also shall continue.
In the Son and in the Father, there you have in that one verse the Trinity, that which we, you have heard from the beginning, abide in you, the Spirit of God. You shall continue in the sun and in the Father. And this is the promise that you have promised us, even life eternal.
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing, that's the Holy Spirit which you have received of Him, of God the Father, or the Son, either one. They both sent. The Spirit, as we saw in John 14 and 15, abideth in you. If the anointing abideth in you, you need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and His truth, and is no lie even as it hath taught.
Ye shall abide in him.
So the Spirit of God is the power of worship, the power of communion, the power of understanding the Scriptures, knowing the Father and the Son.
All three persons working together in perfect harmony and oneness.
Unity of purpose, thought will aim one essence, each person of the same essence. No conflict we have. We have great difficulty in our minds to lay hold upon this in our family relations we have we have a will, your wife has a will and your children have a will. But in the Trinity.
Their will is the same, the same, the same.
That brings to mind now, having said that, First Corinthians chapter 12.
First Corinthians, chapter 12.
I'm going to start from the first verse.
And then lead on to what is especially before me. But these first verses are so important.
Now, concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto those these dumb idols, even as you were led. Who led them? Who led them to worship those dumb idols? Demons did. They were led by demons, by the power of the enemy, and they were worshipping false gods, these dumb idols that could neither see nor hear nor talk.
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And so he says, that's what you were when you were Gentiles, you were idol worshippers. Wherefore I give you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed.
I know one was in a.
Tongues movement meeting once.
He heard someone speaking in a tongue. It was a an actual foreign language. He happened to know the language.
And the person who was speaking was speaking blasphemies.
And it was obvious that that was not the Spirit of God. No man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus, accursed or says anything that is derogatory to His blessed person.
And that's the first, that's the first indicator that he gives to these Corinthians, how you could tell the difference between the Spirit of God leading you and demons leading you.
And then he says in that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now he doesn't mean that you cannot pronounce those words. Jesus is Lord if you're an unsafe person, but he says if you are led by a power outside of yourself.
Only that power of the Holy Spirit will call Jesus Lord, the demons will.
The demons won't.
No one can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost, and no one can say anything that is.
Dishonouring to him.
And be speaking by the Holy Ghost.
Now we've come to the verses that I was thinking of, in particular verse 4. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit doesn't just say 1 spirit, the same spirit. They weren't to conclude that because in the Church of God there were many different gifts given that there were different spirits giving them like they had in paganism.
He wants to make it clear contrast between Christianity maintaining the three distinct persons of the Trinity, with paganism, with idol worship, and with many demons and many gods and many Lords.
To us there is one God the Father and 1 Lord Jesus Christ and one Spirit.
But in paganism there were many gods and many Lords and many spirits, many demons.
And they were led by these demons when they worshipped idols. So he says there are diversities of gifts. Don't conclude that because there are many gifts, that there are many spirits. You know, it's the same spirit giving each gift.
And there are differences of administrations or you could render that services.
But the same Lord.
Doesn't just say 1 Lord, but the same Lord. It's the same Lord that leads you to go to serve the Lord in one place and in one capacity, and another brother in another and a sister in another. It's the same Lord.
We're serving the same Lord.
Christianity.
Is 1 God?
One Spirit, the same spirit, and the same Lord. And then it says.
In verse 6 there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God.
Which worketh All in all. So you have the same Spirit, you have the same Lord and the same God.
God the Father.
Three persons.
And how wonderful.
These three persons working in perfect.
Harmony and oneness and unity.
To bring glory to himself and blessing to his own.
Tremendous truth, is it not that?
God became a man.
And we know who that was. Wasn't the father.
Wasn't the spirit?
And let's see if I have this. Yes, I still have it.
Dear brother Dan Jacobson gave me this.
Long time ago.
The early Christians, I don't know if you can see it.
The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost.
And in the center here is God.
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And it says the Father is God.
The Holy Ghost is God.
Son is God.
But then it says on the outside, the Father is not the Son, who is not the Holy Ghost, who is not the Father. And that's the simplest representation that the early Christians had of the Trinity.
It's very beautiful. Each person equally God, all of God, not a part of God, not the Father is a part of God, and the sons the part of God and the Spirit is a part of God. They're all God, fully, all together.
And their distinct persons.
I was talking to a brother once. He began his prayer and I wasn't trying to be critical, but he had done it so many times.
I wanted to.
Bring it to his attention. He addressed the father and then thanked the Father for dying on the cross.
The father did not die on the cross.
He sent his son to die on the cross.
The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
Sometimes it's a mistake that is just careless. You change your thinking in your prayer and you go from the Father to the Son, and one doesn't make one an offender for a word. But this was a repeated thing and I wanted to bring it to his attention and I was surprised.
In speaking with him that he thought at least he said so. Well, they are all one person. I said, Oh no, they're not. Oh no they're not.
They're not one person.
There are three distinct persons, but one God.
And sometimes you speak on a subject that is so basic and fundamental as the Trinity, and you find out and discover that there are some that do not really.
Understand the full truth of it.
He's talking to a young man in our meeting at home and he was talking about a Christian friend of his that he had been talking to, he says.
He's got some things wrong. He doesn't believe in the Trinity.
And I said he doesn't believe in the Trinity.
He's not a Christian then. Oh yes, he's a Christian. He's definitely a Christian, I said. If he's not, he can be a Jew, he can be a Muslim, but he can't be a Christian if he doesn't believe in the Trinity.
I mean a real 1 and he was accrediting his faith as being real.
Now I admit that there might be such a thing as just a confusion in one's mind, but that's the fundamental truth of Christianity. That's what makes Christianity stand out apart from all other religions, is that we believe in three persons, one God. The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. The Son, having gone up on high, receives the Spirit a second time and sends him down to indwell and inhabit the house, and to indwell each Christian, each believer by the holy.
The Holy Spirit come down tremendous, tremendous truth that each one of us is indwelt of the Spirit of God so that we can know the things that are freely given to us of God.
God working on our behalf.
Father working on our behalf, the Son working on our behalf, the Spirit working on our behalf, the Lord Jesus said, the Father who dwelleth in me, he doeth the works, and yet he did everything by the power of the Holy Spirit.
He being full of the Holy Ghost, went forth says.
He was justified in the spirit.
And yet he could say I and my father are one.
Beautiful especially in John's writings, the ministry of John he intentionally by the spirits design confounds the persons of the Godhead, because each one is God. Sometimes you don't know when you read the verse. Is he talking about the Father or the Son? For instance, First John 520. We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know.
That is true.
Who is that? And we are in him, that is true.
In his Son, Jesus Christ, He is the true God and eternal life. You just, you go through that and you see, is he talking about the Father or the Son he's talking about?
God the Father and God the Son both are God.
And so there's that intentional confounding of the persons.
And who indicted all this? Who indicted this blessed book? The greatest miracle I can think of, it's the book I hold in my hands. All of these independent epistles sent to various places, and all the books written in the Old Testament sent to various places. How did they ever get collected into one volume, which we call the Bible?
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Greatest miracle?
That I can think of, you know, the Lord said, When after I've gone to the Father, ye shall do greater things than these.
And.
It was after he went back to the Father and sent the Holy Spirit that the Word of God was brought together in the form that we have it today. A wonderful, tremendous miracle of God.
The more you think about creation and redemption.
And the coming of the Holy Spirit, who is here to glorify Christ and to give us to know consciously that we are children of God and we can cry ABBA Father, even as the Son did by the Spirit. The more you think of these things, the more you stand in awe.
At the immensity of the grace love which has brought us into such a place of blessing.
Well, I'm sure I've missed.
Many passages that you could bring up.
And I'll think of them as I lie in bed tonight. Oh, I should have mentioned this one. I should have mentioned this one. But that's all right. I can only bring out what the Spirit brings to me at this time. But we've looked at enough scriptures to see the testimony of both the Old and the New Testament to the true Trinity, the three Persons in one God.
Do you know that God?
Can you cry, ABBA father?
Are you a child of God? Do you know the Son?
Who came from the father to reveal the father?
Do you have the Holy Spirit indwelling you?
Causing you to cry ever, father, giving you the conscious sense in your soul.
That you are a child of God.
Has this been made good to you?
To each one of us that's here tonight, I trust that he is so how wonderful.
The blessings that are ours in Him.