Sunday Notes: Doctrines: The Trinity
- No where in the Bible will you find the word _______________
- In most churches’ statements of belief you will find little if any mention of the _______________ of the Trinity.
- This concept is foreign to our limited comprehension and is often taken one of two ways:
- Rejected as falsehood
- Accepted as something not completely understood
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- We should be able to understand this concept given a firm foundation of who God is.
- Three in person, One in _______________
- God the _______________
- _______________ the Son
- The _______________ Spirit
- One Living and True God, One will of God
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- Deuteronomy 6:4
- Deu 6:4 ESV) “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
- The Lord is _______________.
- The word “one” here echad (ekh-awd) translates to _______________.
- This is the sense of a marriage or team.
- We are one, a united effort.
- While He is one God He also works under one united will.
- Isaiah 45:4, 1 Corinthians 45:5
- The one true God – not one of _______________ gods
- God is the one true God.
- There is no other God in existence.
- While we set up other things in ourselves to take the place of _______________, those are not the true God.
- Eternally Existing in _______________ Persons
- Matthew 28:19. 2 Corinthians 13:14
- All three persons one and the same in essence
- If all three of these trinitarian persons are God
- And all share the attributes of God
- They all have existed for all eternity past
- And will into all eternity present.
- And continue into the future
- Don’t neglect the three for any of the one.
- While God is _______________ in essence
- He is also _______________ in persons
- And each must be taught and understood in the church.
- Matthew 3:16-17
- All three already existed yet we see three distinct persons simultaneously in this scene.
- One in essence: God, Three in person: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
- From the beginning
- From the beginning we see the _______________ of the Godhead
- Genesis 1:26. Genesis 3:22, Genesis 11:5-7, Isaiah 6:8
- Each Equally Deserving Worship and Obedience
- As the one true God, no one of these persons is more or less deserving of our worship and obedience.
- They are equally deserving and should equally be served.
- Matthew 28:19, John 15:26-27
- Holy _______________ is from the Father and the Son and is a person of the _______________
- 2 Corinthians 13:14, Hebrews 9:13-14, 1 John 4:2, Jude 1:20-21