Every activity of the Godhead is always in trinity. The first time the name of God is mentioned in the Bible, the Hebrew word used is God in the plural. In the Hebrew language there is singular, dual and plural. The Hebrew word for God in the plural is Elohim. This is the word used in Genesis 1:1. The Hebrew word for God in the dual is Elohaim. It is never used in the Scripture. The Hebrew word for God in the singular is Eloah. The first time this is used is in Deuteronomy 32:15-17 where He is contrasted with idols.
The order in Scripture is always God the Father in purpose, the Son the One who carries out the purposes of God the Father, and the Holy Spirit the power by which they are fulfilled. This truth runs all through the Word of God.
Creation
It was the purpose of God the Father that creation would be the sphere for the display of all His counsels (Eph. 1:9-10).
The Son is the One by whom all is created and upheld (John 1:1-4; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:1-3).
The Holy Spirit is the power in creation (Psa. 104:30).
Redemption
God the Father in His love purposed the blessing of man (John 3:16). “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself” (2 Cor. 5:19).
Christ in the obedience of love accomplished the work of redemption (Heb. 10:7-10).
He (Christ) “through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God” (Heb. 9:14).
Resurrection
God the Father raised Christ from the dead (Acts 3:15).
Christ, the Son, raised Himself from the dead (John 10:18).
The Holy Spirit raised Christ from the dead (Rom. 8:11; 1 Peter 3:18).
God, the Son
As Man, He could be hungry, thirsty and weary, that He might be a sympathetic High Priest. As God, He could still the winds and the waves. He could raise the dead. He could open His disciples’ understanding. He could and did communicate power. He knew the thoughts of those about Him. He could and did foretell the manner of His death.
He is the eternal I Am (John 8:58).
To deny the full Godhead glory of the Lord Jesus Christ is to turn one’s back on the only Saviour. Those who do so will die in their sins (John 8:24). The Scripture says, “None . . . can by any means redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him” (Psa. 49:7), but the Lord Jesus was perfect God and perfect man as He walked here on earth. It is His Person (God the Son) that gives value to the work of atonement He accomplished when lifted up on the cross (John 3:14). Thus we see that in order to have the knowledge of salvation as in John 3:16, one must believe in the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36).
H. E. Hayhoe