The Trinity: April 2006

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We would not know anything about God unless He revealed Himself. This He has been pleased to do in the Bible. Creation shows us His eternal power and divinity (what is of God). But divinity is not the Godhead. The word “trinity” brings before us the thought of a plurality of Persons in the Godhead. At the baptism of the Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit descended “like a dove” and abode upon Him, and God the Father declared, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Notice how the Trinity, or the Godhead, all worked in the resurrection. In John 2:1919Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. (John 2:19) the Lord Jesus, speaking of His body, said that “in three days I will raise it up.” Romans 6:44Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4) says that “Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,” and 1 Peter 3:1818For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1 Peter 3:18) says He was “quickened [given life] by the Spirit.” John 20:1717Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. (John 20:17) shows us that the Father is a distinct Person and is God. First John 5:2020For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth: and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. (John 5:20) tells us that Jesus Christ is the true God. The fact that the Holy Spirit is a Person and is God can be seen in the following scriptures: Matthew 4:11Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. (Matthew 4:1); John 16:1313Howbeit 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. (John 16:13); Acts 10:19; 13:2,4; 20:2819While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee. (Acts 10:19)
2As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. (Acts 13:2)
4So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. (Acts 13:4)
28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. (Acts 20:28); Romans 15:3030Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; (Romans 15:30). Those who say that the idea of the Trinity comes from paganism do not know their Bibles nor the history of idolatry. The Indians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans had several gods who were separate, often fighting each other, with no unity or harmony.
In Matthew 28:1919Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: (Matthew 28:19) the three Persons are named by Christ in the formula for baptism. Also, each person of the Godhead is referred to as Lord. In Matthew 11:2525At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. (Matthew 11:25) the Father is referred to as Lord, in Acts 10:3636The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) (Acts 10:36) Jesus is referred to as Lord and in 2 Corinthians 3:1818But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Corinthians 3:18) the Spirit is referred to as Lord. Yet, there is but one God (1 Timothy 2:55For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (1 Timothy 2:5)). At the end time, Satan will have an imitation of the Trinity in the Roman beast, the false prophet and himself. See Revelation 13:4,11; 20:104And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (Revelation 13:4)
11And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (Revelation 13:11)
10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Revelation 20:10).
1. If the Son can do nothing of Himself, whom does He copy? John 5:___
2. What fullness dwelt in Christ bodily? Colossians 2:___
3. Can you find one verse that mentions Christ, the Spirit and God?
Hebrews 9:___
4. Through whom is it that we have access by the Spirit unto the Father?
Ephesians 2:___
5. Jesus went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed. Who were the other two Persons of the Trinity named in this verse? Acts 10:___