Address—Adrian Roach
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Colossians Chapter 2.
And verse 9.
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
We want to speak tonight of a very precious and elevated subject.
We would wanna tread softly.
For the ground we're on, we're going to stand. And this subject is holy ground we have had before us in the previous meetings we've had, man.
Crayon beer.
We've had angels and spirits.
Sent forth the minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation. But tonight we want to rise to a higher ground. We want to consider what the Word of God has to say about the Godhead itself. In short, about the Trinity, a truth that has been assailed much in recent years. Now it's it's very plain and simple that.
God could not be known unless He revealed himself. His eternal power and divinity can be seen in creation, but divinity is not the Godhead. As such. The divinity lifts us up to what is of God. And this is the only passage in the New Testament where the word God had properly belongs, though it is found in two other places in this version. Here it says in Him, that is in Christ.
Dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, you and I would never know.
What was in the Godhead? What was in the heart of God, unless He had opened it up to us and revealed it to us in His precious word? Now before we look at many Scriptures, and I trust again we will not weary turning our Bibles back and forth for no one truth, I repeat myself again, is put down on the catalog fashion in one chapter of the Bible. There are certain subjects, yes, but there are many precious truths that permeate the whole book.
I want to mention before we look at the positive side of things, I'd like to take up two attacks that are made on the Trinity. One is made by so-called intellectual men, atheists. Others are made by religious men from within. Now the usual argument of the UH rationalist, the man who tries to reason things out with his mind. He tries to deny the truth of the Trinity by saying that Christianity.
Has derived the Trinity from paganism.
And as usual, insulins are never thorough. They never examine it. Uh, they never examine the Word of God thoroughly, and they never examine their own evidence thoroughly. And the reason they say that is that if you trace the history of the Pagan gods, it's a striking thing. We want to see how it originated. I'm sure that the heathen God's common threes.
India has Brom Cyber, Vishnu free gods.
The Egyptians had three prominent gods. The Greeks had.
Zeus, Pluto, Poseidon, 3 gods. The Romans went further. They had Saturn as the father of three gods.
That SAT Titan was the father of Jupiter, Plotel and Nepto. Now this is a striking thing about this that they they say, well, you've copied from the heathen. Well, let's just pause a moment and ask where is it? Where did the heathen get the thought of three gods? And in one instance, are we going to turn to another? No mythology, which is very striking. Why is there a father and three sons? Where does that come?
The four men that came out of the ark.
NOAA and his three sons would deify as the time separated men from the those men coming out of the ark. They built up legends and traditions and as a result Shem, Ham and Japheth became the Jupiter, the Pluto, the Neptune of the Romans. And so that's where you get the three gods in all the different religions because they corrupted the truth. And Uh developed out of Noah and his Uh, three sons a series of gods. Now let us notice another mythology which is very striking.
The Norse mythology.
Tells us there was a time when the earth was filled with giants. Look at that in Genesis. You see every mythology is a distortion of a fact of the truth. And their mythology tells us there were giants in the earth and the earth was in terrible condition at that time. But there was a man named. I don't know if I got the right pronunciation, but a man named Bowie had three sons.
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Alden Dealey. And they, I believe that's how they pronounce it. Three sons. And here were these giants ruling the earth. And these three Suns caused the flood. This is Norse mythology. They caused the flood.
Not of water, but they caused a deluge of blood that rose up and browned all these giants. Where did the Norsemen get that from? That is a distortion of uh, Genesis 6 and seven, those chapters. All mythology has a basis of fact, but man gets it and distorts it. So you see, that proves at once that the three gods of the Norsemen, the three gods of the Romans, and so forth. Well, Shem, Ham and Japheth under different names.
Now that proves then coming back to the Trinity.
There is no similarity between the truth of the Trinity and what the heathen taught as to their three gods in their cases. Everyone knows God was a separate individual. Supposed being in the Trinity you've got three divine persons, three persons of deity in one godhead. The North gods and the Roman gods fought among themselves. There was no unity. They deceive one another. They.
Be treacherous to one another. They even in some cases usurp the power of the other. Not a bit of harmony in the heathen gods. There's no likeness whatsoever between the truth of the Trinity as taught in the Word of God and as man imagined in his midst and all that sort of thing. But there's another subtle attempt made by man to undermine the Trinity, and that's done by not the brain man, so to speak. The man who you want to use their intellect and set aside the word of God.
But men who prefer to be Christians and they have a very subtle way of denying it. They say that this is 3 persons at all. It's one person acting in three different capacities. Now that is folly. On the face of it, what we're going to see that the Father spoke from heaven to the sun on earth. How could that be one person acting in two capacities? If it was so the one person could have to be at one place at one time. The the Father speaks to the Son.
And so we we're going to see from Scripture what the truth of the Trinity is, and what a wonderful thing that God has revealed that. Now let's try to Genesis One for the root for the seed plot, Genesis one and verse one.
Genesis 1 It says in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Let me make this further remark. We mentioned it the other evening. The difference between man and God is that God, the Godhead consist of three separate equal persons.
Man consists of three parts, but he's only one person. A triunity is not always a Trinity. A Trinity is a triunity. In other words, God is a triune being, but He's more than that. He's a friend as a Trinity. In the Godhead, Man is not a Trinity. He's one person though he consists of spirit and soul and body. But in the Godhead you have 3 equal persons. Their minds are the same. One doesn't have to convince the other to do something. They acted perfect and absolute harmony.
And all. Tonight orange Uh, shouldn't we be glad that the Father loved you and me? And he sent the Son. The Son says, Lo, I come. And then the Spirit came down and made it all good to us. The whole Trinity has been involved in your eternal blessing and mine. Now in Genesis one we get a seed plot. I said in the beginning God, now that word for God is in the plural is elohim. But there's a strange thing in here which Mr. Kelly points out.
Puzzles the Jewish rabbis. While the noun is plural, the word is singular. Now we don't say that we're Speaking of floral. We don't say they is coming. We say they are coming. We don't say I are coming, I say I am coming. We use uh, a singular bird, uh For a singular uh person and and a plural verb where the plural is involved. But that is what is true in the original here, and it says uh, there's a plural noun, but a that plural noun indicates more than two persons.
One in two persons and the verb says uh is used for whether it be just a single person. What a marvelous thing. Here we have in in embryo. Here we have uh in in uh in the seed plot. Here the truth and doctrine that there's more than one person in the Godhead. The very first statement in the Bible lets us know there's more than one person in the Godhead, but it remains for Christianities. We'll see presently for that truth to be fully revealed.
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And brought out. Now let's go to the 26th place of this chapter.
Verse 26.
And God said, let us make man in our image. After our likeness, God said let us, He says our image, our likeness. There's a plurality here. Here we find the the Trinity. Uh planning uh to bring man into being. Just think of it. The whole Trinity is occupied with a blessing of man.
And so here we find the the the whole Trinity. We don't know yet. It's not unfolded.
But we know from the New Testament when it says let us. We know there's the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost and God said let us make man after our image and after our likeness. Now, having established this basic fact, let's turn to the New Testament and see how it's developed, how it's brought out into the open. Matthew Chapter 3 and notice in connection with whose person it is brought out Matthew Chapter 3.
Verse well verse 13.
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him. But John forbade in saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest out of me. Jesus answering, said unto him, Suffer it to be so now for us to become of us, to fulfill our righteousness. Then he suffered him, and Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightly out of the water, and lo, the heavens were opened unto him.
We saw the Spirit of God ascending like a dove and lighting upon him, and lo, a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. The mystery of Genesis One is opened up here. This is the key that unlocks the door. Why is it plural there in Genesis? Why is it us? Why is it our? Here we have for the first time in the word of God the full Trinity revealed as such, the Holy Ghost comes down.
And who does he light upon?
He lights upon one who was declared by a voice from heaven to be my beloved Son. And the voice says, my beloved Son, who is it that's speaking? It has to be the Father. The Father is speaking from heaven and saying, this is my beloved Son. So you've got the Son of God on earth, you have the Father's voice from heaven, and you have the Holy Ghost coming and indwelling, the only man he ever indwelt who didn't need a sacrifice for sins. We as believers are involved by the Holy Ghost.
But we never were until we were washed in the blood of Christ. We needed to be cleansed. But here was one upon whom the Spirit could come ungrieved and into a clean and holy vessel. But notice it's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Let's go to the last chapter of the book, 28th chapter.
And the Lord is speaking here in verse 19.
He says, Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father.
And of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
The Father.
Son, the Holy Ghost, Now we have the Trinity set before us. And may I make suggest this thought. I don't believe it's a correct thing to put numbers to use a numerical order. And Speaking of the members of the Trinity, we often hear someone say, oh, the third person of the Trinity or the second? Well, they probably mean by that the order in which they're named.
I don't think that's a good thing to do because it is not in any way that one is superior to the other, which we'll see from Scripture. Presently. The Father and the Son are equal, and so is the Holy Spirit. Neither one, uh, exceeds the other in power and authority. They're equal. Now, the reason it's put in this order, I believe, is quite clear. The Father's mentioned first. Then comes the Son, then the Holy Spirit. Why are they named in that order? Because Christ came to reveal a Father, The Father sent the Son, and then the Son reveals the Father.
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The sun goes back to glory and the Holy Ghost comes down and testifies at Christ. It's the order in which the three pricings of the Trinity have worked. In John 517, the Lord Jesus says hitherto, my Father worked at hitherto. That is. Up to this point my father's been working, he says. And now I work. The Father worked, the Son worked, and now the Holy Spirit is working. So there's order here is not one of precedence as to authority the Holy Spirit.
The Son and the Father Co equal, but all working together to glorify the other. And again I repeat, the Father sent the Son, the Son glorified the Father, and now the Holy Spirit is here to testify of Christ. The Holy Spirit does not seek to exalt himself. He does speak about himself with the word of God, is full of references to the Holy Spirit, and that passage is often misunderstood words that he shall not speak of himself as though it said he will not speak about himself.
He will not speak of himself or from himself as the source, whatsoever. He heareth that shall he speak, that he speaks much of himself. But the Holy Ghost does not exalt himself. He doesn't gather people together and say, I want you to be occupied with me.
The Holy Ghost gathers people together and occupies them with Christ. The He shall glorify me. He should testify of me. He will show you things to come. He will bring your remembers all things that I said unto you. The Holy Ghost never glorifies himself on earth any more than Christ glorified himself on earth. He came to glorify the Father. And so when you find a poor company of people deluded coming together and crying for the Holy Ghost who has already been there 1900 years calling for the Holy Ghost to come when he's already here.
And occupied. You know the Spirit isn't moving them. But if you find Saints come together and say we wanna know more of Christ, we love Christ. It's the Holy Spirit that puts that desire in the heart. And so here then we have the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Now I'd like to look at some scriptures that show the equality. There's a title found in the New Testament, Lord and the supplied to the Father and supplied to the Son. And it's applied to the Holy Ghost.
Lord is a title of authority. Now it's interesting one has looked this up. The war He, the Greek word for Lord Corios, seems to combine in one with the two meanings of Lord in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament there are two words for Lord. We get it in 110 Psalm. The Lord that is Jehovah said to my Lord Adonai sit down at my right hand now. Jehovah's ever existing God Adonai is the Lord is the one who has authority. Now I understand the Greek ways that it combines the two of those. Why do it continues to exist?
One was authority, and that's the word Lord that's going to be found in the few passages we expect to refer to now. As to the Father, we'll take the Father 1St and uh, Matthew 11.
We want to see briefly the place that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit have in creation and in redemption and possibly in resurrection if we have time. The 11Th chapter of Matthew and verse 25. At that time Jesus answered instead.
I thank thee, O Father.
Lord of heaven and earth.
Because thou has hid these things from the wise and prudent, and has revealed them on today's What does the Lord Jesus call the Father, Lord, Lord. That means that the God the Father is the same as the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the One whoever existed, He's also the Adonai of the Old Testament, the one who had power and authority.
So we see then the very first one who was mentioned in the end of Matthew. The Father is Lord. Now what? The Lord. The title of Lord involves obedience. Now we are as we are children of God, we are in the family of God and he has authority over us as far as the closeness of family relationship. But we must ever remember that He's Lord too. He is Lord. Now we go to the 10th of Acts. We get the same time applied to the Lord Jesus. I know there are many passages. No doubt you'll be thinking of them.
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As we go through this, but one will be sufficient in the 10th of Acts.
Uh, Peter is speaking here in verse 36 to Cornelius and his household.
The Word which God sent unto the children of Israel.
Preaching peace by Jesus Christ He is Lord of all. The same word that's applied to the Father in Matthew 11 is here applied to the Son and he said to be Lord of all. And Speaking of the Father he says Lord of heaven and earth. It's a it's a wonderful thing to think that Christ and manhood re recognizes God the Father and that position as the head over over creation heaven and earth. But Peter brings in the sweeping statement he is Lord of all.
May I ask everyone here tonight, have you ever confessed Christ as Lord, if thou shall confess Jesus as Lord, and shall believe in thine harm that God had raised him from the dead?
Thou shalt be saved. Now when you confess Jesus as Lord, to whom do you confess him? To someone else? No, to the Father. You know. Suppose a man was shut up on a desert island. There's nobody around. He couldn't get saved if he had to confess to someone. That verse in Romans 10 doesn't refer to confessing to people. There is another scripture that deals with that, but it's confessing his name before God. It's only in the presence of God that Jesus is Lord.
Now it is a day coming. You'll have to do it and not get saved.
As in another place, if we confess them before men, he will confess us before the angels. That's a reward that we are faithful in confessing Christ before men there's a reward. But salvation is connected with confessing Christ as Lord before God. Now it may be done with both. President I I don't rule that out, but I I believe there's a misunderstanding of that verse. We try to tie salvation in confessing to others because confession of Christ as Lord. I know it's a striking thing there in the 13th of Hebrews.
Uh, well, which we connect with the worship on the Lord's Day morning, It says, Uh uh, to give me the sacrifice of praise to God continually. That is the fruit of our lips.
Confessing his name, that's how that should read. Confessing his name. And so Jesus is Lord, He's Lord of all, and Peter brings that in. We're not going to go into the subject because he's Lord of all. He's going to judge the living and dead. Now He's not in, He's Lord of all in deity, but in manhood it says he for this. And Jesus both died and rose and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living. That's Romans 14. So that's his present position.
As an exalted man. But here is this person in the Godhead. He is Lord of all. Now what about the Spirit? Well, let's turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 3.
2nd Corinthians chapter 3.
We have to appeal again to a corrective, Mr. Darby's corrective translation. But notice in verse 17 it says, Now the Lord is that spirit, and with the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. We all with open face, beholding as in the glass, The glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord now that last part there.
Should be, as a margin puts it, the the, the Lord, the Spirit, the Lord the Spirit. Now we have the same word that applied to the Father in Matthew 11, the same word that applied to Christ in the 10th of Acts, applied to the Holy Spirit. How can we say 123 As to the members of the Godhead, They're all equal, they're all Lord. They're all choreos in the Greek word. They're all, they all have authority. They're all have a continuous existence. And so we see that.
We have Here, of course, is the authority of the Spirit related to the assemblies has developed. Uh was developed in the first part, in the first Epistle. But the Spirit of the Lord brings in liberty, not license, but liberty. I like to think of this in connection with our meetings. Uh we come together at an assembly meeting, and what we find, the Lord is in the midst and the Holy Spirit leads and guides. We we wait upon him, and, uh, there's the prayer meeting and there's the breaking of bread.
Now I know there are other meet meetings approved by the assembly, like the Gospel Meeting and the Sunday School. And while it isn't waiting on the Spirit, there in the same way is the Spirit working through an individual who is responsible to preach the gospel. Let's not neglect the assembly meetings, Let's not neglect meetings where the gospel goes forth. It's a marvelous thing to come to a gospel meeting and sit quietly and pray that the Lord will bless that message. What I was struck with when Paul wrote to the Romans, he starts out the epistle by saying they're Saints. He writes to the Saints. Then he says in a few voices down as far as in the life, I'm ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome.
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All that to preach the gospel, The Saints. Yes, you know we often sing that hymns.
Tell me the old, old story. But they that know it best seem hungering and thirsty to hear it like the rest. Oh, the Gospel meeting is a sign of life in the assembly, say. Well, perhaps no one's saved once commit. Yes, but my children come, my children came to the Gospel Meeting. Where are they today? They're saying they're at the Lord's table.
We read the Bible at home. We brought them to the Assembly meetings. We brought them to the Gospel meetings. And week after week, that gospel message sunk in and finally brought forth fruit. I believe I just mentioned this in passing, that this wasn't on my heart, but may I just make a given instance here? I don't want to tell us in any way to produce any kind of humor. That isn't the point at all. One of our grandchildren, only three years of age, You're coming out to the Gospel meetings.
And one day her mother drove to another town. We were living in Woodbridge then.
Mother wasn't too familiar with the town yet. Having come from Canada. She parked the car, and when she came out, she realized she didn't remember where she parked the car. She said that to the granddaughter. She said that I'm lost. You know what that little child said. Three years old. If you're lost, you'll go straight to hell. Where did she learn that? Staying away from the Gospel Meeting or coming to the Gospel Meeting? She heard that in the Gospel Meeting. And I'm. I'm glad to tell you today.
That she's not only saved, but she's gathered to the Lord's name and she wants to go on.
With the Lord and I. So we see then the Spirit of God as liberty in the gospel, meaning for the Spirit of God to speak only the Saints, and also to speak to sinners till they come. We should never neglect any meeting we can bring our children where they'll hear the word of God. It's the most important thing. And we'll be responsible before God for every meeting we neglect or we stay away from, whether it be an assembly meeting or state administrator or the gospel. Unless his brother Hart used to say we can offer our excuse to God, he used to say.
Never stay away from a meeting if, if, uh, unless you can offer your excuse to God. Well, here the Spirit of the Lord is. It gives liberty, and we find that the Spirit of of the Lord, uh, the Spirit is said to be the Lord. Now let us notice some other thoughts. What about creation? Well.
We have Let's turn to Hebrews 1.
Hebrews One and we'll see something in connection.
With the Father.
Hebrews 1 verses one and two.
God with Sunday Times and in diverse manners taken time passed unto the fathers by the prophets, half in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world, Who made the world's God that includes the Father. Here we no doubt have the Trinity involved. The Father made the world, The Son, who was the Creator, the Holy Spirit created all three are equal as Lord.
All three are equal as creator. Let's go back to Matthew 1125 again to to see how that we might repeat that verse uh to show that the other thought there.
Matthew 1125.
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. We noticed before the title Lord. Now we notice it's associated with heaven and earth. Who created the heavens in the earth, Father?
Father, I realized that creation is preeminently a sign of the sun because he was the one who humbled himself. But the Father was there. The Father had to do with creation. Now let's go over to uh, John One. We'll have the sun in creation now the Lord Jesus John one.
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John one and.
First one in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him.
And without him.
Was not anything made.
That was made.
Not a thing. Everything was made by the sun.
All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made.
And without him was not anything made that was made. This is Christ. This is the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the one. He's the one as we get here. He was with the Father in the beginning. He was with God. He is God. He's the word of God. And what do we find? Oh, we find that he, the Son is equal. He's equal with the Father in creation.
Equal to the father in creation. Now that we know from the I, I don't know whether I got the right verse or not, but let's try to. Joel might see the verse. I'm not sure but that.
Job 34.
Well, that's not the first, UH. The first has to do with the uh.
With the Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
Creating all things, but let's go over to Colossians and continue the sun for the moment. We'll come back to the spirit later. Colossians 1.
Colossians one and it says in verse 15 of the Lord Jesus Christ he is the image of the invisible God.
The first born of every creature, for by him were all things.
Created that are in heaven, that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be Thrones or dominions of principalities or powers. All things were created by Him and for him, and he is before all things, and by him all things consist or subsist together. Here we find a glory of Christ stated as the Creator we were, we were marking at Montreal when we had this before us. That John and what we read tells us in fewer words the same thing.
But the Colossian mind, that mind was in danger of being taken up with what they considered the invisible things intruding into things they had not seen, mainly puffed up by their fleshly mind. And Paul is led by the spirit of God to go into detail here as to the glory of Christ, the sun as creator. He's the image of the invisible God. They wanted to see the invisible, he says. If you look at Christ, you'll see everything, the first born of every creature. You think there's some great creature beyond, none greater than he.
He's not a creature. He's the first born of all creation because he took his place in it. But notice verse 16. All things created that are in heaven, that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be Thrones or dominions or principalities of powers, All things were created by him and for him the creation is for the glory of Christ. Now as an added fact, verse 17, He is before all things and by him.
All things consist. They're held together. Subsist. Brother Hayhoe one time was speaking with a farmer, and the farmer had a cow standing there. And I believe that farmer was issuing giving forth to some infidel ideas. And Brother Hejo said to the farmer, if God forgot that cow for one second, it would drop dead. All things are held together. He gives life and bread to all things. Who the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ? Does the Father create? Yes.
Did the sun create? Yes.
Now we go back to Hebrews one. That's a full chapter there. Chapter one, again, we have Christ brought in that we'd like to overlap that passage.
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Hebrews one.
And.
In the.
We've read in verse two Speaking of God.
By whom also he made the world's? Who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high God the Father created, But it was through the Son. Here it's that the Father and the Son are interlocked here, the Father created by the Son. And noticing that third verse.
Upholding all things by the word of his power. The man on the cross, when they mocked him, when they uh, said, come down from the cross save thyself who gave them the breath to say it. The very man on the cross who was upholding all things at that very moment by the word of his power. The Lord Jesus Christ all beloved hearer, does Christ on the cross. Appeal to your affections on that cross alone forsaken.
Where no pitying eye was found.
Oh, what a place to save you talking. Yet he never for a moment surrendered what he was as son of God and he here we see that brought out He. But before he takes his place at the right hand of the majesty on high, he makes purgation for sins. He wouldn't go back to the glory except as a savior. He wouldn't go back to the glory as he came. He went back out the captain of our salvation. Now as to the spirit, we can go back to Genesis 1 again.
Spirit creation.
Genesis 1.
We have the original creation in verse one. Then we have a subsequent condition. The earth fell into a chaotic condition in verse 2. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God.
Move upon the face.
Of the waters.
And God said, let there be light. The first reference in the Bible to one of the members of the Trinity is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the first person of the Trinity that is mentioned in the Bible. So why call them the third person? He came out. He brought out the very beginning. The Spirit moved upon the face of the waters. Or have you ever felt the Spirit move upon the waters? What happened when you got saved? What happened when you got light in your soul?
That everything was chaos.
Darkness and sin within the spirit brought the word of God, the spirit brought the word of God. And God said let them be light. And how would that light come from the Holy Spirit brought that light right into our souls. And so that that's not my interpretation. That's what Paul tells you in 2nd Corinthians 4. He says, For the God that commanded the light to shine out of the darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
So that we see that though this was a literal, actual thing connected with creation, this is a spiritual lesson. Everything in this book is valuable, that we have eyes to see. And so though would be the story of creation. Yet the principle of it is brought out as to our souls and the spirit here speaks. And as the spirit moves upon the face of the waters and then God said let there be light. Now it's time to job.
Chapter 26.
Chapter 26 and verse 13.
By his spirit.
He had garnished the heavens. His hand had formed the crooked.
Circle why His spirit? He garnished the heavens. You'll agree. In Genesis it says God created the heavens and the earth. Well that that time includes the whole Trinity. But then we found that the Father creates. We found that the Son is the Creator. Now we're learning that the Spirit is the Creator. All three together, uh, are involved and active. We're active in the creation and that it's interesting. Uh in Genesis we need that turned over when it speaks to the sun and moon being made, not created.
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You don't read to the creation of the sun and moon specifically. That's included in when God created the heavens. That was all included in that. That's a blanket statement. But when God made the Son and moon, that is when God put the moon in its position by the earth to revolve around and shine on it. And when God set the sun in its position to shine on the earth. Maid is the word not create at that time. It just says afterwards. And the stars also the stars also. Well, here we learn that the Spirit.
By his spirit he had garnished the heavens. So you look up at the stars and you say, uh, Christ created all of those the Father created. Yes, but the Spirit had His part. He garnished the heavens. The heavens are garnished. How beautiful the heavens are. On a cold, clear winter's night, when, particularly when the moon isn't out, you can see those stars shining and all that brilliancy. Who did that? The Spirit. Who told that? Here, Spirit. Now let's turn to Psalm 104.
Psalm 104.
And verse 30.
Now send us forth by spirit they are created and our renew us the face of the earth. You get a lot about creation and versus uh, 4 to 9 and so forth. But here we want to notice this one verse. Now send us forth thy spirit. They are created.
So when God breathes into man's nostril, the breath of life.
The Spirit was there. The sun was there. The Father was there. The whole Trinity. Oh, and a blessed wondrous to how sad it is that men should try to take the very revelation of what God is. God himself has revealed what he is. Now you and I could never find out God. I remember one time in New York, at noon hour, I stopped downtown near the Benjamin Franklin statue. There's usually some kind of a public speaker that quite often someone preaching the gospel, and sure enough, this day.
There was a man preaching the gospel so I couldn't listen to file and uh, when it's time I thought it was time to go back to the office. I pulled out of the crowd and the same time another man pulled out and as we walked up Nassau St. together he said, ah, he says I don't believe that stuff. Bring them before me and and slay them before me. He was quoting that misquoting that scripture. So I paused the moment I said to him, I said, do you have any knowledge of God? Do you know anything about God? He says no, nobody has any knowledge of God. Always said if you don't have any knowledge of God.
How do you know what God would do or wouldn't do under given circumstances? You're saying that God couldn't slain those people in the land of Cain, and he brought that up. You say that God wouldn't command his enemies to be slain, but you say you don't know anything about God. That's an absurdity. That's not rationalism at all for me to say I don't know a thing about God and then tell you what God would do if he would, if he did exist, that's that's an absurdity. It's falling. Well, he had nothing to say, and we had a chance to give him the gospel. I've never seen him since. I trust that the Lord may have spoken to his soul every time, man's mind and truth into the things of God.
To use the words of our dear brother HE Hayhoe. He shows his stupidity. That's the word our brother used stupidity. But if you found in the word of God everything is clear. Our brother used to also say there's nothing in the Bible to violate my uh my intelligence. If my will vows, it's a matter of will. If your will vows everything is clear. And so here we get then the uh the spirit going into the spirit speaking and they are created. Now let's turn to our time is passing. Let's turn to another.
A aspect of the action of the Trinity redemption which comes close to home. All what redemption must mean to every believer. Now we'll see what the Father's place was in redemption first. John 4.
First, John 4.
10 verse 9.
And this was manifested the love of God taught us because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him here in His love. Not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Verse 14 And we have seen.
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And do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. What part of the Father have in redemption first to His love flowed out to you and me as sinners.
God the Father would have us round himself as children. He had enough angels to be servants. But he wanted a family. He wanted children in that family. How was he going to get them? They've got to be redeemed. They got to be holding without blame before him in love. So what does he do? He does two things here in in connection with redemption. In verse nine, he sends his son. So it's the Father. Here he says God, but it's the Father. When it says he sent the son, it's the father sending the son, just as the Father sent the son to the vineyard.
And so here we get the Father sends the Son and verse 9 to give us life that we might live through Him. Did you ever wonder why that came out? Came forth blood and water from the Lord's side. Have you ever wondered why John reverses it in his epistle and puts the water 1St and the blood next? Well, John saw the historical fact. The blood meets our need as centers. That's what we think of first. But unless we have divine life, unless we're born again, we cannot stand in the presence of God. We cannot enjoy His presence.
So the water tells us that if you want divine light, you've got to get it from a dead Christ. Life comes forth from the side of a dead Christ. And so the Lord says of his disciples, Uh, he uh, he are clean to the word which I've spoken unto you, Clean not to the blood. Every born again person is clean as to his nature. But then our conscience has to be taken care of. And so the tenth verse brings in what God the Father did in redemption there hearing his love, not that we love God.
But that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins, That's the blood. We got the water in verse nine. We got the blood in verse 10. If God took us to heaven without a new life, we wouldn't enjoy the place. If he gave us a new life and took us there without cleansing our conscience from our sins, we wouldn't be happy either. And so we find both needs met. Where we find both met? In the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Well, who sent the Son? The Father? And so let's confirm so clearly in verse 14.
We have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the savior of the world. That's why we're saved tonight. He came to save centers. And Paul says at home. I am chief. We tried to John 6 the Gospel of John.
For another verse.
John 6.
Verse 37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me.
And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out, for I came down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he had given me. I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day, so forth.
The Fathers had the Son, but who's going to be saved? All the Father draws them. The Father has given us to the Son. We were Speaking of eternal security the other night. Could you think of a moment that the Lord Jesus having received us as a gift from the Father, he's going to let us go? Don't we value gifts that come from loved ones? Don't we safeguard them because the Lord Jesus going to save you or of me? The Father gave them to me, but I'm going to lose them.
Oh, here we see that our eternal salvation depends on the Father giving us the Christ and Christ perceiving us. And I believe I'd like to bring out what I believe the real meaning of the end of that 37 verse.
Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out who is it that comes to Christ, those whom the Father has given him. Let's not allow the use of this in the gospel to take away what it means to us as Christians. The principle is applicable to the gospel, but not the basic meaning of the verse. The Lord couples two things together. The Father has given them to me, and when they come to me I will cast them out, because it's the Father who sent them. I'll never cast out anybody that the Father has said.
Oh, you're unsafe, you might say. Well, how do I know whether the father is given?
Come to Christ and say come, the invitation is there. Just come. If he changes your way, then you'll know. But always has come unto me and I will give you rest. So we see the Father here in redemption. Let's go to Ephesians now to see the sun. We just have to brief down uh the scriptures, the uh the first chapter of Ephesians and verse 7.
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In whole we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace. In whom, as in Christ. Here is Christ now, not the Father. The Father sent the Son. Now we see what the Son did on the cross. The Lord Jesus shed His precious blood after being forsaken of God, after bowing his head in a voluntary death. Then the blood was shed, and that blood had all the value of His being forsaken.
It had all the value of his death in it. And yet his death could not be by blood. Otherwise the soldiers would have taken his life from him. But he laid his life down willingly. The others, they would die and their head would drop. He bowed his head first and then dismissed the spirit because he had authority over his spirit in the day of death and then the blood flow. And so we have redemption through his blood. We need not multiply for the scriptures about the sun. You can think of many of them, but I just like to look at 1:00. There are many about the Spirit, but let's look at 1:00.
And Hebrews 9 for the Spirit.
The Spirit's connection with Redemption, and there are many other others we could refer to, but let's just notice this. This gives us the basis, the basic one.
In the 13th verse of Hebrews 9 it says, For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifier to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God for your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
All the Spirit had part and redemption.
The Father didn't give us life. The Spirit didn't give us life. The Son of God and manhood gave us life. But it was the Father that sent him, and it was in the power of the Spirit that He offered himself without spot, the only spotless, sinless sacrifice that was really ever offered on earth. And here we see the Holy Spirit has His place. In that way of redemption we could refer to other things and we just make this statement without.
Giving the confronting scriptures because I want to close with a thought on the Spirit and the Revelation.
Christ was raised in the dead by the glory of the Father. That's Romans 6.
The second of John, the Lord Jesus says destroy this temple and I will raise it in three days.
First, Peter 3 says he was quickened by the Spirit. Well, now who raised Christ in the dead? The Father did. Who raised Christ from the dead? He raised himself Who raised Christ from the dead? The Spirit. The whole Trinity was active in creation. The whole Trinity was active in redemption. The whole Kennedy was active in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, I like to think of this not as a doctrine for our minds, but a doctrine for our hearts.
We want doctrine. We want teaching. Now let us notice, uh, the last thing about the Spirit. We'll, uh, we'll notice in Revelation 22 The last thing that's said there. It's not related to these things we've mentioned.
But related to something else, something precious to our hearts in Revelation 22 and verse 16.
I, Jesus have sent mine Angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David. Now let's stop there for a moment. I wanna see notice a certain effect. When he says he's the root of David, it means that he's the one who gave David the throne. He was the one who brought blessing to David. But then it says he's the offspring of David. Now, as the offspring of David, Christ is going to take this home upon the throne of his father David.
So reign forever and ever. You get the 9th of the Isaiah. And also in the Gospel of Luke, when the Angel announces the birth of Christ of Mary, that Christ would sit upon the throne of David his father. So to repeat, as the root of David he gave David the Kingdom. As the offspring of David he takes the Kingdom as great, David's greatest son. But notice there's no response here from the Church or the Spirit. Now he says something else has nothing to do with the Kingdom.
And the bright and morning star No connection with the Kingdom. There are prophecies to be fulfilled before the Kingdom can be set up.
But there were no prophecies to be fulfilled for the Lord Jesus to come descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God and the dead in Christ rising 1St and caught up together there the living and the dead caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. There's no prophecy to be fulfilled for that. So now, as soon as he introduces himself as the bright and morning star, what does the Spirit do to the believer? What does he do to the church? Really. Here he stars up bridal affections.
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The Spirit and the bride, said, Tom doesn't say. The bride says, come, we are poor, faltering creatures. Our hearts can be set upon the earth and forget that heavenly calling. But the Spirit stirs up and and stirs bridal affection, so that we look up to the bridegroom and say, come, oh, how precious the last testimony of the Spirit here is to stir up in the heart of the Church the desire for Christ to come. But you might say I don't quite follow the thought of being part of the Church and looking up.
Why are you a believer? What you can say, come to it says and let him let hear it say come if you hear brethren filled with the the the desire to be caught up to meet Christ with bridal affections doesn't make any difference as a question of how deeply we feel things or intelligence. As long as we have the before us, the fact that Christ is coming, we can all look up and say, come come Lord Jesus. And then what else?
Then the then the next com is directed out with and let him that is a first come. The hope of the Lord's coming does not destroy.
Gospel activity.
The hope of the large coming should encourage it. So the first two comes go upward and the next call the other calls go outward. Whosoever will let them take the water of life really well may the Lord bless to our souls, while God has revealed to us the Trinity. We could never fi find out unless God had opened the veil and revealed it to us.
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