Eavesdropping On Heaven's Situation Room Series

1.2 #2 This Matters Because of Your Salvation

If you have trusted Jesus Christ to do all the work of saving you from your sins, then you already know the Trinity. Your salvation depends on the truth that God is One and Three. If you were to remove the Trinity, then the whole Christian faith would disintegrate. Each One has His role to play, and each role is essential in accomplishing and securing our salvation.

Here is a quick Bible summary of God’s actions in each person of the Triune God:

The Father chooses…

The Son redeems…

The Spirit seals.

Salvation is coherent only when we realize how each Person of the Trinity operates to save us.

1.3 The Trinity

For some of you, the only trinity you know is sports, partying, and chasing girls. When I speak of the Trinity in the Bible, we may define the Trinity as follows: God Eternally Exists as three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and Each Person is Fully God, and There is One God.3 I know that it is challenging to understand, but it is essential to believe. I won’t go into great detail on the Trinity here as I have done that in previous sermons. This is a mystery, but it is not a contradiction. There are not three gods to worship. The Bible doesn’t say, “There is one God, and there is not one God.” It doesn’t say, “God is three persons and one person.” It says, “God is three persons and one God.

As we study Jesus’ words in John 5, I want to make sure everyone is on the same page. The word “Trinity” never appears in the pages of your Bible. Nevertheless, your Bibles are, from first to last, thoroughly full of the Trinity. The word means “tri-unity” or “three-in-oneness.”

“For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel” (John 5:20).

1.4 #3 This Matters Because You Pray

Remember how Jesus told us to pray in His Model Prayer? “Our Father in heaven…” (Matthew 6:7) Our prayer and worship are deeply affected by the Trinity. Jesus instructed us to pray to God the Father through Jesus, the Son. The Bible is crystal clear that Jesus Christ is the mediator between humanity and God, the Father. Our prayer is empowered and prompted by the Spirit.

Why Should You Care about God’s Triunity?

Because God Cares that You Know Him.

Because of Your Salvation

And Because You Pray

1. Why Should I Care?

2. I Can Do Nothing On My Own

“So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me” (John 5:19, 30).

Can you imagine some of the most accomplished people on earth saying, “I can do nothing on my own”?

2.1 Nothing on My Own

Yet, Jesus begins and ends His little sermon the same way: “I can do nothing on my own.” It’s a mind-blowing claim for the powerful, composed, accomplished person history has even known to say, “I can do nothing on my own.”