Matthew 28:18-20
Topic: The tri-unity of God
In the Holy Bible, we are taught in the scriptures that there is only one God.
Deuteronomy 4:35 says, “Unto thee it was shewed that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him.”
Deuteronomy 6:4 says, “ Hear O’ Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.”
2nd Samuel 7:22 says, “Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God, for there is none like thee, neither is any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our hears.”
I Chronicles 17:20 says, “O Lord, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that w have heard with our hears.”
Psalms 86:10 says, “For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.”
Isaiah 46:10-11 says, “Ye are my witness, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me and understand that I am he; before me there was no God formed; neither shall there be after me, I even I am the Lord; and beside me there is no savior.”
Isaiah 44:6 says, “Thus saith the Lord the Kin of Israel and his redeemer the Lord of HOST; I am the first and I am the last, and beside me there is no God.”
Isaiah 45:18 says, “For thus saith the Lord that createth the heavens; God himself that fromed the earth and made it; he hath established it; he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabitant: I am the Lord, there is none else.”
Ephesians 4:5 says “ One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
I Timothy 2:5 says, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.”
Yes, the bible teaches us there is only one God. But yet the bible also teaches us the tri-unity of God, which teaches that God is revealed to us in three distinct persons, which is the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. These three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are co-equal, co-existent, and co-eternal in one God. They all have same attributes and power as God, that is God is omnipotent, omniscience, and omnipresent, and since that is the case, then the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is omnipotent, omniscience, and omnipresent because those three distinct persons are one in God.
I John 5:7 says, “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word(the Son), and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Now, it must be understood that there are not three Gods, but there are three distinct persons in one God. It also must be understood that God is not some actor who appears on stage as one person, and comes back as another person. That is God is not a God who comes to you as the Father one day, and then on tomorrow he is the Son ,and the next day he is the Holy Spirit. Whenever God shows up, he always shows up as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in one God. There was never a time when the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit never worked together as God. In Genesis 1:26, it says that God says, “Let us make man”. Now the question is who is “us” in Genesis 1:26? It was the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
In Genesis 11:7, it says that God says, “ Go to, let us go down and there confound their language…… Now the question again is, who is “us” in Genesis 11:7? It was the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
In Isaiah 6: 8, it says that God says, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Again, who is “us” in Isaiah 6:8? It is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
It must be understood that the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Father, nor is the Son the Holy Spirit or vice versa because in God there are three distinct persons, three separate individuals in one God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal, co-eternal, and co-existent in power and attributes in one God. The Father is one person, the Son(Jesus Christ) is one person, and the Holy Spirit is one person. These three distinct persons are one in harmony and in unity in one God.
You see, in God, you have the Father and the Father is God.
I Corinthians 8:6 says, “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ; by whom are all things, and we by Him.
Ephesians 4:6 says, “One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”
Also in God, you have the Son(which is Jesus Christ), and the Son is God.
John 1:1-2, 14 says, “In the beginning was the Word( Jesus Christ, the Son of God), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God……. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, ( and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.
I Timothy 2:5 says, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh(Jesus Christ, the Son of God)justified in the Spirit, seen of angles, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
Titus 2:13 says, “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.”
Hebrews 1:5,8 “For unto which of the angles said he at anytime, “Thou art my Son, this day I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?”………… “But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forver and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.”
Not only is the Father is God, and the Son( Jesus Christ) is God, but in God, you have the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is God.
Acts 5:3-4 says, “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and keep back part of the price of the land?
While it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou has not lied unto men, but unto God.”
Yes, there are three distinct persons in one God, and those three distinct persons are the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Now a question is, how important are these three persons in one God? How important it is that we know and learn about the tri-unity of God?
They are very important. You see, it was the Father that sent the Son(Jesus Christ) to died for our sins on the cross and rose from the dead with all power in his hands. And when the Son, which Jesus Christ, ascended up back to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father, the Father sent the Holy Spirit to us in Jesus’ name. And when we receive and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation, we received not just the Son, which is Jesus Christ, but we also receive the Father ,and the Holy Spirit as well, because those three persons: The FATHER, the SON, the HOLY SPIRIT IS ONE IN GOD. Also there are so important because when Jesus Christ gave the great commission in Matthew 28, he tells us to baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost because those three take an active part in our salvation. The Father sent the Son(Jesus) to save us by his death and resurrection from the dead, and when we receive Jesus Christ as our personal Lord And Savior, God gives us the Holy Spirit to live in our hearts. And when the Holy Spirit lives in our hearts by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we have God in our lives, and when you have God in your lives, you have the FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT: THREE PERSONS IN ONE GOD.
