God: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit
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God: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit by
Stephen J. Scott
God:
God reveals Himself as a triune being. There is only one Supreme Being, yet He has revealed Himself in three personalities-The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.
Genesis 1:26 “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.””
Matthew 28:19 “Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:”
John 3:5 “Y’ehoshua answered, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a person be born of water and of the Spirit, they cannot enter into the kingdom of God.””
Romans 15:30 “Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Y’ehoshua Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;”
1Peter 1:2 “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Y’ehoshua Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.”
Names for God
A. YAHWEH (or JEHOVAH) Translated LORD in our English Bibles. Means Self-Existent One; Eternal One. You CAN depend on The Lord because His existence doesn’t depend on any other (person, place, thing or idea). He transcends time.
B. ELOHIM Translated God in our English Bibles. Means Strong One; Powerful One. His strength (physical or spiritual) is beyond measure.
Isaiah 40:28 “Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God (Elohim), the Lord (Yahweh), the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.”
Evidence for God
Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
C.I. Scofield said of this verse “The Bible begins with God, not with philosophic arguments for His existence.”
Psalm 14:1 “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.””
How can you be a serious thinker and not believe that there is some supreme being?
Psalm 19:1 “(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.) The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament (skies) shows his handiwork.”
When you look to the creations, it declares to you there is a creator!
There is only one Supreme Being, yet He has revealed Himself in three personalities-The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. God oftentimes reveals Himself in anthropomorphic (human like) language. In other words, sometimes He uses human features to relate spiritual truths. At other times God reveals himself in animalistic or other materialistic language or manifestations.
God The Father
John 3:16 “For God (The Father) so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Galatians 4:6 “And because you are children, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father”.”
Ephesians 1:17 “That the God of our Lord Y’ehoshua Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him:”
God The Son
Mark 1:1 “The beginning of the gospel of Y’ehoshua Christ, the Son of God;”
John 1:1-3 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”
Colossians 1:15-17 “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things and in Him all things hold together.”
John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
John 8:58 “I tell you the truth,” Y’ehoshua answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
Philippians 2:5-8 “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Y’ehoshua: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled himself and became obedient to death even death on a cross!”
Colossians 2:9 “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,”
Hebrews 1:8 “But about the Son He says, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom.””
God The Holy Spirit
The Character of the Holy Spirit
2nd Corinthians 13:14 “The grace of the Lord Y’ehoshua Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.”
What is fellowship of the Holy Spirit of God? Fellowship can be thought of as two fellows in a ship. For the two fellows in the ship to get along they must have communion, a commonality, something in common. Fellowship carries along with it the idea of sharing and participation. Let’s look at these areas closer.
First we must ask ourselves, who is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit of God. He has chosen to reveal himself in uniquely human, animal and other characteristics, and yet he clearly states in John 4:24 that “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
Next, Let us look at some of the characteristics of the Holy Spirit. Let’s discover some of the revelations of the Holy Spirit as presented the Holy Scriptures of God, the Bible.
Here in our focal text of 2nd Corinthians 13:14, we can clearly see the trinity of the Godhead. God reveals Himself as a triune being. There is only one Supreme Being, yet He has revealed Himself in three personalities-The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. God oftentimes reveals Himself in anthropomorphic language. In other words, sometimes He uses human features to relate spiritual truths. At other times God reveals himself in animalistic or other materialistic language or manifestations. Let’s look at some of these manifestations!
Genesis 1:1 & 2 tell us “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (verse 2) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” And so begins the journey of the revelation of the Holy Spirit! The book of Genesis in The Old Testament begins the unfolding of the person of The Holy Spirit. Here in Genesis 1: 1 & 2, the Spirit of God (the Holy Spirit) is seen as moving or hovering over the face (surface) of the waters. This scene has been likened to a hen that hovers over her baby chicks.
God tells us that he is holy in Leviticus 11:44a “For I am the LORD your God: you shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy:…” Then John 4:24 states “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” We can see from these passages that God is holy and a spirit, a holy spirit. While these particular scriptures speak of God in general, they also give us some of the most important attributes of the Holy Spirit of God.
The Holy Spirit of God is Holy: that is he is “whole”, not needing, he is that he is. God put it this way in Exodus 3:14 “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, I AM has sent me unto you.” God is saying that he is all sufficient, whole: not needing of any, Holy.
The Holy Spirit of God is a Spirit, Supernatural, Nonphysical Being.
Matthew 3:16 “And Y’ehoshua, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him:”
Luke 1:35 “And the angel answered and said unto her, “The Holy Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you: therefore also that Holy thing (one) which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God.””
1Corinthians 12:3 “Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Y’ehoshua accursed: and that no man can say that Y’ehoshua is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.”
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