“Provoking Christian Insights” series

Part 19

The importance of knowing The Triune God

I’m sorry that it has been three weeks between writings. Something common among newspaper people is the fact that they tend to study the things they are about to write. I’ll try to get back to my regular weekly schedule.

In Sunday School the teacher was talking about the people who go door to door peddling this or that brand of religion. He made a point of saying that most of those religions have a “fatal flaw” that makes them unfaithful to the text of the Bible, or have another book that supercedes the Bible in importance. These religions tend to reduce or deny the “Diety” of Christ.

We are not meant to remain as children at the mercy of every chance wind of teaching and the jockeying of men who are expert in the crafty presentation of lies. But we are meant to hold firmly to the truth of love, and to grow up in every way into Christ, the Head. – Ephesians 4:14-15 Phillips. 

The Bible plainly tells us to “flee” people pedaling religion that differs from God’s written word. I have a friend who won’t accept Christ, and meddles with other books. Although he acts interested in the Bible, he holds fast to other teachings that have no basis weight. I know when he is “peddling” his religion, but to some of the people he speaks to he is quite convincing. He uses logic to explain away God in three persons.

Knowing “God in three persons”

When I was young it was confusing to me to pray to God one minute and to Jesus another. I wasn’t taught, early on, that God couldn’t look upon sin. Where God is there is no sin. Jesus, whom the Bible tells us is “God’s only begotten Son,” came to earth and took our sins, all of them, upon his own person.

Jesus “sits at the right hand of the Father (God).” Jesus intervenes for us sinners with the Father. Jesus said, while on earth; “No one comes to the Father except by Me!” So, anyone who denies the deity (the God-like feature) of Christ is in a direct disconnect with God.

We believe in one eternally existent, infinite God. Sovereign of the universe; that He only is God, creative and truly holy in nature and purpose; that He, as God, is also Triune in being (in Three Persons) revealed to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. References: Genesis 1 with careful reading, Leviticus 19:2; Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Isaiah 5:16; 6:1-7; 40:18-31; Matthew 3:16-17; 28:19-20; John 14:6-26; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Galatians 4:4-6; Ephesians 2:13-18

Jesus

We believe in Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Triune Godhead; that He was eternally on with the Father; that He became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary, so that his perfect natures, Godhead and man, are united in one Person both God and man.

Further we believe that Jesus, who is the Christ, died for our sins, and that he did rise from the dead and took again His body, recognizable to his followers and were with ascended into heaven and is there engaged in intercession for us. References; Matthew 1:20-25; 16:15-16;, Luke 1:26-35; John 1:1-18; Acts 2:22-36; Romans 8:3; 32-34; Galatians 4:4-5; Philippians 2:5-11, Colossians 1:12-22; 1 Timothy 6:14-16; Hebrews 1:1-5, 7:22-28; 9:24-28; 1 John 1:1-3, 4:2-3, 15.

The Holy Spirit

We believe the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Triune Godhead, and He is ever present and efficiently active in and with the Church of Christ, convincing the world of sin, regenerating those who repent and believe, and guiding into truth as it is in Jesus. References: John 7:39, 14:15-18,26; 16:7-15, Acts 2:33; 15:8-9; Romans 8:1-27; Galatians 3:1-14; 4:6; Ephesians 3: 14-21; 1 Thessalonians 4:7-8; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 John 3:24; 4:13.

The Holy Scriptures

In order to believe the above we believe in the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures in the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, given, by God revealing His will for our salvation. References: Luke 24:44-47; John 10:35; 1 Corinthians 15: 3-4; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; 1 Peter 1:10-12; 2 Peter 1:20-21.

Us as Christians

It is necessary for us to preserve our God-given heritage … the faith … given to the saints. We must pass on our faith to friends and succeeding generations until Christ comes.  We are not to compromise the standards set out in God’s Word. We are to worship, give according to our ability, and praise God.

INSPIRATION: “He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it” Jesus, Matthew 10:39

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