The Triune GodJohn 17

God our Father

A.W. TozerWhat comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us... For this reason... the most (telling) fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like....

• Hinduism• Islam

God is Triune

God our Father

Qur’an, Surah 112:1-4“Say: He is Allah, The One and Only. Allah, the Eternal, Absolute. He begets not, nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him.”

• Christianity– God is three persons

God is Triune

God our Father

John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”

• Christianity– God is three persons– God is one God

God is Triune

God our Father

Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!”

• God is love

God is a loving Father

God our Father

1 John 4:16bGod is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

• God is love

God is a loving Father

God our Father

John 3:35 Jesus: “The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.”

• Creation was an act of love

God is a loving Father

God our Father

• Redemption was an act of love

God is a loving Father

God our Father

1 John 4:9–10 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

• Redemption was an act of love

God is a loving Father

God our Father

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

• Redemption was an act of love

God is a loving Father

God our Father

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”

God is a sacrificing Son

God our Father

Matthew 20:28 “...the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

God is a sacrificing Son

God our Father

Hebrews 1:3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature....

God is a sacrificing Son

God our Father

John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name....

• Creation• Redemption

God is a serving Spirit

God our Father

Titus 3:5–6 He [the Father] saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior....

• Creation• Redemption

God is a serving Spirit

God our Father

Galatians 4:6 Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

God is a serving Spirit

God our Father

Michael Reeves“The Father, Son and Spirit love and enjoy each other and, created in their image, we were made to love and enjoy them. Blindly and foolishly, though, we have all turned to love and enjoy other things – things that in reality are completely unable to satisfy. But the Spirit’s first work is to set our desires in order, to open our eyes and give us the Father’s own relish for the Son, and the Son’s own enjoyment of the Father.”

We are beloved children

God our Father

1 John 3:1See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are.

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