Trinity

God relates

What kind of God?

So what?

1 + 1 + 1 = 1

What kind of God?

Deut 6:1Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

What kind of God?

One God..

Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.

What kind of God?

..yet plural

Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" ..

What kind of God?

..yet plural

Psalm 139:7 Where can I go from your Spirit? ...

What kind of God?

Spirit..

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.

What kind of God?

..yet man

Always triune

Genesis 1:1 - 2 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

What kind of God?

Always triune

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.

What kind of God?

What kind of God?

1. God is three persons

2. Each person is fully God

3. There is one God

What kind of God?

Summary:

We are made in the image of God

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness…

So what?

We expect..

Romans 8:14-16 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father."The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.

So what?

..to live in relationship with the living God

We relate..

So what?

..its what we were made for

We relate..

John 17:20.. "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one...

So what?

..its what we were made for

We relate..

John 13:35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

So what?

..its part of our DNA

We act..

John 5:19 Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

So what?

..we do what the Father is doing

What kind of God?

So what?