Scripture of the Day:
Matthew 28:18-22
“All For One & One For All”
Then JESUS came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to ME. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the FATHER and of the SON and of the HOLY SPIRIT, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
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O.K. I will try to keep this from sounding like a riddle or tongue twister! GOD the Father, GOD the Son, and GOD the Holy Spirit are One, and because THEY are all One, THEY gave for all! THEY gave for you and me . . . righteous and unrighteous . . . saved and unsaved . . . lost and found! Many times we are approached with the question, how can all three be One. In other words, we are questioned about the “Trinity” of GOD! Many have made the argument that there must be three of them! Last week we spoke of “Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient”, which should help us better understand and explain the capability of GOD in three persons!
A more practical approach is looking at the fact that I am a son, a husband, and a father! To my parents, I am a son. To my wife, I am a husband. To my children, I am a father. If all of them were standing in the same room with me, I don’t give up being any one of the three, but I remain all three! As a man, I can only answer as one to each, but GOD can answer All For One & One For All! The Trinity of GOD is your great “I Am” If you need a father, HE says “I Am”, If you need a brother, HE says “I Am”, If you need a friend, HE says “I Am”
Whatever you need . . . whenever you need it . . . in the Trinity, GOD is our great “I Am!” HE is All For One & One For All! We are to "GO" and make disciples of "All" nations and baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! By the authority given to JESUS, we are commanded to baptize in the Trinity of GOD!
3 comments:
I love the way you break down and explained how God is the father, the son, and the holy ghost. You're the only person, so far, to break it down to simplicity that anyone can understand. Wow, and double wow! :-)
The Trinity-- We must be fully equipped when a Jehovah Witness knocks at our door! I don't have to use the word Trinity with a Jehovah Witness in order to explain the concept. The doctrine of the Trinity has been a divisive issue throughout the entire history of the Christian church. All we need is to quote what the Bible says about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit--End of Story!
The discussion of the "Trinity" has been around every since the first two hundred years of Christianity, and this debate is still with us today (i.e. non-Trinitarians, Jehovah Witnesses). As Christians, we need only to conduct a quick preliminary research of our Church history, and we will in very short order, begin to better understand why this "Trinitarian" debate is still with us today.
Many will quickly say that it's too difficult to explain why God is one God and not three gods. However, just because it's difficult to explain, doesn't mean it's not true. There are a lot of hard doctrines in the Bible, but we don't just throw them all out simply because new Christians and non-Christians may have a difficult time understanding! The fact is, most Bible basic concepts can be understood even by little children....the biggest reason we have difficulty understanding is that too many of us are simply not yielding to the teaching of Holy Spirit....and we refuse to yield to the Word of God...instead we seek after our own understanding....when we should simply let the Bible interpret itself!!
The fact of the matter is that even if Christians never ever spoke the word trinity, choosing instead to simply speak/believed the Word of God as it is simply written, and then if we simply obeyed the Word of God...I think our God would be more than pleased.
Yes, it's true that Bible never uses the Word Trinity...just as it is true that the Bible never talks about us creating Christian denominations, i.e. Baptist, Seventh Day Baptist, Pentecostal Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Pentecostals, Holiness, Seventh Day Adventist, Methodist....and on, and on, and on.
1 Corinthians: 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. I think you getting the idea here; the fact of the matter is that that the Apostle Paul spoke against Christian denominations and you will never find anywhere in the NT of him ever using the word Trinity. Again, I need only to use the words of the Bible as written, besides, the Bible does a much better job explaining the relationship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit than anything I could ever invent.
I think right about now the Jehovah Witnesses standing at my door would be thinking of how to readjust their strategy for my neighbor next door, or just maybe they might instead see the error in their teaching, and depart from it.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
Mr. E.W.,
You are absolutely right! We not only divide ourselves with all these denominations, but we are starting to divide ourselves within the denominations. If we are not careful, we will find ourselves as a denomination of "self" . . . wait . . . we are already doing that!
But JESUS knew their thoughts, and said to them: "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
When will we learn?
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