Jesus Christ Our Creator - cross
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WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY / 2nd College Edition

Trinity = A union of the three divine persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost) in one Godhead .
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Father, Son & Holy Spirit
By: Pastor Charles Stanley

The first chapter of John verse 1 says: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." As we go through that chapter we are drawn to the conclusion in verse 14 that "the Word" is Jesus. "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth." That "only begotten" is the Greek word "monogenes," which means the sole person that could be begotten.

If He was the Son of God the Father, then He is God the Son. It says in the third verse: "All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made." So, He is the God of creation; He is the beloved Son in whom the Father was well pleased. Scripture tells us in Philippians 2:7-8 that He "...took upon Him the form of a servant, and...became obedient unto death, even the death of a cross" so that you and I might have the way of salvation.

There are also other passages I want to give you. In John 14:9, Jesus tells us: "...he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father." In John 10:30, Jesus says that "I and my Father are one." Read again through the remainder of John and look for passages of Scripture that identify Jesus and the Father as one and the same in eternal essence and yet different in their roles.

There is another verse of Scripture in First John 3:16 that makes further explanation, which I think will help a great deal. It says: "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." He (God) laid down His life for us. How did He do that? The Son did that, and in First John 2:23 it says: "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also." The Father is the eternal, self-existent, self-glorifying God and the Son is the same God. Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He is God the Son. He is the God-man and that is the reason why He could die for our sins and rise again the third day from the grave.
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Now the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost as He is referred to in the King James translation, is the third part of the Trinity. I want you to go back, if you will, to Genesis chapter one. In the first chapter of the Bible and the second verse, listen to what he says about the work of the Spirit.

Genesis 1:2: "And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters." That's the Holy Spirit, we see Him in creation. Then, notice the twenty-sixth verse of Genesis chapter 1: "Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea...the birds of the sky...the cattle and over...the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Now, when He said, "Let Us make man in Our image" what did he mean? Well, He's certainly referring to God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. They are the Creator. (singular/tri-une)

Now, when He said, "Make man in our Own image" what did He mean? Eyes, ears, hands, feet? No. The image of God is the capacity to know, to feel and to have emotion. The image of God is a mind that is able to will and to make decisions. God is Spirit and is not limited to a physical body. The Holy Spirit is a Spirit not limited to a physical body. God who is Spirit came in flesh in the person of Jesus Christ to walk among men as the sinless Son of the living God to reveal to us the true nature of God.

You'll recall that Jesus said to the woman at the well, "God is a Spirit" (John 4:24). And the Holy Spirit is the person who now lives within us, not limited by a physical body. He, who is God, who is a person of the Trinity, is now living within us (believers). The Bible says that all of us who are saved by the grace of God are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. We have the Spirit of God indwelling us and that is what identifies us and separates us from the rest of the world. And you see, the Bible says that the Holy Spirit is God's seal of ownership and possession. The presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer is God's contract with us that we are forever His children. ~~

(to be continued)
Pastor Charles Stanley
JESUS IS LORD! JESUS IS CREATOR! JESUS IS KING! JESUS IS GOD!
[God the Son, God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit are one God in three different aspects in relationship to us. We have a picture here of something that is difficult to understand from the human standpoint, but we must accept it and believe it, because that is what the Word teaches.]-
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]