The Holy Trinity
The term “Holy Trinity” isn’t actually used in the bible. It refers to God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. They are three different individuals. God the Father is sometimes referred to as God Most High and Abba (Hebrew for father). Jesus is sometimes called the Son, the Lord, and Christ. The Holy Spirit is also called the Holy Ghost. All three are without physical bodies because they are spirit.
When someone says, “God,” they could be talking about all three or any of the three. This is because all three have the same nature, the same goals, and have power and authority over everything on earth and in the heavens. We know they have the same nature because Jesus only does what God the Father wants Him to do. Likewise, the Holy Spirit only does what Jesus wants Him to do.
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God the Father
He is the most high God. He is greater than Jesus.(1)
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Jesus
Jesus is the only begotten son of God the Father.(2) The things in the heavens and on earth, including the angels and people, were created through Jesus and for Jesus.(3)
People were originally made being very good.(4) The devil then tricked people into rebelling against God.(5) The penalty for sinning is death.(6) This death penalty was passed down to all generations.(7)
We will all experience physical death. This is considered the first death. After we physically die, we will be judged. We will go to hell or heaven. If we go to hell, it’s considered the second death.(8) Those who end up in heaven won’t experience the second death.
The Old Testament is the first half of the bible, which covers the time before Jesus came to earth as a human. The O.T. was originally written in Hebrew. The term “messiah” in the O.T. means “the anointed one.”
There are over three hundred prophecies in the O.T. of the coming messiah. (9) (research the statistical probability of someone meeting the criteria of all the prophecies).
In the O.T. God the Father said he required blood for the atonement of our sins. We were given rules, laws, and commandments to follow. We were unable to keep them. This revealed our natural sinful nature. This showed us that we continuously need atonement for our sins. God saw this and temporarily accepted animal blood for our atonement. This was only a temporary atonement because animal blood only masked our sin, it didn’t fully remove it. For a full atonement/redemption to be accepted by God the Father, only one person met all His requirements.
In the O.T. there was a continuous cycle that needs to be realized. People would rely on God and were obedient to Him. All was good while this happened. People would then start thinking their wellbeing was a result of their own doings. They would then drift away from obedience to God and start doing what was good in their own eyes. This led to suffering. They would ask God for forgiveness and want to become obedient to Him again. God would forgive them and soon everything was good again. This is seen repeatedly in the Book of Judges. Currently, the United States of America is a good example of the falling away. It’s just uncertain if there will be a repentance.
The New Testament is the second part of the bible and covers the time when Jesus came to earth as a human, was sacrificed, and went up to heaven. The N.T. was originally written in Greek. The term “christ” in the N.T. means “the anointed one.”
In the N.T., Jesus is the only person who fulfilled all the prophecies of the Anointed One/Messiah of the O.T.
In the O.T. an event occurred in which God was going to kill the firstborn of every household in Egypt. God told the Jews that were in Egypt to mark their door frames with the blood of a lamb or goat. This animal had to be a male without blemish. When God sent the angel to go through Egypt and kill the firstborn of every household, it passed over households with the sacrificial lamb/goat blood on the door frame. The Jews were spared.(10) They were spared by God due to the blood sacrifice of the unblemished lamb/goat. This event is known as Passover. Passover is the O.T. precursor to the most important event in the entire bible. You see, in the N.T. Jesus comes to earth in the form of a human to be the sacrificial lamb.(11). This blemish free (sin free) sacrifice was accepted by God the Father as our final sacrificial lamb. God the Father’s justified wrath, that should have been put on us, was instead put on Jesus/the Lamb. Jesus willingly took our place. Animal sacrifices aren’t necessary anymore. Until Jesus returns, His blood MAY allow us to return to God the Father’s good graces and go to heaven. All we need to do is believe Jesus absorbed our punishment and give continuous effort to be obedient to His Word.(12)
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Holy Spirit
Before Jesus left this world to go to heaven to be with God the Father, he told his concerned disciples that this is actually a good thing. Because when He leaves, the Holy Spirit will come to them.(13) Afterall, the Holy Spirit is who made Mary pregnant with Jesus.(14) He’s the One who gave Jesus the ability and us the ability to demonstrate God’s power by doing things such as miracles, signs, wonders, casting out demons, and healing the sick.(15) The Holy Spirit is the One who raised Jesus from the dead.(16) And last, but not least...He’s the One who guided Jesus on His journeys and decisions.(17) Jesus didn’t allow His decisions to be influenced by this world, but rather only from His Father through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit allowed Jesus to live a sinless life that made Him acceptable to be received by God the Father as a final atonement for our sins!
The Holy Spirit was present at the creation of the heavens and the earth.(18) When Jesus was baptized, the Holy Spirit came down upon Him in the form of a dove.(19) Afterwards, he started his hardcore ministry!
There are many spirits, but the Holy Spirit is the only Spirit with the full power of God the Father and Jesus. God the Father guides believers the rest of the way to Jesus through the Holy Spirit.(20) The Holy Spirit is our only vehicle back to Jesus and we know that Jesus is the only way back to God the Father.
Jesus is the one who decides whether to give us the Holy Spirit. Jesus said if a person loves Him, he will be obedient to His Word. When Jesus sees this love (obedience), He will ask God the Father to send the Holy Spirit to that person.(12)
The Holy Spirit wants to glorify Jesus.(21) Before Jesus left this world, he told his disciples to preach the gospel, but that wasn’t all. He also told them to cast out demons, heal the sick, etc. If we don’t do these things, we are not being obedient and are hindering the Holy Spirit. If we are obedient and demonstrate the power of God, we prove that the Word is true.(22) Want to save souls? Then be obedient and PROVE that the Word is true!
A modern disciple, like disciples of the past, are led by the Holy Spirit, obedient to the Word, and walk-out the full gospel - casting out demons, healing the sick, etc.
The Word
The Word and Jesus are so intertwined that they are one and the same.(23) The bible was written by men, but the words were given to those men by the Holy Spirit...and we know that the Holy Spirit only announces what Jesus tells Him to announce. When we know the Word, we know Jesus’ nature and his commandments/laws/desires for us. When we DO the Word, the Holy Spirit will move into us and guide us the rest of the way to JESUS and salvation. The Holy Spirit will reveal the Word’s deeper meanings to us.(24) When the Word rules our life, Jesus rules our life. Only by DOING what Jesus says can we rightfully call Him our “Lord.”
References
(1) John 14:28 (Words from Jesus Himself)
...for My Father is greater than I.
(2) John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone believing into Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(3) Colossians 1:16
For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible;
whether thrones, or lordships, or rulers, or authorities, all things have been created through Him and for Him.
(4) Genesis 1:27, 31
And God created the man in His own image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female...And
God saw all which He had made and behold, it was very good...
(5) Genesis 3:1-6
And the serpent was cunning above every animal of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it
true that God has said, You shall not eat from any tree of the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the
fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, and
you shall not touch it, lest you die. And the serpent said to the woman, Dying you shall not die, for God knows that in the day
you eat of it, even your eyes shall be opened, and you shall become like God, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw
that the tree was good for food, and that to the eyes it was to be desired, and the tree was desirable to make one wise. And
she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
(6) Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death…
(7) Romans 5:12
...even as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in as much as all
sinned.
(8) Revelation 21:7-8
The one overcoming will inherit all things, and I will be God to him, and he will be the son to Me. But for the cowardly one
and faithless ones, and disgusting ones, and murderers, and fornicators, and users of magic, and idolaters, and all the lying
ones, their part will be in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
(9) Here are just a few...
Isaiah 7:14 (will be born from a virgin and called Immanuel)
So, The Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold! The virgin will conceive and will bear a son; and she shall call His name
Immanuel. (Matthew 1:20, Galatians 4:4, Matthew 1:23)
Micah 5:2 (will be born in Bethlehem)
And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, being least among the thousands of Judah, out of you He shall come forth to Me to become
One ruling in Israel; and His goings forth have been from aforetime, from the days of eternity. (Matthew 2:1, Luke 2:4-6)
Jeremiah 31:15 (boys will be massacred at Jesus’ birthplace)
So says Jehovah, A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing, bitter weeping: Rachel comforted for her sons, for they are not.
(Matthew 2:16-18)
Isaiah 53:3 (will be rejected by His own people)
He is despised and abandoned of men, a Man of pains, and known of sickness, and as hiding our faces from Him, He being
despised, and we did not value Him. (John 1:11, John 7:5)
(10) Exodus 12:21-29
And Moses called to all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take of the flock for you and for your families, and
kill the passover. And take a bunch of hyssop and dip in the blood in the basin. And touch some of the blood in the basin to
the lintel and on the two doorposts. And you shall not go out, anyone from the door of his house until morning. And
Jehovah will pass through to strike Egypt. And He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Jehovah
will pass over the door. And He will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. And you shall observe
this Word for an ordinance for you, and for your sons forever. And it shall be, when you come into the land which Jehovah
shall give to you, as He has spoken, you shall observe this service. And it shall be, when your sons say to you, What is this
service to you? Then you shall say, A sacrifice of a passover of Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in
Egypt when He struck Egypt. And He delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshiped. And the sons of Israel
went out and did as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron. So they did. And it happened at midnight, Jehovah struck
every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh, the one sitting on the throne, to the first-born of the
captive who was in the prison house, and every first-born of the animals.
(11) John 1:36
And looking at Jesus walking, he said, Behold, the Lamb of God!
(12) John 14:15-21
If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, that He may
remain with you to the age, the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him;
but you know Him, for He abides with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you. Yet a little
while and the world no longer sees Me, but you see Me. Because I live, you also shall live. In that day you shall know that I
am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. The one having My commandments and keeping them, that one is the
one loving Me; and the one loving Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and will reveal Myself to him.
(13) John 16:5-7
But now I am going to the One having sent Me. And not one of you asks Me, Where are You going? But because I have said
these things to you, grief has filled your heart. But I speak the truth to you, it is profitable for you that I should go; for if I do
not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, But if I go, I will send Him to you.
(14) Matthew 1:18
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was this way (for His mother Mariam (Mary) had been betrothed to Joseph) before the coming
together of them, she was found having babe in womb of the Holy Spirit.
(15) Isaiah 11:2
And shall rest on Him the Spirit of Jehovah, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and power, the
Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.
(16) Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of the One having raised Jesus from the dead ones dwells in you, the One having raised the Christ from the
dead ones will also give life to your mortal bodies through the indwelling of His Spirit in you.
(17) Luke 4:1-2, 13-15
And full of the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the deserted place, forty days,
being tried by the devil...And having finished every temptation, the devil departed from Him until a time. And Jesus
returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee. And a report went out through all the surrounding region about Him. And He
taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
(18) Genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth; and the earth being without form and empty, and darkness being
on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovering on the face of the waters,
(19) Luke 3:21-22
And it happened, in the baptizing of all the people, Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened; and the
Holy Spirit came down in a bodily form as a dove upon Him. And there was a voice out of Heaven, saying, You are My Son,
the Beloved; in You I am well-pleased.
(20) John 6:44
No one is able to come to Me if not the Father, the One having sent Me, draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
(21) John 16:13-14
But when that One comes, the Spirit of Truth, He will guide you into all Truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many
things as He hears, He will speak; and He will announce the coming things to you. That One will glorify Me, for He will take
from Mine and will announce to you.
(22) Mark 16:15-20
And He said to them, Going into all the world, proclaim the gospel to all the creation. The one believing and being baptized
will be saved; but the one not believing will be condemned. And miraculous signs will follow to those believing these things:
they will cast out demons in My name; they will speak new languages; they will take up snakes; and if they drink anything
deadly, it will not hurt them, not any; they will lay hands on ones being infirm, and they will be well. Then indeed, after
speaking to them the Lord was taken up into Heaven, and sat at the right of God. And going out, they preached
everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the Word through the miraculous signs following after. Amen
(23) John 1:1
...In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(24) 1 Corinthians 2:7-10
But we speak the wisdom of God having been hidden in a mystery, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory,
which none of the rulers of this age has known. For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory; but
even as it is written, “The things which an eye did not see, and an ear did not hear,” and did not come up on the heart of
man, “the things which God has prepared for the ones loving Him.” But God revealed them to us through His Spirit, for the
Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
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