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CrossPointe Community Church P O Box 126 Chippewa Lake, OH 44215
SCRIPTURE
If you love Me, obey My commandments. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it isn’t looking for Him and doesn’t recognize Him. But you know Him, because He lives with you now and later will be in you. No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you. Soon the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me. Since I live, you also will live. When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. Those who accept My commandments and obey them are the ones who love Me. And because they love Me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal Myself to each of them.
If you would like to send your offering through the mail, our mailing address is:
CrossPointe Community Church P O Box 126 Chippewa Lake, OH 44215
SCRIPTURE
Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And He healed every kind of disease and illness. When He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He said to His disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask Him to send more workers into His fields.”
Good morning, everyone! Are you ready to get into some really mind-bending stuff, or is it too early for that? Alright, wake up and get your thinking caps on because today we’re talking about one of the most profound doctrines of Christianity. The Trinity! How many of you struggle to understand the Trinity? Well, technically we all do. It’s a concept that goes beyond human understanding. Perhaps some of you even wonder where we get this idea from. Hopefully what I have to share with you today will help you understand it just a little bit better, or at least show you where exactly our understanding falls short, and reveal to you why we hold this doctrine.
I chose this topic because the Trinity truly matters. It has to do with God’s fundamental nature. It has to do with what God has revealed about Himself, and when God reveals something about Himself, that is a precious thing to be received, meditated on, and guarded. Received, because when God speaks we have to accept what He says whether we get it or not. Meditated on, because it’s important to better know the One we worship. And guarded, because as with all doctrines, opposition rises against it and we need to be equipped to counter that. Unfortunately, opponents of the Holy Trinity have gotten rather loud as of late, and I fear that we’ve taken this doctrine for granted. It may very well be that many of us just aren’t rooted enough in knowledge to handle these critics, and as a result, some may fall into error or be discouraged.
Of course, the Trinity is the doctrine that God exists as one being who is three coequal and coeternal persons. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Now everyone agrees that the Father is God. If there’s a group out there that denies the deity of the Father, I’m not aware of their existence. And frankly, I’m not sure how it would be possible to come to that conclusion. We really only need to examine the scriptures that teach the deity of the Son and the Spirit to get our Trinitarian train rolling.
Let’s start with the Son and see in scripture where Jesus is revealed to be God.