Tri-unity of God Conference * Berean Baptist Church * March 14-16, 2014
Trusting and Treasuring our God
Session #5 Handout –The Tri-unity of God in application to us?
In Creation
In Salvation
In Home Life
In Church Life
In Making Disciples
In Heaven
Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!
Praise Him all creatures here below!
Praise Him above ye heavenly host!
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Amen!
Tri-unity of God Conference * Berean Baptist Church * March 14-16, 2014
Trusting and Treasuring our God
Session #4 Handout – How do you explain the Tri-unity of God?
I could get into a long discussion of ___________ theological words such as economic Trinity, immanent Trinity, person, nature, substance, social model, mutually indwelling, eternally ordered, social order, subordination, subordinationism, center of self-consciousness, ontological equality, eternal generation, eternal procession, roles, and egalitarian.
We could take a step back in time and look at ___________terms related to the Trinity like persona and substantia.
Going earlier than the Latin era, we could explore the ___________ terms like hypostasis, ousia, monarchia, perichoresis, and taxis.
We could talk about the ___________________________.
We could try to explain the Trinity with _____________________.
But after millennia of discussions, it is still a fact that the Tri-unity of God is a mystery. Simply, our God is bigger and smarter than we.
How does one explain the Tri-unity of God?
You don’t.
But here is what you do. Trust and treasure such a magnificent, glorious God as revealed within the pages of Scripture. There is one God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And you defend against what God is not.
Gregory of Naziansus – No sooner do I conceive of the one than I am illumined by the splendor of the three; no sooner do I distinguish them than I am carried back to the one. When I think of any one of the three I think of him as the whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking escapes me.
Triunity of God Conference * Berean Baptist Church * March 14-16, 2014
Trusting and Treasuring our God
Session #3 Handout – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Full Color
From the seeds planted in the Old Testament, everything in the New Testament breaks out in full color and centralizes on the Trinitarian relationship of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The ______________________ sends His ________________________. The __________________________ and His __________________________ send the ____________________________.
The reality of the New Testament is that there are three distinct, divine Persons. And also, the New Testament does not contradict the Old Testament by making very clear that there is one true God.
Here are 25 verses in the New Testament that proclaim it: Matt. 4:10, Matt. 19:17, Mark 2:7, Mark 10:18, Mark 12:29, John 5:44, John 10:30, John 14:6, John 14:9-11, John 17:3, John 17:21, Acts 4:12, Rom. 16:27, I Cor. 8:4, I Cor. 8:6, I Cor. 12:4-6, Eph. 4:5, Eph. 4:6, I Thess. 1:9, I Tim. 2:5, James 2:19, James 4:12, I John 5:7,and Jude 4.
Benediction from the Apostle Paul: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen” (II Cor. 13:14).
Benediction from the Apostle Paul: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen” (II Cor. 13:14).
Triunity of God Conference * Berean Baptist Church * March 14-16, 2014
Trusting and Treasuring our God
Session #2 Handout – God in community in the O.T.
Some say that the God of the Old Testament can be approached any way under any name. This is called _________________________. And then there are others who state that the God of the O.T. is exclusive and absolute ___________________________________.
Here is the beautiful fact! The Jewish leaders, kings, and prophets wrote about the one God in communion. We read about three divine centers of consciousness/active persons of God. For instance, consider five O.T. angles that point to this theme of God in community.
It is no surprise. It is no shock when the New Testament authors begin to write 400 years later in full blown Trinitarian terms after being eye witnesses to the ministry of Jesus, the anointed Messiah. They all believe in One God and that this One God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is assumed. There is no controversy among these Jewish believers who give worship to Jesus as fully God.
Notable quote from God: “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likness;” (Gen. 1:26)
Tri-unity of God Conference * Berean Baptist Church * March 14-16, 2014
Trusting and Treasuring our God
Session #1 Handout – The one, true, living God
Introduction
Why host a conference on this topic?
What is the plan for these five sessions that we have together?
Forms of worship in the world
There is only one, true, living God revealed. Check out these references for yourself, over 30x in the Old Testament: Gen. 14:19, Gen. 14:22, Deut. 4:32-35, Deut. 4:39, Deut. 6:4, Deut. 32:39, I Sam. 7:3, 2 Sam. 7:22, I Kings 8:60, 2 Kings 19:15, 2 Kings 19:19, I Chron. 17:20, Neh. 9:6, Is. 37:16, Is. 42:8, Is. 44:6, Is. 44:8, Is. 44:24, Is. 45:5-8, Is. 45:18, Is. 45:21, Is. 45:22, Is. 46:9-11, Jer. 10:10, Ps. 24:1, Ex. 22:20, Ps. 71:16, Ps. 72:18, Ps. 73:25, Ps. 83:18, Ps. 86:8, Micah 7:18
Application: Revealed by your actions, thoughts, and emotions, who do you worship today?
Notable Quote from God – “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” (Is. 57:15)
Berean Baptist Church is hosting the “Tri-unity of God” Conference, beginning tomorrow night.
Address is 2975 E. 1st Street. There is no cost.
Here is the schedule:
Friday night: 1st Session, 7pm, Q&A and snacks to follow
Saturday morning: 2nd Session, 9 am, Q&A and snacks, 3rd Session, 11 am
Sunday morning: 4th Session, 9:30 am, snacks, 5th Session, 10:45 am
We invite you all to join us.
Read Mark 7:14-10:52.
. . . with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
Read Matthew 25:1-27:54
This week, we spent time in the book of Matthew reading about the passion of Christ. And the work of the suffering Servant came to a climax in Matthew 27:50-54,
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom: and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
Jesus is the propitiation of the wrath of God. Jesus is the bridge between sinful man and holy God. Jesus is the temple. Jesus is the shaker of the earth. Jesus is the resurrection and the life. Jesus is truly the Son of God. Your relationship to Jesus is the key to everything for your life in Idaho Falls.
Read Matthew 21:23-24:51.
Consider the words of our King in Matthew 24:
“For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of man be.”
A website called “Rational Responders” puts Noah’s ark at the top of the ten stupidest religious beliefs in America. In books and youtube videos, Richard Dawkins mocks the 40% of Americans who believe in the literal story. And just recently in a debate with Ken Ham at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, “The Science Guy”, Bill Nye skeptically probes the Genesis account before a huge online audience.
But for disciples of Jesus, we easily believe in Noah’s ark because of what it points to – Christ is our ark who saves us from the wrath to come. This is our experience. This is our joyous hope.
Scientific theories are constantly in flux. But this is not true of the Bible. Jesus states in Matthew 24: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” Idaho Falls must not interpret us as arrogant. We make it clear that authority does not rest upon our own opinions. But we have total confidence in the words of our King. Hear Him. Believe what He says to you.
Read Matthew 17:1-21:22.
Is leadership all about being on top? Does it amount to being a ruler? Are the greatest people in Idaho Falls those who exercise authority? Typically, that is the natural, logical thinking. We have an inborn desire to elevate ourselves and/or others.
But our New Testament reading this past week really puts things in perspective – there is only One who is in the category of topping all the human charts. Long ago, a voice from heaven thundered from a cloud high above a mountain top: “THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED. HEAR HIM!” Upon hearing that, disciples around Jesus fell on their faces and were greatly afraid. They never forgot that experience for the rest of their lives.
And the lessons by the Son of God to my own heart have been quite powerful this week. The King teaches, “Many who are first will be last, and the last first” (Matt. 19:30). He reiterates it again in Matthew 20:16 and then drives it home with this, “Whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:26-28). Being a slave doesn’t sound like the American way. But it’s God way in Christian discipleship.
It all reminds me of what I recently read in The Trailman’s Handbook (2013) under the new scouting organization, Trail Life USA. To all ready trailmen, “As the Bible teaches, those who would be great must be servants of others.”
Jesus in Idaho Falls 