The Trinity | Rachel

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Prompting me to speak about the Trinity. So we're gonna

talk about the Trinity today. Okay, Okay, I hope Again

I'm not that greater teacher, but I hope whatever I've

thought would just make you interested, curious, uh, and hunger

to read the word yourself and really know because we

all say we you know, we love our God? Do

we really know our God? And if you don't know

and understand the Trinity, you don't really know our God. Okay,

So we're gonna start off with as some question I

hope this works. Okay, how many of you've done Menimeter before?

We're gonna do a little questionnaire. You can scan this now.

The only thing is I think it's only limited to

fifty participants because it's a free account. So maybe couples

can share one scan. Yeah, if you're on a share one,

you can, although your answers may be personal, so it's

a bit hard. It's not a not a quiz, more

of just to see what everyone's understanding and your your own,

your own a relationship with the Trinity. Okay, The kids

don't need to scan. I think most of you don't

have phones. Some of you maybe have. But if any

kid comes up and answer, I'll give you something from here, okay,

a little treat not right wrong, as long as you

come up answer no, only the kids. All right? Are

you already? Everyone scan? If you scan readly, just raise

your hands so I know you're in. Do you get in?

Yeah?

You'll see the page with a question. Okay, the xtual.

We can help me to move into the questions. Only

five questions. Okay, five questions, and the first one is

coming up. I think you already see it on the screen.

You can answer, who do you usually pray or talk to?

Any keep on, come up here and tell me your answer.

Who do usually pray or talk to? God, the Father,

Jesus or the Holy Spirit? And come up? Come? Yay?

What's your name? LeRoi? Welcome? He right, first time right today? Here? Okay?

Who do you usually talk to or pray to? Old tree?

Old tree?

Wow?

Okay, come choose one, come thank you. Okay, let's see

what what did most people answer? Sixteen said or three,

five said Father God, five said Jesus. Zero A lot

of holy spirit, holy spirits very said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

maybe okay, but holyp you didn't get like majority. Okay,

all right, next question, what is the trinity? Can put it?

Can put the question up? I forgot what answers I

put there? Okay, three gods one God with three heads,

and God is three persons? Any any keep un com Isaiah?

Come okay, if your answer you put up your hand again,

I'll call you up so that you don't run up

here and trip on each other. Okay, those are on

the phones. You can not changing. Didn't go to the

next light. Oh oh wait, presenter says, wait, okay, now

might be let the kids and so first you saw

the three answers, right, I don't remember what Okay, is

a three gods? Then God with three hates got his

three persons? Good job, It's okay. No worries if if

if the thing is not following, I think it requires

the presenter to press the next one. Shall I move on? Okay?

The third question, when did Jesus exist? Let me let

me see whether I can move it from my side.

Let's try mm hmm. Okay, first one, are you seeing

the question? Yeah? I know my husband's gonna say in

the beinninging from the benninging, second is when he was

conceived of the Holy Spirit. And lastly when you're I

was born of the Virgin Mary. Can you answer on

the phone or cannot? Cannot? Hey, oh I can't? I

so can I move it from my side? Oops? Okay,

we let the kids answer us. Who has the come?

Oh?

We got not anyone? Come? Can tell your one? Your name? Alitia? Alitia? Okay,

what is your answer? Oh it's not there? Do you

remember the three? Can you remember?

You know?

I let me bring it out. I read it to

you again. Oh okay, see I cannot go next? Oh there, okay,

So the first one from the beginning, second one when

he was conceived of the Holy Spirit, that is, when

he was born of the Virgin Mary. Which one one

to a tree from the beginning while you're also clever? Okay,

come some of you wondering, is it really am I?

We're going to the world a bit monitor okay. Fourth question,

when did the Holy Spirit come to being? Okay, okay,

can presenter never mind you consider the questions. So okay,

I'll just read it out. First one always existed. Two

when he ascended on Jesus like a dove and sorry

descended this ended just like a dove. And thirdly, when

the Father send him to the apostles, everyone answer, okay, come,

I saw Ariel's hand first adult. You're just thinking of

an answer in your hair? Huh. Sorry, he meant me

didn't work. I feel like I'm wrong when I think

I'm wrong. But okay, that's that's right. When did the

Holy Spirit come to being when the Father sent him

to the apostles? Go send him to apostles. I told

you you can get even if the answer is wrong,

so you still get for coming up. Anyone else want

to try? Good job, good try real Ridley, you want

to try? Okay? Come okay? When did Holy speak on

the being always existed when he descended on Jesus like

a dove, or when the Father send him to the apostles?

We should always existed when he descended on Jesus, or

when the Father send him to the postils one to

a tree? When when always existed? Something? That's nasha God?

All right?

Okay? Last question? Last question? Oh yeah, this one, this one,

I need the word cloud. Never mind, let's see if

anyone want to shout out some answers. Ah, what analogies.

Have you heard trying to explain the trinity? Egg? What else?

My low? Three in one? My lower? What the hattey ow?

Is it? What else? Any kids? Kids? Have you heard

of any try and go? Anymore human being? Or like

father son Nen the police, birds, who body, soul? Spirit? Anymore?

Star Wars? How is that? I saw?

Know here?

Okay, all the Jedi fans the first be with you,

all right, So we've all heard all kinds of Yeah,

I've heard coffee and tree run coffee. I can't remember

what else, but there's people have been trying over the

years to try to come up with an analogy to

explain the trinity, but nothing will, nothing will be good

enough to explain the Trinity. Yeah, and thank you kids

for participating and adults, sorry couldn't fully participate. But I

want to just get the ball rolling on this topic

because it is an interesting one and I think, I

don't know, I think until we meet him in heaven,

and we may not fully comprehend this whole theory. But

let's look a little bit into what the Trinity is

all about, who He is and the really the basis

of our faith is that God is three persons, you

can bring up the slides with the triangle. Right, each

person is fully God. Hey, God is three persons. Each

person is fully God. But there is one God. Right,

we don't say we have three gods. We have one God,

but he is three persons and each of them is

fully God. Our brains are already blowing up right with

this concept. But how and how do we know God

is three persons? So we're gonna look into two things today.

I'm gonna start with this first. If you're if you're

taking notes, Let's look first at the uniqueness of each

person of the trinity. Because when we identify and see

that they are unique, then you you will agree that

they are three persons. Okay, So who should we look

at first? Let's look at God the Father. Okay, I'm

gonna probably have to rest true because I don't know

how I'm gonna get through all these I've got like

forty of us slights. I think it's one one minute,

but there's gonna be a lot of verses. I think

the Bible someway is self explanatory. Hope, and we take

it down, you will catch this for yourself. So God

the Father, let's see the first verse first thing that

we recognize about God, the Father is he loves the

world and he loves me. Why everyone knows John three sixteen.

Why don't you read it out with me? For God

so love the world that he gave his only begotten son,

so that whoever believes in him should not perish but

have everlasting life. The Father loves us so much. That's

the first thing that we know about our heavenly Father,

that he loves earth and he loves everyone in the world.

Second one second verse from John five, verse twenty six.

Most verses I put it up here. There will be

some that I asked you to turn to, but most

of it I put it here for the ease of

reading it quickly. Okay, shall we read the verse together?

For as the Father has life in himself, so he

has granted the son to have life in himself and

has given him authority to execute judgment. Also because he

is the son of man, and we see here the

father grants the son life. Have you ever read that

the father granted the son life, and he also gave

the son to judge? Okay, this is the father doing

his Father gave the son authority to judge. Let's look

at the next verse, John seventeen, verse twenty one. Ye, kids,

I know you're right now in law versus can take

it down and read it at home. Can't go back

and read the word on your own. Now, we don't

God the Father sent the son because in John seventeen,

verse twenty one, it says that they all may be one,

as you Father are in me and I in you,

that they also may be one in us. That the

world may believe that you sent me, right you, the Father,

you sent me, The Father sent Jesus. What else did

the Father do? Let's look at John chapter seventeen, verse

twenty two. So just the next verse, next verse, Yes,

and the glory which you gave me, I've given them

that they may be one, just as we are one. Again,

here we see the Father gave the son glory, specific

things that the Father did. Father gave the sun glory

next night, And I think about the Father. He gives

me good gifts. How many of you have been so

blessed by the gifts that God has given us. In

James one, verse seventeen, he says, whatever is good and

perfect is a gift coming down to us from God,

our father who created all the lights in the heavens.

He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. So Father

really is a giver of life, the giver of good gifts.

He loves me unconditionally, He has forgiven me. And really,

I don't know how many of you here agree with

this our identity. I know that my identity is knowing

that I am His child, and nothing can separate me

from His love, his grace, his mercy. Did I put

another verse there? Recall? Now, yeah, you can read Romans.

You can take that verse down. Maybe I can read

it quickly to us, Okape Romans, chapter eight. And I

think I declared this last week over us as well,

eight thirty one to thirty nine. What then shall we

say to these things? If God is for us, who

can be against us? He who did not spare his

own son, but delivered him up all for us all,

how shall he not with him also freely give us

all things? Who should bring a charge against God's elect

It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns?

It is Christ who died, And furthermore, it's also Risen,

who is even at the right hand of God, who

also makes intercession for us? Who shall separate us from

the love of Christ. Just knowing that thought, you know,

it's I think it get you through anything. Okay. Who

can separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation

and distress, or persecution, of famine, or nakedness or peril

or sort as it is written, for your sake, we

are killed all day long. We are counted as sheep

for the slaughter. Yet in all these things you are

more than conquerors through Him who loved us. And this

the verse. For I am persuaded. And neither death, nor life,

nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor

things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other

created things shall be able to separate us from the

love of God, from the love of God, from the

love of God, the Father, which is in Christ, Jesus

our Lord. So really, just knowing that nothing can separate

us from the love of the Father, you know that

should keep us going his love, his grace, his mercy. Okay,

So that that is unique about the Father. Let's look

at the Son. Let's look at Jesus. Philippians, chapter two,

verse six to eight. It says, you have heard me

say to you, I'm going away and coming back to you.

If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said,

I'm going to the Father, for my Father is greater

than I. Have you ever noticed that before? The Father

is greater than I. So the first thing I'm going

to point out, but Jesus is God's what actually says

he's less than the Father? You know, how can it be?

How is that? Is this best for me? No? Let

me just explain it a bit, because if you read

these you're like, why is just less than the Father?

In the form of man. When Jesus was on earth

as a man, as human flesh, right, he was less

than the Father. That's why he speaks that way, right,

But in the form of God he is equal. There's

another verse. I need to see whether I put it

up there. If not, I'll point it out to you.

But it talks about Jesus, not you know, counting it.

He didn't think like, just because I'm EQO with God,

I need to cling on to that. Yeah, that's a verse.

So he says, yeah, the Son is less than the Father. Kay.

Of course when he was on earth, he came to

the earth to do the will of the Father. Okay,

So Jesus again, this is his uniqueness, and he came

to earth. He's the only one who came to earth

to do the will of the Father and says, why

I've come down from heaven to do the will of

God who sent me, not to do my own will.

John chapter six, verse thirty eight. And then if you

look in Mark chapter thirteen, verse thirty two, did you

know Jesus doesn't know everything that the Father does. He

said it himself in Mark thirteen thirty two. But of

that day and hour, no one knows, not even the

angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

And this is about the timing the end of times.

Jesus said, not even the Son knows, only the Father. Okay.

And actually, when you read through the gospels right, it

will make you wonder when did Jesus actually have fell knowledge?

Means he knew something beforehand, and when he didn't because

he was both fully man and fully God. Again, something

that blows our minds because we can't comprehend it because

fully God is fully man. When were the times that

he was in his humanness humanity that he didn't know

certain things to come? Yeah, And when did he operate

in his divinity? We can see in Luke chapter two,

verse fifty two. Forgot if I put it up there again,

do I have that first day of not I ready

to us? Luke two, verse fifty two, Okay, if you're there,

you can follow me talks about when Jesus was growing up.

I can't turn my page to fifty two. It says,

and Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor

with God and men increased in wisdom, meaning he didn't

have all the wisdom to begin with. I mean, I'm

sure you I don't already thought about it. But when

he was born heastantly like know everything as an infant

came out born, and he had all the wisdom already

knew everything that God was going to do. No, he

grew right, he was, He really was in human form

like kids like you, like little ones like easy from young.

He grew up and he grew in wisdom. He grew

in knowledge, and he grew in understanding over time. Yeah,

let's look at and I love this because you know

John three sixteen very well? Do you know first John

three sixteen. Let's look at the next verse, first John

tree sixteen. We know what real love is because Jesus

gave up his life for us, so we also ought

to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.

Jesus is the one who sacrificed his life for us.

He suffered and died for me. Why saw that we

can come to the Father? Right? Because we can't. We

can't go to the Father at all. He's word says

anyone who sees God will will not live. If you

read by in the Old Testament. I think I mention

it again later on. But we can't see God's face

and live. But Jesus. Jesus came to us so that

we could be in commune with God himself. Right, So

he came, He sacrificed his life for us. He's my savior,

and he did that so that we can go to

the Father. Let's look at Mark chapter sixteen, verse seventeen

to eighteen. And these signs will follow those who believe

in my name. They will cast out demons, they will

speak with new tongues. They will take up serpents, and

if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means

hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and

they will recover. How those who believe and in whose name, Jesus.

In Jesus' name, we have authority. That's another unique thing

about Jesus. In his name, we have authority to do

all these things, right, to cast out demons. How many

of you believe you can cast out demons in Jesus' name? Yeah?

See some kids putting out their hands. You can lay

hands on the sick and they will be heal. Amen. Amen.

And when I think of Jesus, he's basically the perfect

example of how to live my life. Right. Anytime we

think about how do I make this decision, what should

I do? How should I treat this person? What should

I think? Just think of Jesus. Just read back the

four Gospels. Read true. How did Jesus handle anything, any situation,

any challenge or the persecution, all the hurts, How he

loves people. Just look at jesus life, and we know

how we are supposed to live on earth. Okay, I

hope you're catching something or just even like, yeah, reflecting

and thinking about who is God the Father to me?

Who is Jesus to me? Now, let's look at the

Holy Spirit, the least sometimes remembered thought of Yeah, let's

look at Luke verse one. He Sorry chapter one, verse

thirty five. It says, and the Angel answered and said

to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and

the power of the Highest will overshadow you. Therefore, also

the Holy One who is to be born will be

called the Son of God, who caused the conception of Jesus,

the Holy Spirit. Okay, the Holy Spirit caused the conception

of Jesus within Mary. Again a unique thing that only

the Holy Spirit did. And we see in Matthew chapter three,

verse sixteen. Right, the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus when

he had been baptized. Jesus came up immediately from the water,

and behold, the heavens were open to hi him, and

he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove

and a lighting upon him. Gain something very clear, That

Holy Spirit he descended upon Jesus. And that's when John knew, right,

this is the son of God, because God the Father

told him. God Father did tell him. Whoever you see

the Holy Spirit descend on like a dearth, that is

the Son of God. What else, Let's move into X. Okay,

In of X, you'll be reading lots and lots of

the Holy Spirit. Let's see chapter thirteen verse verse two

and four. As they ministered to the Lord and faster,

the Holy Spirit said, now separate to me Bannabas and

Saul for the work of which I have called them.

So you see the Holy Spirit speaks. Yeah, he speaks.

And then in verse four, so being sent out by

the Holy Spirit, they went down to Solutionah and from

there they sailed to Cyprus. So the Holy speaks, and

he also sends. He sends us in all missionaries and

all that He's the one sending. It's not men. And

then we see the Holy Spirit in accept the four

Ust thirty one, nexts next verse, next slide. The Holy

Spirit fills if you're taking out notes, Oh is it not?

That?

Is there? Holy Spirit fills X Chapter four Ust thirty one,

four Wars thirty one. And when they had prayed, the

place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they

were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke

the Word of God with boldness. So we know the

Holy Spirit fills us and gives us boldness. Amen. Oh,

maybe I mixed up the slice. Sorry. Activ X Chapter sixteen,

verse six to ten. The Holy Spirit forbids and he

also calls okay, we'll read this. I didn't put it

there because it's quite it's a bit long. So he

turned with me to X Chapter sixteen Versus six to

ten the Macedonian Call. Now, when they had gone.

Through Frigia, Frigia, Frigia, and the region of Galicia, they

were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the Word

in Asia.

Holy Spirit stop was from preaching somewhere. Well, he knows,

he knows what's best, right, But he did forbid the

apostles at that time to preach the Word in Asia.

After they had come to Misia, not Malaysia, they tried

to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. Again,

the Holy Spirit forbid verse eight. So, passing by Misia Malaysia,

they came down to troy Us and a vision appeared

to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood

and pleaded with him, saying, come over to Macedonia and

help us. Verse ten. Now after he had seen the vision,

immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the

Lord had called us to preach the Gospel to them. Wow,

so the Holy Spirit can forbid us to do things.

He also cause us to where we need to go

and where we need to be. Amen. Yeah, sorry, I

know in the slights. Now is the fields, and okay,

you can pick it down. Next, the Holy Spirit teachers

John fourteen, verse twenty six. But the helper, the Holy Spirit,

whom the Father will send in my name, he will

teach you'll all things and bring to your remembrance all

things that I said to you. I hope you all

are hungry to learn, hungry to learn from God from

his word. Sometimes we always say, right, so hard, how

so hard to read? Don't understand what I'm reading? Ask

the Holy Spirit, Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you,

and he will bring that enlightenment, you know. Amen. Next

one extra to twenty vers twenty eight. So much and

there's so much I want to covering a little bit

of each person of the Trinity. Actually twenty verse twenty eight.

The Holy Spirit chooses or a points, so we see here. Therefore,

take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among

which the Holy Spirit has made you overseas to shepherd

the Church of God, which he purchased with his own blood. Leaders.

You weren't chosen or appointed by men or by the

pastors or by the elders. You were chosen, You were

hand picked. You appointed by the Holy Spirit. Y'all believe that. Yeah,

some as you wonder, how did I become a leader?

Did someone make a mistake? No, the Holy Spirit chose you.

The Holy Spirit appointed you because he moved. He would

have spoken to you know, the leaders who appointed you.

But it is the Holy Spirit. Because God loves his church,

he says, right, the Church of God he purchased with

his own blood. Why would he simply get anyone to

lead his church. No, every one of you who are called,

who are appointed, who are commissioned as leaders, it is

a high calling. The Holy Spirit has called you to

serve and love his Church. Amen. Amen. Did you also

know that the Holy Spirit can be grieved? Ephicients, Chapter four,

verse thirty, Do we have that or something? Yeah? And

don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you

were sealed for the day of redemption. Very specific again, No,

it says, do not grieve the Holy Spirit. And this

is also a proof and reason that the Holy Spirit

is a person. Right, I think you've heard in the

past weeks. You know it's not our sayings. He's not

just a power, he's a power. They have no feelings,

but people or persons. A person, a being has feelings,

has emotions. And Holy Spirit can be hurt, can be saddened,

can be grieved by us. And I pray that we won't.

We will never grieve the Holy Spirit. Amen. Next night,

you know, write some things, some points there I just

took down. When I think about the Holy Spirit, he's

my counselor he's my helper, he's my comforter. He gives

me power and authority. He tells me what to say.

You know, I shared so last last week? Was it

last week? Just last week our missions conference. One of

the workshops was the Disciple Disciples on in every school,

every street, and so I was sharing our stories, you know,

we on campus, so i'd work and there's so many

times where it's the Holy Spirit that natch us and

tell us pray for this person or speak to this person.

How what do I say? And it's the Holy Spirit

that tells us what to say. I mean maybe at

the time we don't know, but when we start speaking,

you know, he speaks to us. He gives me bonus

and courage. I tell you, I told the story I

told in this church, and I shared again there the

few times, and the Holy Spirit asked me to either

pray with my colleagues for my colleagues, and then in

London again amongst all the senior leadership. You know, pray

We don't. We don't have the bonus on our own.

It's really oh your guts, you just fully together, but

the Holy Spirit just gives you that extra push, that

bonus and encourage to do so. So I pray no,

as we reflect on who the Trinity is, the uniqueness,

I pray we will go back and reflect on our

relationship with this triune God. It's not complete if you

only know one of them one part of who God is.

So my challenge is do we know each person in

the Trinity? Okay? If not, let's desire to this year,

let's desire too. Now there we look at the Trinity

as three unique persons, it's actually even more important for

us to look at them as one whole. Like getting

your confused. Talk about three persons, now talk look at

them as one whole. Because right, God's oneness is not sameness,

and so he's so he's unique. The three persons are unique,

but it is unity. So how you take down those

two things, and the two use unique yet united. His

oneness is unity, not sameness. Let's look at John chapter seventeen,

verse twenty one and John chapter ten, verse thirteen. She

read both of them. John ten thirty says, I and

my Father are one. John seventeen, verse twenty one says

that they all may be one. Who's they all? They

all may be one? Earth just talking about the Church us,

that we may be one, as you Father are in

me and I in you, that they also may be

one in us. That the world may believe that you

send me. We read this earlier as well, right, But

here's very clear. The Father is in the Son, the

Son is in the Father, and he wants us to

be in Christ. Just as God is one. The Father

and Son are one. He wants he's calling the church

also to be one. Now, let's look at how the

Trinity always work. If you read, I'm noticing even more

now when I study the world and I read through

the Book of Acts, you see the Trinity working together

all the time. I used to not really pick that out,

but now when I read it, I see, Oh, he's

always working on Godfather, and then the Sun and the

Holy Spirit. They're always working in unity. So let's look

at a few a few points in time. Let's look

at the beginning. Just the kids answer, right, Jesus was

there at the beginning, and the Holy Spirit was also

there from the beginning. Okay. Let's read that in the beginning,

God created the heavens and the earth, okay, which means

the whole universe. Don't just think earth only, Okay, the

whole universe. The earth was without form and void and

darkness was on the face of the deep. And who

was hovering the Spirit of God. That's the Holy Spirit.

He was hovering over the face of the waters. That's

proof that the Holy Spirit was there from the very

beginning when God created the universe. In the Malay translation

the Holy Spirit, they usually I think different translations, but

they will say rah Allah, God's Spirit. And if we

read further down to verse twenty six, yeah, then God said,

let us make man in our image according to our likeness.

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

over the birds of the air, and over the kettle,

and over the earth, and over every creeping thing that

creeps on the earth. Who's God talking to us Earth?

Among themselves three persons. Let us make man in our image,

three persons united, always working together in unity, as make

men like us and have dominion over the whole earth. Wow,

let's look now at Colloss. Are you saying, okay, we

saw the Spirit hold ring. God the Father was there, Jesus.

Let's look at Colloss now, Chapter one, verse fifteen to seventeen.

O care, I put it all there. He is the

image of the invisible God, the firstborn overall creation. For

by him all things were created. By Jesus, all things

were created that are in heaven, that are on earth,

visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions, or principalities or powers,

all things were created through him, Jesus, and for him,

Jesus the Son, and he is before all things, and

in him all things consists. By Christ, Jesus, all things

were created. So you see it, the creation of the

world of the universe. God the Father was there, The

Holy Spirit was there, Jesus was there. They are one.

They were working together, just like I mentioned earlier. I

mentioned right, men had never seen God. That's what you've

seen the verse. He's the image of the invisible God, God,

the Father. No one has ever seen him. You've read

the whole read the whole Bible. The closest was probably

who remembers. There's only one person that probably the closest

to seeing God, which profered Moses. Moses in extra study three.

You can take that down, go back and read it.

Exodus Study three. God had to hide Moses in a

cleft of a rock because Moses say, show me a glory, right,

hide him in a rock, covered him, covered Moses as

he walked past, and then told Moses, now you can look,

but you only see my back. Going read it for yourself,

took his hand away. Moses saw his back because if

he had seen the face of God, he wouldn't have lived.

You would have died immediately. And tried the whole Bible.

No one has ever seen God's face. He's invisible God.

But Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth so

that we can somehow look at God. Right, came in

the flesh. Amen, a man could see him, could touch him,

one of us. Before I move on from the beginning,

I love this John. I like John how he starts

his book. So John chapter one, verse one to five.

In the beginning was the word, and the word was

with God, and the Word was God. He was in

the beginning with God. All things were made through him,

and without him, nothing was made. That was made. In

him was life, and the life was the light of men.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness

did not comprehend it. Who's this the word? John is

talking about Jesus the Sun. He is the Word, He

was with God, he is God. Amen. Okay, so you

see that here as well. Can move to verse fourteen.

I think I put it there as well. Still, John,

chapter one, If you read down to verse fourteen, is

it there? If not, I read it all I know

you have to write a lot of stuff to watch. No,

go back and read all this again. Your homework for

this week, John, chapter one, verse fourteen. Every day read

a few can with your parents. Okay. And the world

became flesh and dwelt among us. Okay. There's only one

person that became flesh and dought among us is Jesus.

He's the Word. The Word became flesh and delt among us,

and we beheld his glory. The glory is of the

only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Amen.

The Word became flesh, he's Jesus. Okay, so we've see

in the beginning all three of them working in unity.

Let's look about. Look at when Jesus was on earth. Okay,

it wasn't just Jesus Jesus the whole time we through

the gospels. Let's look at that together again. Even when

Jesus was walking on earth, the Trinity was working in unity,

interacting with one another. Let's look at during his baptism.

When he had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from

the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him,

and he saw the Spirit of God. So the Holy

Spirit descended, descending like a dearth and alighting upon him.

And suddenly a voice from heaven came from heaven saying,

this is my beloved son, who is speaking the Father. Yeah, God,

the Father, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well.

Please again at the baptist Jesus. You see all three.

The Holy Spirit came down, the Father spoke. Jesus was

there being baptized. Let's look at John chapter one, verse

thirty two to the three right. I think I mentioned

it just now, and John witness saying I saw the

spirit descending from heaven like a derth, and he remained

upon him. I did not know him, but he who

sent me to baptized with water. So God the Father

sent John the Baptist to baptize with water, and said

to me upon whom you see the spirit descending and

remaining on him? This is he who baptized us with

the Holy Spirit. Amen. And you heard last week Eloping

who said baptists on the Holy Spirit. Who Jesus is

gonna baptize us with the Holy Spirit? Amen? Okay, I

think I have to move quicker? What time is it?

What I'm doing? End? No, we're not done yet. Sty

got some juicy stuff. Okay, let's look at after Jesus

said Riason from the Dead John, chapter twenty, verse twenty

one to twenty two. Your paper, nos, space? Really is it?

Have to write behind? Okay? So Jesus said to them again,

peace to you, as the Father has sent me, I

also send you. And when he had said this, he

breathed on them and said to them received the Holy Spirit.

Can you see Jesus speaking to them right that the

Father had sent him? So Father sent Jesus. Then Jesus says,

I send you, so, Father said Jesus. Jesus sends us,

and he breathed the Holy Spirit onto the apostles, and

Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit onto us. Wow, you see

all three of them always working together. Matthew twenty eight.

It was eighteen twenty. Y'all know the great commission, right,

and I just zoom in on. He says, baptize them

in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit,

all three, not just one, but all three men. Okay.

Second Corinthians thirteen, verse fourteen. We declare this upon you

every almost every Sunday, the benediction, the grace of the

Lord Christ and the love of God the Father, and

the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

There's a benediction. It basically is a divine blessing that

we declare upon you every week as we leave church.

We declare that upon you, and it involves the whole Trinity. Okay,

don't just be satisfied with knowing one is God as

a whole story. I'm drawing to a close, Okay, by

sharing some so we really learn God is The Trinity

is His unique. Three persons are unique, yet they're always

working in unity. But looking at that right, there are

some key learnings for us as a church and as humanity.

The first one community, the church is created in the

image of the tryan God, I mean man. We are

created in God's image. There is commune, there is how

many Our God is always it has always been in community,

you see, right from the beginning, right, He's always been

in community. So we also should. If you really believe

we're created in His image, then we should also be

that way in community. So those of you who think

it's okay to just be you and God, right, you

will meet some people. It's okay. I don't need church.

I don't need I don't need to know other believers.

Just between me and God. That's it enough. I'm telling

you that's not God. That is not God's design because

He himself is a community. You know, we have church,

we have homes. How is happening this week? Don't miss out?

We have hangouts? Pick up all hanging hangouts happening happening now?

Edmond John and Edminson Ye and those of us who

have immersed ourselves in these communities have found our lives

so much more fulfilling. Don't you think Yeah, our faith

is not to be lived alone stivally. He can bring

up the next light next. Okay, there's the first one

that I put down. Our God is always has always

no first point, has always been in community, so we

also should be just three points. Okay, As closing second point,

like I said, God's very own nature is relational. The Father,

the Son, the Holy Spirit, they are relational and us men, women,

humans being created in His image. We can only discover

our true identities and our purpose while in relationship with others.

Did you ever think of that? If you're by yourself

right your whole life and don't interact anybody, what is

your identity? What is your purpose? Today the world we

see a lot of individualism, right, it's all about me,

my time, who I am. I mean, don't care what

other people think or see or But if you look

throughout the Bible, right you read the early books Exodus, Genesis, Exodus,

Deuteronomy numbers a lot of genealogy right or before sleep

right reading the genealogy. No likes reading the son of

son of son of son or son of son of

Why is it so important? I mean, why do you

think the Bible writer as a whole chapter of son

of son or son of most of us just keep it.

I know, I skeep it because I'm like, oh, I

can even read half halfway through, you know. But it's

so important because your individual PERSONHO is actually defined by

your relationship with others, with your family, with your tribe

a tribe hereast Malasia, without tribes where you came from.

And that's why shame and honor actually affects more than

just ourself. Right, if you do something that is shameful,

it's not just us affected on your whole family. And

if you and if you're honored, your whole family is honored.

Your church, right, always say, don't those simplistic you know,

the bumpustickers church bumpustick in your car and then showing

fingers driving like a mad person. Why because you represent

your church? You know we are we are representation of

ex church maybe God missions. You always tell the teams

be aware, not just when you're ministrying, you know, when

you're out eating, when you're staying with your hosts. All

that people see you. You are the identity of the church.

WHI and if we do something that leaves the negative impact,

the church gives a bad name. They won't remember you,

remember the church that sends you. Yeah, So it is

the people, it's the groups. It's the culture that surrounds

us that often makes us who we are, how we think,

how we function in the world. So it's so beautiful

we have this community. We shape one another, we wrap

one another the wrong way. So, but it's okay, we're learning.

We learn from each other. Iron charpens, iron immn. Okay,

you've seen one. To The third point to bring a

cross is as God the Father is one with his son,

yet he's not the son. You saw that right, He's unique.

God the Father is one with the Son, but he's

not the son. We too are made to be united

with others and yet be unique. We are still unique

from each other. Remember that one is not sameness. So

when we come together we talk about the church be united,

doesn't mean like we all dress the same and we

all talk the same, and our thoughts are the same

and our gifts are the same. No, we are still

unique from one another. But unity. Jesus prayed that the

Church should be united, and we look at the body

of Christ. Right in First Corinthians, Chapter twelve, verse twelve

to fourteen, yeah, the bank can come up. Do I

have that verse there? If not? First Corinthians, Chapter twelve,

verse twelve to fourteen. Let's just read about the Body

of Christ twelve to fourteen. It says for us, the

body is one and has many members, but all the

members of that one body being many our one body.

So also is Christ. For by one spirit we were

all baptized into one body, where the Jews or Greeks,

where the slaves are free, and have all been made

to drink into one spirit. For in fact, the body

is not one member but many. We are many. Right

we are. We are not the same. It's our diversity

and our different gift things and strengths that make us

beautiful together in the first place. Right, because we are

not the same, we need one another as well, and

we are better together. Go and look at your neighbor

and say we are better together. Say I need you,

Tell your other name, I need you, and tell other

name you need me to. The Bible makes it clear

that all of us have been given gifts of the

Holy Spirit. All of us have been giving gifts by

the Holy Spirit, and the only expression of them is

in the context of community. Right, if you're to give

the Holy Spirit, but no one to express it to

what's it for? So it's so important, and it's always

for the good of others, whether within the church or

outside the four walls. So in your schools, in your workplace,

with your families, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are

for for their good right, not just us. And you know,

in the days to come, we will hear more about

the five four ministry, about the gifts of the Holy Spirit,

because as the Church, we really want to we want

to desire more of the Holy Spirit. We want to

move in the gift things that God has given us.

But on the end, with this, even before we desire

the gifts, let's first desire the giver of the gifts.

Hey man, Let's desire the giver of the gifts. I

think Elope who read this last week as well from

Luke chapter eleven, verse thirteen. It's the last verse I

leave with you Luke eleven, verse thirteen. If you, then,

being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,

how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy

Spirit to those who ask him. And I don't want

us to rush the ending today, You'll need one service,

So we have a little bit of lee way and

this morning I want to open the altar. Yeah, okay,

with that, I want to open the altar for those

who have not yet received the Holy Spirit. You believe

in Jesus, if you invited Jesus to be your Lord,

your savior, you've invited him into your heart, but you

have not received the Holy Spirit. And the Pinghr spoke

about it as well. You know the apostles in that day,

they weren't satisfied until the believers received the Holy Spirit.

Not enough just to believe in Jesus, but let's receive

the infeeling of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the

Holy Spirit. And if you're here and you're not sure,

maybe I did at some camp. I'm not sure that

it's for you as well. Okay, because those of us

who are really bad places, we are sure. We know it.

We know it. When we have the infeeling of the Spirit,

we know it. We are operating under his power. And

it just says ask him. He wants to, He wants

to pour out his spirit on us. Someone leaders to

be ready to lay hands and pray for people this morning.

Maybe we can worship Jason. It leaders to just invite

the Holy Spirit, and I want you to really think

about it. Reflect If you want to experience the fullness

and the wholeness of our God, then it's not just

knowing that the Father loves you. It's not just knowing

that Jesus came and sacrificed his life and died for you.

And you've now you believe in him and you have salvation.

But you also want to know the Holy Spirit. Let

him feel you, baptize you and you can operate in

the fullness and live really the abundant life that He promises.

So as we worship, if that's you, I want you

to just make your way to the front.

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