The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

“May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV)

If I were to ask you, “Help me out, what’s this whole Trinity thing about?” Could you help me? What would you say? Many say, “You just got to believe it.” The idea of the Trinity can be very confusing for people. Imagine you tell someone our God is one in being and three in person. What? Is he, like, a triple Jekyll and Hyde?

Three In One

We must be able to explain what the Trinity means. Some of us who understand the Trinity still do not think in Trinitarian terms. I asked someone once do you pray to the Holy Spirit? They looked at me like I was crazy, but Jesus told us he would send us a helper, so I pray to Him when I need help in understanding or enlightenment. Jesus told us the Spirit is there to help and teach us (John 14:26). In repentance, I pray to the Father for forgiveness through the blood of Christ; Jesus is our mediator with God. Our application of the Trinity in our life can become lopsided. We begin to emphasize one person of the Godhead more than the others. We need to see the oneness of the Godhead and its beauty.

Dance, Dance, Dance

One of my professors used the paradigm of dance to describe the Trinity. In this dance, the three persons move with such unity that the lines between them become blurred, appearing as one. I thought this was a fantastic description of the oneness of the Trinity. When you were younger, for those of you who were born before the eighties, did you ever have a toy that spun two pictures into one? I had one that had a bird on one side and a cage on the other side of a wooden circle. It had two strings on opposite sides, and when you made the circle spin, the bird looked as though it was inside the cage. It’s the same idea as the dance.

Understanding the Trinity is like our need to understand the relationship between the flesh, the world, and Satan. It is not just one thing that causes our sin but the combination of the three. Our flesh is weak, and sin is in our essence; the world puts the things our flesh craves before us, and Satan controls this world. If we emphasize one of these areas too much, we can become overwhelmed by the others. When we balance our understanding of these contributors to sin and fall back on the Godhead, it is easier for us to resist sin.

911!

We must have an urgency about our sin. We are desperate people who need radical redemption. Yet, many do not see it that way. Many think they just need good advice, not the good news of Christ. Many think I am a good person. I am okay with God when we should know that none of us are good (Romans 3:23). We just need to reduce stress and have a better job or more money. I’m afraid that’s not right. Why do people stand up at a funeral and say the person who never knew Christ and lived a life they wanted to live will now spend eternity with the one they never wanted to know? Because there is no urgency in our sin. There is a sense of universalism, a sense that everyone eventually gets saved. WRONG!

Be Humble but Be Bold

You can tell a Christian who understands their sin. God has humbled them, which shows in their devotion to Him and their demeanor toward others. Have you been humbled? Do you know Christ? We at InMessiah.com are asking for your help. Spread the gospel. Spread this blog and help us reach the masses. Every one of us knows those who don’t know Christ. Be bold in your faith. If you are uncomfortable spreading the Gospel of Christ, send people here, that’s what we do. We make no money from this site. We do this because Christ called us in the great commission and personally in our lives.

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I pray God will continue to bless you with mercies and grace and that the peace of our Lord Jesus may rest upon you—blessings from InMessiah.com.