Attributes of God Pt2

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Alright, Brother Gary, would you like to say a few words? My father in heaven, we praise you this morning.
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We thank you that we have the opportunity to hop again. To come and listen to your word, Father. It's a beautiful thing to be able to hear your word.
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And we praise you. We have my brother as he brings the word. And we thank you for what you do this evening.
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Amen. Okay, so last week we started to talk about the attributes of God.
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And it's going to take a bit to go through it. We talked about God's being last week.
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And we talked about the sense that it's really beyond our comprehension.
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That we can know of God and we can know certain things that God has given to us.
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But in absolute truth, God's ways are higher than our ways. And God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
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And we read that section in Job 26. Where it says that even what we see of him is but the mere fringes of his way.
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And then it says, but the thunder of his power, who can know? So, as we go through these different attributes.
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And there's a number of them that we'll look at. And then we'll leave that for a while. But as we go through this,
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I just want us to think about how. And I mentioned this last week, I'll mention it again.
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In my understanding, one of the best ways to learn about grace is to learn about God.
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That the more God becomes bigger in our minds and in our souls and in our hearts.
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The less we become. And the less we become, the better off we are.
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Because in reality, so many people have such a, if you will, a big concept of man.
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And a little concept of God. And it really should be the other way, right? It should be that the creator.
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And this goes all the way back to what we had talked about in the beginning of the class. That man suppress the truth.
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And the truth of God is not only that he is. But that he is the supreme one.
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He is the one and only true God. So, we did talk about that last week.
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So this morning, I want to talk about the Trinity for a while. Because, again, could you and I say, as much as we cannot fathom eternity, right?
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We cannot fathom nothing. Did you really ever just try to consider what nothing means?
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When it says that God made things that weren't visible. And God spoke the world into existence.
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What was there before nothing? Before time?
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Before space? Because God created both time and space. So, what comes before that?
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And again, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And so, as we think about that, we can only go, it's kind of like the oceans, right?
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You can go so far, you can't go no further with it. So, as we consider the
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Trinity, I think that's another one of the topics that we can understand in part.
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And the scriptures are pretty full of understanding of the doctrine of the
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Trinity. But can any of us really say that we can comprehend three persons and yet all of the same essence, right?
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And that's really what the Trinity declares, is that God is one
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God, and we'll look at some scriptures for that, but yet he's three distinct persons, and you and I cannot, we can't really take that in, can we?
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I mean, even in a marriage relationship, you think you know your spouse, but really, do we really know our spouse?
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I mean, in absolute completeness? Don't you say anything, honey. I'm not,
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I'm looking at the wall. Okay, good. But when it comes to things like that, we cannot enter into a full and complete thought of what it means to be three distinct persons and yet one
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God. So, is the word Trinity in the
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Bible? No. So, where do we get it? We get it, in a sense, by understanding and putting together the various things that it says in God's word, right?
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And so, many people will argue about the Trinity, and we could certainly spend a whole lot of time on the
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Jehovah Witnesses and some of the other cults, the Mormons. Hey, come on. But, they will deny it based on what?
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Based on the fact that the Trinity isn't mentioned in the Bible. And that's really a foolish argument, if you think about it, because the
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Bible does give us certain understandings of, not that word
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Trinity, but of a triunity, right? That God is three in persons and yet one
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God. So, I want to look at a couple of scriptures and I think it will provoke us to think about some things.
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So, go back into the very beginning, right? And go back to Genesis chapter 1.
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And again, I'm not going to try to prove it just by this fact that that term
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Elohim many times is used in a, what? In a plural sense.
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Not singular, but rather plural. So, in Genesis 1, and again, not that this is the absolute proof text, but as God says in Genesis 1 .26,
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And God said, let us make man in our image, and according to what?
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Our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
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Again, that is not singular, but that is what?
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Plural. Which indicates what? More than one. More than one, right.
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Yeah, and so when you think about that, we can say that at least that lends credibility to the fact that as God speaks,
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He's not speaking solely as if there's not a triune.
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So, go to Genesis chapter 11, and hey, good morning. Go to Genesis chapter 11, and let's think about it again.
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Because there's several scriptures that actually show this, and so I thought it would be helpful at least to remind ourselves.
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Actually, it kind of explains.
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Yeah. So, a lot of people debate. Was he talking about the triune being, or was he talking about angels? Because Jewish people like to deny that.
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Well, and again, see, that's what I'm saying. You cannot build a doctrine based on one verse or two verses.
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You have to look completely in the Bible. And so, yeah, many people have many different interpretations. But in Genesis 11, again, so remember this is the
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Tower of Babel right now. The whole earth had one language and one speech, and it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar.
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And they dwelt there, and then they said to one another, come and let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.
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And they had bricks for stone, and they had asphalt for water. And they said, come and let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens.
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And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the earth.
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
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And the Lord said, indeed, the people are one, and they have one language, and this is what they will begin to do.
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Now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Then it says in verse 7, come and let us go down.
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And again, you want to say that it's angels, okay, that's your right to do that.
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But I do think there is, now that's the second scripture where we saw that it wasn't singular, but rather let us go down and confuse their language that they may not understand one another's speech.
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So the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
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So again, another scripture that does say that when we think about God, we have to think about Him both as one
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God, singular, right, and yet three distinct persons. But here's another one. It's in Isaiah chapter 6.
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And I think sometimes because of the tremendous statement that Isaiah makes in Isaiah 6 about seeing the
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Lord, that we can kind of glance over what he also says, because if you look there in Isaiah chapter 6, remember this is the great vision when he sees the
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Lord high and lifted up, and his train fills the temple, and Isaiah makes that great confession,
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Woe unto me, I'm a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the land of a people of unclean lips.
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But then look in chapter 6 what he says, he says this.
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I'll just pick it up in verse 6 for context. Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs from the altar, and he touched my mouth, and with it he said,
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Behold, this has touched your lips, your iniquity is taken away, your sin is purged.
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And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go?
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And there it is again, us. So again, now you're starting to see how the scriptures link together a truth that is starting to build on this idea of a triune
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God, and that, because if you think about it, well let me pose it as a question, are there not scriptures that teach absolutely clearly of the sovereignty of God?
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Agree? That God is all -powerful, all -knowing, no enemies, what
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Isaiah says in Isaiah 26, the Lord God has purposed, and who can annul it, who can turn his hand back?
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And yet, are there not scriptures that people will point to, saying that man is his own determinator in life?
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Would you agree that there are scriptures that seem to say one thing, and then there are other scriptures that seem to say the other thing?
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That salvation is of the Lord, right? That's very clear. And yet,
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Jesus said, you will not come to me that you might have life.
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So, is there not somewhat of an argument that people could make that God is sovereign, or that God is not sovereign, that basically it's up to man to receive?
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What I'm trying to get at is there are different things in the Bible, and really you have to put it all together.
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Remember the scriptures are, there's no private interpretation. Remember that Peter says that?
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What does that mean? When he says there's no private interpretation, what do you think he means? Scripture interprets scripture, and I've heard it said this way, the
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Bible is its own dictionary. The Bible gives us the understanding that we need and that we should have, and that many times man tries to, in that sense, add to what
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God has already revealed in his word. So, as we think about this triunity or trinity of God, again, people's argument is the word trinity is not in the
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Bible. If that's what you want to hang your hat on, then you have at it.
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But the Bible does, and like I said, in the very beginning, as God reveals himself in Genesis, and by the way, if you and I can get a firm grasp on the first three chapters of Genesis, it will greatly aid us in understanding all the
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Bible. And it's not just some mythical account of how creation could have been, but if we can truly understand what takes place in the first three chapters of Genesis, we will find so many truths revealed.
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We'll find God as what? Creator? We'll find God as Sustainer? We'll find
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God as the Judge? We will find man as innocent, in that sense, before the fall?
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And what, after the fall? Depraved? We'll find all kinds of things in those first three chapters, and again, many people will just kind of run past it and just read it as if it's just some historical account, but there's a lot of doctrine to be held to that.
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So, anyway, here's another one in Isaiah 41. And again,
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I'm just trying to link these together so that we could... Remember the purpose that I had for the class was not only that we would be strengthened in what we believe, but that we would have a better ability, if you will, to defend to some degree, and again, we could go into great depths.
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I mean, there's a book out by James White on the Trinity. Actually, I got a couple copies on the table.
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Excellent book, right? But he's really drilling down, and in this class, what
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I wanted to do was to kind of help us to get at least a basic understanding and be able to talk to people to some extent to defend our faith.
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And again, we could spend a whole lot of time on these things. So, in Isaiah 41, and again, the thought's going to come out about the thought of the plurality of it all.
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In Isaiah 41 and verse 21, as God is speaking to those who resist them and rebel against them, it says, "'Present your case,' says the
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Lord. "'Bring forth your strong reasons,' says the King of Jacob. "'Let them bring forth and show us what will happen.
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"'Let them show the former things as they were, "'that we may consider them and know the latter, "'and or declare to us things to come.'"
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So again, you can say, well, he's just talking about him and the angels, but I'm going to submit he's talking about the fact that there's the
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Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons, all of the same essence, and all of the same purpose, if you think about it.
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Okay, let me ask you to think about something. If you were to consider who's the main speaker in the
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Old Testament, what would you say? The main speaker. I would agree that God the
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Father seems to present itself as the
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Father under the name of God and Lord and Jehovah and all those things, right?
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Okay, who's the main speaker then in the Gospels? Somebody's going to say something or I'm just going to stand here.
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Huh? The Son. The Son. I would agree that the Son seems to be the main speaker through the
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Gospels, right? Okay, who is the main speaker from Acts on, excluding Revelation for a minute?
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Who is it? I'm going to submit to you that it's the Spirit, because again, you go through all those epistles and the
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Spirit is mentioned with an overabundance.
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As a matter of fact, and I had this, I wrote this down somewhere, I'm just going to, yeah. When you see
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Spirit in your Bibles, I'm going to open this up a little more. When you see
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Spirit in the Bible and you see it as a capital S or a small s, what's the distinction?
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The Holy Spirit is a capital S. Right. At least that's what's being submitted to us, right?
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That's what's being given to us. Well, so if you wanted to do a study, and I did,
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I just, the Spirit with a capital S, right?
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Which, again, indicative of the Holy Spirit, the person of the Holy Spirit, is mentioned 172 times in the
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Bible. 141 of those times is in the
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New Testament. And the abundance of them come with the exception of the
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Gospel of John. So, again, as you begin to think about how
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God has revealed Himself, I'm going to say, suggest, that in the
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Old Testament, it was the Father who mainly spoke, and of course
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He spoke of what? Sending the Son. Okay, and what's interesting is you come to the
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Gospels, and the main speaker is the Son. And, by the way, who does the
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Son speak of the one that He's going to send? The Spirit, right?
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And we're going to look at that, especially as you go through the middle portions of the
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Gospel of John, and we'll look at it. And then, as I say, as you come to the
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Book of Acts, it's interesting in the Book of Acts how it opens up where? At Pentecost.
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And who is the one who comes upon the disciples? The Spirit, right?
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So, again, now, some people will say, well, you really can't prove that. Huh? Yeah, yeah.
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So, but when you think about it again, I believe that that reveals the triunity of God, and yet the unity of God, as you will, if you go through it.
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Anybody know what Deuteronomy 6 -4 says? Huh?
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The hero Israel, the Lord your God, is one. Right? So, again, people will now say, well, wait a minute, you're trying to tell me that there's a triunity, there's three distinct persons, all of the same essence, and yet I read in Deuteronomy that the hero
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Israel, the Lord our God, is one. Matter of fact, if you go to, did
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I write it down? Yeah, James 2 -19. Anybody remember what James 2 -19? Let's look at it. Look at James 2 -19.
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That's a northern left hand, Italian. Hey, baby.
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But look in James 2, and it's a familiar verse to us, but again, sometimes the familiar verses are the ones that we kind of pass up on.
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So, you believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils believe and tremble.
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What does it say again? Is that not a parallel passage to what it said in Deuteronomy?
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Again, now we have Old Testament saying the Lord our God is one,
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New Testament saying that God is one, and yet we have also these other verses that talk about the distinctiveness of when
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God says and uses the term in a plural sense and says the
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Lord your God is one, and yet there are three distinct persons.
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Now, we can look at this and say that's not enough to make me believe in the truth.
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Matter of fact, we've had people come here desire to join the church, and yet they didn't believe in the
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Trinity. We've talked to them, and there's a difference between would you not agree, there's a difference between not understanding the
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Trinity and resisting the Trinity once it is explained.
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Big difference, right? Yeah, and so if someone comes and you want to have a conversation with them and they don't understand the
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Trinity, well, there's a great opportunity. And again, we need to make sure we explain it correctly, at least in some sense of the thought, that we don't just skew it and say, well, the
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Bible says let us make God in our image and just leave it at that. See, it says us, and so it means plural, so it means the
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Trinity is real because what if they were to come back and say, wait a minute, it says in the Old Testament the
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Lord our God is one. Yeah, that's good, especially like with Jewish people, because Jewish people, they're just like, well
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Trent, how do you know Jesus and the Spirit was in the Old Testament? You know, they will argue that.
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Sure, and what's interesting with that thought is if you read the
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Old Testament, particularly in Isaiah, right, who's the one that's being sent?
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It's the servant. It's the Son. It's the Holy One, right?
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If you read in Jeremiah, and we read it not too long ago in our reading, in Jeremiah 23, 5, it says that the one was going to come forth, and who was it?
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That was the Lord our righteousness. So again, this is a truth that we have to kind of work through, and once you work through it, you can then explain it.
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So I want to show you a couple of verses to complement this. Go to 2 Corinthians for a minute.
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2 Corinthians and the last chapter in 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians chapter 13.
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And this again is more by having a basic understanding than having definitive, absolute scriptures concerning things.
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So, in his greeting and in his benediction, look what
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Paul says. 2 Corinthians 13, 11, it says this. Finally, brethren, farewell.
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Become complete. Be of good comfort. Be of one mind. Live in peace.
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And the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
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All the saints greet you. Look what he says. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the
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Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. I submit to you that in my understanding, this is revealing to me the
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Trinity. That it's not just solely that, because many people will take the term
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God and use it to paint every single picture.
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Right? Or the Lord. But again, if we begin to put the Bible together, and that's what we really need to do as Christians.
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We need to be able to not only know what we believe, but contend for it.
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To defend it. And again, not everybody's a theologian, not everybody is a teacher, not everybody is a master of these things, but I will say the truth, nobody's a master of this.
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Right? No one can fully comprehend what's truly incomprehensible.
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So. The way I explain the Trinity is that God and the
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Holy Spirit, they share a state. Three different people, but they share the same deity, the same title. That means they're not, you're not worshiping another
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God. If you were to say, I pray to Jesus, I pray to the Holy Spirit, and I worship Him. They're a whole different God.
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But, yeah, and I agree. But let's think about that for a second. Because that's an interesting thought, as far as, did you ever, did you ever have in your mind some sort of thought of, do
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I pray to the Father, do I pray to the Son, or do I pray to the Holy Spirit? Now, you might all be more spiritual than me.
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I had that thought. But I've had that struggle at times. Well, do
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I pray to the Holy Spirit? Because He's God. Do I pray to Jesus? Because He's God.
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Do I pray to the Father? Because He's God. Is there, let me ask you, is there a formula that we can say we can find in the
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Scriptures? Okay. Sir?
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Oh, okay, yeah. And yet it says, we are to come to the
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Father through the Son by the power of the Spirit. And yet, when you think about it,
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Jesus also said, if you ask anything, what? My name. My name. And then we could also read
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Scriptures, particularly in the book of Romans, where it says, the
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Holy Spirit does what? He intercedes for us, because we don't even know what we ought to be praying for.
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And yet in Hebrews it says what? Jesus is the intercessor. So again, you can, you can have people kind of saying,
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I just can't figure this all out. And I'm going again to say, it's very difficult to figure out what's beyond our full capacity.
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That doesn't mean we ought not to strive to understand it. Can I declare it?
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Can I prove it from the Bible itself? Yes. Can I fully comprehend it? Nope. So again, there is a formula because as it was, as I said, the
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Father sent the Son, the Son sends the Spirit, the Spirit sends us where? In a sense, back to the
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Son, and I'm not trying to make too clean a cut of all this, sends us back, the
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Spirit sends us back to the Son who then intercedes to the Father on our behalf, and yet the deity of Christ is not something to be argued, is it?
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And we'll get to that. That's another one of the topics that we'll talk about, that the attributes of God in that realm of the
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Trinity, that many times the Spirit is spoken of as who? God.
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Right? Certainly with Ananias and Sapphira, right? You didn't lie to men, who did you lie to?
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When Ananias came, he says, you lied to God. Right? And we can find scriptures that also say that Jesus is fully
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God. What did he say to Philip? He that has seen me, seen the
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Father. Now, you know what people will say? Well, that's because he had the same purpose as the
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Father. That's not, in my understanding, and I believe the Bible, that's not what it's implying.
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What it's implying is that he who has seen the Father, he who has seen the
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Son has seen the Father. Do you want me to say something? I am the
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Father of one. Right? And people will then argue and say, well, no, he just means one in purpose, and one in planning, or whatever it is they want to do.
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We are able now, as we link these scriptures together, we should be able to say, no, the overwhelming evidence, this is a good
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Bible principle, let me just say this. Whenever we have a unclear scripture, always interpret it in where?
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In the light of a very clear scripture. That's a real good principle. That when you have something that, eh,
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I'm not really sure, interpret it based on something that is absolutely sure.
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Right? And you will find that a lot of the supposed contradictions vanish.
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Again, no scripture is open to private interpretation. I'm pretty sure
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I'm going to go to this, but first chapter of John, clearly, explicitly, probably the most explicit example,
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Jesus being God, is first chapter of John. Yeah, absolutely.
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And when you think about that, many people will, Jehovah Witnesses will, will try to play all kinds of games with that.
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Right? And all those that deny the deity of Christ, they will try to manipulate that.
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They'll say, no, he's the, there's a scripture that says that Jesus is the firstborn of creation.
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So you know what people do with that, right? They say, see, he's not the creator, he's a created person.
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And yet, in Colossians chapter one, what does it say? He created all things.
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And there was nothing before him. And we'll look at it. I don't want to run out of time.
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I want to get through a couple of them, but I got to do this, because it's swimming in my head. Go to Proverbs chapter eight for a minute.
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Proverbs chapter eight. And I'm going to ask you to consider what we read.
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And then I want to ask you a question on who you think the speaker is.
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Proverbs chapter eight. I'm just going to read, so just give me a minute. Proverbs 8 .1.
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8 .1, yeah. It says, Does not wisdom cry out and understanding lift her voice?
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And she takes her stand at the top of the high hill beside the way where the paths meet.
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And she cries out by the gates at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors,
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My voice to you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. O you simple ones, understand prudence, and you fools, be of an understanding heart.
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Listen, for I will speak of excellent things, and from the opening of my lips will come right things.
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From my mouth will speak truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are with righteousness.
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Nothing crooked or perverse is in them. They are all plain to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.
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Receive my instruction and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice. Gold for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things one may desire cannot be compared with them.
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I, wisdom, dwell with prudence. Find out knowledge and discretion. The fear of the
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Lord is to hate evil, pride and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth
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I hate. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom I am understanding.
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I have strength, and by me kings reign, and rulers decree justice.
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By me princes rule, and nobles, and all the judges of the earth. I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.
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And riches in honor are with me, and enduring riches in righteousness. And my fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my revenue than choice silver.
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I traverse the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of justice, that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, that I may fill their treasuries.
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The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, before the works of old. I have been established from everlasting.
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From the beginning, before there was an earth, when there were no depths, I was brought forth. When there were no fountains abounding with water, before the mountains were settled, before the hills
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I was brought forth. Well as yet He had not made the face of the fields or the primeval dust of the world.
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When He prepared the heavens, I was there. When He drew a circle on the face of the deep, when
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He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep, when He assigned to the sea its limits, so that the waters would not transgress
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His command. When He marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside Him as a master craftsman, and I was daily
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His delight, rejoicing always before Him, rejoicing in the inhabitable world, and my delight was with the sons of men.
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Therefore listen to me, my children, for blessed are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and do not disdain it.
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And blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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Whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord. But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul, and all those who hate me love death.
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And this is beautiful because there is no way Salomon would be in the foundation of the world.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so we could say Salomon wrote.
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Yeah. Right. Now you can look at it in a number of different ways. You could say that he's merely speaking about wisdom, which would be applied knowledge, right?
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Because that's what wisdom is. Wisdom is taking knowledge and applying it in life. I'm going to ask you to think about, is this the
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Father? Is this the Son? Is this the Spirit? If I read this chapter, in some verses
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I think of it as the Father speaking. In other verses I think of it as the Son speaking.
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And in yet other verses I see it as if the Spirit is speaking. And yet, because of my ability to comprehend something of the triunity of God, they're all there.
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And they're all speaking. And they all have the same purpose. Again, whoever finds me finds life.
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What did Jesus say? Right? He who sins against me, he don't have any life.
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And yet it says in John 17, and this is life eternal to what? To know thee the only true
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God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent. Interesting in the epistles,
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I'm not sure we'll finish this today, and that's okay. Interesting in the epistles where many of the openings,
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Paul will say an apostle by what? The will of God and the
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Lord Jesus Christ? There's two different words that are used for, and some people argue this, and that's fine.
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There's two different words that are used for another in the original language.
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One means another of the same kind, and one means another of a different kind.
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Well, as we will see, and again we'll have to do this next week, as we read through particularly the
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Gospel of John, in those chapters that talk about the coming of the Spirit, he says, I will send another comforter.
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And the way many people interpret it is another of the same kind, rather than another of a different kind.
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Again, would you want to hang your hat on that one scripture to prove the
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Trinity? I wouldn't. But when I, again, start to begin to put all those words together, all those descriptions, even something like this in Proverbs chapter 8, which to me is just absolutely glorious, and that's why
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I asked you, have you ever been confused? Do I ask the Father? Do I ask the Son?
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Do I ask the Spirit? My easy answer is just ask God. Can't go wrong, right?
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And yet there is that formula that says you come to the Father, to the Son, by the power of the Spirit.
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Again, many people want to, when you talk to a Jehovah Witness or anybody who denies the
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Trinity, it's interesting how they will, they'll pull out one verse and almost hang their soul on one verse, right?
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There's the verse in 1 John 5, and I don't, well, we'll close with that.
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Let's just quickly look there. 1 John chapter 5, I believe it's verse 7.
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Let's make sure. 1 John chapter 5, and I didn't even put this one on the board, and I'm going to tell you why
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I didn't put it on the board. But, um, 1 John chapter 5. 1
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John chapter 5. Um, huh? 1
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John chapter 5. Oh, fine. Jesus Christ, I thought you said 7.
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I was, you caused me to start thinking, am I adding to the revelation here or what?
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1 John chapter 5. Sorry. So look at verse 6.
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This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, and not only by water, but by water and blood, and it is the
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Spirit who bears witness because the Spirit is truth. Look at verse 7. There are three who bear witness in heaven, the
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Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.
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And then you can read verse 8. And there are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these agree as one.
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Now, if you were to bring this verse up to a Jehovah witness, he would immediately jump and say to you, well, if you knew what you were talking about, you would realize in many of the manuscripts this is not there.
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And so now it becomes a textual argument.
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So I would not necessarily use this verse. And yet, this verse is in many of the manuscripts, it's just not in some of the more supposedly reliable ones.
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So I wouldn't try to hang my doctrine solely on this verse, but I have no problem using this verse because I know of all the other verses that teach this by implication.
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And yet, many people will just say, see, this is not in many of the manuscripts, therefore it's not true, therefore your whole doctrine of the
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Trinity falls apart. No, it don't. No, it don't.
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So, we'll look next week. We have to stop. We'll look next week, and I want to go through those verses because I think this is important enough, and I'll probably pull out some more right away.
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Enough for us to be able to at least explain the unexplainable, particularly to someone who knows nothing about the
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Bible. That's, again, my purpose in this class, is to help us to explain to people who are absolutely ignorant of truth to be able to give them something to work with.
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Because, again, faith comes by hearing, and what? Hearing by the Word, right? So, much better to speak
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God's Word than our words. So, alright. Brother, would you close with a word of prayer?
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Sure. Dear Father in Heaven, thank you so much for the life of our brother