2 Corinthians 13:14 14 The grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy
Spirit be with you all. Amen.
If you ask God the Father, Jesus Christ, and
the Holy Spirit the question: “Will the
real God please stand up?” Then all three would have to stand in order to tell
the truth.
Let me share with you that the Bible teaches
three truths about God, all of which are necessary to know God, none of which
can be denied. I call them: “Trinity
truths.”
A. There is one God—eternal
and indivisible.
B. This one God is three persons—each distinct
from the other.
C. Each person of the God-head is fully
God—co-equal,co-existent, and co-eternal.
Admittedly, this is a deep subject that calls
for serious thought and contemplation.
But it is well worth it, for as Charles Haddon Spurgeon once said:
“Nothing will so enlarge the
intellect and magnify the whole soul of man as a devout, earnest, continued
investigation of the whole subject of the Trinity.”1
The doctrine of the Trinity is perhaps the single greatest "distinctive" of Christianity.
No other religion in the world is, or ever
has been, a trinitarian religion.
Judaism, Islam, the Unitarians, and Jehovah’s Witnesses all deny the
doctrine of the Trinity.
Even though the word “Trinity” is not found
in the Bible, the truth of the Trinity is found throughout the Bible. It is one
of the great truths of God and one of the great mysteries of God. We can know
this truth but we may never fully come to understand it.
The very passage we have selected as a
foundation verse, 2 Corinthians 13:14, is a benediction, a prayer that is
prayed to God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
As you are going to see, if you are going to know God, you must know God
as Trinity, or you cannot know God at all.
The next few days we will be looking deeper at this glorious truth: Our God is a Triune God.
1
John Blanchard, Gathered Gold, p.
126.
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