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Understanding the Trinity: One God, Three Persons | God is Love

Explore the profound concept of the Trinity - one God in three equal persons (Father, Son, Spirit) - and the foundational nature of God's love. Discover the depth of God's love demonstrated in Scripture and how it shapes our understanding of Him.

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Understanding the Trinity: One God, Three Persons | God is Love

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  1. “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us… the most (telling) fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like” A.W. Tozer

  2. God is TRINITY There is ONE GOD who eternally exists as THREE EQUAL PERSONS, Father, Son, and Spirit

  3. There is only one God Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!”

  4. There is only one God Isaiah 45:21–22 “…there is no other God besides Me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none except Me. Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”

  5. There is only one God 1 Corinthians 8:4 …we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.

  6. Multiple Persons called God Psalm 45:6–7 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

  7. Multiple Persons called God John 20:17 Jesus said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’ ”

  8. Multiple Persons called God John 20:28 Thomas answered and said to [Jesus], “My Lord and my God!”

  9. Multiple Persons called God Acts 5:3–4 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?... You have not lied to men but to God.”

  10. Multiple Persons called God Matthew 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit”

  11. Nature: Before us: Love, kindness, compassion: You’re invited to: Our God Allah Mono-personal All alone Dependent Submit Trinitarian Enjoying His family Inherent Join the family

  12. 2 Corinthians 6:18 “And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” says the Lord Almighty.

  13. God is LOVE 1 John 4:7-8,16 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love… We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

  14. God is LOVE John 17:24 “Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.”

  15. God is LOVE John 17:1,4 Jesus… said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You… I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.”

  16. God is LOVE More foundational than holiness, sovereignty, or wrath

  17. God is LOVE Answers the most fundamental question of all… “Why do I exist?”

  18. God is LOVE John 17:22–23 “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me”

  19. God is LOVE Romans 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren

  20. God is LOVE Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  21. God is LOVE John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name

  22. A.W. Tozer “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us”

  23. C.S. Lewis “I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important…”

  24. C.S. Lewis “…to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son—it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.”

  25. @GraceBibleBlake Blake Jennings grace-bible.org/resources Grace Bible Church App

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