The Miraculous Mystery of the Trinity (Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Ephesians 1:3-14)
Rev. William L. Barron, October 6, 2019Part of the Morning Worship at North Greenville Church series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
This begins part one of a series on the Biblical doctrines of the Apostles’ Creed. The Trinity, though not termed in the Bible, is a foundational doctrine of a Christian Church. All three Persons of God are eternal and involved in our Redemption, in Creation, in the ministry of Jesus, and in the ongoing work of the Church. Throughout Scripture we see that the Lord our God is One, collectively, One in unity. He is not a God that works in three different ways or modes in different times. God is three in one, and works for our benefit, and ultimately for His glory. Our salvation is totally dependent on the work of each the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Deuteronomy 6:4–9 (Listen)
4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
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Ephesians 1:3–14 (Listen)
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
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