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Chapter
1
The Trinity of God
In
the book of Matthew Chapter 28 Verse 19 Jesus tells his followers to go forth
teaching and baptizing in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
Matthew 28:19
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Many
prayers end with the phrase; “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy
Ghost.” Another closing phrase
is; “In Jesus name.” Jesus is
thought to be the Son in the Holy Trinity.
There is God the Father, the Holy Spirit which might be considered the
Mother aspect of the Holy Trinity, and the Son which is actually the Christ, or
the anointing of God that was on Jesus. This
isn’t the only way to look at the Holy Trinity.
God
is also considered as Life, Light and Love, and the Trinity of God is said to
be Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent.
The prefix Omni means all. Omnipotent
means that God has unlimited power and is able to do anything.
Omniscient means that God has infinite awareness, understanding, insight
and wisdom. Omnipresent means that
God is present everywhere at once all the time.
Although
God is a trinity the three aspects are not separate.
They are always together. One
aspect might be more visible, more predominant or more active at any given time
and in any given place, but all three are always there.
When we pray to one, we are praying to all three.
God
is Life – Omnipresent
In
the book of Geneses, Chapter 2 Verse 7 it says that God made man of the dust of
the earth and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a
living soul.
Geneses
2:7
And the LORD God formed man of
the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul.
Before
that first breath the fetus developed via the life in the mother which she
constantly breathed in through her nostrils.
Once the fetus exits the womb and takes its first breath it also
constantly continues to breathe in the breath of life from God.
You could say that the life of man is in his breath.
You could also say that it is God breathing that breath into our
nostrils. Throughout the Bible life
and breath are synonymous. In
Genesis 7:15 Noah loaded the arc with two of all flesh wherein is the breath of
life.
Genesis
7:15
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and
two of all flesh, wherein is
the breath of life.
There
are more verses that indicate that the life is in the breath.
Here are just a few.
Psalm
104:29
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou
takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Ezekiel
37:5
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I
will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
The
Classic Amplified Version (AMPC) describes when Jesus died on the cross.
Mark
15:37 (AMPC)
And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last.
As
long as we keep breathing, as long as we breathe it is God’s breath and
God’s life that we are filling our lungs with.
That life of God is transferred in our lungs to our blood and
distributed throughout our bodies. Every
cell of our bodies has the life of God in it.
We don’t have to look outside, on the mountain top or even up in the
sky to heaven to find God, His life is within us and our lives are within Him.
David explains that wherever he goes, God is there.
Psalm
139:7-11
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art
there. If I take
the wings of the morning, and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead
me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall
cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
God
is Omnipresent. He is everywhere,
even in every cell of our bodies, and He is Omniscient in the wisdom that keeps
our bodies alive and growing and Omnipotent in the power to do so. God really
is awesome.
God
is Love – Omnipotent
Smile,
God Loves You! That isn’t just a
bumper sticker sound bite, it is a spiritual truth.
God can’t help but love you because He is Love.
John’s first letter literally says that God is love.
1
John 4:16
And we have known and believed the love that God
hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God
in him.
Not
only is God Love but He Loves the world so much that He gave us Himself.
He gave us the Christ, the Son in the Holy Trinity.
John
3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
There
are over 50 verses in the Bible that mention God’s Love.
One aspect of God’s love is mercy, and the phrase “His mercy
endureth forever” appears 41 times in the King James Bible.
For a more expanded concept of what God’s love is we can look to 1
Corinthians Chapter 13 which is sometimes called the love chapter.
In
the love chapter we find that love is kind and patient.
It is not selfish nor is it rude or jealous.
Wait a minute; there are several places in the Old Testament where God
says He is a jealous God. How can
that be if God is love and love is not jealous?
We will get into that later but for now let’s just accept that God is
love. Love is also hopeful,
truthful and never fails. One
version, the Classic Amplified Version (AMPC), says that love is not touchy,
fretful or resentful. We could say
that love is a force for good and it is the most powerful force in the
universe. You might say that love
is Omnipotent.
1
Corinthians 13:4-8 (AMPC)
Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over
with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself
haughtily. It is not conceited
(arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not
act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights
or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or
resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to
a suffered wrong]. It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but
rejoices when right and truth prevail. Love bears up under anything and
everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its
hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without
weakening]. Love never fails [never
fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].
Jesus
exemplified the Love and Mercy of God in John 8:3-8.
The Jewish leaders brought him a woman that was caught in the act of
adultery. According to the law she
should have been stoned to death but Jesus, adding wisdom to love said to the
leaders, ”He who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Of course they all left because all have sinned.
He didn’t judge the woman, he just told her to go and sin no more.
John
8:3-11
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in
adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him,
Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in
the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus
stooped down, and with his
finger wrote on the ground, as though
he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up
himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first
cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
And they which heard it, being convicted by their
own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even
unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her,
Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She
said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and
sin no more.
There are people and groups who
condemn and even persecute others that are not like them.
Some even do it in the name of God saying they are God’s army.
But that is not God’s way. God
is Love and He doesn’t condemn, He forgives.
God
is Light – Omniscient Wisdom
Light
is much more than what allows us to see the world we live in.
It is also knowledge, knowing or wisdom.
God sees all. You can’t
fool God because He is Omniscient. He
knows what you have done, what you are doing and what you will do, mostly.
He has given us free will to make our own decisions and set the course
for our lives but He knows us and understands us better than we know ourselves.
When we make a decision to follow a certain path, He knows the path and
He knows how we will respond to the things we will meet on that path.
We might change our minds, but He knew we would.
You cannot out smart God.
People
sometimes wonder, if God is so loving and so powerful, why do bad things
happen. God is not to blame, we
are. We have our free will. If we
listen to the God that is inside of us we will make better decisions and life
will be better.
Unfortunately there are so many distractions and temptations in the world that
we often do not hear that still small voice of God within.
He is not pushy and He will not force us to do the right thing.
When we do the wrong thing, when we step outside of love, there are
consequences for our actions. God
put before us the choice.
Deuteronomy
30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against
you, that I have set before you
life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and
thy seed may live:
We
make these choices all day every day. There is a saying that sums it up like
this: The more you think about God, the more God thinks about you and the
better life gets. God’s thoughts
are God’s light and our thoughts are our light.
When they coincide good things happen, when they don’t, we are on our
own.
Psalm
91
Psalm 91 puts it in the terms of
“dwelling in the secret place of the
Most High.” Or, “abiding under the Shadow of the Almighty.”
When we do this all the bad things “shall
not come neigh thee.” “There
shall no evil befall thee…”
Psalm 91:1-3
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under
the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He
is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely
he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and
from the noisome pestilence.
It would be well worth your time
to open your Bible and study this psalm carefully.
You might even want to memorize some of it and make it a part of your
consciousness. You can personalize
it something like this: “I dwell in the secret place of the most high; I
abide under the shadow of the almighty. No
evil can get near me.”
Many
years ago I took these verses and some others and committed them to memory.
Then I attached them to something that I do daily.
I attached them to the act of brushing my teeth.
Sometimes I would try to mumble the words out with the toothbrush in my
mouth and sometimes I would just run them through my mind.
After a while it became a habit that I still do to this day.
When the toothbrush hits my mouth the scriptures start running through
my mind. One day I hit a place
where my attitude was much less than desirable.
I was despondent and didn’t want to give God a first thought, much
less a second thought. I was on the
boarder of depression. Fortunately,
as soon as the toothbrush was in my mouth the scriptures started running
through my mind and it pulled me right out of the funk that I was in.
This
is one way to keep God’s Life, Light and Love alive in your consciousness.
It can help you to be open to that still small voice of conscience that
God talks to you through. Not that
that is the only way that God talks to us.
He has all kinds of ways to get through to us, if we will only listen.
He can even use things like newspapers, magazines, TV shows, radio
shows, friends and even strangers to get his messages across to us.
When we pray, we are talking to God the Father, God the Son and God the
Holy Spirit. However, it is just as
important, if not more so, to hear God talk to us.
The
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
The
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is the trinity that is widely known
throughout the Christian world. The
Father is like the Light of God. It
is the wisdom and intellect that designs and updates His creation.
It is the Omniscient aspect of God. The
Holy Spirit is the Omnipresence of God. It
is being. It can be in the form of matter or energy.
The
famous scientist, Albert Einstein gave us the simple formula of E=MC2
which means that Energy is equal to Matter.
It is the rate of vibration that determines which it is.
The C means the rate of the speed of light. It is squared in this
formula which means that when any form of matter vibrates fast enough it
becomes energy. When we accept the
fact that everything exists through vibrations this formula means that Energy
and Matter are the same thing only vibrating at different frequencies.
The
Son, or the Christ is the Omnipotent Love of God that was given to man.
John 3:16 says that God so loved the world that He gave His only
Begotten Son. He gave us the
Christ, the Love of God and He used Jesus to bring it into the world.
The
Holy Spirit is present in matter and in energy, everywhere all the time.
Since it is a trinity all three are together all the time.
We live and move and have our being in the Trinity of God.
There
is another trinity that is the trinity of man.
Each man, or woman, is a spirit, each has a soul, and each lives in a
physical body. This trinity is
finite whereas the Holy Trinity is infinite.
We are limited to the material world but the Holy Trinity is unlimited.
And
so it is.
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