Post by Les Brewer on Feb 15, 2016 23:20:43 GMT
The Promise of the Holy Spirit, Part 1 John 14:15–19
Open your Bible to John, chapter 14. It isn’t a challenge because the words are difficult. It isn’t a challenge because we can’t understand the text. It is a challenge because it presents to us the most inscrutable of all divine mysteries, the nature of the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, three-in-one.
There have been through the years, and even through the centuries, efforts made by preachers and teachers to try to explain the Trinity with illustrations. I have read many of them, heard many of them, and found them all absolutely useless because the Trinity cannot be illustrated in anything that is within the framework of our created world. It transcends creations. It transcends human understanding. There are inscrutable things in the Scripture. There are divine mysteries that we can never comprehend that all have do with essentially the nature of God. This one is the most challenging of all, that God is one, and yet three distinct persons at the same time.
Please follow the link to continue reading the text sermon or scroll down for the recorded message....
www.gty.org/resources/sermons/43-74/the-promise-of-the-holy-spirit-part-1
Open your Bible to John, chapter 14. It isn’t a challenge because the words are difficult. It isn’t a challenge because we can’t understand the text. It is a challenge because it presents to us the most inscrutable of all divine mysteries, the nature of the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, three-in-one.
There have been through the years, and even through the centuries, efforts made by preachers and teachers to try to explain the Trinity with illustrations. I have read many of them, heard many of them, and found them all absolutely useless because the Trinity cannot be illustrated in anything that is within the framework of our created world. It transcends creations. It transcends human understanding. There are inscrutable things in the Scripture. There are divine mysteries that we can never comprehend that all have do with essentially the nature of God. This one is the most challenging of all, that God is one, and yet three distinct persons at the same time.
Please follow the link to continue reading the text sermon or scroll down for the recorded message....
www.gty.org/resources/sermons/43-74/the-promise-of-the-holy-spirit-part-1
