The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Trinity (part 5 of 6)

                                             
As with God the Father, and Jesus the Son, the Holy Spirit is an important 3rd part of the Trinity. And so what is his role in it? Here are just a few of the things that he does?


He speaks to us:. Revelation 2:7  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

He teaches us: John 14:26  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

He comforts us: Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

He testifies of Jesus: John 15:26  But when the Comforter has come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

He prays for us: Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

He bares witness to the truth: Romans 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

He brings joy: 1 Thessalonians 1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost

He reveals: 1 Corinthians 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

He transforms us: 2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

He calls for the return of Jesus Christ: Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely.

As with God, and Jesus, the Holy Spirit has many roles as part of the Trinity. And as with them, is a powerful force in the lives of those of that believe. He is our gift from God and one to be acknowledged. 

I appreciate your visit today. Please come back tomorrow for the conclusion of this series on the Trinity. Until then God bless and keep you and yours!

The Role of Jesus in the Trinity (part 4 of 6)

                                                                   

           

                          Jesus is coming back! Is he coming or you?

Jesus is coming again! Praise God!! I think his position in the Trinity is the most important because he did pay the ultimate price for our redemption. At the very least, it is just as important as the roles of God and the Holy Spirit.

However, I know that there are skeptics that do not believe Jesus is coming back. And some don't even believe in him at all.  People have been preaching that since almost the beginning of time. But just because they don't believe it, does not make them right.

Noah told the people of his day that it was going to rain. And they laughed at him and mocked him. Until the day that it did rain. And for those same people, it was too late.

  As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Mathew 24:37-39.

He is coming back to take his church, (believers that have accepted him as Lord) back with him to paradise. And he will cast the devil into the lake of fire.


And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. Revelation 20:10

What a day that will be, for the devil will no longer be a terror to people. 

He will set up his kingdom on earth.

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.Revelation 11: 15

And then in Revelation 22:20 Jesus says this:

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. 

And in that same verse, I think most of us can agree with this.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Are you ready for the coming of Christ? If you are not, you need to get ready for him. If you don't believe it, you will lose out on everything God has promised you. And it will be too late. Accept him today. He is waiting for you. Pray this prayer below and if you are sincere, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

                                                  



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I am so glad you came by today and I hope you will stop back tomorrow for the next lesson on the Role of the Holy Spirit, part 5. Until then, be blessed!

The Role of Jesus in the Trinity (part 3 of 6)

                                                                             

God sent his Son Jesus into the world to redeem us from sin and death. What is the role of Jesus in the Trinity?

1. Jesus started his ministry at age 30. Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age.
2. He paid for our sins when h died on the cross.I Cothianians 15:3-4  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
3. He justifies and saves us from wrath. s Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall beaved from wrath through him. 
4. He redeems us through his blood. Ephesians 1:16 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
5. He is our mediator between God and men. 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6. Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father and prays for us. Roman 8:34  Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
7. Jesus loves us. John 15:9  As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 
8. He does not condemn us.Romans 8:1  [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
9. No one comes to the Father except through Jesus. John 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
10. Jesus loves children. Mathew 18;10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

So, like the role and personalities of God, this is not an exhaustive account of the roles and personalities of Jesus Christ. And again, it gives us a look into Jesus and how much he loves and cares for us, like his Father does. Part 4 will be taking some other things about Jesus into account.


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Thanks for coming by Friends. Please come back tomorrow for part 4 of the role of Jesus Christ. In the meantime, have a blessed day and pass it on, 

God's Role in the Trinity (part 2 of 6)

Yesterday, we looked at just some of the roles that God plays in the Trinity. How much he loves and cares for us. Protects and saves us. And so much more that I did not cover. Wow! To me, God is so amazing! Why would I want to not love him and obey his word when he does all that for me? And you?

However, there is a flip side to God's personality. Let's look at some of the things that are also a part of him.

1. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. Romans 1:18
2. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. John 3:36
3. For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.Isaiah 26:21
4. I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon them.” Ezekiel 25:17
5. The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers. The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it. Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him. Nahum 1:2-6
6. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans 6:23
7. For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” ...Hebrews 10:26-3
8. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21
9.  But because of your hard and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. Romans 2:5
10. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’Mathew 25:39

Ummm. These are all sobering. God is love. But he is also jealous and can be angry.  That is why our hope in him is so important. Because it will save us from his wrath. Because he is so much more a loving God for those that love him and a vengeful God for those that don't. He offers us a way out. A plan to escape his wrath. 

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. John 5:24

If you haven't trusted God before, now is the time to start. You have God's wrath to avoid and his love to obtain..Amen!

       

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I am so glad you came by today. Please come back tomorrow for part 3: The Role of Jesus in the Trinity. Have a blessed day and make it a blessing for others!

God's Role in the Trinity (Part 1 of 6 on the Trinity)

 

What have been and are some of the roles that God has in the Trinity?

1. God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2. He created man and woman. Genesis 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them
3. He gave Moses the 10 Commandment. Exodus 20:1-16 20 And God spake all these words, saying,

• I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
• Thou shall have no other god before me.
• Thou shat not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
• Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
•  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
•  Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
•  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
• Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
•  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
•  For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
•  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth the
•  Thou shalt not kill.
•  Thou shalt not commit adultery.15 Thou shalt not steal.
•  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
• 17.Thou shall not steal.

4.God loved gave us and gave us Jesus. 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.

5.He is faithful and calls us into fellowship with Jesus. I Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

6.He has redeemed us and calls us by name: Isaiah 43:1 But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

7.When we are going through hard times things, he protects us. Isaiah 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

8.He wants all men to be saved. 1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

9. God is faithful when we are tempted. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

10. God is the beginning and the end. Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

While this is not an exhaustive account of who God is, it does give us a look into his personality and his love for us. I hope you will come back tomorrow for part 2 of this study.6

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Note: Actually, we don't know what kind of fruit it was they ate. The bible does not really say and the apple has just sort of been dubbed in there. However, the truth is, just like it says-after they bit into it, everything did CRASH!

Thanks again for coming by. Come back tomorrow on part 2 of the roles God has and does play in the Trinity. Have a wonderful day and God bless!

                                                     

Forgiveness: Not An Occasional Act

Forgiveness.  What does it mean, and why is it so important that when someone hurts us, we forgive them? Forgiveness is the act of letting go of an offence. In the Bible, the Greek word for forgiveness translates to letting go. But why is that so important? Well for one thing as we know, God calls us to forgive.
Get rid of all bitterness, passion, and anger. No more shouting or insults, no more hateful feelings of any sort. Instead, be kind and tender-hearted to one another, and forgive one another, as God has forgiven you through Christ. (Ephesians 4:31-32)

If you forgive others the wrongs they have done to you, your Father in heaven will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive the wrongs you have done. (Matthew 6:14-15)

But what if that person does not accept that you have forgiven him. While that is sad, but what it does for you is free you from bitterness and anger that builds up into your very spirit.We can forgive someone hurting us, even if the other person does not acknowledge it. It brings healing to us. Unforgiveness can bring on health problems to our bodies. Proverbs 17:22 says it this way:  A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 

There have been people in my past that I have had to learn to forgive. And in fact, my mother was one of those people. I held a lot of hurt towards her for years. And then one day I heard a Christian Phycologist on a radio talk program who made this statement:  We forgive others because Christ first forgave us. (not a quote) That coupled with a book that he had written about forgiveness helped me understand my mother more clearly and I was able to forgive her. But having to forgive people did not stop with her. There have been others and to this day I am having to forgive people. Is it easy? Absolutely not. But it is possible because Isahia 43:16 says that God will make a way when there seems to be no way. Now, that is not talking about forgiveness per say. However, I believe that it pertains to it just the same. If he asks us to forgive people he is going to make a way when to us it seems impossible. 

Is there someone you need to forgive? Seek God and he will help you do just that. He wants us to be free from bitterness and the anxiety that unforgiveness produces in us. Ask him today to forgive you. That is where you begin. Because, if we do not forgive others, he will not forgive us. 

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Guard Your Heart

February is the month of love. But love is not all paper hearts, flowers, and candy. Love is a real emotion that takes tender loving care. It needs to be nurtured and respected. God created it because he is love. Too often, some of us the fall into the temptation of "falling in love" with the wrong type of people. Sometimes that is not so much love as it is lust. But if we fall in love with the wrong person, we open ourselves up to so much pain and hurt. And as you know, that can be both physical and/or mental pain. That is why it best to wait on God to bring into our lives, the person he wants us to be with. I know that isn't easy sometimes. However, it is worth the wait if we don't get in a hurry and try to get ahead of God. He has our best interests at heart and we need to listen to his voice in our lives so that we don't make the mistake of ending up with someone that will end up hurting us in the long run. We need to guard our hearts and not let them be taken advantage of. God is faithful and if we desire the good things he has for us, and if we wait upon him, he will give them to us because he loves us.

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May your blessings be many

and your troubles be few!

God Bless!