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The Trinity of God

How have you decided to live your life: believing in God or believing in humanity’s gods? The God I’m referring to is the God of the Bible; the “I AM that I AM.” God is not a person that we can see like we see others or ourselves; “God is Spirit and must be worshipped in Spirit.” God is invisible but visible in the Trinity and through His creative acts.

God is revealed to man in The Trinity—God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. God is spirit that cannot be seen, touched or even described by mere man. Jesus Christ is God in earthly flesh and bone that was seen and touched by man so that man with his earthly senses might recognize and know God. The Holy Spirit is God in the Spirit that can live in the souls/spirits of men who recognize Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

The Holy Spirit will live in man if man will only accept the truth of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit can unlock the secrets of God in man. But, man must relinquish control of his life to the Holy Spirit. He must quench the desires of his human flesh and surrender to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Now, you can believe what the intellectual biologists believe– we just evolved over eons out of a quagmire of poop– but I choose not to. All life that we know on planet earth was sown or incubated here by an extraterrestrial source that the Bible identifies as God, and man was created in his image.

We as humans try to define God as a person who is setting on a throne somewhere in heaven. By thinking of God in this way you limit the ability of God to work in your life. God is bigger than the universe he created, and you will never fully grasp the works of God until you meet Jesus. Don’t try to intellectually understand God. You can’t! Just accept God as your creator and worship him. It is a choice, you either believe or disbelieve. One day everyone must meet God to either receive eternal fellowship or to be exiled to eternal damnation in the burning Lake of Fire.

Jesus Christ was God in the flesh and walked the earth a little over two thousand years ago. He came proclaiming himself as the Son of God who would be crucified, buried, and raised from the dead to become the ultimate sacrificial Lamb for man’s sins– the sins of those who would choose to accept him as their Lord and Savior.

Jesus did not just suddenly appear. Prophets, inspired men of God, foretold many hundreds of years before his actual birth his birth, death, burial and resurrection. Jesus fulfilled the prophet’s prophecies completely and accurately. But, how do you come to believe in Jesus Christ? You must be convicted in your soul and spirit that you are not walking in the ways of God. The Holy Spirit of God will convict you, and you will feel the need to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

You are carrying burdens that can only be released by the power of Jesus Christ. Without this conviction, you cannot become a true follower of Jesus and have your name written in the Lambs Book of Life. You can do good works, i.e., teach Sunday school, visit the sick, build Habitat homes and in general be a good person, but you cannot be saved by doing good works.

You are saved by grace when you acknowledge Jesus as your savior, confess your *sins to him, believe that he died on the cross and was resurrected from the dead to save you from your sins, and then follow Him through being led by the Spirit of God. It is very simple but appears as foolishness to modern humanity.

*Think of sin this way. A sin is anything that keeps you out of the will of God. They may include acts done mentally or physically that will damage your body, soul or spirit. For instance, sexual immorality may leave you and your partner or future partners with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and/or may lead to emotional problems such as jealousy, adultery, or rage to name just a few. God’s laws were established for your health, not as punishment. They were referred to as sins because germs and transmitted diseases were not understood at the time.

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