One God, One Lord,
One Spirit The
Bible picture of God. The loving Father. The obedient Son. One in Spirit.
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God
the Father |
"I worship the God
of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and
prophets"
“There is one God”
“Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is
one”
“There is one God; and there is none
other but He” “There is none
other God but one”
“There is but one God, the Father”“of
lights” “the God
of all” "of whom are all things"
He is “the only Potentate”
“Have we not all one Father? Has
not one God created us?”
“Jehovah alone is
God” Before Him there "was no God
formed, neither shall there be”
Beside Him “there is no God”
He is God “and there is none else”
“and there is none
other but he” incomparable
and unequalled
“The Most High” “the only
true God” “the Ancient of Days”
“which is, and which was, and which
is to come” Who “has life in
Himself”
Who “gives to all life and breath”
and “in whom we live and move and have
our being”
“eternal, immortal, invisible”
“dwelling in the light, whom no
man has seen, nor can see.”
And “God, who is rich in mercy, for His
great love wherewith He loved us”
is “merciful and gracious, long-suffering,
and abundant in goodness and truth”
“with whom is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning” He “changes
not”
“The Lord God omnipotent”
is “exalted as head above all”
“Who is above all, and through all,
and in all” “the Almighty
God”
“the Father of spirits” who
“is Spirit” “from everlasting
to everlasting”
“Declaring the end from the beginning”
by “the foreknowledge of God
the Father”
God’s Son
There is “one Lord Jesus
Christ” “The Word of God”
“the King's Son”
Who “in the beginning” “was with
God and God was the Word”
“the Son of the Father”
He shall cry to Me, “You are my
Father, My God...I will make him My firstborn.”
He was “possessed by the LORD in
the beginning of His way, before His works of old”
“whose going forth has been from everlasting”
from the days of eternity,
“before
Abraham was,” “before the
mountains and hills,” “before
the world began”
He “proceeded forth” “was brought
forth” and “came out from
God”
He “was made a quickening spirit”
“the Prince of life” who “lives
by the Father”
for the Father “has given to the Son
to have life in Himself” and “In Him
was life”
He is “the resurrection and the Life”
whose words are “spirit and life”
That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
that eternal life which was with
the Father
as “the only begotten Son of
God” was the Rock “cut out of the
mountain without hands.”
He is “the image of the
invisible God” “the express
image of His person”
the firstbegotten of God, the
fruit of His body and Son
of the most high God
“the beginning
of the creation of God” “the First-born
of every creature”
for by Him “were all things created”
“by whom God made the worlds”
"
by the Word of the Lord...and the breath of his mouth" for He was “before
all things,
and by Him all things consist” and were created “by
Jesus Christ”
who “upholds all things by the Word
of His power” which he obtained by
inheritance
Who is “in the bosom of the Father”
for “he that has seen [Him] has
seen the Father”
being in the form of God
but not grasping to be equal with God, His
God and our God;
“in Whom dwells all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily” He is “the mighty
God”
He was anointed by His God
above His fellows that “all the angels
of God worship Him”
for “the counsel of peace shall be between
them both” They are one,
keeping “the unity of the Spirit
in the bond of peace” They dwell in
each other.
“God himself put everything
under Christ” except God who is “the head
of Christ.”
Wherefore God has appointed
His Son “heir of all things” and gave Him all
power.
The Father has given him power
over all flesh” and he has preeminence
over all things.
And “they drank of that spiritual
Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ”
“the Angel of His presence
saved them...and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old”
God’s Incarnation
And “when the fullness of the time was come, God
sent forth His Son”
because “God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son”
He that overcomes the world...believes that Jesus
is the Son of God. of the living
God
“the Son of the Highest” “the
Son of God” “Immanuel, God
with us”
and “made himself of no reputation”
but “took upon him the form of
a servant”
“was made in the likeness of men and…humbled himself” taking the seed
of Abraham
and David. Jesus was made a
little lower than the angels made of
a woman
“the last Adam” was
conceived of the Holy Spirit,
the power of the Highest.
God was manifest in the flesh
“and the Word became flesh and
dwelt among us”
"God sent His Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh" taking our infirmities
and sicknesses
for “He also Himself likewise took part of the
same flesh and blood”
“Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made
like unto His brethren”
“for which cause He is not ashamed to call
them brethren”
that He might become the Firstborn
of many brethren
Thus He came to “live by the Father”
and “be subject unto…God”
as His Servant, His Elect “the
Branch of righteousness”
“the Good Shepherd” “the Light
of the world” “the Bread of life”
“approved of God…by miracles and wonders and signs which God
did by him”
who “was in all points tempted like
as we are, yet without sin.”
God's
Death
So God “spared not his own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all” “the Lamb
of God”
who “gave Himself for our
sins…according to the will of our God and Father”
“when He offered up Himself”
“to put away sin by the sacrifice
of Himself”
“and became obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross”
where “His own self bare our sins in
His own body on the tree”
and “for the joy that was set before Him endured
the cross, despising the shame.”
He was “wounded for our transgressions,
bruised for our iniquities” He “died
for our sins”
while we were yet sinners that
He “should taste death for
every man”
“made to be sin for us,
who knew no sin” “neither was guile found in
His mouth”
He poured out His soul unto death
and gave His life as a ransom
for many.
Therefore does the Father love Him because He
laid down His life for us
for “God was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto Himself”
His spirit was commended into
the Father's hands. It returned to
God who gave it
for the body without the spirit
is dead. In that very day his thoughts
perished
For the dead know not anything,
there is no knowledge, nor wisdom
in the grave.
God's
Resurrection
But His body did not
see corruption. Because He was the
living manna from heaven
His body did not breed worms,
but was preserved like the manna over Sabbath.
His soul was not left in hell
though He was shut up, and could not
come forth.
As Jesus prophesied He was killed and was
raised again the third day
an angel came from heaven to roll
away the stone
as the stone was removed for
Lazarus
His Father called out, “Awake,
ye that dwell in the dust”
as Lazarus was commanded to come forth.
God, the Father, who raised Him
from the dead, the Father raised
Christ from the dead.
God raised up Jesus of Nazareth.
This Jesus has God raised up.
God having raised
up His Son Jesus.
Christ was quickened by the Spirit
as the Father gave to the Son to have
life in himself.
“the First Fruits of
them that slept” “the First Begotten
of the dead”
Jesus laid down His life that
He might take it again; this
command He received from His Father.
He who raised up the Lord Jesus
shall raise up us also by Jesus.
God’s Spirit
“The holy Spirit
of God” is “the Spirit of the
Lord”
“the Spirit of God …the Spirit of Christ"
God “has given to us His Holy
Spirit” “the Spirit of truth”
Jesus is the truth.
“The Spirit of Jesus Christ”
is “another Comforter”
for by Christ “we have access by one
Spirit to the Father”
Who “proceedeth from the Father”
and Christ “received from the
Father”
Jesus promised to send the Comforter
from the Father if He departed.
“which [the Father] shed on us through
Jesus Christ” “and poured out”
on Pentecost
for “God has sent the Spirit of
His son into our hearts” “from the
presence of the Lord”
Where can I go from Thy spirit? or where shall I flee from Thy
presence?
Cast me not away from Thy presence,
and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.
“the Father will send” and “give
the Holy Spirit to those who ask”
“The world does not know him, but you
know him for he dwells with you” now.
and then Christ “will send him
to you.” Jesus said, “I will manifest
myself to” you
“I will come to you.” My Father
and I “we will come and make
our abode” with you.
Truly our fellowship is with the Father,
and with His Son Jesus Christ.
and “the Spirit of God …the Spirit
of Christ…dwells in you” “and shall be in
you”
for we “are the temple of God and the Spirit
of God dwells in” us
If we have the Spirit of God
we are partakers of the divine nature.
by which we are “washed, sanctified,
and justified” to “guide you
into all truth”
and “teach you all things and remind
you of everything” Jesus said.
Who has directed the Spirit of the
LORD? the mind of the Lord.
The Spirit of God [which
is in Him] knows the things of God
for the Spirit of God confesses
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
God’s Intercession
There is “one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus”
He is “a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek”
“who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes
intercession for us.”
“The Spirit itself makes intercession
for us with groanings that cannot be uttered” even as Christ
“offered up prays and supplications
with strong crying and tears…in the days of His flesh”
“For Christ is entered into heaven itself, now to appear in
the presence of God for us”
and “because He continues ever, He has an
unchangeable priesthood”
“Wherefore He is able also to save
them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him”
“seeing He ever lives to make intercession
for us.”
Our “Advocate paracletos
with the Father” is in the heavenly sanctuary.
on the throne of grace who
is set on the right hand of the throne
of the Majesty in heaven.
through the veil, into the holiest
by the blood of Jesus, a new and living way.
Therefore we wait “Looking unto Jesus the Author
and Finisher of our faith”
The “Alpha and Omega, the first
and the last, the beginning and the end.”
God “has raised us up together
and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”
“That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in
kindness to us”
Eternal
and Everlasting The Bible teaches that God is immortal, eternal, everlasting. He is unbounded and unlimited by time. He is outside the boundaries of time--past, present and future. |
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Gen 21:33 | Abraham called on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God |
Ps 90:2 | From everlasting to everlasting Thou art God, Ps 93:2; 145:13 |
Isa 57:15 | The high and lofty One inhabits eternity |
Deut 33:27 | The eternal God has everlasting arms |
1 Tim 1:17 | The King eternal, immortal |
1 Tim 6:16 | Who only has immortality |
Rev 1:8 | Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the end, who is, and was, and is to come, the Almighty |
Rev 4:8 | Lord God
Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come sits on the throne of heaven |
“The Ancient of Days is God the Father. Says the psalmist: “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.” Psalm 90:2” Great Controversy p. 479 (1911)
“The Eternal Father, the unchangeable one” Ellen White, Review & Herald July 9, 1895
“The Sovereign of the universe…the eternal Father.” Patriarchs and Prophets p. 34 “The Son of God was the acknowledged Sovereign of heaven.” Great Controversy p. 495
“the eternal, self-existent One…the King.” Ellen White Patriarchs and Prophets p. 36
“…it would be impossible to find but one being in the universe, and that is God the Father, who is without father, or mother, or descent, or beginning of days, or end of life.” J. N. Andrews, Review and Herald, 7th September 1869, ‘Melchisedec’
The
Source of all Life Because He ever lives, He is the source of every life |
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Acts 17:25 | [God] gives to all life and breath and all things |
Acts 17:28 | In [God] we live, and move, and have our being |
John 5:26 | the Father has life in himself |
John 5:21 | the Father raises up the dead and quickens (gives life to) them |
Eph 2:4-6 | God has
quickened us together with Christ and has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus |
"The Ancient of Days is God the Father. Says the psalmist:
"Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God." Psalm 90:2.
It is He, the source of all being, and the fountain of all law, that is to preside in the judgment." Great Controversy p. 479.2 (1911)"...through the beloved Son, the Father's life flows out to all; through the Son it returns, in praise and joyous service, a tide of love, to the great Source of all...the great Giver." Desires of Ages p. 21
Immutable:
He is Unchanging God doesn't change His mind, His law, His covenant or His ways. His permanence is eternal. |
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Mal 3:6 | I am the LORD, I change not. |
James 1:17 | The Father of lights, in whom there is no shadow of turning |
Ps 89:34 | My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips |
Deut 7:9 | the LORD
thy God, the faithful God which keeps covenant... to a thousand generations |
Rev 14:6 | He is the Author of the Everlasting Gospel |
Omnipresent:
He is everywhere Just as God is eternal (unbounded by time), So He is omnipresent (unbounded by space). Because God is Spirit, He is not physically confined to any one location He can be everywhere at once. |
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Ps 139:7-13 | Where shall
I go from Your spirit? Where shall I flee from You presence? If I go to heaven or hell, You are there. Darkness and light are both alike to You. |
1Ki 8:27 | The heaven of heavens cannot contain thee |
Isa 66:1 | God said, "The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool" |
Jer 23:24 | Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD |
Omniscient:
He is All Knowing A consequence of being everywhere is that He is aware of everything |
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Ps 147:4,5 | He tells
the number of the stars; He calls them all by name; His understanding is infinite. |
Acts 2:23 | the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God |
1Pet 1:2 | according to the foreknowledge of God the Father |
Isa 46:10 | Declaring
the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done |
Ps 139:1-6 | LORD...you understand my thought afar off, are acquainted with all my ways |
Job 42:2 | No thought can be withheld from you |
Isa 48:13 | The eyes of the LORD are in every place |
Omnipotent:
He is All Powerful God has all power, without restrictions or limitation. There is nothing He cannot do. |
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Rev 19:6 | The Lord God omnipotent reigns |
Matt 19:26 | With God all things are possible. |
Jer 32:17,27 | He is the God of all flesh. There is nothing too hard for Him. |
Mark 5:7 | He is the Most High God |
Gen 14:22 | Jehovah Most High God, Possessor of heaven and earth. |
Gen 17:1 | the Almighty God |
1Chr 29:11 | O LORD [YHWH, Jehovah], thou art exalted as head above all |
1Chr 29:11 | Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the majesty |
vs 12 | and in thine hand is power and might |
Isa 40:26 | Lift up
your eyes on high, and behold who has created these… for He is strong in power |
Nah 1:3 | The LORD is great in power…and has His way in the whirlwind and the storm |
Luke 9:43 | And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. |
Eph 1:19 | the exceeding greatness of His power…the working of His mighty power |
Deu 9:29 | You brought out Israel "by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm |
Invisible
and Unseen Because of His infinite power, God cannot be safely seen by human eyes. Yet, Jesus, the Son of God, was seen by many mortal men. These verses, then, must refer to God the Father. |
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John 1:18 | No man
has seen God [the Father] at any time, the only begotten Son…He has declared Him. |
John 6:46 | Not that
any man has seen the Father, save He which is of God. Jesus has seen the Father |
John 5:37 | [men] have not heard [the Father's] voice at any time, nor seen his shape. |
Ex 33:22-23 | Moses saw God's glory and His back pass by "but My face shall not be seen" |
1 Tim 1:17 | The King...invisible, the only wise God |
1 Tim 6:16 | Dwelling in the light, whom no man has seen, nor can see |
Col 1:15 | Who [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God |
Deut 4:35, 39 | Jehovah
alone is God Ps 83:16-18 You alone are Jehovah, the Most High over all the earth. |
Exod 20:3 | Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. God calls for exclusive worship |
Isa
48:11,12 vs14 vs 15 |
I will not give my
glory to another…I am the first, I also am the last |
Rev
1:8 Isaiah 44:6 |
Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the end, who is, and was, and is to come, the Almighty I am the first and I am the last, and Beside me there is no God |
Rev 1:4,5 | from
Him which is and was and is to come [God the Father] and from the seven spirits before His throne [Spirit of God] (which are the seven eyes of the Lamb Rev 5:6; the Stone Zech 3:9) and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, first begotten of the dead |
Isaiah 43:10 | Before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. |
Isaiah 46:9 |
I am God
and there is none else; I am God and there is none like me You alone are Jehovah, the Most High over all the earth |
James 2:19 | You believe that there is one God: you do well |
1Cor 8:4 | There is no other God but one |
Gal 3:20 | But God is one |
1Tim 2:5 | There is one God |
Jesus, the Son of God, quoting The Shema of Deut 6:4, said
Mark 12:29_Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one. This is the greatest of all the commandments.
Christ did not deny the
fundamental belief in one God.
Nor did He establish the New Testament Church on any foundation other than
Christian Monotheism.
When Jesus quoted Deut 6:4 He did not use the Greek plural form to indicate
unity among many
but "one" to indicate unity in number.
And when the scribe confirmed Christ's declaration in terms of number, Jesus
did not correct him.
Mark 12:32_There is one God; and there is none other but he.
Continued: The Son of God