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Trinity Sunday



Today is the celebration our our glorious God The Holy Trinity. Our belief that God is The Father, The Son Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit is a defining doctrine of our Christian faith. All Unitarians, those who reject the doctrine of the Trinity are heretics. Trinitarianism is an essential theological belief all of us Christians must confess. The term was coined by a Latin Theologian named Tertullian in the 3rd century who invented the term to try and describe the One God in Three Persons.  

Trinitarianism sets us apart from Deists, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons (LDS), and other cults who preach another Jesus, “But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent, For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily” (2 Corinthians 11:3-4). The True Jesus is One with the Father, “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me,” (John 17:20-21) and with the Holy Spirit “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all,” (2 Corinthians 13:14) and “According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Holy Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.”(1 Peter 1:2). To believe in the true Jesus Christ you must believe He is God the Son who is One with The Father and Holy Spirit. 

The Doctrine of the Trinity is paramount to knowing the True God who is Three and yet One! You cannot know Jesus Christ if you ignore that He is The Son of God in the Trinitas. Our Lord told his disciples, “Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves, “ (John 14:9-11),  and “Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.” When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.” (John 20:21-22). You cannot be a Christian unless you believe The Lord is The Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

In fact our Lord Jesus tells us when we preach the gospel and make disciples it is to be done in the Name of The Holy Trinity, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19). This is a much neglected aspect of modern evangelism, especially in certain church denominations. We must preach our God who is Three in One! Amen.  

Prayer: 
“Almighty God,
you have given to us your servants grace,
by the confession of a true faith,
to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity,
and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity:
Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship,
and bring us at last to see you 
in your one and eternal glory, O Father;
who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign,
one God,
for ever and ever.
Amen.”

-BCP, Christianity Today, JUNE 7th 2020

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