“Show Me Your Glory” by Steve Lawson
All that Steve Lawson has written until now can be seen as preliminary observations about the character of God. To really understand God “we must start with the most difficult aspect of His divine being to understand. The doctrine of the Trinity is the most mind-stretching truth when it comes to understanding who God is.” He opens the chapter by quoting Charles Spurgeon:
“Nothing will so enlarge the intellect and magnify the whole soul of a man
as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the whole subject of the Trinity.”
You will not find the term ‘Trinity’ in the Bible, yet Scripture clearly teaches “there is one God who exists in three distinct persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Each of the three persons of the Godhead is God – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are each fully God. Each of these three divine persons is coequal and coeternal with the other persons of the Trinity. As one God, the three persons share the exact same divine eternal nature.”
Many people do not believe in the Trinity. That will bring great danger. Why? “To reject this truth is to reject the gospel itself. Jesus must be truly God and truly man in order to die a sin-bearing, substitutionary death on the cross and take away the sins of His people. [Jesus must be God.] Or who among us can actually comprehend how the Bible is divinely inspired, yet also written by human authors? [The Holy Spirit must be God.]”
Like all doctrine, it requires faith received from God. As seen earlier, unlike other ‘gods’ who cannot speak, God reveals Himself. “We cannot truly understand all that the Trinity means, but we must believe it by faith.” Thus the next several looks in Steve’s book on some basic truths that will help us understand the triunity of our great God.
Pastor Gillikin