Trinity - The nature of God and Man

1. ONE
Yet
THREE
The nature of God and Man

2. Trinity
1. As Creator, Lord of the history of salvation,
Father, and Judge, as revealed in the Old
Testament;
2. As the Son who, in the incarnated figure of
Jesus Christ, lived among human beings and
was present in their midst as the “Resurrected
One”
3. As the Holy Spirit, whom they experienced as
the helper or intercessor in the power of the new
life.

3. InhisLikeness
Then God said, 'Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule
over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,
and over all the creatures that move along the ground.'
Gen 1:26 (NIV)
Try to answer these question,
1. Do you have a soul? Do you have a spirit? Do you have a body?
2. Is your Body different from your Spirit? Is your Spirit different from your Soul? Is your Soul
different from your Body? 3. Do they do different things?
4. But are they all the same, which makes ‘You’ ?

4. TrichotomyofMan-Body,Soul,andSpirit
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul
and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NIV)
BODY
We all know and are aware of our Body. Which is physical. The essential tool for the soul and spirit to
function. We feel we’re alive by feeling our body.
SOUL
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul. Gen 1:26 (KJV)
In Hebrew, the word translates as breath is ‘Neshama’ meaning soul.
Everything you are and what you do derives from the electro chemical synapses running in your brain.
This life that makes you feel you’re alive is technically your soul.

5. Mind, Emotion and Will put together are the three parts of your SOUL.
Parts of the Soul - MIND
Proverbs 2:10, 24:14, 19:2 - Suggests that the soul needs knowledge. Since
knowledge is a function of the mind, this proves that the mind is a part of the soul.
All three of these verses from Proverbs tell us that we need to have knowledge in the
soul.
Psalm 139:14 - says that the soul knows. To know is something of the mind, which
again proves that the mind is a part of the soul
Psalm 13:2 - says that the soul considers, or takes counsel, which refers to the mind.
Lamentations 3:20 - indicates that remembrance is of the soul. That is, the soul can
remember things. From these verses we can see that there is a part in the soul that
knows, considers, and remembers. This part is called the mind.

6. Parts of the Soul - WILL
Job 7:15 - says that the soul chooses. To choose something is a decision made by the act of
the will. This proves that the will must be a part of the soul.
Job 6:7 - says that the soul refuses. To choose and refuse are both functions of the will.
1 Chronicles 22:19 says, “Set your...soul to seek.” Just as we set our minds to think, so we set
our souls to seek. This is, of course, the soul making a decision, which proves that the will
must be a part of the soul.
Numbers 30 (KJV) - binding one’s soul is mentioned ten times . When we read this chapter, we
understand that to bind the soul is to make a decision. It deals with a vow that is made with
the Lord. To make a decision to bind the soul is to make a vow to the Lord. Thus, it is proven
that the will must be a part of the soul.
Psalm 27:12; 41:2; and Ezekiel 16:27 (KJV) translate the Hebrew word soul into “will.” The
prayer made by the psalmist is, “Do not give me over to the soul of my adversaries.”
This proves clearly that the will must be a part of the soul.

7. Parts of the Soul - EMOTION
With the emotion there are many aspects, for example, love, hatred, joy, grief, etc. All of
these are expressions of the emotion.
Love - 1 Samuel 18:1, Song of Songs 1:7, and Psalm 42:1. These verses show that love
is something in the soul, proving, therefore, that within the soul there is such an organ,
or function, as the emotion.
Hatred, 2 Samuel 5:8, Psalm 107:18, and Ezekiel 36:5. These passages indicate that
hatred is something of the soul. Since hatred is an expression of the emotion, these
verses also prove that the emotion must be a part of the soul. Ezekiel 36:5 is better
translated using the expression despising in their soul. It means the dislike or hatred of
the soul.
Joy - an element of the emotion, is also a part of the soul, as seen in Isaiah 61:10 and
Psalm 86:4, again proving that emotion is a part of the soul.
Grief - 1 Samuel 30:6 and Judges 10:16.
Desire - 1 Samuel 20:4, Deuteronomy 14:26, Ezekiel 24:25, and Jeremiah 44:14. Desire,
an element of the emotion, is shown by these verses to be in the realm of the soul.

8. HUMAN SPIRIT
Our human spirit is so important to God because God wants to fill us with Himself. He
wants us to receive Him, and our spirit is the unique receiver. Our Christian life begins
with our human spirit, as we see
John 3:6 - “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit.”
“The first Spirit mentioned here is the divine Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God, and the
second spirit is the human spirit, the regenerated spirit of man. Regeneration is
accomplished in the human spirit by the Holy Spirit of God with God’s life, the uncreated
eternal life. Thus, to be regenerated is to have the divine, eternal life (in addition to the
human, natural life) as the new source and new element of a new person.”
The moment we believe in Jesus, His Spirit enters into our spirit. When we’re
regenerated, we’re born of God; we receive His divine, eternal life in our spirit; and we
become His children.

9. Conscience, Fellowship and Intuition put together are the three parts of your SPIRIT.
Parts of the Spirit - CONSCIENCE
Romans 9:1, 8:16: - On one hand, the Holy Spirit witnesses with our spirit. On the other hand, our
conscience bears witness in the Holy Spirit. This proves that the conscience must be a function of our
spirit.
1 Corinthians 5:3 - the apostle Paul says that in his spirit he judged a sinful person. To judge means
either to condemn or to justify, which are acts of the conscience. But the apostle says that in his spirit
he judged. This confirms that the condemning or justifying function is in the spirit; hence, the
conscience is in the spirit.
Psalm 51:10 - speaks of “a right spirit within me” (KJV)—that is, a spirit which is right. Knowing right
from wrong is related to the conscience, so this verse also proves that the conscience is in the spirit.
Psalm 34:18 - refers to being “contrite in spirit.” To be contrite means we realize that we are wrong. A
contrite spirit shows that the conscience is related to the spirit.
Deuteronomy 2:30 - says, “Hardened his spirit,” which means that the conscience was hardened. To be
hardened in the spirit means to be careless with the conscience. When we cast off the feeling in the
conscience, we become hardened in the spirit. These verses offer the strongest ground for the fact
that the function of the conscience is in the human spirit.

10. Parts of the Spirit - FELLOWSHIP
John 4:24 - tells us that we must worship God in our spirit. To worship God is to contact God and
fellowship with God.
Romans 1:9 - the apostle Paul says, “I serve [God] in my spirit.” To serve God is also a type of
fellowship with God.
Romans 7:6 - “We serve in newness of spirit.” In other words, service is essentially fellowship with the
Lord in our spirit.
Ephesians 6:18 - “Praying at every time in spirit.” To pray means to fellowship with God. To pray in
spirit indicates, then, that fellowship with God is a matter in our spirit.
Luke 1:47 - “My spirit has exulted in God.” This means that the human spirit has contacted God.
Romans 8:16 says, “The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit.”
1 Corinthians 6:17 - “He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” Real fellowship means that we become
one spirit with the Lord. All these verses are sufficient to prove that the function of fellowship is in our
human spirit.

11. Parts of the Spirit - INTUITION
1 Corinthians 2:11 - reveals that the spirit of man can know what the soul cannot. Our
spirit can discern that which the soul cannot discern. This proves that something extra
is in our spirit. Our soul can know things by reason and by circumstantial experiences,
but the human spirit can discern things without these. This direct sense shows that the
intuition is in our spirit.
Mark 2:8 - “Knowing fully in His spirit.”
Mark 8:12 - “He groaned deeply in His spirit.”
John 11:33 - says that Jesus “was moved with indignation in His spirit.”
To know, to groan, and to be indignant in our spirit come from a direct sense of
discernment that is not dependent upon reason.
This we call the intuition, the third function of our spirit.

12. ROLE of the Triune
God the father, God the Son, and God the Holy spirit.
God as the Father
God is our Father not only in that he is our Creator but that he is also our Redeemer; this
is what distinguishes the Christian’s relationship to God and what allows us to relate to
him as Father.
In the Old Testament, God is the Father of Israel (and Israel is his son) in the context of
God forgiving and redeeming Israel. (Exodus 4:22)
God as the Son
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in
him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and
for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:15-17
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1

13. If Jesus was God and equal to the father and the holy spirit, why did He say,
“The Father is greater than I” in John 14:28 and that “because 'I seek not my own will
but the will of my Father who sent me.' in John 5:30”? …
But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now
crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God
he might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:9 (NIV)
Because he was fully Human he suffered all the pain in the cross and faced physical
death like any human. Also, because he was fully God he rose from the grave defeating
death.

14. God as the Holy Spirit
“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.”
John 4:24
The Bible describes the Holy Spirit as a person, not a mere force.
- He can be grieved (Ephesians 4:30).
- He has a will (1 Corinthians 12:4-7). He uses His mind to search the deep things
of God (1 Corinthians 2:10).
- He has fellowship with believers (2 Corinthians 13:14).
Thus, the entire process of creation, salvation, and revelation is viewed as a single
shared action of the three divine persons, in which each person manifests the
attributes unique to them in the Trinity, thereby proving that everything comes "from the
Father," "through the Son," and "in the Holy Spirit."

15. THANK
YOU!
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