The Mystery of the Trinity

A man saw a boy while talking a walk on the beach. The boy had dug a hole in the sand and was going out to the sea repeatedly, bringing water to pour into the hole. The man asked him, “What are you doing?” “I’m going to pour the entire ocean into this hole.” “That is impossible, the whole ocean will not fit in the hole you have made,” said the man. The boy replied, “And you cannot fit the Trinity in your tiny little brain.” The man had been thinking about the mystery of the trinity. The mystery of the trinity is demystified the closer we get to God.

Each time we close a Christian gathering we often recite or rather share in the grace but many have not given much thought to the wordings of that scripture:

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
2 Corinthians 13:14, NKJV

It is the grace (a capacity to tolerate, accommodate, or forgive people, the infinite love, mercy, favour, and goodwill shown to humankind by God) of our Lord Jesus Christ that made Him leave the splendour of Haven and relinquished His privileges as God to come die for your sins and mine. He continues to advocate on our behalf daily. 

The Love (an intense feeling of tender affection and compassion, the mercy, grace, and charity shown by God to humanity) of God that made Him choose us. Romans 10:13 "Everyone who calls, "Help, God!' gets help." God is not late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself because of you, holding back the End because he does not want anyone lost. He is giving everyone space and time to change.

The Communion (a relationship, especially one in which something is communicated or shared) of the Holy Spirit that provides us what we need as we fellowship with God and each other. The friendly Spirit of the Truth will take us by the hand and guide us into all the truth there is.

Our part is to believe in God (the triune God) and He will work in our lives in more ways than we can ever know. We cannot totally understand the Trinity because of the limits to our understanding, but we can understand the working of all three Persons of the Trinity in our lives. Moreover, we can worship Him because He is awesome. 

His Death, His Passion...

He that was without sin, died for our sins, he died that we may have life and have it more abundantly. He died that we may be reconnected to God. Are you still not connected to Him, were you once connected but now has lost that connection…?

Our song today should be nothing other than:

We are coming home to Jesus,
We have heard His welcome voice;
We are trusting in His goodness.
In His mercy we rejoice

We are coming… home, we are coming… home
We are coming from the darkness to the light…
We are coming… home, we are coming… home
We are coming, home to night

We are coming home to Jesus
For He died that we might live;

He is willing to receive us,
He is waiting to forgive.

We are coming home to Jesus,
By the cross, our only way;
There He finished our redemption,
And we can no more delay

...do you still have any reason not to worship one who went through all these for your sake? He died that you may live; He was made poor that you may be rich. Accept Him as your Lord and Saviour today and enjoy peace and all that comes with the Calvary experience.

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Adoption

When we give our life to Jesus Christ and accept him as our lord and saviour, we become members of God’s family. Our surname changes to children of God. With this in mind, our misbehaviour would not mean that we are no longer his children. It only requires us to go back to Him and ask for forgiveness as the prodigal son did and He will take us back.  This is due to the perfection in the sacrifice that Jesus made. It is a once-and-for-all sacrifice.

God is not interested in our burnt offering and incense anymore. They are just temporary measures to atone for our sins. It is not fragrance and smoke from the altar that whet His appetite. He set aside the first in order to enact the new plan-- God's way--by which we are made fit for God by the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus. Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem. As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins – the perfect sacrifice, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God.

Unlike the human priest, Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins forever. The sacrificed blood of Jesus, God's Son, purges all our sin. The blood Christ shed on the cross addresses the sin problem that plagues all people. People do not need a priest continually to offer sacrifices to cover their sins; they need sincerely, to ask God for forgiveness through faith in Christ and His sacrifice. God can erase the record of sin and help those who turn to Him to live a godly life.

In Christ, the eternal perfect sacrifice has completely invalidated the Old Testament sacrificial system. The sacrifice of Jesus and the resultant salvation erases the guilt and clears the record of sin. It also guarantees an eternity in heaven with Jesus.

If you have received Christ, rejoice. If you have yet to receive Him, do not wait any longer. Your efforts cannot save you. Only Jesus can save you. Your life will move from temporary to eternal when you place your faith and trust in Christ.

Thank God for Jesus

I had imagined times without number what it would be like if we were still living under the law. When we would have to obey all the laws God gave from the book of Exodus to Deuteronomy. Where turning away from any one of them could cost us our life. I could imagine a priest going in to make sacrifice and he will have a bell tied to his waist with a rope extending out so the people can pull him out when he drops dead.

  

"When an ordinary member of the congregation sins unintentionally, straying from one of the commandments of GOD which must not be broken, he is guilty. When he is made aware of his sin, he shall bring a goat, a female without any defect, and offer it for his sin, lay his hand on the head of the Absolution-Offering, and slaughter it at the place of the Whole-Burnt-Offering. (Leviticus 4:27-29, MSG)

Are these your thoughts…? I have tried everything and nothing helps. I am at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? The answer, thank God, because Jesus Christ can and does provide the only way. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.

With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. A new power is now in operation. God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He did not deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right for the last time. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that.

The law always ended up being used as an offering or serving as a temporary or expedient remedy or solution instead of a deep healing of it. Now what the law code asked for but we could not deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.

Since Jesus "ever lives to make intercession for" us, and since He is "an Advocate with the Father" (I John 2:1, 2) for us all, we need no other mediator. There is no need to pray through Mary or any of the "saints". Jesus, our Mediator, will present our requests to God for us. He alone is sufficient.

We need an example – Christ is our perfect example. We need a sacrifice – Christ is our perfect sacrifice. We need a high priest – Christ is our perfect high priest. We need a mediator – Christ is our perfect mediator. What more could you want? What more do you need? Nothing! We need nothing more; yet anything less would be insufficient. Then truly, Jesus Christ is an All-Sufficient Saviour.