True Treasure Hunt

The Holy Spirit and The Trinity

(from) Charles Stanley pg 3
Study Bible

Genesis 1:1-2

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Look closely at Genesis 1:1-2 and you’ll notice the Bible refers to “God” and “the Spirit of God” without making the slightest distinction between the two.

It uses the two terms interchangeably.

Have you ever wondered why?

It’s because the two are one! This is the first allusion to the doctrine of the Trinity in Scripture.
A little later in the creation story we find a second reference to the Trinity:

“Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness’” Genesis 1:26.

Now to whom was God speaking?

Whoever He meant, he (or they) clearly played a crucial part in the creation process: “Let Us make man.” So who was this mysterious “Us”?

The only other beings then alive were animals and angels, and the Bible gives no indication that either group played any role in the creation process.

Fortunately, in the very next verse God clarifies who He meant:

“”And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27).

God did not create Adam and Eve in the image of animals or angels; He created them in the image of God.

Therefore, the “Us” in Genesis 1:26 must refer to God alone, that is, to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit.

Within the eternal fellowship of the Trinity, the members of the Godhead have always enjoyed a deep and rich and unbroken relationship of love with ne another.

When God created us, He wanted us to share in some measure of that fellowship; that’s why He created us in His image. By creating us to reflect His own nature, He made it possible for us to develop a deep and intimate relationship with Himself.

In this truth we come to the heart of who God made us to be.

Our intimacy with God-His highest priority for our lives-determines the impact of our lives! So the closer we grow to Him, the more positive and lasting impact we can have on this world.

(from)The MacArthur Study Bible New King James

Holy Spirit

We teach that there is but one living and true God (Deut 6:4 )

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD

Isaiah 45:5-7

“I am the LORD, and there is no other;

There is no God besides Me.

I will gird you, though you have not known Me,

That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting

That there is none besides Me.

I am the LORD, and there is no other;

I form the light and create darkness,

I make peace and create calamity;

I, the LORD, do all these things.’”

I Corinthians 8:6 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. An Infinite, all knowing Spirit

John 4:24 “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” Perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons- Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Matthew 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”

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

Amen.”

There is so much more to say; the Names and Titles of Christ; the Names and Titles of the Holy Spirit; the Character and Nature of God as seen in the Bible. Well worth seaching the scriptures to find, it is the True Treasure.