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- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: May 3, 2015 | 10:00am
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SERMON SERIES:
Trinity
This is the second Sunday in a series of messages in which we are studying the Trinity. In the Bible, we hear God describe himself using three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—equal in stature, proceeding from one another, united in their mission. Now, for over seventeen hundred years, Christians from East and West have held on to this beautiful image of the Trinity, God’s triune nature. It is at once majestic, offering this beautiful and relational view of God; and at the same time totally mystifying—we still haven’t figured it out completely. We’ve tried though, and it continues to invite us deeper.
Last week we began in the beginning: God created. And we looked at the Bible’s narrative of creation, how God not only creates all things, but God creates all things good and with order, giving meaning to the cosmos.
But this week, I want to take that one step further, that the God we meet in the pages of Scripture is not just the heavenly watchmaker, who puts things together, winds them up, and walks away. The Bible teaches that God the Father, the first person of the Trinity, not only creates, but God also relates. One of my favorite writers, the German theologian and pastor Helmut Thielicke, writes this: “The way God becomes believable to us is not only through what he does, but through the people who are involved in that action.”
The Scriptures present a God who is intimate and relational. God invests in the lives of his creation. God is not cold and distant, but warm and near to us, like a faithful and loving parent. What I hope to accomplish today is to help us see why the God we meet in the Bible is much preferable to the caricatured god of our culture.
Download the entire transcript: Deuteronomy 29 Covenantal Relationship
