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Date: May 24, 2009
Series: The Core
Sermon: Trinity
Scripture: various Scriptures

This morning, we sang:

All Creatures of Our God and King
Praise praise the Father praise the Son - And praise the Spirit three in One

Come, Now Almighty King
Come now Almighty King...
Come now incarnate Word...
Come Holy Spirit come...
To the great One in Three / Eternal praises be...

How Great is Our God
The Godhead three in one / Father Spirit Son

Holy Holy Holy
Holy holy holy / Merciful and mighty
God in three Persons / Blessed Trinity

Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow...
Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost

In song and worship we declared that Father + Son + Spirit = One God. Or 1 + 1 + 1 = 1. So it seems that Christians are either very bad at math, or we are pondering the imponderable, scrutinizing the inscrutable, trying to know the unknowable. As St. Augustine declared: “If you can understand it, it’s not God!”

When we discuss an idea such as trinity, this is an important to recognize, for if as humans, we are finite, how can we perfectly or completely grasp the infinite? If the human eye cannot deal with the brightness of the sun – and the sun is only part of the creation, then how could the human mind comprehend the glory of God – who is Creator of all that is?

There will always be truths about God that we cannot and will not fully know - things that we observe and affirm without ever fully understanding. However God in His goodness and grace has revealed to us enough that we might know Him personally. For God is not “a concept” to be comprehended, but “a someone” to be encountered.

We need not know or understand everything about God to encounter Him - and as we will see today, it is God’s reality as Trinity makes our real encounter with Him both possible and personal.