Our God is a triune God because the Bible teaches this is the case—three persons but one essence. That the Bible does not contain the word triune or the word trinity does not negate the fact that the Bible teaches three personal distinctions in one divine nature. Let’s take a look…

_ Read Deut. 4:35, 39; 1 Kings 8:60; Isa. 45:5. According to these references, how many gods are there?

_ Read Deut. 6:4; James 2:19. When we worship God, how many are we worshipping?

So we see that God’s divine nature is undivided and invisible. In other words, He does not consist of parts and He cannot be divided into parts. He is one. ONE.

Yet as Christians we refer to God as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These are three distinctions that exist as one divine essence. God is all three, all the time. We often refer to them as three persons in one.

_ Read Matt. 3:16-17. Who do you see in this passage?

So what do we learn about the existence of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?

It is important that we realize, then, that we are not talking about one God who created the world and gave the laws and who then came to earth as the Son to fill the office of Redeemer and who at times operates as the Spirit in acts of regeneration and sanctification.

According to the Matthew 3 passage, we see God in each of the three persons all at a single moment in time.

The Bible is clear in recognizing Father, Son and Spirit each as being God. It credits attributes of deity to each one individually. And each performs acts only deity is capable of performing or has the right to perform.

_ Read John 10:30. If Jesus was not God, what must you conclude from reading this verse?

The doctrine of the trinity is one of the mysteries of Scripture that must be taken on faith. The documentation is there to tell us God is One; and it is also there to tell us God is Three. Believing that one can be three and three can be one—now that’s the part that takes faith.