Simple
Explication of the Trinity (Power Point Presentation)
I. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON: FORTY PERSONAL
ATTRIBUTES
1) Helps: Jn 14:16,26, 15:26,
16:7, Rom 8:26, 1 Jn 2:1
2) Glorifies:
Jn 16:13-14
3) Can
be Known: Jn 14:17
4) Gives
Abilities: Acts 2:4, 1 Cor 12:7-11
5) Referred
to as "He": Jn 14:26, 15:26, 16:7-8, 13
6) Loves:
Rom 15:30
7) Guides:
Jn 16:13
8) Comforts:
Jn 14:26, 15:26, 16:7, Acts 9:31
9) Teaches:
Lk 12:12, Jn 14:26
10)
Reminds: Jn 14:26
11)
Bears Witness: Jn 15:26, Acts 5:32, Rom 8:16
12)
Has Impulses: Jn 16:13
13)
Hears: Jn 16:13
14)
Leads: Mt 4:1, Acts 8:39, Rom 8:14
15)
Pleads: Rom 8:26-27
16) Longs (Yearns): Jas 4:5
17)
Wills: 1 Cor 12:11
18)
Thinks: Acts 15:25, 28
19)
Sends: Acts 13:4
20)
Dispatches: Acts 10:20
21)
Impels: Mk 1:12
22)
Speaks: Jn 16:13-15, Acts 8:29, 10:19, 11:12, 13:2
23)
Forbids: Acts 16:6-7
24)
Appoints: Acts 20:28
25)
Reveals: Lk 2:26, 1 Cor 2:10
26)
Calls to Ministry: Acts 13:2
27)
Can be Grieved: Is 63:10, Eph 4:30
28)
Can be Insulted: Heb 10:29
29)
Can be Lied to: Acts 5:3-4
30)
Can be Blasphemed: Mt 12:31-32
31)
Strives: Gen 6:3
32)
Is Knowledgeable: Is 40:13, Acts 10:19, 1 Cor 2:10-13
33)
Can be Vexed: Is 63:10
34)
Judges: Jn 16:8
35)
Prophesies: Acts 21:11, 28:25, 1 Tim 4:1
36)
Has Fellowship: 2 Cor 13:14
37)
Gives Grace: Heb 10:29
38)
Agrees: 1 Jn 5:7-8
39)
Offers Life: 2 Cor 3:6, Rev 22:17
40)
Is the Creator: Job 33:4
II. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD: DIRECT
BIBLICAL EVIDENCE
1) JOB 33:4
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me
life. {Creator}
2) MATTHEW
12:31 . . . All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the
blasphemy {against} the {Holy} Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. {only God
can be blasphemed}
3) JOHN
4:24 God {is} a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship {him} in spirit
and in truth.
4) ACTS
5:3-4, 9 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to
the Holy Ghost, and to keep back {part} of the price of the land? (4) Whiles it
remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own
power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied
unto men, but unto God . . . (9) Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye
have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them
which have buried thy husband {are} at the door, and shall carry thee out. {the
Holy Spirit is unquestionably called God, by simple deduction}
5) ACTS
13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate
me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. {only God
calls}
6) ACTS
28:25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul
had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our
fathers, {Isaiah 6:8-10, which is quoted in Acts 28:26-27, applies the words
cited to God; thus the Holy Spirit and God are equated in these two passages}
7) 1
CORINTHIANS 2:10-13 But God hath revealed {them} unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. (11) For what man
knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so
the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. (12) Now we have
received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God. (13) Which things
also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
8) 1 COR
3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and {that} the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you? {cf. to 1 Cor 6:19}
9) 1
CORINTHIANS 12:4-6,11 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
(5) And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. (6) And
there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all
in all . . . (11) But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit,
dividing to every man severally as he will.
10) 2
CORINTHIANS 3:6,17-18 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament;
not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit
giveth life . . . (17) Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the
Lord {is}, there {is} liberty. (18) But we all, with open face beholding as in
a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, {even} as by the Spirit of the Lord.
11)
EPHESIANS 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed
unto the day of redemption.
12) HEB
9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without spot to God
13) 1 PETER
1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ: . . .
III. 13 DESCRIPTIONS APPLIED TO
ALL THREE IN THE TRINITY
{ * = God the Father / <> =
The Holy Spirit / + = Jesus }
1) Who
Indwells Believers?
*JOHN 14:23
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and
my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with
him.
*1
CORINTHIANS 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and {that} the
Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (17) If any man defile the temple of God, him
shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which {temple} ye are.
*2
CORINTHIANS 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye
are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and
walk in {them}; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. {cf. Ex
29:45, Jer 31:33, Ezek 37:27}
*1 JOHN
4:12-16 . . . If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is
perfected in us. (13) Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his Spirit. (14) And we have seen and do testify
that the Father sent the Son {to be} the Saviour of the world. (15) Whosoever
shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
(16) And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love;
and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
<>JOHN
14:16-17 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter,
that he may abide with you for ever; (17) {Even} the Spirit of truth; whom the
world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. {cf. Jn 14:18 below}
<>ROMANS
8:9, 11 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the
Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of his...(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. {cf. Rom 8:10 below}
<>1
CORINTHIANS 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to
us of God.
<>1
CORINTHIANS 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost {which is} in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? {cf. to
1 Cor 3:16}
<>GALATIANS
4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into
your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
<>1
JOHN 3:24 . . . And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which
he hath given us.
<>1
JOHN 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath
given us of his Spirit. {cf. Neh 9:20, Jn 14:26, 15:26, 16:7-8,13-15, Rom 8:14,
2 Cor 13:14}
+JOHN 14:18
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. {cf. Jn 14:16-17 above}
+JOHN 14:20
At that day ye shall know that I {am} in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
+JOHN 14:23
. . . If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and
we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
+JOHN 15:4
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it
abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
+JOHN 17:23
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; . . .
+ROMANS
8:10 And if Christ {be} in you, the body {is} dead because of sin; but the
Spirit {is} life because of righteousness. {cf. Rom 8:9 above}
+1 JOHN
3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him . . .
2) Who
Raised Jesus From the Dead?
*GALATIANS
1:1 . . . God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) {cf. 1 Thess 1:10}
<>ROMANS
8:11 . . . the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, .
. .
+JOHN 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I
will raise it up.
+JOHN
10:17-18 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I
might take it again. (18) No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This
commandment have I received of my Father.
3) Who
Searches Minds and Hearts?
*JEREMIAH
17:10 I the Lord search the heart, {I} try the reins, even to give every man
according to his ways, {and} according to the fruit of his doings.
<>1
CORINTHIANS 2:10 But God hath revealed {them} unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
+REVELATION
2:23 . . . I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto
every one of you according to your works.
4) Who
Sanctifies Us?
*1
THESSALONIANS 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; . . .
<>1
PETER 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the spirit, . . .
+HEBREWS
13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own
blood, suffered without the gate.
5) Who
Gives Us Words to Speak?
*MATTHEW
10:19-20 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak:
for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. (20) For it is
not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
<>MARK
13:11 But when they shall lead {you}, and deliver you up, take no thought
beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall
be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the
Holy Ghost. {cf. Lk 12:11-12, Jn 14:26}
+LUKE
21:14-15 Settle {it} therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye
shall answer: (15) For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your
adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
6) Who Gave
the New Covenant?
*JEREMIAH
31:33-34 But this {shall be} the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;
After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and
write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(34) And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his
brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of
them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their
iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
<>HEBREWS
10:15-17 {Whereof} the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he
had said before, (16) This {is} the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their
minds will I write them; (17) And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
+HEBREWS
12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, . . . {cf. 8:1-13, 10:29,
13:20}
7) Who is
the Creator?
*Gen 1:1, Is 44:24, Acts 17:24,
Eph 3:9 / <>Job 33:4 / +Jn 1:3, Col 1:16, Heb 1:8, 10
8) Who is
Our Helper?
*Heb 13:6 / <>Rom 8:26 /
+Heb 4:16
9) Baptized
in the Name of. . .?
* <> + Mt 28:19
10) Who
Comforts Us?
*2 Cor 1:3-4 / <>Acts 9:31 /
+2 Cor 1:5 {cf. Jn 16:7}
11) Who
Gives us Peace?
*Phil 4:7, 1 Cor 14:33 /
<>Gal 5:22 / +Jn 14:27, Eph 2:14
12) Who
Sends Out Christians?
*Mt 9:38 / <>Acts 13:4 / +Mt
10:16, Mar 3:14, Jn 20:21
13) Who
Calls Christians to Ministry?
*Rom 8:28-30, Gal 1:15 / <>Acts 13:2 / +Rom 1:6