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DPI #32 God is Three in Function, One in Essence & Substance
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 02:14:06
Publish Date: 2009-08-02 17:00:00
Description: Satan is "sneaky" and he wants to deny the "deity" of Yeshua our Messiah as being Yehovah in the flesh. 1st John 4:3 in the KJV declares that "every spirit" which denies that Yeshua Messiah is "come in the flesh" is from the Antichrist. And so Satan has several different strategies and deceptions in order to accomplish this. The reason why Jews & Muslims have a very difficult time accepting Yeshua/Jesus as Messiah and God in the flesh is because they view this idea as a violation of the 1st Commandment: Exodus 20:2-3 I am the LORD (Yehovah) thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. For a Jew to worship Jesus as Messiah and God is to worship more than one God and to violate the 1st Commandment. And so this is what the doctrine of the Trinity does. It SEPARATES JESUS FROM YEHOVAH, making him appear as either one of three things: 1.) A lesser god 2.) Not God at all 3.) One of three gods But all three of the above concepts are wrong!Revelation 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and ONE sat on the throne. We are never going to see the Father in a separate body. We are always going to see the Father embodied and expressed in the image of the Son. Why? Because "no man has seen God at any time" (John 1:18), and so this includes the Apostle John who saw that ONE sitting on the throne. That "ONE" is none other than the "visible image" of the invisible God, Yeshua Messiah. In his bodily representation, we see the fulness of God: Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are all persons, but not "separate persons" as in three separate bodily images. There is only one "body" or image that expresses the three, even though they have three separate personalities, roles or functions. They cannot be called three "persons" by definition of the word as if they are three separate bodily images, or beings. We can say that they are "three personalities" but three "bodily persons"---NO. They cannot be treated as three separate bodily images or three bodily persons.There is only ONE PLACE IN THE ENTIRE BIBLE WHERE GOD IS REFERRED TO AS A PERSON. In the King James Version, in Hebrews 1:3 we find that God is referred to as a PERSON (singular): Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: Okay, so we see that Yeshua (Jesus) is the "express image" of God's Person" (singular), and so we find out that God is only ONE PERSON, NOT THREE PERSONS (plural). And how does the Greek Strong's Concordance define "person"? here in Hebrews 1:3? #5287. hupostasis hoop-os'-tas-is from a compound of 5259 and 2476; a setting under (support), i.e. (figuratively) concretely, essence, or abstractly, assurance (objectively or subjectively):--confidence, confident, person, substance. So we see that God is ONE SUBSTANCE, ONE ESSENCE, ONE HUPOSTASIS, ONE PERSON. Yet he is THREE IN FUNCTION AS: 1.) The one who was - past 2.) The one who is - present 3.) The one who is to come - future He acts in the role of: FATHER, SON & HOLY SPIRIT.
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