So yesterday I got to preach about the second person of the Trinity: the Majesty of the Son.  This was one of the hardest messages I’ve done; what words could I possibly use to describe the glory and majesty and mystery of the Trinity.  Basically, my message yesterday me saying, “Hey, I’m going to go worship the Triune God, wanna come with?”

We looked at Matthew 3:13-17 and reviewed three important ideas:

1. God is a Trinity
2. The Son is Fully God
3. The Doctrine of the Trinity Leads Us To Worship

Here are some of the quotations that I ran across in my preparation that I couldn’t use:

“No sooner do I conceive of the one than I am illumined by the splendour of the three; no sooner do I distinguish them than I am carried back to the one.  When I think of any one of the three I think of him as the whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking escapes me.  I cannot grasp the greatness of that one so as to attribute a greater greatness to the rest.  When I contemplate the three together, I see but one torch, and cannot divide or measure out the undivided light.”  Gregory Nazianzen, Orations on Holy Baptism, 40.41

“Just about everything that matters in Christianity hangs on God’s three-in-oneness.”  Bruce Milne, Know the Truth, 78.

“The next thing less than the infinite is infinitely less.”  J. Gresham Machen, quoted in Stephen Nichols, For Us and For Our Salvation, 60.

“For who even of slight intelligence does not understand that, as nurses commonly do with infants, God is wont in a measure to “lisp” in speaking to us?  Thus such forms of speaking do not so much express clearly what God is like as accommodate the knowledge of him to our slight capacity.”  John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. John T. McNeill, Vol 1, p. 120.

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