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Jack Hibbs: He's omniscient. The word omniscient is all-knowing. By the way, I don't have the scripture reference in front of me, but the verse comes to my mind. The Bible says that the seven eyes of the spirit are upon us. Seven eyes? Well, it's symbolic language. It means totality, the completeness of God. He sees all. He knows all. There's nothing hidden from Him. In 1 John 3:20, it says for our heart, if our heart condemns us. By the way, don't raise your hand, but are you feeling a little spiritually under the weather? Do you feel like you're blowing it as a Christian, that you're somehow drowning in failure? You just seem to be falling apart. Well, first of all, get baptized in the power of the Holy Spirit for one thing. And then secondly, listen to this verse. It says, for if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things. Amen. Isn't that wonderful? Do you feel condemned? Man, I'm just such a rotten Christian. God says, hey, I know you. I know you're a bumbling knucklehead. Don't condemn, don't condemn yourself anymore. I know you. I know your heart. You want to follow me. It's beautiful. Well, the next thing that we want to go to is this, and that's point number three, and that is Jesus, the Spirit, and the Trinity. Jesus, the Spirit, and the Trinity. And the first thing that we see here is this, that Jesus, the Spirit, Jesus and the Spirit, they have personality. Now, we can all say, well, of course Jesus has a personality, but the Spirit. For many people, the Holy Spirit is almost somebody that they're afraid of because some people have a hard time relating to Him. How do we call Him? What is a him? Well, He's always spoken of in scripture with the personal pronoun. Did you know that? Ladies, I don't mean to be offensive by this, but God says in His original scripture that He is a He. But take heart, He's nothing like us men. But He speaks of Himself in a male gender. Don't know why, just that He is. He says He's a He. And the Holy Spirit throughout scripture says that He is a He, personal pronoun. Jesus, we can relate to Him, no problem. Jesus, the Spirit and personality. In 2 Samuel chapter 23, verse 2, 2 Samuel 23:2 says, the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me and His words were on my tongue. That's interesting. The Holy Spirit speaks. He has that power. Not only that, in Acts chapter 13, verse 2, there the Bible says and as they ministered under the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, quote, now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. I, personal pronoun, describing whom? The Holy Spirit. He is a person. He can speak. Thank God He does. When was the last time you heard from Him, by the way? He loves to use the Bible. Jesus even told us. He said, when the Holy Spirit comes, He will speak whatsoever things I've commanded you, and He will teach you and what is implied from the Word of God. You want the Holy Spirit to speak to you? Read your Bible. That's all I can tell you. You don't read your Bible, you won't hear God speak. Anybody who says, I don't hear God speak, I know, this is just between us. But when somebody says to me, I don't hear God speak. Either A, they're not reading their Bible, or B, they haven't learned to understand or recognize His voice when He speaks. And again, there's always this one. When you do something wrong, He always seems to speak very loud and clear. I have no problem hearing Him when I'm either thinking about doing something wrong or have done it. And it's always, Jack. It's never, Jack! It's never, Jack! It's, Jack? Yes, sir. He's just got this tone, you know, in His voice. Jot this down concerning the person of the Holy Spirit. And it's obvious that we know this concerning Jesus, but the Holy Spirit, He has a will. He has a will. I'll give you one verse, though there are many. Isaiah 48:16. Isaiah 48:16 says, come near to Me, hear this. I have not spoken in secret from the beginning, from the time that was past, I was there. And now the Lord God and His Spirit have sent Me. Isn't that wonderful? He has a will. I'll throw in another scripture, even though I told you I wasn't going to give you another one. In the Book of Ephesians chapter 4, the Bible says that the Holy Spirit is the one who gives gifts to the members of the body of Christ. Jesus doesn't give them. The Father doesn't give them. The Holy Spirit gives them. Interesting. He has emotions. The Holy Spirit has emotions. Isaiah 63, verse 10 says, but they rebelled and grieved. The word in Hebrew is made angry. They rebelled and made angry His Holy Spirit. So the Spirit turned and became their enemy and He fought against them. This is in relation to the children of Israel going through the desert. Can you imagine? Can you imagine so upsetting the Holy Spirit that He turns and becomes your enemy? Wow. Isaiah 63:10. You can make angry the Holy Spirit. The Bible says in Thessalonians, don't grieve the Holy Spirit. He has an intellect. He has a mind. In 1 Corinthians 2:10, the Bible says, but God has revealed them to us through His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. He has an intellect, He has deep, obviously, deep understanding. Also this we go to. Jesus, the Spirit and personality. Also, Jesus, the Spirit and purpose. And people, we need to go quick with this, okay? I'm going to run through these very quickly. The purpose. Matthew chapter 1, verse 18. Now the birth of Jesus Christ is as follows: After His mother was engaged to Joseph, before they had union, physical union, before they had sex, she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit. That was the purpose of God. The purpose of the Trinity was at work. How did Mary become pregnant? By the person of the Holy Spirit. Her humanity, by the way, her DNA, her bloodline was in Jesus, but not Joseph's. If you know the Bible well, you know that from the curse of Jeconiah, none of his descendants, which Joseph was related to, could have the blood in the Messiah. So what did God do? God had the Holy Spirit just and she was pregnant. A miraculous conception by God. Titus chapter 3, verses 4 through 6. Titus 3:4-6 says, but when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward men appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, not according to, but according to His own mercies He has saved us, through the washing of the regeneration and the renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior. There's the Trinity right there in those few verses. On and on I could go. I'll give them to you. You can jot them down. I can't read all these passages in front of me, but John chapter 16, verse 7 and 8, John 14, 16 through 18, all of these speak about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit regarding the great purpose of the Trinity. The next thing that we see also is this. Jesus, the Spirit, and prerogative. That is, prerogative having the right or the position, the privilege or authority. The Bible makes it very clear in Genesis chapter 1, verse 2, that it was the Holy Spirit who was brooding over the waters of creation. The Holy Spirit was a tool so to speak at the workful hands of Jesus. The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 1 that it is Jesus who was in fact the Creator. But Genesis 1, verse 2, says the Spirit was moving upon the creative powers of the earth. Also, not only is the prerogative of the Spirit and of Jesus of the Trinity to be a creator, but also the divine judge. In Joel chapter 3, verse 12, the Bible says that all the nations in the last moments of world history as we know it, the nations will be gathered together there in the Valley of Jehoshaphat or Armageddon. And it says there that God will sit upon His throne and judge the nations. Well, in Matthew chapter 25, you have that fulfilled at the end of the Second Coming of Christ. The Battle of Armageddon there is now come to a conclusion, and in Matthew chapter 25, there Jesus separates the nations, the sheep from the goats. Not Christians, it is not Christians from or non-Christians. It is the nations from Israel in the final judgment upon this earth. The prerogative of the Spirit of God is that He's judge. Also, that He's the authority. Are you guys all right? That He's the authority. Very quickly. The Holy Spirit. Acts chapter 5, verses 3 through 4. But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart that you should lie to the Holy Spirit? Can you lie to an it? You know, the Jehovah Witnesses will tell you that the Holy Spirit is an it. It's a force. It's No, it's not. He's a person. Can you lie to an it? You can lie to the flag pole out here all the time of day there, it's not going to do anything to you, but if you lie to somebody, you're going to upset them. Jesus told, or Peter, excuse me, told Ananias, why have you lied to the Holy Spirit? You have not lied unto men, but unto God. Wow. Acts chapter 5. Luke 3:21. And it came to pass that Jesus, when He was baptized, and while He prayed, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in a bodily form, like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, not the Spirit, but from heaven, saying, You are My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. There's the Trinity right there.
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Jack Hibbs: Our fourth and final point, and I've got some great stuff for you here. This is exciting. I hope you're ready. You guys ready? Kind of ready to write this down. This is really going to help you in a huge way. Jesus, the Son of the Trinity. I like that. I like that little title. I made it up myself. Jesus, the Son of the Trinity. I love that. Jesus Christ, the Son of creation. I think we know about that. We understand that. But listen, Jesus, the Son of the Trinity. Listen. In John chapter 8, verse 56, it begins there where Jesus says, your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day and he saw it. He's speaking to the scribes and Pharisees. And he and he was glad. Then the Jews said to him, You are not yet 50 years of age. How then can you say that you've seen Abraham? Jesus said to them, most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. Oh, yeah, we'll come back to that in a moment. That's awesome. That's the eternal name of God. The I AM. And by the way, when He said I AM, in John chapter 10, verse 31, it says there that they picked up stones to kill Him for saying that. You know, some people say, well, Jesus never claimed to be God. That's another admission of biblical ignorance. In John chapter 10, verse 31, they understood exactly what He said. Then the Jews took up stones again to throw at Him. But Jesus answered and said to them, for many good works I've done from you, from my father. Which of these works do you stone Me for? And you can just see them. It's like And they rear back and goes, hey, for which work are you going to stone me for? What are you going to kill me for now? And you could right, right in mid pitch, we're not going to we're not going to stone you for any work that you have done. But because you blaspheme, because you being a man, declare yourself to be God. John chapter 10, verses 31 to 33. That's rather clear, don't you think? Well, Jesus, the Son, the Son of creation, we don't need to go into that because we've done it already. Jesus Christ, the Son of salvation. Now, I'm going to go through this and I want you to grab this. This is precious. You all know it. John 3:16, I want you to hear it because maybe it's going to make an impact like never before. For God. Who's that? Well, God, singular plurality. So you could say the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, so loved the world that He gave His only glorified Son, or begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. Now listen. 1 John 3:16, not John 3:16, but this next one, 1 John 3:16, says, by this we know love because He laid down His life for us. Who did? Come on, don't be shy. Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. But if you read John 3:16, Jesus came out from God. That means God laid down His life for us. That's not too difficult to understand. But I hope this morning it's graphically made clear. I'm going to show you something here. I want you to take a close look at this and I'll explain something. First of all, look again at that second point. Jesus Christ, the Son of salvation. Do you see that? The Bible says there's no other way to get to heaven. Jesus says, I am the way, the truth and the life, and no man comes to the Father but through Me. Do you believe that? Do you think that Satan hates that truth? Do you think that he wants to oppose it? Do you think he wants to send a message out against it? Listen, this is extremely important. Look at that. Jesus Christ. He is our salvation. It's either a spiritual fact or who could care less about it. Check this out. This is the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Around the edge of that. Do you see the large portion of it? You see the gold dome there, obviously. And do you see now the bigger base underneath? Written in Aramaic or Arabic around that high point there in Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount, by the way, it's the highest structure on the Temple Mount. Listen to what it says. God is not begotten. Neither does God have a son. Why would the Muslims put that on one of their most holy shrines? Why there on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem? That is a declaration, that cover up, that attempted cover up proclaims the truth. That's the last thing Satan wants people to know is that Jesus Christ is God's Son. It's awesome. Not only that, but listen to this. The scripture teaches us, who is a liar, but he who denies that Jesus is the Messiah, the Savior, the Christ. He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Jesus Christ, the Son for eternity. Jesus Christ, the Son for eternity. And listen, we'll wrap it up right here. Jot these down and we'll be done. Are you ready for this? This is fun stuff here. Isaiah 48:12. There you can see it. I'll read it to you. Jesus Christ is in fact God. Isaiah 48:12. Listen to me, oh Jacob, and me, and hear me, Israel, my called, I am He. I am the first and I am the last. Isaiah 48:12. Isaiah 44:6. You can write them down, you see them on the screen. Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and His Redeemer, the Lord of hosts, I am the first and I am with the last, and besides Me there is no God. How many gods are there? One. He says, I am the first and I am the last. That's one God speaking. That's Isaiah 44:6. Isaiah 41, verse 4. Isaiah 41:4 says, who has performed and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am the first. Get a load of this, and I am with the last. You get that? Isn't that something? Next one. Isaiah 43:10. We're almost done. Isaiah 43:10. You are My witnesses. Well, who are His witnesses? We'll find out in a minute. You are My witnesses, says the Lord. And My servant, whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me, there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me. One God. Only one. Look at the next verse, Revelation 1:8. Revelation 1:8, jot it down. He says, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who is, who was, who is to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:8. Next one. Revelation 1:11. Are you getting writer's cramp? Oh, but you're going to get smart. We'll be over, we'll be done soon. You'll be so smart. Revelation 1:11. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last. Revelation 4:8. And the four living creatures, each having six wings, with full of eyes around and within. They do not rest day or night and they say, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, who is to come. Revelation 22:13. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. That's only the attributes are the qualities given to one God, and one God only. Revelation 21:6. And He said to me, it is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. We're all talking about the same God. Yahweh God, or in English, you would say Jehovah God. Well, Revelation 1:17. John says, and when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as as though I were dead. But He laid His right hand upon me and He says, do not be afraid. I am the first and the last. Anybody have any doubt who that is? There's only one first and the last. Well, look at Revelation 1, verses 17 and 18. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as one dead. But He laid His right hand upon me saying, do not be afraid. I am the first and I am the last. I am He who lives and was dead and behold, I'm alive forevermore. Any questions? Revelation 2:8. These things says He who is the first and the last, who was dead and came back to life. Wow. God died. God died 2,000 years ago on a cross. How'd He do it? By the person of Jesus Christ, God the Son. 1 John 5:20. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us the understanding to know Him who is true. And we are in Him who is true, in His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. 1 Timothy 3:16, we've already read it this morning, so we'll skip the Titus 2:13. That we are to be looking for the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. John 8:58. Jesus said to them, most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. Exodus 3:14. And God said to Moses, I am who that I am. And He said, thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I AM sent you. Isn't that awesome? I don't know about you, but if this was a Pentecostal church, we all would have shouted amen.
Guest (Male): Pastor and Bible teacher, Jack Hibbs, here on Real Life Radio, and his message called Christ and the Trinity. Thanks so much for being with us today. You know, this message is part of Pastor Jack's series called The Life and Times of Jesus Christ. It's a series about the real Jesus of the Bible, God in the flesh, and why knowing Him more deeply changes everything, and we'll continue on the next edition of Real Life Radio. So as you heard from our broadcast, Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. And if you'd like to know what a commitment to Christ can mean in your life personally, we would love to help you out with that. Go to jackhibbs.com/knowgod. That's K N O W God. And there you'll be guided through what a commitment to Christ can mean in your life, and the freedom that you'll find in knowing God. Don't miss out. That's the know God tab at jackhibbs.com. Hey, thank you again so much for listening. And if you'd like to hear or see more of what we do here, you can always go to jackhibbs.com for all the latest on what's going on with this ministry. And please, if you're ever in the Southern California area, come see us at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. We'd love to see you there in person. It has been so good to be with you today and I pray you find yourself in the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. See you on the next episode. This program is made possible by the generous contributions of you, our listeners. Visit us at jackhibbs.com. That's jackhibbs.com. Until next time, Pastor Jack and all of us here at Real Life Radio wish for you solid and steady growth in Christ and in His word. We'll see you next time here on Real Life Radio.