S11E47: The Trinity in the Cross (Trinity Sunday 2024)

S11E47: The Trinity in the Cross (Trinity Sunday 2024)

Sermon #608

On this Trinity Sunday (the first Sunday after Pentecost) we look at the work of all three persons of the Godhead in salvation at the cross of Jesus Christ.  At the heart of the doctrine of the Trinity is the relationship between the three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  The Father is eternal and uncreated.  The Son is eternally begotten of the Father and is likewise uncreated.  The Holy Spirit eternally proceeds from both the Father and the Son, is personal and not ephemeral, and each person is glorified and magnified equally.  Yet there are not three gods but one God.  It is an eternal mystery that Christian theologians have struggled to understand for centuries, and yet in this passage from John's gospel, we see the effortless way Jesus explains the work of the Father, Son, and Spirit in the salvation of the cross to an earnest Pharisee named Nicodemus.  

John 3:1-17

Recorded at Hudson UMC on May 26, 2024

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