Attributes - Part 5

  Not only is God alive, active, moving, real, he is the source of all other life. While everything else that has life received it as a gift from God, He IS life, with no possibility of death. Throughout the Bible it speaks of “the living God”. In Daniel 6:26 it states, “He is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.” The word immortal means “without death” or “imperishable”, “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.” (I Timothy 1:17) We know that God not only has life eternal, but He gives it to others. John 5:24 says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”

            God is unity or “oneness”, but He is also triunity, which means there are three persons in one God. Dr. Norman Geisler puts it this way, “God has a plurality of persons and a unity of essence; God is three persons in one nature. There is only one “What” (essence) in God, but there are three “Whos” (persons) in that one What…. Three Subjects in one Object.”

Jesus prayed in John 17:5, “…Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.” And then in John 8:58 He says, “Before Abraham was born, I am!” which refers not only to Jesus’ existence before Abraham, but also to His claim of being there as one with the Father when He said, “I Am” in Exodus 3:14

The Holy Spirit is also referred to as God throughout the Bible. In Acts 5:3,4 it says, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit…You have not lied to men but to God.” II Corinthians 13:14 states, “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all”, which brings all three persons together in one benediction. Again, the three persons of God were shown together at the baptism of Jesus. When Jesus came up out of the water, He saw the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, and He heard the voice of God, the Father, coming from heaven. In Matthew 28:19 it says, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” All of these verses and more show three distinct persons with one nature. Our God is three in one, three persons in one being.