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Friday, December 31, 2010

Ephesians 4:4-6

"There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (Ephesians 4:4-6)
 
Though the word trinity does arise until the Canon's, The Messiah himself says that the Father and he are one, he also speaks of a Comforter that will come in his place once he returns back to his Father. So what other word would you use than a Trinity?


Paul's letter to the church at Ephesus is surely one of the most profoundly doctrinal yet intensely practical books of the Word of the Heavenly Father.
 
More often, however, it appears not in a succinct formula like this, but rather in interconnected references to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, always implying that each is deity, but never that they are three different  deities'."He  prayed "unto the Father, that he would grant us to be strengthened with might by the Holy Spirit in the inner man; That the Messiah may dwell in your hearts by faith". Thus the believer is "filled with all the fulness of the God head", Father, son and Holy Spirit.
 
We are exhorted to "grieve not for the  Holy Spirit has knowledge of what we need,  even as our Heavenly Father for Christ's sake hath forgiven us". Giving thanks always for all things that are good and proper are from the Father.
 
There are others, but note especially our text, speaking of our unity in Him and His tri-unity in us. "There is one Spirit one redeemer,  One Heavenly Father, just as we are one body, though there are many members. But as our Father and the Messiah so are we one body with one single purpose which is to glorify the Father in all things.

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