Message Notes                                                                                                                                                                         June 26, 2005
Tethered to the Trinity                                                                                                                                                                       Tri God    

                  
Look Back

1) The Word Trinity Means Tri-Unity Or Three-In-Oneness

2) God Is Three Persons. Each Is Fully God. There Is One God

3) God Is One In Essence and Three In Persons

 

I. We Were Tethered To the Trinity At Creation

Genesis 1:26 “Let us make man in our image…”

 

Genesis 2:25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

 

II. Our Sin Cut the Tether

Genesis 3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. ⁹ But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"

 

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…

 

III. We Need To Be Tethered Back To the Trinity

Colossians 1:19-20 For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things … by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross.

 

IV. We Have the Freedom To Choose

Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

 

John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God…

 

“Dear God, I want a real relationship with you. I realize that I have sinned against you and been my own boss.  I turn from my sin to you, and ask you to forgive me.  Jesus, I know that you died for me and rose again.  So I ask you into my life, as my leader. I accept the forgiveness that you freely give. Thank you for dying for me.  Help me now to live for you. Amen.”