Jacob Dunbar continues this series by diving deeper into the mystery of the Trinity. God is most definitely three, but God is also one. This is a mystery we will enjoy unpacking for all of eternity. In this message we dive deeper into this mystery. It is important to note that we are made in God’s image, not the other way around. Every tribe and every culture in some way reflects the image of God. Men and women are both made in the image of God. God is described as the Father, the Son, but also the Spirit.
The bible is very clear in describing the Holy Spirit as the Mother of the Household of God. The trinity is described as the household or family of God that believers are brought into when we become born again, or born of the Spirt. Family’s consists of fathers, mothers and children. The Spirit is described as giving us new birth, and as nursing her children. Mothers give birth and nurse, not Fathers.
It is revealed to us in Genesis one that men and women both are made in the image of God,
So God created man (mankind) in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)
It is important to note that the word used for man often should be all of humanity in both the Greek and the Hebrew.
God is one person, but not like a human. God knows every thought going on right now. God knows every hair on every head of every person that has ever walked the face of the earth. God holds the universe in the palm of His /Her hand.
We can see that the family is under attack in the world. We believe that this starts with the body of Christ as we have made the Trinity into our image, the image of a man. We have pushed a theology that would have either a Father nursing and giving birth or having three men in the trinity with one of them nursing and giving birth. We have created a homo-sex God. We have made God in the image of a mortal man and thus mankind has fallen into gender confusion and homosexuality. This is evident when reading Romans 1…
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. (Romans 1:22-25)
We have made God in our image, the image of a man. We largely miss what is in the scriptures and what God has spoken because our traditions make the word of God of no effect. We have many denominations and many church doctrines built on man’s intellect.
Why is this so important?
God has given us all free-will to choose what we believe. We decide what we let into our heart, which is the seat of our beliefs.
The bible says that we have no need that any man should teach us, but the anointing teaches us all things. The Holy Spirit leads us into all truth. So search this out for your self. “They will all be taught by God.”
We are now in the household of God. God is a perfect beautiful family of which we are now a part. In the body of Christ, the Father is preached, worshipped and honored as well He should be for He is like no Father the world could ever see or imagine. Likewise, the Son is honored worshipped and admired as well He should be for He is love and truth and everything beautiful! But where is the Mother in this family? Is the household of God a single parent household without a mother. The scriptures and many throughout history would say OF COURSE NOT! So who do they describe as being our mother?
Here are just a few quotes from Count Zinzendorf who was instrumental in the Moravian Revival a catalyst for the first great awakening: "a family must be complete. We must have a Father, Mother, & Husband."
"I could not speak about it [the Holy Spirit], since I did not know how I should d