Is the Holy Spirit really God? Is the Holy Spirit even a person? Does the Holy Spirit have His own thoughts? How do we know it’s not just the manifestation of The Father’s presence? Join ArieRashelle in the final video, The Spirit, of our three-part series, The Trinity, as she explains who the Holy Spirit is and what His role is in the Trinity.
Psalms 51:11 Luke 1:19 Hebrews 9:24 John 16:7 2 Timothy 1:14 Matthew 28:19 Matthew 3:11 Mark 3:28-29 Jude 1:8-10 John 3:5-6 Romans 8:26 1 Samuel 10:10 1 Samuel 10:12 Luke 1:67 1 Corinthians 12:1 Acts 1:8 Romans 15:13 John 1:32 Luke 24:29 2 Kings 4:18-37 2 Kings 2:19-22
The Holy Spirit’s Role In The Trinity:
We explained the Trinity as being a body: The Father as the brain, directing the arms and legs, which is Jesus, which means the Holy Spirit makes up the blood, veins, nerves that connect the Father and the Son. For instance, in the video above, we explained that Jesus could not begin His work on Earth until He was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit.
32 And John (John the Baptist) bore witness: ‘I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on Him.’
1 John 1:32
Therefore, the Holy Spirit is the one who gives out the Spiritual Gifts.
When Jesus was explaining who the Holy Spirit is to His disciples, He explained that He would bring conviction to the World.
8 And when He comes, He will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
John 16:8-11
So, we can see that it’s the Holy Spirit’s role to be our conscience. Jesus never said that it was just the Church that He would do this for, but the world, which means that the world has no excuse for the Spirit has personally convicted everyone of sin, righteousness, and judgment.
Fun Fact:
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2
Moses tells us that God (Elohim) created the heaven and the earth, but not the specific God-Head being because it took all three of them to create. So, the first God-Head being mentioned is the Holy Spirit.
How can Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Father all be God, if there is only one God? So is Jesus really God? Wasn’t Jesus born from a human woman? Didn’t He have an Earthly Father? How can we be sure that there is even a Trinity? Does the Bible ever actually say there is such a thing as the Trinity? Join ArieRashelle as she explains how Jesus fits into the Trinity through Scripture in this second video, The Son, of our three-part series, The Trinity.
John 10:30 John 1:1-5 John 1:14 Matthew 3:16-17 2 Peter 1:17 Isaiah 42:8 Isaiah 48:11 John 8:54 John 17:1 Isaiah 43:11 Hosea 13:4 Titus 3:4-7 Acts 5:30-31 Isaiah 44:6 Isaiah 48:12 Revelation 1:17-18 Revelation 2:8 Revelation 22:12-13 Exodus 7:14 John 8:58 John 1:1-2 1 Timothy 2:5-6 Hebrews 4:14 Hebrews 5:9-10 Hebrews 7:26-27 John 14:6 John 16:23 John 8:34 1 John 2:1 Romans 5:18-19 1 Corinthians 15:21 Hebrews 10:4-11 Galatians 5:1 Romans 6:6-7 1 Corinthians 10:13 James 4:7 John 15:15 Luke 7:34 Philippians 2:5-7 John 14:14 Hebrews 2:11 Matthew 12:49 Proverbs 17:17
The Trinity: The Son
Jesus’ Role in the Trinity as the Son
We truly didn’t get into Jesus’s role in the video, in fear of it being too long. One of Jesus’s primary roles, as being the Word of God, is fulfilling what The Father says. We see this throughout Scripture from Old Testament to New Testament. In our last video we explained that Yahweh, The Father, makes the plans and leads the Head of the Trinity. So then can we say Yahweh is more powerful or important than Jesus? No, it doesn’t. Because they balance each other.
Each member of the Trinity has a specific role to play. The Father plans, directs, and leads the Trinity. The Son fulfills the plans of the Father. Think of The Trinity as a body. The Father is the head, and the Son is the body. The body does as the head commands. The head is not more important than the body, and the body not more important than the head, for neither can be without the other; instead they complement each other.
For example,
19 So Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.’
John 5:19
28 So Jesus said to them, ‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me. 29 And He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.’
John 8:28-29
Jesus follows the lead of The Father not because He is weaker, not because He is less of God, but because He humbles Himself.
Paul explains it like this:
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2:5-8
So why would Jesus do this? If we keep reading, Paul tells us.
9 Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:9-11
So Jesus did this to glorify His Father. He took the sin, punishment, debt, and death that we could not bear so that we could have life and life more abundantly. And in doing this the Father glorified the Son, bestowing upon Him the name above all names.
Jesus is also the Righteous Judge. As any good society, there are laws. So if there are laws, there would need to be someone who decides whether the laws have been kept. Once the judge has spoken, someone must either reward or punish those whom the judge has judged.
We see this plainly when Jesus said,
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He will. 22 For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
John 5:21-23
So the Father has given Jesus the task of being a righteous judge, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The Father did this to make sure that all saw that the Son was honored as God, to ensure we saw that they are equal. Jesus explains when and whom He will judge.
31 When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. 32 Before Him will be gathered all the nations, and He will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And He will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.
Matthew 25:31-33
So at the final judgment, we will all stand before Jesus as He sits on His throne. He will separate us according to how we lived our lives. Jesus tells us that the Father carries out His righteous judgments.
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:1-2
So Jesus judges and then the Father brings forth the judgment itself, whether it be a reward or a punishment.
The Trinity can be a confusing idea, yet an important one. It’s the core belief of all Christians. We believe God is made up of three separate entities: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. We believe in the Godhead, but do we understand what that means? Is it possible to explain The Trinity to non-believers? Can we even explain it to each other?
Who is the Father? Is He Yahweh? Is Yahweh the same as Allah? Who is Jehovah? ArieRashelle takes on the challenge to explain the Trinity by proving each member’s God status starting with The Father in this three-part series.
Genesis 1:1 Genesis 1:26-27 Deuteronomy 6:4 John 1:1-2 John 10:30 Philippians 2:5-6 Jeremiah 1:12 Isaiah 55:10-11 Psalms 110:1 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Genesis 14:18-20 Exodus 6:7 Genesis 15:2 Genesis 17:1-2 Exodus 6:3 Exodus 17:5 Psalms 60:4-5 Genesis 22:14 Matthew 7:7-11 Philippians 4:19 Jeremiah 29:11 Judges 6:24 1 John 4:17 Micah 7:18-19 John 5:19 John 14:26 Qu’ran 25:1-3 Qu’ran 112 Matthew 2:14-15 Hosea 11:1 Matthew 3:17 John 3:16 Qu’ran 3:59-62
The Trinity: The Father
God The Father
Within the Trinity, there is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20
8 See that there be no one who shall lead *you* away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and ye are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and authority, 11 in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ; 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with [Him] through faith of the working of God who raised Him from among the dead.
Colossians 2:8-12
Some of the Father’s Roles in the Trinity
21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
Matthew 7:21-22
49 For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has Himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.
