This was given at the Desiring God National Conference in 2003.
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God’s people are called to be distinct from the world because God—in the perfect life of the Trinity—is distinct from the world. In a survey of various biblical and historical texts, Kevin DeYoung demonstrates how the perfection of divine immutability sets the Creator apart from his creation. The saints are eternally secure trusting in the promises of their unchanging God.
“God is self-existent, self-sufficient, eternal, immutable, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, sovereign, infinite, and incomprehensible. We are not—and that’s a good thing. But at the root of every sin lies our rebellious desire to possess these attributes. Our limitations are meant to point us toward a limitless God. Seeing God for who he is inspires us to worship and obey, and to testify with David that “the boundary lines have fallen for us in pleasant places.””
And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!"
Isaiah was a man of integrity, yet one glimpse of God's holiness makes him come apart at the seams. As long as our gaze is fixed on the horizontal plane of this earth, we have no problem with ourselves. But if we lift our gaze to heaven and contemplate what God is, we will be broken. Security and smugness is annihilated. Holy men are reduced to trembling with one glimpse of God.
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Is the trinity just some 'add on' to our general belief in God? Does it really matter that God is triune? Does it make any difference to lived Christian faith? Mike Reeves shows that the doctrine of the trinity is foundational all of Christian thought and life! Session 2 in the 'FOUNDATIONS' course.
Mike Reeves shows how the trinity explains why the cosmos itself is in existence! He explores what the Bible teaches about the relationships within the trinity; that we are invited to 'participate in the divine nature' as siblings of Christ; what the trinity has to teach us about music; and what the trinity tells us about the relationship between Christianity and Islam, the Qur'an and the Bible.
Mike Reeves shows how God's revelation of himself in Scripture as triune is unimaginably wonderful when we see how our salvation is an invitation to share in his eternal love. Oh yes.