GOD is a Person Who has revealed Himself as a Trinity in Unity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit --- three Persons yet one God (Deut. 6:4; Matt. 28:19; 1 Cor. 8:6).
God the Father is perfect in holiness, infinite in wisdom, measureless in power (Deut. 32:4;II Chron. 16:9; Rom. 11:23). He is the head of all heaven and earth (Eph. 3:15), the supreme authority in both the Godhead (John 8:29) and in the church (I Cor. 11:3).
Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God, which is to say, He is Himself very God; He took upon Him our nature, being conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary; He died on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice for the sin of the world; He arose from the dead in the body in which He was crucified; He ascended into heaven in the body glorified, where He now is, our interceding High Priest-, He will come again personally and visibly to set up His kingdom and to judge the living and the dead (Col. 1: 15; Phil. 2:5-8; Matt. 1: 18-25; I Pet. 2:24,25; Luke 25; Heb. 9-10; Acts 1:9-11; I Thess. 4:16-18; Matt. 25:31-46; Rev. 11: 15-17; Rev. 20:4-6; Rev. 20:11-15).
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The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Holy Trinity and is the active agent in superintending the salvation provided through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit produces the new life through faith in Jesus Christ (John 3: 3-7); He assures the believer of sonship, a mark that can never be erased (Eph. 1: 13, 14); He interprets the precious Word to the believer (I Cor. 2:14); He Guides the believer in the will of God (Rom. 8:26,27) so that the purposes of God's elect may be realized in His elect (Rom. 8:28-30); He produces the fruit of holiness in the believer's life (Gal. 5:22,23).
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