2. Grudem
God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.

3. Trinity
There is one God
God is three persons
Each person is fully God

4. Ware
There is one and only one God, eternally existing and fully expressed in three Persons, the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Each member of the Godhead is equally God, each is eternally God, and each is fully God – not three gods but three Persons of the one Godhead…

5. Ware
…Each Person is equal in essence as each possesses fully the identically same, eternal divine nature, yet each is also an eternal and distinct personal expression of the one undivided divine nature.

6. Grudem
Because the existence of three persons in one God is something beyond our understanding, Christian Theology has come to use the word person to speak of these differences in relationship, not because we fully understand what is meant by the word person when referring to the Trinity, but rather so that we might say something instead of saying nothing at all.

7. The Father’s Role… PLANS the Redemption of His Children
CHOOSES Who Will Be Redeemed
CAUSES His Plan to Come to Pass
SENDS His Son to Accomplish Redemption
RAISES & GLORIFIES the Son
SENDS the Spirit to Seal & Sanctify

8. 1 Peter 1:1-5, 17-21
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in fullest measure….

9. 1 Peter 1:1-5, 17-21
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time…

10. 1 Peter 1:1-5, 17-21
…And if you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each man's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay upon earth; knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ...

11. 1 Peter 1:1-5, 17-21
…For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

12. 1 Peter 1:18-20
knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you

13. John 10:14-15
I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep

14. John 10:25
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me

15. Matthew 7:22-23
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?' And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'

16. John 17:4-5
I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed

17. John 17:24
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

18. Galatians 4:4
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law

19. The Son’s Role… SUBMITS to the Father’s Plan & Is BORN in Human Flesh
Lives a life of PERFECT OBEDIENCE
PURCHASES REDEMPTION for His People
RISES From the Dead, Conquering Death & The Grave
Is GLORIFIED & Returns to the Father

20. Redemption involves… The SON took on the sins of His people.
The SON endured the full wrath of God for their sins.
The SON lays down His life on the cross.
The SON paid the full price to purchase their redemption.

21. The Son’s Role… SUBMITS to the Father’s Plan & Is BORN in Human Flesh
Lives a life of PERFECT OBEDIENCE
PURCHASES REDEMPTION for His People
RISES From the Dead, Conquering Death & The Grave
Is GLORIFIED & Returns to the Father

22. 1 Peter 1:20
He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you

23. John 4:31-34
– Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

24. 1 Peter 1:18-19
knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

25. 1 Peter 2:22-23
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly

26. 2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

27. 1 Peter 1:18-19
knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot

28. John 10:25-30
Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand…

29. John 10:25-30
… My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one

30. Isaiah 53:6,12
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all… he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors

31. Romans 3:25
whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins

32. John 10:17-18
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father."

33. Romans 8:33-34
Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us

34. 1 Peter 1:21
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God

35. John 2:19
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

36. John 10:17
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again

37. John 10:17
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again