LECTURE 3

THE THREE PERSONS ARE EQUAL IN ALL ASPECTS

1. IN TERMS OF AUTHORITY, POSITION, POWER, EQUALITY AND QUANTITY, IN CHARACTER, AND

IN NATURE.
A. THEY ARE EQUAL (GREEK- ISOS)
 FATHER IS NOT HIGHER THAN JESUS
 FATHER IS NOT HIGHER THAN THE HOLY SPIRIT
- IN OUR COMMON UNDERSTANDING WE OFTEN FAILED IN THIS NATURE OF GOD
- SOMETIMES SAID – FATHER MUST BE HIGHER THAN JESUS. (MORE AUTHORITATIVE THAN
JESUS). (IT IS NOT LIKE UNDERSTANDING)

ALWAYS I PRESENTED THAT ISSUE THEN WE HAVE TO FIND OUT SOLUTION, ALWAYS THAT IS OUR
APPROACH. IT SHOULD BE YOUR WAY OF TEACHING, WE HAVE TO FIND OUT SOLUTION TO THAT ISSUE.
BECAUSE THERE IS THE WAY IF PEOPLE ANTICIPATE FROM YOU TELL US!

- SOLUTION, ANSWER TO THAT

WITHOUT THAT PRESENTING, THE SOLUTION ANSWER YOUR TEACHING WILL NOT BE CONVINCING,
WILL NOT BE POWERFULL AT ALL.

2. HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THEY ARE EQUAL?

A. 100% HUMAN JESUS
- CLAIMED TO JEWISH PEOPLE

“ I AM EQUAL(ISOS) WITH GOD(ELOHIM).”

- JOHN 5:18

 HERE JESUS WHO WAS INCARNATED INTO HUMANITY POSSESSING 100% HUMANITY FOR 33
YEARS OLD (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT CONCEPT). HE WAS BORN IN ISRAEL AND SPENT 33 YEARS
IN NAZARETH ALONG WITH JEWISH PEOPLE.
 DONT FORGET THAT THIS JEWISH PEOPLES CONCEPT WAS JUDAISM (AT THAT TIME JEWISH
RELIGION)
 UNDER JUDAISM BELIEVING SYSTEM ON GOD. THEY ONLY BELIEVED “FATHER” (ALMIGHTY,
CREATOR GOD). (ONLY THE FATHER IS THEIR GOD)
 NOT BELIEVING JESUS AS GOD
 NOT BELIEVING THE HOLY SPIRIT

“FATHER IS ONLY GOD”

THEY BELIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS JUST SUBORDINATE OF THE FATHER GOD (PART OF FATHER GOD)

- NOT EQUAL WITH THE FATHER GOD

- THEY TRANSLATE GOD CREATED HEAVENS AND EARTH THAT GOD IS FATHER GOD ALONE.

BUT THEY HAD PROBLEM

 - THAT FATHER IS PLURAL FORM IN THEIR LANGUAGE “ELOHIM”. SO COULD NOT FIND THE
ANSWER TO THAT PROBLEM.

LATTER MESSIANIC JEWS CAME UP WITH THAT SOLUTION THAT TRINITY GOD.

LIMITTED NUMBER OF MESSIANIC JEWS BELIEVED THAT ELOHIM IS TRINITY GOD BUT REMAINDERS OF
JEWSIHH PEOPLE ONLY BELIEVE THAT ELOHIM. (SYMBOLIZE ONLY THE FATHER GOD)

AT THAT TIME WHEN JESUS DEALT WITH 12 DISCIPLES THOSE DISCIPLES THEIR MINDSET WAS SET BY
THE JUDAISTIC MINDSET. BELIEVING THE FATHER GOD IS ONLY THEIR GOD.

 NOT ACCEPTING JESUS GOD

 NOT ACCEPTING THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD

THAT WAS PETER’S CONCEPT OF GOD

- JOHN’S CONCEPT OF GOD

- (ANDREW’S, PHILIP’S - ALL DISCIPLES)

IT IS THEIR MENTALITY OF GOD

 WITH THAT CONDITION- JESUS MENTION IN JOHN 5:18

THIS IS VERY COMMANDING AND SUPRISING COMMENT TO JEWISH LEADER AND HIS DISCIPLES.

JESUS MADE SUCH A SUPRISING COMMENT AS TO HIS IDENTITY TO JEWISH LEADER AND HIS DISCIPLES.
WHO POSSESSED JUDAISTIC MENTALITY OF GOD BELIEVING ONLY THE FATHER GOD.

JESUS ALL OF SUDDEN TOLD THEM 30 YEARS OLD GALILIEAN YOUNG MAN WHOM THEY CONSIDER HE IS
JUST A GOOD TEACHER

NOT CONSIDERING HIM AS TRINITY GOD. THEY CONSIDER HE IS JUST A GOOD TEACHER EVEN HIS
DISCIPLES JUST THOUGHT THIS MAN IS GOOD TEACHER. THEY THOUGHT HE IS A GOOD TEACHER AND
OUR TEACHER.

ALL OF SUDDEN THIS TEACHER CLAIMING HIMSELF, IDENTIFYING HIMSELF THAT HE SAID “I AM EQUAL
WITH GOD”

THIS MEANS – I AM “ISOS” WITH GOD

- (AUTHORITHY, POSITION, POWER, EQUALITY, QUANTITY, CHARACTER AND NATURE)

- “ALL THIS ASPECT I AM EQUAL WITH GOD IN A JEWISH CONTEXT WHEN JESUS SAID GOD MEANS
ALL THESE JEWISH PEOPLE BELIEVING THAT GOD IS WHO? ONLY FATHER GOD THAT IS THEIR
BELIEF.

HIS DISCIPLES AND JEWISH LEADER’S GOT REALLY REALLY SUPRISED HOW COULD OUR TEACHER, OR
GALILIEAN LEADER, YOUNG MAN CLAIMED YOURSELF THAT I AM EQUAL WITH OUR JEWISH FATHER.

FOR THAT REASON JEWSIH LEADERS AND INCLUDING THOSE HIGH PRIEST, THE MEMBERS OF
SANHEDRIN.
 - THEIR REACTION TO WHAT JESUS MADE WAS VERY SEVERELY CONFRONTED WITH AGAINST
THEIR TRADITIONAL RELIGION
- THEY WOULD CLAIM THAT YOU YOUNG MAN, YOU ARE COMMITTING BLASPHEMY(AGAINST
OUR GOD).
- FOR THAT REASON THEY SAID THOSE OF BLASPHEMY OUR GOD ARE DESTINED TO BE KILLED, SO
THEY HAVE RIGHT TO KILL JESUS.
3. I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE(HEN)
- (JOHN 10:30)

“30 YEARS YOUNG MAN SAID THAT MY FATHER ARE ONE! (JEWISH GOD)

ONE – GREAK “HEN”

- MEANS – ONE MEANS (SAME WITH THE FATHER)

- SAME (AUTHORITHY, POSITION, POWER, EQUALITY, QUANTITY, CHARACTER AND NATURE)

BECAUSE OF THIS STATEMENT MADE BY JESUS

- JEWISH PEOPLE TRY TO KILL HIM

- “HOW COULD YOU SAID THAT BLASPHEMY REMARK, HIS DISCIPLES WAS VERY SUSPICIOUS
ABOUT THAT TOO, BUT THEY COULD NOT CONDEMN THEIR OWN TEACHER, BUT IN THEIR
HEART – THEY WERE SO SUPRISED AND SUSPICIOUS ABOUT WHAT JESUS HAD MENTIONED ON
HIS IDENTITY. THEY COULD NOT BELIEVED THAT. THAT’S WHY AT THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS,
THEY WERE ALL SCATTERED, NOT ATTENDING THE CRICIFIXION SITE, WITH AN EXCEPTION OF
JOHN (JOHN WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO ATTEND THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS CHRIST)
I. IN THE GREEK WORD
- “HEIS” (ONE)
- GALATIANS 3:28

“WE CHRISTIAN – WE ARE ONE IN JESUS (GALATIANS 3:28) IN SPITE OF DIFFERENCES IN CULTURAL
BACKGROUND

 HUMAN BACKGROUND, ALL THE SEXUAL DIFFERENCES, HOWEVER IN CHRIST WE ARE ONE
FAMILY.
4. ALL THINGS THAT THE FATHER HAS ARE MINE
- JOHN 16:15

JEWISH CONCEPT

- ONLY FATHER POSSESSED EVERYTHING BECAUSE THE FATHER OS ONLY GOD WHO POSSEESSED.

30 YEARS OLD YOUNG MAN SAID THIS EVERYTHING FATHER POSSESSED ARE MY POSSESSION. (HE SAID
THAT)

JEWISH PEOPLE WAS VERY ANGRY TO JESUS

5. PAUL ALSO CLAIMED
1. JESUS (100% MAN) IS EQUAL(ISOS) WITH GOD(ELOHIM)
- PHILIPPIANS 2:6