Worshipping the Three in One
•In His Upper Room Discourse, John 13-17, Jesus
taught us how to respond to each Person of the
Trinity.
•Worshipping God as Three in One should be at the
center of our daily relationship with Him.
God the Father
is the Fountain of Divine Love
•Jesus uses 3 titles for the First Member of the
Trinity in the Upper Room Discourse:
• The Father – God – Vinedresser
•The titles remind us that the Father is the source
and fountain of all the Godhead’s purposes for us.
God the Father
is the Fountain of Divine Love
•In biblical times the father was the source of life in
a family.
•A father was the source of provision and
leadership to sustain and give identity to the
family.
God the Father
is the Fountain of Divine Love
•“God (the Father) so loved the world, that He (the
Father) gave His (the Father) only begotten Son
(Jesus), that whoever believes in Him (Jesus) shall
not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16
•Jesus wants us to see the Father as the source of
the love behind the Son’s work for our
redemption (cf. John 10:14–18).
God the Father
is the Fountain of Divine Love
•“For the Father Himself loves you, because you have
loved Me and have believed that I came forth from
the Father.” John 16:27
•“…The word which you hear is not Mine, but the
Father’s who sent Me.” John 14:24
•“Even as You (Father) gave Him (Jesus) authority over
all flesh, that to all whom You (Father) have given
Him, He may give eternal life.” John 17:2
Responding to the Father
as the Fountain of Divine Love
•Pray to and address your prayers to the Father.
•“In that day [after Jesus’ return to the Father] you will
ask nothing of Me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever
you ask of the Father in My name, He will give it to
you… you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you
that I will ask the Father on your behalf; for the Father
himself loves you… and now I am leaving the world
and going to the Father” (16:23–28).
Responding to the Father
as the Fountain of Divine Love
•Honor the Father with the first fruits of your life.
• “I am the true vine and my Father is the
vinedresser. 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… I am the vine; you are the branches . . .
apart from Me you can do nothing” (15:1–5).
Responding to the Father
as the Fountain of Divine Love
•Just as a vineyard owner plants his vines in order
to receive a harvest, so the Father as the source of
all (the Vinedresser) rightly receives the fruits that
Jesus (the Vine) brings to our lives (the branches).
God the Son is the
Mediator between the Father and man
•As Mediator Jesus secures the grace and divine
love for you.
•The 2nd Member of the Trinity is called Jesus,
Christ, Lord, Master, Teacher, The Son, The Son of
God, Son of Man, the Vine, and The way, and the
truth, and the life.
God the Son is the
Mediator between the Father and man
•The titles for Jesus in the Upper Room Discourse
points to His mediating role on our behalf.
•We don’t need saints, priests, or even, as blessed
as she is, Mary. We need
Jesus.
God the Son is the
Mediator between the Father and man
•The title “Son” is profound.
•The Son is the one authorized to speak for the
Father, to carry out the Father’s affairs, to enforce
the Father’s rule. The Son was responsible to
implement the Father’s vision.
God the Son is the
Mediator between the Father and man
•“Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.’
Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you so long,
and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever
has seen me has seen the Father… Do you not
believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in
me?’” John 14:8–10.
God the Son is the
Mediator between the Father and man
•“I will not leave you as orphans,” He said, “I will
come to you. Yet a little while and the world will
see Me no more, but you will see Me . . . he who
loves Me . . . I will love him and manifest Myself
to him” John 14:18–21.
God the Son is the
Mediator between the Father and man
•“Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to
us, and not to the world?’ Jesus answered him, ‘If
anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and
My Father will love him, and We will come to him
and make Our home with him’” (14:22–23).
Responding to the Son as
Mediator between the Father and man
•Look to the Son to bring you into favor with God.
•Do not look to your work, performance; look to
Christ’s work and performance to make you right
with the Father.
Responding to the Son as
Mediator between the Father and man
•Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and
the life, no one comes to the Father except
through Me” John 14:6.
Responding to the Son as
Mediator between the Father and man
•Worship Christ by joining yourselves with other
believers in a local church.
•“A new commandment I give to you, that you love
one another: just as I have loved you, you also are
to love one another. By this all people will know
that you are My disciples, if you have love for one
another” (John 13:34–35; cf. 13:13–17; 15:12).
Responding to the Son as
Mediator between the Father and man
•Pray in the Name of Christ.
•Praying in the Name of Jesus, is to recognize that He
lived the life you couldn’t live, died the death, in your
place, that you deserved to die for your rebellion
against God, and rose from the grave and is seated at
the right hand of the Father. It means you trust in
Jesus to bring you into the fountain of divine love.
Responding to the Son as
Mediator between the Father and man
•Use the Bible as your standard for your faith and
life.
•“certain people have crept in unnoticed” into the
church promoting new teachings by “relying on
their dreams” and their own understanding of
what God wants (Jude 4, 8, 10).
God the Spirit Administers
God’s Presence and Power in your Life
•“I (Jesus) will ask the Father, and He (Father) will
give you another (same as Me) Helper (Spirit),
that He (Spirit) may be with you forever.”
God the Spirit Administers
God’s Presence and Power in your Life
•Helper (Parakletos) is often translated comforter
but the title points to power & strength.
•Jesus was saying that He will send you the One
who will come with strength and power.
Responding to the Spirit’s
Presence and Power in your Life
Look to the Spirit to instruct your decision
through the Word of God.
Responding to the Spirit’s
Presence and Power in your Life
The Spirit applies the words and work of Jesus,
but He is not the mediator of new words
from the Father.
Responding to the Spirit’s
Presence and Power in your Life
•Jesus said, “He (Spirit) will glorify Me (Jesus), for
He (Spirit) will take what is Mine (Jesus) and
declare it to you (John 16:14).
•These are not new words, new teachings, or
promptings. This is the Word of God.
Responding to the Spirit’s
Presence and Power in your Life
Look to the Spirit to empower you
as an ambassador and witness for Christ.
Responding to the Spirit’s
Presence and Power in your Life
•This does not mean witnessing will be easy but
you can rest in the Spirit’s work in salvation.
•“as many as [are] appointed to eternal life [will]
believe” (Acts 13:48).
•The Spirit authorizes you to be an evangelist and
He empowers your witness.
Worshipping the Three in One
•Seek to grow in the knowledge of the nature of
the Triune God through Scripture.
•And enjoy this foretaste of heavenly joy in your
experience of His love now as He prepares you for
the fullness of that delight in eternity!