The Great Commission is not just a great commandment, it is a great revelation of the Three-in-One God.

Outline:

I. The name of God reveals God to be Triune

II. The name of God reveals our salvation to be a Triune work

         A. God, the Father, authors salvation for His people

         B. God, the Son, accomplishes salvation for His people

         C. God, the Spirit, applies salvation to His people

Questions for Personal Reflection:

1. Do you have an experience of God’s nearness or glory being powerfully revealed to you?

2. Consider the three statements that define the Trinity. Why are each essential to the definition? What happens when one of the propositions is omitted?

3. If someone were to charge that the Trinity is a logical contradiction because it posits God is both one and three, how would you respond?

4. How can the mysteriousness of the Trinity serve to deepen your faith and worship?

5. Read Romans 5:8. Is God’s love grounded in our lovableness or in his nature to love? How does this love give us assurance even as we are aware of our own unlovableness?

6. How does God’s saving us according to his eternal love (foreknowledge) remove any ground of personal merit/worthiness from the reason we are saved?

7. If Jesus’ sacrifice forgives all of our sins, even ones we haven’t committed yet, should we feel freer to sin? Consider the story of Jean Valjean as you discuss.

8. Consider someone sharing with you that they think they have lost their salvation because they have sinned too greatly. How might you use Ephesians 1:13 -14 to give them assurance?