1. You will start to act as a Dictator.

2. But having the trinity

A. Because by getting trinity, you suddenly get a God that captivates your heart.

1. Who is genuinely delightful!

2. A God you can become more and more in love with

 Because In these examples there is no personal relationship.

A. Instead of the egg and clover picture there is a picture that the bible portrays and had to use.

1.  You know what it is?

2. It is (Genesis 1: 27)

3. God created men in his own image, He created them male and female.

a. What we see there is something about the relationship and difference between Adam and Eve

b.husband and wife that images the being of God.

2. Distinct persons united in Love!***

3. Really helpful to know when you come through a verse (Deut. 6:4) which is a verse anti-trinitarian loves.

a. (Deut. 6:4) “ The Lord God is ONE.

b. Muslims says case shut! , there is no trinity! The Lord is a mathematical singularity.

c. The word for “one” in Deut. 6:4 is the one used in (Genesis 2:24)

d. They will become one flesh: a unity of persons!

e. This God is a personal community of LOVE!

f.

 Father Son and the Holy Spirit are distinct persons loving each other. And that is GOD!

I. There are millions of god's out there we need to be specific as Christians in which God we serve

A. Save by grace alone? yo-do shin shoo also have this,What distinguishes us?

1. SO WHICH GOD ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

2. BUT WE DO NEED TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT god’s

a. Between mammon, allah, gaya, VISHNU the force

**3. AND THE TRIUNE LIVING GOD!

 3. From the QURAN Surah 1:12 from the quaran: in the name of allah the magnificent the merciful (keeps bragging on how merciful he is) he repeats it again and again how merciful he is. When he actually not shown no evidence that he has no comprehension oh what mercy is because he treats people according to their work.

b. HE ALLAH IS ONE, ALLAH IS HE THAT ALL DEPEND HE BEGETS NOT, MEANING THAT HE IS NOT A FATHER, NOR HE IS NOT THE BEGOTTEN, MEANING HE IS NOT A SON. AND THERE IS NO ONE LIKE HIM.

c. Allah as explicit as he could be saying I AM NOT THE TRINITY, I AM A DIFFERENT GOD.

4. With the Trinity: We get a God who is loving and affectionate towards his Children.

I. This is the god that athiest and christopher hitchens is attacking:

A. “I think it would be rather awful if the existence of god was true, if there was a permanent round the clock divine supervision of everything you did (24:30) "like living in north korea

 B. Christians: don’t believe in a solitary (alone) bearded guy on the throne.

1. If you do have a solitary being like that, very quickly this single god start looking like what Hitchens says.

2. Solitary being: for all eternity he’s been alone!

3. Has never had anyone to love!

4. There has been nothing else he can love.

5.  He’s never experience what it is to love anyone. Socially awkward single guy.

6. When he creates the universe loving doesn’t come naturally to him he has never done it before!

7. He doesn’t love, He relates to us by telling us what he wants and what he wants us to do!

8. He’s a real bully!

1. He is a Father to his beloved Son.

2. To be Father is to Father a Son!

 3. Just think about it Father (not that he becomes a father at some point, He is eternally Father).

a. But to be Father, must be Father of a Son!

b. Father cannot be on his own must be father to a son.

c. The Son cannot be on his own He is the son of the Father! Just by being the son he must be the son of the Father

What was God doing before he created the universe?! What is the most profound thing we can say about God and what difference does this make to our relationship to him? ***

A. Jesus tells us explicitly (John 17:24)                                                                                                   

1. Father he says before the foundations of the world

2. That’s what he was doing, Father Loving the son!

3. And that is the sort of being who God is essentially (absolutely necessary).

4. That is the most profound and true thing to say about God.

5. Not RULER! GOD IS A FATHER LOVING HIS SON!

b. HENCE (V. 8) GOD IS LOVE

6. To be Father means to love, to give out life, to beget a son.

7. And so before he ever ruled anything this god was a life giving, loving God Father eternally giving life to his son.

VII. Instead of the egg and clover picture there is a picture that the bible portrays and had to use.

A.  You know what it is?

B. It is (Genesis 1: 27)

1. God created men in his own image, He created them male and female.

a. What we see there is something about the relationship and difference between Adam and Eve

b. Is husband and wife that images the being of God.

2. Distinct persons united in Love!

3. Really helpful to know when you come through a verse (Deut. 6:4) which is a verse anti-trinitarian loves.

a. (Deut. 6:4) “ The Lord God is ONE.

b. Muslims says case shut! , there is no trinity! The Lord is a mathematical singularity.

c. The word for “one” in Deut. 6:4 is the one used in (Genesis 2:24)

d. They will become one flesh: a unity of persons!

3. So to say that the Lord is one, you are not ruling out the unity of persons in loving relationships.

1. JOHN SAID IN (JOHN 1:4) SIMPLY KNOWING HIM TRANSFORMS SELFISH NASTY BRUTES!! Into stars of loving kindness!

2. No more slaving, but resting wholly upon Christ

3. It shapes everything from your affections and desires

4. You are not a soldier, a slave but a Child

I. Christopher Hitchens: the dictator in the sky that he trained his fire on. Doesn’t naturally understand love, remember solitary? Has never loved ever!

II. But you can’t simply think of this God without thinking LOVE!

A. This God defined by Love, loving relationships.

1. Loving relationships!

2. Without loving relationships this God will not simply be this God!

3. This God will relate to us in a completely different way.

a. Compare to the dictator heavenly Hitler in the sky who has never loved for all eternity

B. THIS GOD WHO IS DEFINED BY LOVE!

1. THIS GOD WHO IS ALL ABOUT LOVING RELATIONSHIPS

2.  HE WILL NEVER STAND APART FROM A SUPERVISING AND CONTROLLING FROM ON HIGH! IN A DISTANCING SENSE!

C. This God who is all about loving relationships is all about drawing us in!!!

1. TO ENJOY THE FATHER SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT CIRCLE OF FELLOWSHIP!

D. NOW THAT IS SUCH A DIFFERENT GOD TO THE GOD THAT HITCHENS TOOK DOWN!

1. Rephrase that quote,  HITCHENS: WILL SAY I THINK IT WOULD RATHER BE WONDERFUL if it was true”

a. If there was a permanent total round the clock divine loving God, you will never have a awake sleeping moment when you weren’t being loved! From the moment of your conception from the moment of your death and beyond!

b. It will be like living in heaven!

E. THIS GOD OF LOVING RELATIONSHIPS WHO WOULD ONLY RELATE TO US BY PERMANENT, TOTAL AROUND THE CLOCK DIVINE LOVING! THIS ULTIMATE REALITY IS BEAUTIFUL!!

1. OUR GOD MY FRIENDS OUR GOD!  IS A FOUNTAIN OF OVERFLOWING LOVE.

2. You don’t get behind the father to see some tyrant.

B. Father is the most profound thing you can say! And it means he is loving, life giving for he has a SON to Love!!

1. This fountain of love is simply delightful!!

2. JOHN SAID IN (JOHN 1:4) SIMPLY KNOWING HIM TRANSFORMS SELFISH NASTY BRUTES!! Into stars of loving kindness!