Proverbs 8:1-4 & 22-31 & John 16:12-15
As we continue to follow the lectionary readings for our messages, we have come to Trinity Sunday. On this day we acknowledge the reality of the triune God and their work not only on behalf of our salvation, but in our sanctification and thus our preservation in this life and the life to come.
This sermon's focus is on what Jesus tells us will happen when the Spirit of truth comes. He will guide us into all truth, bring glory to Christ, and make known what belongs to the Father and the Son. What things are they and why do we need to know them? They are the things of eternity and time, of heaven and earth.
In Proverbs 8 we see the work of the triune God in the creation. This text reminds us that the works of the Trinity are eternal, wise, glorious and full of God’s delight.
Jesus, the second person in the trinity, his death on the cross shows us the depth of the Father’s delight in world and mankind as he redeems both. In Christ, the trinity’s work of saving, sanctifying and preserving is completed.
This is truth that has to be taken into account whenever one seeks to understand the world in which we live and the things that are happening, since the Spirit of truth has come.