12 Days in July

12 days in July The Indwelling of the Triune 07/09/2008 6:12:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time Seek Heavens View Divine Direction Heaven. Jesus goes to prepare a place for us to be with the father. It is a place where Jesus receive us unto Himself. Revelation in/of the father. I am in the Father, and the Father in Me.  We are indwelt by the Holy Spirit thus the Indwelling of the Father and the Son. Indwelling of everything that is truthful about God is about to be revealed in/to us. He who says that I am the Way, I am the truth, I am Light is about to reveal God the father. The indwelling of the Triune God is in time and a revelation function of the Triune. If we want to know God the indweeling of the Triune will let us know Jesus and how the Triune functions in covenant for the believer. The indweeling gives insight to the Covenant Protocol of the Triune God. The indwelling might suggest that: The triune God is in covenant (function in covenant) The Triune God is in covenant with man I.      The relation of the A.    function of the Triune B.    nature and attribute of God C.    revealed to man by the indwelling of the Triune The triune God is in covenant. Perichoresis in Christian theology, refers to the mutual inter-penetration and indwelling of the Father and the Son. The doctrine is based on John's Gospel that "the Father is in the Son, and the Son in the Father." The relationship of the Triune God is intensified by the relationship of perichoresis. This indwelling expresses and realizes fellowship between the Father and the Son. It is intimacy. Jesus compares the oneness of this indwelling to the oneness of the fellowship of his church from this indwelling. "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us (John 17:21)." Thomas Aquinas, there are five notions: 1) unoriginatedness, 2) paternity, 3) filiation, 4) spiration, 5) procession. A notion is a “defining characteristic of a divine person.” Four of these notions are “relations of opposition”: 1) paternity, 2) filiation, 3) spiration, 4) procession. Three of these relations constitute divine persons. Paternity constitutes the Father as Father. Filiation constitutes the Son as Son. Procession constitutes the Spirit as Spirit. In the five notions and four relations, there are two processions, the Son’s being begotten of the Father and the Spirit’s being spirated by the Father and the Son.   1. What God does in time reveals who He is in eternity and His most characteristic act in establishing relationships with other persons in time is covenant making. 2. The relations among the Persons defined in the names Father, Son, and Spirit are distinctly covenantal. 3. The names of God used to describe Trinitarian relations are also the names used to describe God’s covenant relationships with creatures. 4. Representation is a key covenantal idea and it is found in the relations of the Trinitarian Persons in the representation of the Father by the Son and of the Father and Son by the Spirit. 5. Some of God’s attributes are described in language that is distinctly covenantal. 6. The Gospel of John speaks of God’s covenantal relationship with us as parallel to the relationship between the Father and the Son. 7. The pre-creation covenant for the salvation of man would involve a change in the relations among the Persons of the Trinity to accommodate the creation, if they were not essentially related in covenant. 8. The dynamic of the Trinitarian ontology is emphatically covenantal.