The Attributes of God... and Why I Believe They Mean God Must Be a Trinity
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- For a while now I’ve been wanting to cover this topic about God’s attributes, and in my study of putting together this video, I discovered that this is also a great way to show the validity, perfection, and necessity of God being a Trinity, particularly in God’s love. I think a lot of unbelievers-and even believers- think they know who God is and how He functions. But so many things are completely misunderstood about God because they misunderstand who He is in His glory and completeness, mainly, they misunderstand the Attributes of the Christian God. Who is He? What makes Him so unique and set apart? All throughout Scripture He sets Himself apart from all other false gods and anything people could possibly imagine in creation. I think if the attributes of God were understood better then people would have a much better understanding of how God interacts with the world and why He does it in the manner in which He does and why it's so believable that God doesn't need anything from humanity... because He's completeness perfected!
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Scripture references in the Video for each attribute:
Self- Existence: Romans 11:36, Gen 1:1, Col. 1:17
Necessary and Immutable: Malachi 3:6, Num. 23:19, 1 Sam. 15:29, Titus 1:2, James 1:17, Revelation 1:8;17.
Eternal and Unchangeable: Psalm 90:2, Revelation 1:8;17, Rev. 22:13, Job 22:2, Rom. 11:35-36, Acts 17:25
Infinite and Immensity: Psalm 147:5, John 4:24
Omnipotence: Jeremiah 32:17, Job 11:7, Luke 1:37, Matt 23:37
Omnipresent: Psalm 139:7-10, 1 Kings 8:27
Omniscient: Psalm 147:5, 1 Peter 1:2, 1 John 3:20, Acts 15:18
Omnisapience: Job 12:13, Psalm 96:9
Love: 1 John 4:16, 1 John 4:7-8, Romans 5:8 Psalm 136:26
Holiness: 1 Samuel 2:2, 1 Peter 1:16, Leviticus 19:2, Rev. 4:8
Righteousness: 2 Cor. 5:21, Psalm 11:7, Matt. 6:33, 1 Peter 3:18
Truth: John 14:6, John 17:17, John 16:13, Psalm 25:5
Perfection: Matthew 5:48, Psalm 18:30, 1 John 4:18, 2 Samuel 22:31
Be sure to check the description for more Scripture references! 🔥😊 I enjoy covering topics like this. Also, I already know there will be people who think the trinity is manmade, created at the Council of Nicaea. This will always be a very odd (and completely unfounded) claim to me, but I did a video with my friend Wesley Huff that talks about this that you can find in the description.
I LOVE listening to stuff like this. Thank you for relaying to us an awesome piece of what you have learned (or of dense, chocolate cake, lol!!). Topics like this have become so fascinating to me, and it has caused me to believe strongly that it is SO important for us to seek to understand who God really is, and to make sure that we are doing that in a way that aligns with God's Word. Though the nature of God can be so hard to understand for our little human minds, I don't think that means that it is permissible to throw out the parts we don't get. From what I have heard from some Modalists, or Oneness people, it seems like the fact that God is three persons in One God, is too hard to comprehend, and so they do all they can to throw that out; even using Scripture to do so. The way you broke this loaded topic down was very helpful to me! Some day, Lord willing, I would love to take classes like you are right now! I just have to get my teaching degree done first!
God bless you, Melissa! I always enjoy listening to your videos because it challenges me to think more deeply, and biblically, and to go to God's Word about the questions I have. Thank you!
Thank you for this video -- it was really good. I plan to share it with others.
Prayers and Blessings to you and your ministry. 🙏 ❤
Okay this video is like the mostly towards the end of the video, why because all things are possible through love, like something of the instersing vocabulary that you had listed are very helpful, keep my mind focused.
Best in them all it's that you completely made it clear with all the attribute and love makes it perfect.
@@leeslees65 I am about to do the same, even to clear an agreement.
Hi Melissa, I used to be a lukewarm Christian till I came across your TH-cam channel! It brought me great conviction and now I truly set things aside for the Lord! Thank you so much for your videos
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That's WONDERFUL to hear Nathan! I've certainly benefited from Melissa's channel as well!
She was just the arrow and the Holy Spirit more than likely was the agent who was aroused. We should always follow people who help us follow Christ Jesus, amen
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Very strange dude
Praise god! I reccomend charles lawson by the way you'll know what i mean
I admit I'm one of those who tend to think of God as more holy and wrathful than loving sometimes. But in truth, he's all those things in full. Hard to steer clear of the extremes.
Interesting considering your channel name :), but yes I think we all struggle in perceiving God clearly in a wholistic way. Quite possibly from sin hindering our ability to process the truth of God, and possibly our personality, culture, and experience.
He is the Alpha and Omega, omnipresent and omniscient, so what you say makes sense. I believe in creating us in His image, He gave us amazing the gifts of compassion, intellect, and, most importantly, free will. This is just my opinion, but I believe He is simply pure love. Any wrath, we bring about and onto ourselves in this life, and we may carry it with us beyond our time here on earth if we don’t let go of our egos and accept the love He offers. Creation is intentional, but destruction is natural. It’s the law of entropy, but it’s a cycle. Anyway, I speak confidently knowing full well I could be absolutely wrong. That’s the basis of my faith-believing God but knowing I can’t even come close to knowing Him. I can try though!
@@neosapienz7885 That's our hope, to meet Him 🙂 What a wonderful, mind-blowing promise! I can't even begin to imagine.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. (Matthew 5:8)
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. (1 John 3:2)
I came to the Lord with a common question, that if He is a God of Justice, why then is the punishment for sin eternal, and not for a certain amount of time? Here is the understanding that I fully believe He gave me.
Several times in scripture it speaks of people who do certain evil acts as having to "bear their iniquity". Once anyone leaves this Earth and are guilty of sin, that sin remains with them. They "bear" their sin, their iniquity. Since the justice of God requires that sin be punished, and the sin remains a part of them, therefore the sin is continually punished. Because there no longer is a way to remove the sin, the punishment of that sin continues. God's Judgment, or righteous condemnation of sin, requires that the sin is punished, and since the sin remains, the punishment remains.
After we leave this life on Earth, the other side is extreme. Either extreme forgiveness, righteousness, joy in the Lord, or extreme punishment. I've listened to testimonies of people who have died, experienced hell, and been revived. There is a common thread of people being very aware of their sin, and even reports of them looking at another and seeing every sin that person has committed. In hell there is sin-consciousness, and I strongly suspect that in Heaven is righteousness-consciousness.
I hope that this is clear. Blessings to you brethren of victory over sin.
The god of the Old Testament was a demi-god and not perfected. The God of the New Testament, that Christ preached about, was the God of Love.
I realize there are already 514 comments in this video… but I wanted to thank you for this and all your content. I left Mormonism 10 years ago but have only recently decided to really study and embrace biblical Christianity. It has been a really difficult journey and your content has helped me immensely! Thank you! ❤️
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Praise God!
YES!!!!! Thank you!!
He is FULLY HOLY!
🙌🙌 I think we dumb God down to our level, and forget who He is.
We definitely dumb God down to our level and this is a mistake. The analogy that I like to use is a parent to their young child. The child cannot even wrap their minds around so many things that adults just understand as basic. The wisdom of a parent is so much greater than that of an infant or toddler; now just imagine how many billions of times more immense the creator of this universe must be compared to us.
“Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.”James 1:12
Hallelujah! Amen! 💗
I come across ur in several channels (🌱) I often read the Scripture citations, they bring an enfusement of encouragment. 🌿 🕊
@Time to Believe 🤔 ask urself that very question! How many hv you fed or visited? And if you hv don't brag about it, serve in humility! Remember that when you point an accusatory finger 👉 you hv three coming back at you.
@Time to Believe well, as there are few "widows" and "orphans" contextually speaking. ( orphans and widows in those times were totally destitute and without help, widows because they had no husband and thus no real means of sustaining life through income, and orphans because they had no family) the implicit of the text would be along the lines of what Jesus said " Do good and lend hoping for nothing in return." And " when you throw a feast do not invite your family and your neighbor lest they repay you and you have no reward in heaven, instead invite those who cannot repay you and you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just" "and when you do a charitable act do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing."... the implict of the text in James is the explicit command of the LORD our God through Jesus Christ. To do good for those who cannot do for themselves for the sake of goodness, not seeking to be repaid or with any alternate motive. Christians do this in a myriad of ways through outreaches to the homeless, food banks, Christian discipleship programs ( of which I work at one). I hope God blesses your understanding.
The verse touched me
After reading the news this morning and feeling depressed , I started humming this song: Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, early in the morning my song shall rise to thee….
God in three persons, blessed Trinity.
Now I just saw this video! God bless you Melissa.
What a lovely song!
Hi, Melissa, God bless you wherever you are for your strong faith in Christ. You are teaching me a lot about this new age theology and progressive Christianity and am grateful
I just had to walk away from a church that I was a part of for a while. They preached Oneness or Modelism. At the time it was my personal belief that it was a "splitting hairs" topic so I was initially flippant. Then they slowly started implying that if you aren't baptized in Jesus name rather than Father, Son, and Holy Spirit you aren't really saved. This was the breaking point for me as water baptism wasn't required for salvation to my understanding. I left them broken hearted and still love many of them as brothers and sisters in Christ. I hope that the Lord regards them as His and will be merciful with them.
This is so great! I'm currently writing a worship song that focuses solely on the character and attributes of God, but I recognized that I needed to dive more into scripture to fully grasp and articulate it well. Thank you for making this video right on time and pointing me in the right direction
That was God working in ways to boost your knowledge and confidence in Him. I would be super excited to hear it if you post on TH-cam sometime. I love discovering new and exciting theologically, and Biblically sound christian music that are hard to come by these days if you know what I mean.
Thank you so much for this video. I remember as a 12 year old learning this in confirmation class, but you did such a great job of reinforcing it. God bless you and your family!
I love that you’re talking about these things! 💕 Looking forward to the video on Logical Fallacies.
I've been down in the dumps lately. This video really brought light to my day. Thanks Melissa, God bless
It aaaall makes sense now! I knew it in my mind that there was some knowledge I was missing! I’m a teacher and my 5th graders kept on asking me these really hard questions and I was able to explain His eternal quality but I was still puzzled. Thank you so much for this video! I’ll watch it like 20 times 😂😂
Your comparison with parents and a child really struck a cord with me. Beautiful comparison. Thank you 💜
This blew my mind... I'm gonna have to watch it again, but I definetely understood something and it makes me tremble... Thank you for sharing this. You're a blessing!
Melissa: WOW, what a teaching. I seldom write down notes almost In it’s entirety, this teaching I almost wrote the entire message. I am so thankful someone came up with the idea of a pause feature. With the way my mind works when you said something that caught my interest my mind will stay with that thought as you kept on talking, I would Input in my journal that thought and what you had said, hit rewind to the part where I may have missed. With smart phones, computers this is so easy, I remember when tape recorders came out hitting pause, rewind start stop etc… wasn’t so easy, anyway I digress. It took me two days of study time to view this video numerous times, don’t know how many but it was more than 5 times, that’s how much I enjoyed this message. Please keep these anointed videos coming, naturally I test what anyone says according to God’s word. Also, thanks a much for all the reference scriptures you gave in your description section, you did most of the work Cool Beans!
Love this and your snippets of humor. Thank you!
I can’t wait to watch your video on what God’s omnipotence means and addressing common logical impossibilities!
thank you precious Sis...Our heavenly saviour is at the helm..and he loves us..Thanks for the help in understanding Our perfect God
I knew of God’s attribute of being wisdom but Omnisapience is a new word for me to describe it. This has been another fun and enlightening video from your learning passed to us. I hope you’re a hugger, Melissa, because if I ever meet you I’m sure going to want to hug you. God bless you and your beautiful family!!!
omniscience* Glad you learned a new word.
Great video Melissa! Your channel is awesome, to God be the glory! Keep up the good work! - C.
Wooow...thank you so much for this video. You really just blew my mind. 🤯 I'm so glad I came across your channel!!
This was the best explanation that I have heard. Of all the years of listening to preachers melissa explained where I really grabbed onto it and those " oh"😯 moments hit.
Some times I ask ppl to explain it to me like I was 3 for me to fully understand, ( plz no one think I'm not smart) but when it's broke down the way melissa broke it down made me not just understand but feel it, so TY melissa( if u read this) thank u to ur professors, can not wait for the other video/s my "fork" is up and ready.....
This was a great, yet complex subject, but you made it seem like a piece of cake, thank-you.
10:02 That part of the cake is indeed *quite* dense. I will _definitely_ need to watch this video again; perhaps several times, to truly grok it!
Melissa, "It all makes sense now." I thank God for the way you articulate the Word. You have inspired me to dig deeper and to love God with all my mind. I'll be feasting on this one for a while.
Thank you Melissa. As always GREAT video 😀 GOD BLESS YOU
This is phenomenal, Melissa! Thank you.
Wow. Just wow.
I've been going through a season where friends and family have just been dying, and I've had funeral after funeral. In fact, I'm attending a burial tomorrow. This video though has been helpful to me because it has helped me know and just trust again in God and the fact that he's taking care of them even in death because he cares.
Thank you Melissa.
Super random but the background looks incredibly cozy today hehe🥰 but as always, great video Melissa!!!
Wow you blew my mind! 🤯 great video! Thank you for explaining it so clear, can’t wait for you fallacy video 👍
🧠🤯 dude, you completely blew my mind at the end. I. Love. This!!!
I have just finished a Bible study on Colossians 1:15-20 and now I am studying John. This gave me a deeper understanding of who God really is and I am so humbled. Thank you for such a clearer explanation of God’s attributes. I took notes that will definitely go into my bible!
As far as explaining the Trinity, when I was a little girl my grandmother told me to imagine a pretzel which has 3 holes, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit , yet it is still one pretzel. That was the simplest way she could explain it to a 12 year old! That has stayed with me to this day.
Bless your Grandma, and thank you for sharing her explanation. I'm going to use it when my kids come to me with that question. 😊
Great video as usual.. love the background!
Pointed someone on instagram to your channel. I think she blocked me for reaching out to her lol but I really pray she’s started watching your videos! They’ve been such a blessing on my walk with The Lord Jesus ❤️
Thank you for your teaching. I learn so much from you and your references and links.
St. Augustine wrote extensively on this idea about God’s love being expressed through the Trinity in his book “De Trinitate”-worth reading for those who want to know more!
Hello, thank you for the recommondation!
I'll add St Augustine to my reading list.
I'm a fresh revert and I never knew how much beauty and wisdom I was missing out on.
@@MrsYasha1984 You may like to check out the Ageless Wisdom Teachings which gives much information about the aspects of God.
Augustine was only a man who did not have a Jewish background but was influenced by Greek philosophy
Love you Melissa, great work.
Such a powerful message! Thanks Melissa! Loved it and didn’t even bend my fork🍴 🍰
Thanks Melissa, you've given me so much to chew on. I especially would like to show this video to my husband, a new believer. He keeps saying he doesn't understand why Jesus had to die. This will go some way towards helping him and me, grasp the enormity of God. I will watch this video again, I might even screenshot the Attributes and Character.
Some of your best work M.🙏😇
really enjoying your videos, and learning alot!!!
Wow! This is so deep I need a floatation device! Thank you!!
If anyone is interested in going deeper, may I suggest “The Knowledge of the Holy” by A. W. Tozer.
😅 THAT was the one I just recommend and didn’t know the english title! 👍🏻
❤️ from Germany
I’m currently revisiting Tozer’s, ‘The Attributes of God’ and your ability to articulate these truths is wonderfully refreshing. I appreciate the consistency and numerous scriptural references in your videos. What a blessing to have stumbled upon your content. Thank you!
Brilliant! May God increase you!
You are really blessed! Such good insight
Excellent video! Studying God leads to a worship of God!
Excellent explanation! Thank you for the clarifications!
This is such a GOOD video!
Thank you! Very helpful. I have a friend that has completely redefined God in a uniquely wrong way. As a result I've been reading, writing and studying about the Trinity to wrap my own mind about it. I had also come to the conclusion that it in God's attributes we see that the Godhead must be a Trinity, but your explanation was much better and fuller than what I had come up with.
My jaw hit the floor when you got to the trinity. Mind. Blown. 🤯🤯
Hi. Melissa, surely our words are incomplete to describe the nature of God, but your explaination comes close.
Makes sense to me. Thank you for breaking it down. I understand and see and digest it. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you so much Melissa!!!!
That Was Delicious - I enjoyed using my Fork 😊❤. Thanks Melissa 😊
Thank you so much for your wonderful video! You helped me again! 🙏🏼 The ‘forks’ jokes are funny, though.
Love this .. very awesome explanation!!! The cake was delicious by the way 😉
Melissa God bless you my Sister. This should be transcribed or made into a short book or Ebook. I had never in my life heard of what the Attributes of God were until after I came out of the charismatic movement. As a new convert it was something that I wanted to know so badly so I picked up the A.W Tozer and the A. W Pink books on it. Dr. Steve Lawson has an amazing series on it amongst others. I’ve always said that a true believer who has understood God’s attributes is a different kind of Christian.
Thank you for this! I love how well you communicate scripture.
This was very easy to understand!
God bless. 🙏❤
Excellent video sister ❤
This is soooo good Melissa ! Thank you! All Glory to God ! 🤍
Good video and Thank You. God Bless you!
Thank you for your work and all that you do, I really enjoy your videos! Luckily I primed my fork with American Gospel: Christ Crucified film, they touch on what you're talking about in it. Keep up the amazing work!!
Thank you for your content each week Melissa! I've grown a lot since digging into the Word deeper and watching apologetics videos like yours. Keep speaking the truth sister! ❤
Loved this!
thank you for making this video i've been meaning to study God's attributes and how they all go so beautifully well together
What a beautiful analogy, thanks!
Very well put!
I loved this video!!!! I've listened to it twice and plan on listening to it more. Thank you so much. Blessings. ❤❤
Love this video!!!
One of the biggest impacts in my life beyond accepting Christ as Lord & Savior (John 3:16) - was when I moved from just knowing about God to truly knowing God. ‘Truly knowing God’ - is to know, understand God’s character & His attributes. This occurred when I read the book, “The God You Can Know” by Dan DeHaan. I have read it multiple times over the lasts 30 years. By ‘truly knowing God’ my relationship with Him, my love for God, my trust in God’s promises, my worship of Him, my faith & spiritual growth, my witnessing, etc. all ‘went off the scales’. Thank you for your video & encouraging other to move forward to truly knowing God.
I am impressed by how simply, but accurately, you described all this. I heard echoes of Augustine, Anselm, Bonaventure, and Richard of St. Victor, all explained in terms the average lay Christian can comprehend.
I'm a new subscriber and I really love your entertaining balance of humor while discussing these intellectual, serious and vitally important topics! You're never boring!! God bless you and continue to use you for His glory and kingdom!! 💕
Thank you. This was so clear. I understood it.
I learned a lot here be blessed sister
I personally find it super cool how some concepts that exist in God's creation have the imprint of Tri-unity. Take space, for instance. Space=height+width+depth. Height is not width, nor is width depth, nor is depth height, but all 3 make up space. Time=past+present+future, same thing. God's cleverness is so far beyond us we just have to be amazed!
You have failed to provide any reasonable association between these claims. You describe how you measure volume, not space. Time is only ever present. What about all the things that don’t use three? Not god? Also god? Seems like you are just randomly pattern seeking and then applying your fictional view of reality on top to explain it.
@@jeremyg7261 Just saying that there are tri-unities that exist in creation, which makes the concept of tri-unity able to be understood (in some sense) by humans. I find that super-cool! And God bless you today. 🙂
@@jeremyg7261 You said “time is ever present”. That’s not what time is. Also you missed the point that the concepts of Spacial Dimension and Time are the fundamental to core perception of creation.
I think you’re too smart for your own good and are seeking reasons to deny a reason for HOPE .
@@jeremyg7261 You couldn't understand what he was saying? It's pretty simple. Maybe you need a basic refresher course on elementary subjects. It's okay. You'll figure it.
@@danielcoleman3395 Never try to put human limitations on God. It's very easy for God to be three separate and yet one. You yourself are three. Spirit, soul, and body.
***1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Very cool Melissa.
When Jesus was baptized, the Father spoke from Heaven, and the Holy Spirit descended like a dove. There are 3.
@ReclaimHisRainbow I just have to say, I love your TH-cam handle name 💛✨
@@sterlingchanell *Indeed.* Because the *LGBTQIA2S+* community has claimed it. (One wonders how many more characters it will take to be added to "LGBTQ" till people wake up and realize what's going on.)
Matthew 3:16
“And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:”
This verse clearly talks about the Spirit of God and not about a third divine person or being.
Jesus talks to his apostles after his risen in John 20:21-22
“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:”
The Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and Spirit of Jesus Christ.
Great explaination!
Order ding you got it as the first in succession. oh my..... You figured out what the 3 lists where. I worked out it had to be 3 columns. I was trying to corelate them off the other words I found. Looks like we were walking though this in very similar time too. Sweet. I get to know this has been reciprocated, I confirm the have enough distinctions to recognize these as coming through the Same Set Apart Spirit, and in whom the rest of you can seek CERTAINTY. Anybody who checks and knows, leave you're findings. 3 is a structural balance thing yes
I like you! And I love how you do your videos!
I’ve been talking to someone who is in New Age (Christ Consciousness). They hate that term, but that’s what it is. Anyway, we’ve been talking about Communion.
I will be saving this to my favorite videos and share..
This is so far my favorite video you have done!
I was discipled with some of this information but you have added SO MUCH MORE and I love it ! My Fork is loaded with every bite ha!
This is a fantastic video for discipleship. Thank you for taking the time to share this!
🍴Interesting explanation. Forks up! 🍴
Awesome teaching . Thanks heap’s .
I just found you last week, and have since been binge listening in my semi. So insightful and very educational! God bless you ma'am for doing this channel!
Well done!
I laughed because I recently delivered a message at my church where I tied the attributes of God to the plan of salvation. I thought it wasn’t clear because people were so quiet. I guess meals eaten with forks can do that 😀. Great video!
Thank you for this.
🍴 As always!😊 Melissa-- you bring the Full Meal Deal!😉👍
I need to buy more forks now
We love & appreciate you VERY MUCH, Melissa! 🙂🥰❤ This is very helpful.
I love this video and you show some incredible insights into a topic that trips tonnes of people up! (Accidental alliteration acknowledged!)
I do have one (trivial) question to ask (possible foul language warning here):
What the fork was with all the chat about cake? XD
Absolutely brilliant analysis and commentary. Thank you for the blessing. May God continue to bless you, yours, and your ministry. You truly have been given the gift of teaching.
This was so helpful Melissa. Thank you so much. You have motivated me to go back and read J.I. Packer’s book “Knowing God”. Keep speaking the truth of God’s word. Thanks for your boldness.
Very well done.
I’m so blessed to have found your channel. You’re such a fabulous teacher.
Love you Melissa 💞
I absolutely loved this video! Melissa, thank you! God is simple but infinitely complex at the same time!
Simple because made up. Complex because made up. Does and has whatever definition people want. Almost like people made it up and isn’t real in any way.
@@jeremyg7261 Hello Jeremy. I'm curious, do you believe in a God?
@@J0nathanNZ He does not. He's doesn't want to because his lifestyle will be challenged.