On October 24, 2012, Pablo Sandoval
did what only three other baseball players in history have done. In the first
game of the World Series (San Francisco Giants vs. Detroit Tigers) Pablo hit
three home runs in one game. Before Pablo, only Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson and
Albert Pujois had hit three home runs in a World Series game. Three in one.
Our topic this morning is the
Trinity — Three in One. It’s interesting that the Trinity, one of the major
tenets of the Christian faith for the last 2,000 years, is never mentioned in
the Bible. Yet Trinity Sunday is celebrated each year on the Sunday after
Pentecost, and it honors not an event but a reality of the faith. While the
Bible does not mention the Trinity by name, it certainly speaks to and supports
the reality of the Trinity in many places throughout both the Old and New
Testaments.
From the first chapter of Genesis we
see the words, “Let us make humankind
in our image, according to our likeness ...”1 In the
book of Isaiah we read, “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from
the time it came to be I have been there. And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his spirit.”2
In the New Testament,
this doctrine is dramatically presented at Jesus’ baptism: “And when Jesus had
been baptized ... suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit
of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven
said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.’”3 The
apostle Paul often used a Trinitarian benediction in his letters, such as this
one from the end of 2 Corinthians: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the
love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.”4
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