I believe that the best way to illustrate is cake
All right
Cake and he's a cake pastor Shelley, you know now look don't don't try to tie me down and say that God is cake
Okay, I didn't say that
What I am saying is this I believe that cake is a great way to illustrate the Trinity and I'm gonna explain why go to
Go to verse 10 here
Why because the Bible says over and over that there's one God that is super clear
look at verse 10 you're my witnesses say of the Lord and my servant whom I have chosen that you may know and believe me and
Understand that I am he before me. There was no God formed
Neither shall there be after me. I even I am the Lord and beside me. There is no Savior. There's only one God
there's only ever been one God there will only ever be one God and
Right here, this is one cake. Okay. There's one cake right up here, right?
This is a piece, but I'm just saying this is a piece of cake and we're using as a representation of a cake one cake
Okay
God is so complex
That he cannot ever
Describe to us everything about him at one time
So what he does is as you're reading he describes certain aspects of him
So in order to know exactly who God is you have to read everything about him. Now. This is called a 3d world
Okay, why because from one perspective you can't see this entire cake
You can't see everything from where you're sitting
I would have to start turning it and rotating it for you to see everything in order to get a full
Picture of what this cake actually looks like so from your perspective
You may identify certain attributes, but if I rotate or change the cake now, you might identify different
Attributes about the cake the same is with God so while I'm reading the Bible
I may find all day long one God one God one God one God, but that's from a certain perspective
We have to then also look from other perspectives and change our rotation
Use other scriptures to see if there's any other perspectives of who God is okay?
And this is how we understand the Trinity you can't just take one verse you have to look at it from the whole of Scripture
Not just one cherry-picked verse
Now there's something unique about this cake so I'll go ahead and start revealing that to you
This is called the New Testament. Okay, when you start revealing more information is
That this is what you would call a tri-layer cake
now from
Looking at it from the other perspective. You would have no idea
You just saw one cake one cake one cake and you know what?
There's still one that I haven't cut into from the outside looking in all you see is one cake
One cake one cake one cake one cake
But you know what when you cut into it, and you look a little deeper you see actually it's a tri-layer cake which is interesting
Illustrating that there's three layers. This is also how we understand the Trinity
Okay, because the Trinity has the three persons of God now when I gave you those definitions
Let me just quickly
Explain that with the cake and then we're gonna walk through them through Scripture because you know who cares what the beauty says
The only one cares what the Bible says
But I actually agree with what Wikipedia says because that's what the Bible actually says now they said that there's one God right one cake
But there's three persons. There's three layers
now if you know anything about baking in
Order to make a cake successfully like this
What you do is you take all the ingredients and you mix them together you make the batter
Now this batter is one essence
It's all the same batter. Okay, and that's the same with God. God is one essence
but then what they do is they pour them into three different pans and they cook them in their three distinct cakes and
Then they lay the bottom layer and then Lucy puts a nice little piece icing on on top of it
And then they set the next cake on it
And they put another piece of icing on it and they put the third layer
And then she ices the whole thing and then you have one cake. That's a tri-layer cake
Each layer is a hundred percent cake
One hundred percent it's fully cake. I mean is this this is a cake
Look, that would be like saying that Jesus isn't God
Hey, each person of the Trinity is fully God
Yet they're distinct from but you wouldn't say that this layer is this layer
Now again, it was originally up standing up. So I'll kind of show you
You would say this is the top layer the middle layer in the bottom layer. You wouldn't say the bottom layer is the top layer
Because why the top layer is who this is?
Cake is what it is
The middle layer is who this is
The middle but cake is what it is. The bottom layer is who this is, but cake is what it is
So when we look at God, it's the Father is who he is. But God is what he is
Jesus okay, that's the son. That's who he is
But you know what what he is God and the Holy Ghost when we think about the Holy Ghost, what is he?
Well, he's God but who he is is the Holy Ghost
Now even I like this analogy for another reason
We and I'm not gonna go to these verses but the Bible teaches that the Son is subject unto the Father
Okay. Well, here's the thing the middle layer is subject to the top layer
And the bottom layer subject to the middle layer, but you know what? They're all equal in value
They're all the same cake. This is why I love this analogy
because you keep looking at all the attributes of God you're like wow and
And when people look at it they say oh you believe in three cakes
It's like this is one cake, bro
You know, are you see you have problem with your vision?
I mean if you walked over to one of those cakes and someone is like I see three cakes
They're like you got problems
You know, that's what people they say. Oh you the Trinity that's polytheistic
That's believing in multiple cakes. No, it's not because there's still one cake. There's one God
It's in this again, I'm not saying this is perfect, but I'm saying of my understanding of the Trinity
This is the best example I could possibly give you and it tastes really good. I'm sure all right
We're gonna find out in a minute
Genesis chapter 1 God says let us
Make man in our image after our likeness. That sounds like a plurality
And you know if this cake can speak it would say let us satisfy Pastor Shelley, you know
Denoting what the plurality at the unity
Hebrews chapter 1 look verse 3 who being in the brightness of his glory in the express image of his person
Now whose person are we talking about God the Father?
So the son is an image of the person of what God the Father so God the Father is a person case closed
Now you would never say an image of a person is the person that's weird. Like I'm not an image of myself
I'm myself
2nd Corinthians chapter number 2 look at verse number 10
To whom you forgive anything I forgive also for if I forgive anything to whom I forgave it
For your sakes forgave I it and the person of Christ
So notice again, it says that God the Father is a person then it says that Jesus is a person
Why because there's three persons, but one God?
Now fortunately for me I brought up a fork
While I'm up here because I just want to illustrate certain facts for you, okay
This is about your learning. Okay, not about my enjoyment or anything
but
if I take a piece out of here and I said
You know what this piece in our illustration represents God
okay, but
It's not the father
Not the Holy Ghost
But it is Jesus that would be in our illustration true because you can see hey I took it from the middle layer
So hey, it's still it's still cake
But it's not the top layer. If someone said hey, that's the top there wouldn't that be a lie
Hey, that's the bottom layer. No, it's not the bottom layer. Oh, well, then it's not cake then
It's like Jesus the Father no, he's not. Oh, well then he's not God. Oh, yes. He is God, okay
So you have to understand all of these situations that people bring up and hey, this makes it perfectly clear
And you know what I could you know, if I eat this I'm not gonna say it's like part of cake
It's a hundred percent cake
Super good