Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona
with another Trinity moment proving that the Trinity is biblical and that oneness or modalism
is a lie. Hebrews chapter 11 verse 17 reads by faith Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac
and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son of whom it was said that
an Isaac shall thy seed be called accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead
from whence also he received him in a figure. So the Bible is telling us here that Abraham
offering up his only begotten son Isaac is a picture is a figure of the fact that God the
Father would send his son to be the savior of the world that God the Father would sacrifice
his son Jesus Christ for our sins and of course if we went back to Genesis chapter 22 we would see
all the amazing parallels and if you haven't read that story in a while I would recommend going back
and and refreshing your memory on Genesis 22 all the wonderful parallels between that story
and our Lord Jesus Christ and the fact that it represents his death burial and resurrection
and so on and so forth but see from a modalist perspective this makes no sense according to the
oneness Pentecostals or the Jesus only movement the Father didn't send the son the Father came
down himself according to their doctrine because they believe that Jesus is God the Father that
God the Father and Jesus are the same person so that basically you know he came down himself
and died for us whereas the truth is that Jesus came down himself but it was the Father who sent
the son to be the savior of the world Abraham pictures God the Father Isaac pictures the Lord
Jesus Christ and so that beautiful picture of the gospel is destroyed by the modalists who believe
that it was just God sacrificing himself they don't have this other aspect of God the Father
sending the son to be the savior of the world see we as Trinitarians believe both we believe that
God the Father sacrificed his son which manifests great love think about how much love that
demonstrates to sacrifice your own son your only begotten son think about how much you love your
children viewer and think about what a supreme sacrifice that would be or how much love that
would demonstrate for you to sacrifice your son it's unthinkable it's unimaginable so we have that
aspect of God the Father sacrificing his son but then we also have the aspect of the son Jesus
Christ sacrificing himself giving his own life laying down his life for us so we have two
different aspects of God's love the Father sacrificing the son and Jesus laying down his own
life the modalist paradigm destroys one of those and and we're only left with just Jesus laying
down his own life which is a magnificent display of God's love but we lose the meaning completely
from the Abraham Isaac story and the idea of the father sending the son to be the savior of the
world