Are you relating to the real God—or a version of Him you've created in your mind? Eternal life isn't just believing God exists; it's knowing Him. And the better you know Him, the easier it becomes to trust Him. This message unpacks the nature of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—a perfect community of love before anything was created—and invites you into the very relationship Jesus died to give you.
Eternal Life Is Knowing God
John 17:3
"And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent."
Eternal life is knowing God.
We exist to: Help People Know God
Helping people know God means inviting people into the most real and authentic relationship of their lives — a relationship with the God who created them, and who loves them more deeply and faithfully than anyone else ever could.
Is it possible that some of us are relating to God, but the God we're relating to isn't actually who He is?
Is it possible that the reason we're having a hard time trusting God with our lives is that we don't actually know Him?
You're always going to struggle to trust someone you don't truly know.
Delight Yourself in the Lord
Psalm 37:4
"Delight yourself in the Lord."
Delight = finding ultimate joy, satisfaction, and pleasure in God rather than worldly things.
God is not just to be believed in — He is to be enjoyed.
The Lord Is One
Deuteronomy 6:4
"…the Lord is one."
"One" — Hebrew word echad
Genesis 2:24
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
The Trinity
Seven truths that help hold this together:
There is only one God.
The Father is God.
The Son is God.
The Holy Spirit is God.
The Father is not the Son.
The Son is not the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is not the Father.
There are three persons in the one true and living God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are the same in essence, equal in power and glory.
We See the Trinity Clearly at: The Baptism of Jesus
Luke 3:21–22
"When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: 'You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.'"
The Son is being baptized. The Spirit descends like a dove. The Father speaks from Heaven.
We See the Trinity Clearly in: How Scripture Speaks About Each Person
The Father is called God (1 Cor 8:6; 1 Pet 1:3).
The Son is called God (John 1:1; Titus 2:13; Heb 1:8).
The Spirit is called God (Acts 5:3–4).
Not three different gods, but one God fully revealed as Father, Son, and Spirit.
We See the Trinity Clearly at: The Very Center of the Church's Mission
Matthew 28:19
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."
This isn't something theologians came up with later — this is how Jesus Himself talked. When Jesus launched the mission of the Church, He put the Trinity at the center of it.
God Is Love
Acts 17:24–25
"The God who made the world… is not served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything."
1 John 4:16
"God is love."
God, being love, sets a perfect standard for what love is and should be.
John 17:5
"And now, Father, glorify me in Your own presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed."
John 17:24
"Father… You loved me before the creation of the world."
Before creation, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — the Trinity — were together in a community of love before anything ever existed.
Only a triune God can be love in His eternal essence.
He created people so that the relationship He already enjoyed could overflow into creation. Inside you, there is an appetite for love that only the eternal love of God can satisfy.
The Ultimate Love
John 17:24
"Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, may be with Me where I am."
Where is Jesus? He is in a perfect relationship with the Father — perfect unity, perfect love, perfect closeness.
Hebrews 12:2
"For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame."
If God is love, then much of what we experience in this world and call "love" is actually a counterfeit. A counterfeit can be really convincing, but it doesn't hold up.
The good news of the Gospel: you don't get what you paid for — you get what Jesus paid for.
Jesus paid the ultimate price so you could experience the ultimate love — the real thing.
A steady love.
That is faithful.
That doesn't run out.
The love of the Father, made known through the Son, and poured into your heart by the Holy Spirit.
