Trinitarian - Referring to the Trinity; three divine Persons in one Godhead
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Read I Peter 1:2: "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. "
How can the three-fold gracious work of the Trinity, as specified in the chart on this page, be clearly seen in this verse?
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Redemption - The act of Christ's purchasing, of paying the full price for, the sins of His church
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Each of the three divine Persons in the Trinity is active in the Covenant of Grace. The Covenant's three-fold Trinitarian and gracious nature is revealed in the following breakdown:
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The Three-Fold and Gracious Nature of the Covenant of Grace
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Divine Person
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Gracious Work
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Example Verse
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1. God the Father
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Thought of the gracious plan of salvation for His church by means of a perfectly righteous Substitute; one who was both God and man.
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But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
- Galatians 4:4-5
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2. God the Son
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Bought salvation for His Church through graciously offering Himself as the perfect human sacrifice for sin and fulfiller of God's law.
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Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
- Hebrews 9:12
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3. God the Holy Spirit
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Wrought, or works, salvation graciously in the hearts of His church, personally applying the rich benefits they have in Christ.
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Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.
- Titus 3:5
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God's plan of salvation and Christ's redemption are both perfect and eternal works; therefore, His Covenant of Grace is eternal and unbreakable. Scripture testifies of this in numerous places.
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The Covenant of Grace is Eternal and Unbreakable
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And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
- Genesis 17:19
Although my house be not so with God; yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He make it not to grow.
- II Samuel 23:5
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.
- Hebrews 13:20
Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.
- Psalm 89:33-34
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
- Ezekiel 37:26
For this is as the waters of Noah unto Me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
- Isaiah 54:9-10
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