Although the three in the Trinity are three distinct persons, they are not three separate Gods.
They inhabit and indwell one another. The Bible has several examples of Jesus showing this inseparable
relationship with the Father. In John 14:11, we see Jesus assuring Philip of their oneness by saying,
"Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me." While Jesus was on earth God had not left Him
to do His work alone. God was always in Him and He in the Father as John 8:29 tells us. John 6:46 says,
"Not that anyone has seen the Father except He who is from God; He has seen the Father." In this verse the
word "from" translated in the Greek means "from with". So this verse is saying the Son sent "from" God was
also sent "with" God. The two are inseparable.
Jesse Duplantis tells of an incident in his book called "Close Encounters of the God Kind" that may help you understand the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit's
oneness with each other. He tells about the time in 1988 where he taken up to heaven from his motel room
one night for 5 hours and 15 minutes and was given a chance to see everything there. He tells of where he
was in the throne room of God and the light from the throne was so intense that he couldn't stand and was
only able to catch a glimpse of God's feet and huge hand. He said he seen Jesus walk out of the Father's
light and become the form of a man. Jesus would preach dynamically to the millions of people in the throne
room. He said Jesus would look several times back into the light as if He didn't want to be separated
even by sight for very long from the Father. He described Jesus walking in and out of the power and energy
of God and transforming from Spirit to a manlike form.
Just as the Father and Son are inseparable, so are the Son and Holy Spirit. In
John 14:16-17 that we already looked at we seen the Son asking the Father to send the Holy Spirit to be
with the disciples but yet in John 14:18 it is the Son Himself that promises He will come to them.
In John 14:26 we see that the Holy Spirit will come in the Son's name so therefore it is really Jesus the
Son who comes to be with the disciples after His resurrection because the Son's name is the same as the
Son Himself. A wonderful thought for us to remember is that when the Holy Spirit comes to us, so does
the Son Jesus.
Just as the Father and Son are inseparable, and the Son and the Holy Spirit are
inseparable, so are the Father and the Holy Spirit. We see in John 15:26 that the Holy Spirit or Helper
is sent from the Father. Again in this verse the word "from" in the Greek means "from with". This tells
us that the as the Holy Spirit was sent "from" the Father to us, He was also sent "with" the Father. The
two are inseparable. If you put John 14:26 together with John 15:26, we see that the Holy Spirit was sent
to us by both the Son and the Father and that the Holy Spirit also came not by itself but "with" the Son
and the Father. This shows us that the three entities of the Trinity, the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit
cannot be separated.
A good example of the relationship that the Father and the Holy Spirit have is concerning prayer.
Romans 8:26-28 tells us that when we don't know what to pray for, the Spirit prays for us in ways that
cannot be put into words. The Father can understand what is in the mind of the Spirit as the Spirit prays
for God's people. When our praying is prompted by the Holy Spirit, we are caught up in the open
communication taking place between two members of the Trinity, God and the Holy Spirit. You are joining
a conversation that is already going on with God and you are being invited to participate and experience
this intimacy between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Just as the verse above tells us that the Father
knows the mind of the Holy Spirit, 1 Corinthians 2:11 tells us that the Holy Spirit knows the thoughts
of the Father.
This is a comparison of the names of God in the Old Testament and the names of Jesus in
the New Testament and how they both have the same names because the Son Jesus is God.
