Progressive Revelation

The fourth and final assertion about God in the Here We Stand series: He is the God of inscrutable tri-personality. Pastor Martin gives a simple statement of the doctrine from the Shorter Catechism, lays out the four biblical categories that force Trinitarian belief upon the church (monotheism, the Godhood of Father/Son/Spirit, their distinct personhood, and their unity in the one divine essence), traces the doctrine's history as latent in the Old Testament, patent in the New, and articulated in controversy, and draws out two practical implications: the Trinity is the foundation of all our communion with God and of all our comfortable dependence on Him.

Pastor Martin continues his sweep through the Old Testament period of preparation, showing how God added bolder strokes to the prophetic portrait of the coming Messiah-King. Beginning with the Davidic covenant in 2 Samuel 7, he traces the king motif through Psalm 2, Psalm 110, Isaiah 9, Micah 5, Jeremiah 33, Daniel 7, and Zechariah 6 and 9, demonstrating that the Old Testament builds inexorably toward a king from David's seed who would also be the mighty God, who would build God's true house, sit as priest upon his throne, ride lowly upon a donkey, and reign in righteousness to the ends of the earth. The Jews were inexcusable for missing such a king of grace.