St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

Jesus, in his conception, his baptism, his teaching and his commission, reveals the Holy Trinity, the one divine life, co-equally, co-substantially, co-eternally shared within the inner life of God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus told Phillip that that if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. Also, Jesus referred to the divinity of the Holy Spirit within the unpardonable sin, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the one who fully revealed God as Father, his Abba, Father. In his relationship with the Father and his anointing of the Holy Spirit, we see in action the persons of the divine life, as an eternal family. Family and Fatherhood are not merely human inventions nor cultural development. We do not read anthropomorphic ideas into God but theopomorphic truth into ourselves … We are made in HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS … not the other way round. The earthly family is being deconstructed by the father of lies. The father of lies, Satan himself, knows full well where family is derived;