Paul’s 2 Corinthians 13:14 (below) conveys to me how it is that the Three Persons of the Godhead are all instrumental in God reaching out to, redeeming, and touching us personally… with all that the Godhead provides us in union with Christ, individually.

“The grace of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and the love of GOD, and the communion of the HOLY GHOST, be (is) with you all. Amen.” (2 Corinthians 13:14)

1. “the love of God [as Father]” – God as Father is the progenitor extending His own life in believers. We could say “the love of the God” is the motive of God the Father’s heart. For He is the source, the cause and the initiator for the reaching out of the Triune Godhead… He reaches out to lost mankind. He extends the Godhead’s plan of ‘reconciliation and justification’ that is to be found only in Christ’s cross… but then He extends His very life to all who will believe to receive Christ as their personal Savior.  

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:13 (KJV)

2. “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ” - The Father freely gave His Incarnated Son, who now is “the Lord Jesus Christ,” to be “the way” by which The Father sent His love to lost mankind, which love is manifested in the free gift of “the grace of God” that is in “the Son.”

“… grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (cf. John 1:17b).

3. “and the communion [fellowship] of the Holy Ghost” - The reality of the Son’s resurrection life is manifested to believers via “the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” being deposited INTO them. The Spirit in us is the evident reality of ALL that Godhead is in the Lord Jesus Christ… now as “That Spirit.”

“Now the Lord [Jesus] is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2 Corinthians 3:17 (KJV)

The Father’s gave of His Son for sinful mankind’s redemption and justification freeing them from the penalty and power of Sin that has kept men bound to self-serving self-interest. The Father literally gave us His Son ‘to us,’ to indwell us as our new and righteous life … that we might have access and enjoy ‘communion with the God.’

The Father could ‘justly’ establish the intimate relationship of fellowship and communion that we now have with God as our Father … only by giving His Son’s life ‘for us’ (for our sins) … He then also gave us the resurrected “Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” to indwell us as our New Life, thereby making us ‘the children of God.’

Thus, All our spiritual blessings flow from the Father, through the Son and His Cross-work, now to be enjoyed as the Holy Spirit of life in us as our new and eternal life.

We cannot see all three Persons of the Godhead. However, God the Son was incarnated, stepping out of eternity to entered time, while “in him (Jesus Christ) dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Col. 2:9; cf. Jn. 14:9; Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:3).

Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, being conceived of the Holy Spirit and “born of a woman made under the law” (Gal. 4:4). Only Jesus as the “One mediator between God and men” (1Tim. 2:5) can take God and man by the hand and unite them! No religion, denomination, ritual or right can confer this relationship to us. We have union with the ‘Three in One.’ Thus, Paul could wrote;

“ye (believers) are not in the flesh, but in (union with) the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell IN you. Now if any man have not the SPIRIT OF CHRIST, he is none of his. ¹⁰ And if Christ be IN YOU, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is LIFE [Zoë, God’s life] because of [Christ’s] righteousness. (Rom. 8:9-10)

Having the foregoing, we see that the Triune God indwells every genuine believer.

Jesus Christ told His twelve Jewish Apostles (Not Paul), “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost (Spirit)” (Matthew 28:19). So, yet again, we see God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.

We also see the three members of the Triune Godhead when John the Baptist water-baptized Jesus; when the Holy Spirit descended like a dove, and as it lighted upon the Lord Jesus, the God the Father declared, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:16-17; Mark 1:10-11; Luke 3:22-23).

We see the three Persons of the Godhead in so many passages.

“For through him [Jesus Christ] we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.” (Eph. 2:18)

“[We are the] Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1:2).

At the midpoint of the Tribulation judgments, which come after we are Raptured to heaven, a remnant of Jewish believers will flee to the mountains of Israel (in Edom, now Jordan). This remnant of Israel is described as “the woman.” Note the word “they” (below) as another reference to the Triune Godhead.

“And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they [The Godhead] should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days (3-1/2 years or 42 months).” (Rev. 12:6)

Here in Ephesians 4:4-6 (below), Paul lists seven distinct doctrines that are vital to us of today’s age of the “dispensation of the grace of God.” In it we see all three members of the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the holy Spirit, clearly mentioned.

“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ One Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” (Ephesians 4:4-6 (KJV)

Let’s now unpack the above verses.

1) “There is one Body, (that is “the Church, which is His Body”

2) one Spirit, (the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit);

3) even as ye are called in ‘one hope of your calling’;

4) one Lord, (God the Son, Jesus Christ “is Lord” (cf. Acts 2:36)

5) one faith, (“the faith of the Son of God” operating within believers (Gal 2:20);

6) one baptism, (not water baptism, but the supernatural dry baptism into ‘His body’ (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:13); and

7) one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”

In the ‘Person of the Holy Spirit,’ God indwells us believers and ‘seals us securely unto the “day of redemption;” that is, the Rapture (cf. Eph. 4:30).

“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” (Ephesians 4:30 (KJV)

This Holy Spirit is “that same Spirit” that indwelled Jesus of Nazareth and raised Him from the dead… now indwells us believers, giving us His very own eternal resurrection life

“But if [since] the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell In You, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken [make alive] your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth In You.” (Romans 8:11 (KJV)