They Told Denzel “Don’t Say Jesus At Our School”, His Response Silenced Them All [VIDEO]

In a commencement speech given to graduates at Dillard University on Saturday, Washington charged them with an assignment that cannot go unnoticed.

“No. 1: Put. God. First!” said Denzel. “Put God first in everything you do. Everything I have is by the grace of God. Understand that. It’s a gift.”

Washington spoke about his humble beginnings and then charged the students to “fail big” and keep things in perspective as they reach for their goals.

“And while you’re down there [on your knees], say thank you. Thank you for grace, thank you for mercy, thank you for understanding, thank you for wisdom, thank you for parents, thank you for love, thank you for kindness, thank you for humility, thank you for peace, thank you for prosperity. Say thank you in advance for what’s already yours.”

“Don’t just aspire to make a living,” said Washington, “aspire to make a difference.”

One entity having one person is not the rule: it's just what we're used to.

The Trinity is three separate persons but one God.

We know this through Christ's revelation, but why is it the case?

It may help to realise that the Trinity is the perfect example of Love. Whenever we say 'God is Love' we are proclaiming the reality of what God is.

But if God was one person, how could He be Love? Love is between persons.

There is only one God. But God is Love. Therefore God is more than one person. God is not alone!

Even if we didn't have Christ's explicit revelation of the Trinity we would have to imagine at least a duality of persons 'within' God. And Christ has revealed who these two persons are: God the Father and God the Son.

These divine persons love each other so fully, so completely that their love is also a person, of completely equal status, being and personhood to the Father and the Son. This person is the Holy Spirit.

The closest thing on earth to the Triune reality of God is the Family. The Trinity is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. the Family is Father, Mother, Child.

It's not a perfect analogy, but we can see how the love between two persons in the family becomes a third person, and how a family is incomplete - indeed we can't call it a family - unless it contains (at least) three persons.

Parenthically: this is also why our enemies are always attacking the Family. The Family is the image of the Trinity, so the Devil keeps trying to efface it.

Indeed, we have trouble thinking of the Family as an image of God's love precisely because of this ceaseless assault. Our society is littered with broken images of the Trinity: broken homes, broken marriages, the families killed by the hellish machinations of Planned Parenthood and so on.

It's worth reading Thomas Aquinas on the Trinity and about the nature of personhood and Godhood. Aquinas belonged to a time of intense coherent thought that we moderns can barely understand, so I recommend approaching him through his commentators. Chesterton's biography "Thomas Aquinas" is a good first step.

Hope this was helpful.

The wisdom of God

Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ(Eph 5:20)

There is indeed great wisdom in giving thanks for all things, in sickness and health, in times of plenty and times of little, in times of life and times of death, in times of joy and times of sorrow, for the good and the bad, give thanks even for evil in the world for in this world and all its evil there is the unlimited Grace of God for everyone who will hear, consider and believe the gospel.(see tag)

Jesus is God. God said so in Isaiah 43:10
I read chapters 41-43 to grasp the context. The sentence before is crucial to understanding. In 42:1 He talks about His servant, “My chosen one in whom My soul delights. Continuing through to 43 God is still talking about His servant and says in verse 10:
“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,
And My servant whom I have chosen,
In order that you may know and believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
And there will be none after Me.”

Repeat...”And understand that I am He.” New American Standard Version.

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