The Trinity
An analogy…
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit may be compared to the CEO, CFO and COO of a corporation.
CEO (Chief Executive Officer) - God the Father
The CEO is responsible for making major corporate decisions, managing overall operations and setting the company's strategic direction.
CFO (Chief Financial Officer) - God the Son
The CFO is a responsible for raising the capital and managing the finances of the company.
COO (Chief Operating Officer) - God the Holy Spirit
The COO is responsible for implementing the company strategies into daily operations to meet the objectives and long term goals of the CEO.
To summarize, the CEO calls the shots, the CFO pays for everything and the COO gets it done making the goals of the CEO a reality.
Genesis 1:1-3
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
When God (the CEO) said, “Let there be light”, it was the Holy Spirit (the COO) moving over the surface of the waters who made light a reality.
Mark 5:27-30
When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak. For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.” Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction. At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”
When Jesus (the CFO) healed the woman with the issue of blood it was the power of the Holy Spirit (the COO) which had gone out from Jesus who made the woman’s healing a reality.
Genesis 3:4-7
The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.
Genesis 3:14, 15
The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life; and I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.”
After man sinned against God (the CEO) in the Garden of Eden God created a plan to redeem man back to Himself, a plan which Jesus (the CFO) would pay for with His own life and with His own blood.
John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
Luke 22:20
And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.”
Hebrews 9:11, 12
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
To summarize, the power of the Holy Spirit (the COO) along with the sacrifice of the Son (the CFO) made the goal of the Father (the CEO) to redeem man a reality.
John 3:16, 17
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”
So…
Who’s the CEO, CFO and COO of your corporation?
