And I'll invite Brian up to preach.

Thank you.

And morning, everyone.

Let's pray.

Heavenly Father, please help us now to hear your word and to welcome its message into our lives.

Please encourage us, rebuke us, train us for righteousness.

In Jesus' name, amen.

And in what ways does the Old Testament anticipate or foreshadow the kind of Trinitarian theology we have in the Nicene Creed?

Yeah, remarkably, much in every way, but perhaps not in the way that we normally think.

So normally we, if you wanted to prove, if you like, that there's a plurality in the Godhead, if in the Old Testament, a lot of people would go to the Isaiah text where it says that the Messiah is the mighty God.

Yep, but that's not in Paul or the New Testament.

The plural grammatical forms of let us make man in our own image in the Genesis account, those kind of texts.

The angel of the Lord being the second person of the Trinity, the church fathers thought that.

many of them.

Why is the ascension vital to the story of salvation?