Introduction. As we understand the “Great Commissionâ€� that Jesus has given to all disciples; we see three distinct commands. They are to: Go, make disciples; baptize them in the name of the Trinity; and, teach them to observe all things of Jesus. Two Sundays ago, we spoke of how we should go make disciples and the importance of our own discipleship. Today I want us to examine the Trinity in whose name we are to baptize these new converts. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church describes the Trinity as "the central dogma of Christian theology." [The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3), article Trinity, doctrine of the] The Trinity, or seeing God in three persons, is distinctively Christian and not always understood. Within the God-head or Trinity we see God the Father; God, the Son; and, God, the Holy Spirit; with the Holy Spirit often likened to a dove descending. Illus> Dorothy Sayers tells of a Japanese convert struggling to grasp Christian theology. “Honorable Father, very good,â€� he said to his missionary teacher. “Honorable Son, very good. But Honorable Bird, I do not understand at all.â€� [The Honorable Bird, Philip Yancey in the foreword of Robertson McQuilkinâ€"s Life in the Spirit] How do we reconcile this seemingly oddity of a Triune God? Today I am going to rely on Article IV by the late Dr. Floyd Cherry in the book, Original Free Will Baptist Believe. In this chapter he writes of the Doctrine of the Trinity. I. God is the “Oneâ€� God. The first thing that we need to accept today is that there is one true God. The actual use of the word “trinityâ€� is never found in the Bible. The word has become a doctrinal term used to describe God and is basically taken from the baptismal text that we read today in Matthew 28:19; 19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…â€� This seems to be contradictory to the many verses of the Bible that state that there is only one God. But, we have to understand that there is only one true and living God. A belief in three separate Gods would be tritheism. In Deuteronomy 6 4, we read 4“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! 5“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Later in Isaiah, the prophet inspired by God writes: “Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God. Truly, we must see God as one. With the development of the persons of God, the early Christian leaders of the third and fourth centuries felt that there needed to be a proclamation of the Triune God so that people would not be in conflict over which God to worship. In fact, there is only one God. His manifestation to us comes in three