God the Father

Just before Jesus ascended to heaven, he told his disciples to make more disciples and to baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

In the Bible, the word "name" indicates character, function, and purpose. Biblical names often describe a person's essential character. Indeed, Jesus instructed his disciples to be intimately and fully baptized into the essential character of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

We would correctly conclude that Jesus had much more in mind than just a baptismal formula when he said, "Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."

The Holy Ghost reveals the person of the risen Messiah and convinces us that Jesus is our Lord and Savior. As the Holy Spirit fills and guides us, Jesus becomes the center of our lives, and we come to know Him through faith and follow Him.

Jesus leads us to an intimate knowledge of the Father. He said: “I am the way and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14,6).

We only know the Father as Jesus reveals Him to us. Jesus said, "This is eternal life, to know you, the only true God, and whom you sent, Jesus Christ" (John 17,3).
When a person experiences this knowledge of God, that intimate, personal relationship of love, then God's love will flow through them to others - to all others, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Our modern world is a world of great confusion and deception. We are told that there are many "ways to God."

But the only way to know God is to know the Father through Jesus in the Holy Spirit. For this reason Christians are baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.