4. We confess that the Father is God, and the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. _There are not three gods, however, but only one God. "Hear, O Israel: the Lord, our God, is one Lord."_ Deut. 6,4. The one and only true God has revealed Himself in three distinct divine Persons. _Our God, the one true God, besides whom there is no other God in heaven and earth, is God the Father, God the Son, and God, the Holy Ghost, three divine Persons, but one God._ Because God has revealed Himself in three divine Persons, we say: _God is the Triune God, the Holy Trinity._--How it is possible that there are three distinct divine Persons, but only one God, we do not _understand;_ but in accordance with the Word of God we _believe_ in the Triune God, in God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, who has created us, redeemed us, and sanctifies us, or makes us holy. In Him we believe, Him we praise and adore as our God. 5. The Holy Ghost is the true God, the Third Person of the Holy Trinity. The Third Person is called the Holy Ghost because _He Himself is perfectly holy,_ even as the Father and the Son. He is without sin. _"Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory."_ Is. 6,3. Three times God is called holy, because there are three divine Persons in God.--But the Holy Ghost is called holy also _because He makes us sinners holy._ That is His work, making us holy, who by nature are unholy and sinful. He makes us holy by bringing us to Christ, our Savior, by kindling faith in Him in our hearts. This work of the Holy Ghost we call _sanctification._ REMEMBER:-- 1. _The Holy Ghost is true God together with the Father and the Son. Therefore we confess that we believe in Him._ 2. _The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. According to Scripture we confess three distinct divine Persons in God._ 3. _There are not three gods, however, but only one true and eternal God, who has revealed Himself in three Persons._ 4. _The one true God, our God, is the Triune God, the Holy Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost._ MEMORIZE:-- _Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?_ 1 Cor. 3,16. _Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost._ Matt. 28,19. _Hear, O Israel: the Lord, our God, is one Lord._ Deut. 6,4. _Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory._ Is. 6,3. QUESTIONS.