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Hey there, Sprouse. Today is January 19th, 2021. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we are doing part two of our answer to who is Jesus Christ. What evidence is there

in scripture that he is indeed the Messiah and the

Son of God? We've talked about many things. And yesterday we talked about the fact that he has to be

God because he sees our needs and he responds with abundance. Now today, we are going to talk about

another piece of evidence that Jesus gives us in scripture

to prove that He is God.

And this is that He is eternal.

He is eternal.

Now, do you know what eternal means?

Eternal means without beginning, without end, lasting forever. Now we know Jesus tells us,

and we hear at the beginning of John's gospel that Jesus existed before the world,

that at that very moment of creation, God was there and Jesus was with

them. We know this as the mystery of the Trinity. God is three persons, but one God. We also know in

John's gospel that they refer to Jesus as the Word.

Now think for a second back to that story of creation.

How does God create everything?

Well, God speaks everything into creation, right?

He speaks, he says, that is how the world is formed. And what are the things

that we are usually saying? Words. Words. So when we say that Jesus is the word, this has many

rich meanings, we also know that that is how Jesus was present. He is the very

word that God spoke to call the world into being. You remember that today when you do our

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