Tons of questions are coming in about something you said in Texas about vocal cords.

Joe from Dallas asks, could you please expand on your statement from the Linger conference

recently that God has no vocal cords? Case from dripping springs, Texas asks the same

thing. So does Dixie, a listener named Jordan and others. So what did you mean at the Linger

conference when you said the God has no vocal cords? Jesus said in John 424, God is spirit.

And those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. And the context of that statement

is that he's trying to help the woman at the well disconnect worship from location and buildings

like should we worship in Jerusalem or should we worship in this mountain? And one of Jesus'

responses is God is spirit, which means he doesn't have a body and therefore he doesn't have a

location and he certainly doesn't have any body parts like vocal cords. And before the son of God

was incarnate, he was not incarnate. His whole point of the incarnation was that it had to happen.

He didn't have a body before. It's terrible to think of God as having the body before the incarnation.

So in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. He was in the

beginning with God. And then that's John 11. And then verse 14, the word became flesh.

All right. At the incarnation, there's this mysterious union between the divine and human nature.

And now it is not wrong to say God has a vocal cord, namely Jesus vocal cords. But that's not

what people have in mind when they talk about God speaking to them. God in His essence has nobody,

has no vocal cords. And the point of laying stress on it was that when God communicates with

the human being audibly, he is using some created agency. Some created means not his own vocal cords.

That was the context. People were asking, do you ever hear God? And part of my answer was he

doesn't have any vocal cords. And they said, well, we thought about that answer before. We are,

we're not told how God spoke to Adam, Noah, Abraham, the prophets. We just know God made his

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