We're back one more time with historian and theologian Michael Reeves talking about

his incredibly good book, Delighting in the Trinity.

If you're looking for a good summer read, consider it.

Dr. Reeves serves as the president and professor of theology at Union School of Theology in Oxford.

Last time we were talking about creation.

So Dr. Reeves go into the sort of inner-trinitarian relationship and explain for us where the act

of creation, this impulse, where does that originate within God?

Yeah, well, our triangle, the Father for Eternity, where we looked at John 1724, which he says,

Father, you loved me before the foundation of the world, for Eternity, the Father has

enjoyed, delighted in his servant, that's Isaiah language, he's enjoyed his son.

And what's happening in creation is, as the Father has so delighted in the Son, so he

delights to have that love overflow, that there might be many sons, that the Son might

be the first born of many brothers.

And so with this God, who's outgoingly gracious in who he is in Eternity, we're timely loving,

it makes sense that he should have many others that he might love.

Now for your single person God, that just wouldn't make sense, why would he create?

But because the Father's always enjoyed loving the Son, creation seems not an essential

thing he has to do at all, but a very characteristic thing for him to do.

Yeah, glorious.

And all of creation is, it flows out of God's abundant trinitarian delight.

So I want to press in here a little bit more.

You have so clearly made this connection with Eternity and the beauty of creation in

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