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So my hope my prayer for today's program is that everyone will stay engaged and stick with me once you see what's on the screen.

First of all, there's all sorts of folks that are all excited and let's look at Greek and write stuff and do things like that.

And other folks are like, yeah, I'm not sure I'm going to be following all of that.

It is my intention to bring everyone along because this program today has been prompted by a question that I have been asking of the other side in the current disputes going on.

Regarding the doctrine of inseparable operations, not the biblical concept of that, the unity of the divine persons, the divine will, things like that, but the

domestically oriented definition, both as simplicity and in several operations, which flows from my assertion is flows from a concern that finds its origin in Aristotle's views of God.

And Thomas was not able to fully extricate those things and therefore does not flow from scripture, but flows from a philosophical system.

And in the assertion that in inseparable operations, that the divine persons, when they act outside of the internal relationships,

of begetal, begotten, spiration, which again are speculative categories.

It's not like there's a verse that says these things and this is supposed to be what we are learning about and things like that, but it's a way of differentiating between the divine persons in eternity past.

When acting outside of, not add intro, but add extra, that every divine action is an action of all divine persons.

And so far that I've even had some very clearly say that you cannot distinguish between the divine persons by any of the actions they do externally.

And it's just so painfully obvious that this is a philosophical conclusion, not a biblical conclusion.

No one even pretends to try to found it in scripture.

Maybe one or two people have tried to go, well, you know, John five, none of that even comes close to overthrowing the fact that we have in some places in scripture.

And there are only certain number of places where we are given insight into the relationship of Father, Son, and Spirit.

And they are some of my favorite texts of scripture. I've spoken on these issues many, many times.

Most of you who have heard me speak on these things, no, I speak of drawing aside the veil of eternity and things like this, where we are given these tremendous opportunities of literally hearing inter-divine communication.

I mean, we don't deserve any of that, but we have it in scripture.

And so the question that I have been asking of the other side is, are there not biblically places where the divine persons do things that are specifically unique to them in relationship to the other divine person.

And the example that I want the examples that I've put forward is in Philippians chapter two in the Carmen Christi, right at the beginning of the hymn to Christ as to God.

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