JOHN042 - God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

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🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Matt Whitman. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and today there will be no cutesy story on the front end. There will be no likewise. No, we're not doing any of that, because today we're talking about the nature of Christ and the nature of God and the Trinity. And the fastest way to screw that stuff up is with analogies.
0:40.0	Because nothing's really analogous to God.
0:42.8	God is eternal.
0:43.9	God is forever.
0:45.4	He's the first cause, but he didn't cause himself.
0:49.7	He always is and always has been and always will be, the alpha and the omega. And it's hard.
0:58.1	Even as I dip my toe into this subject matter here in the first minute or so of this
1:02.5	conversation, there are some of you who are sizing up the whole Christian faith thing in the
1:07.9	Bible. And you're going, man, this is what's so difficult for me about Christianity
1:13.5	is how does the God of Christianity work? How can you have one God in three co-equal persons all
1:22.3	existing eternally of the same substance, yet they're distinct from each other. And the Holy Spirit is not the
1:29.5	son, and the Son is not the Father, and the Father is not the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit is God,
1:35.0	and the Father is God, and the Son is God. And you have the Son praying to the Father. I mean,
1:42.6	how does that work? Is that's God praying to God? It's confusing.
1:47.2	It's overwhelming. And this is, you know, some of you were probably thinking, like, this is one of the
1:50.6	thing, my big hangups here with Christianity. This is a big hurdle to overcome. And to those of you
1:56.6	who are maybe feeling that right now, I would say, yeah, fair enough. It's confusing. It is difficult.
2:02.8	And there are mysteries involved. And also, God, when we talk about him, as he's revealed himself,
2:09.3	he seems very otherly. But other gods that you hear about, they just kind of sound and look like us.
2:20.7	It would make sense that the timeless eternal God of all things who is perfect in all things would also be perfect relationally and that
2:28.1	that God who doesn't need anything would not have to look outside himself for relationships,
2:34.7	or else that God would have a limitation.
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