What's up my friends? I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we are

inching our way through the book of Matthew one little bit at a time. We do that every

weekday morning in 10-ish minute chunks and if you've been hanging around for a while

you've figured out that every now and then the pace of things slows just a

bit because we get into a text that maybe is more complicated you got to think

about it more maybe it's more controversial and it needs a little more attention

than the other text to give a fair treatment to what other people think

about it besides me or other reads

that people have had in history. Maybe sometimes we might linger on a text

because the implications are a little bit bigger or is because it's fun. Right now though we've been

lingering on Matthew 1127 and goes like this. This is Jesus talking by the way.

All things have been committed to me by my father. No one knows the son except the father,

and no one knows the father except the son,

and those to whom the son chooses to reveal him.

And yesterday, as you and I were working on this, we really focused on the knowing part of the equation.

What would it be to know another entity so perfectly and so completely to know another entity without any limits whatsoever.

I mean at some point you just kind of become one entity and we talked about how the Bible

characterizes the deity of Christianity as an unlimited infinite being,

unlimited, unbound by anything in any way. And since there is no other entity that would also be infinite and unlimited for that God

character to have a relationship with. It's kind of a big deal then that that is

accounted for in the Christian, the biblical conception of God because perfect relationship

could not happen external to a perfect divine infinite character, rather the perfect infinite

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