Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we are picking up exactly

where we left off like well for me like five seconds ago on this two day conversation you and I are having

about what the significance of the phrase weeping and gnashing of teeth is in the Bible.

That's what we were digging into in the last episode when we had to hit pause.

So here's some music and then we're right back in where we left off. Now I feel like we are right back to where we have been so many times you and I, which is in this place of

marveling at the idea of a god, not like Thor or somebody who is an

exaggerated version of people, but like the deity, the deity who is held out as having made all things of being the most powerful being.

No being can even be conceived of that would be more powerful because this being, the one held out by the Bible and by reason is defined

by their lack of limits not their limits so this being can't not do anything this

being has access to everything transc transcends everything, all of the natural

boundaries and things that contain the options that are extended to you and I.

Those boundaries don't apply to this God. Whatever this God does, whatever this

deity does is right. This deity's judgments cannot be wrong by definition. So on the one hand, as we're learning about Jesus here together in

the Gospel of Matthew, we're talking about a deity who put forth tremendous

effort to be familiar to us, to present himself in a way that we would be like, oh yeah you look like a person, I get that, I can

track with that, I understand the words that are coming out of your mouth.

But at the same time we're talking about a triune deity who exists in two forms that are beyond our comprehension,

who exists in three parts in one without any limits or boundaries that is completely other for us.

So on the one hand, very close, very accessible, very familiar, on the other hand, completely

other, but even if we're talking about God incarnate in Jesus as held out by the Bible, we're still talking about an entity here

entity here that is otherworldly beyond otherworldly,

other naturally.

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