Welcome to the In-Dutch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, March 8.

There is one God. The Bible also says there are three persons within the Godhead.

So let's listen closely to this crucial aspect of the character of God.

Now when you begin to study the Trinity, the first thing you discover in the Bible is that the word Trinity is not in there.

And so you say, well, where in the world do we get the idea that we believe in a Trinity?

And we hear people say all kinds of things. Well, it doesn't matter about this and doesn't matter about that.

And it doesn't matter about the other.

But it's interesting to me when you start reading this Bible, it suddenly begins to matter about all of those things.

Because there isn't anything just dropped into the Scripture. It is all here for a purpose.

Now we who believe in the Trinity have a reason for believing that.

And let me say this to you. The understanding of the Trinity.

It has great limitations in every single philosopher who is a Christian, every single theologian.

You read all the theology books you want to read and all the commentaries you want to read.

All of them exhaust, all of their human thinking, and I discovered, and I came to the conclusion after I read,

I think hundreds of pages, I came to the conclusion. They don't know anymore about that and I do.

Because they were all saying at the end, in spite of all the verboseness that they had,

all the hundreds of pages of the Scripture, they all ended up saying, we don't understand it.

There's some things God reveals with great limitations, and the Trinity is the greatest mystery in the word of God.

There is no philosopher who can explain it, and there is no theologian who can analyze it and say, well it's very simple.

A, B, C, D, E, and there you have the Trinity.

Because there's some things the Bible says that God has reserved for himself.

And you see, if man could analyze, if man could dissect God and come up with the human explanation of the Trinity,

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