Hi, this is Nathan W Bingham, host of Renewing Your Mind, and I want to invite you to join us in

Orlando for our Ligonier National Conference. Beginning May 23rd, Christians from around the

world will gather to hear biblical teaching and enjoy fellowship together.

This year's theme is the way, the truth, and the life.

Over three days, we'll focus on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

To learn more and register, visit Ligonier.org

slash 2024.

The worst thing that could ever happen to a Jew in the Old Testament was to have God turn his back.

If Jesus was to be forsaken, truly forsaken by God on the cross, God had to turn his back. If you look in your Gospel of John where it says the word was with God, there's a harmless word in there. A word, with. There's a harmless word in there, a word with.

Everyday word.

Nothing philosophical about that word, is there?

Here's the problem.

The Greeks had three distinct words, each one of which is translated by the

English word with. So the Greek mind understood that there are different ways

that you can be with people. And those three words are the words Sun, the word Meta, and the word Pross. You don't have to remember

them, but let me just illustrate them. The word Sun, you have heard in English this way.

How many have you ever been to a synagogue?

Well, how many have you ever seen a synthesis or know what a synthesis is or syncopated rhythm.

That prefix sin, which has come over into our language, comes from the Greek Sun,

which means with Synogogae, the synagogue was the place where people came together to be with each other.

All of us in this room right now are with each other in the sense of Sun. We're part of a group,

we're part of a multitude. That's one way of being with someone. Then the second way

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