Episode Introduction

SPEAKER_02 0:13

Alright, everybody, welcome back to Tether being connected to Jesus. It's so good to have you back on the podcast. And so we are continuing season four here on Tether talking about the attributes of God on this episode. So last episode we covered God is unchanging with our friends here with fans. That was such an encouraging episode. So if you have not listened to that episode, I would encourage you to go back and listen to it, but it was such an encouragement just to know about the unchanging nature of God that we can trust in his plans and purposes for our lives. And so, welcome to episode number two of season four. And so today we're gonna be exploring who God is in the sense of his eternality. And so we're gonna be looking at why is it important for us to abide in Christ when God is eternal. And so

Meet Skylar Schellin!

SPEAKER_02 1:07

I invited a friend of mine to actually speak on this very topic. And so his name is Skylar. And so, Skylar, welcome to Tethered.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

Thank you, brother Joey. It's an honor and a pleasure to be here. And for anyone who's watching or listening, thank you for coming to join us. If you're here for the first time, welcome to Tethered. And if you're returning, thank you for coming again. It's an honor and a pleasure for us to get to put these podcasts out for you more than once.

SPEAKER_02 1:35

Awesome, Skyler. Yeah, thank you for sharing that. So, Skylar, yeah, why don't you um tell the viewer or the listener just three things about yourself?

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Three things. So, first of all, you should know that I am a staff member with Collegiate Impact, but I'm actually just about to finish my internship with them. So I've been getting to serve on staff with Brother Joey here for the past year, getting to do college ministry and getting to serve alongside him and with other students. I am a full-time student at Midwestern Seminary, studying for a master's in divinity for biblical languages. I'm also hoping to go on to study for a PhD so that I can become a professor. Awesome. Thirdly, I'm originally from Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix, Arizona. It's hot over there, isn't it? Yes, it is. Yes, it is. And the weather is starting to get warmer again now that we're getting out of the winter seasons and more into spring. Visit Phoenix Phoenix in the winter, guys. That's what he's saying.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

Yeah. Yes, exactly. Awesome. Well, Skylar, thank you again for willing to come on at Tethered. It's great to have you on. And so thank you for making time to, you know, share about God is eternal on this episode today. So

Describing God's eternality

SPEAKER_02 2:54

with that, let's go ahead and begin. The first question I want to ask you is how would you describe the eternality of God?

SPEAKER_00 3:02

Yes. So in defining God's eternalness, there are primarily two things that I want to get across. When I say, and when the Bible talks about God being eternal, there is some overlap with God's eternalness and any other living creature like humans who can be everlasting. And here's where the overlap mostly comes in. Human souls and God exist and have no end. Whether you're a human who will be saved and redeemed to live with Jesus Christ in the new heavens and then later in the new earth, or if you're someone who is condemned, regardless, both human souls are eternal, everlasting. There's either going to be no end to their suffering if they go to hell, or there's going to be no end to their joy and their delight in Jesus and in God if they go to heaven and then eventually to the new heavens and the new earth. So that's where some of the overlap is. But when we talk about God being eternal, there's a difference in that not only is there no end looking forward into the future, there's also no end as we look backwards into the past. There is no point in time where God came into existence, and no point in time where God needed something to start him. There has never been a moment when God did not exist, and there never will be a moment when God will not exist. So that's the difference between God's eternalness and humankind's everlasting life and souls.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Yeah, that's good. Yeah, thanks for sharing that.

Why trust in a God who made everything out of nothing?

SPEAKER_02 5:26

I know, like, um we believe that God created everything we know to exist, right? Exactly. And so like God created the universe, and there's this term in Latin that's called ex nihilo, which means out of nothing. And so maybe speak to that. Maybe like if someone is like asking questions about okay, why should I trust in a God that made everything out of nothing? Like, maybe what would you say to that?

SPEAKER_00 5:50

For for dealing with this, I think it'd actually be really helpful for us to turn to our Bibles. If you have your Bible with you, turn with me to the book of Genesis, chapter one. We'll also have it up on the screen for you as well. Perfect. We'll be looking at verses one through five. As much as possible, we're going to try to go into this very deep topic, but trying to keep the text as simple as possible so that we can understand it easily. So look with me at Genesis one, one through five. The text says this In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening and there was morning the first day. As we look at this text, one of the main things that I really want to point out is that beginning there. It says, In the beginning, God, we can stop right there and ask ourselves, in the beginning of what? Because what we're getting here, what the author of the book of Genesis goes on to describe, is not the beginning of God, but instead the beginning of creation. He goes on to describe the world being created, but also he's describing the beginning of time. This is the earliest point in history that we can ever look at. So as we look at this, what we're getting a glimpse into is that there is a beginning of time and a beginning of creation, and God existed before that. That's part of what we're getting into with God's eternalness. But secondly, we're also getting into not just that God can exist on his own, but because he has the power to exist on his own, he can also bring other things into existence. As we look at this text, we get to see that God creates the heavens and the earth, and that he does so purely by speaking through his word. So he has the power to create ex nihilo. The the power to bring into being out of nothing. That's something that only God possesses.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Yeah. So you talk about, you know, God's eternality in that way that, you know, he's always existed. Yes. Like he didn't necessarily need to be created because he's not a created being. Maybe, like,

Why God's eternality is important to understand

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my next question for you, maybe if you're watching this or listening to this, why is this particular attribute of God important for someone to understand? What would you say to that?

SPEAKER_00 9:08

That is one of the things that I was most excited about when preparing for this podcast. And for all you listeners at home, I brought three applications that I'm really hoping to get across. The first point, as we look into this, is that before I go into it, let me actually state that what you think about God really affects everything that you do. It affects your everyday life. It affects your confidence, your hope, your security, your happiness, and it affects your significance, how you feel that you're making an impact in life, and whether you have a purpose. So with that, consider with me the first point that I'm bringing to you. As we consider this text and looking at God being even before the beginning, the first point I want to make is that God is holy because he's eternal. As we think about God's eternality, one of the things that we can look at this text and grasp is that God existed even before anything else. And this means that he's the only thing, the only being that is rightly understood to be the standard of right and wrong, and the only being who is the ultimate purpose of all of creation. R. C. Sprohl, in his book called The Holiness of God, talked about this concept of God's eternalness, his self being, being the main thing that separated God from everything else. That God alone is different from all other beings. Everything else needs God and needs other things in order to exist. Whereas God alone is completely independent and the only one who can set the standard for everything else. Think with me also on the fact that God created everything. To give a illustration to understand this, it is a pretty well known concept in America that if a man builds something like a house, then he owns that house, and he has the right to decide what is right and what is wrong within that house. He has authority over it. There is a saying that's pretty well known, my house, my rules, or your house, your rules, whoever's house it is, gets to be the one who makes the rules. And in that understanding, God is the one who created and built all of creation. It is his house that he made. And because of that, he's the one who has the right to decide what is right and what is wrong within that house. He's the one who has the authority to choose what the standard is. As Christians, the main thing that I want to encourage our listeners in through that, is that because of this grasp of God's holiness, that his eternalness means that he's the owner of everything, that means that you can be confident that as long as you listen to God, you're always in the right. There's not some universal standard, as some people think, that God and you have to conform to of right and wrong. You don't have to constantly be asking yourself as you look at the Bible, I know God says this, but is it right? Instead, you can say, Because God says this, it is right. Yeah. There's no alternative authority that you need to appeal to.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

I think you what you said was really great. I like the analogy that you gave about the house, because what we have to realize, and it's so easy to forget, is that God created everything. So because he created everything, he's Lord over everything. Yes. And so everything that is created, like he makes claim on it. It's all his. And so I like that analogy of the house because it showcases like because God is the master and he is eternal in that way, we can trust that he knows what he's doing. And so I just wanted to share that because it's so easy to forget that we have a God that we can place our faith and trust in because he is in control of everything, which you know, later down the road we'll be talking about God's sovereignty in a later episode. But yeah, I'm really, you know, thankful that you said that because when we think about God in that way, it helps us understand that you know he is good, that we can trust him. So I appreciate you sharing that.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

My pleasure. Thank you, brother. So as we continue to think on why God's eternalness matters, here's the second point that I want to bring to you. God's eternalness is the reason why you can have confidence that he loves you. Look with me back at Genesis 1, 1 through 5, and specifically look at verse 3. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. As we meditate on that text, many theologians have used that as an argument that God the Holy Spirit, not just God the Father, was present during the creation of everything, and this is further evidence that it's not just the Father who's eternal, but also God the Holy Spirit. Look with me also, turn your Bibles to the Gospel of John, chapter one, verses one through three. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. The Gospel of John goes on to describe that this word that John talks about is the man, Jesus Christ, before he took on flesh and before he became incarnate. So as we look at the Gospel of John, what we're getting to see is that it's not just the Father and the Holy Spirit who are eternal, it's also God the Son. And they have in eternity, they have existed together in this perfect triangle of love between one another. That's the basis for what we're going to be thinking of as we consider why God's eternalness matters for knowing that he loves you. As we look at the text, one of the main things that I want to bring to you is that Michael Reeves went into the eternality of the Trinity. And he brought out that the Trinity is not just a doctrinal fact that we should know about, but it also matters for being able to delight in it because it gives us confidence that we know that God can really love us. As we consider the Trinity, one of the things that this teaches us about God is that even before the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit created anything, they were in the state of loving one another. This is something that's natural to their being, it's in accordance with their nature. So this means that God does not have to change or become something new after creating not just everything else, but you in particular. He doesn't have to change who he is in order to love you, is within his nature to be able to love. Not only that, it's even more in his nature to be able to love than it is for him to have wrath. Cause as you consider that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit existed even before anything else, what that means is that they loved each other even before they had anything to have wrath against. So wrath is actually God's strange and unnatural work, as some have called it. It's something that he didn't have before creating everything. It only came about as his holiness was assaulted by sinners, or as the things that he loved was assaulted by sinners. So therefore, you can be confident that in general, God can love you because it's in his nature. But even more than that, you can be confident that God loves you in particular if you're a believer, because we're told that if you turn with me to the book of John, chapter 17, verses 21 through 23, could you actually read that out for me, brother?

SPEAKER_02 19:53

John 17, 21 to 23 says that they may all be one just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them, and you and me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and love them even as you loved me.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

That last bit in twenty-three there is so incredibly encouraging and comforting for a believer to hear. Hmm. It's not just that God can love you. It's not just that the Father can love you, it's that the Father will love you even as much as He loves God the Son. This perfect triangle of eternal love that has been ongoing even before the beginning of time and even before the creation of the universe. If you're a believer, then you're getting caught up in that love triangle, being carried along with them so that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit love you even as much as they love each other. And I hope that that is something that brings you comfort and encouragement in your daily life.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

Yeah, so that's actually really comforting that you share that because that's something that I would say most people don't even think about. Because when you think about the Trinity, it's easy to think when you hear Trinity, you think of maybe three gods, but that's not the case with the Trinity. The Trinity is essentially, in most simple definition, is one God, three persons. And so, like God the Father is not God the Son, God the Son is not God the Spirit. But each of them have a different like essence to who they are, but they're the same being essentially.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

Yeah. The classic way that has been described is that they are three different persons with one essence that they share. The word essence there can sometimes be communicated as being or nature, but essentially it means that all three of them are God, but they're separate persons so that they can relate to one another and they can have love for one another.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

Yeah, absolutely. And so, yeah, go ahead and share your final point because it'd be interesting to hear what you have to say.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

The third point that I want to give you is that God's eternalness is proof that He's real. This has an apologetics bent to it. What would you say apologetics is for those who may not know what that word is? So, apologetics is it comes from the word apology, and it simply means to give a defense for what you believe, which is very different from what most people view apology as today. Normally, if you give an apology, you're actually not giving a defense for what you've done, but you're actually acknowledging that what you've done is wrong. So when we talk about apologetics, it's pretty much the opposite of that, where we're giving a reason for why we think that God really is God and that God really did create everything. As we consider God's eternalness and his status as the creator, one of the things that we should really consider is that God's eternalness is proof that he's real because the universe requires someone or something to be eternal. If you are familiar with the theologian Thomas Aquinas, in his book The Summa Theologica, he made this argument way back in the eleven hundred AD or so. Long time ago. Yes. So he makes the argument that because God is eternal, it's proof that he exists because if anything if anything exists, it needs something else in order to give its existence to it. As we look at creation, whether that's the universe or human beings, we can look at humans, for example, and say that humans need parents in order to live. Humans need food, need water, they need light in order to live. They're dependent creatures, therefore they can't have come into existence unless the things that they depend on existed before them. In a similar way, when we look at the universe, what we can see is that the entire universe is dependent on other things. This is one of the main ways that atheist worldviews really have an error or a logical flaw as they try to grapple with what ultimate reality is. You may have heard of theories such as the Big Bang or such as evolution, but one of the things that they assume is that they have something in creation in order to start those things off of. So for example, when thinking about the Big Bang, there's usually a some kind of matter or rock that collides with something else, and it creates an explosion that starts everything else. But the problem is where did they get the matter and the rock? Where did they get the things to cause the explosion? If we stop and think about matter, for example, matter cannot be created or destroyed. There's a fixed amount of matter in the world. And we know that it's not eternal, it couldn't have come into existence on its own. Because it's dependent on time, as matter goes through time, it continues to change. It breaks down and then it builds back up. So matter can't be self-existent or eternal, because if it was, then it wouldn't be affected by time, because it would have had to exist before time existed. In that way, many secular worldviews make the mistake of either having matter pop into existence with no apparent cause or they make the mistake of trying to say that something that we can prove that's not eternal, they try to ascribe eternalness to it. They try to say, for example, that there's some rock that started the Big Bang, even though there's no rock in existence that we have found that has the ability to exist without anything else. Yeah. As we consider this reality and look back at the beginning of time, every scholar that I know, every scholar who has a good footing in intellectual honesty, agrees that there is a beginning to time. We're not in some infinite loop of some kind that just stretches on eternally. But instead, there was a beginning to time, and everything else had to come after that.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

As we consider what it would look like for the secular worldview to be real, that would mean that at the beginning of time, everything that is required for existence, like matter, would have had to just pop into existence out of nothing. And this actually is an argument that some have tried to make. There are some scholars who have tried to make the argument that even though you can't get nothing to become something, you can get nothing to become something if you wait a very long time. And this is where we have to step back as Christians and recognize that that's an argument that they're making without any basis for their information to back that up. And it flies in the face of logic. Because nothingness, by its own definition, is not a thing. It is no thing. That is quite literally what the word means. Yeah. And if it is not a thing, then it has no being within it to have the capability to become something else. Yeah. It has no atoms, it has no matter, it has no chemical compound, it is nothing.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

The main thing that I want to encourage you all in, as we consider this, is that God is the only logically consistent worldview that can say that the world has a beginning and still be able to point to one who gives it the beginning, as we consider creation and God's eternalness, it is a logically consistent thing for us to be able to say that because the world has a beginning, there must be someone who can exist before that beginning, who also made it begin. That person, that thing, whatever you believe in it is, you're ascribing eternalness to it.

SPEAKER_01 31:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

But we know that it's God. And I hope that that gives you confidence that the Bible really is real.

SPEAKER_02 32:06

Yeah, for sure. Well, thanks for sharing that, Skylar. That's a very good perspective to have. It's such an encouragement because it just shows that there's plenty of evidence out there that shows that there is a creator that literally made everything out of nothing.

SPEAKER_00 32:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 32:22

Um, there's this documentary, um, dear watcher listener, um, that I would encourage you to watch. It's called Is Genesis History. And in this documentary, um, there are people who are looking into like geological like places like the Grand Canyon, the Great Unconformity, looking into like layers of rock, or even like looking at different animals, like various you know, types of starfish, to show that Genesis is not just this account that showcases you know a creation, but it actually happened. And so um I would encourage you to watch that, and that showcases that you know God is a creator, but he's eternal, like he literally made everything out of nothing, and we can trust in the fact that because he's existed before time and exist out of time, that we can place our faith and trust in this God because he knows what he's doing. Yes, and he knows his creation. So thank you, brother, for sharing those three points with us. So let me ask you a next question here. I mean, you've actually answered these next two questions I had. Um, I know you mentioned like verses in Genesis and verses in John. Um, are there any

Other Scripture references to show that God is eternal

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other verses that you want to share with the listener that showcases that God is eternal?

SPEAKER_00 33:38

I would also go ahead and point to Deuteronomy chapter five, verses I think it's seven through ten off the top of my head, as we look at the first commandment, yeah, what we get to see is that God gives this first commandment that you're not to have any other gods before him. And what he described is that he's not like other gods. Yeah. And as Christians who look at the entire Bible, we can look at that and say the reason that God's not like other gods is because he's not like anything else. Exactly. There's nothing in creation and nothing in mythology that is like God. He's the only one who's eternal, and therefore the only one who is the standard of holiness and love.

SPEAKER_02 34:36

Yeah. Amen. I just think about just accounts in like first Samuel, you know, Dagon, the statue of Dagon, like the Philistines have that, and as soon as like the Ark of the Temple gets put into that same area, the Dagon statue like falls over on its head. Yeah. Because it's there is no other God other than God. Exactly. I just think of you know accounts like that, even in various books of the Bible. Jeremiah, Isaiah. There's this common repeated phrase, there are there is no God like me. There is none like me. And so thanks for sharing that because it's it's easy to just you know forget that God is who he says he is, and we can trust the fact that he is eternal in order for us to find comfort and joy in the fact that we worship a God who I'm glad he is eternal.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

And so, all right, so here's my next question for you, Skyler. Since this podcast is called Tethered, how does the eternal nature of God help

How God's eternal nature helps one abide in Jesus

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us understand how he abides in us and us in him?

SPEAKER_00 35:48

I think that those first two points that I got to share with the listeners and watchers of this podcast are probably the main ways that we can try to find an application for how we can be tethered to God by his eternalness. We can look at the eternalness of God and in recognizing that he's holy and submitting to him as the one standard and authority and judge, we are admitting that we need to be tethered to him, and by obeying him and acknowledging him as right above all else, what we're getting to do is going back to that earlier referenced Ten Commandments, what we're told is the two greatest commandments is to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. And the Ten Commandments is really an explanation of how to love God. How is it that you, as a believer, remain tethered to God, and it's by loving him through obedience, acknowledging that he is the great and right authority over everything else, and submitting your life to him. Similarly, that second point I shared is giving us a glimpse that it's not just that we need to be tethered to God, but God himself tethers himself to us. Amen, brother. Yes, it's not just that there's this holy and righteous God who's out there in the universe, and if you don't obey him, he's going to smite you. But instead, this God, this greater and more powerful being, than everything else, he himself loves you particularly. If you're a believer and you've trusted in Christ, then you can be confident that it's not just up to you to tether yourself to God, but you can be confident that God tethers himself to you, that he loves you, and he's going to uphold and preserve you. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

Thank you for sharing that Skylar. I mean, I love that you talked about the gospel right there.

SPEAKER_00 38:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 38:22

Um, and it's so important to remember that because I think we can make it a thing to where, you know, it's easy for us to try to perform, it's easy for us to try to earn God's favor. But because God is eternal and he made it his plan to save sinners from the wrath of God because of his love for us while we were still sinners, it is important for us to remember his eternal nature is what causes us to worship him in the first place. Yeah. Because if his eternal nature, like he does exist out of time, but he's able to come down, become like us in order to redeem us and to save us and to live the life that we could not live.

SPEAKER_01 39:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 39:08

And so you kind of hinted at it already, but maybe for the listener who's maybe really wrestling with the con with this concept, where do we see the gospel and the

The Gospel in God's eternal nature

SPEAKER_02 39:19

eternal nature of God? Like, maybe like try to make that clear for the listener and the watcher.

SPEAKER_00 39:25

The main two ways that we see the gospel is that through God's holiness revealed in his eternalness, we get to see that because God is the right and holy standard of everything, we have a reference point for why it is that sin is wrong. As we think about Adam and Eve all the way back in the Garden of Eden, if we don't have the understanding that God is, through his holiness, the right standard of everything, then it doesn't make sense why they were sinners by eating the fruit. Because most of us, I think, would agree that eating fruit is not by itself a sin. But because God told them not to eat that particular fruit, their act of going on to disobey God was an act of cosmic treason. Before they could eat that fruit, they had to imagine in their minds that despite the fact that God's holy, that they would rather not have him as their supreme authority and judge, that they would rather make themselves the standard of right and wrong, they would rather make themselves like God. Yeah. And that's where the real sin comes in, is not just what they did, but what they also felt and thought before their sin. And also as we look at Jesus Christ coming to redeem his people, God's holiness and God's love through his eternalness makes that picture so much more beautiful and so much more gripping. As we see just how heinous and grievous our sin really is by understanding God's holiness, we also get to see just how much God paid by sending his Son, Jesus Christ, to suffer for our sins in our place. He didn't just suffer for minor crimes, he suffered for cosmic treason, for creatures that were rebelling against a holy God, and he did not just suffer for them haphazardly, but he completely paid for their sin through his perfection, through his perfect obedience and suffering, he completely paid the penalty for their sin, suffering hell in their place, but also he earned for them perfect righteousness with God through his obedience, so that now all believers can have a reconciled relationship with God and they can be restored to this relationship of love that we earlier got to talk about. Yeah. Where we're not just loved as creatures created by God, which He loves incredibly, but even more than that, we're loved as much as the Father loves the Son, we're getting more love than we ever would have dreamed possible.

SPEAKER_02 43:09

Amen. Amen, brother. Well, I am really thankful that you shared all that because it's so easy to forget how much the Lord loves us if we're in Christ. And that's something that it's so easy to forget, dear listener. That's why you know he has to abide in us, because apart from him, we can do nothing. Because his love is what compels us to want to obey him. His love is what compels us to want to make him known. And if we trust in the fact that he is eternal, he's always existing, we can trust in the fact that he wants to work in us and through us to change our hearts to be more like him. Because that's the original purpose of why we were created. And so I just appreciate you, Skylar, really emphasizing that point because I just think about the listener who's really struggling to believe that one, they have assurance that when they're in Christ, that nothing can take that away from them. And so I really think you hit you know hit the hammer on the head, if you know what I mean. Thank you. I I hope that's been helpful. Yeah, in order for people to see that. So I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts. And yeah, I mean an honor and a pleasure brother. You basically answered my last question already when you were sharing about the three points of God's eternality. So, what are some practical ways which you know you really hit on? But

Practical ways to grow in understanding God's eternality

SPEAKER_02 44:39

I just wanted to ask you know, is there anything else you would want? To add, like, what are some practical ways for a person to grow in their understanding of the eternal nature of God? Like, what what what would you suggest?

SPEAKER_00 44:49

Meditate on the scriptures. As you look at the scriptures, so much of it is based on God's character. As we look at those texts, so for example, like Romans 1, even though we don't need to turn there immediately, I think it's verses 16 through 21 or so when he starts going into that the gospel of is the power of God unto salvation for all those who believe, and then he goes on to talk about creation and God's eternal nature. As we look at the Bible, so much of it is a lot like that. Yeah. Everything that we believe and everything that we do is based on first who God is and what God's done. Yeah. So as we look at the Bible, keep your eyes open for that truth of who God is and what God's done. So that you have a basic a basis and a foundation for everything that comes after that. Secondly, pray for wisdom and God will give you wisdom. If you want to know more about God's eternalness, pray and ask him to give you a better understanding of it. Thirdly, walk with the wise if you want to be wise. Find brothers and sisters in your church, other Christians who are also growing in their love for God and in their knowledge of who God is. And just talk with them about the Bible. Especially if you can find Christians who are older than you or more mature than you in their faith, it can be an incredibly blessed experience to just sit down with them and talk with them about the Bible on a regular basis and maybe ask them about God's eternalness. They might show you something that you haven't seen before. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 46:53

Yeah, thank you, brother. That's actually very helpful wisdom because yeah, if you want to know God, you have to know who he is according to how he's chosen to reveal himself in this written word. And so, yeah, I would encourage you, dear listener, watcher, pick up your Bible and just read it. Um, read a certain amount, he just wants you to get to know him and to get to know him. Pick up the way that he's chosen to reveal himself. And so I appreciate you sharing that, Skylar. So with that, that's pretty much all the questions that I had for you, Skylar. Is there any final thoughts that you would like to share with the listener, watcher?

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Keep reading the word of God, keep praying, keep spending time

Final thoughts

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with your church.

SPEAKER_02 47:38

Amen, brother. Amen. Well, thank you, Skylar, for willing to come on the tether. It's very, you know, it's a pleasure having you today on the podcast. And so, dear listener, an honor and a pleasure. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. So, for next time, dear listener, dear watcher, we're gonna be talking about our next attribute of God. God is faithful, and

Episode conclusion

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so we're gonna be chatting with someone that we've actually previously had on the podcast before. It's been a few years since we've last had him, but I think he has some wonderful things to share about the faithfulness of God. So stay tuned for that. Again, please listen to Tetred on your favorite podcasting app. We're on Apple Podcast, Spotify, we're on YouTube Music, and we're also on Amazon Music, and then of course, watch us here on YouTube. And so thank you again for tuning in. Um, we are so grateful that you joined us today, and have a great day, and God bless

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you.