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WHERE DID GOD COME FROM_ _ Who He REALLY Was BEFORE CREATION · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: If God created us, who created God? Every religion answered
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  Speaker 1: this question. Every religion gave their God a beginning. The
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians had one. The Babylonians had one. The Greeks, the Romans,
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  Speaker 1: the Canaanites. Every civilization that has ever lifted its hands
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  Speaker 1: to the sky and worshipped something gave their deity a
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  Speaker 1: starting point, a moment where it all began. But when
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  Speaker 1: God answered this question himself, he said something that silenced
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  Speaker 1: every religion on earth. Because the God of the Bible
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  Speaker 1: has no page one. In the next 30 minutes, you
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  Speaker 1: are going to hear a name so ancient it predates
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  Speaker 1: language itself. You are going to witness a conversation that
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  Speaker 1: happened before the first Adam existed. And you are going
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  Speaker 1: to discover a love story that was already in motion
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  Speaker 1: in before there was anyone to love. This is a
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  Speaker 1: forensic investigation into the most dangerous question in theology. Where
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  Speaker 1: did God come from? And who, or what, was He
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  Speaker 1: before He created anything at all? By the end of
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  Speaker 1: this documentary, you will never read Genesis 1-1 the same
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  Speaker 1: way again, because that verse is not the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the story. Where did God come from? He didn't. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't come from anywhere, because everywhere came from Him. That
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  Speaker 1: is not a deflection. That is the position of the
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  Speaker 1: entire biblical record. Psalm 90, verse 2, written by Moses himself,
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  Speaker 1: declares it plainly. Before the mountains were born or you
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  Speaker 1: brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting, you
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  Speaker 1: are God. From everlasting to everlasting. No starting line, no
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  Speaker 1: finish line, just God. And the prophet Isaiah takes it
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  Speaker 1: even further. In Isaiah 43, verse 10, God himself speaks,
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  Speaker 1: Before me no God was formed, nor will there be
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  Speaker 1: one after me. No God before him, no God after him,
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  Speaker 1: no chain of creators stretching backward into infinity, no divine
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  Speaker 1: assembly line where one God made the next. He is
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  Speaker 1: the only being in all of existence who was never formed.
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  Speaker 1: never manufactured, never caused, never begun. And in Isaiah 44.6,
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  Speaker 1: God removes any remaining ambiguity. I am the first and
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  Speaker 1: I am the last. Apart from me there is no God.
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  Speaker 1: The first, the last, and everything in between. No rival,
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  Speaker 1: no competing origin, no alternate source, just Him. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: know what some of you are thinking. If everything needs
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  Speaker 1: a creator, who created God? But here is the problem
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  Speaker 1: with that question. It assumes God is a thing inside
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  Speaker 1: the universe, subject to the same rules as everything else
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  Speaker 1: in it. But that is a category error. You are
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  Speaker 1: applying a rule, everything needs a cause, to the one
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  Speaker 1: who made the rule. It is like asking, who built
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  Speaker 1: the builder? The question sounds logical, but it is built
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  Speaker 1: on a foundation that that does not apply. The Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul addressed this directly. In Acts 17, verses 24 and 25,
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  Speaker 1: he said, The God who made the world and everything
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  Speaker 1: in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and
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  Speaker 1: does not live in temples built by human hands. And
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  Speaker 1: he is not served by human hands as if he
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  Speaker 1: needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath
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  Speaker 1: and everything else. Everything you have ever seen, touched, or
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  Speaker 1: experienced was made by something else. Your chair was built
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  Speaker 1: by someone. This planet was formed by forces. You were
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  Speaker 1: born from your mother. Everything has an origin, except one thing.
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  Speaker 1: And that one exception is the reason everything else exists.
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  Speaker 1: But it goes even deeper than that. The Bible does
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  Speaker 1: not just say God existed before creation. It says... God
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  Speaker 1: existed before time itself. Paul writes in 2 Timothy 1.9
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  Speaker 1: that grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of time. And in Titus 1.2, he writes that
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  Speaker 1: God promised before the beginning of time. Read that carefully.
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  Speaker 1: Before the beginning of time. That phrase only makes sense
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  Speaker 1: if time itself had a start. And if time had
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  Speaker 1: a starting point, Someone started it. The Bible does not
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  Speaker 1: use the phrase, God created time, but the logic is inescapable.
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  Speaker 1: If there was a before time, then time has a boundary,
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  Speaker 1: and God was already on the other side of it.
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  Speaker 1: He is not inside the clock. He built the clock.
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  Speaker 1: So the answer to where did God come from is
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  Speaker 1: that he didn't. He has no origin, no birth date,
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  Speaker 1: no back story, But that answer opens a far bigger question,
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  Speaker 1: one that most people never think to ask. If God
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  Speaker 1: has no origin, if he was never created, then what
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  Speaker 1: is he? What is his nature? And more importantly, what
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  Speaker 1: did he call himself? To understand what God said about himself,
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  Speaker 1: you first need to understand what every other god in
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  Speaker 1: the ancient world said about themselves. Because in the ancient world,
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  Speaker 1: Every god had an origin story, every single one. In Egypt, Ra,
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  Speaker 1: the sun god, was born from the waters of chaos,
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  Speaker 1: a primordial ocean the Egyptians called Nun. Ra rose from
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  Speaker 1: those waters, and from him came the other gods. He
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  Speaker 1: was powerful, but he had a beginning. He had a before.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time when Ra did not exist, and
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians knew it. In Babylon, Marduk was the son
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  Speaker 1: of two older gods, Apsu and Tiamat. He rose to
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  Speaker 1: power by killing his own mother, and from her broken body,
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  Speaker 1: he shaped the heavens and the earth. A god with
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  Speaker 1: a genealogy, a god with parents, a god with blood
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  Speaker 1: on his hands before the world even existed, a god
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  Speaker 1: who gained power through violence against the gods that came
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  Speaker 1: before him. In Greece, Zeus was the son of Kronos
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  Speaker 1: and Rhea. he overthrew his father. He seized the throne
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  Speaker 1: of Olympus through war and treachery. A god who took
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  Speaker 1: power from a god who held it before him. Even
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  Speaker 1: the mightiest deity in the Greek pantheon was someone's child.
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  Speaker 1: In Canaan, Baal was the son of El and Asherah,
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  Speaker 1: born into a divine family, a god with a lineage
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  Speaker 1: and a rank within a hierarchy of other gods. Every deity,
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  Speaker 1: every mythology, every civilization across the ancient world. They all
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  Speaker 1: told the same kind of story. Our God was born.
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  Speaker 1: Our God came from something. Every single one of them
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  Speaker 1: had a first page. And then, roughly 1400 years before Christ,
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  Speaker 1: a fugitive shepherd stood alone in a desert in the
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  Speaker 1: region of Midian, and a fire spoke. Moses had been
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  Speaker 1: running for 40 years. He killed a man in Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: an Egyptian taskmaster who was beating a Hebrew slave. He
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  Speaker 1: buried the body in the sand. But someone had seen.
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  Speaker 1: And word reached Pharaoh. And Moses ran. He ran across
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  Speaker 1: the desert. He ran across the border. He ran until
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  Speaker 1: Egypt was nothing but a memory. He married a shepherd's daughter.
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  Speaker 1: He built a quiet life at the edge of the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: herding sheep in silence, as far from God as a
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  Speaker 1: man could get. Forty years passed, forty years of silence,
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  Speaker 1: forty years of sand and sun and sheep and nothing,
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  Speaker 1: no visions, no prophecies, no word from heaven. Whatever destiny
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  Speaker 1: he had imagined for himself in the courts of Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: was buried now, buried like the body under the sand.
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  Speaker 1: And then, one ordinary afternoon, on the western side of
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  Speaker 1: Mount Horeb, a bush caught fire and did not burn.
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  Speaker 1: The flames climbed through the branches. The leaves did not curl.
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  Speaker 1: The wood did not blacken. The fire burned, and the
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  Speaker 1: bush was not consumed. Moses approached, and the voice from
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  Speaker 1: that fire said, Do not come any closer. Take off
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  Speaker 1: your sandals. The ground you are standing on is holy.
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  Speaker 1: And then Moses, this fugitive, this exile, this man with
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  Speaker 1: blood on his hands and forty years of silence in
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  Speaker 1: his chest, asked the most natural question a human being
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  Speaker 1: could ask when standing before something beyond comprehension. Who are you?
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  Speaker 1: What is your name? Now, understand why this mattered. In
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  Speaker 1: the ancient world, a god's name was its resume. Ra
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  Speaker 1: meant sun. Marduk meant calf of the sun. El meant
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  Speaker 1: mighty one. A name told you what a god ruled,
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  Speaker 1: where it came from, who its parents were. When Moses
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  Speaker 1: asked for a name, he was asking for an origin story,
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  Speaker 1: a genealogy, a backstory. And God answered, Exodus chapter 3,
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  Speaker 1: verse 14, I am who I am. This is what
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  Speaker 1: you are to tell the Israelites, I am has sent
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  Speaker 1: me to you. In the original Hebrew, Ehiyeh, Asher Ehiyeh,
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  Speaker 1: I am that I am. Not I was created by,
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  Speaker 1: not I descended from, not I rose out of, just
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  Speaker 1: I am. Two words, no genealogy, no backstory, no origin,
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  Speaker 1: just raw, unqualified, uncaused existence. Moses expected a resume. He
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  Speaker 1: got infinity. Every other God in the ancient world said,
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  Speaker 1: I came from something. This God said, I do not
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  Speaker 1: come from anything. I just am. My existence is not
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  Speaker 1: a story that happened. It is not an event with
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  Speaker 1: a beginning. I am is my nature. My name is
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  Speaker 1: my identity. And my identity is existence itself. The theological
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  Speaker 1: word for this is acity, from the Latin phrase assi,
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  Speaker 1: meaning from himself. God is self-existent. His existence depends on
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  Speaker 1: nothing outside himself. He was never started. He was never caused.
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  Speaker 1: He was never made. Every form of life you know
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  Speaker 1: is a stream flowing from some source. God is the source.
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  Speaker 1: John chapter 5 verse 26 confirms it. For as the
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  Speaker 1: Father has life in himself, so he has granted the
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  Speaker 1: Son also to have life in himself. And Psalm 36
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  Speaker 1: verse 9. For with you is the fountain of life.
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  Speaker 1: From that day forward, God's personal name in the Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: Bible is four letters. Yod, He, Vav, He, Y-H-W-H. The Tetragrammaton.
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  Speaker 1: It appears over 6,800 times in the Old Testament. And
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  Speaker 1: it is built from the Hebrew verb Hayah, which means
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  Speaker 1: to be, to exist. A name constructed from the verb
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  Speaker 1: to exist. Every time you read the word Lord in
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  Speaker 1: capital letters in your English Bible, that is Y-H-W-H. That
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  Speaker 1: is I am. That is the God who has no backstory,
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  Speaker 1: and the ancient Jewish scribes considered this name so sacred,
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  Speaker 1: so heavy, so utterly beyond human rank, that they would
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  Speaker 1: not pronounce it out loud. They substituted the word Adonai,
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  Speaker 1: meaning Lord, rather than let the name touch their lips.
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  Speaker 1: No other deity in the ancient world had a name
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  Speaker 1: like this. Every other divine name told you where a
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  Speaker 1: God came from, This name says the question does not apply.
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  Speaker 1: But there is something else hidden in the very first
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  Speaker 1: verse of Scripture that most people walk right past, Genesis 1-1.
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The Hebrew word for God here is Elohim, and Elohim
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  Speaker 1: is grammatically plural, a plural noun. But the verb that
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  Speaker 1: follows it, bara, created, is singular. He created. Not they created.
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  Speaker 1: A plural name performing a singular action. And then, in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 1.26, God speaks and says something that has puzzled
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  Speaker 1: scholars for 3,000 years. Let us make mankind in our image,
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  Speaker 1: in our likeness. Us. Our plural pronouns. God is speaking
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  Speaker 1: to someone. Before any human being draws breath, There is
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  Speaker 1: a conversation happening. Inside the Godhead, God was not alone.
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  Speaker 1: Here is what this means. The very first word the
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  Speaker 1: Bible uses for God is a word too large for
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  Speaker 1: singular grammar. One God, but something about Him could not
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  Speaker 1: fit into a singular box. The text is whispering something
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  Speaker 1: in its very first sentence that the rest of Scripture
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  Speaker 1: will spend thousands of pages unfolding. His name is self-existence.
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  Speaker 1: His grammar is plural. He has no origin. He has
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  Speaker 1: no equal. So let us be clear about where we are.
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  Speaker 1: Question 1. Where did God come from? He didn't. He
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  Speaker 1: is uncaused. He is self-existent. His name, I am, means
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  Speaker 1: that existence itself is His nature. Question 2. What kind
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  Speaker 1: of being is He? A being so vast... that the
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew language could not fit him into a singular word.
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  Speaker 1: A God who says, let us make, which means that
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  Speaker 1: even before creation, he was not alone. And that opens
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  Speaker 1: the deepest question of all. If God existed before creation,
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  Speaker 1: and he was not alone, then what was he doing?
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  Speaker 1: What was happening in the silence before Genesis 1-1? Most
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  Speaker 1: videos on this topic stop right where we just stopped.
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  Speaker 1: God is eternal. He has no beginning, the end, and
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  Speaker 1: they leave eternity past as a blank space, a silent,
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  Speaker 1: featureless void where God simply existed, as though He were
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  Speaker 1: frozen in darkness, doing nothing, being nothing, waiting for something.
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  Speaker 1: But Scripture does not do that. The Bible reveals at
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  Speaker 1: least four specific things that God was doing before He
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  Speaker 1: created anything at all. and the fourth one will change
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  Speaker 1: how you see yourself forever. The first thing God was
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  Speaker 1: doing before creation was loving. The most common assumption is
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  Speaker 1: that God was alone before creation, a solitary figure sitting
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  Speaker 1: in infinite silence, surrounded by nothing, accompanied by no one.
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  Speaker 1: Many people imagine God in eternity past the way they
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  Speaker 1: imagine deep space, empty, cold, still, a consciousness that without companionship.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus Christ, in the most intimate prayer recorded in
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  Speaker 1: all of Scripture, says something that destroys that picture entirely.
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  Speaker 1: In John chapter 17, verse 24, Jesus prays, Father, you
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  Speaker 1: loved me before the creation of the world. Let that settle.
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  Speaker 1: Before the creation of the world, the Father loved the Son.
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  Speaker 1: Not after creation. Not once humanity arrived. Before. Before. Before
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  Speaker 1: there was a world to stand on, before there was
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  Speaker 1: a sun to see by, before there was a single
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  Speaker 1: Adam in existence, there was love, there was relationship, there
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  Speaker 1: was communion. And Jesus goes further. In John 17, verse 5,
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  Speaker 1: He says, Jesus remembers. He personally recalls a shared glory.
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  Speaker 1: a shared presence, a shared life with the Father before
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  Speaker 1: the cosmos existed. This is not theology. This is not doctrine.
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  Speaker 1: This is autobiography. Jesus is not quoting a psalm. He
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  Speaker 1: is recalling a memory from before the universe had a foundation.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where the text reveals something that honest
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  Speaker 1: theologians across centuries will tell you is a mystery we describe,
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  Speaker 1: not a puzzle we solve. God is one being, One
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  Speaker 1: divine nature, one God. But within that one God, there
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  Speaker 1: are three distinct persons, the Father, the Son, and the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Not three gods. Not one God wearing three
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  Speaker 1: different masks. Not three parts of a whole. Three persons
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  Speaker 1: sharing one divine nature in an eternal, perfect, unbroken relationship
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  Speaker 1: of love. Think of it this way. One what? Three W-H-O-S.
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  Speaker 1: one divine nature, but three persons who share that nature completely.
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  Speaker 1: The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is God, but the Father is not the Son,
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  Speaker 1: the Son is not the Spirit. Three distinct persons, one being,
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  Speaker 1: not a committee, not a team, not three slices of
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  Speaker 1: a pie, one God experienced as three persons in eternal relationship.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a contradiction. It is a communion. And
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  Speaker 1: here is why that matters specifically for the question this
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  Speaker 1: video is asking. 1 John 4, verse 8 says, God
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  Speaker 1: is love. Not that God does love, like it is
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  Speaker 1: a hobby he picked up. Not that God decided to
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  Speaker 1: love once he had someone to practice on. God is love.
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  Speaker 1: It is his essence, his nature, the core of his being.
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  Speaker 1: But think about that. If God were a single solitary person,
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  Speaker 1: He could not be love. Because love requires someone to love,
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  Speaker 1: he would have had to wait until he created someone.
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  Speaker 1: And then love would be something he started doing, not
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  Speaker 1: something he always was. But if God is three persons, Father, Son,
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  Speaker 1: and Spirit, then love was already happening inside the life
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  Speaker 1: of God before anything else existed. Love did not begin
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  Speaker 1: at creation. Love is what creation came out of. God
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  Speaker 1: did not create the world because he needed someone to love.
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  Speaker 1: He created the world because his love was already so
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  Speaker 1: full that it overflowed before the beginning. The second thing
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  Speaker 1: God was doing before creation was rejoicing. Most people picture
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  Speaker 1: eternity past as causation. solemn, silent, a serious God sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a serious darkness for an infinite stretch of nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But Proverbs chapter 8 paints a picture that shatters that
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  Speaker 1: image entirely. In verses 27 and 30 through 31, wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: personified as a figure at God's side, speaks. I was
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  Speaker 1: there when He set the heavens in place. Then I
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  Speaker 1: was constantly at His side. I was filled with delight
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  Speaker 1: day after day, rejoicing always in His presence, rejoicing in
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  Speaker 1: His whole world, and delighting in mankind. Many scholars and
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  Speaker 1: church fathers see in this poetic portrait a foreshadowing of
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  Speaker 1: what the New Testament reveals plainly. Paul writes in 1
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  Speaker 1: Corinthians 1.24 that Christ is the wisdom of God. The
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament showed us the shadow. The New Testament showed
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  Speaker 1: us the person. But regardless of how you read this passage,
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  Speaker 1: the emotion of the text is unmistakable. The Hebrew word
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  Speaker 1: for delight here is sha'ashuim, and it means playful joy,
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  Speaker 1: exquisite pleasure. the kind of delight you see in children
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  Speaker 1: at play, not the stoic satisfaction of a philosopher, childlike, overflowing,
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  Speaker 1: irrepressible joy. Here is what that means. Before the universe
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  Speaker 1: had a single star, before the first sunrise, before the
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  Speaker 1: first note of music ever played, there was joy inside
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  Speaker 1: the life of God, not solemnity, not silence, not cold detachment.
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  Speaker 1: Before the universe had a single star, God was laughing
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  Speaker 1: before the beginning. The third thing God was doing before
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  Speaker 1: creation was planning the rescue. And this is the one
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  Speaker 1: that should stop you in your tracks. Ephesians 1.4 He
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  Speaker 1: chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.
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  Speaker 1: 2 Timothy 1.9 This grace was given us in Christ
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  Speaker 1: Jesus before the beginning of time. God was drafting a
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  Speaker 1: rescue plan before the disaster. He was designing grace before
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  Speaker 1: sin existed. He was choosing a lamb before there was
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  Speaker 1: a flock. Let that register. Grace was given before time began.
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  Speaker 1: Not after the fall. Not after the flood. Not after
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  Speaker 1: the exile. Before the beginning of time. Grace preceded sin
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  Speaker 1: by an eternity. The medicine was prepared before the disease.
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  Speaker 1: 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 19 and 20. The precious
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  Speaker 1: blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect, he
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  Speaker 1: was chosen before the creation of the world. The lamb
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  Speaker 1: was chosen, selected, designated, before a single blade of grass existed,
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  Speaker 1: before a single human heart had beaten once, the sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: was settled. In Revelation 13.8, some translations read, The lamb
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  Speaker 1: who was slain from the foundation of the world, Others
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  Speaker 1: translate it as those whose names were written from the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of the world. Scholars debate the Greek grammar. But
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  Speaker 1: here is what is remarkable. Either reading makes the same
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  Speaker 1: devastating point. Whether it is the sacrifice or the names,
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  Speaker 1: both were settled before creation. The rescue was in the blueprint.
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  Speaker 1: Think about what this means. Before God said, let there
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  Speaker 1: be light, he already knew humanity would fall. Before he
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  Speaker 1: shaped Adam from the dust of the ground, he already
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  Speaker 1: knew what Adam would choose. Before he breathed life into
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  Speaker 1: the first man, he had already decided to die for him.
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  Speaker 1: God did not look at human sin and improvise a
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  Speaker 1: rescue plan. He did not scramble for a solution when
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  Speaker 1: everything went wrong. He was not caught off guard by
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  Speaker 1: the serpent in the garden. He built the rescue into
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  Speaker 1: the architecture. The cross was not plan B. It was
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  Speaker 1: page 1. Before God created man, he had already planned
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  Speaker 1: to save him. Before the beginning. Pause the video right now.
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  Speaker 1: I need you to sit with this. Before God made
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  Speaker 1: the first Adam, he had already decided to die for you.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me in the comments, does that feel like random chance?
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  Speaker 1: Or does that feel like a plan? Lock in your answers.
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  Speaker 1: Let us see what the final evidence says. The fourth
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  Speaker 1: thing God was doing before creation was choosing you. This
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  Speaker 1: is the one that makes it personal. The first three
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  Speaker 1: revelations were about God, His love, His joy, His rescue plan,
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  Speaker 1: but this one is about you. Ephesians chapter 1, verses
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  Speaker 1: 4 and 5. He chose us in Him before the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in
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  Speaker 1: His sight. In love, He predestined us for adoption. In
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 5, Before I formed you in
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  Speaker 1: the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I
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  Speaker 1: set you apart. Before I formed you, before you had
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  Speaker 1: a body, before you had a heartbeat, before your mother
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  Speaker 1: knew your name, God already did. He did not discover
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  Speaker 1: you at birth. He did not stumble upon you by accident.
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  Speaker 1: He did not notice you when you walked into a
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  Speaker 1: church for the first time. He knew you before you
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  Speaker 1: were formed. Regardless of where you stand on the theological
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  Speaker 1: question of how God chooses, one thing is undeniable from
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  Speaker 1: this text. God's plan for you was not an afterthought.
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  Speaker 1: It was not a reaction. It was not a last-minute
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  Speaker 1: adjustment to a universe that surprised him. It did not
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  Speaker 1: begin when you were born. It did not begin when
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  Speaker 1: you first believed. It did not begin when you first prayed.
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  Speaker 1: It began before the foundation of the world, before the
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  Speaker 1: Big Bang, before the formation of galaxies, before the first
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  Speaker 1: photon of light God had you in mind. Here is
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  Speaker 1: what that means for you right now. You are not random.
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  Speaker 1: You are not an accident. You are not a cosmic coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: You are not a number. You are not noise in
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  Speaker 1: the system. You are a decision made in eternity by
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  Speaker 1: a God who knew your name before there was air
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  Speaker 1: to speak it. Before the beginning. Four revelations. Four things
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  Speaker 1: that were already happening in the life of God before
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  Speaker 1: a single atom existed. Loving. Rejoicing. Planning. Choosing. And all
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  Speaker 1: four of them point to one conclusion. So, where did
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  Speaker 1: God come from? He didn't. His name is existence. Before
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  Speaker 1: anything was, He already was. And what was He doing
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  Speaker 1: before creation? He was loving. The Father and the Son
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  Speaker 1: and the Spirit in perfect communion before the first molecule.
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  Speaker 1: A love so complete that it needed nothing from outside itself.
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  Speaker 1: A love so ancient, that it has no beginning. He
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  Speaker 1: was rejoicing, celebrating the world he was about to make
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  Speaker 1: with playful, exquisite delight. There was laughter in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of God before there were ears to hear it. He
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  Speaker 1: was planning, designing a rescue mission for a fall that
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  Speaker 1: had not happened yet, writing the blueprint of the cross
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  Speaker 1: before he laid the foundations of the earth. And he
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  Speaker 1: was choosing, writing your name in a book before there
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  Speaker 1: was paper, before there was ink, before there was a
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  Speaker 1: hand to hold the pen. Your name was on his
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  Speaker 1: mind before the first sunrise. If God has no beginning,
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  Speaker 1: then he cannot end. If his love predates creation, then
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  Speaker 1: nothing within creation can destroy it. The Apostle Paul put
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  Speaker 1: it this way in Romans chapter 8, verses 38 and 39.
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  Speaker 1: Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons... neither the
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  Speaker 1: present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth,
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  Speaker 1: nor anything else in all creation will be able to
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  Speaker 1: separate us from the love of God that is in
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus our Lord. Paul is not being poetic. He
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  Speaker 1: is being precise. He is listing every domain of existence, time, space, power, life, death,
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  Speaker 1: spiritual forces, physical forces, and he is declaring that with
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  Speaker 1: the full weight of apostolic authority, that none of them
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  Speaker 1: can break a love that existed before all of them.
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  Speaker 1: This is not sentimentality. This is not a greeting card.
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  Speaker 1: This is architecture. A love that was planned before creation
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  Speaker 1: cannot be undone by anything that was created. The question
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  Speaker 1: was never, where did God come from? The question is,
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  Speaker 1: where are you going? A God who exists outside of
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  Speaker 1: time is not trapped in your past. He is not
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  Speaker 1: limited by your regrets. He is not surprised by your failures.
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  Speaker 1: He is not confused by your doubts. He is not
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  Speaker 1: threatened by your questions. He is not shaken by your
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  Speaker 1: seasons of distance. He was there before you arrived, and
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  Speaker 1: He will be there long after every doubt you carry
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  Speaker 1: has turned to dust. He chose you before you made
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  Speaker 1: a single mistake, which means His choice was never based
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  Speaker 1: on your performance. It was never contingent on your track record.
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  Speaker 1: It was never a response to your obedience or a
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  Speaker 1: reaction to something you did right. His decision to love
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  Speaker 1: you was made before you existed. before you had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to earn it or ruin it. You were chosen
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  Speaker 1: before you had done anything good or anything bad. You
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  Speaker 1: were wanted before you were born. It was based on
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  Speaker 1: his nature, and his nature is love. So if you
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  Speaker 1: are watching this today and you feel forgotten, if you
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  Speaker 1: feel like God has moved on, like he has lost interest,
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  Speaker 1: like your life does not matter to the one who
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  Speaker 1: made the stars, then hear this. If he was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about you before the first star, what makes you think
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  Speaker 1: he has forgotten about you now? Every religion on earth
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  Speaker 1: has an origin story for their God, a birth, a beginning,
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  Speaker 1: a first page. But the God of the Bible has
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  Speaker 1: no page one. He has no birthday. He has no mother.
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  Speaker 1: He has no father. He has no origin myth. He
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  Speaker 1: has no primordial ocean that he rose from. He has
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  Speaker 1: no throne. He seized. He has no creator. He has
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  Speaker 1: no starting line. He simply is. He always was. And
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  Speaker 1: He always will be. He knew your name. If this
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