Colossians 1:15 - Who Is The Father?

Gave me so much time this morning I was able to add to the sermon a little bit. That was great. That was great. That was funny because last time he just didn't do the hymn and I'm sitting down there trying to figure out which page is where I left off last time because I forgot to mark it.

And he looked down there and said, whoops. It was funny. Good to see all of you guys. Yeah, we've had some flood trouble ourselves. The water got so high it got above the brick line on our foundation and came into a couple of rooms.

One of them had to be a room we had just put brand new carpet in not too long ago and didn't get all of it. It just got about a foot of it along the, you know, where the edge of the slab was that made us sick.

I don't think it's stained though. Lord put us out there. But anyway, so I've been out digging ditches and I told mom, you know, last time I dug a ditch I think I was working for my grandfather before college.

And it made me really sore in good places like around my love handles like tight and feel pretty good. I thought, well, if I kept doing this every day, I ended up looking like Nacho. This guy that comes and works for us like he's buffed because he just does that all the time.

He's the greatest guy by the way. But anyway, so my goal is to look like Nacho within six months. But we just had one thing after another go wrong out there. And it's so funny because you'll get a kick out of this, Katie.

Jenny was at our, my oldest daughter Jenny lives and walks at you, but she was at our home and she, I've been sending photos and stuff of all this bad stuff happening. And she comes, she was in my hand, she came over, she said, Dad, you just need to make a list of all the good things.

Like, for example, you were able to dig ditches. And mom said, well, Jenny actually, you know, I was, she's getting over foot surgery and she's on the couch and they're not supposed to be on it much. And I stayed out there a little too long, you know, in the humidity digging this ditch.

And I hadn't, didn't have any water because I'm not used to digging ditches. So I don't know that you're supposed to have water. And so I barely made it up to the back door, which was locked. It's a glass, you know, a glass door.

And there was a chair and I sat there and I started hitting on the, on the door, help, come get me. And finally I see her get up and she's walking and she goes to the wrong door. It's across the kitchen, the other door.

And I go, what you need? And I said, water, fast. So she's telling Jenny, I'm supposed to be thankful, you know, that I'm fit to do this. And she's telling Jenny this story and Jenny just bust out laughing because I can't put that on the positive list.

Jenny, he almost, his face was red. I thought he was going to die. Jenny, well, you could add, and she named about four things and I said, yeah, but that broke. And you know, stuff around the house, it was not working right.

Yeah. Oh, she said, well, think about it. We can hear, we can see, we can smell. I said, well, actually since COVID, I can't smell anything. Everything she listed, it was so funny. And so, and so, you know, finally I thought about a few things.

Like I can put grandbabies down there. That's, that's a good thing, you know, no matter what. And so, so everything starts looking up and we get a lot of ditches dug and we think it's in good place. Hmm.

What or what? Oh, so yeah, it flooded like a foot and a half of water under the old part of our house, the Purin Bean, a foot and a half of water. So we had to rent a pump. Luckily I already knew how to do it, but you got, it's pump is heavy and you have to lower it down.

It's like if I'm here to lower it down to there, put it under in the water and pump water out. Took three hours, no, it took about four hours to pump that water out from under the house. So there's other set of muscles to lean over and pull that thing up.

So, so anyway, forgot about that. So all of this stuff was happening and we thought, okay, well when the water was still under there, Dave Huber, your son was over at my house and I said, Dave, look at this.

And he looked at it because there's a hole in the floor where you can take this thing out and go under the house. So it was out and he was looking at there and I said, do you hear a weird noise? It sounded kind of like, like that.

He said, yeah, I hear that. I said, you think that's like maybe an electrical wire that's down under that water that would fry somebody if they tried to go, you know, he said, no, I think that's a water leak.

So we discovered we had a pipe that also broke under the house, putting fresh water under there, which is cool because that cost about a thousand bucks a month on your water bill. So all this, all this was happening.

So I've got this wonderful friend named Ray over in Mahea and it's, it's Mary's brother and you know, I pumped all the water out, but you can imagine what it looks like under there. It's mud and stuff.

Well, he's willing to go in there and fix that thing, that leak. And he did. So, so we went without water for a whole day and night. So that was happening. No water, you know, it's bad enough when you can't drink, but you also cannot flush.

There's a lot of things you can't do with no water. So you just get like, oh, this stuff's happening. I'm supposed to be writing a list of the good things for Jenny, you know, and they keep piling up and I'm the pastor.

I know the word of God and all the promises and all that stuff, but I cannot make a good list yet. So, so she, so finally Ray comes over, he's just a delightful person and he goes in there and he finds it and he fixes it.

So now we've got water and it's all done. I said, Charlotte, we can, we got water, we got lights, we got AC, we got all this stuff. Why don't you go take a bath? Cause you know, we didn't have water for a day.

So she goes and takes a hot bath and I'm sitting there still in my gritty digging clothes with all this stuff on there. And finally she gets down. I said, okay, I'm going to go take my shower. We can actually, you know, feel good about things and lay on our couches and watch something.

And so I go in there and I turn the water on for my shower and it's cold. And I said, I said, uh oh, the hot water heater's not working. So this is a good preaching, don't you think? See, I could build a megachurch preaching like this.

This is what people like, stories. Okay. So anyway, so, so we had had this weird thing happen when the storm where half of the stuff in our house, like that light would work and this bunch, it's like the stove won't work and the icebox won't work, but the microwave works and like every other thing was not working.

Spooky, right? So we had Encore come out and take a look. They said, oh, it's fine. Nothing wrong with it. And probably just the wind and the water or whatever. So right when I was ready to take my shower, half that stuff went off.

And one of the things that went off was the water heater. So I couldn't take my shower. So I came back in there and, and I, oh, I'd already thrown all the muddy clothes in the dirty clothes for her to wash the next day.

And so I had, I dug them all back out, put them back on because I'm angry at this point. And I'll tromp in there and make sure Charlotte hears me tromping in there and there's no hot water. Half the electricity's off and she said, oh my soul, honey.

I said, I'm going to call Ben and get, tell him to get ready to preach tomorrow. And I'm in the kitchen by then and she's still on the couch and I'm in there mumbling. I'm going to call Ben. I just can't make it because I got to call, you know, Encore.

They're not going to come tonight. They're going to come to your church. So I'm going to have to be here. And this is, you know, she said, oh, don't do that. You need to preach. And I said, I don't think I'm up to it.

And she's always like, you got, you know, you can do this. She's always been that way. So literally I was dialing it and she was in there. No, no, no. You need to preach. And I stopped and paused a minute and didn't call Ben.

And would you believe now, how many of you had experiences with Encore? Like, like you haven't had electricity in like seven days and they're driving past your house, you know? So can you believe that while I was mumbling this dude shows up?

You know, I had put a call in to the robot and you wonder if they even get it. Robot, yes. We have no electricity. Thank you very much. Oh, would you like a French fries with that, you know, and stuff like that.

And I think it's Charlotte. I'm not even sure I got through to him. And here he comes. And he was this naive about y 'all's age. Nice young man. He said, yeah, I'm married. My wife and I live out the lake and we got flooded too.

And let me take a look. And he had that thing fixed. So I'm here preaching today. Anyway, so. I am still working on that list of good things, but I can add that young man to it. Anyway, it's I'm sure I was thinking about Bobby back there.

You know, it's depressing when water gets in your house. That is not a good thing. And Jenny, of course, Jenny's trying to get me positive because their house used to flood and then Ben and Ashton rented their house for a while, lived in it, and it flooded when Ben was there.

So Ben was telling me his stories. So I felt better that I wasn't the only person. Well, we've made our way to Colossians chapter one, verse 15, because we took three or four Sundays on verse 14. We're done with it.

So let's turn to Colossians chapter one, verse 15. We can always be thankful for things, even when things are piling up. And it's so funny because I, I, I get, I felt kind of stove up and tired. I think a couple of you were telling me you're feeling that way today too.

And we drove over and it was a beautiful day and Charlotte and I just talking, listening to some praise music on and off in the car. We get here and you guys come in and you're so bubbly, like Paul can't even get your attention to start.

And he's looking at me and I'm saying, I like their fellowship today. I can't help it. And so I wouldn't have missed it for the world. But Charlotte knows I was not in the mood last night. I said here, Charlotte, you preach.

So anyway, God takes us through things to build patience. And I have such an enormous amount of patience. You can tell I've been through lots of tribulation. All right, let's look at this. This is, this is, this starts to getting into what the whole book of Colossians really is about.

And it's about the deity of Jesus Christ, who he actually is. And it starts to get into it. Now, uh, verse 14 was telling us some of the marvelous stuff that he's done for us. And now it starts to get into the person of Jesus Christ.

So like when really the way you grow in, in, as a Christian is you study the works and the person of Jesus Christ, the stuff he did and who he is and who God is and so forth. So this is starts to get into that and it's marvelous.

I don't think, I don't think any preacher thinks they could get up here and do it justice. It's just amazing. I mean, I went out and read some stuff Spurgeon said about this and I didn't get into Calvin yet on what he said about it.

And I thought, you know, if I keep reading this, I'm not going to preach because it's so good and I can't do that, but it's, it's just a marvelous passage. So let's read it in Colossians 115. It says, who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.

Now, anytime you start a sentence off with the word who you got to figure out who it's talking about exactly. So we know because we're going verse by verse, but let's just go up to verse 12 and make sure we know who this is because there are a lot of people in this world, even in churches that will say, well, where does it ever show that Jesus said he was God?

You know, I've heard that so many times. Where did Jesus ever even say he was God? Why do you think that he just a man, he's a prophet, you know, even in Christian churches, people say that, well, that's what the Mohammedans believe that he was a prophet, you know, that he was a good, good man and a prophet.

And that's not supposed to be all that Christians believe. So look at this. It says in verse 12, giving thanks unto the father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

So if we want to talk about the Godhead, the father, the son, the Holy spirit, who's verse 12 talking about, there's a hint. It says, giving thanks to the father. Hey, how does this sound like me today?

Sort of. Okay. Because we've got a brand new mixer. You can thank the Lord for that. And we got rid of all the, it looks like we've gotten rid of all the FM. Um, like a couple of these, something was picking up FM thing.

We think we got rid of it. Uh, so praise the Lord for that. It'll really help you guys out there. Uh, we're so sorry for the inconvenience we've had for several months, but we finally got a new mixer.

We got some guys from Waco over here to help me get more of these mic cables that go from here back to the back where we had three working. Now we have eight, so we're going to have eight mics and we have a ninth one.

That's a signal coming back up here. If we, if we want to have feedback speakers for our rock group up here, we'd mad here that yeah, we can have feedback speakers, even earbuds. We have the equipment and this thing back here.

All right. So anyway, we, you know, so I don't know if it sounds quite like, and I was going to try to fix it perfectly today. And I got looking at it and I said, I don't know how to work this. So it's going to take a YouTube education this week.

We'll figure it out. But, um, Dave, you sounded pretty good, but we got to fix yours a little bit because it was a little too, too trebly and too bassy. It needs to be in the middle. We'll get it fixed this week.

Anyway, guys, thanks for your patience on that. All right. Now let's, so we know here that verse 12 is talking about the father, not the son, not the Holy spirit, but God, the father giving thanks unto the father, which has made us fit.

That's a good modern word for that old English word. He's made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. So all saved people who are walking in the light, which is Jesus Christ, we are fit to walk with them.

Even though sometimes we don't feel fit to, uh, we are because God makes us fit. We don't make ourselves fit. Isn't that nice to know now verse 13, who has delivered us? Who is that? It's still talking about the father.

So, you know, if you, you, all of us had to take a thousand years of grammar in school, which is ridiculous by the way, but it does help us interpret the scriptures because, um, you know, the antecedent, the closest antecedent is who it's talking about.

So that's still talking about the father, the father who has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us in the kingdom of his dear son. Now, who are we talking about? Jesus. And that goes into verse 14 in whom we have redemption.

So that's Jesus, not the father, right? So it changed the subject in whom we have redemption through his blood. That's talking about Jesus, obviously, even the forgiveness of sins, who now here's our verse for today.

So who is that about? That's Jesus, right? But here's what I want you to notice about it. It says, who is the image of the invisible God? So it's still talking about the father too. Now, God is an interesting word in the old Testament and the new Testament, because if you're like me, we all started to grow up.

I mean, if we're fortunate enough to grown up some church, I mean, I didn't go much, but I, I had a godly grandmother and my parents didn't go at the time I was growing up later. They got right with the Lord though.

But, but I was in church enough. Most of us were, but when you think of the word God, I think you picture the father in heaven, right? The father in heaven. Well, for one thing, as you study scripture, you find out the father is not in heaven because, um, heaven has time and space in it.

And the father's outside of that is she kind of glory is there, which is a resemblance of him, but it's not him. It's a resemblance of him or part of, you could say it's part of his glory. He allows it to shine through over the mercy seat in the third heaven.

So you start thinking about when you say God, you're thinking about that person, right? Don't you think? But it's not always talking about that person. It could be talking about Jesus because he is also God.

And it could be talking about the Holy Spirit because he is God. So we know that. So going into this, we have to know who, which of the persons is it talking about? And always remember when you're talking about the three persons of the Godhead, it's not people like us in the sense of, of, um, I don't know how to explain it.

I shouldn't even got into that. Ben will be laughing at me back there, but, um, like, it's not like persons like us, but what it means is a person in the sense of the things that a person has. Okay. What does a person has?

He has the ability to think he has emotions to feel. He has the ability to communicate. He has the ability to reason. All of those things is what a person is. So in that sense, the Holy Spirit is a distinct person from Jesus and the father and the other two are distinct from him.

Excuse me there. Uh, sorry about your ears, but still the essence of the father, the essence of the Holy spirit, the essence of the son is the same. It's God. Now I had, um, uh, in my reading, I've read a lot since, since I got saved when I was 24, I've read a lot of theology, especially after I got called to preach, which was how many years after 24, maybe five more years later or six, something like that.

Um, and I wish I could remember who I read this under because maybe I'll Google it and find it someday. I don't know, but he said this and I thought this is a really good, um, model to think about. And sometimes when we're trying to learn about God, I remember when brother Bill was here, he was a physics professor.

So he always, we would talk about physics and he, we would talk about and chemistry. And we talk about the fact that what we, he and I learned in high school about an Adam, the model of an Adam. By the time we got to college, the scientific world knew that was not how it worked, but was still teaching it because they hadn't gotten the new model into the textbooks yet.

Even in college, they were still teaching the old model. And he said, but that model was good enough that we were able to put a man on the moon using it, you know? So like it was good enough to understand how God made the physical world.

That model was good enough, but it was just a model. It wasn't exactly how it really works. You get the idea. So, so when you want to talk about, um, the Trinity, the father, son, the Holy spirit, the best you're going to get as a model.

And it's a working model where you can love God and praise God and deal with the fact that he is one God subsisting in three distinct persons and persons doesn't mean what you think it means. It gets really hard because when you think of a person, you know, you're not thinking of it, right?

And some of us have talked about this in private. We wish we could think of a better word than three distinct persons to use. We haven't found one yet. And historically for 2000 years, Christians have used the word person.

So maybe we shouldn't change it, but it's a little difficult, but still it's a model and we can make that work. All right. So this theologian I was reading, uh, I've tried to read about the Trinity in so many places.

And you know, it's so funny because they talk in big words and, and you know, some of it, uh, even somebody that studies theology, I have to read it three times, even know what they're talking about, but inevitably they will go about two paragraphs, maybe two pages, depending on how articulate they are.

And they'll get to a place where they'll say, well, here we must leave off speaking of this manner because, um, we, we cannot discern, you know, really how this works. And they all end that way. And it's frustrating because you want them to tell you more, right?

Well, this one particular guy though said something that's helped me through the years. Some of you've heard me say it, but if you could, if you could picture God as particles, like, uh, like as if he's digital.

Okay. So God is particles and all these particles, an infinite number of particles make up God. And that's who he is. The theologian said this, if you just took one of those particles, no matter how small it is and put it over here, it would be fully God.

Now chew on that a minute. Okay. So if God is an infinite number of tiny particles and you put them all together and ask God, the father, son, Holy spirits, all of God. And you took one particle and put it over there in a different universe or something, it would be fully God.

And that is one of the best explanations of God I've ever heard. I can't explain it or understand it, but it's, it's given me a lot of food for thought. So certainly if that's true, and we don't know that that's true because that's just a philosophical thinking, right?

We don't know if he was right, but it's a model, but if it is true or anywhere close to true, then certainly if you could take Jesus out from the Godhead and put him over here, like, like happened in the, in the manger, then he is fully God.

You understand he's a bigger particle. He's a bunch of particles, but all of Jesus is fully God. And if you could take the Holy spirit, which you can't because he's the part of God that's omnipresent, he is truly everywhere at one time.

And then again, that doesn't literally mean everywhere. It's like he's in every kind of place like that. He's not in all places. He's in every kind of place, all kinds of places, because for example, he's not in the heart of an unbeliever, is he?

He, you know, so anyway, but you take the Holy spirit. If you could just take one particle of him, he would be fully God. And certainly that's true of the father. Now the father may be the most mysterious of all, because we deal directly with the Holy spirit while we're in time in space, while we're on this planet, living our physical lives and spiritual lives, we deal with the Holy spirit probably more than any of the persons of the Godhead.

But when we're talking to God, I think when we're young in Christianity, we think we're just talking to the father. We've pictured God is all it is, is the father. But the more we read the scripture, especially the new Testament, all of a sudden, when we pray and talk to God, we're talking to Jesus a lot.

How many of you experienced that? Okay. So how many of you, when you pray, you talk and this doesn't matter because you're not wrong any way you do it. Okay. But how many times, how many of you, when you pray, most of the time you sense that you're talking to God.

Okay. All right. Now, how many of you like most of the time you feel that way, but sometimes you feel like you're talking to Jesus, raise your hand, probably the same people. Right. And how many of you sometimes think you're praying to the Holy spirit, raise your hand.

Not as many because we're Baptist, but, but that's, that's interesting. Now, I think Charlotte is either my mom or you, but I think it's you that told me there was a season in your life, maybe a year or two ago.

Tell me if I'm wrong. It may have been my mom, but I'm pretty sure it was you. Um, my mom is more Baptist than you are, but she, uh, I think you said you were talking more to the Holy spirit and recognizing his role in your life more.

Right. And so that's appropriate also because any particle of God is all of God, if you want to think of it that way. So it doesn't really matter. Don't get caught up. Don't think there's one right way to pray.

You like you're praying to God when you pray. So it doesn't matter. It's what you're comfortable with. And it's what you feel led to talk about because true prayer originates in heaven, not with you. You may not realize that, but it originates in heaven.

The Holy spirit brings God's mind to you and to your mind and your heart and helps show you how you ought to praise you all. We know that. So now we see, we have this beautiful passage of scripture. That's talking about the Godhead and it wants to change from the father and now to the son.

And, and we get to this place where we sort of need help to understand everything it's going to say about the son. And the interesting thing to me is that verse 15, even though it's the beginning of talking about the son, it starts talking about the father.

In fact, if you go up to verse 12 and verse 13, it's talking about the father 12 and 13, it's the father you skipped down to 15. You think, okay, now it's Jesus, but it says, who is the image of the invisible God?

Who's that? That's the father. And so he's the first born of every creature. So this magnificent study of who Jesus is begins with the father, not with Jesus. So that's where I'm going to begin with this section of teaching.

So let's, let's look at this. So here, this whole message, which is, as you know, with me, it's not one Sunday. It's the message is when I go until you can't take it anymore. And we stop and then we pick it up the next time we keep going until we're done.

But this next one is going to have two points. And you think, well, he can cover that today. No, because it got like 15 sub points or whatever. So the first Roman numeral is who is the father. And the second Roman numeral is who is Jesus Christ.

That's what we're talking about. And we're doing it to understand who is Jesus Christ. The only reason we have, who is the father right now, because the context is to understand who Jesus Christ is, but to understand that we have to start with the father.

So that's what we'll do. So we pick up the context here in a little bit. We already sort of did that where we went up to verse, um, you know, 10, 11, 12, and it's talking about the father, but who is the father?

Well, we know some things about the father, even before we look at the context and Colossians here to see what it says about the father, you're going to be surprised what it says about him. Cause you think it's talking about Jesus right here, mostly, and it is mostly, but you'll be surprised, but let's talk about some of the things we already know about the father.

Uh, and then we'll get into the context here and pick that up. But the first thing, you know, I think I'll keep these today. I've been digging so many ditches and sweating into my eyes that my eyes are messed up.

So like sweat mixed with dirt, it's tough, but I'm going to look like nachos soon. All right. So let's talk about it. Who is the father? When we first meet the father in the Bible in Genesis, it's Elohim, right?

Elohim. Now what's interesting about the names of God in the Bible is that they teach us specific things about the character of God. And when I say the character of God, I mean, who is God? Who is God?

Some of it will say, what does he do? If we talk about his character, it'll tell us who he is and what he does. So now we're talking about the person and the works of God. And when we really get into Christianity, we want to talk about the person and the works of Jesus Christ.

And you can talk about the person and the works of the Holy Spirit. The more you want to learn about God, that's how you study God. So when we, when we look at the father, as we see his names in scripture, we learn enormous amounts about who he is and what he does and who he's not, things like that.

So Elohim is an interesting name. It's, it's very fascinating in Hebrew, from what I understand in the early chapters of Genesis, that is a, it's called a uniplural word. Now we don't have that in English and you're not supposed to have it in Hebrew.

If the grammar is proper, it matches. He came up and helped Ben, I understand, while I was gone. He's going to help Papa. One of these days he'll be up here helping Papa, I'm sure. But a uniplural word really not supposed to happen in Hebrew either, because, you know, if it's plural, then the whole sentence should have every, all the plurals, you know, matching like in English.

You know, you can think of English examples. What's, I'm trying to think of a funny one. Think of one, Ben, where you'd say we, we, and then you're not speaking correctly. See, I can't speak incorrectly, but Ben can.

So like we, we gonna go do something, but you get the, you get it where it's not matching. That's funny. I can't think of an example. Who can? Come on. Who's got bad grammar? Come on. We all do. We all have bad, we has, we has bad grammar.

I don't know how to do it, but you, you get the idea. So what's interesting is to see how the Hebrew scholars, I'm talking about Jewish scholars, deal with the early chapters of Genesis because they know the grammar is not right, but they know, but they will, they believe as strongly as we do that God wrote it because here's what happened.

He says, let us create man in our image into a Jew. There's not, there's no Jesus and Holy Spirit to Jew. It's just God. Okay. Same as Islam. Every, just about every false religion is like that. It's just very simplistic.

It's one God so that you can understand God. That's the whole idea is so that humanism and humans, you know, with their humanism can understand God. So you keep it really simple. Now, how many of you think if God really exists and he really writes about himself, that that book would be extremely simple to understand when it talks about himself?

See, so that's one way I know that the Trinity is right because it doesn't make any sense. If there's just one God and there is no Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that's enough where I could have written that book.

You could have written that book. Sam could have written that book. Abby could have written that book, but none of us could write this book. Now, now you, you take a look at that plural, that uniplural word Elohim, where it's used, it's used in the singular, but it's plural.

It's let us make God in our image. And that's the first name of God that we learn in the Bible. And El, the first part of Elohim, El means strength or strong one. And the second part, Elohim, it sounds almost like Allah.

I don't even want to say it that way because that's, that's, that's the Arabic God, which is a false God, but it sounds like that. I'm not pronouncing it right, but it's El plus Allah. And the second part of that, the Allah part is to swear on something, to swear that it's true.

So it implies this idea of faithfulness. So Elohim is the strong one who is faithful. Now let that sink in. He is the strong one, all powerful one who is faithful and never lies. That's what that teaches us of God.

And it also, if you look into it enough, teaches that he exists as three distinct persons. Now it may not teach three, but it does indicate that he is plural. Isn't that interesting? And you, I've asked Jewish people about that and they don't want to talk about it.

I've asked Islamic people about it and they don't want to talk about it. I've asked Mormons, one of the high leaders in the Mormon church, one of the, whatever they call them, elders in the Mormon church that I did business with once.

And I asked him about that. He said, he patted, he's an older dude and he patted me on the leg and said, let's just talk about the stuff we agree on. So we talked about, took a couple of things and it was over because there weren't many, but actually there were a lot of things we agreed on, but not this.

So he is the strong one, the all powerful one who is faithful. All right. Now the next thing we know God as is Jehovah, right? I mean, everyone knows that. And really the truth is you don't pronounce it like Jehovah.

That's an English rendering. The Jews don't know how to pronounce it because it's such a holy name. They won't pronounce it. So they have Hebrew letters for it, but they don't say it. No one ever says it.

They don't know how to pronounce the letters. They don't have any vowels in there anyway. It's just, no one knows. Some Christian, you know, scholars that teach at seminary say, well, it's actually, and I learned this at Baylor.

I thought I was learning so much. I wasn't saved yet, by the way, at Baylor, but they said, actually it's not Jehovah, it's Yahweh. Have you heard that? You hear songs about Yahweh? Okay. It's not Yahweh either.

No one knows how to say it. It's that holy of a name, but Jehovah means this. The first part of it, Jah, Jah means the self existent one. Now that blows my mind. I was thinking, I was talking to the Lord this morning, early this morning, you know, before getting in the car to come over.