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Exploring the greatness of God through various descriptions, including His faithfulness, love, and immutability, and how these attributes bring hope and meaning to our lives.

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Welcome to Truth Talk Live. All right, let's talk the truth now. I can't hug. A daily program powered by the Truth Network. This is kind of a great thing, and I'll tell you what.

Where pop culture, current events, and theology all come together. Speak your mind. And now, here's today's Truth Talk Live host. Welcome to Truth Talk Life. My name is Dwayne Carson.

I have a ministry called Date the Word. It's my joy to be your host today, and thank you for listening. We want to talk about what's so great about God. What's so great about God? And it's you hear that question.

I want you to know, we want you to call in. You helped make this show what this show is. And the number to call is 866-348-7884. 866-348-7884. You might wonder now why such a question.

Why the question? What's so great about God? Well, today is 721 and July the 21st. I always go to Deuteronomy 721. Moses says to the people, When you're going into that promised land, you shall not be terrified of them, those that are your enemies.

You are not to be terrified of them. For the Lord your God The great and awesome God is among you. And I find it so interesting that here's Moses saying God's going to be with them. They don't need to be afraid. But he takes a moment right there before he says God is among you to give a description of God.

And that description is the great and awesome God. And so today, as you think about our God, Psalms is filled with statements about the Lord is. I want you to call and help. With this program today, talk about what's so great about God: 866-348-7884. And we've got on the line already Dan Davis.

Dan, welcome to the program today. Hey, thank you, Duane. Great to be here with you. You're up in Appomattox, Virginia. That is correct.

And you pastor a church there? Yes, I'm the pastor at Reedy Spring Baptist Church, just outside of Athematic. It's a great church. And Dave, Dan, as we think about God being great, I just want to hit you right off the bat. What's your thought of What makes God so great?

Wow, that's A great question. I I think first of all, I think just When we step back and look at creation, at the vastness of creation, not just, I mean, we think about our world, but then outside of our world, the, the the galaxies upon galaxies that God has created, you know, we have technology that lets us look light years out into the universe, and we've never found the end of it. And it's so vast and it's so big. And to think that God spoke all of that into creation and sustains all of that by his power.

So I think you know, my first thought is is the vastness, the greatness of creation. that that helps me to begin to even think about how great God is. And then maybe the second part of that Which is a little bit different aspect of his greatness, is that even though God is so big and so vast and so powerful. Is that he Cares personally. for yeah his creation.

And specifically for his image bearers, for human beings, so much so that he sent his son to die for us to redeem us from our sin. And I know that's a brief version, but I think greatness is found in his. vastness and how big he is, but it's also found in how much he cares and how much he loves it. What a great start to today's program. When we think about the greatness of God.

Wow, Dan, excellent. The vastness of his power. the heavens declare his glory But there's also this personal touch We've made a statement for years, a true statement. If there was only one person on this earth, Jesus Christ would have died for them. He's that personal.

For God so loved the world. Yes, it sounds big, but he loved every individual. He loves every individual. And as we are now at 8 billion, Jesus Christ loves every one of them so much, he died for them. And God wants to have a personal relationship with.

Each person. We've got Dave. From Lynchburg, let me bring Dave on. Dave, you there? I'm here, my friend.

Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Welcome to Truth Talk Live today. Just curious your thoughts on what makes God.

so great Great person. Perspective from Pastor Dan up in Apple Matto, really appreciate that. From my perspective, Dwayne is God's immutability. We live in a culture as a pastor I hear so many times. God's got to change.

He's just got to get with it. This has got to change, and that's got to change. And God's just got to accept me the way I am. And for me, I'm so thankful the greatness of God does not change. My salvation is still free.

It's nothing from what I've done. I can't earn it. God paid for that on the cross through his son, Jesus Christ. I'm thankful that he does not change. This old culture today that wants God to just get with it and lighten up and change.

And I'm thankful in his greatness. Yeah, he is who he is. From From the A to the B, brother, from the beginning to the end. He is who he is. And I am so thankful.

Vote for that. You have dropped a big word on our listeners. The immutability of God. Wow. He does not change.

You know, as I contemplate the greatness of God. I find it I and one of the things I did, Dave, Dan, is that I put together an A to Z list of who God is. It's just a way for me to remember things and always think about the faithfulness of God. and that is so connected to he doesn't change. Because if if if if Well, he's going to go with this group one day, and he's going to go with that group another day.

And, well, one day, yeah, Jesus has to die on a cross. He asked from his father in the garden, Father, take away this cup from me. But then he said, Not my will, but your will be done. Hang on, Father. Are you sure I got to do this?

Not my will, but your will be done. He did it three times.

Well, if God's now going to change his mind. And all of a sudden you don't have to go through Jesus, then why would he have his son die? That's a great point about the greatness of God. He doesn't change, he is faithful, he is dependable.

Now, I thought we had a call from Steve. Steve, if you're up there, give us a call back. We'd love to hear your take on what's so great about God, what makes him awesome. Here's this statement that Moses makes to help. God's people realize they don't need to be afraid as they face an enemy because God's with them, but more than just God is with them.

Who How do we describe this God? He's great. He's awesome. The number is 8664. 348-7884.

Give us a call. We want to hear your perspective. I've got Dan from Appomattox. I've got Dave from Lynchburg. Dave, you're a pastor also.

What church do you pastor there in Lynchburg? It's called key. Stone Baptist Church. It's on the uh it's off Fleetwood Drive. It's off, um Uh It's on the other side of Lynchburg, not the Liberty side.

Okay.

Well, if you have the ability to stay with us a little bit, we're going to be going to a break, and we're looking for callers now at 866-348-7884. Moses says he's a great and an awesome God. What do you say? What's the Lord? Is what's your statement that just compels you?

This is Truth Talk Live. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. I'm Dwayne Carson. I've got a ministry called Date the Word.

You can get more information on that by going to the website date the word.com. We also have an app where you can just easily go to your app store, download the app. It's simply called Date the Word. And on that app, you can find today's devotional that comes from Deuteronomy 7, 21, where we talk our God as a great and awesome God, and how that this description would help God's people as they would be dealing with an enemy. And interestingly, when Nehemiah is dealing with the enemies of Jerusalem as they're rebuilding the wall, he will remind God's people that God is great and awesome.

You're going to be fighting against the enemy, but know that God is with you. You. He says, do not be afraid of them. Remember, the Lord, who is great and awesome, will fight for you as you fight for your brothers and your family and your friends. The descriptions of God help us to know who God is.

Psalms 9:10 says that. Those who know your name will trust in you. And so you can get more information again about Date the Word at date the word.com on the app and be able to see these devotions. Each day we have a verse for the date, specifically, very uniquely put together so that you can tie today's date to a verse in the Bible, just hopefully to make it more memorable for you.

Now, I've got with me today David and Dan, and both of them happen to be in the Lynchburg area. Guys, as we're talking about the greatness of God and we're pitching a question to our listeners, what's so great about God? They could call it at 866-348-7884. Just curious your thinking as you look at the Lord. Ears.

David, what's your favorite the Lord is statement? Duane, we've already mentioned a little bit of that, but for me, the Lord is faithful. And that is so. Yeah. such a word that we take for granted.

Unless you're in that situation where or you're hurting or you're lost. and you just don't know. Um So many times I I meet with people who have lost a loved one or a loved one's walked out on the relationship or they've lost a job or the bottom's fallen out. And I can remind them of the faithfulness of God. I was taught years ago when I went to Bible college, start writing in your Bible the problems, the needs you have, and then you come back and you write in there when God made himself known through his faithfulness.

So when I have those doubts, I can go back and look in my Bible, or I can show my friends, man, I was struggling here, and look where God answered it and how he answered it. God is faithful. Yes, and so many times David, our understanding of who God is. increases when we are in those difficulties. It's not in the easiness of life, but in the difficulties of life, that all of a sudden we begin to understand how much greater God is.

And I think about That that poem about um footprints in the sand and and the person's like Wow, during the most difficult times of my life, there was only one set of footprints. Um I don't understand that. I thought, God, you would always be with me. And then the way the writer put this together, it's so beautiful that, child, that's when I carried you. And that hindsight of being able to look back and see during a financial challenge, a health challenge, a relationship challenge, God was right there.

And he was working. I call it God working overtime. Many times God was working when I didn't even know I needed him to be working. And he shows himself to be faithful. For you that need those Bible verses of 2 Thessalonians 3:3, but the Lord is faithful who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

1 Corinthians 1:9, God is faithful. Those three words. Powerful, Dave. Dan, the Lord is. How do you finish that sentence?

What's your go-to? The Lord is statement. That's it's a tough a tough assignment to pick from one. It sort of feels like you're picking from all the ones you need because I think we need each of them. But I think the you had it listed in your list this morning, but the Lord is gracious And coming from Exodus 34.6.

And I really love that verse, not only for the word grace that's in there, but also. For the Hebrew word Hesed that's in there. And in Exodus 34, 6, it says Speaking of Moses is the Lord passed before him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, abounding in goodness and truth. And that word translated there, goodness is the Hebrew word chesed, which is really A word that's almost impossible to translate into English. In fact, the word loving kindness was.

develop to try to wrap Our understanding of what that word means. But I heard it described this way in a book that I read: it's when the person from whom I deserve nothing chooses to give me everything. And so I think for me, thinking about God's grace, that I deserve nothing from God. The wages of my sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. And that not only, not just forgiveness, but He gives us His life relationship with Him.

We can know Him, we can experience Him and now and forever. And when we step back and realize that I don't deserve any of that, that is all of grace. I have earned nothing of that. And that He would be described as abounding. God just doesn't have a little bit of grace, He doesn't have just a little bit of mercy, but that He abounds in it.

And I'm grateful for that. That's just beautiful. 866-348-7884. We need your calls. We want to hear from you what's so great about God.

And Dan, you made a statement there. I want you to go back to it about grace. The person, how did you describe this person who... Yeah, th this this is a quote that I had had read. It says it that the idea of grace or or God's Has said his loving kindness is that it's the idea that when the person from whom I deserve nothing chooses to give me everything.

The idea of of not deserving anything from this person. Gives me everything. That's just beautiful. That's what God does for us. You know, when.

When Jesus Christ goes to the cross, He takes our place, and God is going to treat him. The way he had planned to treat us. The wrath of God is going to be poured out on us. The wages of sin is death. He treated Jesus the way he.

Treats a sinner, the wrath of God, but then he treats me as the way he treated his son. He he he now sees me As a believer clothed in the righteousness of Christ, and I'm joint heirs with Jesus. I'm joint heirs. I'm an adopted son. I can't, David, it's hard for me to wrap my head around.

Um He is a faithful friend. Father. Gracious. Keep this going, guys. What are some other the Lord is?

Dan, you said it's hard to. Put your finger down on one.

Well, I've asked the question, but I hear the music. We're going to need to go to a break, and uh, I want you thinking, callers. Please call in here, 866-348-7884. Love to hear how you. Finish the sentence: the Lord.

Is what is the Lord to you that just means so much? This is Truth Talk Live. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. We're talking today about who God is, and we have a verse today. For 7.21, Deuteronomy 7, 21, you shall not be terrified of them, for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.

God gives descriptions of himself so that we might know what he can do for us. And I've got a couple guests with me today. Dave Hill and Dan Davis, and we're talking right now about the idea of what the Lord. is um uh the book of psalms 150 chapters. Uh many times I will read Uh five chapters a day.

Like in a month that has 30 days, like back of June had 30 days, every day reading five chapters. And one of the things I like to do is highlight, underline, mark, even write down those verses that speak of the Lord is. And there are quite a few of them that says the Lord is my. For instance, the Lord is my shepherd. And we know that from Psalms 23, or at least we should.

And because the Lord is our shepherd, we shall not want. Everything that we're going to need in life, He provides. And so, coming back to David. Go with me a little bit more on this idea the Lord is, but know this, listeners. We want to hear your thoughts on this.

866-348-7884, give us a call. We want to hear your favorite The Lord is. You're not weighing from me.

sometimes people kind of consider God As this unreachable, unattainable conversation God is compassionate. And we look at what just happened in Texas with those twenty-seven little girls at a Christian camp. This perish. And the moms and dads and the siblings who have lost their s their their little sisters or their or their children. And all the other deaths that were there, we most of us had a certain age over 35, I guess.

Remember That on September 12, 2001, the churches were filled. Wanting to know where God is. And I always have told people: I believe when we heard God hurt so much more. You know, we read about in in Mark and in Luke and in Matthew eight. That when Jesus was Crossing the other slide.

There a storm arose.

Well he was crossing the fish. Fishermen who understood. that body of water They understood the storms that came up. And when this one came up, Jesus is resting in the bow of the boat. And they're freaking out.

God save us, we're gonna die. And Jesus just Looks better. Yeah. Where's your faith, guys? And then he looks to the And he said, Peace.

Be still. I am reminded over and over when we hurt. Jesus hurts. Be compassionate. that he'd understand Our knees are hurts, and he hurts when we hurt.

Yeah, Psalms one eleven, verse four. The Lord is not just compassionate. The Bible says the Lord is full. of compassion. And just like with the grace, he abounds in grace.

He abounds in mercy. Ephesians talks about him being rich in mercy. You you cannot Describe Jesus. Without using the word compassion, because all through the gospels we find that he is compassionate, he sees a need.

Sometimes he sees the need of the people, sometimes he sees the very need of one person in the midst of many people. And he will go to that person and he meets that need. That's compassion is love in action. The heart now takes action. Hey, we've got Mike.

Let me bring Mike on. Hey, Mike, how you doing today? I'm doing great. I'd like to chime in on this.

Well, what you got for us, sir?

Okay, God just put a verse in my heart. Resist now. First Thessalonians five sixteen through eighteen. Yes. It says, Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks to all circumstances, for this is the will of God.

in Jesus Christ. Jesus For you. This is the will of God in Jesus Christ for you. Um first of all Rejoice always. You know, we want to rejoice because God is.

God is there. God is there out there for us. He's a personal God. We pray without ceasing. That means we can have communication with God continually.

throughout the day, throughout the circumstances, throughout our lives. He's going to direct our path. There's other scriptures for God, you know, direct our path. And we should give him thanks for all the circumstances.

Well, The circumstances are always not good, and the circumstances are sometimes good. as a Christian, we also we all always want to give the circumstances We always wanted to say, thanks, God, for giving me ten thousand dollars.

Well, Sometimes that doesn't always happen. Thanks, God, for Get, you know, for all my circumstances because I know God's leading my path. And that's what's great about God. He's leading my life. even though it's a vapor.

You know, this life is a vapor. And we're not supposed to look about the earth and what we can get out of this earth. What is our end goal? We're going to heaven with Christ. And we're going to be reigning with him forever.

And that is what's great about God. Hmm. Oh Mike, thank you. You know, we are called to set Our affections on the things that are above, Colossians chapter three. Um.

I I saw this somewhere just the other day. How Life's changes drastically When our thinking goes from Earthly thinking to eternal thinking when we have an eternal perspective and um. What you just said on those three verses out of First Thessalonians five. If you don't have an eternal perspective, how do you rejoice? In everything, how do you pray about everything?

How do you give thanks? We've got a God. that works all things for good. to those who love him. That is an eternal perspective.

Mike, thanks for your call. Anything else you want to give today about the Lord is? Yeah, because we have that internal perspective, like you just said. Um we have freedom. We don't have to worry about our sin.

We just say, when we do sin, we just say, God, I'm sorry for my sin, and move on. We have that eternal perspective because we're going to heaven one day. And we say, God, I'm sorry for my sin and I'm sorry for the things I've done wrong. Thank you for giving us for all our sins and thank you for having that relationship with us throughout our whole life. But then our whole life is Is again on that eternal perspective.

Where are we going to go after this vapor of our life? We're going to go to heaven. We're going to see loved ones in heaven. We're going to see great things in heaven because we're going to be eternally with Jesus who's on the throne. If we don't have that thought in our mind, like I'm saying, we can easily be down and out and all that stuff.

We can easily be sad about what's going on in our life. But if we just continually praise God for what is going on in our life. God is always faithful, like the other pastor said. He's going to deliver us. And he's gonna gi he's gonna take care of us because he want he he he d always takes care of his sons and daughters.

Yeah. He definitely has a purpose for our pain and um He's going to bring forth. I love the story of Mary and Martha when Lazarus dies. We talk about the compassion, Dave, of Jesus. He wept with Mary.

What a beautiful scene there. That Jesus wept, and the people around him said, Oh, how he loved them, how he loved Lazarus because of that, that weeping just revealed the compassion. But in the midst of this story, Uh Martha was like, Jesus, if you'd have been here, my son wouldn't have brother wouldn't have died.

Well, uh They knew They knew Jesus couldn't. Heal Lazarus. What they didn't know was that Jesus could raise Lazarus. And many times, as Mike was saying, when we're going through these difficulties, God is doing things, leading us on a path, so that we can know Him a lot better. When the children of Israel were coming out of Egypt, God took them on a detour so that he could prepare them For dealing with the enemies in the promised land, but he also had them at places like the Red Sea, where when he opened that up, they now knew about God things they never ever had seen.

And they'd already seen some incredible things with the plagues. But God is constantly in the business of revealing more of who he is to us. He wants us to know what he can do. Dan, I'm giving you that opportunity to dive in on some more. The Lord is.

Yes, as we've been thinking about all these things, it's so great to hear them. One that I think stands out to me is the Lord is my hope. Um, and certainly, uh, hope is something that every single one of us as human beings need, and we search for it, we long for it. Unfortunately for people who don't know God, they often look for it in the wrong places. Um But In Psalm 71, verse 5, it says, For you are my hope, O Lord God, you are my trust for my youth.

And it's easy to say that our hope is in God, but it's. very easy as well than to actually not actually be placing our hope in God, but be placing our hope in our circumstances, our marriage, our job, our sports team. It's easy to misplace our hope. And when we misplace our hope, it's going to end up disappointing us because whatever we put our hope in is not an ultimate thing, and it can't give us that. It's going to fail us, it's going to.

Yeah, something's going to happen and so Uh and just as a pastor, I know like Just been dealing with so many people, people are longing for hope, and we can't live without hope. God wants us to know His hope and live in His hope.

Well, we're going to continue that thought with you in just a moment, Dan. This is Truth Talk Live. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. Today we are talking about the greatness of God.

What makes God so great? Deuteronomy 7:21. You shall not be terrified of them, for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you. And Deuteronomy 7:21 is for July the 21st. This comes from our Date the Word daily devotion.

And you can get more information about that if you would like by going to www.date the word.com. And there's an app. You can download that app. With that app, you can see every date and the verses that go with it. And one of the things we encourage people to do is find out what their birth date verse is.

And again, we write a daily devotion. And today, we asked the question in our devotion. What's so great About God, and why is it important to know the descriptions of God? I forget where I picked this statement up. I've got Dave Hill and Dan Davis with me today.

I wrote down a statement. It may have come from Dr. Elmer Towns. We would know him from being our professor of many things at Liberty University. He said, How you think about God.

determines How you pray. How you think about God. determines how you live. How you think about God determines How you do your work and your ministry. Uh Guys, How you think about God.

What do you think about what I just said there? Does it really matter? How we think about God. And Dan, you were just saying about the component of understanding where our hope is.

So I come to you first. Sure. Absolutely. And I love hearing those statements. And of course, Likewise, deeply impacted by Dr.

Elmer Towns and his ministry. In fact, I'm sitting here in my office and I have a picture with him sitting on my desk.

So I appreciate that. And I've also heard it said that the most important thing that we think or the most important thought is what we think about God. And I think it perfectly ties in with what you shared. And it's so important to have our thoughts correct. And as you know, it's easy for our thoughts to get mixed up, and it's easy for us to Lose sight of things.

And so, I think as we're talking about the greatness of God and why it's important, I think one of the things that's important is just the daily reminders that we need of God's greatness, the weekly reminders. One of the reasons we gather and worship on Sundays with our church families because we need to be reminded of who God is, of how great He is. Like we've talked about, all the stuff of life-the problems, the difficulties, the trials, the doubts, the questions, the confusion- all of those things can obscure our view of God and His greatness.

So, but one of the things that we were talking about before the break was hope. And I just know how desperately we all need hope. And I've always loved the story in the Old Testament about a man named Mephibosheth. I won't try to say his name again, but he is the grandson of Saul, a son of Jonathan, and he had a Really, sort of hopeless life. His father dies when he's young.

He was dropped when he was a baby, and both of it he was crippled because of that. And so he couldn't walk. He had loss in his life. And when David comes to power, he really fears that David will want to get rid of him as a potential threat to his throne. And yet, David summons Methiboshath into his throne, and he comes very fearfully.

And yet, David wants to come because he wants to bless him and he wants to take care of him and see that he is always provided for, always cared for, that his needs are met. And he gave him hope. Um, and and so it's in the same way, God offers us hope because without God, we really are as many things as we might try to fill up our life with or put into our life-whether it's success or money or our job or our family or our sports team-uh, all of those things will never satisfy the need for hope in our life. They're all going to fail, they're all going to go away. And so God offers us what we most need.

And it ties back to him offering what we don't deserve, his grace. And he gives us a hope that and it ties in also with what we're saying, that really goes beyond the circumstances of this life because Our circumstances might be difficult. If you're listening right now, you might be in a difficult place and you might be struggling to see God as great or to know His hope. And I just want you to know that God offers you that gift of hope. And that if we look at the cross and we look at Christ, Like we see that God demonstrated his love for us.

And it's in His love that led him to die for our sins, to bear that penalty so that we could have a relationship with him, so that we could have a living hope. And I think about Peter, you know, he said, we've been born again into a living hope. A living hope. a living hope. And it's hope for our past, it's hope for our mistakes, our failures, our sin.

But it also gives us hope for our circumstances, our suffering. It brings meaning and purpose to all those things. And knowing that whatever situation we might be in right now, it's not our final situation. I love that you brought out Mephibosheth. That story, 2 Samuel 9.

Listeners, you want a great story to read of hope? You read 2 Samuel 9. I call Mephibosheth an Old Testament picture of a New Testament Christian because Mephibosheth, he didn't deserve to live. For he's considered the enemy. But David brings him in and treats him now like a son.

And he gets to stay in his house and he gets to eat his food, the fellowship he gets to have. That's what God does for us. And what a great example of hope. Yeah. Dave, as we're thinking here, the Lord is.

Why is it important to know who the Lord is? I got two of them for you, Dwayne, and I hope you'll let me share both quickly. The first one I've had in my mind. God, he is, the Lord is holy. He tells us he is holy and we need to be holy.

I thought this week about Simeon. He so much wanted to see the Lord Jesus Christ born in Luke 2 before he died, and God allowed him to do that. And the only thing we know about Simeon is that he was faithful, he was just, he was righteous. And God calls us to be holy. And in these days, where we're so waiting to hear that trumpet call and meet the Lord in the air, the question I ask is: Are we living a holy life?

And holy is not about my perfection, holy is about my posture. Am I living a life trying to be closer to God? I'll never be perfect. I'm not this side of heaven. I'm I'm nowhere near it.

But the closer I walk with Him and my posture, I become more like Him. And the other thing I need to tell you, the Lord is love. When you brought out Elder Towns, I remember when he gave me the book that he wrote on the Gospel of John. And of course, he autographed it, signed it for me. I love Dr.

Downs, I still see him. Periodically, what a man of faith. And then, when he wrote the Gospel of John, you can't even think of the Gospel of John without thinking of, for God so loved. That gospel is so full of love. Uh BOM 18-1 starts.

I will love you, O Lord. Love is God is love. Yeah. Yes, yes. We still have time for your call, 866-348-7884.

What. Makes God.

So great. Why would you think of him as great and awesome? You can still give us a call, 866-348-7884. We've been discussing with Dave Hill, Dan Davis, this aspect of these descriptions. And how it makes a difference in our lives, our perspective.

Mike brought the perspective. Again, we got to set our minds on the eternal things. And I just want to remind us of some of the things Psalms tells us about the Lord being, the Lord is. my delight. Um Yeah can be very dark.

And in darkness we make lots of mistakes, but with the Lord we have a light and he lights our path. The Lord is my refuge. Um He he's he's the very a very present help. In a time of trouble, there's a word that comes from a song. uh and that he's my Ebenezer.

Well, the reason that word's in a song is because Samuel said that he is the he's our Ebenezer. And just curious, David, Dan, do you guys know what Ebenezer means? Yes, it is a stone of remembrance.

Okay, but what does that mean? What is the stone of remembrance? He's given a name for God. We should throw that out as a trivia sometime. Ebenezer, thus far the Lord has helped us.

When you call someone Ebenezer, when God is called Ebenezer, you're saying he has helped us so far. And it is a stone of remembrance where we're supposed to look back and remember. Dave, you talked about that. The faithfulness of God through the years, He has helped us. Our show is going to be coming to a conclusion in just a moment.

I just want to say thank you to David Hill and to Dan Davis for joining me today. And as you are pondering, On Who God is, I want you to know, as Dave said, so beautiful, He is love. And today I want you to know God loved you so much, he sent his son to die for you. And there is no one who will ever love you more than God has loved you. God is love, and he loves you.

Thank you for listening to Truth Talk Live today. I'm Dwayne Carson. It's been a joy to have you as our listener. And just remember, God is great and God is awesome. Yeah.

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