"The Hypostatic Union: God & Christ Jesus" (Part 4/5)

Send us Fan Mail“Not my will, but your will be done” is one of the most quoted lines in the Bible and one of the easiest to misunderstand. We sit with that Gethsemane prayer and ask the question hiding underneath it: when Jesus speaks of “my will” and “your will,” are we hearing one will, two wills, or something else entirely? As the conversation unfolds, we keep circling back to what “perfect faith” actually looks like when the cross is real, pain is real, and obedience still doesn’t waver.Meg, Jonah, Mariah, Candy, Aaron, and Pat help us work through the big theology words with plain language: the hypostatic union, two natures, and the doctrine known as diothelitism. We talk about why some Christians insist Jesus has both a human will and a divine will, why others emphasize unity of will, and why the most important guardrail is this: there is never any conflict in Christ. If Jesus could will anything contrary to the Father, even in potential, the entire gospel collapses.Along the way we connect key passages like Philippians 2:8-9, John 12:49-50, John 14, and Romans 5:19 to the real-life takeaway: sanctification, prayer, and learning submission without treating Jesus like he had a “split personality.” Whether you frame it as one will or two wills, we argue for the same outcome, perfect obedience and a Savior who is truly like us yet without sin. If this stretched your thinking, subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review, then tell us: how do you apply “not my will” in your own walk?Support the showBE PROVOKED AND BE PERSUADED!