Well, welcome to the Read Scripture podcast.

We're just trying something new, experimenting.

Right now we've got thousands of people who are reading the same passages of scripture

every day and we're walking through the Bible in a year and so we thought

it might be helpful to just every week you know I'll either be interviewing someone

or pointing out some passages that jumped out to me so that the

listeners can feel a sense of unity as they study the word of God together with

thousands of people around the world.

And so I'm just going to jump right into it.

I'm just going to, you know, get into some of the readings that we went through this week.

We're in First Chronicles and Second Chronicles.

We're wrapping up the Old Testament. It's been a great few months in the

Old Testament. I guess it's been eight months now and and I don't know about you but when I was younger I was so focused on

the New Testament alone and then someone challenged my thinking when he says you

know God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So God didn't change. It wasn't

like he was one when the Old Testament and then he completely switched and was a different

person in the New Testament. And in fact, fact the old testament you have thousands of years of history

and you can see how God acted

during those thousands of years

whereas in the new testament you really only have about a hundred years of history there.

And if you're talking about the same God, wouldn't it be wise to spend a lot of time in the Old Testament learning about his character, learning about his actions,

and seeing how they flow right into the New Testament.

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