Welcome to the Baymaw podcast episode 10 with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent

Billings. Today we're covering Genesis 15 through 17, continuing our look at the evolving

partnership between God and of Rome. So Marty, we're kind of pretty deep into this

point. Why don't you give me just a little bit of a review to kind of catch us up, make

sure we have the picture, the foundation in mind that we've established so far before

we move into this next phase of Rome's partnership with God. Yeah, absolutely. And this is important.

We're going to do this on a pretty regular basis. Sometimes we'll do it in the discussion

groups. Sometimes we'll do it on the podcast, but making sure that we go back and re-review

as well increases our familiarity with this larger narrative. So it's a good time to do

that. So it's good that you bring that up. But we have Genesis 1 through 11. We talked

about it being the preface a few podcasts back. And what you really had was the author or

authors of Genesis setting up a narrative that begins with this preface about origins.

It wants to tell us who this God is and who are we as mankind and what is the core struggle

that we struggle with. And so you had these two, it kind of went through this two rounds

of creation myth narratives that had been recaptured, retold, subversively retold from folklore

that they were used to. And essentially the author of Genesis is making this case that

God isn't who you think he is. Creation is not what you think it is. This God is crazy

about creation. He loves it. He thinks creation is good. And this God isn't out to destroy

creation. This God is out to restore it, redeem it, save it and invites us as these partners

made in his image to join him. But that means we're going to need to be like God. And the

thing that we've run into in the preface, the thing that God has shown us in the stories

as the Genesis account tells us is he's a God that knows when to say enough. He's a God

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