Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and

Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up. Welcome back, fellas. This week, I'm taking you on a journey to

Golgotha. So I did this quickly on a previous episode of the Daily Blade, but we're actually

going to stretch this out to a full week to really get into the details. Now, you don't have to be a

theologian to recognize that name or location, so most of you know by now that Golgotha,

aka the place of a skull, is where our

Savior Jesus was crucified by the Romans at the behest of the Jewish Sanhedron. So the crucifixion,

coupled with the resurrection of Jesus, is the center point of Christianity. Belief that Jesus

died on the cross and was resurrected three days later, a realization that it somehow counted

for us, and us putting the full weight of our faith in that reality is the center point of our salvation.

But there is so, so much more to the story, so let's go all the way back to the book of Genesis, okay?

This is where we get to the story of Abram.

So he was first mentioned in Genesis 11 as the son of Tara. In Genesis 12,

God tells him to leave his country in his father's house to go to a land that God would show him.

God promised to make him a great nation. Then in Genesis 15, we see that God makes a covenant with

Abram, and he says that he will have many descendants, even though at this time Abram and Sarai are childless. In Genesis 16, we see that

Sarai tells Abram to have sex with her servant, Hagar, to make a baby, which was Sarai's way of

speeding up God's promise. This was obviously not God's will nor timing, but Hagar gave birth to

Ishmael. Then in Genesis 17, God changes Abrams name to Abraham and Sarah's name to Sarah.

And also God tells Abraham that Sarah, who is 90 years old at the time, will give birth to a son,

you know, a prospect that she laughs and scoffs at.

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