This is the Bamaul Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his Gohost, Brent Billings. Today we are wrapping up the introduction to God's story and sending up the narrative of the remainder of Scripture.

So we can understand what God is rescuing his people from.

Yeah, so we have been walking through this whole book of Genesis. We've wrapped it up, the story of Yosef in the last book, which means that we've done what we called the preface Genesis 1 through 12.

We've watched Genesis 1 through 11, should I say. We've watched God reaffirm at least twice in that story about the goodness of creation, inviting people in that portion of the story to trust it.

We just have a really hard time doing it. So the preface introduced us to this whole idea of a new kind of world, a world where we see it with a new lens and a new set of eyeballs.

We can see the goodness of creation. We can see a creation that's saturated in God and what he's doing. And then we can trust it, but we also got introduced to the very core of our human condition.

And the core of our human condition is fear. It's mistrust. It's insecurity. And it hurts our relationships. And it can actually spread throughout families and entire lineages.

And it can even create entire civilizations that are motivated in the wrong way.

So into that, we are introduced into the introduction. And we met a guy by name of Avram. And we are introduced to the family of God. And this introduction ended up being the rest of Genesis, Genesis 12 through 50.

And really if we backed up and kind of saw the big picture of the introduction, the introduction was a place where we saw like the big ideas, the big major themes that we would say make up the spiritual DNA of God's family, the patriarch.

Avram, Yitzak, Jakao, Viosafe. These were people that understood in a unique way in ways that we didn't see with Adam and Eve, in ways that we didn't see with Cain, in ways we didn't see with Noah or the people of Babel, in ways that we didn't see there. This family understood trust.

They understood how to love others. And that was because they understood self-sacrifice and laying down their own life. This family was radically committed to hospitality. And they saw spouses and wives who were committed to hospitality.

They saw such a huge part of their DNA. And the other thing we saw, even with generations that we feel like maybe struggle with the story, guys like Jakao, he is a major part. He is the father of God's people. He is Israel because he has this stiff-naked Hutzpah that God wants to use. And so these were the big themes that kind of drove that conversation.

We find ourselves entering into the big narrative, like the narrative. We've done the preface, we've done the introduction, and now the narrative of God starts.

So we have a couple of different roads we could take. And one of those roads would be we could just flow right into the Exodus. From a literary point of view, we could go right from Joseph, right into the story of the Exodus and the text because they are intimately connected.

And we're really going to be using some fantastic material. We've talked about Rabbi David Foreman before his newest book. I just read it over the break and just phenomenal. Just has added so much to the original teaching that I had learned or at least repackaged it.

And it would be very easy to go right from Joseph into that story and you definitely will see that later. And you'll definitely see that that's true.

But I usually do something and I want to do it in the podcast here as well in my study. And that is I want to kind of break here from the text. And I want to step back.

And I want to look at I want to look at the big picture about who we are for a moment today. Who are we? And then I want to I want to look at for the next podcast or maybe even two. I want to be able to look at this whole idea of Egypt, not in its physicality, not in its historicity, not the actual place of Egypt.

But what Egypt represents on a bigger level. And so a lot of our conversation and we'll talk about what's coming up next at the end of this podcast. But some of what we're going to do is we're going to spend some time looking at who what is empire and what is the narrative of the empire tells.

And how does that affect us in our story. And so we're going to we're going to kind of in a sense hit pause for just a moment and kind of take a couple of rabbit trails and ask some bigger questions.

And then here in a few weeks, we're going to jump right back into the text and get right back to the exa story. But one of the things that we did that if you're purely a listener on our podcast, you haven't heard.

...