This is the Baimal Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings, today we are discussing Israel's arrival at Sinai and the ensuing covenant relationship with their God.

We'll be covering Exodus 19 through 23.

We've made our way. We're going to be closing up in the next couple of podcasts.

Our discussion of Exodus. We made our way through that story. So, Sardin Genesis, Jephesus. It's going to be one of those days.

Genesis airplane.

Sardin Genesis and looked at the preface. Genesis 1 through 11. Got some really big ideas. Big ideas that are really important.

The fact that the story is good. We know who God is and how God feels about creation. We also know the central struggle of human nature, of the human existence and the human experience.

It's going to be insecurity and fear to trust that things aren't okay. We're not enough and we're not loved.

In the middle of that, we met the family of God and the introduction. What we call Genesis 12 through 50.

We got introduced to some big ideas of what happens when people do trust the story. They're not perfect. They make all kinds of mistakes.

But when they do trust the story, it releases them to lay down their lives on behalf of other people.

So, they got hospitality. They've got self-sacrifice. They've got some hootspah. They've got love and compassion. They see the outsider.

These are things that God's going to use in the DNA of us people to build on his story.

The narrative begins. The narrative we talked about a tale of two kingdoms. You're always going to have an imperial narrative.

A narrative of empire that's built on fear. If you don't do X, Y, and Z, if you don't secure self, if you don't try to preserve self, the whole thing can crashing down around you.

It's built on fear. Then there's a narrative of Shalom. There's God's kingdom narrative. It's a narrative that says, no, things aren't going to come crashing down.

It's not ours to save. It's God's world. The whole earth is the Lord. It's in everything in it. He's got this. That means that we can lay down our lives on behalf of other people.

We can show them what it means to rest. We can find a Genesis 1 reality where God just says, just trust me.

Just find the Sabbath. That's what God's up to. In order to do that, He's got to rescue his people out of the narrative of empire.

He's got to get Egypt out of his people, not just his people out of Egypt. We went through the story of the plagues. We talked all about that. We crossed the Red Sea.

We spoke of the three tests in the last couple of podcasts. God wanted to test in order to know to Yadda, to experience his people and their heart and where they're at.

He tested their heart and he tested their soul and he tested their might or their very and today they arrive at Sinai.

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