This is the Baymaw Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we are

considering the implications of the story of the Tabernacle in our own pursuits of God. And today we

don't have a particular text outside of the story of the Tabernacle itself. It's somewhat of a

continuation of what we covered in our last episode. But it's more of a study in spiritual practices.

If we do have a presentation that goes along with the topic, so you'll find a link to that in

the show notes and you can follow along as Marty teaches us how to practice our spirituality.

Yeah, so we're going to dive deeper into this idea, the story of the Tabernacle. This story for me sets

up a larger conversation that I've always, I just love teaching this lesson to my students. And

this, I feel like this lesson impacts their lives, particularly college students and their lives

more than really many other disciplines, any other lesson, excuse me, that I teach. So really

just love this one. So we kind of left off this discussion of the Tabernacle. We'll talk about how

it's kind of like this mobile Genesis 1. And I guess we should probably like review a little bit

because that's a staple of ours, right? Yeah, what do you mean Genesis 1? What's the big deal?

Why do we need a mobile Genesis 1? Because that's where the story starts, right? So we've talked about

Genesis. Making sure we start in the beginning. And starting in the beginning is really important.

So at the beginning, God says that creation is good and invites creation to trust that, particularly

mankind. And I don't know if warning is the right word, but kind of the warning God gives us if

you don't trust, if he tells Cain this, if you don't trust, if you don't do what's right,

if you don't believe that creation is good, you're going to try to find that fulfillment somewhere else.

And you're going to take it from other people and you're going to do really stupid things because

you're going to live out of fear and security and self-preservation. And so he's trying to teach,

he's trying to frame, he's trying to give us a new way to view the world, a counter narrative,

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