You are listening to a podcast produced and distributed by Christhold Fast.

Please visit Christholdfast.com for additional resources. This is 40 minutes in the Old Testament. Oh, you know, and you know,

and then you know,

the way. Oh, Welcome to episode 18 of 40 minutes in the Old Testament. It's not as early as it has been just because it's a holiday which also tells you

Exactly how dedicated we are to you

Dear listener having a right understanding of the Old Testament that we would spend part

of our holiday serving you because that's just how we are. Brandon, how are you doing?

Hey guys, it's a privilege.

How you doing, Chad?

No, I'm good.

Where are we at today?

We are, of course we're still in Genesis, we're in the middle of Chapter 12, and I was thinking

know if this is episode 18 and we're on Chapter 12, we're actually doing pretty good because that means we're covering more than just

half a chapter every episode which is pretty good.

Back in the day when I taught Genesis as a class at the seminary. We spent a whole quarter to 10 weeks and rarely got out of

chapter 3. So look at the progress we're making. We are moving right along well we definitely pick to the pace since the

beginning we were we were hitting it like three verses at a time yeah well you

you got to spend more time on those first three chapters because they're the bedrock of everything that comes after.

So we got into chapter 12 last time, which is the beginning of the story of Abraham.

And we'll be with Abraham for quite a while now.

We talked about the opening verse

is quite a bit, the promise that God makes to Abraham about

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