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I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Tripp Ministries team.

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Paul wants to show us how the first three chapters of Genesis contain a summary of the entirety

of scripture. Here's this week's Wednesday's Word.

Have you ever read the Bible from beginning to end?

I recently finished a cover-to-cover study of Scripture, and I have never loved the Word of God more than I do today.

I have adored this book since I was a little

boy and spent over five decades studying and teaching it, so I didn't think it was possible to love it

any deeper. But in the last year, I have discovered, in a fresh and exciting way, that all scripture

is breathed out by God and is profitable, 2 Timothy 316. Literally every word. Yes, even those Old

Testament books like Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy that we often skip over or try to rush past.

What I came across during my Genesis through Revelation's study of the Bible is that in the first

three chapters, God gives us everything we need up front for what the rest of the

Bible contains. Our creator, who created us, knows us perfectly and knows exactly what we need.

So he lovingly gives us those dominant themes from the start so we can make sense of our lives

and interpret the rest of the Bible. In Genesis 1 through 3, God immediately presents us with the wonderful and awful realities

that we need to understand about who we are and what life is about.

These opening three chapters have three foundational themes.

Number one, in the center of all that is, there is a God of incalculable glory.

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