Are You a Bystander? | Torah | Genesis 14

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

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Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Are you willing to take responsibility for things even if they aren't your responsibility? Would you go the extra mile to help out a neighbor? Or do you find yourself falling into apathy? In today's episode, Patrick uses Abram's protection of Lot in Genesis 14 as an example of how to take initiative to help others. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Passages: Genesis 14 Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Keith Simon.
0:11.9	I'm Tanya Wilma. I'm Jensen Holt McNair. And I'm Patrick Miller. We are exploring
0:16.7	the first books of the Bible. Right now we are in Genesis. If you're like me you you love email newsletters, but most of them don't bring me closer to God.
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0:38.6	inspiring challenges to grow,
0:41.0	interesting cultural backgrounds on today's passage and even quick studies of Hebrew
0:45.9	and Greek words. Each week's going to be a little bit different and you're going to love
0:50.1	the variety, so stop what you're doing, click the link in the show notes and sign up today
0:55.1	now let's hop into today's episode in Genesis 14 we read one of those stories that people really don't quite know how to apply to practical life.
1:06.0	The author sets up the drama and it is a dramatic story.
1:10.0	Lott, who you might remember is Abram's nephew.
1:13.0	He's suddenly been taken captive by a group of violent foreign kings.
1:18.6	Now, these foreign rulers, they were actually rulers of city states,
1:21.9	so don't think about nation states
1:23.3	and they had a little city that they ruled over but what they do in this story is
1:27.3	that they're attacking different cities and one of the cities that they attack
1:30.5	is the city where Lott again Abrams, Abrams' nephew, was living.
1:34.2	And so Lott is just one of many victims of this violence.
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