God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible,

tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

The most important journeys should always be planned. Before you set out on some long adventure, it's a good idea to chart your course.

And that's exactly what we're going to do today as we begin our journey through the scriptures.

And we want to begin where God begins.

Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, says, in the beginning,

God. And so we believe that the Bible is a progressive revelation. As such, we study it that way.

We begin with the book of Genesis, and then we walk our way through the Old Testament and then

right into the New Testament. But in order to do that, I think we need a good overview of what we're

approaching when we come to the Old Testament scriptures. You see, everywhere I go, there are people

that give much attention to the New Testament and think very little now of the Old Testament.

I remember years ago walking across a university campus and saying to a young man that I was trying to witness to.

I was trying to talk to him about the Lord and find a good starting place. I said, do you believe

the Word of God? His response to me was, well, I believe the Old Testament. I soon found out

he was a Jew. He didn't accept the New Testament. But the sad reality is there are a lot of New Testament believers today

who have in many ways, at least practically, rejected the Old Testament.

That should never be.

You see, the Old Testament and the New Testament are not competitors, they're completers.

They work together.

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