Listen to the question. I might sound similar to a question we hear today. But it usually starts with a

person disliking some command from God or an instruction from a living prophet. And they build a case

as to why that command or instruction is hard or burdensome. And then they ask, let a loving God

really care about fill in the blank, blank, whatever issue they're upset about.

And you can imagine the Old Testament version might have been around the same thing.

What a loving God really care that my sweater is made out of both wool and linen?

I don't think so.

Right?

You can imagine someone saying that. The point of that question

is to frame scripture or frame living prophets as unreasonable and having nonsensical demands just so that

they can have some kind of control. So if God isn't being unreasonable or nonsensical in these

commands, why does he care?

Welcome back to come follow me with Fair.

My name is Jennifer Roach-Lee's, and today we are talking about Exodus 19 to 34. The Come Follow Me curriculum

actually lets you skip a bunch of chapters in there. I think we skip 21, 22, 23, and then we

skip like 25 to 30. So it's not quite as long as it sounds. You can go read those chapters

too, if you want. I actually encourage you to do so.

But you'll see it's a little of the like same song, eighth verse. The chapters are kind of doing the same thing, which is why the editors for Come Follow Me, let us skip some of them. Each chapter that we skip, it's a little bit of just like a variation on the one before. So you will not miss a ton by not focusing your study on those. So on this show, we're looking at each passage and

wondering about a few different things. What's going on in the story? What are the themes here we need

to be paying attention to? What's the interpretation and what are the problems? We don't and we can't hit every section of that

for every passage. But these are the things that we're curious about here. So with that in mind,

we're going to dig into Exodus 19 to 34. And we're really today going to talk about this theme that we have talked about before, which is a cycle of promise, possession, loss, restoration.

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