Today is the 8th day of January. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible and welcome to

Week 2. We have completed our first full week of this year and our first full week

moving through the scriptures together day by day and step by step. So here we are

at the threshold of a brand new shiny sparkly week and we walk into this week together

and I'll say it many many times as we come to the beginning of a new week this is a fresh

start. We're still just starting our year and so we've got a fresh start in the year

but this is a fresh start of brand new week week number two which means we have a reset.

We can regroup, we can move forward together and so let's do just that. We will read from

the new international verse in this week and obviously picking up right where we left

off yesterday leads us back into the story of Abraham in the book of Genesis. Abraham and

his wife Sarah have been promised to have a son, a promised son. The only problem is that

like Abraham's 99 years old and Sarah's like push a 90 and so it seems like unlikely

that they're going to have a kid but who knows maybe they will we'll get to that soon

enough we've got a little drama that precedes that. So let's dive in Genesis chapter 18 verse

16 through 19 verse 38 today. When the men got up to leave they looked down toward

Sodom and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. Then the Lord said,

shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Abraham will surely become a great and

powerful nation and all the nations on earth will be blessed through him for I have chosen him

so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord

by doing what is right and just so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.

Then the Lord said, the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and they're

sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that

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