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Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Daily: God Creates, The Enemy Distorts

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A daily meditation on scripture, a quote, or the life of a saint to ground you in God and his peace.

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0:00.0

Hello, Bridgetown. I'm Gavin Bennett and this is the Bridgetown Daily for Wednesday, March 3rd.

0:06.9

I don't know about you, but it kind of feels like every other Sunday that one of our teachers

0:11.3

quotes from Genesis 1, 2, or 3 or says, turn to page 1 in your Bible. Maybe I'm alone in that,

0:17.9

but you may be surprised if you go back through our teachings and count about how often we refer

0:22.3

to these chapters. Now, fair warning, I'm about to do that, but before I do, I want to say a quick

0:28.1

word on why we do this. The first few chapters of Genesis do not just set up the Bible, they set up

0:34.7

all of creation. They give us a glimpse into the world around us and help us make sense of it all,

0:41.2

or more realistically, they give us a framework by which to begin to understand what in the world

0:46.6

is actually going on. It's in these first few pages that we learn some really pivotal things,

0:53.6

things about who God is, who we are, and who the enemy is. Now, these chapters are an

1:00.9

science textbook, right? They're Jewish meditation literature, meaning that what we learn on the

1:07.7

first few pages of the Bible is not how things exist, but why, and about why they are the way they

1:15.0

are today. And that's so important because why is the question that haunts us each time we experience

1:22.0

a loss or a tragedy, big or small? We get a parking ticket. Why? We lose our job. Why?

1:33.6

We pull on to the freeway and to dead stop traffic. Why? We lose a loved one to suicide. Why?

1:43.3

Why? Why is the question that haunts us? The question that really matters? Why is sometimes the only

1:52.8

word we have? Why is what we lie awake about thinking at night? And why is the question that every

2:00.9

reader of the Scriptures should have in mind while journeying through the Bible? Like the genius

2:06.8

literary work that it is, the Bible seeks to set up the cosmos or the world in a particular way.

2:13.6

The first few chapters of Genesis become a kind of not scary, let the reader beware of sorts.

2:19.7

It's almost like the author is trying to say, before you start reading this weird book,

2:23.8

here are a few things you'll need on your journey. The Bible is dense at times, it's a desert at

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