Well, you know, one of the things that you run into if you read some Old Testament scholarship

is this iron wall between like Torah studies or sometimes it'll be referred to as like election

literature and then the so-called wisdom literature. And I think that there is no biblical basis

whatsoever for this iron wall.

So I would just highlight here in verse 13 of Deuteronomy 1.

Moses recounts how the Lord said to him,

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You didn't say that it's episode 54.

Well, I didn't know.

I'm here with my two friends.

Jim Hamilton and Alex Duke.

Look at that.

And you are Sam Ahmadi.

There we go.

So what are...

Here we are, episode 54. You know, just last

week. Actually, it wasn't last week. It was yesterday. I was listening to our very first ever episode

of Bible Talk. And I wasn't doing that because I was vain, though I may be vain. I was not doing it

because I was doing it because I was teaching

our youth group last night. Genesis 1 and 2. Nice. And so I listened to myself to prepare and to you guys.

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