The What are you? What do when you do when you come to one of those passages in the Bible that is a list of name after name?

Most of us are tempted to skip it, forge ahead to the narrative, but today on Truth for Life,

Alistairbegg teaches us that those lists remind us and warn us and encourage us.

He's titled today's message,

Do you remember what's his name?

Well, for those of you who were thinking to yourselves this surely cannot be the

foundation of our study this morning if you looked ahead at all you would notice

that the lists run right through to the 26 verse of chapter 12 and you

recognize that it may be somewhat daunting and perhaps you even think less than profitable

as an exercise to give consideration to this.

Now it would be obvious to some that if we were living in the immediate generations

following the writing of these lists that we certainly would recognize a measure of interest in them

because all of us without exception in the same way as we might do when perhaps we're in a city far from us,

we might pick up the telephone book and look and see if there are any begs or

Robinson's or Jenkins or whatever it might be in that particular city. I don't know if you

do that but every so often I do if you've got a long time to wait for a plane, you've got to do something.

And there are quite a few bags in Auckland, for those of you who are interested,

which is of course not many of you.

But in any case, every so often we may examine lists some of you tell me

that you've gone to Scotland and to Edinburgh and you have spent laborious hours

examining long lists in significant offices in the city of Edinburgh because you want to try and find

your heritage. You want to know whether your great-grandfather stole sheep or whether he had a castle.

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