God was, in other words, looking for a skilled father.

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I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke, along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor.

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What's up, guys, another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood. Today is a fun day on the podcast

where we like to read a verse and then kind of expand on it, talk about it. What does it really mean? What's really going on there? And a lot of times I feel like we like to go to the Old Testament because those are sometimes the most often overlooked or misunderstood. But Jeremy, what's the verse for today? And what is it kind of, what do we got going? Yeah. So there's a great passage in Genesis 18. And you guys know, Abraham is a huge model for fatherhood when we think about

how the Bible talks about Abraham, is constantly talking about him as Father Abraham.

And so we actually learn in Genesis 18 one of the reasons why God chose Abraham.

And it seems, as it says in Genesis 18, that he

chose Abraham because of his skill as a father. And we learn about what God expects from fathers

from this passage. And the context of this passage is that Abraham is visited by these three

angelic beings. And after they leave to go judge Sodom and Gomorrah, two of them leave, and then God says, I want to have a conversation with Abraham about what I'm going to do with Sodom Gimorah. And when he is saying the reason why he is going to have this conversation with Abraham,

he says in verse 19 of chapter 18, says, for I have chosen him that he may command his

children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness

and justice so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.

It's so interesting that God gives us reason, for I have chosen him that he will command.

And there's actually kind of a nuance in Hebrew.

We were actually kind of doing a midrashra Bible study with some people in Israel around this passage once, and they all sort of like jumped up

because in the Hebrew, they all kind of said, oh, the connotation here is, I knew that he would

command his children in the Hebrew, but it doesn't come across as well in the English. But it's

interesting. God knew that Abraham was the kind of father who would do an incredible job of training his children

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