Ep 360 | Genesis 18-23, Come Follow Me 2026 (February 23-March 1)
Talking Scripture
Mike Day & Bryce Dunford
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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(00:00) An overview of these chapters.
(02:05) Abraham’s prophetic call and the symbolism of the mighty tree with sacred associations.
(13:26) “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”
(14:00) Hebrew word play with laugh, rejoice, and Isaac’s name. Doubts and hopes are tied together in this story.
(16:36) Abraham bargains with the Lord for Sodom and Gomorrah to be saved because he knows the mercy of God.
(23:25) The story of Sodom and Gomorrah also portrays God’s justice.
(24:34) Lot makes efforts to save his family from destruction in Genesis 19.
(29:33) Lot pitching his tent toward Sodom cost him his family.
(33:41) The troubling narrative of Lot’s two daughters and the cave in Genesis 19.30-38.
(38:22) Beauty for ashes in Isaiah 61.3. Through tragic experiences, beauty can come to pass. Your origin story is not who you are.
(41:48) Genesis 20 is a triplet of the same story. This chapter introduces the Elohist’s narrative, a source text most likely related to Lehi’s Brass Plates text.
(43:04) The long-promised day finally comes and Isaac is born. We should trust and have faith in promises that take time to be fulfilled. The Song of Sarah.
(44:57) Hagar and Ishmael are cast out of Abraham’s household and they wander in the wilderness. Their water runs out and God shows her a well of water. God helps us, but also wants us to do all we can.
(55:22) Complexities, gaps, and anachronisms in Genesis 21. A covenant, a sacred well, and a tree at Beer-sheba are illustrations of temple imagery, connecting the Patriarchs to figures of the temple and visionary experiences.
(58:41) The burial of Sarah in Genesis 23. Different ways to read Abraham’s “mourning” and “weeping” for Sarah.
(1:03:00) The Lord asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac upon Mount Moriah, the foundation stone, Jerusalem’s most sacred ground.
(1:06:47) We are here to be tested. We will have trials of faith equal to Abraham’s.
(1:11:05) Isaac is an excellent type of Jesus Christ. Elder Melvin J. Ballard shares his feelings regarding Heavenly Father sacrificing his Son.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Talking Scripture, a podcast where we illustrate relevance and application of the scriptures in Come Follow Me. |
| 0:10.1 | We also dive into the history and cultures of the text. |
| 0:13.4 | Thanks for taking the time to share and subscribe to this podcast. |
| 0:16.9 | For show notes, head over to our website, talking scripture.org. |
| 0:23.4 | Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike. And I'm Bryce. And today we're going to be in Genesis 18 through 23. There's a lot happening in this part of the book of Genesis. So I think before we start, it's really good to do a quick overview of these chapters. |
| 0:38.2 | The 18th chapter of Genesis talks about these holy men that come to Abraham, and they tell him and Sarah that they're to have a child. |
| 0:46.6 | And towards the end of this chapter, Abraham bargains with the Lord when he finds out that the Lord is going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. And then in the next chapter, |
| 0:55.9 | Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed. And Lot works to save his family. And the 20th chapter is a repeat. |
| 1:04.0 | This is part of a triplet. So we're going to skip Genesis 20. And the 21st chapter of Genesis is the |
| 1:10.4 | birth of Isaac. and then the tension |
| 1:12.8 | between Sarah and Hagar as their children are kind of vying for the birthright. And so Hagar and |
| 1:19.3 | Ishmael are cast out from Abraham's presence. And then the 22nd chapter is a really big deal. |
| 1:27.1 | And this has a lot of connection to Christianity because this is the story where Abraham |
| 1:32.1 | is commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moriah. |
| 1:35.7 | And then the 23rd chapter of Genesis is the death of Sarah and her burial. |
| 1:40.6 | And so that's kind of a brief overview of what we're going to cover today. |
| 1:43.8 | And we're really establishing Abraham as the model of the Abrahamic covenant. |
| 1:48.7 | So we're going to kind of see his greatness. |
| 1:51.5 | We're going to contrast him with Lot. |
| 1:53.4 | We're going to see what happens when you don't live up to the Abrahamic covenant and what happens when you do. |
| 1:59.2 | So a lot of things happening as we establish this covenant |
| 2:02.8 | in Abraham's life. But what we want to begin with is quite often when a prophet is called, |
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