Hey, my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. And for the life of me all week,

I've been trying to follow the trail of crumbs that the Apostle Paul, the author of the book

that we're working on right now, the book of Galatians and the New Testament, I've been trying to

follow this trail of crumbs that he has left for us from deep in the New Testament all the way back to the

beginning of the Old Testament to where Abraham lives. But every time I try to go back to follow

up on what Paul is talking about, because he brings up Abraham here in the book of Galatians,

every time I try to do that, Jesus gets in the way because right here, like this far back,

I start flipping through

pages to go back to Abraham like oh it's Matthew Mark Luke and John those are the books that have

Jesus on screen and doing stuff and then I think of something like oh this relates to the conversation

and then we get bogged down there so I'm not even going to look at those pages I'm looking away

right now I'm looking I'm looking at the ceiling.

That's why I sound different. And just by feel, I turned way back, way, way back to the Old Testament here to

the book of Genesis, where we meet and start to get a sense of what the deal is with this first

really relatable human character in the whole Bible, Abraham. As we pinch zoom in on his

story, we see that he's not perfect. He's, I mean, I said he was relatable, right? He has

flaws. He has redeeming things. He has logic, moral logic that you see him running. He has mental self-preservation

processes that he's running to get out of trouble and take care of the people under his care.

He's very, very much like us in that he's pretty cool and pretty flawed. He seems like a pretty good

guy and, you know, he jokes a couple

times as well. But the key point of the life of Abraham, like the biggest legacy that he leaves,

I think, is that he didn't do anything other than believe God. We don't get any background on him

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