Hey, my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and we're in the middle of just a delightful little passage here in the middle of Galatians 3 that I don't think I've ever understood as well as I'm understanding it right now as we're going through it together. I'm telling you, you being here makes such a difference because if you weren't here, I'd be like, you know, you should read the Bible.

God's on the other side of it's important. I would read it and I would get to things that are hard.

And even though I'd like to imagine that I'm this intrepid Bible explorer filled with courage and I do what it takes to understand what the Bible says, I wouldn't because I am also lazy. And I think maybe sometimes I get to hard

stuff when I'm on my own. I'm like, yep, that's hard. And I, you know, it'll make sense later

just, but I mean, we're just going to pretend like we get it and we're going to move on,

which makes sense. And it's kind of biblical. I mean, Peter himself said about paul's writings it's hard sometimes it's hard to understand and paul talks about really complicated things but peter also said that it's scripture

peter himself affirmed that this is from god it's important and so having you around to process

out this passage has been really meaningful thank you we left it in suspended animation from our

last conversation where we are

working through this passage where Paul has kind of metaphorically flipped the hat around backwards,

and he's straddling the chair and he's like, hey, let's just take this down a notch and make

it make sense. Let's take an example from everyday life, like just how contracts are, how a covenant is.

And it really is making a ton of sense. And we've just got a little ways to go to land the plane

on this block of thought. So you can go

and catch the last episode or two if you want to

or we can just move forward together now

right after Jeffrey plays some music.

Thanks, Jeff.

Music So nobody in the original audience would have been like, well, God just threw out all the promises to Abraham when he, 430 years later made promises to Moses.

Huh? No, not only does he not throw it out, it's not even augmented. He didn't change the deal at all. The deal's still on. Again, you and I looked at that

for ourselves. So we got a conditional covenant with Moses. That's the law. But what Paul refers to

as the promise, that which was made to Abraham and is transferable. It goes right on down

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