Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

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All right we continue the the Hill Billy Redneck saga

of the family in Genesis.

We're in chapter 20.

And some of you may have thought, man,

I wish I could have been in the Bible.

I'll tell you, the more I study Genesis,

I'm glad they didn't put my family in the Bible.

Amen.

I don't want everybody knowing about our stuff.

Well, we're gonna get to know this couple, Abraham and Sarah,

a little bit better today.

They're one of the most significant and famous couples and families in the history of the world.

And what we're going to see is, even though they are believers and they have been believers now

for a few decades, they get themselves

into quite a mess.

And at some point in all of our life, we make some decisions that get us in a situation

that we can't get us in a situation that we can't get ourselves out of.

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