Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies.

And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Okay, we'll go ahead and get started.

And when we get started, just a moment, we're picking up at the beginning of Genesis

Chapter 18.

And so last time, well, so two Bible studies ago, we talked about the covenant being cut with Abraham, right, where Abraham cut the, at that point Abram, cut the animals in half,

right, and the God's presence passed between the pieces

to sort of ratify the promises that God had already made

to Abraham with this kind of covenant oath form.

And then last time, we talked about how Abrams name was changed to Abraham, and he was given circumcision as sort of a visible sign, right, of those promises.

And that that was going to be passed down from him to his sons, right?

That all the males who were party to this, these promises and this inheritance were to be circumcised and how women participated in that by being the wife or the daughter of a circumcised male,

depending on their age, right?

And how in that context god then sort of doubled down on the promise of

no he and sarah are going to have a son biologically,

despite him being 99 and her being 89.

Right.

That this was going to happen,

even though Abraham was still like,

well, hey, you know, there's Israel, right?

We could just go with that, right?

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