If you're the only one in your book club who wants to read books that will change your life,

you need a new book club. And we think you found it. I'm Heather. And I'm Susan. And can we be

the first to say, welcome to the club? We're back. And last episode in chapter four, we were hanging out with Kane and Abel.

And up until now, the world has been pretty small.

Just a few characters in our novel.

Just one family.

One family.

Just one family.

There were a lot of firsts.

There was some good, some bad.

First children.

Canaan Abel, that was good. First offering to God. One good, one bad. First murder. Very bad. Very bad. First time people begin to call in the name of the Lord. Good. Very, very good. And the first genealogy, Kane's bad boys, bad boys. What you're going to do? What you're going to do when they come for you. Bad boys, bad

nice. All right. Confession, though. Confession, Heather, do you read genealogies when you read the

Bible or do you skip them? Oh, this is a deep theological question. Oh, yeah, so deep. Truly.

Personally, when I come to genealogies, do find them very difficult and it just depends on

why I'm reading what I'm reading at that time and sometimes I skip them and sometimes I don't it

depends on I allow the Holy Spirit to lead me and guide me and oh you're so good I'm I'm really

do because like for example here's it here's a good example. Right now I'm reading the book

of Job and I'm reading it because a lot of times you want to be depressed? No. If I'm going through

something hard, I like to read that to remember. Things could always get worse and in the middle

of this hard thing I need to praise. And so I'm just allowing God to lead me. So, you know, sometimes if, if I'm reading something in the New Testament and he's led me for a reason to this book, but there's a genealogy in the very beginning of the book of Matthew, I might skip that because if he's led me to Matthew for a reason to read, you know, the beatitudes or whatever, then I will skip it. But if it's something

about honoring God and I feel like there's something for him to tell me. It's inserted. Yeah. Yeah.

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