Hey everybody, this is Tim at the Bible Project and you're listening to the Bible Project

podcast.

Last week, John and I started a new conversation about the theme of generosity in the storyline

of the Bible.

This is connected to a new video that we're making at the Bible Project.

In the last episode, we explored some of Jesus' most famous teachings about freedom from

anxiety and learning about the generosity and abundance that God has in store for His

people.

Jesus walked around with this deep conviction that despite all of the pain and suffering

that he saw going on in the world, despite all the pain and suffering that he himself

experienced, he still believed that Yahweh, the God of Israel, the Creator of heaven and

earth is an extremely generous host who has given an overabundance of resources and opportunities

to all of us.

Jesus was able to manage that tension and think it through because you can see in his teachings,

his heart and his mind were soaked in the Hebrew scriptures and specifically the portrait

of the generous God in Genesis 1 and 2.

So that's what we're going to look at today.

We're going to explore the creation story in Genesis 1 and how it portrays God as an

extremely generous host whose packing creation full of abundance and opportunity.

We're also going to look at the story of Adam and Eve, how they forfeit and take advantage

of God's generosity.

And then we're going to go into the next story outside of Eden.

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