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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, so we'll go ahead and get started, and when we get started in just a moment,

we're going to be picking up at the beginning of St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews chapter 12.

And as I mentioned when we ended last time.

This isn't a totally random chapter break.

There kind of needed to be a chapter break somewhere in here.

This is as good a spot as any.

But we really are going to be picking up kind of in media race again here.

So, because this chapter begins with sort of the summary conclusion of chapter 11.

If you say, well, why didn't they just put the chapter break right after that?

Well, because the part right after that is building directly on that so there's not like

there is not within chapters 11 and 12 really they're really kind of a unit but that would be a

huge unit so there needs to be a break somewhere this This is as good a place as any.

And so we went ahead and used that as an opportunity to end last time.

But so by way of review,

it's so for a review of the epistle as a whole and for the introduction,

by the time anyone hears this,

you'll be able to listen to the intro in the first Bible study.

But so just to catch us up with in terms of chapter 11 and where the current discussion is going,

remember the lead into chapter 11 in chapter 10, right?

Because this is a, as we've said several times,

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