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Lord Jesus we begin. gift of any amount. Thank you.

Lord Jesus, we begin by asking that you would send the Holy Spirit to inform us of the

truth of scripture so that we might connect the scripture to you rightly and that as a result

we might understand how scripture and history in our lives only makes sense when you are at the

center of those things. And so God we, we do love you. We do trust you and we ask that

we would learn clearly about Jesus today and that you would enable us to have hearts that love

him and lives that follow him. and we ask this in his good

name. Amen. Let me set up our time together by giving you a brief background on the Bible

in general and then we'll get into some specific parts of the Bible in particular.

I'll start by saying that at the time it was written roughly 25% of your Bible was prophetic

in nature meaning that it foreshadowed, it predicted, it promised in great detail a future event that God would then

bring to pass to show that God both knows the future and God is sovereign over the future

and God has control ultimately over human history.

And many of those promises and prophecies work in such a way that they are the thread

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