Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well this is episode three of a ten-part series.

It represents a number of teachings that I did years ago.

It was a big series at our church that we did trying to help people rebuild from the

ground up our very understanding of the character and identity of God as represented in Jesus

and in the story of the Scriptures.

And so this teaching was after completing the number of teachings on God's character

represented in the story of the Hebrew Scriptures or the Old Testament.

We got to the Jesus part of the story.

And what I wanted to do before we even really started talking about Jesus was just in one

teaching to capture the heartbeat of what the story is driving the first three quarters

of the Bible, namely the story of the Old Testament.

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