God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible,

tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

All right, I want you to be honest now. Have you ever decided you were going to read through the entire Bible and you started in

Genesis and you did very well, and Exodus you pressed through, Leviticus was tough, numbers,

Deuteronomy, you kept moving, you got to the historical books, and then you arrived at First Chronicles.

First Chronicles, Chronicles for us, perhaps the longest span of any book of the Bible.

For example, the first word of Chronicles is Adam.

It goes all the way back to the very beginning, and it covers 3,600 years. Think of that.

Did you know that there are 1,500 names in the first nine chapters of 1st Chronicles? And sometimes

people get bogged down in them and they think, why all these names and why all these genealogies?

You remember in the New Testament we're cautioned,

we're warned not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies. But you see the genealogies

Paul warns about the New Testament are people's family lines, thinking that there's something

special because of who their parentage happened to be. But the genealogy found in Chronicles

is not just any genealogy, my friend. This is the family line of Jesus Christ. Interestingly enough,

in the Jewish Bible, the Hebrew Old Testament, the Chronicles is the last book. And that's significant

because when you begin our New Testament, what do you begin with?

The chronology, the genealogy of Christ.

I believe the Lord intended from the beginning that those would connect to one another.

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