Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

If you're on any form of social media, you know that towards the end of the year people start getting reminiscent in their posts. Some people

will post their top nine on Instagram, which shows the most liked

photos they posted in the previous year. And you cannot escape Spotify's wrapped if you're on the

internet in December. The Music Streaming Service sends each person a

personalized summary of all the music and podcasts they listen to over the past year.

And everyone, like literally everyone

shares it to let other people know what they've been listening to. I guess as humans

we just like to reflect to look back and remember where we've been over the past year before we head into the next one.

And that's why today, before we move on from the Torah to spend some time walking through the Advent season.

We want to remember where we've been and what we've learned.

Now as I reflected on what I had learned over the past year going through the Torah, I kept

coming back to three truths.

So think of today as our Torah wrapped, as we remember three big truths we can take away from

our year in the Torah.

So the first truth I learned from the Torah is that God is telling a bigger story.

Hopefully, if you've been listening, you heard us talk about the fact that the whole Bible is telling one big story. We know how tempting it can be to ignore the Torah once

creation is over and just skip to the New Testament for the quote-unquote good

stuff, the Jesus stuff. But that is fundamentally wrong. The first mention of Jesus and the gospel is in the third chapter of the Bible. We learn that despite humans rebellion against God, someone is coming, who will

conquer the evil one. The same God Yawe that we learn about throughout the Torah is the one who becomes a man, Jesus in the New Testament

to redeem his people. When we see that bigger story, Jesus isn't just some random guy who somehow has the power to save me from my sins, but the same God who created me, who called his people to dwell with him, who rescued his people out of slavery, who showed them a way to live that produces life, who delighted to bring them into a promised inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey, and who made a covenant to be

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