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Jesus, the second Adam, is going to lead us into a new creation, a new garden life that's going to be even better than Eden.

And he is going to rule over creation in righteousness and justice, he is going to love his bride.

Welcome to help me Teach the Bible.

I'm Nancy Guthrie.

Help Me Teach the Bible is a production of the gospel coalition, sponsored by Crossway,

a not-for-profit publisher of the ESV Bible Christian Books and Tracks.

Learn more at crossway.org. On this episode of Help Me Teach the Bible, rather than a conversation, I'm going to offer to you a presentation that I made

at the recent Gospel Coalition Women's Conference in Indianapolis. This is a workshop based on a new book that has just come out that I've written

called Even Better Than Eden. Nine Ways the Bible Story changes everything about your story.

Now this book flows out of a passion that if you are a regular listener to help me teach the Bible,

I hope will not be news to you.

It flows out of my passion for biblical theology.

And by that, I don't mean merely biblical theology as opposed to unbiblical theology,

but a biblical theology, that sense of understanding the Bible as one story with the person and work of Christ at the very center of it.

Biblical theology in contrast, perhaps to systematic theology.

So that is one of my big passions.

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