Seeing the Bigger Picture | The Writings | 1 Chronicles 21

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

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How often do you take a step bag and look at the full picture of the Bible? What story is God telling? How do all the smaller stories fit together? In today's episode, Jeff studies 1 Chronicles 21 and discusses it's place in God's bigger story. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 1 Chronicles 21

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Jeff Parrot. Imagine that you're looking at a jagged piece of glass. It's
0:17.8	miss-shaped, misplaced, and rough. Now imagine yourself stepping back from that jagged piece of glass and
0:25.8	seeing its place in a bigger picture. As you step back you see that that
0:30.2	miss-shaped odd rough misplaced piece of glass is actually one meaningful part of a vast
0:38.6	stained-glassed mosaic that is far more beautiful than you could have imagined if you stayed zoomed in on that one piece in isolation.
0:47.0	If you never step back to see its place in the masterpiece, you'll miss its intentionality, its purpose.
0:55.0	Some parts of the Bible can be like that jagged piece of glass.
1:00.0	Up close in isolation, they seem misshaped and misplaced and rough.
1:05.0	They don't make sense.
1:07.0	Yet when we zoom out and see their place in the bigger picture of the biblical story,
1:12.0	we realize that they serve a purpose that lands in our lives today.
1:16.7	First Chronicles 21 is like one of those pieces of glass.
1:21.4	We're going to acknowledge some of the jagged edges of this
1:24.4	chapter. Yeah, we'll also zoom out and see how this portion of First
1:28.7	Chronicles is intentionally placed for God's people.
1:32.8	Now let me just acknowledge out of the gate,
1:34.2	I really want to cover every aspect of this chapter,
1:37.2	but then this would become a one hour Bible talk
1:39.9	and nobody wants that.
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