Hi, welcome to the Scriptures a Real podcast. This is the podcast where we jump into the scriptures

and look at elements of them that make them become real for us and try and draw more

power from them into our lives because of that. Because the scriptures are real. And they're about

real people and real prophets and a real God in our relationship with him. And since we're real people,

that's powerful. And I just want to take a moment to thank all of the prophets who have sacrificed so much,

both to do God's well, but also then to record God's well and those who have worked so hard

to make it possible for us to have God's word so that we know these things and can have that

power. And also to testify of those prophets representing God and including our prophet

today, President Nelson, who I testify is truly God's mouthpiece and a man of God and is

representing God to us today. This is one of our shortcast. This is just me talking a fairly brief little thing today.

I just have one theme that I want to make sure that we're kind of carrying and tracing

and working throughout the scriptures to be able to see and notice as we go along.

So this won't be a long one, but I think it's an important one.

You may have noticed in the last couple of readings that we have genealogies. We get the genealogy,

long genealogy in Moses chapter 5 and Moses chapter 6. We get it in Genesis, this idea of tracing

genealogies. And sometimes we get bored with that part, but I hope it will

make you stop to think about how these genealogies demonstrate that this is a family history

and that we will think of it in that way. This is our family history, by the way. When you're

reading about Noah or Enoch or Adam, those are our ancestors.

This is our family history, and I hope we'll fill that kinship with them and recognize the

family relationship and the family history. And I think we'll also think of it in terms of a different kind of a family history.

We have a couple of kinds of families we can talk about.

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