There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word. Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live in a local church or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today. I'm a lay a foundation in this Bible study hour that I'm going to build on later this morning, tonight, Monday, Tuesday.

In fact, I'm going to preach to you for the next three days from the same place in the Bible.

Now, when I say place, I don't mean the same scripture, literally, physically, geographically, from the same place in the Bible.

Years ago, I started making a study of Bible geography.

I don't know if you like geography or not, but it always has interested me.

But when you come to Bible geography, that's a whole other level,

because every place takes on new significance when the Lord shows up there.

So the places that are mentioned in Scripture are of tremendous note, not because of the place,

but because of the person. Not because of the where, but because of the who. In other words,

when the Lord steps into a place, when God does something significant in that place,

it is a point of emphasis for all of us in the future.

With that in mind, I want you to open your Bible to the book of beginnings, to the book of Genesis.

Right now on our enjoying the Journey Daily podcast, we are studying through the first 11 chapters of the book.

And there's a reason for that because Genesis 1 through

11 has been called the seed bed of doctrine, meaning that all the great teachings of the Bible are

found introduced at least in seed form in the first 11 chapters. I want to draw your attention in

this hour to Genesis chapter 12, because when you come to Genesis 12 you begin a section of this

first book of the Bible that deals with really the main characters of the Old Testament the

patriarchs we call them Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph and their descendants and when you come to

Genesis chapter 12 we're dealing here with God's dealings with

Abram. In fact, you'll notice the opening phrase, now the Lord had said unto Abram. It is the old name. He is

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