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First Chronicles, Chapter 1, verses 1 through 4.

Adam, Seth, Enoch, Keenan, Mahalalaj, Jared, Enoch, Methusel, Lamek, Noah, Shem, Tam, and Japheth.

I could keep going on and on in First Chronicles chapter one and chapter two, just reading

different names. And these are chapters in the Bible that we oftentimes come to if you

are reading through the Bible and you just kind of skip through them and yes to be

sure there's not a lot of excitement and all these different names many of which

you don't you don't know the stories behind those names or you can't even pronounce some of them.

But as you come to places like this in the Bible and think specifically about First Chronicles

chapter one and two, this is the story from the very beginning of creation.

Like the first word in First Chronicles 1, first name is Adam.

This story goes all the way back to the beginning of creation.

And then all these names flow specifically here in First Chronicles to the line of David,

which ultimately leads to the line of King Jesus.

When you read these names, you see a genealogy like this.

You get a glimpse of the big picture story of the Bible and the part that each of these people has to play in it.

And you start to think about your life, you start to think about your name, and the part

that God has given you and me to play in a story that is much bigger than ourselves.

Like when we come to the Bible, we're confronted with a lot of realities, and one of those

realities that we need to be confronted with daily in God's Word is that the world does

not center around us. The world doesn't center around you, it doesn't center around me.

The world centers around God, who is writing one overarching story from creation to new creation.

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