Hello my friends, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm the co-host of a

podcast called Follow Him with my friend John, by the way, who's with me today. On Follow Him

Favorites this year, we're just kind of taking on a question for each lesson. In this week,

we're in the book of Genesis, in the book of Abraham. I think it's Genesis 12 through 17, Abraham 1 and 2.

And John, I get this question sometimes, or if I ask it to my class, they kind of nod. And the

question usually goes something like this. President Nelson and other church leaders, they talk

about the Abrahamic covenant. I kind of know who Abraham is. He's the guy who, God asked to sacrifice

his son Isaac and then didn't make him do it. But I'm not sure what the Abrahamic covenant has

anything to do with me in my life. So I kind of, you know, sometimes in church, we just kind of nod

and we don't want to say, we don't want to say, I don't know what you're talking about. I just

will nod here. And if you nod, sometimes people call on you. Will you explain it? And you're like,

I wasn't nodding like I knew that it was plain. I was nodding to vote for you. Like,

so hold your head still if you don't want to get called on. It's like in a bidding, if you're

bidding for something, you're like, oh, sneeze. They're like, soul to that guy for five million.

You nodded. 5,000. So here's what I would say. First, you have to, the idea with Abraham is that

the Bible writers are taking us up from Adam and Eve through the Tower of Babel. And it's a really

quick story. Genesis 1 through 11. And the Tower of Babel is where kind of human beings aren't doing

what God is, was thinking they would do, right? They're not keeping the commandments. They're not

choosing him. And so he decides he chooses a family. And this family starts with Abram and

Sarai. And then God says, we're going to make a covenant you too. And I'm going to change your names,

Abraham and Sarah, meaning you're starting over. This is a brand new time, right? That's why you get

a new name. And this family is going to bless all other families of the earth. Because God says,

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