Who Has Authority Over Your Life? | Torah | Genesis 1:1-25

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🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here to grow in your faith in the new year. Who are you accountable to? Whose authority are you under? Your own or God's? Keith kicks off a new series through the Old Testament books that make up the Torah. Tune in as Keith discusses God's power and authority in the creation of the world in Genesis 1:1-25. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so 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 Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks Twitter: https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast Passages: Genesis 1:1-25 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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Tim Men of Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.4	I'm Keith Simon.
0:11.4	I'm Tanya Wilmoth.
0:12.4	I'm Jensen Holt McNair. And I'm Patrick Miller.
0:15.0	We're digging into the stories found in the first books of the Bible. They're not just some of the best stories in the Bible.
0:22.0	They're some of the best stories in the Bible, they're some of the best stories in all of
0:23.9	human history. Right now we're in the book of Genesis. Are you as much of a sucker for a
0:29.4	good email newsletter as I am? I have to admit I love them because they keep me informed.
0:34.4	Unfortunately they don't really help me grow in my faith. What if you gave
0:38.6	Jesus access to your inbox? Ten Minute Bible Talks is starting a weekly email newsletter.
0:45.0	It will have a variety of things inside of it.
0:48.0	Each week will be different.
0:50.0	Sometimes it will have cultural background about the topics that we're talking about.
0:53.8	Sometimes it will have insights into what it means to practice the spiritual
0:57.7	disciplines. I think you're going to like the variety. All you have to do is go to the show notes and hit the link there and you can
1:05.1	sign up for the new 10 minute Bible Talk newsletter. When you open to the Bible to
1:09.7	page one, it doesn't start with In the Beginning man or a woman or a family. It doesn't start in the beginning
1:17.8	nature or culture or civilization. It doesn't start in the beginning was an idea or a philosophy or a
1:25.3	moral code. At the very beginning you find God. The significance of this is easy to
1:31.8	overlook, but that would be a huge mistake.
1:35.1	Genesis 1.1 signals to us the very important truth that everything is about God, not us. He's central. We're not. From the very beginning we're told that everything that exists, including our lives, our families, our jobs, school, sports, leisure, everything finds its origins and meaning and purpose in God.
1:57.0	You see in the very first book of the very first chapter, of the very first book of the Bible, we read this. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the
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