1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Season two of Love in Context podcast welcomes you. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,600 Get ready for engaging unscripted conversations with your hosts, Ben and Spencer. 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:17,120 Our mission remains unchanged to explore the Bible through the powerful lens of love. 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,060 In this new season, we'll embark on a journey together, unearthing fresh insights and gaining 5 00:00:21,060 --> 00:00:25,440 deeper understanding of how we can love God and live out our faith in practical ways. 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,200 So let's dive into this season of Love in Context, where love in the context of the 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,480 Bible intersect to transform our lives. 8 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:40,000 Hey there and welcome back to Love in Context podcast with Ben and Spencer. 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,120 Spencer has a chocolate chip cookie given to us by an awesome lady in our church and 10 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:49,280 he's going to crunch and munch and eat it all up in the microphone today. 11 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:50,280 He can't say anything. 12 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,200 Well, if you're watching this on YouTube, you can actually tell he can't say anything 13 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:57,960 because he got ready to, but then he realized his mouth is full and he will sound absurd. 14 00:00:57,960 --> 00:00:59,440 The cookie was delicious though. 15 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,820 Cookies are delicious. 16 00:01:01,820 --> 00:01:04,240 We are in week three of our covenant series. 17 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,000 We talked about the Abrahamic covenant. 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,120 We talked about the Noahic covenant and today we're going to be talking about the hopes. 19 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,280 I said I said Abrahamic Abrahamic today. 20 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:13,480 We're talking about Abrahamic today. 21 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:14,480 We talked about Adamic. 22 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:15,480 Yes. 23 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:16,480 And Noahic. 24 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:17,840 And now today we're going to be talking about the Abrahamic. 25 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,320 He's even read your Bible. 26 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:20,320 I do sometimes. 27 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:21,320 OK. 28 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:22,320 All right. 29 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:25,520 So yeah, it's it's the Cliff Notes version Bible. 30 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:26,520 Yeah. 31 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:27,520 Yeah. 32 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,040 You ever think have they actually made that that'd be interesting to look at? 33 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,040 I don't know. 34 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,080 But like I'm a bullet point personality and like something like that would be intriguing 35 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:35,080 to me. 36 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:37,520 I'd also be like I would take it with a very large grain of salt. 37 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:43,280 It's probably like the the Cliff Note version would be like the the Bible Project. 38 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:44,280 Yeah. 39 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:45,280 Read scripture videos, which are really good. 40 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:46,280 I like those a lot. 41 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:47,960 Yeah. 42 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:49,960 So just a reminder what covenants are. 43 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:57,120 These are covenants are a a binding of of like a promissory like, hey, you do this and 44 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,040 I'll do this between two individuals. 45 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,600 And the ones we're exploring right now have been between God and humanity. 46 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:06,320 In the first case, it was between God and Adam being the prototype of all humans. 47 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:11,600 Then it was with God and Noah, Noah being the one who is going to represent Earth moving 48 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:12,600 forward. 49 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,680 And that's why the Adamic and then away covenant are linked because ones separated by the flood. 50 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:17,780 Yeah. 51 00:02:17,780 --> 00:02:22,800 But then we're going to get into this Abrahamic covenant and it starts to get even we've talked 52 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,800 about how like they're really personal, but this one actually starts to get even more 53 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:26,800 personal. 54 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:27,800 Right. 55 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,920 Because instead of dealing with humanity, you're actually going and narrowing down and God's 56 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:33,720 actually dealing with one family. 57 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,640 Now if you remember from last year when you're in Torah, you're going to remember a lot of 58 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:37,820 these stories. 59 00:02:37,820 --> 00:02:41,280 And I would highly recommend that before you check this out, maybe go back and listen to 60 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:46,040 a few of our Genesis episodes on Abraham, because we're going to be talking about the 61 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:50,400 covenant specifically and referencing things that we think you probably already know. 62 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,920 But those are season one and it's right towards the beginning of our episodes like episodes 63 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:57,200 like four through five or something like that. 64 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,240 Yeah. 65 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,960 But reminder, the initial origins of the covenant. 66 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:05,400 So there's in Genesis chapter 12, we're introduced to this guy named Avram. 67 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:06,620 His name is not Abraham yet. 68 00:03:06,620 --> 00:03:08,120 It's just Avram. 69 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:14,060 And God calls him, he comes to him and he says, go to the place I'm going to show you. 70 00:03:14,060 --> 00:03:18,640 And essentially it's like, go start walking and I'll tell you when to stop. 71 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:23,760 And if you go, I'm going to bless you so that all nations are going to be blessed through 72 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:24,760 you. 73 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,640 Like I'm going to do something in your family that's actually going to bless everybody. 74 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:33,480 This is the setup to this covenant that God is making with Avram. 75 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:38,560 And to Avram's credit, and I think one of the key things about his character is that 76 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,560 he trusts God and he goes. 77 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,640 Now Avram of course doesn't always trust God, but in this case he does trust God and he 78 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:46,640 goes. 79 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,400 And that's going to be really important as we kind of go through and talk about this 80 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,360 covenant. 81 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:57,360 Years pass and then in Genesis 15, Avram is getting a little surly. 82 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,320 Is that a good way to say it maybe? 83 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,320 Yeah. 84 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:07,020 God comes and he says, behold, I am your shield and your mighty, you know, mighty savior. 85 00:04:07,020 --> 00:04:09,160 And Avram's like, really? 86 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:10,880 Because I don't have a kid. 87 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:12,920 You definitely said something about a kid. 88 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:13,920 Yep. 89 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:14,920 Right. 90 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,460 You definitely, by the way, this is the BLT Ben's Living Translation. 91 00:04:17,460 --> 00:04:22,200 It's not to be confused with the bacon lettuce tomato, which is also a lovely sandwich, but 92 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,520 not a Bible translation. 93 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:30,880 He says, I don't have a kid and Eliezer of my household is actually going to be the one 94 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,840 who inherits everything I got. 95 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:37,120 And God says nothing, which by the way, if you go back to those episodes, you'll know 96 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,720 that there's a time that has passed where we talk about this Hebrew when God says, and 97 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,740 then God says, right? 98 00:04:42,740 --> 00:04:46,100 So then Abraham says again, he's like, hey, I don't have anybody who's going to inherit 99 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:47,220 my stuff. 100 00:04:47,220 --> 00:04:51,080 And God sets up, has Abraham set up this blood path covenant, which we talked about. 101 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,640 I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about it because we did talk about it in a 102 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:54,960 previous episode. 103 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:00,320 He sets up this blood path covenant and Avram as the lesser party should be the person who 104 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,640 goes and walks through the covenant. 105 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,840 But he doesn't because we know that he falls asleep and that he has to shoo away the wild 106 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:12,680 animals who are coming after the carcasses, which means they have been there for a while. 107 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:17,880 And then in the deep sleep, we see that God reaffirms his covenant with Abraham, Abraham 108 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:18,880 at this point. 109 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,960 And he says that he's going to be the father of many nations, that if you count the stars, 110 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:24,360 all the things that go with it. 111 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,680 And it says that Abraham believed God, it was credit to him as righteousness. 112 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:33,160 And then it says that a blazing fire and a smoking pot walked through the blood path 113 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,160 covenant. 114 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,160 Right? 115 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,080 And then it walked through the pieces of animal. 116 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,180 So what actually happens there, and we talked about, which is really important for our understanding 117 00:05:42,180 --> 00:05:47,880 of theology and understanding of the character of God is that God actually walks both sides 118 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:49,640 of the covenant. 119 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:54,800 He walks through as the one who's being granted something and the one who is granting something. 120 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,100 And essentially what this means is that this covenant will not fail. 121 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:01,360 God is going to be the one to uphold both sides of it. 122 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:06,640 Well, and in this covenant also, it's not just Genesis 15. 123 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:07,640 Correct. 124 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,520 Like you hinted at it, it started back in Genesis 12 with the call. 125 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,600 It actually runs all the way through Genesis 17. 126 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,200 It actually has a test of faith in Genesis 22. 127 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:16,200 Correct. 128 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:21,520 So it's a covenant, understanding this covenant means you have to understand about 10 chapters 129 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:26,280 of scripture and the rest of the Bible. 130 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:28,160 But you really have to understand about these 10 chapters of scripture. 131 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,600 No, what Spencer just said is you only have to understand 10 chapters of the Bible to 132 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:32,600 understand covenants. 133 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,040 Nope, that is not what I said at all. 134 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:37,040 Not at all. 135 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,440 Ben is putting words in my mouth. 136 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,640 He's trying to make me say things that are not true. 137 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:50,160 So, but you need to understand that it's not just like, okay, we read it in these five, 138 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,200 six, seven verses, whatever. 139 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:57,160 Like it's a covenant that is happening over a long period of time. 140 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,760 Well, and I think you could even say that the entire book of Genesis is going to be 141 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,640 this covenant coming back over and over again. 142 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:08,480 Of course, yes, in the life of Abraham, but then when he, when then in the life of Isaac, 143 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,060 he comes and reaffirms, he's like, I am the God of your father, Abraham. 144 00:07:11,060 --> 00:07:14,040 And then when he gets to Jacob, he says, I'm the father, the God of your father, Abraham 145 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:15,040 and Isaac. 146 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,040 Right. 147 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:17,360 And he reaffirms with each generation. 148 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,440 Then he comes, of course, then with Joseph, the guy of your father, Abraham, Isaac and 149 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:22,440 Jacob. 150 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:23,440 Right. 151 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:24,440 Yeah. 152 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,480 And then it's this, this family is understanding is getting ingrained in them that there is 153 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,160 a covenant between them and Yahweh, right? 154 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,840 Of course they don't know Yahweh's name yet, but we'll get that in Exodus. 155 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:35,840 Yeah. 156 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,800 And so one of the, one of the things about this covenant is that it's unconditional. 157 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:39,800 Correct. 158 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:40,800 Right. 159 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,640 From God, from who God is to us, it's an unconditional covenant. 160 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:46,440 It will be fulfilled. 161 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:47,800 Correct. 162 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,040 I think, I think if you were going to say there is a condition on the covenant, it says 163 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,960 when God says, go, you go, and as you go, he will bless you as you go. 164 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:55,960 Yes. 165 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,920 In other words, as you live into the word that he gives you, he's going to work through 166 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:02,800 you to bring all of creation back to himself. 167 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:03,800 Yes. 168 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:04,800 Right. 169 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,120 This is, this is by the way, is the call of the Jewish people from the very beginning. 170 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,000 Like they are meant to be in the crossroads of the earth. 171 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,800 God puts them in Israel, which is a really weird place to put a civilization. 172 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,820 Unless you realize that all the ancient roads go through Israel. 173 00:08:17,820 --> 00:08:21,760 So if you're going to give a civilization that's supposed to transform everything, where 174 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:22,760 do you put them? 175 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:23,760 In the middle. 176 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:28,200 In the middle, which let's just take a pause there. 177 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:33,160 Then if we are followers of Christ and we bring this kingdom of God to places and we're 178 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,400 supposed to be interacting with people and changing them by bringing the kingdom of God 179 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,040 places, where do we go and stand? 180 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:39,040 In the middle of it. 181 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:40,040 In the middle of it. 182 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:45,160 I think often, and I don't want to, I want to really say this carefully because I think 183 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:46,560 there's, there's good reasons. 184 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:53,400 A lot of times we go to our churches for safety, security, to not be in the world or you say 185 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:58,040 we want a bunch of believers around us because it's too hard to work out in like these types 186 00:08:58,040 --> 00:08:59,040 of things. 187 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,800 But our call is to actually go and be amongst the least of these, right? 188 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:07,880 To go and bring light to darkness, peace to chaos, love to hate. 189 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:08,880 Yeah. 190 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,920 And the Bible actually does not have very nice things to say for those who don't. 191 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:13,920 Correct. 192 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:19,200 In chapter 25, when Jesus is separating the sheep from the goats, he lays out the same 193 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,240 accusations for both sides. 194 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,200 One fulfilled them, one did not. 195 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,840 And all those had to do with being with the least of these. 196 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:27,840 Correct. 197 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:28,840 With the people who needed Jesus. 198 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:34,760 And when we neglect that, God's like, okay, that's cool, but I don't really know you. 199 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:40,300 Well, and I think, I think with that same idea, the reason that when you don't engage 200 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:43,780 in these types of activities, because they're the, yes, those activities themselves, those 201 00:09:43,780 --> 00:09:47,440 are good things to do, feeding people, giving them something to drink, clothing them, visiting 202 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,600 them when they're sick or in jail. 203 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:50,920 Like those are all really good things. 204 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:55,960 But they're prototypes of Jesus is where people are that are broken. 205 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:56,960 Yeah. 206 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:57,960 Like that's where he is. 207 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,140 That's where God is at work is in broken people. 208 00:10:00,140 --> 00:10:01,440 And he's looking at bringing them back. 209 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,720 If Jesus makes a statement, it says the doctor doesn't come for the healthy, he comes for 210 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:06,720 the sick. 211 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:11,000 So if you are carrying medicine, what are you doing hanging out with people who are 212 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,000 well? 213 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Exactly. 214 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,400 And now, of course, I don't want to take that too far. 215 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:19,160 You a hundred percent fellowship of believers, having like your, your community, all those 216 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:23,120 things, but you exist to go and penetrate the darkness. 217 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,160 Yeah, absolutely. 218 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:30,440 And so we coming back, coming back to Genesis here, you talked about a little bit, but there 219 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,000 is a faith element to this covenant, right? 220 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,000 Absolutely. 221 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Right. 222 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,720 Especially when you think about the sign of the covenant, which we'll get to in a minute. 223 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:44,560 But Genesis, so Genesis 15 six, which you read earlier, says Abram believed the Lord 224 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:46,960 and credited to him as righteousness. 225 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:47,960 Right. 226 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:48,960 Right. 227 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,680 So there is a faith element of Abram being like, okay, I believe what the Lord is saying 228 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:55,200 is true and he's going to fulfill this. 229 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:56,200 Right. 230 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,200 Right. 231 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,800 He doubt now, did Abram see that? 232 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,720 Not in his lifetime, not in his lifetime. 233 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,880 Isaac didn't even see that in his lifetime. 234 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:08,680 Jacob didn't see that in his lifetime, or Jacob started to, Joseph started to see it. 235 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:09,680 He saw more. 236 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:10,680 Yeah. 237 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:14,920 And so as each generation passed, they see more and more of this covenant fulfilled. 238 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:15,920 Right. 239 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:17,220 It's interesting too. 240 00:11:17,220 --> 00:11:22,040 So you pointed out that says Abram believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. 241 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:28,320 So at this point, boom, like Abram believes God and God's like, cool, it's sealed. 242 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:29,480 Right. 243 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,240 Two chapters later, he's going to have him take on the sign of the covenant. 244 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:33,240 Right. 245 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:38,600 Which by the way is a circumcision if you're not familiar, which is not great. 246 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:39,600 Right. 247 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:40,600 We're not going to go into detail. 248 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:45,160 We're not going to go into detail on that, but suffice it to say that if a bunch of people 249 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:50,560 in their, well, I mean, Abram was like 90 something and he has to have it done. 250 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:51,560 Right. 251 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:52,560 It's not a great experience. 252 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:53,560 Right. 253 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:57,280 And it's also, I like with what we were talking about in Noah, it's a covenant they can't 254 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:02,240 lose because once you have done it, it's going to be really hard to cover that up. 255 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:03,240 Right. 256 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:04,240 Yep. 257 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:08,840 But this is really important because Paul is going to talk about this in Galatians and 258 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,400 it's really important to understand the argument that he's making in the book of Galatians. 259 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:13,400 Yeah. 260 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:20,640 He talks about how Abraham's faith was counted as righteousness and those who have faith 261 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:22,240 are children of Abraham. 262 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,360 Now children of Abraham being people who are grafted into this tree. 263 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:27,360 Right. 264 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,840 We've talked about it, I think maybe in the past, we talked about how in Galatians he's 265 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:31,640 addressing three groups of people. 266 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:38,200 He's talking to the the the Theosabes is like the God fearing Gentiles. 267 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:42,760 He's talking to the people who have have actually stepped into and chosen to be Jews and then 268 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:44,360 the people who are Jewish by birth. 269 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:45,360 Yeah. 270 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:46,360 Right. 271 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:51,000 And he says that if you have faith in Abraham, you are children of Abraham. 272 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,280 That's a really big statement to his Jewish audience. 273 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:54,280 Yes. 274 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:55,280 Right. 275 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,480 That it's not actually going to be circumcision. 276 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,880 It's not going to be observation of the law. 277 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:06,720 It's not going to be any of these different things, because prior to all of that, Abraham 278 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:07,720 believed. 279 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:08,720 Yeah. 280 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:10,560 And it was the belief that justified him. 281 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:11,560 Yep. 282 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:16,080 And that's super important because then he says, now, if then the blessing of Abraham 283 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,840 has now come to the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, emphasizing faith. 284 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:26,120 And so then he has he says, you are not justified by the works of the law, these things that 285 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:27,120 make you Jewish. 286 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:28,120 Okay. 287 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,400 The works of the law, I might need to have a quick thing here. 288 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,800 Works of the law is not referring to the entire Torah. 289 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,280 It is referring to the things specifically that make you Jewish. 290 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:41,800 Having circumcision, not wearing blended fabrics, not cutting the ends of your field, the things 291 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:47,780 that are expected of the Jewish people specifically, not necessarily of the whole population. 292 00:13:47,780 --> 00:13:51,040 But Paul says it is not these things. 293 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,120 It's not these things. 294 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,460 It's not the observation that makes you Jewish that justifies you. 295 00:13:56,460 --> 00:14:00,400 But it's actually your faith in Jesus Christ that you are trusting in the faithfulness 296 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,760 of Jesus Christ to redeem you through your life. 297 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:08,000 It's that trust that actually makes you righteous in the moment. 298 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,480 And it just like that. 299 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:14,400 As soon as you trust Jesus, you place your identity on him, then you are carried with 300 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,920 his blood to the very throne room of God. 301 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:22,040 And that moment you're grafted into this covenant, which is which brings us to the purpose. 302 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,000 Well, like what's the purpose of this covenant? 303 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Yeah. 304 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Which comes down to the blessing of all nations. 305 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Right. 306 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,400 You got to rewind back to Genesis 12 on that. 307 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:36,000 But where God talks about how he's going to bless all nations through the work of Abram. 308 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Right. 309 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Right. 310 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,680 And that through Abram's line came Jesus, right, the son of God, who came, died for 311 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:49,220 our sins so that we can put our faith in him and be grafted into this covenant to see this 312 00:14:49,220 --> 00:14:50,220 covenant fulfilled. 313 00:14:50,220 --> 00:14:54,440 Like that's one of the really cool things about this is it's not just for the Jewish 314 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:55,440 people. 315 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:56,440 Correct. 316 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:57,440 Right. 317 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,560 And that's what Paul is really getting that in Galatians is like this covenant is for 318 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,260 all nations coming back to Genesis 12. 319 00:15:02,260 --> 00:15:06,400 And there's a lot of really like Paul is addressing some things that are really questionable that 320 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:07,400 are happening in Galatia. 321 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,760 So we're not going to get into that in this episode. 322 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,040 Sometimes we'll do it like a whole other series. 323 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,640 Yeah, we'll do we'll do an episode on a couple of episodes on Galatians and talk about that. 324 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,440 I think it's you know, this whole thing about justification through faith. 325 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:19,860 So we just came through James. 326 00:15:19,860 --> 00:15:24,800 So in Romans four, Paul's going to make the same argument from a different perspective 327 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:28,160 as he's talking to people in Rome, right, not Galatia. 328 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,940 And he's like Abraham's justified by his faith, not by his works. 329 00:15:32,940 --> 00:15:35,560 And he's setting a precedent for all the believers moving forward. 330 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:40,320 Now, if you remember back in the Protestant Reformation, that is one of the driving points 331 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,240 for Martin Luther's thesis. 332 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,240 Right. 333 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,860 Now, however you feel about Martin Luther, Martin Luther was correct about one thing 334 00:15:46,860 --> 00:15:53,680 is that your your justification, your salvation, your redemption is not done by anything you 335 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:59,840 do except to place your trust in the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. 336 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:07,240 But there is an obligation when you're part of that covenant to go and bless and as you're 337 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,240 blessed, bless other people. 338 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:10,240 Yes. 339 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:11,240 Right. 340 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,440 To actually transform the world by bringing in the kingdom everywhere. 341 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:18,600 So the work is a result of the change. 342 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,160 The work doesn't create the change. 343 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:21,160 Yeah. 344 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:22,520 And there's something to be said to that. 345 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,320 Don't be discouraged if you don't see drastic change. 346 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:26,320 Right. 347 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,760 So like Abraham, he didn't see drastic change. 348 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,120 Isaac didn't see drastic change. 349 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,880 Jacob a little bit more, Joseph more. 350 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:38,120 And then as this covenant became more and more fulfilled, there was more drastic changes 351 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:39,120 that were happening. 352 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:40,120 Right. 353 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,620 Sometimes when we're following Jesus, there's moments where we're big, drastic change is 354 00:16:43,620 --> 00:16:44,620 going to happen. 355 00:16:44,620 --> 00:16:47,200 You'll see hundreds of people come to follow Jesus right away. 356 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:52,680 Other times, it's years of conversations with two or three people before they're like, you 357 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:53,680 know what? 358 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:54,680 I think there's something to this. 359 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:55,680 Right. 360 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:59,960 So it's one of those things where we can read about covenants like this, be like the whole 361 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:03,600 world is going to be blessed and we can get in our heads thinking that like, okay, when 362 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,840 I step into this, then all of a sudden I'm going to have those Billy Graham moments where 363 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:10,440 like I'm evangelizing to millions of people. 364 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:15,920 And really nobody talks about the person who led Billy Graham to the Lord. 365 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:16,920 Right? 366 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:17,920 Yeah. 367 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,680 I mean, like there's so many different things or the parents who gave Billy Graham the ability 368 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,880 to grow up and be able to attend something where he engaged the Lord. 369 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:26,880 Yeah. 370 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,920 So like, but the point being is like, what is the Lord, when you step into this covenant, 371 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:31,400 what does the Lord put in front of you? 372 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:32,400 Right. 373 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:33,400 And how are you living in faith? 374 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,400 Right. 375 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:40,200 And I think to redirect what you're saying in just a different avenue is I think sometimes 376 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,920 we think, okay, this call means that I need to go do great things. 377 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,680 It's like, no, it's not the things you do. 378 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,200 It's the quality of the person doing them. 379 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:49,200 Yes. 380 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,200 Right. 381 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,660 Like we, I was talking, we were talking about this in our small group and I said, you know, 382 00:17:52,660 --> 00:17:57,560 we are always like, oh, you know, I should preach or do this or teach and go to a mission. 383 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:58,560 All those things are great. 384 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:03,040 I was like, but if you're doing activity to be valuable, then you're missing what we actually 385 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,200 want to see, which is we want to see hearts that look like Jesus, that everything you 386 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,080 do is like Jesus is doing it. 387 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,240 Well, I think we need to redefine a couple of things here. 388 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:12,240 Yeah, let's do it. 389 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:16,200 So, so one is, yeah, the heart posture coming back to that. 390 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,960 Like when you lean into this covenant, you are entering into relationship with God. 391 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:20,960 Yeah. 392 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:25,320 You're entering into a covenant relationship with God to where you and him are the most 393 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:26,320 important thing. 394 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:27,320 Yep. 395 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:28,320 Right. 396 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:29,320 Everything else is second. 397 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,680 So if you're trying to do things, if you're trying to do the works of the Lord apart from 398 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:36,560 the Lord, you're missing, you're like, there is a fundamentally a huge piece that you're 399 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,160 missing and that is God. 400 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:39,160 Right. 401 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:40,160 Right. 402 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,160 Let him, let him work that in you. 403 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,800 And what you're going to find is as you lean into your relationship with God, you're naturally 404 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,520 going to do the works of the Lord. 405 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:47,520 Yeah. 406 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,440 Those are going to become more natural inclinations. 407 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:54,160 Now the second thing I think we need to redefine is like, what is great works? 408 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,160 Right? 409 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,720 Because oftentimes we quantify great works by quantity. 410 00:18:58,720 --> 00:18:59,720 Yeah. 411 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:00,760 How many people are attending? 412 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:01,840 How many people are doing this? 413 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,400 How many are doing that? 414 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,120 And in reality, most of the conferences I've gone to, I can't tell you what the person 415 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:12,920 talked about, but I can tell you the great conversations I've had with people around 416 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:16,960 a table at a coffee shop with that one person who said, Hey, you know what? 417 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,760 I'm going to spend time with Spencer because the Lord's putting him on my heart. 418 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,280 I can tell you the times I've, I've had great conversations with other people because the 419 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,960 Lord said, Hey, I want you to reach out to them, spend some time with them, talk Jesus 420 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:28,960 with them. 421 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,480 Right? 422 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,120 Great things does not mean quantity. 423 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:33,120 Right. 424 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:36,680 And, and the whole thing is like your work that you're called to do. 425 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,880 If you actually believe that God is your master, like you invite him to do in your life to 426 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,920 be sovereign, right? 427 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,280 Then whatever he calls you to do is the great work. 428 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,280 Yeah. 429 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,280 Like if that's scrubbing toilets, it's scrubbing toilets. 430 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:48,280 That's the great work. 431 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:49,280 Exactly. 432 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:50,280 Right? 433 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,560 Like it is all like, we're not the King. 434 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:56,760 So the King gets to tell us what the great work is, but we are all a family working together 435 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,000 to build the kingdom. 436 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Right. 437 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,960 And put, bring his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. 438 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:02,960 Right. 439 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:09,080 And I was, I, I, I love the way that you said that because, um, there's this temptation, 440 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:14,360 I think in Christendom to try to earn what God has freely given and it's, it's, it's 441 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:15,360 gotta be frustrating. 442 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:18,560 Can you imagine with your, with your spouse, right? 443 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:23,020 If like you were constantly like, Oh, I've got to, I've got to do more for her. 444 00:20:23,020 --> 00:20:26,360 So she realizes that she didn't make a mistake with me. 445 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:27,360 Right. 446 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:30,240 Like to really earn this affection that she's given me freely. 447 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:35,400 Do you know how frustrating that would be as, as like the receiving party? 448 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,240 Like you're like, no, no, we, I chose you. 449 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:40,360 We're together. 450 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:44,280 Now let's go forward and do life together. 451 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,860 So you don't have to, you don't have to earn my love. 452 00:20:46,860 --> 00:20:49,720 So this, this I think relates to what we're talking about here. 453 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:53,840 One of the things that drives me up a wall when people talk marriage is you're like, 454 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,160 Oh, it's a 50 50 commitment. 455 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,080 I was like, no, that's a divorce. 456 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:58,080 Yeah. 457 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,080 Like that's a divorce. 458 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,360 Like marriage is a 100, 100 commitment. 459 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:03,600 Like you're each giving a hundred percent to this. 460 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:04,600 Yeah. 461 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:05,600 Yeah. 462 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,040 And like, I mean, I can speak for my spouse. 463 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,600 I've ticked my spouse off before. 464 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,560 I'm sure I've heard from her. 465 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:11,560 Yeah. 466 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,560 I'm sure you've ticked your spouse off before. 467 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:14,560 Never, never. 468 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:15,920 These are also pretty close. 469 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,040 I'm pretty sure I've ticked your spouse off before too. 470 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:25,800 So you know, but a marriage relationship, a covenant relationship is not you coming in 471 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,600 being like, all right, here's the 50%. 472 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,320 I'm going to contribute to this, right? 473 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,960 It's not a business deal where you're like, Hey, I own 35% of this company. 474 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,460 And so here's, here's my commitment and responsibility to the company. 475 00:21:36,460 --> 00:21:37,560 That's not how it works. 476 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,240 This is a 100% you're all in or you're not in at all. 477 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,740 Talked about from a different perspective, because I think Brene Brown did a really good 478 00:21:43,740 --> 00:21:46,320 job of this, this particular one. 479 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,040 If you imagine that there's an activity as a couple that you have to accomplish it, it 480 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:55,720 takes 100 energy units and I come and I have 30 and my wife brings 70. 481 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,880 We both brought a hundred of what we have. 482 00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:58,880 Right. 483 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,640 And other times she might have 20 and I have 80. 484 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:02,640 Yeah. 485 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:03,640 Right. 486 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,880 And so like, I don't want you to think like, uh, like sometimes with the numbers we can 487 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,080 kind of get confused here. 488 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,520 It's like, you're not giving 200% to everything. 489 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:15,080 It means that you're completely committed with everything that you can commit. 490 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,680 I'm good. 491 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,600 I think those cookies made you sneeze. 492 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:25,680 I might leave that in just so you know. 493 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:31,100 But uh, anyway, so this idea is that we, we bring whatever we can, but there are seasons 494 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:37,180 where like, if you are, if you're working 60 hours a week and, and then you're also 495 00:22:37,180 --> 00:22:42,260 like doing X, Y, and Z, you may only have 20 energy and your house, your spouse is picking 496 00:22:42,260 --> 00:22:43,560 you up on the other side. 497 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:44,560 That's partnership. 498 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,320 That's a hundred percent of both of you committing to each other. 499 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:48,320 Yeah. 500 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:49,320 Right. 501 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,860 Um, and, and I, the only reason I wanted to caveat that is cause I think somebody can 502 00:22:51,860 --> 00:22:55,120 hear that and be like, they're like, well, what about when I'm tired? 503 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:57,320 And I was like, yeah, you're going to be tired. 504 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:58,320 You're going to be tired. 505 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,640 And that's what being a partnership is about. 506 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:05,960 And so like this, this idea of coming back to God is that God is saying like, Hey, come 507 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:12,160 be here 100% like justification, salvation, redemption, all handled through the person 508 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:13,160 of Jesus Christ. 509 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,160 You trust on that. 510 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:15,160 We're good. 511 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,160 Now let's go live life together. 512 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,160 Right. 513 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,320 I want to read you because we just came out of James in chapter two. 514 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,320 He makes a statement. 515 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:21,840 He says, what's not our father? 516 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,920 Uh, James two, um, was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when 517 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,560 he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 518 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,960 That's your test of faith. 519 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:34,840 You see that his faith and his actions were working together and his faith was made complete 520 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,160 by what he did. 521 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,160 And the scripture was fulfilled. 522 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,360 That says Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness and he was 523 00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:42,660 called God's friend. 524 00:23:42,660 --> 00:23:45,600 Was it the action that made Abraham's faith? 525 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,680 Um, possible or let me rephrase that. 526 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,520 Was it his, the action that actually justified Abraham? 527 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:57,120 No, it was his faith, his faith justified. 528 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:00,680 And then it became real when he put it into action. 529 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,320 And you have to be really careful not to mix those up. 530 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:04,320 Yeah. 531 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:05,560 It sounds like a nuance and it's not. 532 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,440 I just want to read this from the book of Hebrews. 533 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,800 So you guys kind of know what, what is going on in the rest of scripture. 534 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,720 In chapter 11, we're talking about the hall of faith. 535 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,280 It says by faith, Abraham, when called to go to a place, he would later receive as his 536 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,320 inheritance obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going by faith. 537 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,600 He made his home in the promised land, like a stranger in a foreign country. 538 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,980 He lived in tents as did Isaac and Jacob who were heirs with him of the same promise for 539 00:24:29,980 --> 00:24:34,680 he was looking forward to the city with foundations whose architect and builder is God. 540 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,720 By faith, even Sarah who was past childbearing age was enabled to bear children because she 541 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,380 considered him faithful who had made the promise. 542 00:24:42,380 --> 00:24:47,000 And so from this one man and he as good as dead came to sentence as numerous as the stars 543 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,720 in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore. 544 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:50,720 Yeah. 545 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:51,720 Right. 546 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:52,720 Like that's, that's a big deal. 547 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,720 Right. 548 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:58,320 Uh, one of the things with this covenant that I think you have to take into consideration 549 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,560 too is the location and scripture where it's put. 550 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:02,560 Right. 551 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,560 So Genesis 12 through 22 is kind of like the main passages where you're going to find elements 552 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:07,560 of this covenant. 553 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,920 Uh, but what, what happens right before then you have Genesis 11, you have the tower of 554 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:17,880 Babel and Genesis six, you have Noah's Noah, uh, Genesis six through nine. 555 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,680 You have a story at Noah and the flood, right? 556 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,680 Um, Genesis three, you have the fall of mankind. 557 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:29,120 So you have three different stories where you have mankind wanting to be like God. 558 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:30,120 Yeah. 559 00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:31,120 Right. 560 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:35,480 Uh, Adam and Eve being like, we're going to be like God in the same knowledge and understanding 561 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:40,480 Noah, uh, the flood happening because mankind was so evil and every intention that they're 562 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,360 like, they're still striving to be their own gods. 563 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:45,360 Right. 564 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:49,560 Um, uh, Babel and 11, same thing. 565 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,480 We're going to be like God, right? 566 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,920 We're going to raise our all the way up to the heavens. 567 00:25:54,920 --> 00:26:00,520 So you contrast like this human desire with what is God's desire in this covenant, right? 568 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,600 His desire is to be with us. 569 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:04,600 So there's a huge difference. 570 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:09,720 Like a lot of times in culturally in America, a lot of times we want to be like something. 571 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:10,760 We have role models. 572 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,320 We have aspirations. 573 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:13,360 We want to be this. 574 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:14,360 We want to be that. 575 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:15,360 We want to do this. 576 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:16,360 We want to do this. 577 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:19,640 Meanwhile, God's saying, I just want to be with you. 578 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,560 It's interesting when you, when you consider Genesis one through 11, we talked about this 579 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:28,200 and we linked the Baymah podcast episode, but where they talk about that a Genesis one 580 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,920 through 11 is actually a large chiasm. 581 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:35,040 And at the center of the chiasm, uh, if you've talked to them past, uh, mirroring texts, 582 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:36,720 it comes to a central point at the center. 583 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,240 Another chiasm between one and 11 is, is, is a name and it's the name Noah, which his 584 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:42,640 name means he rests. 585 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,960 Then it's interesting to me that immediately he goes and tells a story about right after 586 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:52,400 this, as this chiasm talking about how all of creation is about resting in God, right? 587 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:53,920 About finding your identity in God. 588 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,720 He finally finds somebody he just says to go and he goes and he says, this is going 589 00:26:58,720 --> 00:26:59,720 to happen. 590 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,800 And he believes him and it's credited to him as righteousness. 591 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:09,320 Like we're seeing a person who learns how to rest on the word of God and trust, not 592 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,360 perfectly because Abraham was far from perfect. 593 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,980 Um, there's lots of stories. 594 00:27:13,980 --> 00:27:14,980 Go check out season one. 595 00:27:14,980 --> 00:27:19,020 There's lots of stories that we have where he messed up plenty, but he was a person who 596 00:27:19,020 --> 00:27:21,120 learned how to trust the story. 597 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:22,120 Yeah. 598 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:27,080 And so the point point being of this covenant is this is God coming back, coming as God 599 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:31,160 coming back to a similar creation story where he's saying, no, I want to be with you. 600 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,380 We're creating this new, right? 601 00:27:33,380 --> 00:27:37,000 So if you're listening and you're thinking like, man, like this covenant sounds big, 602 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,480 it sounds like it's a lot of responsibility. 603 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:43,000 I mean, no, the responsibilities on God, your responsibility in this covenant is to be with 604 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,000 God. 605 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Yeah. 606 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,560 That's your responsibility. 607 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,360 One of the, one of the reasons I've, we've talked about in the, and many people have 608 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:56,800 talked about, so it's not new is that, um, understanding that Jesus was a Jewish Messiah, 609 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:57,800 right? 610 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,640 Um, if you actually read in the book of Matthew, um, I want to point out right in the genealogy 611 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,520 right at the beginning, they named him as the son of two people. 612 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:09,580 It says Jesus, the son of Abraham, right? 613 00:28:09,580 --> 00:28:11,880 And the son of David, right? 614 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:17,200 Um, and of course he's the son of Joseph too, but, um, it's also as a son of Abraham. 615 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:23,240 So like Matthew being written to a Jewish audience, he's telling them exactly who Jesus 616 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,680 is coming and what covenants he's stepping into. 617 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:26,680 Yeah. 618 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:31,560 They know exactly when they say son of Abraham, okay, he's walking into Abraham and covenant. 619 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:32,560 The son of David. 620 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:33,560 Yep. 621 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,280 He's walking in the Davidic promise, right? 622 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,560 And we have, or we're not there yet. 623 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:39,560 We'll get there. 624 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,120 Uh, but Jesus comes and he actually embodies these. 625 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,280 And then, so when Paul actually goes back here, he's like, now cast your identity onto 626 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:54,600 Jesus and his faithfulness and trust in the, and trust rest, find your worth in the completed 627 00:28:54,600 --> 00:29:01,520 work of Jesus Christ and go and live out these promises that are meant to bless the entire 628 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,120 world and bring to the kingdom of God crashing down. 629 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,120 Yep. 630 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,240 That's all I got. 631 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:08,680 It's all I got. 632 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,920 Send us your thoughts, comments, concerns, anything that you have. 633 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,280 I, if we tickled your brain somewhere in here and you're like, oh, that's a cool thing. 634 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,800 Uh, send it to us in a message or comment underneath. 635 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,240 I tickled your brain. 636 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,240 Yeah. 637 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:21,240 Do you not tickle people's brain? 638 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,240 Is that not something you do? 639 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,920 Apparently that's just the thing I do. 640 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:28,600 So if we, if you heard something and, uh, you're like, man, that's really cool or, 641 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,880 Hey, I don't know about that. 642 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,480 Like, could you clarify, send us a email comment underneath one of our videos. 643 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,480 We always welcome people talking to us as long as they're not being weird. 644 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:43,040 Or if you want Ben to stop saying tickling your brain, I might get some text messages 645 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,000 actually on that one specifically. 646 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:51,480 But until next time, we've loved talking to you guys and we'll talk to you next time. 647 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,500 And that's a wrap for today's episode of love and context. 648 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:58,420 We hope you enjoyed this engaging conversation and gain valuable insights into the powerful 649 00:29:58,420 --> 00:30:00,400 message of love within the Bible. 650 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,520 We'd 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