Transcript
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Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Don't Miss this podcast. A come follow me study with Emily Bel Freeman and David Butler.
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We fill this show up with all the things we think you don't want to miss in the Scriptures every week. Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the show.
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Why the Bible?
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Why was the Bible worth that sacrifice?
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Why do we care so much to have this book?
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It's because the world is dark and dreary.
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The words of this book are going to give you something to look forward to, of promises that God is giving and fulfilling and of the ones that he has yet to fulfill.
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This will show you where to walk if you are lost and if you are confused, and if you don't even know why you would want to walk with Jesus. This book will guide you in your walk with Him.
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It gave unto all an exceeding cause.
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Of out of all the things that bring us joy in this life, of all the things that make us happy, out of all the riches in the entire world, there's nothing that brings us more joy, more happiness, more richness in our life than the words preached of this book.
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Hi, I'm Dave Butler.
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I'm Grace Freeman.
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Welcome to Don't Miss this, our weekly scripture study class. You guys, we are on level 19 excitement.
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This is the best day ever for.
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Starting the Old Testament. We are not faking.
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Wait, I did just get. Why did I just, like, get butterflies when you said that? Why am I actually excited?
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Because we're not faking. When we say this book is generally, I mean generally. Generally it's fantastic, but genuinely just a. I love studying the Old Testament. I genuinely love studying this book. Our goal is for everybody who's listening or watching to fall in love with this book. And it can be intimidating to people because it is an ancient book of scripture. I remember walking into one of my favorite churches in Jerusalem. It's called the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. And you go to this church and it is been built and rebuilt and torn down again and again and again, so many, multiple times. And there's a staircase that I love to go to where people have carved crosses. Christian pilgrims who traveled from who knows where crosses into the wall. And I just love to just rub my hand across those and to feel like I'm in this long line of followers of Jesus. The. The. A person who's taking me through that church once said, these crosses are over a thousand years old. And as I walked through that church and as I walked through old churches, I love to visit churches all over the world. This line always comes to my mind. You've been God for a long time, and if you haven't heard that song, it's such a fantastic song, too. You can look that up. But I walk into these places and I think, how many prayers have been said and how many worries and petitions have these walls heard? And I come into this place and I feel like I'm in my 40s. So, you know, I'm getting there. But when someone says, these are a thousand years old, it reminds me how long God has been God. And that is one of the great values of having this ancient book of scripture. It's a record, it's a testament of who God is and how he's been for hundreds and thousands of years. The book, the story that it covers is 4,000 years old. It's going to cross at least 40 different authors and 66 books. And as we pick up this book and begin to read it and open up, the beginning words I actually love. This is a giveaway to next week or a couple weeks episode from now. Genesis 1 starts with the words in the beginning, God. And that is true that he was there on page one, and he's going to be there on. On page. I don't even know how many pages the Old Testament is. Right. Page 1000. And that's so beautiful to me to open up a book that reminds us throughout all of these lifetimes and all of these stories, God has been there. And this is who he has been and who he is today.