A Short Converation on Genesis 12

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0:00 All right, our text for today is the call of Abram from Genesis chapter 12. We're going to read just the first three verses Now the Lord said to Abram go from your country and your kindred and your father's house To the land that I will show you and I will make you a great nation And I will bless you and make your name great So that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and him who dishonors you I will curse and

0:34 In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed I've got Carol forced and Brian Carlson here with me because I like the way they think about the Bible You guys we we picked this we had this text because it's like kind of a parallel to that One in Matthew 16 where Jesus is starting the church with Peter here. He's starting like Israel with Abram What does it make you think of?

1:06 It makes me think of God's process Right like Mike and I always say to each other when we disagree. Let me have my process So within the other backs off let's them do it the way they want it to and then it works out fine Right like we all have our own processes, but this makes me think God's process is I want to start here again, I want to make I want to make this new and

1:41 It's it looks like it's just from this one guy But it's going to spread to every single one like there was nobody left out right stars in the sky Like there's nobody there's as many as yeah, that's what he said. Yeah, yeah So I like that and it's it challenges Individual faith to me

2:13 I Like that we're all part of one big family that God made created loves sees Hears cares about And that is really beautiful to me that he blesses all of us. Yeah, it's cool. I didn't like the It's definitely very personal He's having this singular conversation with Abram, but his goal isn't Individualistic his goal is familial and like yeah, that's cool

2:47 Yeah, even in the renaming like fresh like you get a whole new name. Yeah with the Hebrew with the Hebrew H in there. Yeah Yeah, I like them They cut for some reason the image of like a you know the pebble in the water dropping and then all the ripples go out I got out and they say like a you know tsunami was made as a level or something And so if I there's certain verses I think you can kind of like substitute your name out for if I would put my name there Brian

3:18 I said that to me I think he would still say the same things and I think what I'm getting at is that The the things you do and how I use you will affect those around you and then because it affects those people around you it can affect other people and it can affect more people and more people and You know every decision can affect somebody and that can either be paralyzing If you don't have God's grace Or when you realize God's grace that's life-giving because you go you can look back and go. Oh, I didn't make the best decision

3:48 But God is gracious and covering that over But he'll also use my great decisions to affect things that I can't even see and and I'm probably in that mind's mode because I was reading about like Or this are about quantum theory and I don't know I got like three sentences in but I got the gist I think yeah, this is like this the whole like How things could have turned out if you made this decision yeah on this route and it's like this threat of reality, but oh God has

4:19 Protected it all and given me a choice in it. Yeah, it is interesting that You know God's been through Adam and Eve through the flood through Babel And he's coming back and he's gonna tie the world's perception of him to Abram again like it's I mean it's comforting that God is so slow to finally come down. Let me just say let me just do it myself Right, but like it's kind of interesting that it took him that long ago. You know what? I'll just do it

4:53 Yeah So he's doing with Abram and he'll do it with us too. Yeah