Epic story of the Bible. Hmm, this is your sort of popular accessible.

The greatest story ever told, the greatest story ever told.

That was an epic journey.

What is story?

This is the story you are in and as you read the Bible, you will see that this is not a fictitious world

So now we're saying, well, which story is the true story?

So where in God's story of the Bible is this passage happening?

It's the beginning of a five part story.

Yeah, Epic of Gilgamesh. Epic of Gilgamesh.

It'll be here in a physical world and physical bodies Resurrected renewed you see the story of the Bible

So now we're saying, well, which story is the true story?

The Bible tells a story of human failure over and over and over again, because the Bible is not about

And so the story of the Bible begins with a world in need of rescue.

It is more than a collection of holy books in that it contains a single story of salvation.

So I want you to open your Bibles, we're gonna hear a story, Acts chapter 22, that's page 797 in the

And we've been watching the show and in the story of the show there was a missing Bible.

The overwhelming conviction of the biblical authors is of the activity of God in history. God acts not in a fragmentary, capricious, or unrelated way, but in a single purposeful span of history. The Bible is not a deposit of abstract ideas or even of formulated doctrines, but a marvelous unity of salvation history.

So as you read every section of your Bible, it's not disconnected from the main theme and the main purpose

That the Bible is not just a disconnected book of 66 individual and separated books.

So we've seen the first half Genesis 1 through 11 covering over 2 ,000 years of history. In these four events of creation fall flood and tower. Now we are coming to a hinge verse and I want to read that for you if you look at Genesis chapter 12, I'm going to read the first few verses and This is a hinge because if you look at the great panorama of history you get to see God creating the entire universe, right and then From chapter 2 all you are looking at well actually most of chapter 1 and 2 you're looking at this one planet planet Earth and then through this planet and this one person Adam you get to see the things that are happening as God's grand plan of goodness is marred as it where it seems like an almost God's plan is thwarted by man's fall and and Those of you listening to me know that's not true because we have Christ who was prepared as the Lamb who was going to die before the foundation of the earth, so when God actually provides a curse on the serpent and says the seed of the woman will crush your head and you will Bite his heel.