Bible In A Year: Overview

Overwhelmed by the Bible or unsure where to begin?

This episode provides a clear Bible overview, explaining the big picture of the Bible as one unified story. From Genesis to Revelation, we trace the storyline of Scripture—creation, fall, and God’s redemptive plan—fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Learn how the Old Testament points to Jesus, how the Bible fits together, and where we live in God’s story today. A helpful Bible explained episode for beginners and longtime readers.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Mission
• 0:54 Why The Bible Feels Overwhelming
• 3:13 Read Scripture As One Unified Story
• 6:23 Genesis: Setting And Image Bearing
• 10:12 The Fall And The Human Problem
• 13:37 The Promise Of The Seed And Two Teams
• 17:10 Tracing The Promise Through The Patriarchs
• 19:41 Christ’s First Coming And Our Place Now
• 22:05 Prophets, Gospels, And Epistles Explained
• 25:25 The Train Illustration: Where Are We?
• 31:10 Why The Old Testament Still Matters
• 34:25 The Yearlong Plan And How To Engage
• 36:19 Resources, Support, And Closing

Transcript

Phil Porter: 0:00

You're listening to Teach Me the Bible podcast. Our mission is to help the people of God understand the Word of God. Join us each Monday and Thursday for new episode releases. Listen to our full library of content at teachmethebible.com or by downloading the Teach Me the Bible app from any app store. You're listening to Teach Me the Bible Podcast. Hey everybody, welcome back to Teach Me the Bible Podcast. My name is Phil Porter. I'm here with Dr. David Klingler. If you're listening right now, it's because you are wanting to go on this journey of understanding the story of the Bible. And uh like myself, I fully don't understand the whole story. So just so you know, as listeners, I am just like you. I'm a student. I'm gonna be learning along in the process, learning along in the way. But today is something very special because we're actually gonna, David's gonna take us through the entirety of the Bible and as quick as we possibly can, possibly 30 minutes, maybe a little bit more, we don't know. Um, but this will be a very short overview, and he'll kind of elaborate on that in just a moment. But one thing I do want to mention, we have a lot of plans. If you haven't listened to our podcast previously to this, um we have a lot of plans. We have a lot of books that are coming out. We have the story of God coming out on Thursdays, and we'll do that every single Thursday. But the most important thing is I know that a lot of people are not just um, they don't audibly just learn. They actually visually learn. And so that's why we've provided study guides, things like that on the website and on our app uh for you to be able to do that. And also, uh, we plan on doing a lot more, most likely, than what our plan is. And the only way to get extra books and extra resources is to have the app or to visit the website. Um, if you're listening, you know, via Apple or Spotify, we appreciate it. We thank you so much for tuning in and subscribing to the channel. But uh if you want more resources, you can download those things. And that's why uh that's part of our heart for helping people understand the word of God. And so um just so you just so you uh absolutely know those things are resources so that you can grow. And uh it's very, very um, I think it's an incredible resource, personally. Um I personally use it. And so um, but David, today we're gonna be going over the overview. So uh why don't you just kind of take it away, help us understand exactly what today is gonna look like and then how we can benefit.

Dr. David Klingler: 2:35

Sure, sure. Yeah. So um I I hear this all the time. Um, the Bible, uh everybody would like to know the Bible, um, but it just seems like an overwhelming, daunting task. How do I understand this? I don't even know where to begin. Yeah, who could know all this stuff? Uh and and you know, you've got the old testament and the new. What is the butt there's a lot of basic questions that I think that we need to cover even before we do an overview, and what and and so we'll we're gonna do those. That's also what is the Bible and and how do I find my way, and just some real basic stuff. I'm gonna be putting that together. But but uh today what I want to do is just give you a the simplest explanation I can come up with uh for what is the Bible. The Bible is simply a story. Um, it is a story of God. It's told over generations, it's told over really millennia. The first books are written, Genesis is is written by Moses, and so we're talking about, you know, 1,500 years before Christ. Uh and the last books are written at the end of the first century. So, you know, some 1600 years, uh, roughly, you've got all of these books being written. But they're all telling the same story. Uh, and so the best way to understand the Bible is to understand how story works. And uh and unfortunately, when we come to the Bible, we think in terms of theology and sermons and Bible studies and all of this stuff. And and we get lost in the weeds of uh, you know, I'm a Methodist, I'm a Baptist, I'm a Presbyterian, we teach this, I hold that. It becomes overwhelming. Yeah, it's confusing too. It's overwhelming, it's confusing. You've got all of these competing voices. Some people say it says this, others say it says that. It's hard to find your way. Absolutely. Um, and and we have all these interpretations, and we'll sit around and ask, what does this mean to you? And what do you think? And what do you think? And and and it just it really becomes maddening. Uh and and then when people come to seminary or come to church, uh they're they're almost at a give up. Yeah, I I give up, right? I I I I can't do it. And so I'll sit here and listen because I'm supposed to come to church, but I it's just hopeless. I can never learn the Bible. Well, you can. There is hope. Yeah, there is hope. You can. And and so uh first let's just talk about how stories work. Stories are really basic. Stories have a uh stories have characters, they've got a uh a problem that walks into the into the story. And so um I always use uh green eggs and ham or how the grin stole Christmas or you know something really really basic. Uh, you know, we're just coming out of the Christmas season, uh, you know, so How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a really simple one, right? The Who's down in Hooville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch who lived just north of Hooville did not. Okay, well, that's the setting. The Hooville. Uh it gives you the characters, you know, the Grinch, the Who's down in Hooville. Um they liked Christmas a lot. The problem is the Grinch did not, right? And so you've got a setting, you got characters, you got a place, you got a time, and you got a problem. And the main character, the Grinch, is going to deal with his problem that he doesn't like Christmas. And so he sets out to steal Christmas. And we know the story. We you know, we we've we've all read it and heard it probably over this uh over this Christmas season. Watch the watch the movie. Well, uh, we're familiar with stories. We know how stories work, we watch movies, uh, but but the things that we do when we watch a movie, when we hear a story, aren't the things we do when we come to the Bible. It's like this totally different category. Um when we come to the Bible, we think in terms of theology and in verses in isolation. And uh but if we were talking about a movie, you know, this character says this in this movie. Well, if you've seen the movie, you know why he said it and who he was saying it to and all of this. But when we come to the Bible, that's not how we think. You know, um I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. We've got this verse in isolation. We don't know who's talking, who they're talking to, what they're saying, why they're saying it, and and it really is just uh weird what we're doing with the Bible. And so let's let's take the weirdness out of it and let's just get back to basics of how story works, right? And so the Bible begins at the beginning, Genesis, and the story, it's a unified story, goes to the end, Revelation 22. Genesis 1 and 2 is the setting. It tells us who, when and where. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. When? In the beginning. Who? God, where, heavens and the earth, right? So that's the setting. Pretty simple. Um and so chapters one and chapter two tells about this creation. God creates the heavens and the earth and the sea in in seven days, creates the heavens, the earth, and the sea. He fills the heavens and the earth and the sea with animals. Uh He names all of this stuff. The you know he's sovereign over it, he created it, he can name it. He doesn't name the animals, he doesn't name the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, or the beasts of the field. Uh, he creates this one which he calls Adam. Uh and Adam's supposed to name this stuff. He's supposed to rule over it, and that's the that's his job. And he gives him a helper suitable for him. He gives them a wife, so that they would be fruitful and multiply. Now, what were they to be fruitful and multiply? Well, this comes from Genesis 1, 26 to 28. Let us make man, this is God speaking, let us make man in our image according to our likeness, and let him rule over the birds of the ear, the fish to see, the beasts of the field. And so man's created to rule, to represent God, to image God, God's spirit. And so man doesn't look like God, at least you don't. I do, but you don't. No, that's uh, you know, we don't look like God, and uh, you know, God is spirit. Um, uh, but uh that's not what image is image is talking about. You're to care about what he cares about, you're to to value what he values. Uh the way that the Bible uh describes it, or or the language the Bible uses is you're to do what's good and right in his eyes, right? God saw that it was good. God saw that it was good, God saw that it was good. And so man is supposed to operate according to what's good and right in the eyes of the Lord, not what's good and right in his own eyes. And this is going to introduce the problem. So, chapter one and chapter two, you have a setting. Chapter three, uh, you have a problem. Man's in the garden, a serpent comes into the garden and deceives the woman and deceives the man, and uh, well, at least deceives the woman. The man, uh, Paul tells us, and correctly so, wasn't deceived. He just rebelled. And so uh this is you know, the serpent uh says, uh uh, you know, you can do what's good and right. For God knows that in the day that you eat of the fruit, you know, the Lord told him in chapter two, don't eat of the fruit of the tree. The day that you eat of it, you will surely die. And the serpent comes on the scene and directly contradicts God, the main character of God, uh, and says, In the day that you eat of it, you will surely not die. For God knows that in the day that you eat of the fruit, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, determiners of good and evil, knowing good and evil. You get to do what's good and right in your own eyes. And really that's the problem with humanity. Uh, it's the problem with all of us. Uh, we want to be God. You're not the boss of me, right? Anyone out there who has kids, uh, or you've been a kid, or you know this, right? Uh there's something in us that makes our blood boil when when uh someone thinks they're the boss of me. You're not the boss of me. And so what we do and what what Adam uh does is uh is saying, Yeah, I want to be my own God, I want to determine my own fate, I want to be the captain of my own ship. Uh I'm fine if Jesus is my co-pilot, right? But I but he ain't gonna be the pilot. You know, he can sit over there in the co-pilot's chair and just keep his mouth shut and I'll I'll run this thing until of course you mess it up so bad that he's got to take the wheel for a while. Yeah, you know, was it uh is it Carrie Underwood sings take the wheel? Which is uh but then we take it right back, right? Yep. So this is what's happening at the fall. Um and so uh the rest of the story from Genesis chapter 3 on after the fall, uh Genesis 3.15 kind of is the it's a key verse, right? The Lord comes on the scene, the serpent has deceived the man uh and the well to serve the woman, uh deceived the woman, the man has rebelled, um they're now naked, they're ashamed, the Lord comes on the scene uh and uh and he starts to pronounce judgment. And the judgment is they're gonna get kicked out of the garden, they're going to die. Um and so uh as stories go, uh this kind of drives the rest of the story. This is the this is the plot, this is the conflict. Everything from here on is going to relate to this problem. Um, everything in how the Grinch stole Christmas relates to uh the Grinch not liking Christmas. And he sets out to steal Christmas, and at the end of the story, he realizes he's made this big mistake that Christmas wasn't bought from a store. Maybe just maybe Christmas is a little bit more. And so he comes to this realization that he was wrong. But but everything in that story is dealing with that problem. Yes. Same thing with the Bible. Um, the problem in the story is man was created to represent what was good right in the eyes of the Lord. He's gonna do what's good right in his own eyes. That's gonna get man banished from the garden where he's going to die. Now, at the but we got to get man back into the garden, air quotes there, into the garden, back to eternal life, so that he can do what he was created to do, rule on behalf of God forever. So the question is, how do we get there? How does man get back into the garden, back to the tree of life, back to eternal life, and back to ruling on behalf of God, because clearly this whole thing is kind of gone off the cliff. Uh, and so Genesis 3.15 begins to inform the reader on how that's going to happen. The Lord is going to bring one out of the woman that's going to be born of the woman, and he's going to be the one who's going to fix this mess. He's going to be the true image bearer. And that's what the story is looking for. Until then, until this one appears, and that we just celebrated the uh the the birth of that one that appeared uh some 2,000 years ago. But uh until that one appears, and even after that one appears, there's going to be two sides, two teams. There's going to be those who align themselves with the promise of hope, this one who's going to come, and there's going to be those who align themselves against it. Right. Uh this is what Genesis 36315. I will put enity between you. This is the Lord speaking to the serpent, the serpent who's deceived the woman. I will put enity, I will, I will make you and the woman enemies. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed, he will bruise you on the head, and you will bruise him on the heel. And so we're introduced to this strife, this conflict that's going to occur through the whole Bible. Uh, there's going to be two teams. One team is going to be, you know, team Jesus, so to speak. They're going to align themselves with the promise, and the other team's not going to have anything to it. The very next scene is Cain and Abel. Abel believes in the promise, Cain doesn't, Cain kills Abel, and this sets out the whole story. All right. And so this is a very simple uh storyline that we're going to track. Uh, and the story then tracks this promise of this one who's going to come and fix the mess. And that's really just the Bible. Um you're getting, you're, you know, in chapter four and chapter five, you're going to get these genealogies. We're going to track the promise through the genealogies. It's going to track down through Noah, through Shem, through Abram. Abram's name is going to be changed to Abraham, and Abraham to Isaac, and Isaac to Jacob, and Jacob's going to be made into a nation. I will make you a great nation, the Lord says to Abram back in chapter 12. I will make you a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. The promised seed is going to come from uh Abraham, from Isaac, from Jacob, through a nation uh that's going to bless the nations. It's going to restore, give eternal life, restore everything back to uh the garden, uh, and uh going to fix the problem. And that's what we're tracking through the story. Every part of the story is uh is tracking that promise. And so one of the problems I think we get ourselves into is we think the Bible's about us. Um uh the Bible's about me. How does it apply to my life? Well, it does apply to your life, but the Bible isn't about you, the Bible is about the coming Son. It's about God the Father and his resolve, in spite of humanity's rebellion, even the believer's rebellion, uh, the Lord's resolve, the father's resolve to bring his son and to fix the mess. And so uh we're in the story. You and I are in the story. We are where are we in the story? Well, the whole Old Testament has happened. The old Old Testament story has happened. The promised Christ has come. Uh, the the promised one of Genesis chapter 3 has come. He was born. Uh, we just celebrated that. He lived a sinless life, he was put to death. We're going to celebrate that uh here in a few months with Easter. Uh uh He was raised from the dead, eternal resurrected. That's uh that's Easter. He's seated at the right hand of the Father, and here we are waiting for his return to fix the mass. And you know, and as we look at uh kind of the world today, you know, we're tempted to say this is uh this is a train wreck, you know. This is uh we always laugh. It's never been as bad as it is right now. Yeah, it has. It's been this bad uh since the fall, since Genesis chapter three. It's been this bad or worse, and it's not getting better until the Christ returns. Uh and so this is the story. Um, this story is told by the authors of the story, uh, the prophets in the Old Testament. The prophets tell the story. Um how do we know what God is up to? What he because the prophets tell us, Old Testament. The prophets told Israel, and we learned through reading the prophets. And the prophets were talking about this one, Jesus, who would come on the scene and fix the mess. Well, he came on the scene, he died for the sins, the sins that you know, the just punishment that comes out of Genesis 3, but he hadn't fixed the mess yet. We're still waiting for that. So he put to death, uh raised from death, sits at the right hand of the Father, and we're waiting for his return. Now, how do we know that he came? Well, because the the disciples, those who saw Jesus, who walked with him, who heard his words, who touched him, who uh who uh um who saw him, who were eyewitnesses of his ministry, they have proclaimed us. And so um so John says it this way the word became flesh, the words of the prophets, the the words that the prophets were talking about concerning the Christ happened. The word became flesh. And tabernacle among us, John says, us. We saw him, we handled him, our eyes saw him, our ears heard him, and now we proclaim to you. And so the word became flesh, the disciples saw it, and they have recorded those words in the gospels, and then they instruct the church on how they're to live in light of Christ's death, burial, resurrection as we await his return. That's the epistles. So we have the Old Testament, the words of the prophets, uh, we've got the gospels, the words of the eyewitness account of the disciples, uh, and the instruction to the church on how we're to live until he returns in the epistles that we call the epistles, the Pauline epistles. Those are just the epistles written by Paul, that we're not very creative in how we name these things, right? These are the Pauline epistles. Uh, and then uh we have another category which we call the general epistles, the not Pauline epistles. They're written by everyone else. You know, they're uh Hebrews uh and James and Peter and and uh John and uh and Jude. And then we have the end of the story. Now we're not to the end of the story, but the book of Revelation tells us what's going to happen at the end of the story, and so we know where it's headed, and so we know where we are in the story. So once we kind of know the general lay of the land, so to speak, for the story, the beginning and what happened in the Old Testament with Israel, uh, and the promised Christ, the promised Messiah, the promised king of the. Israel appeared Christmas and lived a sinless life and was raised and is seated at the right hand of the Father. And now we're in this thing called the church where we're waiting for his return. It's all pretty simple. Uh and when we think about it in those terms of a of a story, of a big story, the parts fit together. And uh in the coming uh weeks and months as we go through the rest of the year, we got 51 weeks. We're gonna talk about the sections of the story and how each part of this story fit together. We're gonna uh start uh in Genesis one and two. Uh we're gonna spend a little time there in Genesis three spend a little time there because if you want to know the story you have to know the setting uh and you have to know the conflict and you have to know the resolution, right? Those are the the beginning and the ends of the story are the most important parts of the story. Uh why are we here? What's the problem and how's it solved? Uh and so we're gonna spend uh a lot of time uh more time in Genesis and Revelation beginning in the end because those are the uh to understand the story those are the most important parts uh and then we will work our way through the middle parts of that story uh in uh a little quicker fashion but uh but it'll be good we'll we'll understand it a whole lot better I've heard you say before um I like the analogy maybe you can do that for our listeners as well there's a train and it started way back here and so can you just kind of yeah so so the one of the things that that uh we do in Bible studies and it's become kind of norm uh is we take every scene we don't even call them scenes every passage of the Bible every verse of the Bible and we try to make it about us right we try to apply it to our lives well um some verses and some passages are a little easier to principalize others takes a little more effort we got to make stuff up right actually what's going on uh is uh you intuitively know that you are not in the old testament we're not in the garden um obviously uh we're not in old testament Israel uh we are in the New Testament church and and so some of these books the epistles make a whole lot of sense to us because we're we're we're closer in the story to where we actually are right uh we're in the church Paul's writing instruction to the church and so some of these letters like Ephesians are really easy others maybe like Paul's letter to Philaman is not quite so helpful um nobody knows any memory verses uh I was in uh uh seminary uh class this last week and I took forty dollars out of my wallet put it on the table these are seminary students I said if anyone one in here can give me one verse from Philemon you got forty bucks not a soul because that no one knows memory verses from Phylamon because some guy who owned some slave and returned and what does this have to do with me you know so yeah um I only knew it because it had my name in it's literally the only reason why I knew it yeah and so so that's that's really uh that's really it it's but but we want to make everything about us. But what the Bible's doing is is the God is the author uh he's telling this story through his prophets so he's giving his word to the prophets and so it's like he set the train on the tracks in Genesis 1 in the beginning right and God's plan for history starts barreling down the tracks and it's heading towards the end. Stories begin at the beginning and they go to the end. And I know that's not very profound but it's always good to remember stories begin at the beginning they go to the end right and what drives the story is the problem Genesis three is the problem and it's driving this train and so if we're if you were Cain or Abel how you would respond to the pro the story is where you are in the story right where you're not in the church Christ hasn't come uh you know there's just a handful of people on the earth and and you're one of them uh so this train's barreling down the tracks and uh and so the first five books are written by Moses this guy Moses writes to this people Israel so that they would understand who they are and why they are and where they're going and why they're going there and what they're supposed to do when they get there. You are the promised people Israel who Israel who's that Israel was your patriarch what's a patriarch you know your your forefather generations before Israel really is named it wasn't it used to be it used to be Jacob it they changed it to Israel uh uh and before that Isaac and before that Abraham and Abraham goes back to Noah Noah goes back to Adam and Adam was in the you don't remember yeah no I hadn't heard the story tell me the story okay let me tell you the story and and so that's what Moses is doing he's telling the story begins with creation begins with Adam and gets them all the way up to speed so that um this promise to Abraham to Isaac to Jacob I will make you a great nation they were multiplied into a nation now they're in Egypt they're enslaved and they're heading towards the land uh if you're a if if you're in Old Testament Israel and you're coming out of uh out of Egypt and you're heading towards the land you need to know what Moses is saying and everything that he's going to tell you here's what you do when you get here here's the sacrifices you give here's how you operate here's the here's how you're gonna build their tabernacle here's how you're gonna build the temple here's where you're gonna live we need to know all that right now that stuff has all happened in the past well I don't need to know that that you know it's it's it's nice to know what happened in the story uh but a lot of those details of instructions on burnt offerings and grain offerings that we don't do that we're we're not going down to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices in fact no one is now because the temple's not in Jerusalem in fact the temple wasn't in Jerusalem back then uh when Israel was taking the land uh the town wasn't called Jerusalem it was called Jebes and the Jebusites lived in Jebes so we're not even to Jerusalem yet right we got to take Jerusalem so so uh the point with that train illustration is the train's barreling down the tracks and every people and every generation knew how to respond by where they were in the story uh and when you know when the story continues down the tracks things change uh and so once the Christ comes for example we get to the New Testament that whole Old Testament sacrificial system was no longer relevant they they looked for those partials those all the old testament sacrificial system looked forward to Christ but Christ has come so now you don't do that and so at each stop along the tracks so to speak there was different ways that this story was to apply to them now we're in the church right and so how do we live in the church well we're not offering sacrifices we're not doing burnt offerings we don't have to have a red heifer we don't you know there's so many things that were part of the story that they were to be that believers were to be doing then and there we don't do here and now and so that helps us understand who we are so what happens in Bible studies what happens in uh in our personal studies is we take our theology that we've been taught basically how to live today and we go back to all parts of the story and we try to find those principles the principles of how we're to live today we try to find them back then and there we impose them upon that part of the story and then we complain because that story doesn't make any sense well you wouldn't do that with any other story you wouldn't watch a movie and and put yourself in the movie I'm not Jack Sparrow. I'm not Wyatt Earp I'm not Doc Holliday that was a story about them uh I'm not Moses I'm not David uh I'm not uh Jesus I'm not Peter I'm not Paul I'm not Timothy or Titus but I am in the church uh what's the church? Well you got to read the story and so if we know the story we know who we are where we are why we are and when we are in the story and how we're supposed to live just as they knew back then. That's what the story did it informed them back then just as it informs us today. And so that's why Paul is going to tell the Corinthians that these things were written as as instruction for us. They're they're useful for us uh but not but that doesn't make us David it doesn't make us Moses it doesn't make us Jesus or Peter right does that make sense?

Phil Porter: 28:48

Yes still for listeners um that want to understand the story um the train allergy is always extremely helpful um but like you said there are some key parts here so for instance you said Jacob became Israel and then Israel became the nation which some of our listeners are probably going wait that's that's how it happened?

Dr. David Klingler: 29:12

Yes yeah and um these are just some of the crucial great details because I find myself as a as what you um spoke about a New Testament yep you know I've read the epistles the gospels gospel of John this is where you're told okay so you become a believer someone hands you a Bible doesn't tell you every other book if anyone handed you a book and said okay read this well you wouldn't start in the middle no no you would start at the beginning but they tell you here's a book um start in the middle start in John is writing to prove that Jesus is the Christ and you're going what's a Christ most of our seminary students don't know what Christ even means. Well how where did I know what Christ means well you have to read the story right and so you start a story at the beginning so that's what we're gonna do we're gonna start a story at the beginning so um if you have questions uh stick with us we're gonna get through the the basic you know just the the important details so that you understand how the story goes down the track so to speak absolutely and gets us to the to the not only the New Testament to the gospels uh to epistles which you're probably more familiar with uh but it'll also get us to the end of the story which is Revelation well one of the great questions I think uh to be asked like many I think uh believers today have been told uh maybe poorly um it's definitely not the right thing to say uh many of us feel like Jesus is all we really need to know about so why even understand the old testament it doesn't have anything to offer me it doesn't uh I won't understand it um so why shouldn't I just focus on Jesus and why so why should the story be important? Maybe you can help us understand too so this goes back to the setting and the problem Jesus is not the main character of the Bible certainly we're not yeah um the main character of the Bible is God the Father God who creates um this creation and creates man to be an image bearer uh Jesus is the solution to fix the problem the problem is man yeah so so we're not the the story is not about us the story is that we are the problem in the story man Adam is the problem in the story man's rebellion is the problem in the story and Jesus is the one who's going to come and fix that rebellion he is the exact representation of the character of the Father He's the image bearer He's the one that the main character uh God uh creator God from the very beginning has uh has set this uh story in motion um and uh and the son is the one who's coming and and so so the story is looking for Jesus to come uh and so if you don't know the Old Testament you don't know why he needs to come uh and you you think that you know uh Jesus you you don't know who Jesus is you don't know why he's coming what his role is what he's coming to do uh how he's going to achieve all the the the story of the Old Testament sets the stage for what Jesus is coming to do.

Phil Porter: 32:29

Yeah I think someone put it to me is the greatest question you can ask yourself is who is Jesus?

Dr. David Klingler: 32:35

Yeah.

Phil Porter: 32:35

So when you ask yourself that question you have to understand how we got to Jesus.

Dr. David Klingler: 32:41

Yes.

Phil Porter: 32:42

In our prophecy series we just did that which has been incredible to get to his birth but what I'm excited about for this series is that every single Thursday you're gonna walk us through key moments in history in the Bible and you're just gonna walk us all the way through to where when we get to number 52, we will have gone through and you will have heard and been able to comprehend or understand or follow along with this story of the Bible. Yep. Yep.

Dr. David Klingler: 33:13

Which is incredible. Yeah we're just gonna we're just gonna walk down the storyline we're not gonna cover obviously every scene in the story but we're gonna pick you know it's like someone says tell me what happened in this movie we're gonna walk you down the plot line we're gonna walk you down the main parts of the story uh and and go down this trail so that you by the end of it you understand it and then when you go back to read it you're gonna oh yep I see how this all fits together.

Phil Porter: 33:35

Yeah so incredible um an incredible resource that's gonna have be available to you every Thursday and so uh David before we leave uh there may be people that are still feeling as if this is gonna be tough and they want to understand it's like me I desire to understand this um and but I just have always felt it's just so it's too far out there I can't I can't fully comprehend uh what would be your your um kind of last words of today to help us be encouraged that you can understand the story that you can grow in your faith and you can see God in such an incredibly new light.

Dr. David Klingler: 34:23

Yeah to grow in your faith simply means to grow in your understanding if you understand the story it makes more sense uh and then it becomes your conviction and so we'll just go down the trail with us and and uh Phil you're gonna have a uh key part in this because uh if I'm moving too fast or go on and say whoa whoa uh wait a second slow down what about this uh there's another uh way that you uh as the the listeners can interact as well on the website if you go to the the Teach Me the Bible podcast go to the bottom uh it says sign up for an email only devotionals uh but you can also ask for a uh uh ask a question there at the bottom it says ask David a question it say whoa whoa whoa wait a second you're missing stuff well ask us uh and we'll respond we'll respond to that we we want to move fast enough so that you understand the story but not so slow that you we get bogged down in the details and you don't see where this thing's headed and so so we're gonna try to thread the needle with with uh moving through it at the right pace and uh and I think that uh in 52 weeks I think we can pull it off.

Phil Porter: 35:24

So that means those details will eventually come to the surface because every book of the Bible is uh what your plan is to teach every single book of the Bible and then make this a resource for everyone. So uh although it may not be a resource now it will be and uh one of the greatest things that you can do as a listener is just spread the word. Spread the word about teaching the Bible about what what we're trying to do to help the people of God understand the word of God. And so uh you can do that. You can also online I I I invite every person to go online just browse through the website see it now because in four years' time you're gonna see a transformation of a resource that's going to help people connect with God which is going to be so incredible. And you can be a partner of that too if you'd like to give you can give to that as well but for as for today thank you for just taking us through a simple understanding of the overview it was very simplistic but it had to be and I I love some of the analogies you put in there so thank you for that and for everybody that's listening gear up because next week we are starting at the beginning of the story and we are going to go for 51 weeks until we hit the end. So thank you David for uh being here with us and we'll see everybody next week. Absolutely for more resources visit teachmethebible.com or download our app from any app store you can partner with Teach Me the Bible in helping the people of God understand the word of God by subscribing and sharing with others. Thank you for listening to Teach Me the Bible podcast