Father Mike Schmitz

And even, like you're mentioning, the Cain and Abel story comes next, where God says to Cain, you don't have to give in to this sin.

The devil's a demon looking at your door, but you can resist him.

There's still hope, even in the midst of this brokenness.

Because we hear it as kids.

It's not a kid's story.

How, yeah, how, in what way, kind of a last thing just for, so that people who are listening to the podcast can jump into episode one and hear the story proclaimed to them.

What is that not children's part of the story of like the story of Noah and the flood?

Like, you know, again, as kids, you hear it.

And so you're like, oh yeah, this is a story for kids.

But it's so much not.

It's not at all.

Amen.

Thank you so much for that, because especially these first 11 chapters, we're going to get through them in five days.

These first five days of the year are going to take us through this entire, just kind of the shortest time period.

But the early world, which will be in so many ways, it's the first layer of a lens that's being shaped when it comes to how to look at the world.

And so again, this layer of here's God's goodness, here's our, our grasping and here's God not letting go of us, but continuing to pursue us even in the midst of our brokenness in the midst of our turning away from him.

So, um, thank you, Jeff, once again, for joining us to introduce this early world to us in a couple of days.

Um, after we get through the early world, he's Jeff's going to join us again for the patriarchs.

So we can walk through that and kind of get a good context of a little bit longer journey.

Um,