Hey, this is John Collins from The Bible Project.

In the last two weeks of this podcast, we've been discussing the theme of generosity in the

storyline of the Bible. How God is the generous host of all creation,

and there's enough for everyone.

So why don't we live that way?

The first few chapters of Genesis show humanity's propensity to mistrust the generous host.

We want to protect ourselves and we think we have the best strategy for how to do that.

Unfortunately, our self-protection leads us to shame, broken relationships, and violence.

So what's God going to do?

Well, it turns out, his plan is to ramp up his generosity.

It's God choosing one family to give the supreme gift.

In fact, the gift I'm trying to give all humanity.

I'm just going to give to one family and do something with this family

that will restore the gift to everybody else.

But here's the problem.

So far in the Bible, the portrait of humans isn't very flattering.

No one has been able to trust to the generous host.

So today we look at the successes and failures of the family of Abraham

in their calling to extend God's generosity to others.

Thanks for joining us. Here we go.

Great, we've been talking about generosity as a theme.

Yes. And you're going to walk us through the story of the Old Testament through the lens of generosity.

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