Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast. I'm sitting here getting ready to turn on the microphone and my buddy Adam from Northern Colorado sends me a couple of pictures looking at the window at his place toward the mountains and it's a pretty amazing image. Half of the sky is blue like a perfect autumn day.

The other half of the sky is just this bloom of black smoke rolling off the mountains up there.

They've been having this fire going on for a while and they were like 56% contained yesterday, I think I heard.

But then we had huge wind overnight up here in the black hills of South Dakota and all the way down into Colorado coming off the mountains and it whipped this fire up into a crazy frenzy and I feel awful for the people who've been down there

for weeks battling this because what are you fighting right now? You're fighting the

wind, literally the wind, something that is the inevitable physical product of the fact that high pressure and low pressure can exist on the same planet,

and when they do, gases want to move from the high pressure

place to the low pressure place and every now and then the disparity between

the two is greater and therefore the wind moves faster in its rush to equalize those two things.

And again, if you're those guys, what can you do?

It's a violence that is inevitable. You put these two forces in close proximity and there's going

to be this exchange of pressure and it's going to manifest in a way that can cause

anything ranging from light messes to disastrous messes if you're

battling a fire as they are right now. And likewise in Matthew chapter 11

Jesus for the second time in as many chapters, is talking about this inevitable friction,

this tension that comes with the arrival of the kingdom.

He hit on this in Matthew 10 and verse 34, remember a couple weeks ago he spent time on this,

don't suppose that I've come to bring peace to the earth, I didn't come to bring peace but a

sword and then he references back to something in Micah chapter 7 where he says for I've come to turn a man against his father a daughter against her mother a daughter in law against her mother in law is very detailed A man's enemies will be the members of his own household.

And when we broke this down together a couple weeks ago, we came away with a pretty clear understanding

from the context. The Jesus isn't saying, like, I want to make everything worse that your world seemed

like it was way too good no this is a redemptive mission that he's on and the kingdom

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