Hey my friends, I'm Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast we're working our way through the book of

Matthew one little bit at a time every weekday morning we're all the way up to Matthew

chapter 12 all that took was like a year and 200

some odd episodes. No really we're making progress and I think we're making progress at a

completely acceptable clip for what our relationship is here. And I know that you have so many other things that you can be doing with your time.

I know that there are 500,000 new podcasts that got released in the last few months.

I know that you're under all kinds of pressure with things clamoring for your attention.

And yet, once again, here we are hanging out, talking about this thing that is timeless that covers this huge

span of history that has a knack for making the things that are demanding our

attention that feel terribly urgent and frantic as a

knack for putting those things in perspective and giving us a bigger look at

human existence at God at at creation, at us, at our lives, at what happens during our lifetimes,

at what happens after our lifetimes.

I think there is something beautifully perspective giving about all of this, and I am so grateful to you by

The sheer merit of your interest and existence and willingness to listen and make this a habit that you have built this into my life in a new way so thank you for

hanging out with me thank you that we get to do this together last time around we were talking about

speaking a big giant sweeping historical stories that put everything in

perspective in terms of time and urgency we were talking about how the Jewish law of what we call the

Old Testament went from being a written thing on you know that covers a pretty good chunk of pages here, to a

sprawling law that goes beyond what is written and into the realm of debate and rhetoric in this oral tradition that comes to be viewed as just as binding

as that written law in the minds of so many of the fellow countrymen of Jesus at the time that he's around and what we're looking at in this case in Matthew chapter 12.

So we have a legal showdown that is emerging in Matthew 12 starting in verse one it says at that time

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