There's this theme that runs all through the Gospels and really the whole Bible about the people who don't see well, sometimes in the kingdom being the ones who actually do see well, and the people who have it all together being actually blind. We see that in the book of Matthew with Jesus. I'm turning the page frantically right now. Yeah, Matthew chapter 9. It happens happens more than once Jesus interacts with blind people

and there's always this immediate contrast with people who theoretically can see but they actually

maybe can't to me the stuff about Paul in the New Testament gives a real strong hint that something

was wrong with his vision I could be wrong we're still working that idea through started yesterday

we'll keep going today but whether there was something wrong with Paul's vision or something else was wrong with him,

there was definitely a thorn in his side. He had some kind of issue that kept him from being a model of

peak performance. And it bothered him. And the Galatian Church got an up close look at what was wrong

with him. And now Paul is appealing to that here in Galatian church got an up-close look at what was wrong with him.

And now Paul is appealing to that here in Galatians 4 as a point of connection between them,

to remind them of the relationship and to try to remind them of the trust that they had with each other that points toward the gospel.

Started talking about it yesterday.

We'll keep talking about it right now after Jeff plays a little bit of music.

In the book of 2 Corinthians, Paul references something that's been bothering him and he's even asked God to solve it.

He calls it a thorn in the flesh.

And I think in the age in which we live, I'm going to be delicate.

I know kids listen.

In the age in which we live, there's a certain type of illicit media that is very available to everyone and it's kind of informed everything like how men think how women act

what happens in drama and television there's just sort of a illicit imageification. I'm trying to be gentle

of everything that has happened. So when you come to a passage like 2nd Corinthians 12, 7,

it's really easy because of the language and the imagery to be like, oh, it's an addiction

to that particular sin of our age that eats so many people's lunches

and that casts such an ugly shadow over culture and human relationships today but i don't know

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