Hey, my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. Yesterday, I started what's

probably going to be a three-day conversation of me sort of participating in Paul's rant at the end of Galatians. It's fun. It's cathartic in its own way. So today's going to make a lot more sense if you catch yesterday's episode. It's just the previous one. You can go and check that out, or, I mean, it's the internet.

You can play it however you want.

You'll probably figure out what's going. It's just the previous one. You can go and check that out or, I mean, it's the

internet. You can play it however you want. You'll probably figure out what's going on if you just

keep going with this one too. All right. Now, Jeff play some music and we're going to pick up

right where we left off yesterday. I want to read you a little bit more of this passage.

Galatians 5.14.

I'll back it up so you know what I'm talking about.

He said, not even those who were circumcised to obey the law, yet they want you to be circumcised, that they may boast about your flesh.

He keeps going.

May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

There's this theme that runs throughout the New Testament that if you are bragging about your spiritual awesomeness, you're an idiot.

It's a terrible look.

It's dumb and it's stupid.

Every time the disciples tried it, Jesus slapped their hand. That makes

it sound like Jesus is being trivial or something. It was more than, like, he just told him not to do

it. At one point toward the end, some of the disciples' mom comes up to Jesus and she's like trying

to work things to make it so that they could maybe sit at Jesus right and left hand. Like maybe

nobody's asked yet.

I'll just try to ask. I'll get my son's in a good position. You know what? On one level, you got to tip your hat to good mom who's looking out for her kids all the time. She clearly didn't understand how this worked. But Jesus is like, no, that's not even mine to give. And he corrects that, basically given the same teaching he's already given a whole bunch of times if you want to be first you got to be

last the kingdom is upside down it's not even mine to give. And he corrects that, basically given the same teaching, he's already

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