Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well in this episode we're going to continue exploring the Gospel according

to Matthew.

This was a teaching series I contributed to many years ago when I was a pastor at Dwarf Hope

and went through the whole Gospel.

And this teaching is the point at which we got to Matthew chapter 4.

This is on the second half of Matthew chapter 4 where Jesus is an adult and he's saying

his first words to the public, to the people of Israel.

And what he talks about is the kingdom or the reign of God.

So there you go.

This to me was a foundational idea and a big part of my own rediscovery of Jesus' own

life and mission and the value set and what he was all about.

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