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 keep exploring the gospel according to

Matthew and specifically camping out in the sermon on the mount.

This was part of a teaching series I did when I was a pastor at Dorf Hope Church a number

of years ago.

We're camping out in the sermon on mount and going to focus in this episode on Jesus'

teaching about swearing, not cussing, but swearing oaths, which I'm guessing probably isn't

one of your biggest hang ups in life is that you like swear too many oaths.

But swearing oaths was actually a really important part kind of woven into the fabric of

everyday life and culture in Jesus' day and among his people in time.

So we're going to explore some of that.

But more importantly, what I try to do is identify the basic heart level issue that Jesus

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