Hey, my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast, and this next thing I'm going to say is going to make sense to like a tenth of you, maybe, but I'll make it quick. There's a game that I played when I was a little kid. There's a video game for the old gray box Nintendo Entertainment System, and it was called Final Fantasy, and it opened my eyes to the world.

This is a game where you would assemble a little team, and they all had different skills,

and then you would go marching around the world on quests, and you'd get experience points,

and you'd fight dragons, and you'd level up, and you'd equip armor and different swords and

weapons, and you had to depend on your diversity of skills to go and save the world

and achieve great things. And let me tell you what, I'm using my make fun a crap voice right

there, but the truth is, that speaks to a young boy's heart and a young man's heart and a man's heart,

and a grandpa's heart. Like, that's just dude language right there. And I know it makes a lot of sense

to a bunch of ladies, too, but that questing thing, like, that's just dude language right there. And I know it makes a lot of sense to a bunch of ladies, too.

But that questing thing, man, it is hardwired into young men.

And it should be.

That's awesome.

So I loved games like that where you would assemble your party with their diversity of personalities and skills.

And you go out and tackle

things. Of course, the iconic film that gives you this kind of an experience from a storytelling

perspective is the Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Rings, right? That's all these

different people, and they come together and they achieve this common goal, and they go on a big

road trip quest, and it's just great. Well,, here in John chapter one, Jesus is assembling his party and I love it.

He's assembling these guys.

We just get these little flashes of their character of what they're about because really they

aren't the point of the gospel of John.

They're not the point of the New Testament.

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