Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

Was there a movie you were scared of as a kid? I don't mean some horror flick that you probably shouldn't have been watching,

but more a movie that you were scared of even though you probably shouldn't have been.

I was scared to death of the Wizard of Oz.

I think it was supposed to be a kids show, but the Wicked Witch and the Flying Monkeys

sent me to bed with lots of nightmares.

You know the story of the Wizard of Oz.

Dorothy ends up in Oz, but she wants to leave and go back home to Kansas.

She's told to go see the Wizard of Oz, who grant her her wish and along the way to meet the wizard she meets the scarecrow and finds out that he wants brains the tin man wants a heart and the lion wants courage.

So all four of them go see the wizard hoping that the wizard will give them what they really want.

Well at the end of the story Dorothy and her friends finally reached the Emerald City

and they're granted a meeting with the mysterious

wizard. When they enter into the wizard's chamber they initially see this giant figure surrounded

by fire and smoke with this loud and threatening voice and it sends them all into a state of

fear and panic. This is the great and powerful wizard, the ruler of all Oz who they

believe will be able to give them what they desperately want.

But that's where the plot twist comes in, because it turns out he can't give them anything

they want.

Dorothy's little dog Toto pulls the curtain back in the corner of the room

and it's revealed that the great powerful wizard is really just this ordinary

dude using machines and illusions to act like he's more powerful than he really is.

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