Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast.

We're in Matthew Chapter 4, looking at the temptation of Jesus.

And last time around, we talked about this we easily manipulative stuff

the devil is doing here with this second temptation where he's only like if you're my

friend you'll do this well if you're the son of God just throw yourself down from the

top of this temple it should totally work out and so very cleverly the devil

takes Jesus up to either literally or in some sort of vision

this pinnacle of the temple right above where God theoretically lives amongst his people.

And the proposal is make a big giant scene this would be the equivalent

today of taking somebody to Times Square in front of everybody all these tourists

these outsiders these New Yorkers we're gonna make a scene right here kind of like

what happens at the high point of movies

when someone is ascending to their position of power they're learning their superpowers and

now they're going to show it off in front of everybody it has that, but it's so dirty and manipulative the way he

frames this thing up. There's another brand of manipulation in addition to what we

talked about the other day that I'm pretty familiar with having been a kid and tried out

manipulative techniques on my parents who were too smart for it. And one of those

techniques that we would use would be the thing where we we played the old mom and dad and I could go to dad and be like

Dad mom said that you'd take us to Water World this is water park and Denver that we used to like to go to but didn't get to go to very often.

There's no way my dad was just going to be like, what?

Well, if you say that's what your mom said, then throw on the suits, hop in the station wagon and let's roll.

Obviously he's going to check with mom.

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