Hey, I'm Matt. This is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast. All right, this is it, my friends.

We are finally going to land the plane

on the first part of Matthew chapter 4, versus 1 through 11.

It is all about Jesus' temptationemptation in the Wilderness with the Devil and well I've just got a couple of things that I neatly and in an orderly fashion want to touch on so get ready for some structure

The narrative significance of this passage after drinking the whole

thing in, I don't think is that hard to wrap our brains around. Very simply, all hope for redemption

is at stake in this showdown and if the devil somehow wins here

which I theorize was not ever actually a possibility but if the devil were to win here, it would wreck everything.

And by everything, I don't mean like, oh no, we'd have to wait until next season.

No, I mean everything.

Like all the hope and promise of redemption. It's not coming from anybody else.

Yeah, either there's something that operates outside the system

that can resolve what's going on inside the system

or there's nothing and you're just out of luck.

So if there is any hope for the reconciliation of all the things that are broken,

all of the things that hurt and are wounded about us as individuals

that have happened to us as individuals that we've inflicted on others

that facelessly go wrong in the larger world, it is in the balance during this little

chit-chat out in the desert.

So the narrative significance is, well,

if you're paying attention,

all of that thick giant chunk of Bible

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