Hey, Matt, this is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast, and guess what, my friends, I have got some fresh, crispy, minty new Bible for you today.

We have been on the temptation of Jesus in Matthew Chapter 4,

verses 1 through 11, since the dawn of time.

For those of you don't know know we are incrementally inching our way

through the book of Matthew every weekday morning in tiny little chunks.

Then we just finished a super deep dive into the temptation of Jesus, which is very, very important both because, well, Jesus

needed to overcome this test and demonstrate that he could pass all of the tests of his character

and his ability, that literally every human ever other

than him had utterly failed.

He demonstrated that he could handle that stuff so that he could be all the things that were

predicted and pointed to in chapters one, two, and three with this great big long genealogy

that hearkens back to all of these stories that aren't completed and where are they all

going to end? Well it's starting to look like they all end and wrap up and conclude in the person and work of Jesus.

So that's exciting and then we go through he ticks a bunch more of the boxes that are supposed to be in place for this great

king that is prophesied to come and sit on the throne of David and resolve everything that's broken and screwed up and stupid about the world and complete all of the historical and prophetic and

really looks like Jesus could be the real deal then the baptism of Jesus happens at the end of chapter 3 and

Jesus gets up out of the water and what does he do next?

He goes out into the desert to get tempted. He passes the tests and now really the whole preparation for ministry and his public life thing is complete and we're ready to make the flip into verse 12 which is a really

interesting pivot point for the original audience I mean think about this probably

most of the people who would have picked up Matthew and read it for the first time were

definitely aware there's a guy named Jesus. I've ever a few years ago when nobody had

heard of Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad or something like that and everybody's talking about you

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