Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. We're work on our way

through the book of Matthew a little bit every weekday and we're just about to get into

Matthew chapter five before we get to that I'm ask a question here have you ever

been in a social situation where you knew that the ask was coming but you weren't quite sure when it was going

to arrive and so you had your antenna up for exactly what technique was going to be

employed.

Now, if you go and you do a timeshare tour,

you know that the ask is coming

because you traded two or three free nights of lodging

for having to sit through a miserable one to three hour

time share presentation and you know that somewhere along the way they're gonna be like

hey what would it take for us to get this done or if you go to buy a car you know at

some point you're likely to get the ridiculous what's it going to take for me to get you in this automobile.

And sometimes socially, you're like, why are we having this lunch?

It's going to be something.

How are you going to frame it? And some people are more clever with how they frame the ask. Some people are less clever with it.

And sometimes the ask frankly is completely reasonable, it's equitable, it's a good deal,

and it's a good thing to be asked,

and other times is kind of skeasy and weird and gross.

So here's a situation as it pertains to the Ask and when it's coming in the book of

Matthew. We're through four chapters. Jesus has gone from obscure guy who a few

people have taken note of all the way up to someone who has passed the most

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