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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

MATT079 - This is the Kingdom Everybody Wants

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

Education, Reading, Morning, Bible, Christianity, History, Prayer, Devotion, Scripture, Study, Faith, Men's, Women's, Plan, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

MATTHEW 5:1-12 On this podcast we pick books of the Bible and work through them from beginning to end, bit by bit every day. This show exists because of listener support. If you'd like to consider supporting, you can learn more at thetmbh.com/support or check out the Patreon support page at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast Discuss this episode here! Music rotation written and performed by Jeff Foote.

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0:16.7

If all people on their 13th birthday were given three time travel tokens, you only got to time travel three times, it's a return trip, you know, you get to go there and you got to come

0:20.4

back. What would you use your three on?

0:22.8

I've thought it through, but I'm going to give you one of my three right now.

0:26.9

I would use it to go and see the famed white city that happened at the Chicago

0:32.1

World's Fair in 1893.

0:34.4

It was this city of largely fake marble that was like the advent of the modern world.

0:40.4

It was this beautiful, incredible majestic human accomplishment that was in an age of

0:47.2

elegance and romance and more people than lived in America at the time went to this

0:51.8

world's fair. It's not like you think of World's Fares now.

0:54.2

It was an unbelievable moment and I would have loved to have seen the values and the ethics and the

1:00.5

productivity and the language and the style and the

1:03.4

style and the feel of that moment to walk those streets

1:07.2

to walk under electric street lamps for one of the first times in American history

1:11.9

to see this Greek-Roman-style city rising in front of

1:16.3

Lake Michigan with this beautiful elaborate lagoon and all of these various buildings that pay

1:22.1

homage to the great cultures around the world, it is magical

1:26.2

to me. And enchanting, I feel a nostalgia and a sadness for a time I never saw and never experienced.

1:33.6

So it'd be cool if the time travel tokens happened, but you know I'm not holding my breath.

1:37.6

Here's a deal.

1:38.6

When we get to the beginning of Matthew Chapter 5,

1:41.3

we are hearing about a kingdom that takes my breath away in the same way.

1:44.8

I'm hearing about something that solves every problem and fixes everything that stresses me out

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