Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and I have been on this

enormous road trip with my family.

We posed the dirt off the 2004 Lincoln Navigator

and put the dog in the car.

Went to drive around the country and met with some people

and made some videos for the YouTube channel and saw some old

friends and it's been a nice time but let me tell you finding places to

record this podcast has been a little bit tricky I made a pillow fort in a

hotel room I talked into a fleece tent which

sounded like trash and everyone who pointed that out. You are right and I cannot argue

with you. I try to closet a couple of times at one stop and the most familiar setting where I've done most of this has been the front seat of said

Disgusting family road trip 2004 Lincoln navigigator with 201,000 miles. It's working out really, really nicely.

Thank you, old trusty vehicle.

So whatever the case, I'm pretty excited because I'm going to get home tonight and then I can set up shop in my little cubby hole in the back room of the house and work on this stuff some more.

So thank you for not necessarily knowing it but unwittingly going on this giant road trip with me

and for being interested in the Bible and therefore by proxy making me think

about things and stay on task and work on this stuff every single day which I really enjoy

doing and it's much easier to do because I know that you hang out with me.

All right, that was a lot more front-end personal stuff that I normally like to do.

So let's get cooking on Matthew Chapter 5 and we are going to be looking at the last in the neat tidy structure of the

beattitudes today and that's the one that is about the persecuting and this one's

weird because it's kind of a compound beattitude that rolls on into a longer

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