Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast like like you I am holed up doing the social distancing

thing right now and I know some of you are probably out and still need to go to

work and provide services and things that everybody's depending on and just no matter what you're

rolling this is and what you're doing thanks in advance and thanks I guess after the fact as well for what you're

contributing to making a tricky situation better.

So high fives to everybody all around.

We're going to weather this coronavirus thing together and while we do so, hey we got a little bit of extra time to sit and think about this thing that the New Testament text holds out as being bigger and truer and realer than even the most frantic moments we might encounter in our lives and so we're going to take some time and think about it.

So we're in Matthew chapter 5, we have been since forever.

This is the sermon on the mount. Jesus opens with a big block of beautiful thought.

Here's all these awesome things about this truer, realer kingdom that I'm bringing with me.

Here's a little bit about the role that you play in it and then as we've discussed

Surely a lot of people were like that sounds awesome, but we already have a religion

How do these two things fit together Jesus?

And his answer starts in verse 17, do not think that I've come to abolish the law or the

prophets, I haven't come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

Now in order to understand that and understand how it would have struck the original audience,

we've got to put ourselves in their heads.

Let's go with an example to try and get into the psyche.

The Cubs and the Red Sox lost at baseball

for forever.

I mean, I don't remember the Cubs,

their last win until recently in terms of a championship was like

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