And a surprise,

surprise, Jesus of Nazareth is against murder.

We learned that by reading Matthew 521 the other day, but in case you forgot it goes like this you've heard

that it was said to people long ago don't murder and anyone who murders

will be subject to judgment and then he goes on to basically say yep that's true and

here's some other stuff.

So that's pretty good.

I mean, I guess if anybody who's there listening to Jesus in this moment

is listening to him talk about the law and how that's all going to fit in

and that he's the fulfillment of it, I guess the big obvious question will be like, well what about

killing people? Well thankfully he answers that right off the bat. Nope,

killing people is still going to be wrong in the kingdom. We're going to go with

not murder. But the stunning thing is that then he flips it around

and some stuff that really gets into our business, into our invisible business, the stuff that other people

don't see, the stuff that happens in our brain, in our heart,

and our essence, in our core, whatever you want to call it, and that creates a conundrum for you and me,

my friends, because the whole deal here socially with the

podcast thing is that I don't tell you what to do and there are a few reasons that I

don't tell you what to do one is because of how often I've been wrong.

And so if I go around telling people what to do all the time and have the continued track record I've had in the past of rightness versus wrongness ratio, I would be very concerned about bearing the moral culpability of that because I get

things wrong sometimes.

I want to be smart about how often I go trotting things out.

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