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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

MATT112 - Moving Beyond Just Not Murdering People (Although Not Murdering People Is a Great Start)

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

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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MATTHEW 5:21-26 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 Thanks so much for considering supporting the program You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss this episode here! Music rotation written a...

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0:16.5

No points for not murdering. No points whatsoever. So if you had that on your resume as you're looking for new work or on a scholarship application as you're trying to get a few bucks for school, you might as well just take off the line that

0:20.4

says, Ain't Never Murdered Nobody nobody because that counts for nothing I've got

0:25.5

good Bible authority from Jesus himself to say big deal about you're not murdering

0:30.6

however he then flips around his tacit agreement with the idea that

0:37.6

murder is bad to go towards something more proactive. And he says in Matthew 522,

0:42.4

I'll start in 21, he says you've heard it said

0:44.1

the people long ago don't murder and anyone who murders will be subject to

0:47.8

judgment but I tell you that anyone who's angry with his brother

0:50.4

will be subject to judgment again anyone who says to his brother

0:53.6

Rocca which I guess means like empty-headed is answerable to the Sanhedron but

0:57.5

anyone who says you fool which I guess was worse will be in danger of the fire of

1:01.6

hell what is going on be in danger of the fire of hell.

1:02.8

What is going on?

1:05.6

I said it a couple days ago and I'll say it again.

1:07.8

This is a sea change in religious thought for them, for us, for everybody in between. How much of religion gets just mingled in with

1:17.7

basic naughty and nice morality? I mean, really, come on, tons of it? How much of religion as it's been constructed throughout the ages, including tons of expressions

1:26.7

of Christianity?

1:27.7

I do not deny this.

1:29.4

Have been really little more than some sort of reference to a space wizard, a sky ghost that sees what you're doing like

1:38.2

Santa Claus and if you're naughty there's going to be some kind of karma payback for that and if you're nice there's going to be some kind of karma payback for that and if you're nice

1:43.8

there's going to be some kind of pay off for that. Really come on that's a lot of how it

1:48.1

works it's it's what if some people call it a moralistic deism, right? There's this vague

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