Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. If you listen to this thing in real time, I hope you had a delightful weekend if you don't listen to this thing in real time and I hope you had a delightful weekend if you don't listen to this thing in real time. I hope you had a delightful weekend. If you don't listen to this in the

order that it comes out on the day that it comes out, then I hope whatever thing you just did

was great. Here's what we're doing today. It is time for a

hardcore reset on the book of Matthew. We're in the middle of chapter six right

now working through the book of Matthew a little bit every day on weekdays, 10-ish

minutes at a time and wow we are so deep into

Jesus thoughts, Jesus description of the kingdom and the king and the kingdom values in the sermon on the mount

Matthew chapters five through seven the I think it's easy to kind of forget where we are in the whole

big picture so I'm gonna take us back out like me ten layers and bring us right back to what we're working on now and try to answer

some of the obvious pregnant questions that still remain from the most recent stuff we're

talking about with forgiveness and reconciliation.

Did I sell you on it? I think we're going to have fun.

Here's a deal. Matthew is one of the four Gospels. It's written mostly to a Jewish audience. Matthew seems to assume

that this audience knows stuff about the Messiah and the scriptures in the

Old Testament and in the first chunk of his description of the life of Jesus he seems very interested

in demonstrating how Jesus is the completion, the fulfillment of all

of that Old Testament stuff.

And the original audience didn't call it Old Testament stuff, but that's how most of us coming

at it today would think of it.

So he opens with a great big long genealogy and this

genealogy means a lot more to the original audience than it would to you or me, but basically

this, the entire story of what the original audience would call the law of the Old Testament is tucked in to this genealogy.

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