Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast.

Is this your first time ever here, welcome.

I'm super glad that you decided to carve out some time to hang out with me.

That is a huge honor.

And what you'll figure out pretty quickly

is that we are going straight through the Book of Matthew.

We do that in like 10-ish minutes every weekday morning and that means that at this point you might be starting to thumb through your podcast app because like oh maybe I need to go back to the beginning, but you don't have to. I mean, I think it'd be fun if you did at some point, but you're

welcome to just jump in with us right here. Usually there's enough context to

bring people up to speed pretty quickly as we are now seven chapters into the document.

But another thing that you're going to figure out pretty quickly is that every now and

then we step aside to another part of the Bible or to explore a little bonus question

so that we're thinking about Matthew in the larger context of the Bible

and Christian thought in general so we don't kind of lose ourselves in one narrow

little spot and try to have that narrow little spot apply out to

everything else. I mean we want to read all of it in light of all of it and

today is one of those every now and thens where we got to step aside to

another text for just a minute.

And the reason for that is that last week as we're working through the Gospel of

Matthew chapter 7 and we're thinking about the idea of Jesus Kingdom that he's describing. This kingdom with beautiful loving God-like values and a whole different

way of thinking about stuff and things that have different values and currencies than the regular world system

that you and I are used to.

And as we're talking about that, we're seeing how Jesus is effectively ramping up his invitation

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