Hey everybody my name's my name's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour

podcast and I know there a bunch of you sitting here right now

listening to this who have been with me from the very beginning on this thing thank you good to see you again

and kind of the weird podcast medium way where I don't actually physically see you

what I'm saying but also I know there a bunch of you hanging out here who have

never listened to any of this and this is your first time ever and you are

making a bold move because you're jumping in on something and you're like well I mean

it seems like they've been doing this for a while and here I am jumping in the

middle how is this going to work the answer is it's going to work great and I'm

super glad that you are here thank you for for jumping in. Here's the lightning fast

version of what you missed and then we're gonna get into what's next. So every day we

go through the book of Matthew a little bit at a time we have finished eight

chapters together and that only took a mere 175-ish conversations.

So as you can see, we're cruising and over that time what we've seen is a document that was written by someone who claims to be a

first-hand eyewitness of Jesus or the text indicates that at any rate and this

Matthew fellow is very Jewish he seems to be writing to a very informed very Jewish

audience who understood a lot of the inside baseball stuff culturally and

religiously from the day, the inside baseball stuff biblically from what we would call the

Old Testament, what they at that time would have just called the scriptures.

And what Matthew is very clearly trying to accomplish from the word go in this book is to point out that Jesus is the fulfillment of everything

that happened in the Old Testament, that Jesus is the Messiah, the continuing next thing in this already existing long story of God and his work with his people.

Clearly what Matthew was also trying to point out is that this work that God is doing through Jesus is going to be

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