Look I can't judge him at all because everybody tattles a little bit when they were a kid.

But my little brother, like one of the things that pushed my buttons a lot about him

when we were kids hanging out, is that if anything went wrong,

he felt like his only recourse is to go and tell mom.

And so he told mom a lot. He grew out of it and he was an awesome kid.

He got to the point where he could beat on me a little bit and that gave him another

recourse and then he didn't seem to feel the need to tattle quite so much.

But there were times where he would tattle

and I'd be like, I don't get it, I just don't see it right there.

But then there were other times where I'd do something pretty mean.

And he'd be like, I'm telling mom. and I would go to get upset about it but I'd just be like well I yeah

obviously you're gonna go tell mom is I yeah that what else would you do what else would anyone do you

probably should go tell mom I will

wait here for my punishment likewise when we get to the end of Matthew chapter 9 verses 18

through 26 that we were looking at last week there is that one little verse at the end

26 is just tagged on there that is effectively the taddling part or maybe the

positive taddling part taddling has such negative connotations so you remember what we've been looking at, right? It's another one of these

demonstrations of Jesus Authority coming off at the sermon on the mount thing and here we get the double story at once of the

unlikely person bursting into the party and being like,

Jesus, I'm grabbing for the rope that I trust most.

It is you.

I don't care what it costs me.

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