Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and maybe you saw this in the title up there, but this is episode 200.

This is the 200th time that you and I have sat down together if you've been with me since the beginning

and talked about the book of

Matthew. That's really cool. Whether you are here for the first time or you've

been hanging out with me for a little while now or you've been here since the

very beginning, I just think it's awesome that you're the kind of person that wants to make the kind of time to talk about something like this, the way we talk about it.

Thank you for being like that, thank you for hanging out with me. Let's do another hundred and then another hundred after that. Also maybe something you're like

like, wait a minute, and then another hundred after that.

Also, maybe you saw you were like,

wait a minute.

Okay, so that's episode 200,

and I think we're in Matthew Chapter 9,

I'm gonna be like 200 when this is over and maybe yeah it's I don't know I'll try and do it a little faster than that

But I think one of the great things about this format and I'm still growing into it and figuring out all of the possibilities here

is that we aren't constrained by time.

We can talk about this chunk or that chunk as much as we need to and then we just got the next day to keep

chipping away at it to try and cover this thing from all the angles and like I said all the way back in

episode one the big objective in all of this is not to get all of you to think my things

I mean all of this stuff I don't even know what my things are. I mean all of this stuff I don't even know what my things are. I'm

honestly processing this along with you every day. I enjoy doing that but the

big goal that I'm hoping that we all have in common is to have

Matthew this very important formative book of the Bible that tells the story of the

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