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

Thanks for making time to hang out with me. I know you have a lot to do.

I know there's a billion podcasts and other things out there to listen to as well.

And yet here we are. And that's pretty awesome and I always appreciate it and I want to make sure

that you know that I appreciate it and also welcome to any of you who have not hung out with

me before and you're here doing this for the first time. That's awesome. We're in Matthew Chapter 9 chipping away at the

first book of the New Testament a little bit more every day. Right now we're looking at a pair of

back-to-back stories where Jesus heals some people who were blind and somebody

who was a demon possessed, don't worry, we'll break all of that stuff down more as we go along,

who could not talk.

And so it seems like then there must be some kind of thing

going on here, a motif about the five senses

because these things are arranged back to back.

So what's the point?

What's the text getting at? Every text kind of has this question

that it demands just based on the clues that are sitting there right in front of us and I think this one is

suggesting to us that we should think about the five senses

thing so that's what we're going to do this time around. The two that are on display

here blindness and not being able to speak. Let's talk about the blindness

side of that because that one comes up more than the mutinous side throughout

the Bible. And it might seem like culturally the idea of being blind has one connotation, but

check out this mental ninja-g. Blind is a bat.

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