Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and there's no way to hide it. I am feeling some stuff today. We did my

kiddos first ever job interview. My little girl went and got a job. She nailed it and

she landed the position somewhere maybe on the drive home, it occurs to me that I was

irrationally sad. Gove's I'm super excited for her. That's great. It's a right of passage. It's a gigantic thing. I think it's just a grief over the end of an era. I loved little kid time with her. I loved pre-teen pal throw on the ball cap go in the

backyard hit wiffle balls dig around in the mud kind of era with her and now we're

into the young lady go out and get a job and take responsibility

and handle this stuff on your own phase and I'm excited about what's next I've loved

every phase with her but my dad heart is a little bit

squishy right now because I'm sad about the passage of another era and I didn't

really work ahead or anything for what we were going to talk about today, but I promise I really do have a plan here and there is a point to me telling you all of this.

And that is that, you know, when I got home from that conversation and started looking at stuff here today.

I was like, oh, we're kind of in the same transitional, pivotal moment in the evolution of

the people that Jesus was investing in in Matthew chapter 9 and so it's kind of a

cool coincidence that happens to come up today I find it oddly encouraging that

we're talking about this end of an era in the growth of people Jesus loved and was investing in and in whom he had great

expectations for their future at the same time that I'm going through the same thing with

my kid.

So here's the deal. The book of

Matthew breaks down thusly so far. You got the opening stuff that is the

birth prologue. It raises all the questions about who Jesus is, could he be the

Messiah.

It's terribly interesting and it certainly would have peaked the interest of the original audience because it looks like he might be the Messiah.

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