Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and do you remember

that part in Infinity War, Avengers, infinity War, where Thanos, the purple guy with the amazing chin,

shows up and he's like, I got these legion of bad guys

who have goofy superpowers.

I'm just gonna send them as my representatives

to go and announce to the Concord World of Earth that it's a great honor for them

to be conquered that the kingdom of Thanos has arrived. You smash some stuff, use your

brain telekinesis to throw some buildings around and cause explosions and things like that.

Then we know that we mean this and we aren't going to back down.

But also we want to congratulate them on their having been conquered and the arrival of this

violent terrifying confusing new kingdom. That could not be more different

than the announcement of the kingdom that Jesus is sending out his disciples with.

There is no air of conquest to this message that, you know, Peter and John and all of this

crowd is getting sent out with for the first time ever.

They've never done Christianity before in front of people.

This is all new.

We get into Matthew chapter 10 and Jesus is like, all right, kiddos, it's your turn.

We're going to send you out and I want you all take this script with you.

This is what you're going to tell people and they get out there in front of people and they

Unroll their little script and they're like what? Really the entire message you want me to go out with and stand in front of people

and announce is that the kingdom of heaven is near? There's not anything in here about like behaving better or knocking it off with that thing

or believing this other thing over here like the chief thing you want me to tell

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