Hi everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and it's getting to be this thing

rhythmically where I sit down at a certain time of day every day.

They get out my Bible and the microphone and we do the little thing here and then we put it up on the internet and

then you listen and it's just fun.

I look forward to it but we got these two days a week where we don't do the podcast.

And you know, that's a good thing. That's healthy for everybody's rhythm, but it gets to be the time of day where I do the thing.

And I'm like, oh, I don't get to do it today.

And then it rolls back around at the time of the week where I get to.

I'm like, game on, this is really fun, and it always makes me appreciative that there are people

who want to sit and talk with me like this, who want to talk about this subject matters.

So thanks for being awesome.

Thanks for hanging out with me even though almost surely you don't think all the same things

I think about everything. I just think that makes it all the cooler

that we get to spend time together like this. So very glad to be connecting here.

I want to start by talking about the King and Kingdom motif that is inescapable throughout the book of Matthew.

The Old Testament has this language, well it's not subtle at all, it's very pronounced

language, about God eventually establishing this great kingdom with a great king who sits on an

eternal throne and this kingdom is supposed to be wonderful.

A kingdom where there's perfect justice and

everything is right and the decision-making is right and the leadership is right and

the king never dies so you can ascribe all power and authority to this king because he's never going to go away and you'll never have some jackwagging guy who comes along after him who's an idiot who now has all of the power that you gave because you like the last person but now someone stupid has it there is no

replacement there is no successor eternal king eternal kingdom eternal throne

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