Hey guess what?

what? Today we finished Matthew Chapter 10, which we've been working on for months.

Hasn't been months?

It's been a long time.

Whatever the case, high-fived, feather in the cap.

It's a lot of work to process through an ancient document together,

and every time we take a big chunk and get that in our hip pocket that's just one more bit of the most

influential book in the history of all time dealing directly with the words of the most

influential person in the history of all time that we've got on lockdown or at

least maybe lockdown's a little generous at least that we have more clarity on than

we did before we walked into it so thanks for putting in the time and the effort with this. On the one hand

Matthew 10 has been tricky because Jesus is talking about different periods of time.

He's talking about the trip that his 12 disciples are going on right now. He's talking about the trip that his 12 disciples are going on right now.

He's talking about what it's going to look like for them later in life as they continue to do

this and he's talking about the whole grand enterprise of people throughout the centuries of the future going out with this message.

There are things that are specific to this one particular trip out,

like the unique equipping with the, no, what is is it again I can never remember the list exactly

the healing of the sick raising of the dead

cleansing of those who have leprosy and driving out demons Jesus gives the disciples

that authority in chapter 10 but we don't see everybody

wielding that authority in the future so that's a specific moment thing.

It's also tricky because it looks like there's a lot of pretty hot language in here

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