Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and when I was a kid I was awful at sports

it's a embarrassing pick-blast guy at sports, a embarrassing pick blast guy at sports, and at times I would even

be the recipient of what at the time I took as a compliment?

Which is the kind of statement where people would be like, oh my gosh Mike you're terrible you can't hit any shots even

Matt could have hit that shot and I would be like thank you oh seriously thank you guys

for saying that for thinking that I could have hit that shot and then later I got to be like an adult or something

and that occurred to me that that was not a compliment and I should not have received it that way.

Likewise in Matthew 11 Jesus gives out a couple of those kind of quote unquote compliments to the cities of

Tyre and Sidon really at their expense as well as at the expense of the cities of Bethseda and Corazine.

Remember, this is the passage we talked about yesterday, where Jesus starts to pronounce these

woes, these statements of regret and condemnation for these cities where his disciples went out and where he went out and where all these miracles apparently occurred but nobody really signed up or not very many people did.

They saw the kingdom come into the light right in front of their faces and they're like,

nah, it's not really the mood for a kingdom right now, I guess I'm not going to do it.

And so Jesus in Matthew 112, expresses his displeasure with this. Then Jesus began to denounce the cities

in which most of his miracles had been performed because they did not repent. He said,

Woe to you, Corazine, woe to you, Beth Seda.

If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Side on,

they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And I don't know, maybe the people have Tyre andide on heard about that later on and they were like,

oh, thanks for saying that. You think we would have done better than those guys, but again, not a compliment.

But in the same way that if you really want to understand how bad the missed shot was that Mike or Jim or Timmy took in fourth grade

while I was standing there off to the side just wishing I could play that caused people to mock them by saying even Matt could have hit

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