Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and my football team got annihilated this weekend.

Like bring shame and disgrace to my family name as a fan for generations to come kind of annihilated.

It was ugly and I did start getting texts from my friends who were fans of rival teams

But win or lose one of the things I really like to do after watching my team player in this case hearing about how poorly my team played,

is I like to go to milehigh report.com, which is the blog about the Denver Broncos, and I read this

little column they do called winners and losers.

It's like three losers and two winners from

yesterday's game against the Chiefs and they go through and they're like hey these

three guys blew it and got things wrong and these two guys got some stuff right

and they're showing optimism and

promise and what I like about it is that it's just a very honest assessment of

where the team is at. Likewise in Matthew chapter 11 Jesus takes the second half of the chapter to effectively give us a winners

and losers column, a commentary, an evaluation, a very honest one, of the results of how the whole big open world quest that he sent his disciples out on in chapter 10 worked out.

They went out with the message of the kingdom in hand.

They went out with apparently access to even miraculous stuff that was supposed

to point people in northern Galilee to the reality that Jesus is actually the king in this

kingdom that Jesus described in the sermon on the mount is the truest

realist thing and that you're invited and you should be a part of this thing and in

this winners and losers column that we get from Jesus apparently Corzine

Bethseda and Capurnium performed very badly.

They saw all the stuff, and they just missed it, and Jesus has some pretty harsh things to say

about them in the first half of this winners and losers column. But in the second half of the

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