Hey my friends I'm Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and time is going so fast right now

because I was thinking about the original Iron Man movie.

I was like, man, that is way more than a decade old already.

That's crazy.

Robert Downey Jr. looks older and everything, but when I watched that movie for the first time,

I knew it was riffing on all the normal beats of superhero origin story and I really liked

the way it was riffing on it was fun.

And as we got toward the end and you're getting to know the Robert Danny Jr.

Tony Stark character like this guy is so flamboyant and fun

and interesting outside of that Iron Man suit.

It's going to be such a bummer that he's going to be cooped up in there

and nobody's going to know what's going on.

How's that even going to work with this

character he's so proud he has to have people know who he is this is going to be

frustrating to watch and then it gets to the end and they're doing the press conference and people are trying to connect the dots and be like, what do you know about the Iron Man project or whatever they said? And he goes to do his little song and dance and his lie and his public denial and then he kind of gets this little twinkle in his eye and he's like, you know what? The truth is, I am Iron Man.

And the whole theater laughed and cheered. It wasn't like anything blew up, or there was a car chase, or lasers, or missiles.

It was just the hero owning finally,

Yeah, I'm the hero, what are you going to do about it?

And it was awesome. And Matthew is really

structured in a very similar manner in terms of how the hero gradually

inches toward coming out so that everybody knows who the hero actually is.

In the very beginning of Matthew you get this prologue and the prologue points toward something

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