Hey everybody. I'm Matt. It's in a 10 minute Bible hour podcast and if I'm being a little bit quiet, it's because it's late at night and theoretically

I'm supposed to record this tomorrow during normal hours like a normal person, but I was

sitting up reading this passage and I was like, you know what, this is really interesting, and I think we should do it now, because it's been like a week since we hung out anyway, so rock and roll, here we go.

Let me tell you something that never brought the best out in me and that was people

yelling at me when I was growing up. Sorry that was a little too loud. Sometimes coaches or teachers would think they would get better

stuff out of me with the drill sergeant routine

but I would be like I just I don't need that right now what I need is like support if you

tell me stuff's going to be okay and when I go on the Twitter's everybody's yelling

about stuff to make their point,

I don't really enjoy that very much.

The politicians that yell about things, they tell everybody how awful they are, and it's really

judgy.

It's not my favorite thing.

I don't enjoy that.

I like the more genteel approach. I think it does get better

things out of people. But what we get going here in Matthew chapter 12 is we're seeing this

really weird ratio compared to how we do things now between the level of

certainty a character feels about something or an actual level of certainty.

I got my left hand way up in the air for how certain we are.

And then over here with my right hand, real down, real low, the ratio is between the level

of certainty we feel about how sure we are about stuff and how right we are about stuff

versus how much we're going to yell at everybody else and guilt them and shame them and

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