Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and thank you for hanging out with me.

I know you got a jillion things to do and yet here we are working our way through the

book of Matthew a little bit every weekday morning. It really does mean a lot

that you'd make the time to process this through with me.

I have a hot take that is going to offend some of you and I'm sorry?

No, I'm not actually sorry that it might offend you.

I think the Academy Award winning film

Gladiators starring Russell Crow was good but not great. However, one of the

things that I really liked about that movie was the theme of the fickleness of the crowds

emblemized by Walking Phoenix's right thumb that thumb sticks up and everybody cheers because the person isn't going to be executed on the

sand of the arena.

That thumb sticks down and everybody cheers because somebody's going to get executed right

in front of their eyes.

And you look at that, you're like, who are you people?

You just cheer for anything whatever is trendy

or whatever like the three or four people around you were doing you just get all

excited about that even somebody getting murdered and cold blood was

what's a matter with you and there's even that speech from,

how is the guy's name, Praxis?

I don't know if that says the guy's name,

I think I'm making up something from Transformers.

But there's a guy who, early in his career,

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