Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and what better way to start a conversation that's uplifting

and enjoyable about the Bible than with complaining about things but here we go I

loved the way rock used to be I'm a big fan of music, all different genres and one of the things

that I particularly like about rock as a genre is that, you know, stuff means stuff. Everything

has meaning.

Everything is loaded with meaning.

Certain genres communicate certain things.

And Rock communicates what I would argue is a healthy expression of rebellion. It's a healthy pushback on dumb establishment things that get

so sanctimonious and so entrenched and so unquestionable and held in such high regard and esteem that it can't be pushed back on.

And when that happens, you need satire in comedy and you need raging against the machine in rock.

So you can imagine my tremendous disappointment that in the last 10 or 12 years

rock has totally fizzled.

People who make rock music now make rock music that supports the establishment

and don't really push back on anything that is I like. Muse, for example, one of my favorite acts, because with their music they've still got an

axe to grind and it's an axe that happens to grind against established stuff.

I just think it's a voice that is needed in society and I have missed

the presence of rock in that role. But by no means is rock the first genre to occupy this role in society of pushing back on

entrenched things. Music has done this in a whole lot of different forms for a

really long time including all the way back into Bible times all the way back into Old Testament times.

So you and I, my friends, have been hanging out in Matthew Chapter 13 looking at the

Kingdom Parable Discourse, the third of the five great discourses around which the book of Matthew is

structured and what we talked about yesterday is that this kingdom parable

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