Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and when you

picture the way that people characterize the front end of Christianity

how you sign up how you get started with the thing when you picture of people

that characterized that for the last say hundred and fifty years especially in America

Canada what you get is this transaction where people have this big problem

it's sin it's the human problem, there's guilt, there's entropy

on us, and then along comes God and Jesus takes on flesh and he lives this perfect life and he goes

to the cross and he dies for our sins as an atoning sacrifice for all of our sins forever

for anybody who puts their trust in Jesus and that is all very bibally.

But when we look at the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, what we see is that Jesus

invitation as he himself framed it is a little bit different than that. It's not competing with that thing I just described. Rather his

invitation comes in the form of an invitation to follow him as king and to become a

citizen of his kingdom.

This is in contrast to the default setting of humanity, which is to follow ourselves as kings

of our own lives and to be a part of the world system and its values which

is all predicated on the assumption of you know naturalism you born your meat sack

and you live and there's meaning that you find and you come up with and you

make of it what you can and you enjoy it as best as you can and then you're dead and when the

last person remembers your name or says your name you're just gone and it's over and your matter returned to another form of matter.

Those are the world system assumptions upon which the world system values are predicated,

and Jesus, once again by contrast is articulating a completely

different set of foundational assumptions that there is a god that people are made in the

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