Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and it's time for an exercise and an imperfect metaphor and this one's

going to be bad and forced but I think it might kind of work too let's just try

this thing out let's pretend that you and 19 other people are stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean.

It's a simple boat, it's an open boat, you gotta have no supplies, barely enough food to make things work,

and you have to make your own little boat society in order to get along with people but problem

ten of the people on the boat just have to have direct sun all day long they need

that vitamin D it's a matter of spiritual philosophical rightness in their

mind. If they don't have it, they're going to be real bad boat companions.

There's not really enough boat for half of the group to have direct light and half of them not.

This is going to be tricky, but the other half, they can't have the light.

They don't want that.

They need the shade, it physically hurts them.

It's also an emotional, spiritual, philosophical, right state of mind thing for them and so we have a problem.

You get 20 people on the boat, there's nowhere else to go but on the boat, I suppose option

number one for resolving the problem would be just hope your 10 people are more

muscly than their 10 people and murder them. Hurle them into the ocean to die, paddle

away quickly, and hope that doesn't do something horrible to your soul or open a Pandora's box that will

now result in two groups of five that do the same thing to each other, then two groups of two

and a half that do the same thing to each other, and that eventually you're left alone in a boat

to die by yourself. You can't go the violence route. That is never going to work

even though everybody always seems to want to try it. That's not going to solve it.

Nah, you know what you got to do. You got to step up. You got to take some

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