Hey everybody, I'm Matt, this is the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast, and even if you don't

have kids, this next thing I'm going to say is going to make perfect sense, because

even if you're goofing around with somebody else's kids, this is just how it's done.

Whether you're boxing or playing basketball or wrestling around or having a pillow fight

or playing a board game, you do this thing intuitively when you're the grown-up in the

equation where you're like, oh, nuts, you're beating me, this is really hard.

You stack the deck against yourself on purpose.

You don't do it so that you can show them up.

You do it so that they have a chance, and it's fun.

But in the Bible, we see this very oft-repeated motif of God stacking the deck against himself,

not to patronize the people who he's playing with.

Does that analogy hold out?

You know what I mean?

He does it so that nobody else could possibly get credit for the incredible thing that just

happened.

And here in, I don't know, a couple of weeks or whatever, there were going to be some

of you who were like, wait a minute, that was a podcast episode first, and now it's

a video on your YouTube channel because this is totally going to be a video on my YouTube

channel.

I've actually been working on it for quite a while because I'm fascinated by this repeated

pattern in the Bible of God setting up situations in such elaborate and contrived ways where

the odds are so not overcomable that everybody, people who like him, people who don't like

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