Hey, my friends. I'm Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and we're going to talk

about a topic today that has all the potential in the world to be offensive because we're

going to talk about offendedness. And as you know, if you've hung out with me for any

period of time, I am of the deep conviction that offendedness is the laziest and least

useful of all of the human emotions. Not much gets done there that is particularly

productive. So as always, I got to turn over my cards because you've got to take those

things into account because I didn't write the Bible and I don't own it and I could be

wrong about a couple things or a few things or all the things. And I wouldn't know because

I would think I was right. And then I would charge ahead and be like, I think this is the

best read on it. And I would just keep saying stuff like that, but I could be wrong.

So with that in mind, we get to this passage in Matthew chapter 15 about offendedness

or at least it starts that way. And I think the way it's framed in the language of the

text isn't particularly flattering to the idea of offendedness. But it gets us into

some interesting thoughts about the human phenomenon, human emotions, and how that overlaps

with the Bible and what Jesus is doing here. As long as you read the thing, Matthew chapter

15, starting in verse 12, the Pharisees have come up from Jerusalem. They're mad about

not hand-washing properly. Jesus fiercely, verbally retaliates in a way that embarrasses

the Pharisees in front of everybody and equates them with God's chosen people who are absolutely

rebuked in Isaiah. What was it? 27. It was 27, 29. I'm looking, it was 29. My bad, Isaiah 29

in the Old Testament. Then Jesus turns to the crowds as we talked about yesterday and

was like, hey, we got to rethink the whole clean, unclean thing. It's not about what

goes into you that makes you unclean. It's about what is in you and what comes out of

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