What's up everybody, I'm Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and I remember

this one time when I was a kid and we were driving across South Dakota from east to west

to go and visit my grandparents and the sky turns bright red at night and I remember

my mom looking back and she's like, Hey, look at the sky red sky at night, sailors delight,

red sky at morning, sailors take warning. And like, I don't get it. And then my parents

kind of walked me through it. It's like an old mariners rhyme about how the weather works

and predicting the weather. It just stuck with me. And you can imagine my surprise when

sometime in 1990 or 91 when I first read the gospel of Matthew, I came across that in the Bible.

It's like kind of a Bible verse. It's right here in Matthew 16, starting in verse two and three

while I'll start from verse one. It says, the Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested

and by asking him to show them a sign from heaven. We talked about that yesterday. He replied,

Jesus, that is, when evening comes, you say it'll be fair weather for the sky's red. And in the

morning, today, it'll be storming for the sky's red and overcast. So you know how to interpret

the appearance of the sky, but you can't interpret the signs of the times. Wicked and adulterous

generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.

And Jesus then left and went away. We're in the middle of this big conversation about Matthew 16

here. And there are a ton of layers to this thing. But when Jesus invokes this ancient mariners

weather predicting Diddy to an audience who apparently he expected to be familiar with it,

he's using a formula that we see him use in a bunch of other places in the gospels as well.

And that is this if such and such, then how much more so such and such formula? Maybe one of the

most famous places where we see that that you and I have talked about is in Luke 16, there's a guy

he realizes he's going to get fired from his job managing all of the affairs and finances and

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