Hey, my friends, I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and disclaimer right

up front, that clicking sound right there is my Rikola cough drop. This episode is not

brought to you by Rikola in any way, shape and form, but it should be because these cough

drops really help. I've got this dumb seasonal allergy cough thing. It doesn't do anything,

but if I sit in a room with any kind of air conditioning, it makes it impossible to have a

normal human conversation. It's like every two seconds you want to seize up and do this meaningless

cough. So, hey, cough drops of hoi, we're just going to do this thing. Thanks in advance for indulging

my disgusting mouth noises. Having said that, we are talking about Matthew 18. Matthew 18 is the

chapter that contains the fourth of the five great big speeches of Jesus around which the book

of Matthew is structured as we've been talking about. And this one has a bunch of different names.

It's kind of funny. The sermon on the mount, it's just the sermon on the mount. Matthew 5 through 7,

everybody calls it the same thing. But this one you'll hear talked about is like the church discourse,

the family of faith discourse. Anybody say that? No, that's just my term. The community discourse,

you hear that one a lot. I don't think I even brought that one up yesterday. Maybe that's the

most popular. I don't know whatever the case. It's the one in Matthew chapter 18 where Jesus talks

about what it looks like for somebody who is a part of the kingdom, a son, a daughter, a child,

an agent, an heir of the kingdom to live out their relationships within the community of faith,

within this new family of faith in such a way that they do right by other people that they honor

God and that outsiders can look at it and be like, oh, that's very, very compelling because it's

so weird and different and beautiful. I think I would rather live in a kingdom with those values

than to continue to operate under the normal default setting of world values that I operate under.

In Matthew chapter 10, Jesus outlines the message they're being sent out with, the same one that

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