Everybody, I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast. And I remember one time I was

taking a political science course in college. I had a great professor. I was super respected.

And she gave us this short notice test one time. She gave us a blank map of the world

one week. I was like, hey, you got to know all the countries on here for next week. So

we went, we studied and worked on it as a class. And we came back and I felt pretty ready

to go. She's handing the thing out. And that guy in our class, because every class has

of that guy. No, it wasn't me. It might have been me. So she's handing out the test. And

as she hands it to that guy, he says loud enough for everyone to hear. Professor, what

hypothetically would be the reward if one of the students happened to have also learned

all of the capitals of all of the countries? I don't remember exactly how she phrased her

response, but it was something like this. It's just this, you just made me throw up in

my mouth a little bit. Gross. She didn't even dignify it with words as I recall. I don't

know the haze of time might have fogged that over. Maybe that's just what I wish her response

would have been. But at the time we ridiculed him a little bit. That obviously didn't play

well amongst a bunch of 19 and 20 year old college students. But over time, I'd become

a little more empathetic to that. I mean, come on. What he was trying to do in his misguided

kid way was to say, I respect you as a professor. I get what you're going for. I see why this stuff

is important. And if this is the bar that is normal, then I would love to exceed it,

ma'am, just to show you how committed I am to the thing that you are trying to teach

us. Yeah. Okay. Whether you're empathetic to that or not, if you figure if you can get

it, then it's probably really easy to understand what I think Peter is doing here in Matthew

chapter 18. Come on. Peter's impressed with Jesus. Look what's happened through these

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