Hey everybody, I'm Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast, where we've been

inching our way through the Book of Matthew a little bit every weekday morning.

Right now we are on the scene between Matthew, chapter 18 and Matthew, chapter 19.

And that scene has us looking backwards at the fourth of the five great big speeches

around which the Book of Matthew is structured.

This is the community life discourses, this is the one that's in house business.

More than all of the other speeches, this one is about, well, if you're already in, you're

going to follow Jesus, here's how to treat people on the front end.

Here's how to treat each other when you're in this community of faith, this new family

of faith and something goes wrong.

And here's what your attitude should be regarding forgiveness all the time.

And so it's a drilling down even further that we get in Matthew, chapter 18 into the

values of the kingdom that were first introduced to us in the sermon on the mount.

It's a drilling down into what those values look like in a very specific way when they're

played out amongst flawed humans whose destinies have been changed, whose natures have been

changed, but who still exists in the world that's broken and flawed with bodies and brains

that are broken and flawed and characters that are broken and flawed?

It's this, what does it look like to live with a foot in each world kind of speech?

And understandably, it gets into some pretty gritty, pretty practical stuff because it's

meant to deal with the difficult rub between these two worlds that the kingdom citizen in

a sense lives in.

But on the other side of chapter 18, as we get into chapter 19, we see that it's working,

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