Hey, my friends, I'm Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible Hour Podcast, and I want you to

picture a great, big brick wall.

It's all pristine and everything's right.

And now I want you to picture a Kool-Aid man with a face that looks like mine exploding

through it, because that's how we're going to come out of this passage today.

We're in Matthew chapter 19, we're dealing with stuff that sounds like it's super

controversial, hot button issue material.

And maybe it is for the audience today, as we read it, but it was not for the original

audience.

The crises and the points of tension that we might feel with this, people who Jesus

was talking to, people who Matthew was writing to, they did not feel those tensions that

we feel here.

So we're going to go right out and just speak to the thing.

Here's what we're getting.

The last eight chapters or so of Matthew, there is this consistent narrative pattern where

Jesus does something transcendent and beautiful and people are like, wow, God is real, I want

to sign up.

This is amazing.

I like this kingdom.

We should do this.

And then the Pharisees and Sadducees come along or one or the other to teach us the

law.

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