What's up my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast.

I got a friend named Austin who from time to time likes to point out that he was technically

correct on a thing he just said.

And they always get this little giggly snarky smile and he's like, which is the best kind

of correct.

And of course, he's being tongue in cheek, the wink wink nod nod.

Nobody likes the pedantic eye that was technically right guy and so he's making fun of himself

and he's perfectly self aware.

I assure you, but we're not always totally self aware as we've discussed several times

over the last few episodes and from time to time, we do talk ourselves into believing

that being technically correct is the best kind of correct.

And really technically correct is probably actually the smartest, least useful kind of

correct.

And it causes us to roll our eyes when other people try to get us on those kind of technicalities.

And the reason that technically correct is such an obnoxious thing is because we can

all tell it violates the spirit of the point.

It violates the intent of whatever thing we're debating or discussing in order to get away

with something.

It's slick.

And that's exactly what we're running into here in Matthew, chapter 19, Jesus gives

a big long speech.

People like it even though it's very demanding.

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