Hey, my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

You ever see one of those movie scenes where somebody needs a crucial bit of information

from somebody else before they die.

It's usually like an informant or somebody who's under duress and they're like, we've

got to find them.

We've got to find out what the deal is and he runs up to the guy and they're like, tell

me about the thing.

Tell me about project thing, a thing and then the sniper assassin, hitman who's there

to eliminate the source, puts a bullet in him right as they're about to say the thing

and then the protagonist is like, Harry, you still got to tell me about the thing and

then the dying person is like, you have to talk to go on and it makes the plot go

longer.

It's like if you could have just led with the name instead of telling me what to do,

that would have worked out great.

So those kind of scenes work because we understand there's a certain urgency when somebody's

about to die because of how final death generally is and that's the kind of sequence that

we're dealing with here in Matthew chapter 19 and moving forward is the disciples have

finally come around to accepting that Jesus actually means it.

He keeps saying like, I'm on a die and they're like, no, probably not or we'll use swords

and stop it and we'll protect you, Jesus, but he's like, no, you're not going to, I'm

totally going to die.

It's going to happen.

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