Hello, my name is Matt Whitman. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. Greetings to all

of you who've been hanging out with me since the beginning, forever many hundred episodes

that is talking about Matthew and little 10-ish minute increments every weekday. And also,

hey, welcome to all of you who are here for the first time. Maybe you're digging around

for a new podcast. Maybe a friend asked you to check it out. One way or another, I totally

get it could be intimidating feeling like you're jumping into a conversation in the middle

of things like you're late to the dance or something. Yeah, ain't you can jump in right now

right where we're at. You're smart. You'll take the context clues quickly to heart and figure

out where we're at. And you can always jump back into the back catalog if you ever feel

like it. One way or another, don't feel like we got some kind of weird inside joke here

that you're not welcome to. You are in immediately. Thanks for being a part of this thing, whether

you're brand new or you've been here forever. Right now, we're working on Matthew chapter

20 and this parable that looks like it's going to have a twist coming up about this landowner

who does something completely normal, which is go out and hire people to work in his fields.

I mean, this isn't even an old school way of doing business. This is a new school way

of doing business in lots of parts of the world. When I lived in Las Vegas, there were

a couple of greenhouses. I remember one in particular on what was that? It was like Eastern

and the 225 is across from the big anytime fitness. And when you would drive by there every morning,

you would see a whole bunch of people just hanging out, chilling with their friends,

knowing the people who were going to that nursery were probably going to need day laborers.

And sure enough, you constantly see people come by and negotiate a deal and then they'd hustle

off to a day of work. And hopefully the wages were good. But I always felt bad when I'd drive by

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