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

I don't know how many episodes it's been, maybe like 300 episodes ago.

We talked about tennis, and I was talking about sometimes in tennis, you have to find

yourself in a defensive position, like somebody comes at you, they get a good ball to

hit, and maybe they hit a really nasty serve, then you have to play a little bit of deflective

defensive tennis to get things back under control, and now you get a ball that you can do

something with, and now you step into the play, and now you're the one on offense, and

I think I was talking about that as describing tetatet between Jesus and the religious leaders,

several, several chapters back.

Well, what I want you to do in your brain is first, not accuse me of intellectual laziness,

and two, just go back and remember that exact analogy, and then just bring it back up to

right now, and then I'm just going to say likewise, that rhythm of first having to deflect

back the best shot your opponent has, and then flipping to aggressive offense is exactly

the rhythm that we're getting in Matthew, chapter 21.

After we spent the last couple of days looking at the religious leaders coming out at Jesus

on day two of his time in Jerusalem, and trying to catch him in a trap where he's going

to give any answer and be accused of being blasphemous, but Jesus flips it around.

They ask him, where do you get this authority to do this stuff?

And Jesus is like, oh, I'll answer you.

You answer me this question.

Where did John get the authority to do it?

John's baptism, where did that come from?

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