Hello, my name is Matt Whitman. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. And I would like

to tell you something that I like about you and what we have here together. And that

is that it seems like everybody's just cool with looking at things with our eyeballs

and then saying how the things are and being okay with acknowledging the reality that

some people feel differently about the different things. I mean, that's just that's cool.

Thank you. That makes this an oasis on the internet that I get to enjoy greatly that

I get to enjoy every day. And it also makes it so that it's easier to talk about things

that are going on in like the right here and right now that it can help us understand

better what was going on in the world, the political reality, the social reality against

which the story of Matthew is set in the first century AD in the Eastern Mediterranean

world. The more honest we can be about the realities of what we see going on around

us right now, the easier it is to track with all of that stuff.

Porra Hemplow, it's just not that hard if you are in my country, the United States of

America to have a pretty good sense of what people are going to think about taxes based

on a few cues based on how they vote. This is to be honest about this thing without any

judgment one way or the other. If somebody tends to vote democratic and they tend to be

more optimistic about the effectiveness of central planning that is gathering funds

together and having central political planners make decisions from the top down, they're

going to like taxes. They're going to feel like more taxes. That's how you accomplish

good in society because individuals don't tend to make the best decision with their resources.

We think that individuals gathered together in a group in an organization they tend to

make better decisions. That's the way it ought to be. If you talk with somebody who tends

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