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

Have you seen this motif in movies and stories everywhere?

It's the one where you got two people who are old friends and they were on the same side

of a thing, but there was some resentment or darkness brewing underneath in one of the

two.

And the same temptation was common to both of them, but one sort of fails the test and

gives into the darkness.

And the other pushes past that test and stays on the side of what is right.

And then as a story unfolds, eventually these two parties, these old friends or maybe

even brothers or sisters are back together, maybe the good guy infiltrates the stronghold

of the bad guy to try to talk sense or make one final plea with the person who is given

into the darkness.

And the idea of such a scene is that the good guy is trying to exhaust every last option,

every available plea or a bit of reasoning that they possibly can because they still care

about this person.

I can think of examples of this all the way back to thousands of years ago.

This is sort of how I read the relationship between Julius Caesar and Pompey when Pompey

finally lost and had his head taken on the shores of Alexandria and Julius Caesar who

had been at war with him found out about this.

He was not a happy man.

He wanted the chance to go and further try to talk sense to see if he could patch the

thing up.

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