Do you ever have mom or dad or a teacher or somebody in authority sit you down and give

you a really long talk about what it is you were getting wrong and part way through the

talk maybe as a kid or maybe even as someone older than a kid you were like okay alright

I got it okay thank you yep I know alright okay thank you yep okay yep you're right

I shouldn't it yep okay thanks bye okay I think we're I think but the longer they keep

going and the more you're like okay I think I get it the more you realize no now they're

on to another completely separate thing and yeah I guess I did screw that up to and

oh no okay I thought I got that and that was probably it but no now that you keep talking

to add yep I guess I screwed that thing up to and you realize that sometimes these

omnibus lectures that you get from a parent that cover multiple multiple different points

of failure they feel really really bad but when it's all over you're like yeah I'm kind

of glad that we just got all of that over with right now but when you're a parent and

you give one of those more extensive lectures you realize something you didn't get as a

kid and that is this when I give one of those multifaceted talking to my kids it's because

all of the points relate and they want to think about it and just single little isolated

things like I shouldn't have said that to my sister or yeah I should have done the thing

you said but when I'm trying to point out is like there's a pattern here there's a whole

batch of things that I want us to be working on because all of these things are demonstrative

of the same underlying thing that is the character project that we need to be chipping away

at right now kiddo and so I'm sure likewise in Matthew chapter 23 the Pharisees are like

okay yeah okay yeah I know you don't like okay like yep too long with the tassels okay

I think I get it okay thanks bye thanks but each new thing that Jesus tags on is further

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