Hey everybody, I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we ain't done talking about the word generation yet

And I decided to take yesterday and today off so I could go bum around with my family a bit

Which has been delightful and Aaron is doing a magnificent job of thinking through this thing

So that we can move ahead with an understanding of what generation means and how that works throughout the book of Matthew

So I'm just going to bounce it to him and let him pick up right where he left off catch soon

Hey, everybody. I'm Aaron Philanon from Madigan today

We are still talking about this idea of generation

Matthew really likes this word and this idea and it's an important concept throughout his gospel

He uses the term the actual word 13 different times throughout his gospel in chapter one

He's referring to what we might think of as the typical use of generation

He's talking about family line and life spans and those kinds of things

However, in the rest of the gospel if functions very differently and as we talked about yesterday

These words fall into a context. They're not like a Durandor and Lyric where it's the word salad and everything's kind of thrown together

It all falls into a context

So if I say the word trunk and we're walking down the circus you can imagine I'm talking about elephants

Versus if I talk about a little boy riding his bike in my neighborhood and mention a trunk

You can assume that he crashed his new bike

We all do this every day the words have meaning and we can determine that based on their context and we do this really quickly and really

Subconsciously and the context helps us supply

How the word is being used and that focuses its meaning and so we read each of the verses in

Matthew's gospel where he uses the word generation and we notice some patterns first of all outside of chapter one in

Each of those uses the word generation has absolutely no mention of any temporal aspect or any kind of family tree or family line

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