What's up, my friends? It's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast.

And do you ever have a friend or somebody who you rooted for who just could not get out

of their own way? They had everything in front of them that they needed to succeed and

you wanted them to succeed and people were pulling for them. But it's like they felt

this magnetic attraction to stuff that was destructive. And then people went and spent

their own energy and money and time to pull them back from that impulse and be like, no,

no, no, no, no. Don't go that direction. There's nothing good at the end of that thing.

Come in this other direction. Let us help. But at every turn, they picked the thing that

was destructive. They picked ruin. And maybe you're thinking of a book or a movie or as I

asked a second ago, somebody who you actually know, if you can picture it, it's one of the

saddest story archetypes of all of the story archetypes. It's the one you connect with

the addict or the person who has such low self esteem that they just can't believe they'd

ever be worth something. Or it's the story you connect with the person who is so compromised

and has such an ugly, messy legacy behind them and cannot accept forgiveness and cannot

find the humility to acknowledge the ache of the stuff they've been a part of. And so

instead they sunk cost fallacy the thing and they double triple quadrupled down on mistakes

they made a long time ago that everybody else is willing to move on from but them. And the

result is a wanton destruction that all you can do is shake your head as you look at it and hurt

for the person who wasn't willing to steer it in a different direction, but had every opportunity

to do so. Likewise, that's what we're dealing with here at the end of Matthew chapter 23. This

feels like just this little statement of lamentation that we get at the end of the chapter. Just

this quick musing from Jesus. Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who killed the prophets and

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