Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and if this is your first time here

welcome I don't normally sound like this. I'm not saying that I got real silky golden pipes or anything either, but normally I don't sound so sick and ratty and gross. I just don't feel very well right now. Well, that's not true. I really feel pretty good.

I just got this congestion so I don't sound good but I want to hang out with you anyway and do this so

hey here I am thanks in advance for your patience with my voice.

Again, if this is your first time here, we're working our way through the book of Matthew,

nice and slow-like, and the point of this exercise is not first and foremost for me to

convince you of all of my things and gets you to be a part of exactly

every single one of precisely all of my religious convictions.

The goal here is a little bit more on the, let's just think about it and try to understand

exactly what the document says and what it is side of things.

So we're going through it slow so we can take a lot of time on things like literary context

and consideration of where the characters were at

head space wise and theological context and historical context and all of that stuff and

I think it's been really fun and if this is your first time here you can jump in right

here and you can go back to the beginning anytime you want and power through it all and catch up and I hope you will.

And at this point we are at a brief pause at the beginning of Matthew Chapter 24, which is like the home stretch. We're getting to the final stuff about the life of Jesus described by his disciple, Matthew.

And the reason we're stepping aside is because this building, the temple, factors really heavily into the story of Jesus

down the home stretch.

It would have been something that would have come with a whole lot of connotations for everybody

in the original audience.

And so we're bouncing back into the Old Testament

for a few days here to jogger memory

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