Hey everybody it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and I got to sit in

the room with some super super smart professor types at different points going to

college and at times I would just marvel at how they would make an hour an hour and

20 minutes of conversation fly by and drawing great stuff out of people.

And it was like the class just happened,

and like no one did anything.

And it looks so easy.

And then I would try to do that in conversations

with my friends, and it would not go very well and so I was picking one of these guys brains one time

I was like what do you do? How do you do that? What's what's the touch? What am I missing? What are you doing behind the scenes? And this guy said and this is a horrible

paraphrase this is years ago he said one or two good questions will get it

done if you put your time into thinking about a great question the pregnant

question the pregnant question, the obvious question, then whoever takes the

baton and runs with it at that point, it's going to go somewhere interesting because if the

question is well targeted, then the conversation has a great chance of thriving.

And likewise, in Matthew Chapter 24, the thing that is the precipitating event that kicks off

all of this great grand fifth of the five big speeches around which the book of

Matthew is structured that being the Olivet discourse the precipitating event is

just a couple of really good questions from some people who haven't always

asked the best questions from some people who haven't always asked the best questions,

from some people who haven't always been the most perceptive about what's going on,

that being the disciples.

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