Hello my friends it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast I'm sorry for the

clicking that clicking right there I

got to do a cough drop. My own little bit of a cough makes it hard to talk in the microphone

because then I want a hack and gag and it just apparently it's not appealing I'm told

people don't like the way that sounds.

So cough drop it is. Do you remember the first third of Matthew like way way way way

back when we were just gonna know each. We were all babies back then.

So much time has passed, it's crazy. And in the early going, we were like,

ah, there's all this stuff about Jesus. It kind of fits with what was predicted from

the Old Testament. Could he be the guy? And that's kind of hard to tell and then he does

his first big public speech, sermon on the mount, chapters 5 through 7, and he lays out the

values of his kingdom and gives you a sense of what it looks like to follow God in light of those

values and then he gets done with

that and he's walking down the hill and everybody including hopefully you and me

if we were reading it right are like that sounds great those are the values that everybody, of every political persuasion, wants.

That's the good stuff.

Everybody wishes that could happen.

Lots of people make lots of claims.

How is this guy any different?

How's he going to back that up and then immediately

he touches some guy and cures his leprosy and then some government official

comes up from the army and he's like he heals somebody I care about and Jesus

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