Hello my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we are in the middle of a great big grand reset of the book of Matthew

officially we're in the middle of Matthew chapter 24 on our journey through this book one little chunk at a time every weekday morning but as I just

alluded to we are in the midst of a brief step back to look at the whole thing at

once because we want to be able to take this book and have all the raw materials of it spread out in front of us so we can think

about all of it at once and that requires us from time to time to reset things both to help

newcomers get up to speed and to keep it fresh in the minds of those of us who've been working on it a little bit longer.

I'm glad you're all here. I'm going to have Jeff play some music and we're going to pick up where we left off yesterday. Here in chapter 10 we get the list of the disciples and Jesus talks to them about

what it's going to be like going out and telling people about him now for them later on in their lives and then what

it's going to be like for anybody who goes and does this later on.

Then in Chapter 11, some time has passed and Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist, his hype man, has been arrested and he's in jail,

he's kind of wavering a little bit, and so he sends his own followers to Jesus, who's not in jail.

It's like, hey, John the Baptist wanted to know if, like, you really are the one, right?

Or maybe we should expect someone else?

And then Jesus cites this really important passage that everybody would have known from

Isaiah about what it'll look like when the Messiah comes.

And it's a bunch of things about brokenness and people being fixed, deaf can hear,

and leprosy's cured, and Jesus is essentially saying, I'm the Messiah but he hasn't come right

out and said that yet a bunch of other people are standing around they're like

John the Baptist disciples so dumb and then Jesus kind of turns on them a little bit. It's like, no, hey, no, generally speaking,

there's something of a faith problem and being on the same page with God problem amongst my people here

in this land and there has been for generations and

generations and they pivots one more time and he ends that rebuke saying

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