Hey my friends it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we have got miles to go before we sleep we got stuff to do today

so we're just gonna pick up right where we left off yesterday in the middle of a big picture overview of the first 24 chapters of Matthew

so we can keep this thing spread out in front of us and

really try to understand the whole book at once. I'm gonna have my friend

Jeffrey who does the music here play a little something and then we're gonna pick up

where we left off yesterday. In chapter 19, Jesus has another back and forth with the Pharisees.

This time it's about divorce and remarriage and then he has a conversation

famously with a rich young ruler who's like how do I get eternal life and she's like obey all these

commands and he's like oh yeah I totally have and I don't know about that, but that's what the kid said.

And he's like, cool, all right, well if you want to be perfect, go sell your stuff and give it to the poor.

And the rich young ruler is exposed as loving world kingdom currency more than kingdom

currency and he's not willing to do it he goes away proud and that's where you

get that famous quote about harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of

heaven than it is to cram a camel through the eye of the needle, mild paraphrase is mine.

Then we get to chapter 20 and now the whole story is pivoting into act 3 and Jesus is headed toward Jerusalem,

which is way down south from where most of this story has occurred, like

think Milwaukee, Wisconsin down to Chicago, Illinois kind of distance, and so he makes

the trip along the way, he heals people people he talks about humility as being a value of the kingdom and then in chapter 21 he gets to the town where he's going to meet his fate the big great grand city of Jerusalem where the official important things happen,

and he sends his disciples in ahead of him to get a donkey instead of riding in on a warhorse,

he's going to ride in a donkey. I think that's symbolic. I think that means something. But he goes in and

surprise, the town is ready for him to be there. They welcome their king. They get out branches and they wave him around and they say

Hosanna to the son of David, blessed is he who comes in the

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