Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast.

I got all frantic and shut things down yesterday because I was like,

no, I don't want to be rushed and want to talk about all of these points in the book of

Matthew where that theme about Jesus affirming the people who

understood the uniqueness of the moment that he was there physically and

it's this is a cool rounding out in such a cool payoff and so, yeah, as I am in the habit of doing from time to time, I split the thing in half.

I think we were in like chapter 11 or chapter 12 looking at examples of this theme. I don't know we're just

gonna pick up wherever I cut us off clumsily and abruptly yesterday. I'll task my buddy

Jeff with playing some cool rock music and then we'll just pick it up from there. Then how about chapters 11 and 12 when John the Baptist disciples show up and

everybody's like yeah John the Baptist he's idiot, but Jesus fires back at the crowd.

And he's like, whoa, I tell you the truth, among those born of women, there's not been anyone

greater than John the Baptist, yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than

he. This is again, hinting at that theme, that idea,

that proximity to Jesus is the most valuable thing and John the Baptist, like he was prophesied in the Old Testament.

He had the job of pointing people to Jesus.

That's huge, but, hey, if you're in the kingdom, even in the lowest-strung position,

that proximity to Jesus is of greatest value.

How about Matthew 12 versus 1 through 8 when the disciples are, you remember

they're going through the grain field and they're picking it and it's on a

Sabbath and the Pharisees are real mad and they're like look your disciples are doing what's

unlawful on the Sabbath and then Jesus gives them that example about David and he goes into the house of God and he is his companions they ate the

consecrated bread which it wasn't lawful for them to eat but Jesus is effectively

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