Hey my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we're

always learning things about ourselves, right? I mean hopefully that's part of

life. You grow and you figure out things that maybe you didn't know you were good at and then you find out you're good at it and then maybe you thought were totally working and then gradually you figure out, huh, that might not have been as effective as I thought.

Maybe sarcasm and me go that way.

I've had friends for a long time just jokingly be like,

I'm sorry, I cannot always tell when you're being sarcastic.

Because I'll crack a joke or something I catch

them flat-footed and they don't know or I say something that I really mean and they

go to laugh and gradually I've figured out they're holding up a mirror to me here.

And there are certain figures of speech

that you mean to use to include people

and have everybody in on the laugh

and to make a sharp point but these are sharp verbal instruments and if not

wielded with great precision there can be a little bit of ambiguity there or if wielded in one setting it might be

crystal clear but given a little bit of time or a different circle of people maybe it

becomes a little trickier to sort through.

I think that is at the heart of the debate that we've been looking at inspired by our

trip through Matthew 26 here and the Lord's Supper the last supper that we're looking at in

versus well specifically 26 27 28 29 you got a really important thing

that Jesus says here that I think it really only be read one of two ways right he says take and eat this is my body

Then he says he takes this the cup and the wine in it he says

drink from it all of you this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for

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