Hey my friends it's Matt. This is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast. I have no idea where I heard the story that I'm about to tell you if it was maybe from a friend to somebody I knew or if it was like some thing from the internet or

the book or so I don't know but there was a story I heard once in childhood about a kid who was like I know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna be a little rebel rascal

Be like James Dean do naughty things I'm gonna smoke a cigarette I'm gonna smoke a cigarette, I'm gonna do it.

The cigarette, I mean, I saw some ads and stuff,

and it looks like the cool people smoke the cigarettes.

I'm gonna try it, take that dad.

And so we tried a cigarette, right?

And then dad found out and he was like, oh,

so you like cigarettes, do you?

Okay.

Well here, have a cigarette, and he made his kid eat a cigarette.

Kid's stomach got upset.

And he's like, no, no, no, no, if you want to be cool

and smoking one cigarette makes you cool,

maybe it'd be cooler yet if you ate the whole pack.

And he made him eat the whole pack. I did not hold this story out as being exemplary of good parenting.

I just remember the story and I remember the impulse and it was, well if you like this so much, let's go even further with it.

And it would seem that this human impulse toward doing things in excess as a means of discipline or correction is a very, very old one.

Because all the way back into ancient times, we see that the most elaborate torture methods and punishments all seem to have this kind of theme to it as

we've discussed over the last few days on this very magical memorable week of the

podcast that I've lovingly dubbed torture week.

All the torture, it's there for a reason, they're not just making stuff up, they're taking the

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