Hey everybody it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and a lot of times at the beginning of these conversations I like to give a pretty specific example, but this one I'm going to go with vague because it affects people I care about and it was a very unique moment.

There was just a time that I can think of recently where I watched a social dynamic unfold.

There was a person who was in a very precarious position socially, but did not realize that they were on wobbly footing, that they didn't look very good,

and that they were in danger of a bad outcome.

Then I had another friend who was with us who is very socially sophisticated and very humble.

And a moment came up in the conversation, again being intentionally vague so as to protect the innocent

and maybe the guilty and it was the deciding moment of this little social exchange and

in that moment I watched my humble friend take the bullet.

My humble friend stepped in, absorbed responsibility for something that was not their responsibility, and let the person who didn't even

understand the precarious nature of their situation off the hook. It was just a profound

act of grace. it was impulsive it was intuitive it was in the moment there was

no time for strategizing or anything else and in that moment I got both a pretty good

look at my humble socially intuitive

friends wiring and DNA they didn't even calculate that's just who they are

dang I want to be good like that in those kind of moments. I want to be sophisticated

enough to see the moment and seize it, but I also want to be of such a character that I would

act in the way this person acted but also in that

moment I saw the complete not getting itness of my oblivious other friend who had no idea what had just been done for him.

And then because he didn't get it, he actually mocked the friend who took the bullet for him socially for the fact that he had screwed

something up. Again, I'm having to be really vague to make the story work, but I think you can picture

kind of what I'm describing.

I feel like that's part of the social dynamic that we're running into here in Matthew 27.

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