Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. I know a ton of

you have been doing this with me since the beginning.

I know some of you found out about the conversation we were having here and you jumped in and

you were like, yeah, I'm just, I'm gonna binge it, I'm gonna catch up.

And you power it all the way through and you caught up and now you're live in real time with us. I know others of you like I have a friend

who's been telling me about this and they enjoy it and they keep they just won't

leave me alone and so I am giving it a try right now to be a good sport because I value my friendship.

There's just a lot of different places that you could be coming from that would land you here.

I'm just grateful we're in the same room.

I think it's cool.

I know we don't think the same stuff on everything.

I know that we're not in the same place

in terms of the unfolding of our lives

and our journey of wrestling with the big. of the

life life and our journey of wrestling with the big questions and obviously I mean we're we're dealing with the document here

that holds itself out as being from the God the maker of all the things.

And that's a big bold claim,

and that's gonna hit everybody's ears a little differently

than through the course of our conversation

working through Matthew. I've tried to consider very often what would it be like

to encounter this text if you were in this place if you were in this place if you were in this

place if you were in this place if you were in this place and that's kind of easy for me because I've been in a lot of those places and I maybe have a couple of them yet to go. I went through the book of Matthew. It's the first book I ever read beginning to end. I have actual written proof in my super

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