Hey everybody it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and you start

Star Wars episode four and you just got some blonde-haired 70s looking kid out in

some desert planet and their space wizards and they got laser swords and there's an

empire and they got like a moon thing that can blow up planets what the heck is

going on and you know what in 1977 and whenever that came out we all just leaned

into it we're like great

Sure, cool. We just accept that we're here and this is how the things are well George Lucas went back and decided to do the prequels

What he had to do is take three movies and just get us right to the setup point.

Now ultimately Rogue One is really the movie that takes us right to the beginning of

episode four, the very first thing you ever see in Star Wars but the table is

set when you come out of the prequels and then Rogue One for the original trilogy

if you're not in Star Wars you don't know what I mean that's okay

just the actual point that I'm driving at. Likewise, Matthew kind of needs to leave

us in a place where we got the fork in the road where we have the setup that we've known for the last 2,000 years and

that that setup that tension is okay nobody was ever able to find Jesus body a whole lot of people

believe Jesus came back to life a whole religion,

religion, the most significant one, the most influential one, the world has ever seen, was born out of it.

It continues to grow all the time and to be going unbelievably strong.

Sure, it ebbs and flows in different cultures, but boy, oh boy, is it flowing right now

in the developing world, in the east, in China, even if in the West the church doesn't seem to be having its best day right this moment,

this thing is still on this eternally upward trajectory.

Some people look at that and they're like, well, it's because Jesus came back to life.

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