Hey everybody it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour

podcast and in the Lion King there are two scenes maybe three you could argue, that composite together to convey the commissioning

that Simba receives from Mufasa. And I suppose those are one when they go up on a high place and they look out over

everything and Simba is told what the deal is like hey you're going to be a king, you need to take your place among the kings and assume your role within the kingdom,

you're getting closer to that moment, and then we get the lecture after Simba misses the point and

instead celebrates what he's going to get in the place of esteem he is going to

receive but in doing so he jeopardizes people in his care people lions in his care namely

Nala and then in that second part of the commissioning we see that Mufasa calls him

over and he's like you know know, I'm going to teach my sonnet lesson.

Simba's walking over to teach the lesson, his little tiny baby paw steps in Mufasa's great big giant

paw print and there's kind of this sense of

dang I got a long ways to go I might not be ready for this

But then there's a restoration that occurs with that scene ending with them romping around and wrestling and all of that stuff and then

finally there's the commissioning after Mufasa's death that happens out in the

wilds when Simba has blown it when he retreats from his

responsibility when he doesn't play the right role in Mufas's moment of need and

there the commissioning from beyond death is

absolutely certain you need to go back and you need to take your place and play this

role in the kingdom. Am I landed on too thick?

Because I mean, it's right there, right?

Come on.

Likewise, in Matthew chapter 28, what we're seeing is the completion of a commissioning

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