Hey everybody it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. We're right at the

very very end of Matthew and I promised you a couple episodes ago last week whatever that

wasn't gonna like just be all emotional about stuff and this is not my way of

warming up to being like and now I'm gonna be all all emotional about stuff. Hmm, no.

But it is striking that we're down to our last two conversations.

And it is also striking to me the way our friend Matthew

has crafted the feel, the flow of this book, has crafted the notes, the ups and the downs

that have led us through the whole thing to get us to a place here where we close strong, we close succinct, and we close with

a commissioning, a sense of being sent out from this encounter with this story and this king and this kingdom with kind of a sense of like hey here's what's next and no matter when you are reading this at least until the unfolding of events that Jesus describes in chapters 24 and 25 in the

Olivet discourse if you read it any time between the time it was written and

whenever that happens the what happens next thing is the same what happens next thing is the same. What happens next is that Jesus is

going to build his kingdom and that he's going to use people who are as flawed

or at times maybe even more flawed than the disciples we see described in the

book of Matthew to do it. What an interesting fusion of the work of God in its infinite perfection and the flawed work of his subjects.

That theme seems to exist throughout the Bible.

Of course God could have done all this stuff, his own way,

which is snaps of fingers and God power or whatever. I mean he has all authority on heaven

and earth, but instead we see this invitation to the unbelievable honor and

blessing of being a part of this new family of faith and having agency, having a role in making

it and participating in it in a way that is not patronizing but

that actually does something and that counts to do something and participate in something

that out lives this lifetime and that accomplishes what is like

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