Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me is Dr. Michael

Barbara, who is a professor of scripture here at the August Institute. And we're going to continue our

ongoing Bible study into the Gospel of Matthew. It's been a joy, Michael, to keep walking through

this with you. And we're just kind of keeping it a steady pace, not too fast, for sure. And maybe for

some people too slow, but i don't think so

there's a lot to cover in this gospel we're going to pick up where we left off which is going to be

matthew chapter 19 so grab your bibles open up to matthew chapter 19 verse 16 and it's the story of

the rich young man encountering j. And this is a powerful story.

And every encounter that somebody has with Jesus is something we want to meditate and something

we can learn about for our own encounter with Christ.

And so we want to dive into the details here with you.

But we also want you to keep you the big picture.

And that is this is for your spiritual nourishment.

When we want you to take this story and be able to put yourself in that story and to pray about this story in your prayer time, today or tomorrow,

so that you can have that same encounter with Christ.

That's what we want to facilitate.

So, Michael, we've got Jesus, and behold, a man came up to him saying,

teacher, so probably rabbi, right? What good deed must I do to have eternal life? And so this is,

this is not only a good question, this is kind of the ultimate question, isn't it? How do I get

to heaven? How do I get eternal life? Now, I know you wrote a book

on salvation, and you tackle this in that book, and it's a great book, and I just want to, I want to give a

shout out to that book. If you have it, yep, great, salvation, what every Catholic should know,

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