Now the story of the Jewish exiles who lost everything and the one man who had no choice but to help them rebuild it.

It's the Book of Nehemiah.

Hey everybody, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast.

And I don't think we've ever talked about this before,

but my plan coming out of college

was to be a lawyer.

I took the L-SAT, that's the fancy test you take

when you want to go to lawyer grad school, to law school.

And I got into some cool law schools and I went to one of those and I did a law internship

But about that time and it occurs to me I don't know that we've talked about this very much either

My kid brother died, which that's a longer conversation.

I miss him.

That was a very pivotal, obviously emotional,

but very pivotal moment for me and for my whole family and so I moved

away from where we were living for the law training and all of that stuff and I came

home and I guess I never really

looked back that was it for me and doing law stuff except for one little moment

where I helped a buddy of mine start a state planning law firm and it's still going

he's doing great he didn't really actually need my help but it was very fun

working with him and helping him out in the early days of that law firm.

And I remember very distinctly that there were two kinds of people who would come in.

There would be the people who had no plan, but the fact that they were going to die someday just

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