Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well in this episode we're going to keep exploring the gospel according to Matthew.

These were teachings that I did a number of years ago when I was a pastor at the door of

Hope Church in Portland and we worked through slowly over a couple of years the whole gospel

of Matthew.

This episode takes us into Matthew chapter 18.

Jesus has been on a long road trip from the Northern Galilee region of Israel Palestine

where he just did a lot of his work in the first couple years of his mission.

Then he started on a slow march towards Jerusalem for Passover.

And he's been trying to invite his disciples specifically as closest followers into a whole

new vision of the world, the Kingdom of God vision, which has a whole upside down value

system than the way we're raised to normally think about other people and status and how

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