Let's get to it. Why don't you grab your Bible, turn with me to Matthew chapter one.

Well, last Wednesday night, we covered the genealogy section of Matthew chapter one,

and I hope that it just helped us be reminded even as we looked at the you know

various you know people of that genealogy and then the the ones that were omitted

which are interesting because there were reasons why certain names were omitted and by the way

some of the Bible critics will you know start, start to, you know, talk about,

well, there's a discrepancy in this number of people that are listed.

And it says there's 14 generations, but there's really only 13 in one of the lists.

Maybe you notice that if you were counting.

But then you have to kind of go back to the Jechoniah thing.

By the way, when you come across these so-called contradictions in the Bible

or wrong statements or whatever, there's always a good answer

and you just have to do the work to answer those questions.

And I think you shouldn't be easily derailed by goofy things, you know, the critics saying,

well, there's 13 people listed when there should be 14. And then you say, well, I'm throwing

my Bible down and forget Christianity because there were 13 rather than 14 in the genealogy list.

That's ridiculous. And people do that. It's sad to say, but there's actually reasons. And so don't ever be too quick to judge by those things. And there's websites. I've noticed that social media trolls, there's websites where you can just cut and paste all the apparent contradictions of the Bible. And that's what happens on Instagram. You post something about the Bible. And then all the trolls will start, you know, here's a contradiction of the Bible. And they'll start, you know, posting him. And some Christians are like, I don't know the answers to these questions. There are answers. And they're not even that hard. And a lot of times it just shows the person's ignorance of the Bible.

I think I mentioned earlier, one of my favorite ones is when people love to use the book

of Ecclesiastes to sort of say, well, this isn't true, and this is what the Bible says.

But you have to remember, Ecclesiastes was written by a backslidden sinner named Solomon.

And that's the point of Ecclesiastes, is he was messed up when he wrote the book.

And that's why when we went through Ecclesiastes, we had to warn each other off to say,

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