Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 1111 | Miss Kay’s Health Comeback

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

Miss Kay is bouncing back in a big way after Phil’s passing, and Jase gets real about what grief and healing after 60 years of marriage looks like. The guys also explore the mistaken belief that suffering is always a sign of sin or a failure of faith, digging into the story of the blind man in John 9 to show that every life, even ones full of suffering, has a God-given purpose. Plus, Jase becomes an unlikely mentor to a group of frog-shy kids, and ends up kissing a bullfrog on the lips in the name of bravery. In this episode: John 9; Exodus 8; Psalm 82; Ezekiel 28; Ephesians 2, verse 3; John 8, verse 56; John 10, verse 34; Galatians 5, verse 19; 1 Peter 4; Luke 24, verse 39; 1 John 5, verse 21 — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? Welcome back to Unashamed. Zach, you have literally flown in to be with us today. Did you fly in today? I did. I flew in, landed at 12. Just two hours ago, he was, you were 35,000 feet. I was. So to set the time right, because usually we do a couple of podcasts a couple times a week,

but we do them in the morning. in the morning. But this, y'all didn't know that now I realize if you, look, if you don't think God is working in all this, because last night, I had my first frog hunt of the year. Really? It's June, you know, two or three years ago, the powers that B decided to put a frog season into play, which I was. Why would you really need a season?

Because not very many people frog got. They got to control it. Somebody's got to control it. I mean, frogs are frogs. I mean, they're... Yeah. In the spirit of Phil, I'm sure there was a meeting that took place somewhere. You know, he never liked meetings.

So there was never a frog season until two years ago. I mean, there's a natural frog season. There's a natural season. It's like crawfish season. You know, you know when they're going to be catchable. But, oh, no, no. They got to have a rule. They got involved.

The 14 people in the U.S. that are actually catching frogs. But it is a state thing, right? Because it wouldn't be... It's not a... They're not a migrant. They're not a migratory. No. I assume it's a...

I'm sure that it was probably every state has assimilated this rule. So they basically don't want you to catch them when they're spawning. Yeah. Which is in our state would be April

May. Right. So I have gone a couple times at the end of March on warm, you know, because you have a couple days there when they're coming out. But so it actually

worked out because I needed to recover. You know, the older I get, frog hunting is a contact sport. Did you get some frogs? Oh, did we? It was one of the most... I'm sad I'm leaving town. That was another good reason to come to town.

You need to invite yourself to that. I want to get on the frog leg eating. Well, I hate to tell you this, the ones that I siphoned into my little ice chest as I was already deep into the morning there, they have already been ingested. That's why, look, today, so that's what you have for lunch today. Well, it's kind of a mid, yeah. Yeah, brunch.

You know, I'm on the- Frog-leg brunch. Now, that's got a ring to. I like frog legs. I wonder what would you do in a scenario because at church on Sunday, we were going through that, we're going to do the Book of Exodus. What would you do if the frog plague hit? Look, we actually talked about that last night. Because somebody asked me a biblical question.

I did not know the answer. because we had a bunch of kids. It was for some reason, I mean, look, we'll just say this because, you know, our dad died. And all of a sudden, you're thinking more about, you know, the legacy he left. And, you know, I got asked to go and let's teach some little kids how to frog hunt, which was a different role for me, you know. And but I did it. And it turned out to be fantastic.

And, I mean, you saw the whole gamut, the tears, the fears, the fears, that then all of a sudden, hey, this looks kind of fun. And then having the courage, because some of these kids were small. And it just, it was like a transformational process. And weirdly enough, I was the only. I never knew. It's a new thing. I think that's my role at this stage in my life.

But in the spirit of Phil, you know, he used to, he just couldn't, he couldn't wait until lunch. We'd go catch the frogs, you know, and it's like. How many mid-morning? catfish eating said we have. Oh gosh. It's so fun, you know. And Missy just watched the whole process.

She doesn't like it because I fried the frogs and I'm like, it's the first frogs of the year. I must do this. Because you can do, there's a Cajun recipe where you kind of saute them in butter. You soak them in lemon juice. And they're good, but it takes too much time. Yeah, that's a long time.

I was just more going for. I had six frogs that I siphoned. And I sat right there and ate every one of this morning. And so I wanted to say, I'm feeling a bit froggy. But to get back to the plagues, I guess they said which plague was it. And I guessed it six, which they all said I was wrong. They said it was five.

I never actually looked it up. You never verified. I cracked stuff can get on that. Which plague? What number? I guessed it was the frogs. I should know. The plague of frogs.

There it is. Exodus 8. Well, we need to know what numbers. You'll probably have to find that. I could probably do it from the back end. But to answer your question, I just always seemed like that was out of place because I thought, you know, there's different kinds of frogs. It was two?

Well, they were wrong, too. What were they doing? Oh, it's the second, yeah, the plague of blood and the plague of frogs. Because it could, remember, it was the one that could be reproduced. The blood and the frogs, the magicians reproduced it. Now, how did they reproduce that with the frog? I think it got. You know what they did?

They found a bunch of people like me. They went and called them. And then they... I think they had some kind of demonic power. I think they were tapped into something. Well, we're going to get into that when we get to John 10. Yeah. But I've been studying some weird stuff that we'll get into in John 10.

Because Jesus quotes Psalm 82, which I didn't know Psalm 82 is like in the religious world. It's like a battleground for all kinds of thoughts. But we'll get to that. But it would be a good thing. Well, Jay's dropping the teasers today. Well, I'm saying to jump ahead before we get there so you're not completely blindsided, like which plague was the frogs, which, you know what, I gave them a lesson on when they asked me that, and I didn't know the answer, and maybe it was pride, I don't know.

But I kind of think, maybe not. I said, don't get consumed with the order of the plague. Get the point. Yeah. of it, which is my whole point about the Bible itself. Any filtering system that does not include Jesus at the center of it, which was the plan all along, it's a faulty system, you know?

So I was like, I'm really, I know it was a plague. Didn't you tell, say at one time, because you had looked this up, that they were like bullfraught, like our kind of fraud, but it wasn't like toads, right? Yeah, I looked it up. I can't remember the details. I remember one time on the podcast we talked about this years ago that it wasn't like, in my mind, it's like thinking a bunch of toge.

Whatever a rabbit hole went down, I concluded that they were edible frogs. For you, Jason, would have been the only guy in Egypt that did not receive that as a plague. My first would have to say that. You didn't receive that as a gift. Thank you, Lord. Well, that's what they are. I keep dropping that Leviticus 1711 because he turned it around on them. They thought, oh, we're giving our animals up as a sacrifice because we make mistakes.

And he's like, no, those are gifts from me. And it puts everything to me in perspective because Jesus ultimately is the gift of God. But so are the animals that we're supposed to lord over, which is why we now have a frog season. That would have been much worse with the gnats because that just gets down. Well, that's me. I mean, these gnats are a problem. But my first reaction to the frogs would have been grab a tow sack. And some peanut oil, at 350 degrees.

Yeah, I mean, ready to fry. It's happening the frog promise. Yeah, they are delicious. But, I mean, look. It's been a while since I've had a wild caught one, though. There's places that sell them, but they're not near the farm race. We don't do. We don't do frog legs anymore.

I probably would try, though. Well, one of the little kids, he was, you know, scared to touch the frog and I was like it was just embarrassing. I mean the yuppiness of some of that crew I was with last night was disturbing and I said let me guess there's been a lot of tantrums up to this point I was like because you waited too I mean it's good that you brought your young son out there but you waited too late that's why you've had so much trouble but so what I did was I was trying to get him to touch frog when that's it I was like what if I kissed this frog because he had watching the, you know, Hollywood movies.

Disney movies. You kissed the frog during the old prince. And he was just horrified at the thought. So I like, I kissed a frog last night. But when I did that, it turned him into a prince. Because then all of a sudden he started petting the frog. He was like, I mean, if Jace will kiss him, must be all right. And look, fast forward a couple hours, that little kid's on the front of the boat saying, let's go.

Yeah. Grabbing frogs. Yeah. So you saw, you saw the. immediate power of being out in what God created. Yeah. It's like this is what we're supposed to do as humans. We're in charge of this.

Yeah. So it's a gift. Yeah, it was a wonderful, wonderful night. But there was a recovery time that was needed. I do want to say this, because we actually had a frog hunting scene in our Duck Family Treasure show. Yeah. And we hunted the frogs in downtown Yuppieville right at the foot of the college.

there's a little stream there by U to Zaire. And I'm guessing it's legal to hunt there, but we did. Has that aired yet? Yeah, that one has already aired and nobody said it. We had permission, so I guess the powers it be. But I wanted to say that season four is out. So it came out Sunday the 15th. Yeah, this past week.

June 15th. Yeah, it's June. This progue season. and there's five new episodes out. So I think it's the first half of season four. Oh, they're good. I've said many times. I think it's the best show.

Very few people have watched. They're going to get it at some point. But, yeah, check it out because on Fox Nation. Yeah, and you're not late to the party because I think they're dropping one a week. Yeah. They're going that method. So you can binge watch a couple, which is what I like to do.

They like to save them up and watch. I like to binge watch stuff. I won't watch TV for a while, then I'll get on something. Well, Willie and I, he came by the other night. Mom is staying in our compound. We have multiple compounds, and our compound is within the bigger compound. And Mom is there with us. And so she's been coming over.

She is doing amazing, by the way. She's had a huge bounce back physically. Evidently out in, what did Phil used to call the Internet? Computer land. Computer land. There's some false, fake news. There's been a lot of fake news about mom. Because a lot of my friends have sent me text.

According to- Sorry to hear about your mom. You know, I understand, you know. And I'm like, no, we just ate supper. She's doing really good. Well, what happened, Willie came over, and we were talking about the new show, his show. And we were talking about how now television is so different.

It's hard to, you know, like, people are still looking at the old ways with the ratings and overnights and all this stuff, but people don't watch TV like that anymore. They don't eat, It's hard for them to even find networks. So we can have yuppie, VIL. That's been my whole row in there.

Show, I'm not supposed to divulge secrets, but I think you can pretty much figure out. If I'm involved, I am the de-yupifying aspect of the show. Which is a theme that runs through it, which is good. I mean, gee, well, so Willie was over there, and he said, well, he said, well, this whole thing with mom, it was my fault. I did it. I started it because I was like, well, I've read things that you supposedly said.

I've read things that Jay supposedly said. But what happened was he was doing a local interview about his new show. And the guy, who's a guy we all know, he was just like, hey, how's your mom? Like just,

of course, Willie, I said, Willie, you know, even friends, when you were talking to somebody who is a reporter, you know,

they're going to say something. So he just said generally, well, you know, she's not in great health. And, you know, this thing's been really hard on her with dad.

And so he just made a job. a general statement about her health, not like she's... Which could define someone at almost 80. Most people, I mean, generally, let's face it, you got some struggles once you get close to that number, you know? Exactly. And so, but she's really thriving and doing fantastic, like she's been walking up the steps to my house.

I mean, she's doing things I didn't know that she would do again. Well, compared to six months ago. Yeah, that she was... Fantastic. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, she looked good before I left. You said she's walking up your stairs. Walking up my steps.

And I told us, I said, Mom, you're working up a Gulf Shores trip. But so Willie, we had a lot of laughs, as you can imagine, and he's really good with Mom because he's always needling her about that. But when I left to come here today, Jay, so it was so funny because Mamaw Joe,

who is Corey's grandmother, who lives in between me and Jay, she's in the larger compound. She's 94 years old. Well, yeah. And we've talked to her before. She's a wonder. I told her to that said,

Mamma, Joe, we talked about, there's something. I said, we talk about you on the podcast because I said, you are a wonder. She's 94 years old. She drove up there to, and she's sitting with mom. So I was laughing.

I walked out and I said, okay, Mama Joe, you came for a visit? She said, why, I just wanted to come sit with your mom for a while? I said, so we got a 94-year-old Joe sitting with 77-year-old mom. I said, we talk about you all the time that you're a wonder. And she said, oh, honey, it's 90% genetics and 10% makeup. That's all it is. Well, Warren Buffett is 94, and he just stepped. down, I believe, as the head of Berkshire Hathaway.

I mean, I think I think 94 years old rolling like that, that's pretty impressive. It is. It's rare. It is. But, Mamo, Joe, I mean, look, she was one of the reasons I'm, you know, grew in the Lord just because I thought this woman, I mean, she is a very godly woman. She's amazing. Very strong.

Class and character and a great imager of the Almighty God. Yeah. She's an amazing woman. I love her to death. And some of our time foolery, know she ain't any much on that. And she'll tell you know, it's a good thing, yeah. Yeah, I know.

We need to, we need checks and balances. We need people, you know, checking us online, calling us narcissists. Narcissistics. I did tell you. I did, I started before you walked in, I said, I want to tell you, I told Jill that story, that Al was called a narcissist. And that bothered him a little bit. And she said, he is the least narcissistic person I know.

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heyjack.com. Go check it out. Does somebody say we're at John? Nine? We are. But now I'm curious as to where we're going to pull Psalm 82 into this. John. The Divine Counsel.

When we get to John Tent, well, I'm just, because I want people to prepare for what's fixed to happen. the upcoming podcast. You know, Jesus and John 1034, I believe, quotes Psalm 82, which is going to lead you back to Deuteronomy 4. So I'm giving you some pre-reading, which I've read through Deuteronomy 4 before. But because you get into this,

I'll make a statement that's going to come out, this God against the God. gods. Psalm 82 seems to imply, some people have labeled this in your world. What does Zach's world? What do we call the people like that? In his world. And the apologetic world.

They deemed a phrase called the divine counsel. And it's basically, they get it from Psalm 82, which is like God has a celestial family who had roles of guarding humanity, I guess. or helping humanity. I don't know how the phraseology that they all use. And so we'll go through that. But the fact that Jesus quoted Psalm 82, I think makes us,

compels us to actually do a breakdown of it. And you probably won't hear that on many podcasts because, boy, it's a dozy. Yeah, it's eye-opener. You don't hear too many sermons on Psalm 82. And you can go ahead and read Psalm 89 with it in Psalm 115 because they seem to be talking about the same thing, whatever that is, this idea of the celestial world,

which you got to remember, last podcast you said to read the book of Job. Yep. Well, the Book of Job contributes to all this. Because here you have a celestial being. Right, the first two chapters, yeah. Yeah, that's like roaming to and fro looking for, you know, know, humans out of place. So the evil...

And then having these conversations with the Almighty. And it's like, what? Yeah, so that's the picture there. And just throw in verses like, you know, the one in Hebrews that says are not angels. Masquerading. Ministry. No, ministering spirits, you know, to humans. So they had a role.

Of course, the big question comes up. I know we're getting the cart before the horse, but we'll get there. is, well, why does God need that? And he doesn't. But you realize that somehow God wants to share his authority, he wants to share his love. In that spirit of who he is, these things develop. I mean, the evil one came from somewhere. So you read Ezekiel 28, and it kind of gives you a picture of how that happened.

Now, it's kind of cloaked in a prophecy about a king. I think of tire. But then all of a sudden he starts talking about the garden and starts talking about the evil one who was hurled to earth. And so it gives you a picture of that. But you know that the evil one was a created being. He's a spirit that is at work in those who are disobedient. That's Ephesians 2, 3.

So these sons of God that are referred to in Psalm 82 seem to give the impression that this celestial family that were created for a purpose when they did not want to do their function, just like humans. When humans don't want to function for the purpose that God gave them, we have problems. You know, sin takes place, rebellion takes place, and this spirit actually works within the spirits of humans, and you get the first 11 chapters of Genesis. It's a fall of man, but then they bring in Genesis 6. well, there's a fall of these celestial beings who got hooked up with the humans.

And the result was, we had a flood because it really became evil. And then you had Genesis 11 happen. And that's where the Deuteronomy 4 comes in because it ties in with Psalm 82. And then you said, why is Jesus quoting that? Well, I think that's significant because what is John 10 really about? You know, it starts off with, you know, I'm the gate. I have a pen. My sheep, I have sheep.

They know me. They know, but there's a thief that comes in and tries to steal. Well, so he's giving you this big picture of, you know, there's two kingdoms at work here. Those who rebel against God and those who are, have, you know, surrendered to the true one and only God. And so among those who rebel against God, there's these gods, and I'm using them. quotations, because that's what he's using. It's gods with a lowercase G. Elohim's little guys, not Yahweh.

But it's the same word used for God. I mean, so that's where this gets kind of tricky. But we're going to get into all that, but that's good. But no, but you're right, and you're right to go there, because this is an early version of what he's going to get into more in depth in chapter 10 and in chapter 9. And I mentioned it on the last podcast. This is called in theology, divine retribution. same idea.

And a lot of people have misunderstood that there's always been good and evil as if they were immortal entities. And always in opposition. Like Star Wars. Right, exactly. But that's not true. God alone is immortal. The reason I'm bringing this up, because then once you kind of go down this road about

the gods, whether they're celestial fallen, beings, they get it hooked up into idolatry, which is all over the place in the Old Testament and the New Testament. I mean, the last verse of 1st John 5, which when we get to 1st John,

it'll make more sense once we go through all this. I mean, the last thing he says is keep yourself from idols. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because it addresses this whole light and darkness, and it addresses verses that are very hard to wrap your head around like they cannot see, even though they hear they cannot see even though they

what was the verse say where it says they cannot understand even though they claim to see which we're fixed to get into in John 9 well all those phrases come up in these verses it's because you have set yourself up

a God that is not the one true God and then you're being influenced by celestial beings that are not the holy God. They were created by God for a purpose, and now they've influenced you by idols, and you serve created things, and that's why you can't see it. It makes your function. I think this is the key phrase. The purpose that God had for you and the celestial beings, when that doesn't happen, well, you can't see the truth, because you're hooked up on a lie. And it basically comes back to that truth versus lie, God versus gods, idols versus the true God,

darkness versus light. And that's why you're just unable because in your mind, you think this is God. Yeah. And you're bowing down and worship and created things rather than the creator. Yeah. And so those verses make more sense once you kind of look at it from the big picture of those who rebel, those who surrender, you know. And it's also the power, I mentioned this in my podcast, the last podcast we talked about my sermon, the power of choice, because you have to choose wills here as well. And there was a choice before us in that realm.

We know that because we know Satan made a choice. So he was at one time, he was a beautiful, you know, being and followed God. He was the first worship leader. Exactly. I mean, really, yeah, very powerful. But all this conversation makes what he did on the cross and the resurrection even more powerful. Because not only, we tend to only think, well, he died for my sins, you know, and one day I'll live again. Way more happened than that.

Because he defeated all these powers that were against him. And used stuff like death, which was the result of sin, to have control over people, you know, over their fear of death. Think Hebrews, too, you know, why he became a human. and it helps define what you know which is hard to define from Greek and Hebrew to English what the Bible translates the sinful nature or the flesh I think the flesh is a better translation but and we'll get into that today here in John 9 but it kind of helps you wrap your head around like the human condition and why God came down and the powers that are against us. And all that is tied in to some of these quotes that he does from the book of

song. Well, it's also, we've mentioned this before, it's also illustrated so well, like in marriage, I did a wedding this past weekend. And any time I have a young couple in front of me, I always go back to the basics of beginnings, which you see first in Genesis. But it's the same concept. When you make a decision, and you're telling the whole world, in that case, they were standing before their family and friends, and God Almighty and me is an efficient. And you're saying, I'm willing to give my will to another person. I mean, we're going to now exist as one. We are two people with our own will or their own mindset, but we are now saying we're

going to join that together. I mean, you think about it, it's one of the most submissive things we can do on this are other than giving our submission to Christ, you know, it's the only other thing we do at this level. But you see the power of it, and you see it when it works. well. And so the conversations I've been having with my own mother these last few days have been around what happens when that uncouples. And you struggle with the idea because you spent, mom spent 60 years in that sort of relationship with dad. And now of a sudden, she's,

like a ship that's a drift. Like she's trying to figure this out. You know, what, what, and she said, I just, I just, sometimes when I, when I wake up, I just think he's just standing there and he's just looking at me. Yeah. You know, and you realize that's the power of what happened. They were one. They were one. And so the idea, which is a beautiful picture of what it looks like with our relationship with Christ, was no wonder he said, it's a bride and a bride.

Well, I mean, when we get to John 10, he's going to talk about the eye and the father are one. But I think the oneness of what we're talking about is key. And going to Jason's point about Psalm 82 and then also Deuteronomy 32 is a big part of this as well. But it's the idea that heaven and earth at one time, if you go back to Eden, heaven and earth were not separated like it is today. Heaven and earth were together. So Jesus, and to your point, to the matching and the merging of wills, what was Jesus' prayer?

When they taught us how to pray, that, Lord, your will be done on earth. Where? It's like it is in heaven. So it's saying merge the wills. Oh, no, you're right. Because when I read Deuteronomy 4, it's amazing. How many times he used what you just said in that whole chapter? Of course, because I went to Psalm 82, which led me to Deuteronomy 4, Deuteronomy 32.

And all of a sudden, I'm like, all this heaven and earth stuff is all over the place in Deuteronomy 4. It just keeps coming up, keeps coming up, keeps coming up. So I think you get a description of really the plan of God there. This is the original plan. This is how heaven and earth was supposed to be, however you want to say it, interlock connected, the presence of God with human beings. He wants to dwell with humans. Which is why even in the celestial world, same concept, it's a family.

You call it the divine counsel, but I would call it, you know, the divine family. That's why it says sons of God in Psalm 82, which Jesus was making the point. Well, you don't have a problem with that. and now I'm saying I'm the son of God. He gave him a verse, which is very confusing in Psalm 82. But he's like, well, he didn't have a problem when he wrote it there. And now I'm claiming to be the son of God. And you're like, oh, no, no, that's not possible.

And there's a difference in Jesus being the son of God and the celestial beings being sons of God. Because you fast forward that, well, we're adopted as sons of God. when nobody has a problem of that. It was like, yeah, it's okay. So I just, I see a pattern there, which is why I dubbed that phrase. I kept saying somebody said the Bible's about God getting his family back, but when I actually looked that up, nobody said that.

So I guess I said it. I'll take it. But because I thought somebody said, well, who said that? Well, I thought I heard that. Maybe it was the Holy Spirit. Just on it. Well, I Googled it, and I could find no one saying that. No one.

That's when you know you may have had an original thought when you can't find it. Wait a minute. Did I actually come up with that? That's interesting. It's interesting. It's the Holy Spirit, you know. Yeah. If the overarching theme, though, in that getting the family back together, bringing

heaven and earth together, the temple motif is all the more important now because if the temple represents the mountain that meets God, going back to Tower of Babel, Genesis 11, they were trying to do that on their own. They were trying to build. up so high that they could reach and touch God and make a name for themselves. And that was really kind of like indicative of the real problem is that man trying to get to God because he's reversing the nature of how God operates. God comes to man and it's never the other way around. And so if you think of a temple as that place that's high up on the mountain top, it's where, it's where heaven

and Earth are meeting, and that's where this thing is actually accomplished. So this talk about a temple, and the reason why I think even the last podcast, I think I mentioned this, or maybe a couple of podcasts ago at the end of John 8, he actually ends with the saying that he himself went out of the temple. He hit himself went out of the temple. All this activity that Jesus is doing, and John isn't a temple. And I think it's important because he is establishing the new place where heaven and earth is going to meet.

Right. And right now, heaven and earth meet right here and the body of Zach Dash or Jace Robertson and Al Robertson and anyone else out there

he's listening that is under the lordship of Jesus Christ. You're a temple. Yeah. You're a temple. God's meeting. Heaven and earth

meeting there. It's so funny, my son called me last night. He was fixed up a Bible study. He was like, Dad, I mean, you're not going to believe this. He basically,

he went to 1 Peter 4 and started talking about the use of the word Christian. mentioned three times, which I had just talked about that on an earlier podcast. But I couldn't even interrupt him because he was so excited. But it kind of led to the same concept. I mean, he talked probably 30 minutes, and I was like, oh, you got it.

He's like, I mean, this is exciting. You know, what do you think about that? I was like, absolutely. I love it. And I hung out the phone, and I was like, what did you all talk about? I was like, it didn't matter because my son calling me when he's 30 on these nine. Nuggets of Bible study that has just inspired him and he can't wait to share it. I was like, that was good enough for me.

I was like, but it was the same rabbit holes that I've gone through the years, you know, about that kind of concept, you know. I think about like just practically what that, I think the marriage analogy is like so good because what are we really trying to do as Christians or disciples, whatever phrase you want to use, apprentices. I've heard that. It really is to somehow mold, have my will be molded into the will of God.

Like to align that up to where over time that my connection with the Holy Spirit is like, would be akin to your mom's connection with Phil, where it's like, it's just saying, I'm not me. Right. I'm not me without him. Yeah. And even more so.

I mean, I think that's the thing. Like, I'm here, you know, away from Jill. every time I travel and Jill and I are apart, like we always get back like, I do not like being away from you. I don't feel, I just something feels off. And so I think that's the kind of intimacy and more so that Christ is calling us into and the reason why he died,

it's not just to pay for our sin, it's so that we could be into that type of relationship with him. Yeah, exactly. Which is why they were, you know, having this opposition because they were not looking at it from God being in an intimate relationship. And that's why, again, marriage is a good illustration, because we know marriage is not easy. It's hard.

It's like there's a lot of opposing things that happen, which is why I think he uses this picture in John 9 of this guy born blind to make his point. Because remember he says, look, the reason why is because God's work is going to be displayed in that which we see as flawed. but God doesn't look at it that way. God looks at his will being done in a complete different way than we do. So we look at somebody, Jay's you and I both met a guy over at the Gateway Church

when we spoke over the years ago, and he's in a wheelchair, but he's one of the most dynamic, amazing people we've ever made. You had just been there, and then I met him, and we were like, see, from his perspective, it doesn't matter that he's in a wheelchair. I mean, in other words, God is using me to impact, and it's hard.

It's life is hard. We have things we have to, you know, we have opposition. We have all these different things. Who can barely speak and you can barely understand him. And he's one of the most vocal ambassadors. He is. And it's led many, many people to Christ. So the work of God is being displayed in his life, which is the point that we get to.

So let me set it back up and then we'll read at least the first 12 verses for this podcast. Exactly. Because you don't want to spend a whole podcast talking about what you're going to talk about. And yet we do this quite frequently. So Zach mentioned at the very end. I think this was the thread when he said in 856, your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day. So he brings in the idea that somebody that lived 2,000 years ago

is seeing something 2,000 years later. So I think that sets it up. And then they said, well, you can't have seen. How did he see? You're crazy. What is wrong with you? Well, and to the point I brought up, when does Abraham come on to the scene? Just think about this.

Yeah. Genesis 12. Well, and what just happened? Did they destroy it? Everything I just said, Genesis 1 to 11. You had the fall of man, you had the fall of these celestial beings in Genesis 6. You had the flood. Then you had the Tower of Babel, which, what were people saying? They got hooked up with the celestial bands that fell, and they're like, we're going to make our own city.

Right. Yeah. We're going to reach up to God, which was the whole point of whatever that word for the tower was that they used. I forgot what the word was. But it was the idea of we're going to God. Yeah. And we're going to do our own thing. We're going to make our own decisions about good and evil.

Right. And all of a sudden, God says, hang on, I'm going to choose this couple over here who are not able to have kids and allow them to give birth to a nation, which then, the nations are divided because of the result of Genesis 11. And Deuteronomy 4 is all about this. And now he tells you why he chose a nation among the nations that they would shine the light on the true living God. And bring the other nations back in. But even before he did that, he went to a guy who was 75 years old and established

and living in his own compound. And he said, I need you to go to a place. And I'm not going to tell you where it is. I'll tell you when you get there. Yeah. So he had to submit his will to God Almighty, even to start the process. Yeah. Which is my point, though.

They're so we're Abraham's descendants. And he's like, before Abraham was, I am. It's like, that was my plan. He's a part of my plan. Yeah. Not only is he a part of my plan that he was, I'm the one who chose him to give birth to the nation that you now claim to be a part of it. I was the guy.

I'm the one that was there. It's me. I'm the one. And oh, by the way, if anybody knows Abraham, I know Abraham. And by the way, he was incapable of giving birth without my power. Which, it was 100. We talked about being 94. That memo, Joe, has a kid.

Okay. Now, yeah. Now we're talking. Now we're listening. But think about that. Think about that, though. Because as we move into John 9, the point, what's the point of the blind? man's story because it ain't a that's his point i'm choosing the people to display myself in that

that it's always going to be the things that you where you never expected i'm going to call abram to give birth to a nation even though he's way too old to do it i'm going to call joseph who was not the guy of any of those kids that you would think would turn out to be the second in command of egypt i'm going to take moses a guy with a speech impediment to lead israel out of out of egypt i'm going to take i mean just go down to do the math i'm i'm going to do even noah was you know out there seem like a crazy man. It's always like the people. A hundred years later.

Oh, oh, probably the climaxes me, oh, and when I incarnate into a human being, I'm actually going to put myself into a baby. And I'm a completely helpless baby. And I'm not going to be born of the bubble earth. That people are trying to kill. People are going to try to kill. I'm going to be a carpenter when I live in a human body. I'm going to.

Oh, and then I'm going to pick 12 disciples, some fishermen, a tax collector, a zealot. You know, I mean. It kind of, actually, when you hear it like that, you start to kind of get the idea, I don't think he needs us to do what he's going to do. I mean, even, I'll throw my dad in there. It's like, you know, you're going to take this fruit cake and bring many to the Lord, but. Let me ask you all question, because we've all done ministry. If you were going to build a church and so after all the years of ministry that we've done and someone said, here's someone that's extremely talented, they are gifted in the most incredible ways.

in the ministry more than you can ever imagine. And here's a dude that all I can tell you about him is he is submitted to the Holy Spirit and sincere in his love for the Lord. Who do you take? Every time. Well, you wouldn't take this beggar. He just wouldn't be on the lid.

And I think that's part of the irony of this story is you kind of realize here's a guy blind from birth. So what does that mean? He's a beggar. So probably no first. formal education, no social status whatsoever. Probably ostracized from society. He was definitely ostracized.

Oh, yeah. I mean, here he is. Well, they were blind to him being valuable. Right. So that's why when you bring up what you were fixed to read, when they said, well, whose fault was this? Because even the question itself says this guy's worthless. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's unfortunate.

So whose fault was it? Because what is he worth? Right. Really. And the reason I challenge you guys to read the book of Job is because it's 40 chapters of what Jay's just said in one sentence of the friends of Job saying, you did something, you did something, you did something, you did something. I mean, it's over and over and over.

Well, you know what? It must be this. No, it's a great analogy for what's going on. Exactly. And you phrased it somewhere that I saw where this sin is passed. And it comes from when God gave them, here's the blessings and here's the curses, you know, for following me. So that meaning, they took that to mean if anything bad happens to you, well, you're cursed. Here's my, here's what I say.

It's in the notes. Every good deed is rewarded by God with a blessing. Every bad deed is rewarded by God with a curse. Yeah. That's the mindset. And look, the sad thing is there are many of you listening that still believe that. And it's not true. Yeah.

I mean, I'm just going to go ahead and give you. It goes. But it goes back to Jesus being the suffering servant, him being the anointed one, despite a position of suffering, which is why he came into the world. Not that God's oblivious to suffering. He entered the suffering world

and suffered for the suffering of the world and the powers that contributed to that suffering. Exactly. And then later on, the 1st Peter 4, which is what my son was talking about, he's like, don't be surprised at this painful trial that you are suffering because you're doing it,

you're being persecuted or suffering because of the name of Jesus. And then it goes on to say, if you should suffer, it shouldn't be as a meddler or a murderer. Yeah. So he says there's types of suffering. Oh, sure. And there's consequences. Absolutely. You go out there and do things that are wrong or you're a victim of somebody else.

We constantly bring curses on ourselves. But there is an idea of suffering that God enters into that we are then, anointed into by the Holy Spirit, because we have His Spirit in us, that is going to bring suffering to your life. Somebody said something to me one time that was really convicting, because I was going through a period of suffering, and I had interpreted that season as punishment from God on me, for some kind of lack of faithfulness, which honestly, you can look at any point in my walk with Christ and find spiritual unfaithfulness and me lacking.

I think everybody has thought before. You have it, and I was sharing it with one of my buddies, and I got named John Lemp, and he said, well, that's the inverse of the prosperity gospel. I know you don't believe in the prosperity gospel, which is basically you give money to, you tithe enough, and God re-blesses you back with prosperity. Well, I'll just rule that one out.

Anything involving money? Yeah. Jesus didn't have any money. Yeah. He had to borrow a coin to do an illustration. Well, yeah, but I mean, most of us would probably deny the prosperity gospel, but he said, but what you're saying is the same thing, because you didn't perform well enough that now God's punishing you.

And now he does discipline those that he loved. You know what I mean? But it's not like, yeah, I don't think it's, but in my mind I'm thinking, I didn't do a good enough job in something. So now I'm like, almost like karma, you know, which is not biblical. But I think that's based on the same thing. But that's what's kind of going on here, that's exactly. Well, when he makes the statement, when he said,

neither this man nor his parents sinned. So he just... To cause this. And I'm sure you... He's not saying they never seen it. He didn't list number three, four, five, or six, but it's implied because his answer, I think is so profound, and I've never heard anybody say this, but I'm going to say it. Because when he says, but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in

his life, so hold it. And just think about what I'm fixed to say. shouldn't that be true for every human born? Correct. Yeah. There's a functionality that God has a purpose for us that is missed. That applies to every single life. You're born so that the work of God might be displayed in your life.

That's the point he was trying to make. He didn't say, oh, you're so wrong in that. I mean, he did answer the question, say, no. that this man didn't say that did not cut that's enough for me he didn't have to explain it any further right what is the real purpose for being born so that the work of god might be displayed in in your life that's it and it's exactly by the way what god told job in 38 39 40 41 job's like well i don't get it and you know what god said you don't have to if you trust me here's what i've done and it's four chapters of the works of god

And then at the end of that, he says, Job says, okay, I repent, I've sinned. Now I have sinned because I doubted you. And he says, blessed are you. And then he said, your friends are idiots. I mean, he didn't say it exactly that way, but that's what he says. And that's the idea. You said it earlier. We're not God.

And we can't be him. Yeah. And he doesn't need us to be him. He needs us to trust him and to listen to it. It's like a line from a movie one time. It was so, this guy said, you know, it must be hard to be. be right about everything and this woman says, oh, you have no idea. And I saw, that's, that's exactly what happens when we think we know it off.

Yeah. Well, I wanted to say, because I teased it last podcast, that somewhere in our study in the religious world, somebody concluded that you're born into sin. And this is one of the verses I used to say, look, there's a difference being born with what the Bible translates the sinful nature or the flesh, I prefer the flesh. I think most translations use the flesh. And just to give you an example of that,

and the reason I'm saying I use this verse, because I do think that everyone is born a God, I mean, so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. But so you read Galatians 519, and it says the acts, but key word there, acts look that up in the greek and see what it means it's deeds work decisions it's something you do the acts of the sinful nature or the flesh are obvious evident and then it gives a list there uh sexual immorality impurity debauchery adultery witchcraft hatred discord jealousy you know fits

of rage selfish ambition dissensions and so then you you put a little a bad baby, you know, on a, you know, in their little bed and you look at them, you're just not seeing these acts, you know. And so that's probably the redneck argument. But what I wanted to say is that word flesh or sinful nature, if you do a Greek rabbit hole on the word, here's what you'll find, which I found fascinating. It's the same word that when it says the word became flesh. Same word.

Yeah. So you're like, well, evidently, it can't be all negative or Jesus wouldn't have done it. But I wanted to give you one more. But you just signed up a huge argument that's all throughout the first century, narcissism was about the flesh that has to be bad. And if you're having trouble with this. He's done it with a minute and a half left. Well, but I want to read this.

I want to read this. Right at the end of the podcast, you have now opened up. At your lead. He buried the lead. I teased it. I teased it. and I wanted to address it. But if you're having trouble with this,

because people teach that, and people say, oh, it must be true because the pastor taught it. Read Hebrews 2, because it's all about Jesus becoming a human, and he explains that. Becoming a human is not sinful. Jesus became a human.

Do not attach that, even though somebody put sinful nature, which led you to believe, oh, just because humans are all going to sin, doesn't mean that when you became a human, you were sinful. But I want to give you another place, because this one... But the Bible does say surely I was sinful at birth. I explained that on the last podcast, you know, because he thought,

how could I have done this? I must have been sinful at birth. But it's like a lot of like the advice Job's friends gave him. Yes. People will go and quote those verses. Which, by the way, they're in the Bible, but God said at the end, they're idiots. everything they just said, there's about 30 chapters. God said, all wrong.

That's right. And you tell people that, it makes it uncomfortable. It's like, is the Bible wrong? I'm like, oh, it's full of wrong statements all over the place. Read the book of Job. They gave one bad philosophy after another. That's right. And these, you know, Saturday night preachers are like, oh, I found this nugget in Job.

This is what we should be following. But I want to read this before we close, because you know where else this sinful nature slash flesh is used. Luke 24, after his resurrection, this is crazy. He says they were startled thinking they saw a ghost. Remember, this is 24 in verse 33. He said to them, why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself. Touch me and see a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see I have. Same word. Yeah. So I'm just, that verse? That's Luke 24 in verse 39.

My only point is we were created to display the work of God. Due to our own selfishness and the powers that be who tell us these lies, we sin. It is inevitable. All sin, all have sin and fall short of the glory of God. But be careful in not distinguishing what that means, because you'll turn out. Like these men, oh, more than black, who's saying? I think it's a point that should be noted. It is.

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