Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 1158 | Jase Moved to Tears as Phil Is Honored with Mass Baptisms in the Duck Commander Parking Lot

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

Duck Commander Sunday returns with thousands gathering to honor Phil, world-class worship, and hundreds baptized in the parking lot. Jase preached through tears, then sprinted off to his tee time, while the family celebrated Phil’s lasting legacy. Al and Zach are shocked that Jase finally watched his first episode of Unashamed and was impressed enough to dig deeper into John’s message. The guys explore how the Spirit testifies through us, why resurrection courage overcomes fear, and what it means to live life on a mission. Check out LO Worship and Laela Dasher Skinner singing their song “The Perfect Love of Jesus” feat. Aodhán King at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maK41B9Aj0Y In this episode: John 3, verse 16; John 14; 1 John 2, verse 1; Revelation 12, verse 11 Chapters: 00:00–06:51 Duck Commander Sunday Recap 06:52–12:16 How Did Zach Father Such Talented Kids? 12:17–24:10 Jase Watches “Unashamed” for the First Time 24:11–31:10 West Monroe Gar Rodeo Monster 31:11–40:21 Letting the Spirit Speak in Your Voice 40:22–47:13 A New Old Phil Podcast!  47:14–56:18 Jesus the Advocate & Spirit the Counselor — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So welcome back to Unashame. Jason, I brought some gifts I brought out here, some of our, we had Duck Commander Sunday's at. Your kids were here. A lot of people are like, where's that? I had to preach. Oh, okay.

I was preaching at Sunday. And your kids were fabulous. Oh. I mean, the worship was. Well, tell them if people are just stumbling about through the earth and they don't know what you're talking about. So they planned, which, ow, I'm just going to confess, I wasn't real sure of what we were doing, but I was asked to speak. Yeah. It was, well, revival seems to be the word around here now. So it was a revival of Dock Commander Sunday, which is what we did years ago,

probably 25 years ago. But we used to do it in church buildings. At our church, right, because it was an outreach day. At our building. At our building. We invited people to come, wear a camo, we would most of some of us would speak dad yeah I remember me and dad did a couple of combos I was working for the church then so it's my idea to have an outreach day and we had fun with it it was great I mean a lot of people were led to the Lord so Bella wanted to revive it which I thought was really wellie's daughter yep he's now married and she works at Duck Commander she does and kind of does promotional stuff for him but I do think I've said this before she's part of the grandkids that I felt like, you know, the last year of Phil's life on the earth,

they were really inspired. He really connected with all the grandkids. So I think her organizing it was part of that legacy being passed. Well, and the theme for it this year was honor and dad because, you know, the Duck Commander, this was the year he crossed over. And so I didn't know how many people were going to come, but there were thousands of people here. I don't know what the number is,

but it was from this building to the road. It was a lot of people. And it was fantastic. People walked. They brought their lawn chairs. And they had a whole day. We did a, we did a, like a worship time. And Jay's brought the message.

And Willie kind of closed it. I heard there were a couple hundred people baptized. Yeah. I heard from anywhere from 150 to the people. Yeah, they had a Baptist tree, portable baptized. It was really great. And then, Zach, your kids and Lil Will and the rest of Sadie's worship people,

the live original people, did worship. And, man, it was cranking. I mean, like, you know, it's world class. You know how I am. I'll tell you like it is, that was world class singing. Yeah. They started off with the old song up from the great. Wave he arose, which my dad really loved that song.

But it was like a different arrangement. No instrument. Yeah, it started on Capella. It reminded me in a weird way of the Eagle song that Seven Bridges rolled. Yeah. Yeah, they just started off singing. And they were harmonizing. You know, your kids are harmonizing in behind Bobby.

Bobby was singing the lead on it. But my point is, Al, you can't fake that. No. When you just have a microphone, you're in a parking lot right next to a busy road, half a mile from the paper mill for crying out loud, a sea of humanity has gathered. That's what struck me. Look, Al, I don't know about you. So I walked out, because we all kind of gathered up before we walked out. And the people that was at least over a thousand for that part of it.

And they brought their own chairs. But they were strangely quiet. They were just sitting there. Yeah. And I walked out and looked around, and I kind of got moved. And so I looked over at Sadie, who was to the left over. Because we kind of come in the back, so we hadn't seen the setup. Right.

She tears were streaming. Well, I was like, ooh, don't look at her. I'm going to speak, you know. I was getting emotional. Well, I looked at Corey. Same thing. Yeah. And I was like, why is everybody crying?

And I was moved. And during the worship, I wasn't, like, upset, but I mean, I noticed tears were flowing down my face just from how good it was. Of course, I thought. It was a lot to me, like the funeral, the same kind of feel because we were honoring dad. But this time we had a lot of people joining us and I guess just us all being together because we're all spread out. Was that the deal? I think because we were all back together for the first time in a while, too, since that.

But I found it crazy that when I got up there, I never struggled. with that. No, you did great. And I evidently raised my voice because I was hoarse the rest of the day, which I'm glad we had a day off in between. And Jay said literally had, so he was playing a golf tournament, so he had his shorts on, he was wearing camo, but he had his shorts, golf shorts, on underneath your camo pants. I did. Well, it was terrible because I had. You had a, he had a teetime of 1208. He was supposed to wrap. I wasn't just playing golf. I had agreed, it's the biggest tournament around here, and I play in it every year. So I'd already committed to that way before this idea.

I was glad you're able to do both. Yeah, Duck Commander Sunday came up. And so I even told the tournament, they were like, you know, are you going to play this year? I was like, well, I have to tee off, you know, after 12 o'clock because I'm committed to something else. And they're like, well, that's not how this works. So anyway, it turned out it was at 1208.

So I preached And you wrapped about 11 15 Something like that And then Willie took over It was literally like a like a tag team wrestling So Jace is off stage Off to the golf course

Yeah I didn't even know Since you two weren't there I took one for the unashamed team And stood outside and signed stuff And met people for three hours It was a line that just never ended I wish I'd have been there I wish I could have got done it

It was a lot of fun The folks were so excited to be here. Well, Max, it was interesting because Max had, I don't know how he did this, but he had secured his buddy who was going to fly him down there. And he had like a little king air or something that was going to literally fly Max down there for free. And because Max had to be in a wedding the night before.

And he's leading worship. What time did the worship start? Like 10 a.m. or something? 10 o'clock. Yeah. I kicked it off and then they came up right after. It's fascinating. Well, I was just going to say it's some fascinating.

that somewhere in your gene pool, this unification of utter... He says it almost like it's a surprise. Utter Yuppieville and then the Robertsons, because you think Gordon, you got Jan. And all of a sudden, two of Zach's kids are just world-class. Well, they can all sing. They all. But you're right. They're special.

They've got some special. I thought, well, the five people standing there, equally special. I'm just saying, but two of them belong to that. What are the odds of that? They're very high, thank you very much. It's very high odds.

I mean, what did you expect? You're not even surprised, are you? You don't find that shocking? I don't. I don't find it shocking at all. I'm just saying if you got Gordon Dasher and Phil Robertson on a bench and you walk by,

you have no idea who these people are, and you just look at them, and then you listen to five minutes, of the conversation. You would never guess that one generation later, two of the greatest singers I've ever heard would come. Those loins. Yeah.

I don't know. That they would have burst forth from Jill's loins. The same genetic code. Yeah, it is kind of a weird genetic mixture there, but we all, you know. So what, to finish your story? So, oh, well, he's bragging because he's got the, you know, his buddy's going to fly him down there and it's going to, you know, so he, because he had a wedding the night before. And he, so he's trying to be in two places at one time.

He's one of his best friends got married. And so literally two hours before the wedding, the guy tells him, oh, I can't, I can't fly you down. I got, I got too much going on. And so literally he's got to be, I mean, this is like the wedding. And this is from Asheville? Asheville. Oh, Asheville.

Wow. So it's a 10 and a half hour drive, you know. That is not good. Nashville turned into Asheville. Yeah, so then he's like, can I borrow your truck? Because I don't have a vehicle because I rode down here. He had the whole thing. Sounds like a classic.

So now they, so he left at 9.30 p.m. the night before, drove all the way through the night, arrived in West Monroe at the Yaw's compound around 5.30 in the morning. And didn't even know where he was like, what's the code to get in the gate? called me to ask me for the code to get in y'all's gate and i said i think it's i'm not going to say it on the podcast so they gave him the code he almost told a fail right there yeah yeah almost all this code that would have been good uh we did we we did that gave our address his address on national on the jimmy kimmel show oh yeah yeah so he goes in uh i said you go over to owls if you can't get him but just be careful i don't know who's there but say you write should come to my house don't go

to stones al no no five 30 the more morning he showed up and and uh i didn't know all that well he sounded great and then layla saying the last song they did was one she wrote and i'd never heard it before and it is absolutely fantastic and amazing and lisa speaking of crying joe she's bawling i think she said it was their new release god's perfect love um i don't know the name of it but we'll actually put it in the um we'll put a link to it yeah so that people can listen to it we'll put that in show. It was spectacular, and she did amazing doing it. The name of it's God's Perfect Love.

Well, that was going to be part of my story I was going to tell. Oh, well, good. I have an announcement. Oh, Jay's has an announcement. I watched my first unashamed podcast yesterday. And you thought of God's Perfect Love? Should we get the thumbs up or thumbs down? Should you get to pull up, fill?

Do you recommend our podcast, Jay? We may not want him to do this. This may be the end of the... Can we do revelation this? Can I give you the... I thought y'all would ask better questions. Maddie's waiting of... What would...

Oh. This is as excited as I've seen, Maddie. She's like, oh, finally, somebody. So what led to that? Why would I... Why would I watch it? I can't wait. I have no idea.

Because we're headed to John 15. Yeah. And what I noticed... and pointed out is that, so we talk about God's DNA, and this was on this podcast I listened to, and with this love and light and life, but it's heavy on the light and the life in the first few chapters, although you have John 316, which Zach pointed out wisely. But when you get to 13, all of a sudden, it's like, love becomes the theme.

And I mentioned on said podcast that it's 31 times after that that it's up. So it's like chapter 13, chapter 15, and chapter 17. Well, we're fixed to go to chapter 15. But I couldn't remember. I was like, because I hadn't slept that week. And I was like, and we talked about that on the podcast. So I was going to just ask Maddie which one it was. But I was like, well, we did two of them on love.

Yeah. And remember it was Kray. I come in here and I was all. Weird. To us, that's Jay's. Now, he said weirder than normal. Weirder than normal. That grammar would be more weird than usual.

So I start looking for this. I thought, I'm a, I mean, I'm over 50 years old. Surely I can find this. You're a semi-educated person. And so I have some thoughts. So I thought I would, I mean, sometimes you have to take inventory. Yeah. Okay.

I was trying to find this thing about love. Well, luckily, on the back half of one of them, it said something about God's perfect love. That's why it's weird. Oh, the song. Oh, the song. That was on a podcast. On the podcast.

And it was 1130. So, but I listened to 1129 first. Yeah. Because I knew it was two of them and I was like, I didn't want to cover the same ground. Did you listen to it at regular speed? Yeah. Okay. But I didn't plan on listen to it.

So I got on there because I was just trying to find this bit that I was going to do. So you were fast-forward and through me and Zach. So here are my other things. Zach's way smarter than it appears. That came out. Now, I think part of that is my problem because a lot of times, and y'all do the same thing. We're talking about how the sausage is made here.

I'm thinking of where I'm going to next while one of you may be talking. The shocker of this podcast is that Zach could produce children who functioned and sing. He's way smart than he looks. Yeah, I thought, I actually am understanding every word he's saying, and it's a really good point. So that came out. If Jay started listening to this podcast, Zach, he'd be your biggest fan. There were a few other subtle things that were embarrassing. but that was kind of the gist of it.

But what was that that's all you got out of it was? Well, I was a little disappointed in one thing. I was going to bring this up. But it was better than I thought. Okay. So I thought that would make you happy, Yow. Tough crap. But here's what bothered me.

It's better than I expected. Two weeks ago, two or three weeks ago. And it's episode, the one, because I want to recommend you listen. 1129, 1130. Yeah, 11, if you've never heard those before we get to John 15. Yeah, today is 1158. So that's 11, 29, 11.30. Now, we may not get to the way we're headed, but it may not get to 15.

But because I think what I would like to give without going over that same ground, you kind of pick up from there. The whole point was for me to say that one thing. But one thing that happened that thought was interesting and a little sad. Is you know how these computer people somehow, I think they call them algorithms, Zach? Yeah. Now that I'm in, you know, I'm watching a YouTube video. Well, now I got all these. Here's your next watch.

Well, I look over there, and it's a frog hunt from Duck Commander that I did on my birthday. Now, I don't know when they released it, but. So, I knew that. They knew you? Did they know it was you, you think? Who knows? Which is scary. Yeah.

But here's the problem I have, is that those two podcasts came out twice earlier. What's the phrase I'm looking for here? The podcast came out before, they had been out like, I want to say three or four weeks. The frog hunting video had only been out like eight days. Oh yeah, I saw that. I watched it, yeah. Well, here's what troubled me. There were almost maybe not twice as many, but more people had.

watch that frog hunt than those podcasts. Look, the podcast was 1,000 times better, way more meaningful than, I mean, they did a good job. That frog hunt lasted 45 minutes. We went out and called some frogs. Trust me, there's nothing exhilarating. And that thing is just soaring with viewership.

But it made me question, who's actually doing, do you think those numbers are legit? Oh, I don't know. They're legit. You think they are? They're legit. It's not the Bible. Zach, it's not the Bible.

You know what I mean? I'm saying, but it's a, the thing about it is if it's like a three-minute or a three-second whatever view, they like short stuff. Yeah. It's the shorter stuff. Well, Jay's also today,

your, I am second video dropped, didn't it, Zach? Oh, did it? It did. Yeah. Drop today. Man. Well, they sent it to me before it dropped. I haven't seen it yet.

They sent it to me. And now, I was nervous about watching that because I'm going to tell you all right now. I bared my soul. It's something about that setup, that chair that I don't know what it is. Well, they just, they were like, we kind of had the little banter before. It's like, well, tell your story. And I'm like, my story's irrelevant, which is why I've really never done. gone into the weeds of it.

And it's somewhat bizarre. It's not a normal I am second video. Is it just you on there? Or is sigh on there too? Or is that something? No. That's a separate one. Okay.

Yeah, it was just me. Just Jase. Okay. So they were like, we want to hear things that you've never shared before. I was like, well, I'm not sure I'm ready to divulge that information. But I was kidding. I thought, you know what? Jason was treated more like a courtroom situation.

Yeah. And he was on trial. I said, I'm just going to do it. I'm going to be vulnerable and make it about Jesus. Because I think that is the story we should all be talking about. Oh, it took me back when I... Did you remember I prayed over you? They asked me to come in and pray.

I'm glad you did because that was intense. I knew it is intense. They sent it because they said it. Because they were like, we want you to watch it before we release this. Yeah, well, that's good to do that. And I was kind of surprised. I just thought, man, that was heavy. That was heavy.

The way they do it and the way they edited it and all that, it's a fantastic. So check it out, Unashamed Nation. And there's a lot of us on there. So it's kind of good. I guess before this is over. You can hear from every Roberts at some point, I guess. Well, one of the things we did, because I guess this is out of the theaters now, but we re-released the blind the same day as Duck Commander Sunday.

And at the end of it, they wanted a new piece of content for the Fathom release. And so it's really cool how we did this, or I say they did it. When Phil gives it, because the original mine was Phil at the end of it, basically preaching the gospel, and he ends it with, I could be wrong, but I doubt it. And it's like this, it's kind of this classic Phil. Yeah. Well, I didn't realize this, but they got the pit, They got Phil on camera, like getting up. They had the camera kept rolling.

And Phil gets up and leaves. Like, gets out of the chair, but he leaves his duck calls in the chair. And so they're like, we had this footage of Phil leaving his duck calls in the chair. And so the way that it started in the blind was they showed that Phil getting up, leaving. And then Jace coming in and sitting down in that same chair and picking up the call, which is the idea of taking up. the call. So if you guys would ever do a like a new, would that be on like any updated thing if you did the movie later, Zach? Yeah, we were talking about maybe doing like a new DVD release

around Christmas time. So they asked me about that. So I think we'll probably do something with that. And that could include that. How did that turn out? It went good. It went really good. I mean, I mean, it was. Well, and I found out, I missed it. I found out later. They had it, they screened it here at Tenseltown at ours on the Saturday as part of this weekend. Kendi event. They also had Jay's, did you hear about the gar rodeo? Gar rodeo? The fish.

The fish. So I don't know the details about it, but I did see the results. And one person, and Jay knows him, he called a 220-pound alligator gar. Good. I thought me and Phil had the record with 125. I know it. And look, there was another one that was like 180. So somehow that, it.

Yeah, out of the river, I guess. I'm going to tell you, for y'all that don't know fish. That was part of this whole weekend. An alligator gar, it's called an alligator gar, because it looks like an alligator. And his teeth are super sharp. Oh, I've been cut hundreds of times. They're hard to handle. By the teeth and even their scales will cut you.

They'll cut you. I've been cut hundreds of times by gar. And when you get to 220, that is an alligator. That thing could eat you. Yeah. I mean, because the one me and Phil caught was 125 pounds. It was almost seven feet long. It was, I'll never forget it that we took a picture of it tied to his Jeep.

And it was, we were standing next to it. And it was way bigger than all of us were. Remember, that was the day we caught 100, 100 bass statute of limitations. I don't even know if there was a limit back then. But I like how you have to preface that now. Just blame it on Phil. Phil caught on. Yeah, dad caught him.

We might have to edit that out. No, I'm positive. I don't even think they had a limit back then. We're going back 30 years. Yeah, this is a long time. But, and then we raised a net on the way back from catching the bass. And because they had been a big, the reason we caught 100 bass, a huge rain hit. High water.

And it was, it was flowing over a beaver down. And so every time that happened, those bass gather up because it's a perfect ambush point for the water coming over the beaver down. They're catching all the food coming out of the field. That's it. And you're catching them. I've done that hundreds of times. If you ever want to catch some fish and it's raining, you're like, oh, no, all my holes are no good.

Go find you a beaver down when the water's flowing over. You will catch as many as the law will allow. So we run the hoop net. We're stressing that. And out, I mean, he had to cut the net to pull this gar out. Because the thing is longer than the, as long as the net. And I remember I'm looking at the gills. because it was dead.

But he's like, I mean, you catch a 125 pound gar back then. That's a lot of money. Oh, yeah. And he said, what do you eat gar balls? A lot of people like to eat them. My dad said, what do you think? We were looking at those gills. I said, a lot of money.

And so we sold that gar. And if any of the ancestors, he got sick from that gar. I don't know. It was right on the line. Well, I knew you'd be impressed as I was. When I heard Lisa or somebody was reading it on Facebook, somebody posted the results of this gar rodeo. That's what it was called.

And Honeyhole, you know, our John David's business, they were the sponsor of this event. So it sounded like a big time. I'm wearing one of their shirts. Yeah, this whole weekend, the mayor was here. After you left, Jay's, the mayor got up, and the mayor Westman, I went to school with, She got up and talked about, you know, this weekend or what it meant,

all the stuff that was going on. And they did stuff all weekend. The movie was part of it, too. So it was fantastic for our community, too. Because we had, and look, the people I met, you know, in the endless line, they flew in from everywhere. I mean, drove in from all the country. When you think a couple hundred people walked into a parking lot that wasn't a church building

and allowed themselves to be baptized, to me, that was just crazy. Right. I thought, what? I was thinking 15 or 20. I don't know what I was thinking. Yeah, they just lined up. I mean, that was incredible. It was very moving and touching.

We had a couple of visitors on our set today as well. Kelly got baptized yesterday. She and Her husband West are here from Missouri. And they missed our commander Sunday, but we're on their way to Gulf Shores. And they said they're not going to 30A, Zach, thanks to you. So you are welcome. And just for the record, I spent of the 25 minutes I spoke, I spent 24 and a half talking about who Jesus is.

You did. But you did the duck calls too, which I thought was good you honored because that was always a part. We did. We did. We honored people that came because they loved to hunt. To your point about the videos, there's a lot of people that love to hunt and fish and hadn't got to the Jesus part yet, which we were saying, come on over. There's more.

There's more. Well, and even in the duck calls, I've done this the last couple times I spoke. I've infused the God's love and communicating that love because he uses flawed people to now through the spirit. I mean, the first fruit of the spirit mentioned is love. And so I'm like, why do we even blow duck calls? Of course, everybody's looking around like, because their answers are not what I'm fixing to give. Yeah. Nobody's thinking we're basically communicating love.

love language, waterfow style. We're flirting with ducks. And so that was my launching point to get into Jesus. So they also, Jase, I heard this was while I was still signing stuff and meeting people, they had a duck calling contest,

and at least, I'm going to say, at least 30 people got in it. And some of them were kids and stuff, but there were about four or five. The guy that won it is from New Orleans, South Louisiana. Really? And he was salty.

I mean, I could tell, I'm not like talking to me, but I was listening to it behind me on stage. As soon as I heard the last, you know, they kind of get it down to like the top five. And then they had their own little competition. But I was listening to them, these old boys are good. Who was the judge? Who were the judges? Well, Martin was kind of the MC.

Godwin was a judge. And I don't remember who else. So nobody did the championship style. No, it was all. They did it. They did it, Duck Commander style. They were trying to sound like a mallet end. Who sounds much like a duck?

That was the criteria. That was it. Well, because I made the comment in my little bit. Jason already set that up. So if somebody doesn't matter. I said, our judges have wings. I got that line from Phil. Yeah.

No, it was good. It was a great. The whole thing was amazing. I would assume, and I shouldn't, I guess, but it was probably so well done that you'll probably be seeing it on an annual basis, I would think. I mean, who knows? I asked Bell.

I asked Bella how it went. She said, we're doing it again next year. Well, there you go. It's a face of. I'm going to show up next year. It was a big day. I mean, we also took, this is kind of cool, too. I haven't told the audience about this.

And I think we released it the same day. But so we had, there was a ton of content that we had. Oh, by the way, somebody sent me a video of Jace preaching like 20 years ago. Like, not even preaching. It's like, you're like, it's Kevin, Kevin, Macintosh sent me a video of you, given the gospel, I'm going to have to release it at some point.

I need to send that to you, Jace. It's interesting. Never, never seen before. It's you, and Kevin filmed you, and you gave about a 20-minute presentation on the gospel. Did Jay's have a,

was it pre-beard or was it? No, he had a beard. It was like back in 2000. You got to go way back for pre-beard. I think. But it took me back. I was like, man,

gosh, it took me back. It was really nostalgic. I'm sure I've made some improvements in that presentation. via the Holy Spirit. I did think to myself. I said, I don't think he would preach it quite like this now.

But it was, it was, it was, the emphasis on the kingdom would be a lot stronger now probably than then. But I was, but I was, it still was like, man, took me back. Like, man, it was I remember. So when you were listening to the podcast, was it hard for you to listen to yourself? Well, that's why I've never, I don't like that. No. But they'll start playing it.

And then, of course, Alex has to listen to yourself. to write stuff, so she'll be sometimes over at the house, but she does it like two times the speed, and it's like we're the chipmunks. I can't just, it's what I listen to you. No, I don't like it. But you know, I mean, the more, I mean, we're in John 14, where he's introduced in the Holy Spirit.

The more I go along, I mean, what are we? We're just conduits for the Holy Spirit. And so. And don't you feel like the older you get, because you told me yesterday, you and I run into each other a couple days forward that Sunday. And I said, what are you going to do? And you said, I don't know.

I'll figure it out. And what happens is over... You actually saw me figuring it out two minutes before we walked out there. Well, but what I appreciate about the comment, because we all study, I study way more for the podcast than I do now even for preaching. But what happens is over time, you trust the Holy Spirit more, one. I think, you know, when you're younger, you don't. trust him enough because he really is in control. But the second thing is you accrue things over

life. And so you get up in front of an audience and you mentioned it when you started Sunday days. You said, you know, I've always had a fear of public speaking, but here I am and everybody laugh. Because the deal is there is something about not only just being in front of an audience, but then being a spokesperson for the Almighty and the creator, that's a heavy load. Heavy. But you realize if the Holy Spirit lives in you and he wrote the word, and the more you accrue your, not only your study of the word, but just your following of the Holy Spirit's leave, then you worry much less about having something to say.

Then your worry is, I don't want to get in the way of what Holy Spirit needs to say. So then you feel that. So that's the burden for me now. And I try to read the audience. It's like you were into it Sunday, just like I was thinking, man, what an opportunity to get to share today because it was so great. After the worship and then they played a video by Phil, I think the Holy Spirit, I just, I started talking about, you know, Phil's transformation with a heavy theme on the resurrection because that's, that was the theme of the worship. And I mean, that's just, it just kind of happened.

And we're, all the crowd had camouflaged and hunters and fishermen. and I spent a pretty good chunk talking about what we're called two. I mean, when he said, I'll make you fishers a man. And so I told those two stories, I really couldn't remember what I said to you, you said that. But I went that Luke 5 where they caught those fish. And that was the first time. And it's so powerful because Peter, he saw this happen.

You know, he's like, we fished all night. He said, throw your nets in the deeper water. And when they caught all these fish, in that instance in Luke 5, which I'd ever picked up before, literally the Holy Spirit, when I was thinking about that text, as I'm just, I was like, is that Luke 5? But I thought it was. You know, their nets began to break and the boats began to sink. It's like it was such a display of power of God, but all of a sudden it became scary.

Because there's no resurrection in their minds whatsoever. It's like, oh, this is great. but now we're fixed to die. Yeah, people drown all the time. And look at our nets. We're going to be mending these for, there was a broken and fear of death aspect to that. Yeah.

And Peter falls on his knees and says, I'm a sinful man, go away from me, Lord. That was his first response. I'm not worthy. Yeah, in a fishing setting, which for me, as a, before I came to Christ, that was a powerful story for me. Yeah.

And just imagining that happened. And so then I went to John, 20. Post resurrection, he does the same miracle, but they weren't sure who he was at first. But this time, the boats didn't begin to sink, and no nets were torn. Because it was a sign now of the fear of brokenness and fear of death. That's gone too. So it went from, I'm a sinful man, to him jumping out of the boat running to the shore.

And then they had this meal with a guy who was dead. three days before. Yeah. I mean, is this something you want to be a part of? I mean, that was basically what led to the invitation to who Jesus is, because I kind of covered the death, bell, and resurrection in those two stories. You probably noticed that. I did.

And I'll tell you this, Jay, it's just to show you how a response. It wasn't just the people that got baptized, but out of all the people I was talking to, I had prayer with many people. But I would say out of the hundreds of people that I personally talked to, there were dozens that, as they told me, and you know, you're in a line, so they're trying to be, you know, cognizant of the people behind them. But in tears, telling me a little bit about their stories and what God had, you know, how the podcast had helped them, how we had helped him, but how dad had led many of them just because of his life out of where they were.

A lot of them in tears, I mean, just over and over and over. So it was very moving for me, but there was one particular young man, and I think he listened. So you'll probably hear this. remember your name, but he was in a wheelchair and a young guy and his wife was there with him. And he told me, you know, about our family and the impact we had had on him. And he said, I found out last year I've got terminal cancer. That's why I'm in this chair. And he said, but I want to stand up and take a picture with him. And I said, well, yeah, absolutely. And I said, man, I'm sorry to hear about that. And he said, he looked at me. He said, you know, we're all going

to die of something. He said, I just know what mine is. He said, but thanks to you guys and thanks to Mr. feel the resurrection is what I'm looking for I mean he totally got it he didn't seem like that he said that he said the resurrection is looming well I said that you know he said the resurrection I said it looms large and he said oh yeah every day but but his attitude was so upbeat and I just thought man this is these kind of stories touch us because it's like that's why we do what we do which was very we did a I took so we had I think 800 episodes of they're short that but they were like, they're just fill pontificating. They kind of were the precursor to this podcast.

And most people have not seen them because they were behind a paywall. But we are taking, it's just fill pontificating. And it's crazy how much of it is around the resurrection of the dead. So many good just nature stories. Oh, man. It's just dad being dead. And they're short. They're like eight, nine minutes long.

But we're taking all of those and repurposing that content. Oh, good. I didn't know that. Yeah, we're, it's, it's in a, it'll be like a little short podcast. Just, uh, it's called at home with Phil Robertson. Um, but we released that also the same day, too. So it's, and it's just Phil. You know, we tried to do this podcast initially.

Maddie, you'll love this. That was when I was Maddie, because I was a producer back then. You were the producer and it was filled. And then we added it, then we said, we better add Al and we added you and, um, this four J's, who was with you? Yeah, probably Dan. You and Dan. Dan was on quite a few of them.

So I've got, I've got 12 or 20 of those lost episodes that no one's ever seen. But we're going to, but we do have this new found or new footage of Phil, basically just telling stories. And it's all kind of kingdom-oriented. But yeah, we'll put that in the, and one little note, it was the perfect love of Jesus, Chase. That was the name of the song, not the perfect love of Jesus. Oh, the perfect love, dude.

Well, yeah. I've got a bet on that, but we're not going to have time. to get into that but what I did want to do you got one segment left just what are we going to do well I wanted a little review I'm I'm we'll we'll give you time to go back and watch 1129 1130 yeah next podcast I found something I think's interesting on that well it you know what unashamed nation now you know jace is officially a part of unashamed nation because he watched two of our podcast yeah well I watch one and a quarter he's a he's a he's a he's a fan and i will uh well i will and he in zax's a little smarter than he thought who's your favorite who's your

favorite yeah who's your favorite personality on the show i have no i'm like god uh he doesn't show favoritism i have the holy spirit there's multiple verses we we are three and yet we are ones but uh go over and i got i think when i the more i've read john 13 through the end it just seems to take on a mission mind from God. And Jesus over and over and over again, he's like, follow my example. You know, I'm in the Father. The Father's in me. You will be in us.

We'll be in you. I mean, just that, those phrases come up so much from 13 to, you know, Jesus accomplished the goal, you know, the death, brown resurrection. And even when you get to chapter 20, when he breathes on them the Holy Spirit, and he's like, as the father sent me, I'm sending you. And I just really feel like the religious world as a whole, especially in America, they're not emphasizing that. And we've said many times, we tend to focus on what we're saved from, which is all great.

Yeah. I mean, look, sin, death, the evil one. But what we're saved too, that there's a job. There's an image that God wants us to reflect, which is why we're made in the image of God. And so the spirit, which he's promising here, that's the conduit for this to happen. So I wanted to do the little review. We did this. Now, I don't know where podcast this was.

when we looked up this word for Holy Spirit, where it's usually capitalized, and it either says comforter, helper, advocate. Am I missing any? Teacher, helper, advocate, comforter, counselor. So it's mentioned four times in John 14, 15, and 16. But here's the kicker. and this is what we did, I said this is a review.

We did this maybe 100 podcasts ago. In 1st John 2-1, the same word is used. Yeah. So the word is, the Greek word, is paracletas. Yeah. Or some people like to say paraclete. Paraclete. So the 1st John 2-1 is interesting,

because if you look at the definitions of this Greek word, it's like to come along one thing. and I just gave you the other definitions, how it translated, help, comfort, advocate, has a little different vibe to it. So 1 John 2-1, it uses the John, here's John here, and then in 1st John, same John,

he uses it as Jesus. It's mentioned as the Holy Spirit. Now this is so powerful, it'll make you just go run through a wall. So 1, John 2.1 says, my father, my dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, which is going to happen, we have one who speaks to the father in our defense. So there it is. Yeah. Or as an advocate, I think, the other translation.

But guess who it is? Jesus Christ. the righteous one. So when you go back to John 14, now I'm going to read the last three first because I have something new, which is why I wanted to get to this. So if you read in 1426,

he says, all this I have spoken while still with you, but the counselor, it's capitalized, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said to you.

Well, what did he just say? You know, we'll back up and go to 23, and it says, if anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Yeah, which we talked a lot about that, right? Right, but now he's putting that with the counselor

coming to you and being in you. Remember when we read about the he will not leave you as orphans? Right, right. That's why in 1st John 2, he's like, my dear children, you're not orphans, you're children of God. So the next one is in the next chapter, chapter 1526. It says, when the counselor comes whom I will send to you from the father, and then he names it, the spirit of truth who goes out from the father,

he will testify about me. And now watch the next verse. and you also must testify. That's why I said this missing the mission of this. He's saying there's a job that's going to happen. Right. I'm going to send you the Spirit. He's going to testify about me.

You need to testify about me. So it's like he's in you and that relationship is about testifying who Jesus is. Right. Well, if you think about how John the Revelator, when he writes in Revelation 12, it says they conquered him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony

for they love their lies even under death. And so the idea that our testimony, like us testifying about who Christ is, we are participating with the testimony of the Holy Spirit, and it's in that that we are actually conquering the evil one through our testimony, which is quite the...

Which perfect segue, because the next verse is in 16 in verse 7, I tell you the truth, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the paraclitus, the counselor, will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. Well, what is that? It's the Holy Spirit. When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment.

Well, just stop there. How's he going to do that? Through people testifying and sharing the truth in Jesus, people are going to be convicted of sin. That happened. Duckleman or son. Exactly, over and over. They're going to understand, oh, there's a way to be right with God through Jesus

and the Holy Spirit, righteousness. And in verse 9, in regard to sin because men do not believe in me. In regard to righteousness, because I'm going to the Father. You can have His Spirit. you, where you can see me no longer, and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. So there he goes, Zach. But the first one that I left out on purpose is because I never realized this till last night when I was reading this. In 1416 is the first time this Pericles is mentioned in the New Testament.

It says, and I will ask the father. Well, let me start reading in 15. If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another counselor, to be with you forever. The spirit of truth. And here's what I didn't notice. I didn't notice that he said, another.

And so then I thought, well, what does that mean? Another. And now, 1, 1st John 2.1 makes more sense. because Jesus came to be alongside humans, his disciples. God is, he came along, but he was only here for a short time. That's why he said another counselor, but he'll be with you forever, because he's going away. Yeah. Isn't that fascinating?

Yeah, because they only have him for three years, basically. Well, if you think about this, that verse I mentioned earlier about how our testes, testimony with the blood of Christ is, if you listen to the context of it, he's talking about Satan being cast down to earth in Revelation 12. I think he's talking about what happened at the cross and then ultimately the resurrection and the coming of the spirit. I think that's why that testimony part is in there. It's reference to our connection with the Holy Spirit. But he says that I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of Christ have come. For the accuser of our brothers has been

thrown down who accuses them day and night before God. So the accusation is coming from the evil one, which he's still accusing, right? But so that doesn't stick to me at all. There's no accusation the devil can bring against me. No accusation whatsoever that's going to stick because I have overcome him by the blood of the lamb, which was given on the cross of Calvary. Jesus, Jesus said, it's for your good that I go away. And here's why, by the word of their testimony, which I actually receive, I received the word of my testimony from the Holy Spirit. I said, John 16. I don't, how would I know? I only know because he's revealed it to me. And so now I'm expressing what the Spirit has given me. And it's in that testimony when we're testifying to what

the, what the blood of God, the Lamb has done for us, that Satan has no power. He has no hold on you. And the third part of that, Zach, is the crucial part as well, that you don't. fear death. He says, we don't worry about death anymore. Because Jesus conquered that in the resurrection. So it's at the end of this part of the journey, but that's

not the end of the journey at all. That's your guy, your buddy in the wheelchair. Exactly. And he got it. And he's like, hey, we're all going to die sometime. But he also, you could tell that he, along with my uncle Phil and your late dad, fully convinced that there will be a resurrection of the death. That's exactly right.

And not to mention that when you read all this and put it all together. Jesus being at the right hand of God as our advocate is connecting us to God the Father in the presence of God. That's good. Him giving out his spirit

to us on earth is connecting us on earth. It's connecting them. He'll come make our home. So when you think about heaven and earth coming back together, think of all the temple language in the Old Testament and, you know, where they go in there and they want to have the presence of God come.

Jesus answered all that by dying on the cross, being buried and raised, and pouring out of spirit. And I think this makes the nature of God and him dwelling with us and us with him because of Jesus in our defense is very powerful. Yeah, that's good. All right, so Jay's gave you an assignment to catch up on those other two podcasts. we will make that transition the next podcast from 14 to 15 because look it's some rich everything you just said is all again comes out in chapter 15 which is good so see you next time unashamed thanks for listening to the unashamed podcast help us out by leaving a rating and review on apple podcast and don't miss an episode by subscribing on youtube and be sure to click the little bell

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