Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 148 | You Can't Spell Science Without Si, Jase Rants About Deceptive Ads, and Jesus' Last Blast

Episode Date: September 20, 2020

Phil proves that Jase is hard-headed. Jase shares a teal report, including the fascinating way Si determined the flying speed of a green-winged teal. Jase is also fired up about "deceptive advertising" by 7-Eleven, Motel 6, and Super 8. Al points out where you'll find some of Jesus' most amazing teachings. And the guys talk about the meaning of foot-washing in the Bible, macho men as servants, and how people who really know Jesus don't mind you bringing him up. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? Well, the hunting report today was I got way more sleep than I did the last hunting day. Did you go home straight from the podcast and did you just sleep it all the way through? You know, it got blurry halfway home. Everything got blurry. And I was just had both hands on the wheel thinking, stay in your lane, Jay, stay in your land. name bro and i remember walking in and missy said something and i just i didn't even make it to the bed i

just laid down on the couch and now i have these two little dogs and we have one who is our guard dog hazel she looks a little rough but she's tenacious and now we have another one she's a yipper when missy's grandma went on to be with the lord she had a little dog so we've acquired that dog You adopted the dog. We adopted the dog. And so now I got up on the couch and slept with those two dogs for about four hours. I literally lay down. And you never move.

Never move. I open my eyes. Of course, what you do is you always find a clock because I think that's why the Bible uses that death being falling asleep. Because you lose track of time. Especially in the afterlife. Yeah. Like that. Time does it pass by.

So the first thing you do when you wake up is finally. the clock because I don't know how long I was out for and I was like whoa four hours yeah I tell that story on Sunday when I preached about I had my colonoscopy or colon scope whatever they call it and you know it's like we talked about I just I'm talking to the guy we're talking about duck hunting you know he's he's the guy that and an anesthesist you know he's talking he's he's you know knows about the family we were talking about ducks blah blah blah he's all right but you're about ready to do this thing I'm saying yeah and so I keep talking and And then it was just, an hour later, I'm in another room.

They've rolled me out. They've done everything. How long did it seem to be to you? It seemed like I looked up to keep the conversation going. I mean, like, that's the resurrection. It's an hour of time. I think so. That's why it says in the twinkling of an eye.

How do you define twinkling? When you fall asleep, if you're sleeping soundly, which that particular drug that was going into your veins, it puts you to sleep. But that could have been 10 years or a thousand years. Well, yeah, and look, he pushed the plunger. I mean, I saw him punch the plunger. But I mean, within seconds, when that hit my veins in my hand, I mean, you're talking about some fast operating.

I mean, I'm literally in a conversation. Which actually is kudos to the medical profession. Well, that's exactly right. And look, this is pull that off and then bring you back to life. And this is the kind that doesn't like. Basically, you're dead. Well, the old days, you're. were loopy and all that but now you come out like I looked around and I was a little groggy but

but but was no long ill effect I saw a light I saw no light you know that's what I just saw a nurse no I've had these people say that you know well I've died five times you know I was on the operating table it's so hard to know because you're you know when I got shot in the head as a kid when the when the bullet exploded in the fire I woke up which I still say it was an aerosol camera but we've had the argument for 40 years the dog who was not a hunter, I guess. He said it was a bullet. He said it was the hole.

Oh, I see. The hole of the bullet. A bullet was under fire. A bullet went off. The hole. I always thought it was a nurse. It's what takes off because the bullet still stays there because it's heavy.

But the hull hit him inside the head. It was hit him right in the temple. I remember that. Oh, yeah. I went down. It would have blinded you if it hit you in an eye. Or could have killed you if it would have penetrated your. I was thinking.

more of the death. Because he said, but I woke up on the operating tail was my point. But I all agree that you have a hard head. There's no doubt that's true. It ricocheted off your head, hard head. I don't think so. You want to argue about it? Well, I just said that the 22 bullet hole pretty well.

We know what's where is that same year. Then I got pushed off the top bleacher. I had an altercation over a girl that I didn't like. And I had to go back to the hospital because now I had a, you know, whatever grade concussion and so my head hurt for a couple of days all growing up jace was the one that was always going to the hospital i mean the rest that we were all rough and tumble but jace was the only one that kept having all the injuries i take more risk they took a kidney stone out and the guy said you fixed a feel we got a little warmth in your arm mr robinson then you'll fall asleep and he

came toward me with that stuff and i'd just close my eyes and then one second later to me a millisecond later i closed my eyes and i went open my eyes i said let's get the show on the road here and he said the show's over and i said how long did that take he said one hour i said i finally understand the resurrection you'll never get that hour back either no it's gone it's like it's almost wasted i said that could have been 10 hours it'd been the same thing i'd I'd close my eyes, I'd open them. You know what I'm saying? There was no time passion.

That's the resurrection. And we say that for comfort with people. It's not like you're twilling your fingers. Well, we'll say like somebody passes on and we like to think of them, being with, reconnected with people. And those are all comforting thoughts. But really and truly, more than likely, it's asleep and awake. That's right. Well, right.

I agree. So what I was going to say is. I think that's why Jesus said, whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Right. you're thinking he's gone. No, he has gone anywhere. Well, I mean, we're going to probably talk about that today anyway because he interjected himself, Jesus did, into time.

Correct. So we're going to be in John 13 today, but the first Senate says the hour has come, the time has come. He knew the time had come. Well, if you say that, that didn't mean anything. I mean, it means something, but it means like, okay, I was going to do something. I had a plan now the time's coming,

but think about a being who existed above time. Outside time. Now becoming a human saying, just using the word. I'm not saying he's interjected into time. I'm saying he is time. He is the author of time. But he became a man.

Because then he says, I'm going back to the father. So he became a time. Amazingly, which is why he said he lowered himself. Amazingly, when he did that, he became the world's marker of time. That's why they say all the years before him, we're going to call those, how are we worried that? Well, I'd have to say there were all the time before him. All the days before him were all the day before the common era.

And when he arrived, all the years after him, that'll be eight. AD. But the atheist didn't like it. They try to say, well, common error. And it's actually all... But it all goes back to his marker. It's actually all three or four years. But I'm like, you know, in the span of eternity, three or four years seems like that. No big deal. So you can do your research on that if you want to check me out on that. But what I was going to say, so we got up this morning, the TIL report, because TIL move in mass. Yesterday, I believe, maybe, you know, just could have been an almighty saying, here you go, here's some teal.

Because we only saw one bunch yesterday, but we got them. Today we saw nothing. We watched the sunrise. But Arkansas season opened today. So we were optimistic, and we stayed later because we thought, how long does it take? We had a huge debate on how long does it take a teal to fly from Arkansas to our duck line.

Well, they fly about 70 miles on hours. Well, sigh, but you're getting that from South Carolina. Si. That's what somebody said. A till flies 70 miles an hour, and I thought he had read that in an encyclopedia. Today, he told us how he determined that. He said, no, I'd drive him in Alabama.

And he said, I looked outside the window, and there was a greenwing keel flying synchronized. You know, yeah. I mean, he didn't say that. I think he, like, said shankanize, and I said, synchronize. Yeah. Flying eye level to his vehicle. So he started pushing the gas and letting off trying to determine how fast a greenwing teal flies.

And he said, when I got to 70 and sped up and slowed down, no, that's it. So I was like, I mean, I said, he just married you for that amount of time. And he said, yep. So anyway. Well, you can't spell science without size. We, we, our best guess was 20 to 30 minutes. Depending on what part of the state in Arkansas, you were, I know people who run in Wilmot, Arkansas,

which is if you drove to Wilmot, was that an hour? Yep. So how long would it take a group of teal? Well, according to 20 minutes, 25. That's what I thought. So we stayed a little later just in case the northern Arkansas birds got flustered. But you know what? Didn't see anything.

So on the way out, we had something interesting to happen. The last two days on the way out, we've got something interesting. The first day we were going, and our cotton mouths, water moccasins here, they look like monsters. Oh, they're huge. And Jay sped up. So I'm like, yeah, everybody, what are we doing? I'm in the back of the little whatever they call them now, ATV. And he goes out, he's getting his pistol out.

And I look up, and it's a monster. I mean, it looked like a monster. So I'm trying to reach my shotgun, but I can't because he's... One in big thick ones. Big thick, but he's moving toward the grass, real thick grass. So Jay gets out his pistol. I mean, Jay was in the military. You would think, I've seen him do this before.

Rapid fire. He shot the whole clip in the quickest amount of time possible. And so the snake keeps crawling in the grass. I get my shotgun out, but now he's scaring him off into the grass. He said, oh, I got him. I said, well, we'll see. He said, what you mean? I said, pull over in the grass.

Because if you got him, he'll be laying there. He said, no, I put a bullet in him. We, there was one big patch of grass. We went over and over that grass for 30 minutes. No sign of him. So either went in a hole in the ground or hit the grass and, you know, while during all the confusion. That sounds more like it.

But I know one thing, you didn't get him. Because if you did, he'd have been laying there, dead or I'd have seen some blood. You may be waiting on you in the morning. Yep, that's exactly right. So today we're driving out, same path. Speed up again. I'm, ah, here we go. but he didn't grab his gun

So you're thinking another snake Yeah I thought it was a snake Well he grabbed his phone He's getting out I'm like what are we doing Because he didn't have a gun He grabbed his phone He said there was a deer standing here

We had just planted a field He said there was a deer standing here in the field I said well he ran off He said no he just went down I said what And he was looking like right by us So I got my camera out I was filming him

He was filming because he said There's a deer laying here and I the more he walked I thought I don't believe it why didn't he getting up he got five feet from that deer and that deer jumped up like to hit him in the 10 and took off running have you seen his footage of it of the no from his perspective when I thought that that looked pretty cool he was like I saw yours you know filming him but I bet that looked pretty good just a little bit of it was incredible that a deer at an early age he just didn't think he could out We crowded him, and he thought there's too long to go to get to the thicket. So let me just, and the grass is not just tall. You wonder why they seem to disappear? They just drop down and sit in there. You think, what's not where happened to him.

You know what's funny is because Jay got to where they thought he was. So I said, no, he belly crawled out to the woods. I thought, no, I don't believe that. See, old deer on his belly, you know. Just kind of hunker down. going out what's the he comes on

some stuff didn't he so that was the TIL report the deal with the deal with is you got to go every day

because they're only going to move what would you say two to three days over the course of two weeks

season and you probably have two or three hunts they go in spurt decent they go in spur I mean

there is the occasional stray bunch which is what we got yesterday y'all had three singles Sunday

which who knows what that means that is kind of weird, but it's usually they come in mass. I remember a few years ago the last day, the last Saturday, we got into them. Well, it ends on Sunday. It ends on Sunday.

It was the last day, right, other than Sunday. But we remember that? We know Bob DeMoss was here. And I mean, it was like two or three huge bunches came by, and we just pop, pa, pop, we had like seven or eight people. And, I mean, we were done. They were still just coming. And, I mean, we were picking up our dogs.

Remember when we had the guest that year, it was like, like five years ago, they were not hunters, which I was completely against this. I thought they were undercover federal agents or, you know, some kind of sting operation. It was like, no, come on. They were like, said, we're there. You know, we like to experience nature and adventure. And they love the Lord, which is why we allowed. They just wanted to take pictures of us hunting.

And they never had been hunting. They had never been hunting. And it was four or five of them. I mean, like two or three women, two or three guys. So they're out there in the way the entire time taking pictures Well it was one of the greatest hill flights ever And we're just bum pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop That's the same one I'm talking about

Oh, that's it? Yeah, that was God they were a film crew And we were doing something for dad's books or something That's why they were happening. They were like, well, you know, boy, they all have fun like this I was like, this happens about once every 10 years I mean, they fly in mass usually two times So they think it's like that every time we go out there

Well, two or three times the season, but this was like extraordinary. Remember, it was like huge. Oh, yeah. What I'm saying. It was so big bunches. They were making a lot of wind sounds. Oh, my goodness. It was 75 and 100 in a bunch.

Like jets lining. Let's take a quick break. And well, but you've forgotten the worst part of the story. So that morning we had confusion. So Lyle Sinky was our cameraman back then. With this other crew shows up, so he decides not to go film it, which none of us knew that he didn't come, because he normally goes on his own and sets up.

So the greatest till hunt we've had in years, and our guy, they were filming, you know, just kind of the general stuff. They were mainly there to film after the hunt. They were filming, Al, they were just taking pictures. No, they were, they filmed. They filmed. Well, where's the footage?

Well, they didn't get any, because they don't know what they're doing. They were there to film dad after them. Well, when I said, where's the footage, they told, because they had a drone and all this stuff. One of the women told me, oh, we just took pictures. They did, but, one of them was filming, but you didn't get anything. Like, they're behind the blind the buyer.

So what I'm saying is Lyle didn't show up, and we didn't get it for us on camera. Oh, my old dad was so mad about it. Because you thought he was filming the whole time. So we get back and we're like, hey, let's see the footage. And somebody said, oh, Lyle didn't go. And dad was so hot. Get sinking on the phone.

Well, the guy yesterday, a documentary sent a camera guy, and he actually got the bunch. It looked. It actually looked better because we let two guys. get away, which is I thought, unfortunate, I felt we should have killed them all. And because, you know, if you're real efficient, you shoot into less bunches, which is the go. If you just wipe out the whole little colony, nobody's hurt. Right.

We except the ones that were in the colony. Right. But you didn't educate all the others, so we try to be as efficient. And you don't know, it may be last year, we had a stretch for it, nine days. Yep. We had nine days. We didn't see a till. That's borderline insanity.

Keep doing the same thing, expecting different results. So before we read John 13, you all know that I'm constantly on the prow for what I find fascinating about the world is that they will use Jesus concepts to try to take your money. And I've gone through this many times. And whenever I see a product, I'll share it with our listeners. You know, I did the whole deal about Angel Soft and dust toilet paper.

How do you know how soft Angel Soft is? So what I mean? And then Charmin, they said, oh, no, how are we going to compete with angel softness? I know, Bob, let's come out with the Eternal Roll. It'll last them a month. So that was a joke because you see the hypocrisy. Because you want, when people hear the word eternity. Well, Jason really thought out this.

You're diving in deep on these commercials. I'm making a point. I don't like it. It's a pretty good point. When you're deceiving me to get my money, and you're like going to produce some kind of eternal reward. Only Jesus can do that. And you may scoff at the idea of Jesus.

You call that a fairy tale. But when you want to take some money, guess what? You borrow some of his qualities so people will buy your, I was going to say crap, but the stuff, you know, toilet paper. same difference and so I'll give you another universal health care there you go here's another one you heard that phrase universal so that's not just health care in America that's the whole planet and the universe well that that's the health care Jesus gives you they just trying to sell whatever same thing but you don't notice it unless you start looking for it and I see them all the time

but then on the other side the other side of that coin you also have companies that are deceiving you and I'll give you, for instance, because you say, what's the first thing you think of when you hear of Motel 6? Now, don't try to answer correctly. What's the first thing you hear? I mean, what's the first thing you think? We'll leave the light on for you. We'll leave the light on for you. Well, here's the first thing I think of.

The last one I stayed at you, you would have needed a light all night long because you're talking about they parted it all night. Hollering, a few shots fired. I'm like, yeah, okay. So they did lead the line for that. All right. So you said, do you know what that means Motel 6? I have no idea. When the company was started, it was six bucks to stay at the motel.

Have they raised that since? No, when you drive by, I drove by one the other night when we were coming home from the event. Guess what it says. 3999. No, it says Motel 6, which is deceiving because it's no longer six bucks not going to get you anything. It ain't going to get you in the door. And right under the six bucks, it said like $53.99. Now, here's me.

I'm thinking, why are we deceiving? Why didn't we have a rebranding? Take the six that it used to be, which is what you're representing. That's what the company is. Motel 53. No, add it to the $53.99 plus a penny and call it Motel 60. And be honest. Or take the six down.

and just have it what the rate is. We're motel, what the number's constantly changing. So that bothers me. I'll tell you another one. Here's another one. So I see a sign. I'm like, good grief. I didn't know 7-Eleven was still in business.

Do you know what 7-Eleven means? Open up at 7 and shut out at 11. Yep. And do you know when they open up and close now? It's not 7-Eleven. It's 24-7 now. See, I have a lot. problem with that. I'm like, why are you still calling yourself that? To me, that's deceiving. Or it's

just, are you fearful that you made a mistake in the beginning by naming yourself that and you didn't stick to it? I mean, I ain't going in there. It's been years since I made a 7-Eleven. You remember the one that used to be where David Owens' fishing shop is now. That was a 7-Eleven. Remember? And when we would go hunting, you would always stop there and we'd get, you know, you know, coffee and donuts and stuff like that to take with us at the Dupline. We were there at two in the morning, but they were 24-7 then, because remember we used to leave early to drive all the way. See, here's what, here's what, we don't have any more here.

Here's what's so hypocritical about the whole deal. So after Motel 6 opens, then we had another business open, and they're called Super 8. Same thing. Stay here for eight bucks. Now, you see the obvious problems here. number one there's already somebody saying they'll do it for six but they knew they wasn't doing it for six because they came after so they're like you come here we'll do it for eight and so that was their whole business model but guess what happened time went by and now they're

both line i just can't believe our society and most people are like y'all they're like well i just i didn't know well yeah i have to admit i haven't i haven't that doesn't bother me i mean Now that you brought it up, when you combine what I'm saying is, there is a real problem finding truth in this life outside of Jesus and what we discuss right here. That is correct.

Because most people are after the mighty dollar, and they will do whatever it takes to get yours. And when you start analyzing what they're doing, you start saying, and they're borrowing the spiritual principles in their marketing. And then they're coming up with dumb ideas. You know, you stay here for six bucks. I at work for a couple of months.

But when you got to 10, don't you know people are like, well, why are you calling yourself a motel 6? Because I know it didn't go from 6 to 54. When it was 10, I'm like, what happened to the sick stuff? So it caused all those problems, and nobody would step up and make a decision and say, you know what, take off the,

six if they had just had you there back when people even knew what that meant because to be honestly most people have no idea what motel six what they mean I mean they don't understand what the six well because I'm the type of guy I'm telling you when somebody's selling something I want to see what exactly are you saying well I admit when you're around marketing people you know I mean they they are it's everything is about brand names and all this different things I mean sometimes they can take a product that's not very good and really make it look I mean, that's, they're masters of that. So you're right, at the core of it, either a product is good or it isn't.

You don't want to market bad stuff. I remember Dad's saying when there were some stores around here that had some cheap stuff of them, you get stuff, and they're like, well, we got you once because you bought these shirts that tore up, you know, after you wore them one time. And you were like, you'll never stay in business like that if your product is no good. And you were right, they went out of business. That's right. Well, and my point is, you know, we're going to read this in John 13, which,

is you're seeing a side of Jesus that's really shocking because he's getting down into the full extent of his love and displaying it in one of the greatest acts of service for you know if you believe Jesus has created the universe became a man the idea with all this power you just raised Lazarus from the dead and he's doing miracles that you're going to wash the dirty feet of your creation who are flawed and sinful. I mean, it's amazing. It is. Let's take a break and we set the stage. And then you realize that he washed Judas's feet. And the reason I was bringing up this idea about deceit is most of us, we think the evil one, we think that it's really easy to pick up on where and how the evil one works. But deceit is one of his biggest tools. And here's a

guy, you would think Judas at some point following Jesus for three years would have said, what am I doing here? What? How could you be that close? Well, you get deceived and you can be that close to the truth, the truth, the human embodiment of it, and miss it. Yeah. Of course, what he missed it on. God, the father of truth.

Satan, the father of lies. so you have two opposing powers. One is the truth. One is a big lie. His native language, when he speaks his native language, he's lying. Right. So setting the stage for this, just for everybody's been studying along here with us, we told you at the beginning, of course, it's been a while now,

that John, he had a little bit different. All the other gospels, they kind of hit the whole chronology of Jesus' three-year ministry. So they're spread out over time. John kind of zeroes in right at the end. He was different how he told the story. And so where we're getting at in terms of where Jesus is, this is where we're beginning in John 13 is the night before he's going to be arrested.

So we're right here at the end, even though there's going to be several chapters because this is an amazing night because not only what we're about to share, but you get to 14, 15, 16, 17, Jesus does some of his most amazing teaching to me because he's given the disciples the last blast because he knows. Well, and I think you remember that when we started, we said that there's three principles,

characteristics of Jesus that you'll see in the book of John, they all happen to start with L, which was not something we planned. It's just from the first chapter you see it. and up until this chapter he's mainly stressed being light you know spiritually and physically I guess because he created all and life and he's proven that through the miracles the resurrection and and that being the

discussion well here he seems to zero in on love you know because after he does this just jumping ahead he on the practical application of what he just said. He said, a new command, I give you love one another. That's 13, 34, and 35, which is famous verses. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this, all men will know that you're of my disciples if you love one another. I mean, I don't know how you couldn't be, here's created a universe, became a man,

didn't just preach a sermon about it. I mean, because you can imagine the tension. Here's a guy doing miracles. who's fascinating. And all of a sudden, you see him getting a bowl and a towel. Because they were probably thinking in that moment, what's he doing? Because, you know, which was not unlike any other time, whatever he was doing. And then he starts washing their feet.

And that's why the first response was, no, you shall never, you know, Peter Lee, you shall never wash my feet. That's right. Of course, then Jesus is like, well, you're out then. Oh, okay, well, here's my hands. Well, he said, if you're going to watch me, watch the whole body. And Jesus, you can take a bath for that.

This is something different. You know, he's trying to get these principles across. But you talked about this last time, we were at the end of John 12, you know, when you mentioned the ones that the leaders that believed in him, but they wouldn't speak out in their belief because they'd get kicked out of the synagogue. Yeah, out of fear. They were more fearful about getting praise from men than praising God. and it's just what you said.

Those guys had just seen Lazarus raised from the dead. You'd think that would lock anybody in forever, but it didn't. They're still in their disbelief. So what was interesting about this setting here, it starts out in verse one, that this was the Passover feast. Now, I find this fascinating because the Jewish people had been doing Passover, you know, for a long, long time. The idea that it goes back to when Moses led him out of,

Yeah, I brought that up the week. You weren't here. The parallel from a timing standpoint, from Exodus 12 to when Jesus was eventually crucified and how many days they went. A brother shared Perky, who we both know. He put that on me, and I was like, you know, I never noticed that. And so he was representing the Lamb, the Passover Lamb. This would literally be the last Passover ever needed. Because Jesus now is that Lamb.

That's what he called himself, to sacrifice himself for the world. And then we know it from Hebrews. He was also the high priest. So he was everything. Like he was the whole kitten caboodle. And by the way, how did John the Baptist know that in chapter one of John? When he saw Jesus, he said, look, the Lamb of God, he takes away the sin of the world. How do you know that?

I've always found that fascinating. I mean, he did that 12 chapters, and he's no longer with us. now. He's lost his head at this point for his faith. It's fascinating. Which, by the way, the Darrell from the Just Thinking guys, though I was a fascinating point. Just thinking. He made a fascinating point about, you know, why didn't Jesus go let, if we're so worried about social justice, why didn't he go get John the Baptist out of prison? Why did he let him stay in there and lose his head? It wasn't about, it's not about here. I thought that was a brilliant point. I thought about the passage where Paul said, I've been beaten with rods three times I was shipwrecked.

I've been stone. I had the 40 lashes minus one that's in Corinthians. Why do bad things happen to good people? Yeah. Well, why didn't God step in? And we've said before, every major character but John died of martyr's death. Do you remember what Jesus told Paul when he first was converted after he blinded him? He said, he will find out, he told Anonis, he said, he will find out how much he will suffer for my name. I mean, so Paul, he was going to have it rough. I mean, he, and look, he knew it going in.

Anonis was, of course, Anonis was afraid of him, you know, but he was like, so when he lists all that stuff that happened to him. Yeah, that was in Second Corinthians, 11, I just want to tell you where it was. And you read that, and I love it because he got to the end, he's like, because they were boasting about their things what they had to give up and he's like, you want to boast? And he went through all that and he's

like, and who's not led into sin and I don't inwardly burn? I mean, he's like, I'm out here getting hooked. Try to do us right. You're in here complaining about your little problems. He's like, it just burns my

bacon. And look, he got it from all sides. Yeah. I mean, the Jews were after him, the Romans were after him, Christians were after him early, you know, until they, until he proved himself with who he was. Let's take another break. Well, if you read chapter 13, he said he knew that the time had come, and I'd already

mentioned that, which is a big deal for a person who's eternal, who became a man, and volunteered to come down here because of the same love that he was fixed to show. And it said it had come for him to leave this world and go to the father, having loved, and That's why I brought up love, because he's going to show you the full extent of his love. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. Some versions say, like, his love to the uttermost. And so you're like, he's fixed to show himself what really, you get a window into the depth of God's love. I love Paul also speaking that in Ephesians 3 when he said he prayed for the Ephesians.

they can understand how high, long, and deep, and wide was the love of Christ. That's why when you read this, I mean, this is kind of an emotional, I've seen a lot of people when a sermon is preached on this, it's become emotional because you think they create the universe going down to his knees and despite our wickedness and our sin and our feel, there's something moving about him doing this.

Well, that's a huge point. This is, when you say the full extent, the love of God. And then you're right. When he's saying, think about this, this is the one who created the universe, God, in a human body as a man now. He's God and man. And he's down on his knees with these guys who, quite frankly, have not gotten it. And he knew they were all sinful men. Exactly. Including the one who would betray him is part of the group too. So I think it does. It's the, it's hard for us to even wrap our brain around that. Yeah. As to how much you love us. That's why you can't go around and be and, uh, you can speak out

against it. But, uh, you're at the end of the day, you're going to be required to love sinful men. And even your enemies. Well, even your enemies. Well, and that's what he did. It says in verse two, the Eden meal was being served and the devil had already prompted Judas, a scare it, but through deceit and the love of money. That's right. The son of Simon to betray him, Jesus knew that the Father put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God,

which shows you the voluntary nature of what Jesus did. Correct. What it shows you is how meticulously this was all planned out. This was the plan. Stick to the plan. Meticulous details. Oh, down to everything. Down to all the fulfillment of all the prophecy,

not a bone would be broken or pick your prophecy that he fulfilled, which is amazing. It's like 700 of them. So, and here's the point I want to make. Here's what I realized. And someone shared this with me. I didn't think of this myself, but I thought, you know, they're right. Because most of the time we talk about John 13, we go to the practical application, which means we should be servants, which is very hard for macho men.

I mean, I'm considering us in that count. We're pretty egomaniac machoers. it's just hard to do something like this. The very idea of it makes my skin curl. I'm like, let me go wash your feet. I mean, it's just not, I'm a germaphobe already. We're in a coronavirus. I ain't washing your feet.

During this DNAs, Jace, they were a little lacking with things like bars of soap. Well, right. Well, think about it. They're walking around over. You've been to Israel. You're walking around over there in sandals. I mean. This is mainly just, you know, old, you imagine walking around.

You got a sandals on as you're walking around. And just because we got a lot of people that don't know a lot about the Bible that watch our podcast. So, and listen, so I'll tell you, I mean, one of the customs, and we see this throughout the Gospels a lot, was that when you came to somebody's house, one of the things they did was, you know, washed your feet or you usually had a servant, wash your feet. And so there's, you know, Jesus has had some discussions about the, before. So, and the reason why is this, it's like a welcome, you know, we would say maybe take your shoes

off or, I don't know. At best, a lot of dust on your feet. Well, right. So it was just, it was a custom, you know, that they would understand more than we would. You're right. I think the modern, your people do foot wash it. Well, right. But he was making a practical application, and here's what I was going to tell you, what I

think, this, what he was doing. This was a shadow of what the cross was going to be. And here's why I think that. Because it says, so he goes. up verse four from the mill took off his outer clothing wrapped a towel around his waive after that he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples feet drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him now if you just stop and think about this he didn't he didn't tell anybody what to do he did all of it himself and what was the goal cleansing if you look at from a physical thing and so if you

think about it you know what you can't you can't spiritually cleanse yourself he he he does the work and i think that's why it meticulously says he he he he did it all he didn't say come help me with it because there is no help for what this is representing so when you think about it if jesus doesn't do the cleansing what you're filthy yep and that's why when he said Peter said Well Lord are you going to watch my feet? You're just playing. You do not realize what I'm doing, but later you will

understand. So I think when he gets to the cross, they look back and say Oh. I couldn't cleanse myself. He sets you free by cleansing you and from Satan. He's already said that.

Now's the time and John 12 now's the time for judgment on this world now the prince of this world will be driven out and he's beginning to show them what's fixing to happen and he says i'm going to wash you i'm going to wash you i think it's clean you from satan sin guilt law the grave i mean yeah i think it was a physical analogy based on love that's something their culture did frequently a lot but it took him a serving spirit to do. It's nasty and nobody wants to do it. But it was representing the cleansing that Jesus provides. I think that's why he did every step of it. And that's why when he made these statements, they make more sense because he said, unless I'll wash you, you have no part with me.

Because you think about it, if you don't have Jesus is cleansing, Jesus is nothing. You have nothing. That's right. You're dead. You're hopeless. So that's why it seems like a kind of a bold statement to say, well, unless I watch you, you have no part with me. I mean, you're like, well, why is this such a deal breaker? Because he was, he was shadowing what happens at the cross. Let's take one last break. And also, just at a practical level, he was showing them how to lead once he was gone. Because he says later, this is the new command, love one another.

And he says in other places, this is what you do. This is how you lead. So he's wanting them to understand that once he's, gone, they're going to understand better, and then they're going to know, because he's literally they are going to be him. They're going to be the first ones. I think to your point, that goes back to just prior to this happening, the wash and the foot washing, when the voice came from heaven, and Jesus said, it was for this very reason, I came to this hour, Father, glorify your name. This voice comes out of heaven. I have glorified it. Jesus said,

said this voice was for your benefit, not mine. That's right. And then he went on to show them what was going to fall upon them. And they said, wash the feet. He said, this is how you roll. Right. But you know, what we do is I think when people come visit our church or they visit our houses, a lot of times they'll come in and they're like, you know, I'm trying to

find my calling from God or I'm trying to find my purpose. But I notice us three, we all do the same thing. no matter who shows up, no matter what they say or how they can be evolved, we go back and start with Jesus. Because if there's no cleansing of Jesus, there's not going to be a, the calling is not going to work,

what we're going to do. So that we always go back and make sure people know Jesus, understand Jesus. And it's not like we're, you know, we used to call it like checking their conversion as a joke. But it's more in,

to make sure that it's our baseline yeah we've got to focus in what we've said earlier and the whole reason we're studying the book of john there's got to be a focus on jesus because he is the image of the invisible god his perfect life his love his death on the cross his resurrection is how god chose to get humanity how he called humanity to him through jesus so when somebody comes they may be confused or they may be, there's a difference in being religious and loving Jesus. That's right. So there's a lot of denominations, there's a lot of deceit.

That's why I'm bringing this up. You want to make sure you're not a Judas or walking in the steps of Judas right beside Jesus and miss the whole thing. That's right. So we always start with Jesus. And I feel like if someone's offended, because I've started talking with someone with Jesus,

and they're like, about Jesus, and they're like, well, are you saying I'm not saved? And I'm like, No, I'm introducing you to Jesus. They're like, oh, I know Jesus. But what I've noticed most people that know and love Jesus, they don't mind you bringing him up to make sure I would never be offended. Me either.

I tell you that story all the time. I met the pro golfer that was friends with Bubba. What's the name? Webb. I mean, the first time I met him, I walked up, I said, I'm Jace. He said, I'm Webb. I love Jesus. And I said, well, you're just the kind of guy.

like to hang out with. I loved it. I mean, let's just get to it right off the bat. That's right. You know, I was impressed. I didn't say, well, are you saying I don't? But I feel like religious people sometimes, it's like, are you saying you don't want to have a conversation? Because people have come to and they're like, I'm trying to figure out my calling. I'm like, well, let's make sure Jesus has cleansed you. Because I know one thing from this story alone, that's the first thing that's got to happen. Because he said, unless I wash you, you have no part with me. And sometimes it's just a picture.

A lot of our listeners, there was a young man Sunday that was at WFR, and I talked to him after we were done. And he's really tall. I can't remember your name because I know you're probably listening. But he asked me a great question about that. He said, you know, I work with people. I want to be, you know, an influencer. I love Jesus.

You know, and we get this question a lot, you know. And I said, well, first, you just got to be him in front of these people. Because it's like he works with a lot of rough and tumble guys and a lot of bad language. And it's the same things. And so he's like, how do I impact them to be like Christ? And I said, well, the first thing you have to is, remember, you are Jesus to them. So that means you've got to just everything that he's, you're leading you to do, you've got to do it consistently in front of these guys.

And that's how you start making a difference. And absolutely. You'll start picking them off. I told Trace, the same thing. It's like somebody one day will ask you a question about peace because they'll notice you're different. And when they do, that's your opening. Al, people ask me all the time. You know, give me the five ways to, you know, give me four ideas to try to help with my friends.

And I'm like, there's only one idea. His name's Jesus. Now, go read what he said, every word of his red letters and try to figure out how to relate who that is to them. the the the the the possibilities are endless well and having that and we were taught he we were talking that language specifically and I said well do you cuss in front of these guys because and he said no never and I said well they they've noticed that and he said well you know one time one of the older guys that was there they were working on something and they you know he's like dropping these words and he looked around this guy and he said you know it's all right to drop a few expletives in when you just

can't get something done and then another guy said yeah Have you ever heard this guy say a cuss word? And the guy said, no. And I was like, If it would have been me right then. There's your opportunity. I said, there's your opening. When you hear something like that,

they've noticed you're different. So now you've got to tell them why. They'll be like the old sound man that. I told him that story. Corral me. I told him. I said, why don't you curse everyone once in while? None of your family does, Mr. Robinson.

What's behind all that? I said, you've asked a good question. I said, I'll tell you about that this afternoon. Well, I started with Jesus. He falls back after he hears him and saying he said something to the effect. I wondered why I ended up in Louisiana on this film shoot, but now I know why I came. He said, I've never heard that story before. And really that's been, you're right, Jayce, that's kind of been our driving force, our whole lives.

And you get older and people respect you, and then they come to you when you've done it consistently like you have to. I mean, you've done it now since you were 28 to 74. Therefore, you have now gained confidence that people can say, well, if you go talk to that guy. So this family that was baptized Sunday, there was five of them. And here's what she told me. She said, you know, we've been wanting to get baptized. But, you know, COVID, people aren't baptizing people. And she said, but you know I heard that that church where Phil Robertson is, they'll baptize anybody.

And so I told the church that said, COVID or no COVID. I said, that's the church you want to be. the one that says, and again, not just baptism, but you want to be the one that says, you know what? I don't know if we got anywhere else to go, but they'll take you. But you know what I think, Al,

and we talked about this with the Just Thinking guy, there's just some things that when you're going to be a servant, you have to risk your life over. And because I'm not real worried about the coronavirus. I, out of respect, you know, I'll wear the mask, and I'll follow the rules, whatever. But when I went out to Texas, and basically got on my knee and became a servant to those kids.

Because in our meeting grade, I talked to them, I listened to them. You know, we had fun. But now if you'd ask me, do you want to do this? Well, no, it's Duxies, and I was tired. I don't want to go out there. But to me, I'm like, I'm going to go out here and serve these kids. And when they came in, they all had masks on. And I was like, is that for y'all or for me?

and they didn't know what to do but the person in charge said well that's for you I said oh you can tell them take it all I said I'll risk my life for these kids but I said that in front of them because I wanted them to know they've been beat, whooped, abused

kicked around their whole life I'm like I'm out here and I will risk getting the coronavirus to try to get y'all to heaven and they're like well to us no big deal but to those kids hey because they hadn't had

anybody in life much who are caring for them you know all right we're out of time uh it's really interesting next time we'll pick up i got some uh i want to get into this thing with judas because uh he's going to play a big central role as well as peter uh in the last part of this chapter so good stuff thanks for listening to the unashamed podcast help us out by rating us on iTunes and don't miss an episode by subscribing on youtube and be sure to click that little bell to get notified about new episodes. And for even more content that you won't get anywhere else,

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