Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 159 | Phil Is a Census Taker's Nightmare, Jase Is Facially Profiled & Don't Make Texas a Hellhole

Episode Date: October 9, 2020

Phil raises an eyebrow at what people are bringing to Texas from blue states. A visitor at Phil's gate asks a peculiar question about his race. Jase's new neighbor in Texas doesn't seem to like him very much, but he has a great visit to Garrett Metal Detectors. And the guys talk about bearing good fruit, explaining the Holy Spirit to unbelievers, getting out of the way of the Holy Spirit, and what it means to be controlled by a sinful nature. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? I'm telling you, every time I leave Louisiana and go to Texas, it's like I'm entering the bizarro world. Jason's Texas' adventures. I've never lived in a huge, what do you call them? Like suburban, metropolitan. Subdivision.

No, it's way bigger in subdivision now. He's in a city. The subdivision is the city. It's a city of subdivisions and much, much more. This is coming from the New York City and the California, the people that have migrated to taxes, taxes. This area is a city. What's fueling the numbers?

Well, this is a big high-tech area. I mean, there are all these high-tech companies because I noticed it just from the stock market, these companies that I thought they were, who knows. Well, Dell, computers, They're based there. What I can't understand is why if you're being forced because of legitimate reasons, financial reasons, and high taxes and lockdowns and all this stuff,

so you say, well, I'm over here in point A, and it happens to be a blue governor and a blue mayor, and let's get rid of the police and all this and all the things that's happening inside inner cities. so they flee to Texas. What I can't figure out is why, if you left the results of your ideology, why would you bring that crap to Texas and make it twice the hellhole you just left? Because it's big cities. Why wouldn't you denounce?

Some have repented lately and said, I was part of the movement. You know, you've seen on TV? I'm like, yeah. Well, hit a nerve here, Phil. They said, now I'm turning my life over to Jesus because I never even heard of Jesus until I ran upon you. I think we have a disconnect with the results and the ideology would be my short answer to your query. Why bring that crap all the way down to the great state of Texas and make that a hell hole like you just left? They should have to check it at the state line.

Yeah, I had a couple funny instances happen. One, because everybody. knows my wife in the neighborhood now because she's there more than I am. So these people that I'm around, they didn't watch Duck Dynasty. I can just tell when they see me, you know, they clutch their children. They speed the bikes up. They didn't miss a whole lot. Well, no, I'm not saying like they miss something. So I'll give it for instance. So I look down because they're building houses everywhere. It's just, I mean, it's the fastest growing area in the nation for like years now, where you're at.

So I'm living at, because I wanted to live by Jeff. The problem is, these houses are selling, it's like when we were trying to find a house, it's like within an hour, there'd be two of them gone, just looking at up sold. So I got a house that's by this reserve, and I don't think anybody wanted it because they were scared of the woods. But I was like, when I saw that, because they can't build any houses next to it. And the wildlife that it produces. Oh, there's wildlife.

I mean, it's sad because we're in the middle of town. And on average, there's 30 deer that walk through my yard on a given day. Overfed, tame deer are in your yard. Yeah. And they're a little bitty down there. And all these people are past the phase of taking one out and skinning the thing and eating it because that's not trauma. Well, I caused that trauma in my neighborhood here. I mean, I'm skinning a deer in my yard.

And we had some people not from here saw me doing it. And, you know, the woman, she just, she turned just white and was nauseous. Speaking of white, I pulled up, and there was a young lady, and she's parked at my gate. A lot of strange people park at my gate. But I pull up there and I'm just looking at her. I wonder why. I didn't say anything. and I said, I don't know whether she's down here up to no good.

What, what, why would she be sitting there? I nodded at her. I said, what's you got? She said, is there a residence behind this gate? I said, yeah, my residence and my neighbors right beside me. Phil Robertson, Kay Robertson, Phil Riley, his wife. I said, two households down there. So, so what's your next question?

She said, so I'm going to put you down if it's okay with you. Can I put down here you're white? And I'm like, well, what do you think? I said, I didn't notice your color and I don't care. I said, I'm a human being and so were you. She said, agreed. Agreed. We're both human beings.

But can I put down here that you're actually white? I said, I don't know how to answer that. I said, you know, when I came out in my mother's room, I didn't have anything to do with it. I said, but I don't know why that would be an issue with you. Was it a census or something? Yes, I said, who are you? She said, I worked for the census. We just made her out in the yard of it.

I said, usually if you got a locked gate with, you know, to go in and there's a video surveillance going on there, you would think somebody lives back there. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know whether Antifa census. her down there scouting out the joint or what? Well, look, I was ready for anything that she wanted to produce. Well, look, so I, I had a similar, so I, look.

Well, you're a census takers nightmares. I mean, is it okay for me to write down that you're white? I'm like, do what? Yeah, I said, well, whatever you think, girl, just looking at me, where you think? You should have told her you identified as a Native American or something like that. So, well, what if I'd have had a black mama and a white dad? I would have been in a bind because I'm like, well, it's a good question. I'm half black and half white.

The white part of me has privilege, white privilege, but the black part of me being persecuted. But I came from a mixed race people. I'm in a bind here. That's true. I never thought about that. If you look at the trees anyway, there's like on these, whatever these websites are that give your roots,

by the time you get it all out, you're like 19. parts of whatever, you know, 1%. That's how the woman got in trouble saying she was part Cherokee Indian. Right. She just found. She was one 1,064th Indian. You know, Act 17, it does simplify the whole thing from one man. God made every nation of men.

Love it. He determined the time set for her. I just thought it was interesting that this census takers finally thinking, Who is that crazy man? Because you started in on a sermon about one race. And all she said was... I quoted Act 17 to her. I said, remember Acts 17?

I mean, that's good. That's good, George. I said, you know, biblically speaking, if you're wondering about what color you want to put me down as, I said, I figured just a visual, probably do it. But in this case, you want my permission. She said, that's what I need. Your permission for me to say, you are white.

Well, what are we living in? What's going on in our course? Why couldn't you just check that box? Because it's pretty much. For the life of me, I just don't quite understand. No wonder if I saw uptight. I had somebody pulling up my yard saying, do I have your permission to say your wife? I think I just said no.

What does it matter? You know, I came from Scotland so far as I know. But why do they need to know that? Well, that's what I'm saying. And who's paying for that? I'm thinking. We're paying for that. I'm just thinking Hoodlem sent her.

I said Hoodlum sent her girl down there. She's asking us. Well, we just are. So, Jason actually told her don't go further down the road. Yeah, this was in a weird. She was about to go into a bad. In a weird turn of event, she was like, I'm looking for this address, and she was pointing in that direction.

I was like, a flood hit. Those houses have been flooded. But people live there. There's squatters there. I said, if I were you, I would not go down there by myself or without a weapon. That's what he told. She was like, well, that's good to know. I was thinking, no, that's not good to know.

That will save your life. Jason, you can hit these two right down here, but I wouldn't go any further because you got problems. It was kind of weird. Well, I was going to tell this story. So I looked down at the end of my cul-de-sat where the little nature preserve is. And all the, it's windy in Texas. So all of the house builders debris, mainly water bottles and sacks. It's all just everywhere, just trash.

So I thought, you know, I'll make a good impression. And I'll just, it's just the right thing to do. I went and got a garbage bag and filled it up with trash. But when I got over, there's a neighbor across the street. When I got over there close to there, york, pretty much on the line. I'm down there digging in the weeds, getting trash. Well, I look up, and here's a woman. I can tell just from looking that she's a yuppie and probably leaning less.

She had two dogs just the way the dogs were manicured. And there was a look of horror on her face. And I thought, this is weird, because this is my neighbor, and this is the first impression. And you're not making a good one. So I said, how are you doing? Nothing. And I thought, she thinks I'm one of these workers who's in trouble with the law. What do you call those?

You know how you see the prisoners working on the side of the road? are at best right out of the rehab. That's what she thought. So I felt facial profiling, here we go again. So did she just walk, kept... She had her dogs and they were growling. And I thought, no, what am I going to do if she turns these two dogs? Because I was thinking, she's terrified.

I can... Because I'm right on her line. But I'm picking up trash. I thought she'd say, great job, you know. I'm your neighbor. I met your wife. Nope. Nothing.

Austin, Austin, Texas, where rednecks meets left wing. And hipsters. That's what I told Jeff. I thought it was an interesting story, you know. So then I came out, I said, well, I sort of met the neighbor. I told Missing. She was like, oh, good grief. I'm going to have to line that out.

I was like, well, babe, what was I supposed to do? Nothing I was going to say was going to work. Yeah. Because the opinion's been formed, which is what I'm saying is the problem in the culture. That's right. She's like, what is this guy doing in my yard? Or he seems to be picking up trash. He's up to no good.

I got nothing. Well, at least I could understand that more than dad thinking the census taker was Antifa. I mean, an Antifa spy. Yeah. Always be ready. So the highlight was Missy's parents met us down there. And so we spent, you know, a few days.

there they checked out the house and all until we watched the LSU game you watched LSU game oh yeah much better result I had an interesting thing happen so the LSU game comes on and I'm like what happened to the SEC network it was the most shoddy

you know there's like a commercial break in progress they didn't even have commercials and I thought well maybe they realize nobody's watching this and then the cameras are you know all over the place and then the two announcers this is the beginning of you know welcome them to we have a matchup you know the Vanderbilt

Commodores listen to this line taking on one of the best teams in college football last year I said Paul's now this is your intro

we went 15 and 0 one of the greatest college teams ever and you're commentating in the game and your opening line is one of the best teams from football last year. No, there was us and there was everybody else last year.

So I made a decision. I muted. And so we watched the game. Which is really the best way to watch it to me. Which is then why I noticed all the, maybe it's coronavirus, somebody, they can't get good help. I don't know what happened.

So what happened was we're watching the game. Well, about a quarter in, you know, we hear the ukulele crank up because Mia, she plays the ukulele. She didn't know we were listening. She isn't singing in her room. All these songs were ukulele. They were spectacular.

It was, and so we're watching the game and listening to the ukulele. Well, after one song, Missy's mom and Missy, they just couldn't help. They started clapping. So then Missy, I mean, Mia came. I was like, that was not for, I wasn't doing that for y'all. What are you? Y'all are weird. What are you watching the game?

The game would, you know, I was trying to explain while we're watching the game. If your neighbor had seen that, y'all would have bonded instantly. That's right. So look what happened. So then Mia just said, well, I don't mind playing for y'all because y'all need some help. So she sat there and played song after song while we, while, now it was a live performance. And the game, like, right before it in, it evolved to where the last song, they all sing. Missy's family, they can all sing.

Oh, yeah. And they were singing the Elvis song. Love me tender. I can help falling in love with. I was just kind of humming, but I thought you got three generations here. Because Missy's mom, she was a choir teacher for years and can sing like a bird. And you had Missy, because it just slowly morphed into this. I felt like I was around a campfire.

I was around the game. It was one of the... You were toasting your hands on the television screen. Larry has the perfect boy. He's falling in love. I mean, and I was like, well, this is... I was getting chills. And Ellis, she dominated the game.

But it was like, I'll look back. I told Missy later, I was like, we'll look back on that as one of the greatest memories of such a crappy game. Because let's face it, Vanderbilt's terrible. Yeah. But it was a bounceback. And so I thought I'd cheer that.

I mean, as far as family, family time, it was awesome. Let's take a quick break. I had another football question since we're still here. So how do you explain the beat down that we took last week and then Mississippi State plays Arkansas? Yeah. Who's been one of the worst teams for several years, although they got a new coach and all that.

They got the air raid now. How did that happen? Because that's what stumped me. Here's what I think. Did Arkansas beat them? They beat them. 21 to 14. I mean, like, Mississippi State looked like I thought this team is the real deal, you know, thinking we were not as bad, I guess, as we were.

I just don't make, it makes no sense. I think it's about three things. One, LSU lost so much and expectations are high because it was one of the greatest teams. And so they laid an egg. But when you're the defending national champion, you have a target. Right. And I think they got up and there were circumstances there. You know, our best player on the team, our cornerback, which it then watered down.

I mean, these people were throwing the ball all over the place, and they were just, you know, they, the adrenaline got to pumping. Well, then all of a sudden they thought, we beat the national champions. Forget they didn't have 25 of their players and, you know, their best player. And so then I think that's what happens in life, in sports. You just become overconfident. Yeah. And you're thinking, Arkansas, do they still?

play football up here. Sorry if you live in Arkansas, but that's just the honest truth. My view of it, you look at guys like Nick Sabin, the difference between Sabin and all the rest of them. There's two or three more

kind of in his league, but no matter the years come and the years go, he never goes down here. He's always up here. He's the old saying. He's in the mix with anything. I don't know who said it first,

but he doesn't rebuild. reloads. That's what I'm... To his credit, they don't say what they want to, but he's pretty well got them lined out of it in Alabama. When you recruit the best players every year,

you're probably going to establish that. I think what he does that other powerhouse teams don't do as well is they stay there longer. You know, it seems like now everybody just runs for the money, but for some reason he gets a bunch of them to stay.

Of course, another thing that happened to LSU, they lost Brady, the offensive mind that that literally went from being an assistant to an assistant to being an NFL offensive coordinator. He skipped being an assistant coach. He's like 30 years old. He's 30 years old.

I mean, who does that? He literally, he was helping out with the saints, almost like pro bono. He is an assistant at LSU to the assistant, and now he's an offensive coordinator. But he's gone, and then you lost Randa to Baylor with the defense. So, Pellini. It's a game of many, many little quirks. That's exactly.

We're a young team. We're a young team. We'll be good. We turned the corner, even though it was against Vanderbilt, you know, it breeds confidence. We got the athletes. And you know what? I mean, you saw the numbers. Miles Brennan has had the best two starts in the history of all quarterbacks, including

Joe Burrow, in LSU history. So the thing about it was, he looked bad that first week, and he's still trying to learn how to work the pocket. But, I mean, you know, they're going to be good next year. Well, Burrow just had something that's hard to put down on paper. I mean, he doesn't have the strongest arm in the world. He doesn't. Brennan's a lot of time.

But he just makes everybody better. He knows where everybody's at. It just, you know, some guys are just born to throw a football. If you can take a step and just throw the ball 50 yards, I mean, you can, you can, but, you can get 50 years. If you can just take a step and just throw the ball on a line at 50 yards, you don't have to get 65% or 70 like some of them can, you know. You know, my homes and them, you throw it 80. But if you can get 50 out of it, Drew Breed, you don't. proved that. You know, Drew Brees is throwing a ball around, you know, but once it gets

about 50, pretty good arc on it. That's it. That's all he has. But that's still pretty good good if you can put it on the money at 50 yards. Take a step and throw it 50 yards. And you say, well, there's a lot of people who do that. No, they really can't. That's an excellent point, because Burrow, I think, throws like Breeze. They don't throw real hard. No. But they're just so accurate. Well, the windows, I mean, of course, what he did last year that I've never seen it at the college level, I'm sure it's been done, but I don't remember seeing anybody throwing the NFL throws week in and week out.

I mean, he's doing back shoulder throws that you can't defend them, and he's doing at the college level. You know, your guys run around. Not a way, that's got him covered. That's very difficult to do. Oh, yeah. I mean, you just don't see it at college though. No.

And he was doing it last year. But that was fun. Then on the way back, I stopped in at, uh, Gary. at metal detecting because you know we're still working on this getting this show the people have spoken but you know when you start getting bogged down into that but i'm like they're on the way they're just outside of dallas so i'm like i toured their their i didn't realize it was so big i was really impressed with the company because i'm there's a lot of people metal detect them it is it's mainly in the world not as much in america because america is not that old

Right. But so, you know, if you have a worldwide company, you just think. There's a lot of people metal detecting, especially across the globe. Yeah. They're looking for things that are. The gold rush continues. Yeah, that's something about it. Well, I told them, you know, when they were like, why are you here?

I was looking for that pot of gold. I was like, look, I'm going to be honest with you. I said, now I love Jesus, because that's how I introduced myself. I said, but of all the things that Jesus himself. could have linked to bringing joy when he said why he's he's the ultimate hunter because they're all like you're a hunter i said yeah but jesus is the ultimate hunter because he's hunting us i was seeing where they stood with that right off the back because i thought if we work out some kind of deal i use your your weapons just want you to know you know i'm on a podcast i'm unashamed about my faith but i said of

all the things that he could have linked to joy on earth i said he told them three stories there in Luke 15. Everybody's looking around because this is the brain trust of the company. I said, he chose one of the stories was a woman who had lost a coin. And when she found it, they threw a party. I said, and then it didn't just stop there. There was rejoicing in heaven. They were grinning now.

They were grinning. They thought, welcome aboard. They already working out their first ad campaign. You had a rally. We might can help each other. Y'all possess the equipment. But I, you know, our American made, and look, they make the whole metal detector there. Yeah.

I mean, I didn't realize that. I thought probably they're getting their pieces of it. That's a pretty sophisticated device that give you a beep for a piece of metal a foot under the ground. Yeah, I mean, I saw them build. one and I was like this is the most incredible thing ever yeah you know they used to have tours and because now the coronavirus I mean when I pulled up I mean I told them I was coming but I pulled up I couldn't get in the place I'm like lockdown lockdown lockdown I rang buzzers I thought here we go facial profiling again and can't get in the doggone door there's some homeless guy out here somebody

called security you know that that was rattling around so anyway that was it was a good it was a good trip but I'm glad to be back. Yeah, we're glad you're back. Let's take another break. So we're, uh, we're in John, the book of John. We finished up 14. I think last time we were together. Yeah.

One of those times. It's hard to say now because, you know, Zach was here for some podcasts, so I miss some of the texts. And now I'm preaching John at our, where we meet at White's Fair Road. So I'm kind of like, there's a lot of stuff rattling around in my brain. I'm in John 13 on the preaching, but we're in John. 15. Well, John 14 through 17, Zach was like, I'm coming during that. Because that's his favorite three chapters, which I'm not going to blame you. I mean, it's just good stuff here. It's really good.

So the last time we talked about when we got to this point in 14, what's happening just in the storyline is that Jesus is now kind of having this last opportunity, I think would be a good way to put it, to sort of tell his disciples what's about to happen. Because before and then, he's like doing parables, and they're not getting it, and it's back and forth. And, you know, they're not able to figure it out any better than the other people listening. But when he gets to 14, you notice the tone changes. Because now we're in the last days here.

I mean, he's about to do what he came here to do. So when you get to chapter 15, he has another I am. In fact, I think, Chase, this is the last I am. Yeah, I mean, if you looked at the list, if you made a list, you had jotted them down. If you just think about this list, because a lot of people are joining our discussion, I'm sure hadn't heard the whole thing. And the reason we came to John, because Jesus made God the creator known. Is that John 117 or 18 based on your translation? I mean, he is the image of the invisible God.

So he makes these claims. I'm wearing the shirt today's. I am. Because it's my favorite quote of any human in the history of the world and him being human as God in human form. He's just, I am. Either a raving lunatic or he was who he said he was. That's right.

Because nobody else would make claims like this. Not hardly. So you think about this, if you put all his claims together, just think about what picture it gives you. So he said, I am the bread of life. So you got this idea of we have to eat to sustain life. But he's like, I am the bread of life. So this is, if you want sustenance, if you want to survive, feed on me, which John 6th.

Then he said, I am the light of the world. Well, just think about that. So not only are you what we feed on, you're like the light switch of the planet, which is a crazy thing to say. Then he says, I am the gate. So you don't, you really appreciate, you're talking about a gate. You don't really appreciate a gate unless you're needing to get through it. Or you're needing a way inside. Or to keep people out.

You know, either way. Exactly. I mean... It reminds me of the story as I told, and he said he was talking to the, you know, in the Army world, you know, they have these tears of leadership. And he said, one of the guys told him, Symoor was underneath him, and then Samoa was underneath Cy,

and there were some above this guy, but he is. I was called I asked him, I said, what was he at least a general from making that comment? And so I said, he was a master sergeant. He said, but the comment he made, they were like, hey, doing pretty good. The guy just rolled in. He's taking over the department or whatever is in the Army. And he told, Cy, he said, you need to remember something there, soldier. He said, when it comes to who I am, he said, I am God.

And, and Cy said, let me tell you something, you puzzle gutted evil. He said, look, he said, I'm not going to work for you. And he said, so I said, they almost threw them in the brig of it. So I said, you got some master sergeant down there claiming he's God. I said, what's happened to today's army? I mean, they had a big brouhaha about the whole thing. So I said, boy, it burned me up when he said that. He said, his belly was hanging over his belt, you know.

He said, I am God. So I said, wait a just a minute. Of course, Sa, you know, held the old redneck line, you know. You may be a lot of things, son, but you ain't God, that's for sure. Is that the one where inside didn't work for like six months or whatever it was? He told that story. where are we at the other day? Oh, when we took...

He said, I got close to being thrown in the brig on that one. He said, but he said, some guy I tell you that. The Marine hunting. He was telling all those stories, and I was like, I was just shaking my head. You know, he told about carrying the... Oh, yeah. The truck.

The car. Or whatever. Two guys. One of them, they stole a tire off the dews and a half, and he never went less than 15 miles an hour. And he told all the details. where he just, he worked in the military. I think he said 14 months.

And he never did one thing. Well, he said 14 months. Well, it comes down to this, if you find anyone, especially in flesh on the earth, and they come out with a statement like this, I am God, basically. You're like, whoa. Now, you're going to have a, once you make that statement,

you're going to have to prove that. So his whole life, and you read about him, Like, whoa, here, wait a minute. Power of my dictator. Well, I was going through this list because each one, though, represents like a different way to describe his role. Because then he said, I am the good shepherd. So when you think about us being sheep and all the predators that are after us, you need that shepherd. Oh, yeah.

I mean, three wolves come. Got to have him. If you're a sheep, he's giving you a picture every time. You need a, no, I'm the gate. I'm the way to the other side. I can also protect you. I'm the light switch of the world. Then he said, I am the resurrection.

Well, that and the life. But that raised it up a notch. Because now you are all these other things in life, but then you crossed over into, well, what if the wolves do get me and they kill me? I'm the resurrection. I can raise you up. So now we've gone through something. that's hard for me to wrap my brain around that someone making these claims.

Of course, then he said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life, but you just think about people needing direction. And he's like,

I'm the way. Where are we going? Doesn't matter. I'm the way. You think about all the lies and trying to find out who's telling the truth. Well, you have somebody you can trust. Then he says,

I am life. Basically, I'm immortal. You're not. not. And I'm honest. You're not. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I am immortal. There's nothing that I can't do. And I'm going to give you a demonstration. I've been giving you one, but all the way to the end, I'm going to die. He said in all, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and they're going to bury me just like you are. In three days I'll be raised from the dead. And think about it,

Al, all of them disciples all the way through, they had a hard time believing him. They had a hard time. after even seeing the miracles. They still were like, you're going to do what? Well, it came time for the death part. They hit the road. They said, we get out of here. Well, that's what this section.

They fixed to kill him so something is not right. They didn't stop and said, well, he told us he's going to die, but three days later it would be raised from the dead boys. We got to hang on to that. But they never saw that clearly. They couldn't hang on to you. That's what this chapter is about. And then the last one, which is where we're at now,

which I think this one's a little different, where she says, I am the vine or the, you know, the tree. This is more about the connection. All these other things were like, you know, you're walking along a long fence and all of a sudden you see a gate, you know, I'm Jesus. Or you're in a pasture, you know, you feed and you need someone protecting you or you're hungry, you know, feed on Jesus.

But this is more like staying connected. Apart from me, if you're not connected with me, you can do nothing. I mean, it's an interesting, if you add up all the I.M statements, it just gives you a picture that I think is fascinating. Yeah. Plus, you think about it. He keeps making these analogies.

I got a bunch of them we'll cover in the next day or two, the day tomorrow. But he keeps saying fruit to fruit. I'm the vine that holds the fruit. You think about like musky dines, you've got a vine going up a tree. and you look up at it and it's got little the fruits coming off of the vine. Right. And you shake that vine, you know, in the fruit of fall. He said, you've got to bear good fruit.

Whatever's hanging on that vine, it needs to be good. Well, like musketine jelly, we've been eating it around here lately. You say you're participating in the fruit of the vine and it's good. It's not like bitter. There's all kinds of vines out there. I'm the true vine. Well, if you start telling people that you're like a vine growing on a tree, that kind of language, you're like, I'm a, I'm, I am who I am,

I'm the light of the world, I'm mistake free, I'm standing here, can make you immortal if you want it. I mean, but you have to bear fruit. I'm the vine you've got to be tied to or you won't bear good fruit. And you, uh, let's take a. Right. And you can't have fruit without the vine. You know what I'm saying? Which was his point.

And he produced fruit. It's like, and look, they were so dead set on this. It's actually scary the way they were talking. John the Baptist, when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptized and he said to him, you brood of vipers, who warns you of the coming fruit, coming rat? what's the next statement produce fruit

in keeping with repentance he says you have to be good you can't be bad anymore you're bad to the core of your being and do not think you can say to yourself we have Abraham as our father he was talking about just the way they were living

and they were sinful to the core of their being I tell you that of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham the axes are already at the root of the tree. And listen to how blunt John the Baptist was talking. And every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown it to the fire. That's why throughout the book of John, Jesus keeps talking about fruit, fruit, fruit, your fruit, by your fruit,

they'll know you. You produce good fruit, good fruit, good fruit. I'm the vine that the fruit is tied to. Without me, bad fruit. A bad tree cannot bear good fruit in a good, tree cannot bear bad fruit. So he hammered that over and over and over and over. Throughout the book of John, I wrote them all down. We'll get into that tomorrow. But you know, so the thing about it is, though, Dad, it's interesting because he says he's the true vine, but then he says my father is the gardener. Now, that's interesting. So you're, he's doing the pruning. Right. So what Jesus is saying is that, you know, Jesus is inside at this time, he's put himself inside time and space. before there was time and space,

there was the father, son of spirit, right? They were always there. They've always been there. He put himself in time and space during this era, and he's about to give his life, and then he's going to go back to where they are,

but he's always going to go back different. So I like the distinction here and the idea that the Godhead, his father, son, and spirit, but they all play different roles in their relationship to us. I mean, the Holy Spirit lives in us. That's why the same apostle said,

you know, here's how you tell who the children of God are and who the children of the devil is. Whoever does not do what is right and does not love his brother, he's not a child of God. His fruit, his bad fruit, he's out. So it's pretty cut and dried when you get

to looking at it. You say, the least of human being can do say, okay, you're telling me if I come to Jesus and I'm told to repent and bear fruit, you're saying that's mandatory. Oh, your fruit, tell everybody who you are. You know what I'm saying?

But he's also introducing that you can't do it without the Holy Spirit, which is he gives to it. No Jesus, no spirit, no fruit, no good fruit. That's right. Which is the side, that's how you know whether the fruit is good or not. America, by the way, Al, America. That's what I say. They're in a dilemma now, and the two sides have formed,

and they're not viewing it as we're viewing it. They're not looking at it like, you know, bearing fruit unto God, bearing good fruit, loving God, loving your neighbor, patient, kindness, good. They're not looking at it like that at all. No. It's not even in the equation. No. And we're going to talk about this on the next podcast, but they just only view things.

They use the word religion. That's the word it's in our culture. Yeah. But that's such a broad thing. You know what I'm saying? I mean, religion means so many different things. different people. A lot of religion is bad. I always go back to that passage about the evil one in Corinthians where it says he masquerades as an angel of light and his servants

masquerade as servants of Russians. Right. Well, what's he talking about? He's talking about religion. It's not light. You always think of the evil one and all his, you know, peeps are out there in some sin-filled place, but it actually does way more damage to be helpful. hypocritical and to try to represent having a appearance of God and to do the opposite. I'm glad there's a pruning instead of just an outright before Jesus showed up. Al, it was basically not much pruning going on. It would just cut the whole thing down and burn it. Well, he says he cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,

while every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, which I always thought, you know, it's painful because anytime you're cutting, there's some pain involved in us growing. From Genesis through Malachi, all of it before Jesus showed up, the true vine. That's a rough read if you just read it. You're like, boy, I'm going to tell you what,

it was just a conflagration of just death. I mean, just sinful, you know, drown them all, burn them all. I mean, it was brutal. Well, what was bad about it, Dad, was that the Israelites at least had like that remnant philosophy all the way through it. You look at some of the other cultures that were around. You talked about, we talked about before throwing babies in fires and throwing them off a cliff. I mean, it was a miserable place to live. But you look at today, we thought, oh, now we're all civilized.

But as we've been talking about, are we really? I mean, it's just a more efficient, a cleaner way to the same mass murder. It's the same thing. You know, I mean, I told you guys this the last time we did the podcast. More black children were aborted in New York City last year than were born. I mean, just think about that statement. Oh, my goodness. I mean, it's just, it's brutal.

And it's exactly what you're seeing here. That's the fruit idea. We're talking about cultural fruit. It's the same concept. If you get enough bad branches, then you're going to have bad fruit. But I remember pre-Jesus in my own life, I just didn't think in terms of bearing good fruit. I was so selfish. I just didn't think of bearing good fruit, forgiving others and loving your neighbor.

I was devoid of that, not knowing, oh, I would. a child of the devil through and through, you know? Well, let's take one last break. That's, Dad, that's the deal about the blinding of, the blinding of the mind of the unbelief. They're blind. I mean, that's what you were blind. I mean, I don't know.

It's like Romans 88 says, those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. I would have laughed, and I did, somebody come along saying, you know, bear fruit unto God. I would have laughed. I said, yeah. I mean, I had no reference point, no Jesus. But no spirit either. I mean, the fruit of the spirit,

if you don't have the Holy Spirit of God, which is a tough thing to explain, because when people start saying, well, how exactly does the Holy Spirit produce fruit? You know, you have references. He groans and he counsels and all these things, but we're talking about a spirit. You know, I remember doing a sermon

one time, I said, I believe in ghosts, at least one. As you know, in the older translations, it was the Holy Ghost. But everybody's, oh, he's gonna tell ghost stories. Like, but no, I believe this ghost is real. That's right. Well, and it produces fruit. Right. Now, how that works is difficult to explain.

When you think about people who are not, like Phil said, said, I mean, people who are apart from Jesus, how do you explain? that. I mean, you know, and it's tough. And the way I always try to explain it in teaching is that the Holy Spirit works, I think, just like our spirit works. I mean, you have a spirit. You can't, you can see the results of it, but you can't see it. And even if you died and they did an autopsy, they can't find your spirit in there. Yeah. But it was there because that's what animated you. So it works. You see what I'm saying? Just that's a very good way to explain. Justice, you

used to offer the parts of your body enslave to impurity. That was me and to everyone else, really, and to ever-increasing wickedness. So now, when you run upon the light of the world, and you put your faith in him, so now offer them the parts of your body enslavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slave to sin, I remember it, Lord, you were free from the control. of righteousness, the work of the Spirit. You're free from his controlling nature, wanting you to bear good fruit.

What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you're now ashamed of? Well, I got to thinking about it. I said, I mean, I reaped no benefit. It was all negative from start to finish. Those things result in death. But now you've been set free from sin. We're back to the light of the world.

and have become slaves to God. This is pretty serious language about how you view Jesus Christ and what he said, who he was and what he's done, what he's now doing, and what he will do. The beneficiary now leads to holiness. And the result, eternal life. Then he says, the way it is a sin, you earned it, is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. Immortality is riding on it.

And all you have to do is believe. leave and be good. I mean, I look at it now, I'm thinking, how hard could it be? It's not that difficult. Once you decide to say, you're the way, you're the truth, you're the lie, you're the resurrection, once you get that in your hand saying, man, I've got immortality riding on something as simple as getting up doing good or continuing evil. Well, I think it's a little, I mean, I think it's, Jesus was telling them it's a little,

little deeper as far as understanding how this is all going to work. Because when he got to chapter 15 and verse 16, he makes an interesting statement. He says, you didn't choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. That was my point. Yeah, I know. I'm just saying the more I, you know, it's like when I first heard about Jesus, I was sitting there in my feeble mind.

well, I wonder if I were to do this. But at some point you realize, the reference I made earlier, that Jesus is hunting in pursuit of humans, which is what he proved later on when he was on the cross. Well, they're all like, oh, because, you know, then he came back from the dead, which obviously when he said he was the resurrection, he proved that. But then what he did on the cross then made them realize,

He chose us. He came down here, showed us how God was, and then died for us, you know, for our sins. They made that connection. You know, the ones that are driving great distances down here and giving their lives to Jesus, one of the things I asked him, I said, why would you drive so far to come all the way down to here to tell me you want to follow Jesus? And some of them, quite a few of them say, somehow I think I was just chosen. to be saved.

I was reading about the gospel in one of your books or on all of y'all's podcast. I was hearing about Jesus and immortality. And he said, I got to thinking, good night. What am I doing? And they basically just had their life flash before their face on what they'd done up to then. And they said, well, good grief.

This thing is saying, we can get out of here alive. So they said, that's what I'm doing here. And they will come a long way. I've proven that. That's exactly right. And Jesus is choosing those who seek, you know, you keep saying that those who actively seek him, actively seek him, and that's what he's looking for.

I was just bringing that up, because I think a lot of people, when they hear you say, like, do good, they then think, oh, I can do this without Jesus. I was just clarifying that at some point in there, he's supplying the motivation because his life, his death on a crowd, he then gets to, I'm supplying the spirit that's going to help you. And at some point, you're going to realize,

it's not really me just deciding this is what I'm going to do. Even that, Jase, remember the Holy Spirit's work, it's called the fruit of the Spirit. That's right. So that idea of the way you're going to be all the time. And it just between me. Well, what I've always said is since it says that, and Ephesians 5 is where to be.

dad's talking about the fruit is I mean the spirit is doing the work I just need to get out of the way Galatian 5 I'm sorry I need to get out of the way you know what I'm saying I mean if I let the spirit do what he will do if and don't get in the way of that then you're going to see great things I mean fruit's just going to flow easily out of your life

think about it out it took you I was talking to the local redneck that works for us I pull up every while ago lining him out. And he was telling me, he said, my boy's back in jail. I said, back in jail, what's he got for? Well, he wrote a bunch of bad checks and I don't know what all, you know,

he served time six months ago. Now he's going back in jail. And I said, Brad, remember when I told you that you need to introduce that young man to Jesus and discipline those boys or it's going to end up like this? He said, I remember you telling me. that. But he basically said he couldn't do anything with it. I told him, I said, well, you know,

Al, the one that preaches the gospel all the time down there, my son, he said, yeah. I said, it took a man with a crowbar when he started placing that crowbar on Al's back and trying to beat his head in. I said, it took that kind of event

for him to decide that he was on the wrong side of this thing. I said so I used you an example out. You're right. I came to the conclusion that day that I would wind up dead or in jail, which is the fruit. You know, a crowbar taken to a man. If you can survive it, you know, I don't recommend it. But it's hard for people to get in that position.

You know, I remember I was speaking at a prison somewhere, and I got up there and I said, I got an idea. You know, everybody's, you know, I'm the guest. speaker. I said, stop breaking the law. Look, no response. Because the problem is, it's like, well, wait a minute, I didn't really, I'm here, it was a misunderstanding. But I was, I was doing it to be funny, but they didn't laugh. Nobody laughed. But just when you break it down to the simple truth, you get into a habit. And we're talking about being controlled by the sinful nature. It's impossible.

I just read that Romans 8. You're not going to be able to please God unless something radical changes of your view. That's why Jesus has all these moments. I'm the bread. You're walking along. Oh, here's a path. It's got a name Jesus on it. Or you're in a field.

I'm surrounded by a predator. Oh, there's a shepherd. He was trying to get you to see that you're going to have to encounter me. We're almost to the point where if you bring up the word Jesus, you're almost to the point now where a large percentage of our fellow man in these United States, they're almost to this point. Right. If you say Jesus, they...

Then they go, that's what I used to do to Willie. Dan showed me something on the black box here. He showed it to me where a bunch of 25, 30-year-olds, college students, college age. they were protesting some Trump supporters and what they all did in unison they all started barking they all were barking like dogs to drown out anything the Trump people were saying

and you take it was about 50 of them but you take 50 human beings and they're all mimicking dogs and they're jumping up and down they were acting like they're barking and it was the most nerve-wracking sound. I thought what would put forth 50, 60, 75 people barking like dogs because of another group on planet Earth that they hate,

that hatred was so. They were Georgia Bulldog fans. We should have said that when Joey was on here. All right, we're out of time. We'll see y'all next time. 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

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