Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 20 | Jase's Earwigs, Phil's Ants, and Al’s Plagues

Episode Date: September 8, 2019

In one of the wildest stories ever, Jase gets attacked by an earwig (no, it's not folklore!), Phil and Blue get caught in a fire ant bed, and Al covers his ears while talking about Moses and the plagues. See episodes of "Unashamed with Phil Robertson": https://bit.ly/2J4XsiX See clips from Phil's TV show "In the Woods with Phil": https://bit.ly/2PNM6k1 To take a FREE 30 Day Trial of Phil's TV show and the rest of BlazeTV: https://www.BlazeTV.com/Phil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am undershage. What about you? I don't know what y'all did this morning, but I was up early with the local redneck, tweaking the duck hole, adding more brush. The eunuch and I, we went down there, and red, old red, the local regnet, he's out there doing a little work.

So, basically the teal came through. that Friday? The teal came through about three or four days ago. So we're early September. Early September. They're late. But the first wave of them have come by. They're heading toward the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. They stayed one day and they moved. Glad you relaxed today. He had a good breakfast too, I see. Yeah, they stayed one day. And those till, the blue wings are here today and gone tomorrow. Well, let me tell you what happened to me. You know, I always love this time of year because you got, you know,

I'm sitting here waiting nine months to be reborn after duck season closes. But actually, you get the undercard. You know, you have dove season, which is next weekend. Then you have teal season, then it's squirrels,

and then it's deer. You know, you go through the process to get to duck season. But it's also, the same time football season, you know how we are about, which LSU look pretty good. Very good. Our everyday life experiences,

ladies and gentlemen, what my second son is discussing is a way of life and it's called the hunt. The hunt. It is the hunt. I mean, we share Jesus, we get ready to hunt,

and then watch a little football in the way. So look, we had the jamboree for the high school Saturday night was it Friday night or Saturday night Friday night so and it's at ULM which used to be in LU and so West Monroe which is where my daughter goes they're playing Neville

She's a cheerleader She's a cheerleader which is used to be a big rivalry Well I think it still is and we've been you know we I think when I was there we had beat them like three times out of 50 So it's not a rivalry if you don't ever win But We broke us 17 year losing street one of the years

I was at Westman, I was 17 years. Look, since then, Don Chowell's took over and people don't know who that is, but look, it turned Westman Road football into a powerhouse. We made it to the dome last year. We were runner up, but anyway, so we watched the game. You know, Mia's cheering, Miss and I.

Look, we actually lost the Jamry. What's a shocker. But, so we're driving home, you know, having a conversation. I'll tell you this story. and I feel something crawling on me. And I'm like, you feel something crawling on you. Yeah, I'm in the driver's seat, driving down interstate, 65 miles an hour.

You're coming home from the game. I'm coming home from the game. Something's crawling. Where was the crawl happening? Right on my chest. On your chest. Bare skin. Well, when I was calm because I don't want to panic.

It's happened to me many times. So I just kind of just grabbed tightly. but not in a way where if this thing had teeth or a stinger, you know. And I, but when I grabbed it, I thought, this is big. And it was trying to squirm. And I told Missy, I said, I have caught something, some kind of insect that's on my body. And she's like, do what?

And you're driving at the time. I'm driving. You're on the I-20 breeze. So there's no pulling over. There's no pulling over. Can't pull over. This is worse. looking at your cell phone.

There's something alive and you've got your head on it. It's bigger than you anticipated. Jason, I haven't heard this story. So you have my attention. So my daughter and my wife start screaming. Now, that's what I found the most bizarre. So they're screaming. She just starts screaming.

And I'm like, and they're adding excitement to whatever's happening. Well, I'm looking around thinking there are more critters. I was like, what are you screaming? She said, there's a bug on you. I was like, what it's on? me. She's like, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? I said, when I get off the, I'm going to get off the interstate, pull over and see what this is. I don't want to panic because this

seems, nor wreck the vehicle. Yeah, I don't want to wreck the vehicle. But they're panicking. They're full-blown panic. So I finally get off. Some's crawling on you and the women are screaming in the background. That's the, that's the, that's the story coming forward. So I pull over and I thought, because I could tell this thing felt dangerous to me. I don't know why. My instincts told me I've got a critter that has teeth or this is something that could hurt me. And I can't believe it hadn't hurt me as of yet. And so I pulled over on the side of the row.

It came by and so I lifted my shirt up and I was like, I'm going to just do one, two, three and just like drop it down without, because I had that prayer. I could tell I had it by the head. And so when I did it, I looked and it was a was a was a was. And it, of course, when it hit the pavement, you know, then I stepped on it. And I was like, you doggone rascal, which how I didn't get stung is amazing. Was it a red was? It was one of those guinea was. Oh, yeah, those hurt.

And so I was like, how did that thing not sting me, you know? So we get in the car, you know, and they're still screaming. You know, I was like, come look at this thing. No, don't even want to see it. So we drive home, had a few laughs, no big deal. everybody, you know, my crew goes to bed early. I'm a night out. So was this story still continuing?

Oh, yeah, it gets better. This is the beginning of the story? This is the beginning of the story. Because I've had more washed and Guinea woss and everything else crawl on my chest. It's up to now. It's not been much. That's the setup.

It's kind of a weird thing. I thought it was more to the story. Yeah, it is. So they go to bed. It's about midnight. I'm laying in my little spot on the couch, you know. And watching TV, you know, starting to doze off. And all of a sudden,

I feel like a sharp pain around my ear. It was like I jumped and I was like, what was that? And so I started grabbing my ear, but I didn't feel anything. And so I was like, what was that? No big deal. So a couple minutes goes by and all of a sudden, my ear begins to like, I don't know how to describe what it was doing. Pressure.

Pulsate. Pressure from the inside of my head started to build. And it was like, you know, it was making a lot of racket. And I was like, what I got in my ear? You know, that's what I was thinking. And I was like, no big deal. And about the time I said, no big deal, a ferocious pain like I've never felt. The worst, I've been on the earth 50 years, the worst pain I've ever felt.

I literally fell off the couch, got on my knees, and was like, oh. I thought something has happened that's terrible. inside my head. Like an aneurysm you're thinking. Yeah, I thought my, I was thinking my ear drum had ruptured, you know.

I thought, so I felt a sharp pain, which I started thinking about the wasp, you know, I was like, what? You're trying to connect the dots. But I mean,

I'm feeling there's nothing. So for the next hour, I literally rolled around the four just riding and pain, one hour. And I was thinking, if I can get to the truck, I'll drive to the ER,

because I'm dying. You know, that's what I was thinking. My head, something in my head has exploded. What's interesting is you weren't thinking if I could just get to Missy. No, never crossed my mind. Most people would be like, I'll get to my wife. Just more screams.

I can't believe you said that. See, I think I didn't go in there because she screamed over the last part. Now I'm dying. Yeah. I'm not making this way of thinking. All right, go ahead. So the pressure keeps building, keeps building, keeps building, you know, and it's just like it won't go away.

And so I got a little disoriented, and so, like, I crawled to the bathroom, and I don't know what I'm looking for. Relief. So I opened the bottom cabinet, you know, and I'm looking, fumbling through, and I see some earwax removal. And so I thought, I'm. How long does this story last? Pretty long. So I said, you know what? something's in my ear

that's what I thought something's ruptured in my ear I'm gonna flush it so I lean over pour the ear wax removal in my ear because they had a bulb with it yeah yeah so I poured it in there and then I started

like squishing it out when I did that it got ten times worse now now I'm just like I'm hollering in pain I can't believe it didn't wait I've been saying your family still I asked to sleep.

Oh, everybody's asleep. Oh, yeah. My wife's got the fan going. So about two hours later, I finally realized I got to go to the hospital. And so I crawl to my truck. Open the door. It's 3 o'clock in the morning now. And as soon as I, like, open the door handle, my ear, like, exploded.

And that's the only way it felt like. It just went, pooh. Well, when it did, I looked down, and there's a critter that, exploded out of my ear and it fell on my arm and so and the next day when I'm telling this story at the golf course because I was in a golf tournament I described what happened because I had never seen this critter and I thought what is this thing you know of course I killed it was not a was so this this is the critter that was in my ear you say that the top picture I guess we'll show a picture this to our audience.

No, it wasn't a scorpion. It looked like a scorpion. That's called an earwig. What? Ear wig. Earwig. Yeah. Look.

How I learned to love the evil-looking earwig. It's at this point. I know you're my second son and you're not given to tangents our untrue statement. Is this a true story? Yes. Look, so look, I'm at the golf course, and I'm telling this story, Doc, because I'm, look, it was a traumatic experience. My ear was so sore, and I was like, I had a bug in my ear. Well, the guy, the Greenskeeper or whatever, the golf course, he's a, you know, he's majors, what's the words for whatever the water culture or whatever.

He knows every bug, ever bug, he said, that was an earwig, and I said, a earwig, because I said, I don't know what this thing was. Do they live in ears? Look, look, so he Googled it. And when he pulled up this picture, I said, that was it. And he said, yeah, it's an earwig. Well, I started doing research on it. They call them earwigs because of folklore. They say that these things used to get in human ears

and would try to lay eggs and eat your brains out. But they said it's all, if you Google this, which I'm sure everybody listens to this, they'll Google it. And they're like, it's all folklore. And I'm like, no, they will get in your ear because one got in my ear. And those peaches there when I said is the pain, he was, that was going into my eardrum. That's what, look, blood, he broke the skin that I was bleeding out the ear because he was poking me. So I'm like, are you kidding me?

I don't think he was, they say, you know, they can't get inside your head and eat your brains out. But what I'm saying is he was looking for a home. That's why I felt the pressure and all that. So I'm like, what are the odds that an earwills? got in my ear. On top of a guinea wasp on your chest. Yeah. In the same night.

Previously. In the same night, I went to ULM. I came home. There was a wasp in my chest and an earwig in my ear. The same night. And they call it earwig because they say they wiggle in your ear. That's what they're called. But they're like, they're harmless.

But let me tell you. Your brother, Al, is just a bugged out dude. I mean, I don't know. I never heard a story like this. I don't know if you're like. like a magnet. I'm not sure. I'm trying to, I'm grappling with the moral of the story. Well, you remember the story when Willie had the water bug? I remember. He had a water bug get in his ear and you remember he was like there was pain because he was fluttering his wing. We took him to the ER. I actually

stood over him and said, hey, quit hollering. I didn't realize there was a bug in his ear until they took into the doctor and got it out. But they did the same thing. They flushed it. He was 15. They flushed his ear with stuff just like, you. you were the flesh on was a good move it did but look it never occurred to me there was a bug in my ear you know what I mean because I it I because I you know I stuck my finger in my ear I didn't feel the bug I mean this thing was big it was about that long oh my gosh it and it just cold up in there was just them he'd hit me with me jace that is one of the wildest stories I have ever heard come from a human being if you ever wanted to torture a

human you put an earwig in their ear this happened on rather than of Khan on Star Trek. They put the thing in the guys ear that goes in there. It wraps itself around the... Somebody was trying to mind control you. Some evil, you know, person. I wake up the next morning, you know, because I only got three hours sleep.

I tell Missy, I'm like, you're not going to believe what happened to me. I tell her the story. And, of course, she said what she did, she's like, why didn't you wait me out? That was my first thought. Well, I didn't know there was a bugging mayor. I thought I was dying. Well, when you're dying, your wife, Mike,

could help you out. That's what she's in. So how, how, what's the word? You talk about low wolf. Are there a lot of the earwigs running around? Well, that's what I'm wondering. You wouldn't believe. I want to sleep with earplugs now.

They're like totally frightening. They said they hang out like around houses because they, and they're not turnal. They only come out at night, but they look for like little holes and crevices. And they're like highly, they have a lot of bacteria because they, you know, And so I'm like, I'll know and, you know, I'm giving it a week. So after this has happened, you're telling the story. But right now at least, Al, he sounds perfectly normal.

He seems to be. But is he controlled by another entity? Now, like, I'm fearful of the whole setting here. Well, I couldn't hear. I mean, I'm reminiscent of the, you know, the plague of locals. Well, that's what I thought. Or is there a biblical connotation to what you are? You know what I thought?

I thought we're talking about Moses. I know what has. happened during Moses' time you had the 10 plagues and I've always just been fascinated especially in Louisiana on how many bugs yeah you know that we that we have and that what is the thing that ever what is it 18 years you have the uh what are they called the locust uh yeah they're not called locus and then the killer pillars come through every killer pillars come through the black ones that'll stain the crap I've seen them by the millions they walk on you they make just a track all it's like a railroad track of uh of uh of

It's like as a lesions. He's everywhere he walks, for some reason, it's like, he take tissue is leaving there. Right. And it's just like a railroad track until you catch him, and they hurt. Look, I know the fear you're talking about because, you know, it's almost teal season. Remember, Dad, when I was a teenager, me and Greg went over to the pothole, which is now our property.

It wasn't back then. And, you know, teal season, it's warm. So we just waded out in our blue jeans and tennis shoes. We're tail hunting. Yeah. And I don't know, about an hour into it, I feel something I think is biting me inside my pants leg right below my kneecap. I'm just feeling this. And I'm thinking it's a snake, because, you know, I've been looking for snakes the old time anyway. And I'm just like, something's up, something's up. And so Greg's standing there next to me. So I start peeling up my pants leg, just like you described with the was. And then when I get to the, like, just at the base, I see something, you know, that looks snakeish.

you know and it's big I can tell whatever it is I keep coming it's a catfish it's a little fiddler cat about this big and he's sharp fins he's turned around and his fin is sticking into my shin and that that was the pain I was so I would have thought cotton mouth as soon as I peeled up that bottom Greg pointed his shotgun in my last whoa whoa whoa whoa I was like let's don't do anything rash here let's let's at least get enough so like that but that fear that right at that moment when you're not sure what it is. I mean, I'm usually not, you know, every time I go frog hunting, first thing you do is take a shower when you get home

because you have critters. There's so many bugs. I mean, the other night, there's, I looked down and there's like, they were crawling on me this morning. I wasn't going to bring it up until I heard your story. But in my case, this morning, when I got through brushing a duck blind,

crawling around in it, I put a door on it in the back, you know, a lot of weeds, stuff. We killed two or three cotton mouths. Three weeks ago when we worked on it, they were under some boards that had come off the line. But in my case, fire ants, they bit me, and there'll be a little zit where they bit me.

But it's almost a daily occurrence to the point of where you get used to getting bitten stung by fire ants around here. You remember that morning where we were duck hunting? Because when you go in the blind, if you don't have a light, you're crawling around in a duck blind, in the woods and ain't I'm telling them what's there. That is correct.

I remember that morning you crawled in there and you didn't realize all those ants were, you know, you said, by the millions. Yeah, and you were like one big zip. Well, we had to duck hunt because we're duck cutting. We're not going to let ants run us off. But when I looked down, I had stirred them up when I got in the blind and the dog was there. So it was blue, my dog and me. We were where the ants were.

Listen, we sat there. I tried to rake them off out in the water, but it just stir them up more. And I said, well, we just got to suck it up and live with it. Well, they were just coming up my hip boots and getting to my body, and I constantly was just squashing them on my stomach, my sides of my body, on my rib cage, on my back. I just leaned up against the post. And my dog, Blue, was in misery.

he was shaking and trying to get them off of it and you know like they do their teeth and we're both fighting fire here come some ducks so we'd forget the fire rain boom boom boom boom boom boom the dog was was happy to jump in the water and he was jumping in the water but the fire ants by the way I had like it was over a hundred stings yeah and it did not make me feel chirpy I didn't feel chirpy well that's that I mean there's a lot of poison. I didn't feel good. Yeah, with that many. The problem is when we're duck hunting, every pest in the swamp where we live, nine months out of the year, our duct lines are their house. That is correct. So we roll in thinking, this is our house, we built this, but they don't know any different. The ants, the wasp, the snakes, the bees. Nothing really gets our attention in this

neck of the woods, ladies and gentlemen, you're hearing a story, true story of what can happen if you live in Louisiana. Here we're more concerned with copperheads, cotton mouths, rattlesnakes, and coral snakes. We have all four. We watch them very carefully. Our dogs are being bitten through the years every year. Our dogs are bitten and all that. So far, no one has been, at least where it came through our boot or something. We haven't been bitten where we have to go to the doctor about it. But we have blackwood of spiders. and they're very poisonous, brown recluse, of course, a lot of wasp, ground bumblebees, fire eggs.

Now we have earwigs. You can add it. Now we have earwigs, which is an earwigs for me. This shows you that you should not believe everything you read on the internet because everything I read said it was folklore. I mean, they're like, well, I'm supposing they could, but they don't. But I'm like, oh, but they do. Year before ice, we were eaten up.

about time to get it on their Bible study here, but the bottom line is, you're before I looked up in the dictionary and they're in there, and the varmint, the bug, he was like a gnat, but we couldn't tell where they were coming from, but they literally were sucking the blood out of us.

We came up with the perfume, what's it called? Yeah, the women's perfume, we talked about that. We talked about that. But the bottom line is they were called no C. which I'd never heard of them because you can't see it. What I'm saying is if you read something that happened, Wemez-X was written? What were they saying?

3,500 years ago. I thought it was more than that. 3,500 years, and you hear this story. I mean, here's Moses, you know, leading the captives, you know, out of Egypt. They're going to the promised land. And all of a sudden you have this episode where you have 10 plagues, and it's these critters.

But when you look at life today, you see signs of what happens when these critters get out of hand. Even what I'm saying is I'm laying on my couch and here a critter says, yeah, let me try that earhole for a home. I mean, I can't imagine if it was a plague. I mean. For you it was. Well, yeah, but I'm saying when you read that story, what chapters that story in? That's Exodus 10. I mean, here's...

Well, living in Louisiana, ladies and gentlemen, can be a deal. I don't know what's our topic today. Jay said it was a pretty good story. Exist starts in seven. But what I'm said is I think... True story. I think it was... I didn't take it as coincidence that were...

Yeah, Exodus 10. That were fixed to talk about Exodus. This is a famous story. I just feel like you see that evidence in all these critters. I mean, what they say, 90% of the insects in the world hasn't even been discovered when you factor in all land and sea. I mean, what this came from seaweed? What I'm saying is all the details and all these little bitty critters

because they said there was like, you know, 120 different strands of the air wig. You know, all these little... Not strands, probably strains. Strains. Yeah, strands. It's a redneck beer, but no problem. Yeah.

Well, I just think... Did you see in Vegas like a month ago when the grasshopper, moved in on Vegas. This is about a month or six weeks ago. I mean, pile, they were just, they were piled up on the side of those big high-rise. And that hit Sin City? Hit Sin City.

Well, remember the year of the crickets? Remember the tens of thousands of crickets? So a plague of locust has struck the Sin City recently. Yeah, and they were talking about it because it was like, what did this happen? We're living in strange times. Do you think, based on what you read here, that that still kind of happens in some degrees.

Makes one wonder. What is the deal with all these epidemic of insects? Or even, you know, like you remember the year the raccoons took over? You looked up and there were raccoons everywhere. And then they basically died out because of the disease, but they were literally just falling out of the cheese. You know, Jayce, you brought up an interesting point. Ladies and gentlemen, it is worth noting that the rats that have infested the homeless community

in L.A. and San Francisco and everything. There's so much of human feces and unused needles, and they claim they're worried about things like typhus. They've had cases of it, and the plagues that have hit human beings through the years all the way back to biblical times. Well, you know, you think about it right now on the streets in these major cities in the United States of America. Plagues are there waiting through these rats and all this. So you get to thinking about it. maybe we are not too far off from the biblical stories. I tell you one thing, it agrees with the biblical stories.

Well, and interestingly, plagues of locusts where we are in our text, this is the first evidence we see where God uses pestilence to impact world events. And our weather. He's used both. And weather. So he's going to do it a lot as we go forward. But this is the first time we ever see it was in this context.

At least worthy of note. It's worthy of note. And what's interesting is, and we sort of started out with the plagues, but to connect the dots into where we're going, the last time we talked about Joseph, basically settling in Egypt. Remember, there were only 70 people to begin with. It was Jacob and his sons.

70 people. And so what's happened is we fast forward now when you get to X's 1. And so that 70 has turned in to over 2 million people. And now, you know, somebody says, well, you know, I don't know how many years did it take? They're there a long time. Generations have gone by. Leadership has changed. Some invaders have come in from the south.

Egypt has been toppled. Now there's a new pharaoh. So Joseph, remember, had favor. All that's gone. So what's happened is, Nexus 1, Nexus 2, is these God's people, the seedlings. Remember, because we've talked about the promises that Abraham's looking forward. Yep. They have grown into this huge number of people.

people. Well, the new leadership comes into Egypt and they look at this as a threat, which I find interesting talking about geopolitics like we do now. What if you had a group of, you know, back then two and a half million people was a lot bigger. That would probably be 25 million people in that's right. Like in America. And they had their own belief system and they were there, but you wonder, are they a menace or are they with us? So that's what happens with the Egyptian control. take them to be a menace. They say, well, you know, somebody comes in a taxes, they join them. We're done. So they started treating them cruelly, and they basically turned them into slave labor.

They believe in God, because they're still following the traditions of Jacob and Abraham. Egypt has their own system. You know, they got Ra, the sun God. They got all these gods. So that's the sort of recipe, the petri dish for which now comes out, you know, this idea. Well, you have this strange occurrence where God. appears to Moses in the burning bush. I mean, what's your take on that? I mean, you see a bush start burning. It won't burn up.

Because, you know, I'm an outdoors person. If I saw a bush burning, I waited, it's not burning up. You go over there. Then it starts talking. It would get your attention. It would have my undivided attention. I just said, if somebody was going to make all this stuff up, that is pretty out there.

Right. By the way, Al, could you make an argument, a sound argument, that the human race, we're in Exodus of the Bible, we've already looked at Genesis, where at one point their every thought, the entire human rate, their every thought was evil. And we look at how humans interact with one another, and what keeps coming up and we're like, well, that's just old, Old Testament stories. What keeps coming up human beings, especially in this case, at war with each other.

We don't want this bunch of coming over here, this, that, yeah, yeah, which is what Exodus is about. Could you make an argument that the human beings have been at war with each other ever since they've been human beings on the earth? Over political power. And what's interesting is that, it's a great point. Well, and that they're just different. Yeah, exactly. Where are you from?

And you tell them, they're like, I don't like you. Or I believe something different than you do. All this division, you say, boy, this is a new thing. But this is not a new thing. And look, look how they were going to try to control the situation. One, they had them under the boot on the throat of these people. But guess how they tried to control their population? Abortion, infanticide.

They went to these midwives, Egyptian midwives, and they said, look, when a baby boy is born, you make sure it doesn't make it. But these midwives, there were these Hebrew people. They just couldn't carry it out. It reminds me of this Planned Parenthood woman that changed. She was like, I can't do that. So they called him in. They were like, I thought you're supposed to be killing all these baby boys.

And they said, well, these Hebrew women are strong. We show up to help deliver the baby. The baby's already there. So basically they lied. So even abortion out, it's not a new thing. It's not a new thing. And again, it was used in the idea, just like, by the way, when Planned Parenthood started, this sanger and all these people, it was about controlling populations.

Sure. They were like kill off races of people. It's awful. It's evil. And so we saw it the seedlings of that. The hatred of your fellow man manifests itself in a lot of cruel ways, Al. Absolutely awful. So here's what the new Pharaoh says, okay, we're going to take it one step further.

Forget the midwives. He orders that. So where are you in the Bible when you're talking about this, Al? X is two. Exodus 2 and 3. I mean, the Barn and Bush happened at 3. It's there for your learning, ladies and gentlemen. So then he says throw them all in the river.

Every baby boy born. Just drown them. Just drown them. So now we're just into just killing every man. And you say, well, I can't believe how cruel that was. Really? I mean, look at modern day America. It's terrible.

Yeah. Or China. I mean, you know, they're passing these rules on you, especially if they're males. You see what I'm saying? So here's what's happened to Moses. His mom. she followed the new order. She threw him in the river,

but she put him in a basket that she had fixed up that wouldn't sink. And she had his sister take him down, and Pharaoh's daughter, she knew where she came down and bathed every day. She took that baby, and she pushed him along the reading. This is Moses,

who would later have the burning bush and be the leader. He's barely here. He's barely here. He's in the river as directed, but he floats up there. She sees him, Pharaoh's daughter, and says, look at that.

one of those Hebrew babies because see everybody knew what was going on but this one instead of just being thrown in the river was floating along she takes him out of compassion and then the sister comes and there's a hey I got a nursemaid that could help you out so it's oh yeah so does that make me mad and by her but by her taking him out that just shows you sometimes the human race hangs by a thread that's right just the events just happen to take place one little baby floating along going to read and some woman who her culture said oh well kill them throw them in the river and here's one that floats by and she says you know so moses spends the first 40 years of his life being raised in pharaoh's house which of course he learned a lot of good leadership there but he wasn't quite ready

found in the reeds found the reeds he winds up getting expelled from the country another 40 years goes by and then we come to where jace's scene is he's 80 years old and he has a speech impediment. He cannot speak clearly. I don't know if that happened during the 40. I don't know how it happened to it. But he's called to this burning bush. He's out there, Tending Sheep, he's looking around.

I mean, he doesn't see himself as a leader. His days are gone. He's 80 years old. Well, I think, I've always wanted somebody to write a song about this. I told my son, I was like, you need to write a song that says this conversation. In Exodus 3, you know, he has the burning bush. it starts talking he says so now I'm sending you to Pharaoh to bring my it's God talking in verse 10 to my people the Israelites out of Egypt but Moses said to God

who am I and those three words stuck out to me and what I said somebody should write a song maybe somebody listening well because later on God tells him in verse 14 when he gets to his response God said to Moses and he took Moses his three words who am I and he turned him around and said I am who I am because Moses was like I can't even I'm not adequate I mean who am I that I should go to Pharaoh you know that's what he says Moses Moses said said what is his name then what shall I tell him he said I am who I am that's what you say to him yeah he said this is what you ought to say the Israelites I am has sent by the way just a little caveat out here, but I think it's worth mentioning.

It just occurred to me. Before I was converted, I owned, I was leasing a beer joint, ladies and gentlemen. A beer joint. You're like, where they're fighting and drunkenness. And look, at my conversion, the reason I was converted is my younger

sister, Janice Ellen, told a preacher, a proclamer and a good one. She told him, if you convert my brother he'll convert thousands and the preacher said say what she said if you convert him let's go up there to the beer joint you convert him thousands will be converted my little sister is telling the preacher that that's what happened yeah I was converted I'm sitting up there keeping the peace you know with two segregated beer joint blacks in the

back, whites in the front. You had the hip hop going in one direction and then country and western, you know, Loretta Lian and the other. I have a pistol and I'm trying to keep the piece not knowing that I'm fixed to be converted and by me being converted would in fact, as my sister had predicted, reached thousands. So if you look at it, Al, like I say, the little strands. That's right. The way God works out things is beyond your, I would have never.

if someone had come to the beer joint and said, hey, by the way, dude, before this is all over, you'll be carrying your Bible and preaching the gospel of people all over the world. But God always uses people that you just don't think he would use to really send form in the world. The reason to bring it up is because I would have said, who am I?

You're talking to me. That's what everybody says, you know. You did in a sense. when Smith sat down and shared the good news with you, which was just the fast forward of this story and a lot of others. He basically explained to you that Jesus came to this earth. Guess what Jesus said when the Jews said, who are you? What authority do you have?

And he said, I am. That's the greatest line. The history of humanity, the greatest line is when they said, where's that in John? Yeah, John 8. He says, who are you? and he's like, I am. That's right.

From beard joints to sharing the good news. I just, I look back at it now. I'm thinking a lot of times I ask myself, why I'm me? You know, because I'm still saying, you know, how in the world would you have considered me? It's a great point. And every one of us can ask that question, you know? That's right.

But it's because of the. We all ask that at some point. You're like, well, who am I to do that? I mean, sometimes you know the good to do or, you know, the first time I was ever asked to speak, you know, publicly. I said three words. Well, who am I? I mean, you don't want me.

That's right. But in the back of your mind, based on what we understand in Jesus and being sons of God, you realize that I am who sent you. When the congregation asked me to become one of the overseers, Al. Yeah. And the current overseers came to me and said the congregation wants you to oversee them, look after them, raise them up in the faith. I'm like, are you, are you serious?

Right. And they said, they want you to do that. And I'm like, I don't know, I don't know about that. So I backed off of it. I was just like Moses. I ran. I said, no, I don't know about it. I don't want that title, overseer, which is a bishop or an elder,

ladies and gentlemen. But I ran from it at first. But then somebody finally said, what if it's God will that you do this for his people? I thought, well, then I started feeling a little bit guilty on why this didn't step up. Right. So I begrudgingly, after about four months of praying about it and thinking about it, I said, I'll tell you what. All right. I'll give her a go.

So I'm still there. We didn't tell the story in Exodus 2, but when Moses was 40 and he had been raised in the house of Pharaoh, but remember he had a Hebrew heart because his mom had raised him and he had been around. He knew he was a Hebrew. in his heart, but nobody else knew. And so they thought he was an Egyptian. He killed an Egyptian guard that was mistreating a Hebrew. And I believe, and the Bible doesn't say this,

but it seems like he was thinking, okay, I'm going to rise up and get these people out of this situation. I mean, that's a pretty bold move to kill a guy. Very bold. And so the next day he comes up onto Hebrews, they're fighting each other. He said, why are you fighting? And one of them says, what are you going to do, kill us like he did the Egyptian? And immediately, the Bible says he was afraid.

because then he knew the word was out. Well, then Pharaoh got after, that's what sent him down to the Midian desert for 40 years. So what I'm saying is the point is, he thought it was his moment to lead. But he still had 40 years of humility training before God was ready to use it. Something so pertinent to modern day,

these biblical stories out of the Old Testament, I would just ask the audience to think about these things and say, how in the world could have 40 people for a 5,000 year period from creation to Jesus? How in the world could you have dreamed these things up out? And they're so pertinent today. Well, that's why I thought that's why I brought up the earwig and the plague. You know, because look, when I was a teenager, one of the most motivational sermons I ever heard,

and I believe it was Jeff Walling did a, what do they call those things? Like a retreat seminar thing. It was for young people. But the title of it was one more night with the frogs. Well, that got my attention. I was like, I'm going to hear that because I'm the number one thing I like to do outside of Jesus. Yeah, it's catch frogs. I mean, I'm like, one more night with the frogs.

What is this about? I didn't even realize he was going to talk about what happened. You know, in Exodus 8. his point was when I read it, you know, I mean, you can imagine, you know, God Almighty unleashing any group of insects or frogs or amphibians, reptiles. Whatever happens. You know it had to be miserable. And so he was miserable.

Pharaoh was. So he's like, please stop this. You know, this is. And so Aaron, I believe, said, well, we'll stop. God said he'll stop, but you determine the time. You know, and I'm not sure why they even had that conversation. But what was shocking and what was the point of the sermon, what motivated me, is that he said, tomorrow.

He said, whenever you want this to stop, you can make it stop. And he's like, tomorrow. And so I looked at it's like Exodus 8, 10, which his whole point is, here you are miserable. You're not doing what God wants you to do. And then God comes to you via us, and says, we will give you relief. When do you want that relief?

And he's like, tomorrow? You want another night? Another night? I mean, then I thought about, that's the first thing I thought about when I had that earwig in my ear, I was thinking, if somebody would have come down, you know, before that exploded out of my ear,

after I built the earwax bomb, and somebody said, look, I'll give you relief. I just wouldn't have said tomorrow. You know what I'm saying? Get that out of my ear now. But when you don't believe, when you don't want to surrender, when you don't want to submit, when you don't want to believe, you know, you think you can do it on your own without God, which was his point.

Maybe tomorrow. Yeah. Let me see if I can take this. You know, it's just living in sin. It's just not rational. Yeah, why would you want to stay in it? Yeah. It's interesting you brought up Wowing.

I can't believe it because Waii, why. Walling was part of my humility training. I mean, Jeff, we love Jeff, right? Yeah. He's preaching. Well, I've got to know it recently because my son is going to Pepperdine and Walling is the, when is he the pepperdine? He's like something over the students. Yeah, yeah.

So I see him from time. So, so Jason and I and Willie grow up just, you know, I mean, he was just such a great speaker, just like that, coming up with ideas, which is an awesome sermon. So I'm a young preacher. I get invited to speak at a big workshop. in Tulsa that we go to. So I'm like, man, this is, I mean, I'm like, this is the moment, you know. I mean, thousands of people, you know, are going to be at this event. So I'm nervous, but I'm excited at the same time.

And so I come in and there's three speakers in a row. And so obviously whoever was the middle speaker was a big name that dropped out because that's where they stuck me. Nobody knew who I was, right? So I'm smart enough because I've been to these things. And I know, who am I moment? Exactly. So Wallying is before me.

Don McLaughlin is after me. I knew those guys. They're awesome. And I was like, ooh, that's more pressure, right? So I made the mistake of going to hear Wallyling's beat. It was a bad call. I should just hung out in the group, you know, they have green rooms back there, hung out somewhere and then come in.

So I go in there, Walling is just killing it, you know? And there's like 2,500 people in this big place. And I'm sitting out there and I'm, you know, run through my notes in my mind and listening to him. Oh, man, this guy's so good. So then Gary Myers, our old pal who's gone to be with the Lord, he gets up after while he finished. He said, you know, Jeff's going to be at our booth, signing books.

And he just totally destroyed any hope I had of keeping him this people. So look, 2,500 people, 200 people stay for me. So we just cut the audience on 2,500 to 200 in a place that holds 5,000. So you had trouble drawing the crowd. So I walk up there. So this is the reason I bring it up. So this is humility for Al. So I get up there and you got to have an opening line, which, you know,

so my opening line was there hadn't been an exodus like that since Moses left Egypt, which was a hilarious line. 200 people laughed and then I went into my little script and then they all came back for the next guy. So it was a lesson for me to learn that, you know, you may think you're a big deal, but you may not be a big deal at all. I think that was the whole point of this story. I mean, you know what I thought? Because one of the most awesome passages in the New Testament

is that the Transfiguration, you have Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. Now, what's weird about that is Elijah, he just didn't die. He just got caught up in. Well, then Moses, there's this huge argument in other passages. I know I think Jews said something about there was an argument from the evil one over. where Moses is body. Over the body of Moses.

Yeah, over the body of Moses, where it was buried. So there's like some unknown, you know, occurrence is happening. In Duteronomy, it says, here's the word says. In Dunaami, I can't remember four maybe, says God buried Moses. Yeah, which I've read that before. What a statement. I mean, who's going to bury you? Guys doing the funeral.

God buried that guy. Let me tell you, if God's burying you, you did something. Awesome. He used you in my. mighty ways. Yeah. But what I was saying is when you- Fast forward thousands of years

and they show up talking to Jesus on a mountain time. Well, yeah. Here you are in the transfiguration. And Peter, you know, like an idiot, is like, he don't even know what to say. He's like, should we build some shelters for you? I think it's Matthew 17. But don't you know that Moses probably look back

at that Who Am I moment? And now he's up here. You're like, Star Trek is real now. You just got beamed from something. somewhere and you're having a conversation with a guy who left in a spiritual chariot and God himself in Jesus and you're having a conversation. Boy, you've come a long way, buddy. I guarantee you.

From saying who am I? And that's why I love that statement that Jesus made. And I've said it before when people have made fun of me, especially in my younger years for following Jesus. I've used that I am statement. I'm like, I'm following the I am. And they're like, do what? I said, no, he just is.

Which means there's no past, present, or future. He's outside. He's bigger than time, which was Jesus' point. You know, I went through a stage of my life where, you know, first I was persecuted. Like, you know, if you live a Christian life in high school, you're going to be persecuted. It's not easy. At any time, Jason. But after a while, I realized, what these people have?

Nothing. So when I started getting bold about Jesus, that's one of the lines I would use. And I was like, look, I'm indestructible because he's indestructible. I'm the most dangerous person you'll ever be around. But look, especially in sports, you know, because I love to trash talk. You know what I mean? I'm like, what are you going to do to me? I'm indestructible, man.

They're looking at me. You can't guard me. Yeah, that's what I would use it as motivation because I thought. I talked to Tebow about that one time. He's like, hey, I did the same thing. Because you feel like I'm going to heaven. I'm going to live forever. I have purpose in life.

I have meaning. I have forgiveness. Now we're going to get out here. guaranteed immortality. We're going to play this silly game of football. Well, let me tell you something. I'm going to get some confidence on who I am and where I'm headed, you know, and I'm going to use it to try to intimidate you,

and we might just bring you to Jesus. There you go. It works out. Deuteronomy 34, by the way, if you're taking notes when God bears Moses, you can check that out. So great discussion. We just kind of barely started the conversation about Moses, because obviously, you know, outside of Abraham,

and Jesus. I mean, he's one of the, and Elijah, one of the central figures of the world. And I had to tell you on my story. And look, I felt like y'all gave me zero compassion for that. Well,

I was really not for the earwig story. I was not either. It was quite the story. No doubt. And for the record, that happened and you don't want it to happen to you. And for the record, it prompted two Star Trek references on the podcast,

the first ever I might mention. So we'll see you guys next time on Unashamed podcast. and we'll flesh out a little more Moses. Rock on. So we're so glad you guys were with us today. You can subscribe on iTunes or Spotify or YouTube or Facebook. And be sure and rate us on iTunes so that other people can know about the podcast.