Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 214 | Phil, Willie & Mistaken Identity, Jase's Epic Triduckathon & the Stand-Up Moment Challenge

Episode Date: January 25, 2021

Jase's obstacle-filled "triduckathon" includes wading through a sea of raccoon crap and doing battle with a ball of fire ants. The guys remember the time Willie's expensive coffee was ruined when someone mistook him for a homeless person, and Phil recalls being directed to a shelter. Jase offers a blueprint for reaching people with Jesus and describes his pivotal "stand-up moment." And Al closes it out with a challenge for Unashamed Nation. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? What got me was we were going into the duck blind, going through a sea of moist coon crap. And I said, if there's ever a micro that will kill you, I would think it's coming out of the anal end of the coon. You know what was, you know what was funny? Gary Stevenson said he got up there one time and bleets the whole blind because there was an owl that raised a young one. And he said, all these microbes on this feces coming out of that owl will kill you in a matter of days. If you're just joining us, we've bleeds the whole bunch as day as dad. If he'd have seen that this morning, we're just plowing through cune crap.

And it's moist, it's wet. and I was raking it out of the way, you know. Well, here's what happens. But don't mess with coon crap, because you know what a key. Let me just. Well, don't eat it. Remember of this episode? Pandemic.

I mean, a coon, it's bad enough with bats. But when you've got that coming out of the alien of a coon. Phil, here's what happened. The river is rising. And so the ducks have scattered. And like this morning, the weatherman said it was going to rain today. and we have a hole that's set up. It just does better when it's raining.

Yeah. But the weathermen got it wrong. I checked three stations that said the earliest one on when it was going to stop raining was noon. But it stopped raining it three or four in the morning. So we all get down here later because we had all our decoys out. We were just going to hunt the same hole. We didn't shoot the five yesterday in the rainy day hole, which it never really rained yesterday. It rained during the night.

Are you trying to say that the weather channel is not all it's cracked up to be as far as forecast go? So I have three precious words for the weather people. The weather establishment. That are working the night shift. Yeah. Because I don't know about during the day. But the people that are working the night shift, do your job. Because it's not, they're not even close.

So we get here and it feels like it's not raining. And I knew what that meant. We need to move. The problem is we're in a flood. That's right. We left all of our stuff in the blind. Plus, when you say the words we need to move in this situation, that's an ordeal. Is that fair enough to sense?

So what's decoys, equipment, seating, shells, guns. And how you're going to get there. So look, I did a triathlon. a triduckathon. That's a good name. It was a tri-duckathon. Here's what it was. That could be a new competition.

They could be a whole show, the tri-duck-upon. And I'll tell you the competition, because this sums up the last four hours of my life. I got in an Argo with a Chad, who's a good hand, stocky, young, and just built for work. Because I've noticed. He's a nurse practitioner, which made a good for ailments, which you suffered during the morning. Many. What do they do for fire age when they... Well, we'll get to that.

That was part of the obstacle course of the Triduckathon was I got into a ball of fire ants at some point. I literally, because the water's coming up, which is why the coons have crapped over everything because they're looking for a place... A new place to craft. To take a dump. Well, a duck blinds are perfect.

They have a roof. You remember the year we hunted that one where nobody could remain standing? because look, there was coon feces a foot deep in the blind. And I had a buddy from Missouri who's not used to wading through a raccoon dung. Because he said, what is that smell? Because it's for daylight, everybody was crawling in the blind. He said, what is that smell?

He's like, I can't stand up. And I shine the light. And I said, that's some kind of poop. And it's a lot of it. I must interject to you and say that as much koon Cooleck, we have waded through back and forth in these duck blinds. I'm just saying if they're, and I think there are, there's microbes inside this species. I know they're there.

I just hope we have an immunity to them because take the wrong man and drag him through Coon Crap. I don't know. Well, I love it that Jay said. It can't be healthy. I love it that Jay said his friend wasn't used to it like anybody would be. And why would you be? Well, Burley, who's also a... He's a nurse.

His wife is a nurse practitioner. Which he's our other hand today. He was smelling. He said, well, I don't have the coronavirus. And I was like, how do you know? He said, because I can smell this coon down. I said, are you trying to put a positive spin on us? Well, that is true.

We basically hunted a coon toilet, a big one, outdoor version. So the first leg was get a little. on the argo wide open ruts mud flying out into our whole number one where all our stuff is because we didn't have time to bail out the boat because it rained all night so I said

we're taking this amphibious vehicle and we're going straight to the blind so for a while we were on land mud was flying then it got into the amphibious version that I'm just propelling and Chad he's not little so when we get out there

this thing is a little bit rickety. Yeah, rickety. I said, easy, easy when you dismount. Because he said, well, what's the plan? I said, jump out. I said, it's not over your waiters, but it's close. But remember me, because I don't want you to flip me.

And as prepared as we were. This is another obstacle in the tri-duck-a-bock-a-because, now you've got dismounting of the P-Roeuvre. It was kind of like you see these people spinning on these logs. That's what I was doing, because when he dismounted, I just underestimated the amount of, weight leaving in that period of time. Oh, water came in.

And I thought, because I thought, I don't want to get wet at this stage. But we just, and he grabbed it, fortunately. And I was like, I told you to be easy. But he's like, hey, that wants the momentum. When you get the weight leaving. He's not a small man. He just not.

So we get all the stuff, tear out of there, Phil, they get a different boat. I said, we'll meet you at the blind. well now we're in deep water so now we're about a mile from them yeah so we get in a mud motor because of course you're racing because you're trying i'm i was like i'm gonna try to catch them because they were going to put the decoys out so we're just literally throwing stuff running tearing getting in the boat i tore out wide open i said get down in the bottom of the boat because you're going inches from trees yeah and i was running wide open because I wanted him to go ahead and get down

because the worst thing happened if you hit a tree in the backwater going wide open is you're going down. Oh, yeah. If you're already down, it's not as bad. Or you're going out. I've seen people go that way as well. So we got up there

and they hadn't finished putting out the decoys. So then we take two boats to a location where I have a P-Row tide that's full of water because it rained. Yeah. So now we all, we, he follows me in the boat. I take him back to the blind. drop him off because now we parked his boat.

I go park the other boat. Get in the P-row. And now how far a mile from the blind in the P-Row? Quarter. About a quarter. Quarter mile. So I picked the P-Row up like it's a rag doll because my adrenaline's pumping, which is why my back is...

So when did you get into the fire ants in the middle of all this? That hadn't happened yet. So I get in the P-Row... That keeps fast-bored in the story. I come back and I'm like 15. minutes after legal but they were ready at legal shooting hours so we have a good which is impressive that job pull that off we have a good hunt we shot 14 ducks well one of the ducks I shot this was a fascinating happening today we're most most of the

duck I think all the ducks up till this point had come in the decoy we didn't see very many but everything came into our spread and it was which is what we like to do but there were two wood ducks coming straight on just like pie plates yeah and they were coming so fast, I thought maybe they're going to spin around and get in the decoys because they don't have enough runway. I just know the speed they're traveling.

They're either going to run into us. Or dark back. But I thought, I just want to see what happens. And so they got right in front of us and evidently one of them said, pull up, not enough runway. And they veered to laugh. And by the time I got up,

I only could get one shot. and I folded the Drake. But he hit in an old camera stand that we had had. How high is that up in a tree? It's like a deer stand up in a tree. It's probably about 15 feet up. It's 15 feet up. Because our old cameraman, he used to sit down in film.

If he would have been in there. Well, that would have been in the greatest shot. It would have decapitated our cameraman. But he would have died for the cause because it would have been right into the camera. Here's what's funny. The wood. hit the back of the chair and I would say it's what 40 yards away and and like when he hit the back of the chair it flipped him around and he was just sitting in the chair dead in the chair I was like

look at that he was just I took a picture of it but you have to like what's the odds that a duck would fall and land in one of our camera stands and be sitting on the right on the edge of it I said very slim You're talking about a daredevil. First of all, he tries to land when he didn't have enough runway. Then he pulled left, got shot, crashed into a seat, and just was sitting there up into the tree. He never moved all morning. He just watched the axe. How did you get that thing, by the way?

Well, this, I spent five minutes trying to climb the tree, which is not a good thing to do when the water is deeper than your waiters. Well, and to climb a tree in waiters. Well, because Lyle is, he can climb trees better than most humans. Yeah. And so he never liked people, like if we had a guest cameraman, he didn't want them to get in his stands. So he wouldn't put a typical ladder. He had the base of the ladder, which I saw it, but then he climbed limb to limb. This was five years ago.

I've seen him way up in trees. Oh, Phil. He's just dangerous up in trees. Oh, yeah. Up there, like with the wind moving. Maybe he from Arkansas originally? Oh, yeah. Sees a hillbillardly.

Seas. Something wrong with you. I don't know what it is. But weird is in. So anyway, I took a push pole that's about 10 or 12 foot long because I tried to climb the tree. And then I thought, well, what if I just popped the seat? Because it was made of that kind of vinyl material because he was just sitting on the seat. And I jabbed a couple of times because I couldn't get my balance.

Momentum. Yeah. And I'm up in the lamp. And I finally just popped it. And he just popped 10 foot up. and came all the way down and hit the water. He was dry up until that point, which was kind of weird. So then I go back, get the boat, and I tried to take a shortcut back,

because now we're leaving so we can be here. And I ran up on a tree that had fallen during the hurricane that I didn't see. I mean, I could see the limbs, and I just came out of the water, but I'm in a heavy boat. Well, I'm stuck. I mean, I just, whop. and I'm like, oh boy. And luckily, my waiters, I had like two inches of freeboard,

and I just was maneuverable. Somewhere in there, I must have touched a ball of ants because I kept thinking, why is my right arm hot? That's what I kept thinking. I said, why is my right arm? But I kept looking, and I didn't really. They don't call them fire ants for nothing. So for the last hour, because they moved up the arm,

went down the back, they explored the midsection. All the way down to my feet. Stinging all the way. Stinging all the way. So if I make a sudden weird, because when it, it's like a dart. Because there's probably somewhere, some are still alive somewhere. I mean, I've killed probably 100. There's actually a little Zit that they caught.

Every time they sting it, it's a Zit there, Zit, a Zit, a Zit, a Zit, a Zit, a Zit. And, I mean, I've been just wrapped up with him, but he gets, you know, before daylight, it's rough. Oh, yeah. Because you don't know where they're coming from, what they're after them. Well, this was after. daylight but I just didn't I was I was preoccupied and I you know I kept like what was it wrong with my arm but when I finally noticed there was just tons of them in my black shirt my over shirt I was like oh no I know this is ants so I stopped air bad started killing all

then so the three events would be of the tried duckathon would be the the the argo at a high rate of speed and in the poor now rain by the way it doesn't have a windshield or a roof. I left that part out, which is hard to do. Yeah. Because you can't, you're sliding all over. How fast that, yeah. I went as fast as it would go. Yeah. Wide open. And then the boat and then the P-Row and then the boat with the obstacles were the fallen trees and the ants.

Ants were another one. Yeah. So that was pretty well the morning. I just appreciated the fact that I had trained them so well, but a few times I say, well, Maybe I overdid it a little bit. Let's take a break. Yeah, well, that's, Jason, you may be a little long in the tooth for the Triduckathon. When I go down today. You're going to feel it tomorrow. I can tell you that.

It will, it will be. Because my adrenaline, I mean, it was kind of fun because we had a good hunt. We made the right call. We were not going to be that successful at where we were going to hunt. And I blame the weathermen, which is ridiculous. Yeah. I mean, they just can't get. it right and you would think modern technology and all the wisdom and the humanistic use of our society

you would think they would get closer in that look it's gonna rain till noon no nine hours off you can't believe anybody anymore including the weather channel i just don't i think they're lazy well you know i mean one and one thing is they're relying on computers which dad will love this they're modeling, well, you know, a computer is not, it's a computer. It does some pretty good things. It projects, but it's algorithms and all that. I mean, it doesn't really know what weather

is. It's just circuitry and what people put into it. All these computers can't even count boats. Can't count one, two. No, in fact, in fact, they were saying back during the election, everybody was saying it too. We need to go back to just writing it down. I mean, we want to go back 100 years because

the let down the computer stuff. They wanted to go back to where I am. I'm still there. You're still in the right-in moment. I'm still there. All in favor? All right. So while y'all been on these adventures and doing the tri-duck-thod, I've been working with the ladies on a new book project, which is, it's always fun and interesting to do them, but it's all so exhausting. Because, you know, you spend, you and I've done it on several projects. When you sit there for three days in a row for seven or eight hours, and it's just creative, collective,

because you've got your ideas that you want for the book, but you've got a person that's going to help you write it, and you're trying to get all this stuff out there. Boy, at the end of that thing, I was exhausted. Plus, mom, you know, I've worked on a couple of projects with her before,

but the older she gets, you're right. I'm with you. Now, you said the older she gets, the more she talks, she never stopped. Mom talked, I'd say two-thirds of our discussion was mom

for hours. Seven hours. 30 or 40 years, she was a quiet, meek woman. But she's still a great woman, but now you can't shut her up. But I will say this, I think the books will be fantastic. It's called Sister Roar. It's Lisa and Mom. She usually makes sure she throws me under the bus.

But she usually always comes back and said, but the Lord got him out from under. She threw you in there a couple of times during the discussion. You know, we've talked so much in our books about our past. And, of course, Mom, Dad's Story, Mine, and Lisa story. Beth, who wrote Missy's book is the one who's writing the book, Jay. Yeah. Yeah, she's fantastic. But it's really going to be good.

It's a, you know, biblical book about, you know, women especially. It's written primarily for women. But, you know, just get down and out. Just get, you know, they get. I will say, Al, in the book of Acts, I mentioned this Jay's this morning in the duck blind. When some of this material begins to, when you study your Bible and you had the book of John where Jesus said, here's what's going to happen, guys. I'm going to go up to Jerusalem, and the chief priest and Pharisees of the law are going to arrest me,

and I'm going to die. They're going to kill me. And in three days, I'm going to arise from the dead. Now, he told them that repeatedly. Matthew said it. Mark said it. recorded it, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And so what you're going to see is when you get in the book of Acts,

after Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Jesus did die. He was buried. He was raised from the dead, like he said. But you're going to start seeing a built-in redundancy. It's going to cover, it's going to keep going back to that. Keep going back to that. Keep going back to that. The book of Acts, first paragraph, after his suffering, he showed himself,

of these men gave many convincing proofs he was alive. Well, you would have to be raised from the dead to go around showing people, look, I'm really alive. So he stayed with them for a while so they could see it with their own eyes. So they wouldn't say, well, you know, I don't know whether it was really they made a swooned. Maybe he really didn't die. No. So you got that.

Well, then just a little bit, Peter's up. He said, this man was handed over to you by God said prayer. That's chapter one. When I were in chapter two. Well, you get in chapter three, you disown the holy and righteous one, and you ask that a murderer be released to you. You kill the author of life, but God raising from the dead. It's going to seem redundant because it is redundant. And you say, why would God keep repeating himself to us?

So you can't miss it. Right. He's trying to get you to see enough evidence. Redundancy is in where you will say, Well, I know what they preached in the book of Acts. They went to Jesus. They stayed on Jesus and what he did, what he's now doing, and what he will do, over and over and over. So a human being is, what's the word, if they don't get something?

It's not because God didn't give it to them. But in the modern culture, especially in the religious world, I think this is missed. I know it. So what do you think? Why? There has to be some kind of evil forces out there, which the Bible says are there. We're not wrestling against flesh and blood. Here comes hollow and deceptive philosophy.

Blinding the minds. Here comes the implementation of the kingdom of God on how you operate in the kingdom of God. They were together. They helped each other. They broke bread in their homes. Everything was, everybody was happy. Well, just a little bit in the book of Acts, uh-oh, here comes the persecution and all, and they're all scattered, and they get scattered, and they begin to take the message

further and further out, because, remember, Jesus said, it's not for you to know the times, and when God's going to do that. When they ask them, what about the kingdom, we're going to restore it now, you know, they thought there's going to be some kind of construct that would rule the world, you know. He said, look, just start right here, and you'll go. go forth beginning in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the ends of the earth, and that's what they did.

What I was going to say, I've tried to pattern my life and have these acts of God in my day-to-day life. You bet you. Based on my understanding of who Jesus is and my surrender to him. And I always

viewed this as, you know, Acts 2 gets all the limelight because this happening the Holy Spirit being poured out and the mass sermon and you had 3,000 people respond. I mean, what a moment. We're always thinking like we're speaking to the masses here. But then in the next chapter, which is chapter three, it like narrows into this one instant

where it's a beggar laying at a gate. which so I look at it like I've been fortunate through the power of God to be able to speak to large audiences even though my biggest fear in life is speaking to large audiences or even small for that matter but so I look at it like that it's like okay you get those opportunities where you share Jesus maybe to a hundred a thousand or even 10,000 people but then they're they were going to do something else you know peter and john they were going up to the temple at the time of prayer at three in the afternoon and there's a man crippled from birth that was out there at the gate which is ironic that the gate's called beautiful and this is something that people

don't like to see it makes them uncomfortable you know when you see some shady looking guy who something's wrong with him. I mean, we've all, we've been mistaken for those people also. Right. Just because the way we look. I mean, I have several stories where, and you do too, where we were viewed as homeless or a beggar. I mean, I've told the story about Willie and I in New York a thousand times. You know, he's meeting, you know, about this little duck show that we may do.

And they're just in the talking stage outside the, you know, wherever the company was. I mean, I was there to go watch baseball. We were going to watch the Yankees play. I was like, yeah, there ain't nobody going to put us on TV. That's a moronic. And Willie had bought us cups of coffee, you know, from Starbucks, four or five bucks apiece, which was, you know, we were just coming believe it.

I mean, and everybody's walking fast and think, because we were outside because they were like, yeah, we'll see you later. I mean, we were there too early, we'll get to you. I mean, it was like we weren't being treated as in, oh, come on in, duck people. You're going to be famous. And somehow, drop some coins. Willie had his cup like this, and, you know, nobody in New York really looks at you anyway. And he dropped some coins in his cup.

He just saw the beer and the camo. He saw the beard, the camo, the slight, you know, gut. But, like, this old boy needs a few. he ruined his $5. I mean, it just seemed ironic in this month. So your expensive coffee. Has been ruined. Willie was mad.

We weren't laughing until later. It became funny. But I was like, he thought you were homeless or a beggar. Just, which I was fascinated that he went to Willie, despite him being way heavier than me. You would have thought, I'm. the one that needed the meal first like this guy's been stealing my food now willie has to change the guy dropped in there what was his did he did he respond like well the guy did it everybody's walking by and we're just out there on a street corner now that i look back on it

i get it well i mean hang on jay let's take a break and you've had a similar experience yeah i've been to events before and they say oh Sir, you know, I got kicked out of the Trump Hotel or escorted out nicely. Yeah. But you were at an event and they told you where they gave you directions to the homeless shelter. In Nashville, yeah. I never forget that one. That was our kind of first experience with that.

I mean, let me say something about this. I was their guest speaker down on the front row and some guy, which by the air, he said, there's a homeless shelter right up the road. They'll feed you a nice meal. And I turned around that. And I said, well, he needs to talk with some of these people around here. They'll fee in. So one of some other guy come running out now.

He said, no, he's our speaker tonight. And I'll never forget that because we were all there, Jay, because maybe we had gone to that premiere. And then two people were baptized that night, too. I remember that. So I'm going to talk a little bit about this, The Gate, because it is interesting. And I do find this as we get into it, it's fascinating because it seemed, you're right. It seemed the story starts out, I would say, not beautiful.

Because we got this lame, man. And it's gone from a mass, like, because a lot of people are looking for that. Oh, let's go win the masses. But he starts off, yeah, he's talking the masses. But he's also stopping here for a guy. It's just not something a lot of people would do. Right. So my thought was working on this text was thinking.

did Peter and John, this guy was there every day. He was carried in and put there. The interesting thing about this gate is almost all scholars say it was the eastern gate around the city. And what's remarkable about the eastern gate is if you imagine as you're looking out of the eastern gate, you got the Kidron Valley right below, and then there's the Mount of Olives, Garden of Gassimini. So all those things we just talked about in John that happened all through those last chapters, this is where it was all happening. So Jesus, remember that last week, he was teaching in the temple, but then at night he would go out to the Mount of Olives until he finally came back in for the last supper.

And the last time Jesus came through that gate, it was as a prisoner because remember they arrested him out there. So I just thought everything that happened at that gate, and it's interesting that the first time they're sort of unleashed after they've done this in big mass preaching and all these people have been baptized, it was at the same spot. Yeah. Which we were there. The way while you're there. They say it was when we went to Israel. Yeah. Right.

And everyone needs to remember that when, back in Matthew 16, and Jesus asks the disciples, who do they say I am? They say some say you're John the Baptist, others say you're Elijah, still others Jeremiah, one of the prophet.

They're calling you all kind of people. They don't know exactly who you are. So Jesus said, what about you, though? What do you say? And Peter said, you're the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus, you're blessed because you've got that from God. I tell you that you're Peter. And on this rock, Peter, me being who I'm saying, I am the Messiah, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not overcome it. And I, Jesus is talking to Peter, will give you, Peter, the keys of the kingdom of heaven. So take that information. It's no accident. when Jesus leaves and goes back into heaven and the 120 are there and the Holy Spirit comes on them

with all this, there's no accident that Peter is the one who stood up, preached the gospel. Jesus died, was buried and raised from the dead. And when asked, what shall we do? He put them keys in that gate. And he said, here's what you do. Because it be faith in Jesus, as the Messiah, the one that can save you. If you need to repent and be baptized, everyone wants to. of you in the name of Jesus and you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. So it was no accident

that Peter, the one that put the keys in the gate and opened it, he's the one that did it. And think about how many troubles and the mistakes he made and how forgiving God is giving him the keys to the kingdom of heaven for crying out loud. Well, and it is a great. It's a coup read. It is a really good testament to grace because before he stood up and preached that sermon and unlocked that the keys, he stood up. He stood up. up among the 120 and started in motion the replacement of Judas. I thought, man, what a moment for him because he had denied Christ. He had felt alienated. And yet at the end of that 40 days, Jesus was talking about, first chance he got was he do. He stands up. He's a leader. I love that

phrase when it said, then Peter stood up. Yeah. I think every child of God who's put their faith in Jesus at some moment, they have to have that stand-up moment. You know, mine, and I was like 16. I was saved, forgiven, I understood who Jesus, but I had stood up yet. I was trying to survive. You know, I had my buddies around me and they're all, we fix going to do this, we're going to do that. None of it was spiritual.

I get a lot of letters, and people say, you know, I came to Jesus, but since then, I've got out here, you know, and I've left, got out of high school. I lost my way. I lost my way. Can you help me with my depression and my, my, my, my, he just wakes up. He has no peace. Right. One after the other after the other, Jason, I believe you had it right.

They, they got the facts right, but they haven't stood up. You got to have a stand-up moment. Yeah, it's a good way to, it's a good way to. For all you listen to, they write these letters to us all the time or what, what's happened to me because I started out doing well, but, but now, you know, I'm, you know, some of my buddies, I've been running with them and get into drugs and all this stuff and fighting with their woman, whatever. So, Jace, you need to elaborate along that a little bit.

A stand-up moment. I like that. Yeah, it's where, and that's Acts 214 where we're getting that, it's where he decided to go public. And what happened was... Without fear. Is the same thing that happened to me. When I stood up, and that was my closest friends

at a football game and, you know, I didn't physically stand up but I stood up for what I believed in for the first time. It came out of my mouth. No, I'm not doing this. Here's why. It didn't go over very well.

You know, my, there wasn't three thousand, there wasn't three coming to me. They all ran like a cubby of a quail. But you did stand up. Well, I stood up and just like what happened to Peter, it then became easier and then I started looking for opportunities which is where I started

in that I started the people that had fallen through the cracks of my public high school the shy the kind of the weird acting the people that didn't look like they had friends I started pursuing those people I'd see them and I'd think well

let's try this because I you got ears let him hear and so I think that's what happened and that's why I said I've tried to mirror my life based on what I read and acts when you have opportunities to share with a lot do it but when you have

opportunity to just share with one person I mean you do it now they had this miraculous gifts to be able to distribute and I'm pretty positive this came from what they saw in John 9 when you had the man born blind I mean, he just looked at it like God's giving us this power where we can confirm what we do with miracles.

By the way. Let's just let me give you what his line was because he said, can I have some money? Well, I should have mentioned that. Yeah. And he's like, tell you what, I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what I got. Before that, let's take a break. By the way, I don't know.

Hang on dad. Let's take a break. By the way, I don't know whether they ever did give him any money because he had something worth more than money. He says silver or gold we don't have. What I love is that Peter. He breaks the number one rule when dealing with beggars. And this is still true today. A lot of begging still going on.

Right. So you pull up at a red light here in town and it's all over the place. When you're in New York in place like that, it's every street corner. But here it's usually at a red light somewhere. And there's a guy standing over there and he's got a sign. The last thing you want to do is make eye contact with him. Correct. So most people just look ahead.

He's looking at you hoping you'll look at him and read the sign. Because when you do, when you make eye contact, then you've got two choices. You're either going to feel compassion. You're going to think, well, I probably need to help this over it. Or you're going to feel judgment. Look at this guy. Well, because some are known con men. Oh, it happens all the time.

And we know that. So what people do to avoid that is just don't look at him. So I find that fascinating that Peter looks at it. He asks for money. Peter, it said he looks straight at him. Yeah. And the guy looks back because he thinks, oh, I got one here. Yeah, that's a good point.

I do think, because it makes a point of saying that when he said, look at us. Yeah. Well, it's usually the opposite. That's right. Beggers saying, look at me, look at me. And Peter's like, look at me. Look at us. And then it gives the guy, he said, and he looked at him because he thought they were going to give us the money.

He had something by far that outweighs a few pennies. That's what I love about the story, is that the guy really got excited. and looked at him because he thought, I'm going to get some coins. What he didn't know was they were about to change his life forever. That's it. Way more than much. That's a good point. And when people, if you unpack these things and you look at them logically,

right. That's why we mentioned, you know, what governments can do and can't do it. They can't provide what Peter and them gave him. No. They want to say, we'll fix it. If you'll give us enough money, money will solve everything. a $600 check. Yeah.

Boy, look how long will that last? And we'll give everybody the same amount of money. We'll give everybody a raise. And whether you can hit a lick at a snake or not, the money will make everybody happy. And we're saying we got something so much better than that. I mean, this is something that can restore you because that's what they did. So when the miracle happens, you know, they say get up and we don't have any money,

but here's what we have. In the name of Jesus, which maybe you've got to go back to where the power is, get up and walk. It says he got up and remember he's been lame since birth. So we all know, we've seen people before, I mean, your muscles are atrophied. You hadn't been able to use them. And there's no telling what he looked like, you know, with whatever was wrong with it. But it said they became strengthened immediately.

And he's never walked. I mean, he's been lame since birth. He never walked. So he wasn't toddling around like a little kid does. You've seen like when deer born. I've seen them try to cross the road and I'm like, hey buddy, welcome to the world. He's like, I want to run.

How do I do it? Figure out how this all works. So they help him up because he didn't have to walk. And all of a sudden when that strengthening came in, not only that, all the muscles are not atrophied. And he knows how to walk. And he immediately went from, he's laying there his whole life to it says jumping and running and praising God. Well, I made that dear reference because it wasn't. Where's that in Isaiah where it says there's a, there's a prophecy about the son of man would make the lame.

It says, jump like a deer. I haven't said no. I'll find it. I don't remember. Yeah, talk amongst yourselves. I'm on it. So while you're looking that up, it's a lot like the, we talked about the first miraculous happening with Peter and the rest was being able to speak these languages that they, obviously,

he had never studied or didn't know. But the point of that all was for Peter to stand up, and in one language, tell him about Jesus for the first time. And he had the unique opportunity that we don't have, even now, of speaking to some of the people that actually were there that put him on the cross. It's Isaiah 35, 6. Then will the lame leap like a deer and the mute tongue shout for joy. water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

Wow. And that certainly applies to here. That's a good one, Jay. Well, anything dealing with deer, wildlife, I've read that. Chase knows all the wildlife texts. That's the deer pants for water. That's why I like that Proverbs 6. We were talking about stay away from the seductress.

And it says like a deer before an arrow pierces his liver. Well, boy, hey, as a hunter, that made me scared of wild women. That's Proverbs 6, by the way. And then that's where ACDC got the way. I'm on the highway to hell. It's actually averse. Look how these things work. Here's just one beggar.

You say that's in that culture or today's culture, most people would say, not even worth the time to give him anything. When the people, all the people saw him walking and praising God, they recognized him as the same man. This is verse 10 in chapter 3. They recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called beautiful. And here's was

their reaction, which is better than nothing. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. Which was the plan. Because then Peter preaches Jesus to the crowd. So it has a way of, Al,

what you call it, it begins to roll one little good act toward someone. Get their attention. Get their attention. And even the ones, the unbelievers, are sitting there saying, whoa. Whoa, whoa.

Isn't that old guy? Here's what happens to... Hang on, Jess. Let's take one nice breath. Here's what happens to the self-absorbed. And I'm talking about religious people. They read this and they thought, well, how come God doesn't heal me?

I mean, I'm, you know, I've got my back's hurt, you know, I got... Or I was born. The point of this was to share Jesus, where it said, they made that statement, which is really not ironic.

It's interesting that he said, you killed the author of life. I mean, I'm sure if someone heard that, they would say, do what now? How do you kill the author of life? That would be impossible, right? If he's the author of life, how could you kill him?

which is a great segue in what Jesus actually did here. But the whole point was giving them something greater than any kind of physical ailment. Even though this was an awesome healing, he's jumping up and down and exciting. But we are to be more excited about what you have in Jesus. That's why it just grates on me when you go into church assemblies,

and it feels like somebody died. Because I'm like, look at this guy. they're like yeah but he had a miracle well what you have in jesus is not better well and you you said the point of men to go dad it it and this is great for our audience because we get a lot of questions about you know how do you how do you how do you how do you how do you but you said it it's not that you don't have to do a miracle to do it this was an act of kindness to a man they had the power to heal him that is correct and this act of kindness and then astonished people but it's the same today i told you all about the guy that sent my checkbook back i mean i've been

thinking about it for weeks. I thought, what a nice, you know, this guy, I want to have a conversation with this guy. I was like, you know, because I'm like, I want to know what you, you know, are you a, are you a godby man? I mean, you know, because that's not normal. So people say, what do we do? If you live like Jesus and you do stuff he did, and that's love people, then it will astonish other people who don't understand, and then they'll ask you why. All right, I'll give you a mantra when you run up on a beggar or a sign person. Because, hey, I may be that person one day with a sign. Or you may be mistaken as that person.

That's what I meant. But before you give them money or before you give them a miracle, because that may be what they're asking, you give them the miracle worker. Yep. That is the point. Correct. So it's like, well, should I give this guy some money?

I mean, every time I've ever unloaded. some cash in that situation or a gift card or whatever. You know, I like gift cards better because then you know where it's going. You make sure they know where that's coming from. And I don't mean me. And you share Jesus. And you do it based on Acts 3.

Right. I like it. It too. It's really good. I like this text because these people are there. Because then he starts telling them about Jesus. Paul would later say in Colossians 121. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.

But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death. And I love that idea. It's the cross is what then binds these people together. In this case, these people, like you said, they were the ones that actually did it. It's funny, he said, you killed the author of life, but the resurrection proves he wouldn't stay dead. All right. That's why I think he was being. I'm trying to think of a word here.

He was being facetious. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, you kill the author of life. If someone told me that, I would say. Because he says, but God raising him from the death. Do what now? How is that possible?

But I'll tell you another thing on what I admire about them is they had the ability to do these miracles. And he said in verse 12, he said, why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? They were taking zero credit for what happened. That was not the goal to say, oh, that's why every time at your church, if someone comes up and starts saying, I've had a special revelation or has some special gift that's not, if you don't see their name in this book, tread lightly. That's it. Because people, there are religious people who set themselves up as greater than everyone else. they have some kind of weird outlet to God, and they're able to do these things. And most of the times, based on what I've seen, you better check how they live their life

from day to day. Because that's usually where the problems are. Or is it about money? And we all know these things go on. But these guys were humble. They weren't taking any credit for it. And then they were using what was happening through the power of the spirit of the miraculous to point people to Jesus.

Before we ever arrived, a university. church. I volunteered to go over there. So we went over there and we help people and a lot of people. We give them food cards. We have every Sunday there's a meal there prepared for the ones who are not forcing enough to have a have a meal at least once a day. So we feed them and all that. And many them have been converted, but Jason, you had it right. All of what you do, whether it's one individual or a whole lot of individuals when you reach out to them and just provide one little act of kindness. You just said it. Why does this surprise you?

Why do you stare at us if by our own power or godliness we made this man walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, watch how he turns this dialogue. The God of our Father has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed. and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go. You disowned the Holy and righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. You kill the author alive, but God has raised him from the dead. They worked it around out, so they made sure from their lips they would preach that Jesus was, in fact, who he said he was, he died on the cross, was buried and raised from the dead.

It always goes back. That's why I mentioned redundancy. It always goes back to the gospel every time on every issue. I do think it's interesting, too, that they said, you killed the author of life, this 315. God raised you from the dead, and we are witnesses of this. We saw it. I mean, they're like, we didn't hear,

what was that movie popped in my head. Well, when Josie Welles said, I don't want to hear Wells, Dad. I want to see Wells, Dan. Outlaw Josie Wells. If you're a new listener, there's very few requirements to listening to this. You've got to watch Joseph. Watching of the TV version of the Outload Josie Wells is mandatory.

But I just want to say, because that is the strongest evidence that this is all legit. I mean, other than the Bible itself, would you agree? These guys would have to be claiming something that they later on died of. But you keep that in mind, Peter is going to die. martyr's death and right here he's saying but i witnessed this man right come back from the dead yeah so fast forward to the end of his life you're having trouble accepting this fast forward to the end his life why is he making this statement yeah and then later on when his literally his neck was on the line say i'm not getting off of it right i mean i think it's a powerful moment that they throw that in

there saying yep this is what happened and we're are witnesses. We saw it. I also think these first three chapters in Acts as we wrap up today show you that Jesus, his investment into these men was a good investment. Peter stands up twice. We talked about his leadership. He quotes Joel. He quotes David in the Psalms. In this text, and he was, it is going to say ordinary and unschooled. He quotes Moses. He quotes Samuel from I mean, like, Peter was ready more than he knew for the moment. And the thing is, Jason's right, he stood up. So we're just challenging the Unashamed Nation to stand up today and do us right.

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