Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 23 | Smells of the Duck Blind and Losing a Loved One

Episode Date: September 29, 2019

Jase describes the sights, sounds, and smells of the duck blind, Al watches "Poltergeist," and Phil remembers his younger sister.   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 unashamed. What about you? Well, here's an update. Teal report. A teal report. We are now in the duck season. We are going daily with our eyes to the skies, looking for the elusive blue-wing teal,

who are the first to migrate, all the way down to the U.S. from the Canadian prairies to cross the Gulf of Mexico and into the Yucatan Peninsula. It's where most of them winter. Some stop in South Louisiana. We're trying to catch them as they are going on that migratory route. We're trying to catch them in the northern part of Louisiana. They're in the last, pretty well, the last stretch of this long flight.

Think about it, Canadian prairies all the way to the Yucatan. which takes them about 30 minutes probably yeah well they fly so they are like choo coming through the air they've been clocked at over 70 miles an hour a blue wing teal his flavor is not the best of all the ducks that you could kill for us eating sye confirmed that a teal flies 70 miles an hour in his famous story he said he was riding on the highway and he looked out there was a teal so he would speed up yeah because he was trying to gauge how fast they could they could so luckily it was flying right along the same level.

That's what he said. Size given is given to tall tails. But the bottom line is the teal for you boys at duck hunt. It is spotty at best. We've seen years like that before. It's been a dome of high pressure has settled over the lower mid part of the United States and south of there where we are. It's just a dome of high pressure.

95 in the daytime, 96. at night, 70s, and then, so. Global warming, yeah, there's no fronts, there's no little disturbances. And you say the teal, when you catch a little front coming,

early front in September, oh, they move on those fronts. We haven't had any fronts. It's just sitting here. It's hot, it's dry, it's steel. And we just sit there. Mosquitas are attacking us by the middle, Hopefully we won't catch the disease that they offer.

But if you do, the resurrection. Resurrection. There's cotton mouths that are actively in and around the blind. Coon dung is inside your duck blind. I'm sure there's microbes there. Evidently, we've developed an immunity to cune dung because you get up in the duck blind and you just clean the cune dung out of the way

when you sit down there because they'd like to get up in your blind and having a few crawfish or an old dead fish. There was one of a dead fish under the blind yesterday. But no, no, that fish, you know, we, Jay and I was sitting on there in the blind. Jay said, man, something stinks because you're getting around and you're crawling around before daylight. And you're in the second week of season. So the smell could be emanating from within the duck blind. Well, yeah.

You're not sure. That's true. Because Phil said the Coon dung, but a lot of that dung is your dog. Your dog is getting up there every morning and relieving himself. On the blind or around it. An individual, remember, an individual who has spent as much time in the woods and on the water, as I have, I have developed the expertise to be in a place where there's dead things like dead fish, kund, dung, but I've developed the ability to not let that phase me at all.

Otherwise, I'm not smelling it. Well, it has something to do with you being 70. or so losing your senses. I think so. I think the reason the almighty tones down your senses, the older you get, because it's bothering the young bucks, but it's not bothering the old graybeards. Well, I think it's because it's your dog,

and so you're like in denial. And so you're, you know, it's like when you personally poop, it doesn't seem to stink. I've trained my dog. If you come in after someone else has destroyed your bathroom. I train my dog not to take a, a dump inside the argo or the four-wheeler do not take a dump there someone's just had you train him

to not do that i told him no when he's hunkered down back there and here comes the dung the dog dung inside the vehicle you're riding in you tell them no and then you take their head and shove their face into what they just did and they you do that make the connection you do it a couple of time He trained us. Say, all right, you're going to put dung. Yeah, you're going to put dung in the four-wheeler. Well, here's what I got for you. Down in that dung, his nose goes.

And for some reason, though, they say, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that again. Well, that's good. It'll work. We smelled that, well, we didn't know what it was. And then when I was crawling out of the blind, I looked, and it was a large fish. And I realized that a coon had caught the fish or a mink, then brought it up to our blind because he needed a place to enjoy his meal,

which out of the water blinds perfect. But then he, I guess, got distracted because he had eaten a little bit and then left it. Well, you know, a couple days. It's 100 degrees here. I tell you what's funny. When I brought up that global warming,

I spoke in, what was that, Lefkin? I can't even remember this past weekend. And I said that one of my lines I said, is I believe in global warming. And so everybody, because it's a conservative crowd, They don't like, because they think, oh, I didn't think we were supposed to be for that. Yeah.

And so then I say 2nd Peter 3. Well, most people are not, they don't realize 2 Peter 3, you know, where it talks about the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. The elements will melt in the heat. And so I said, I just believe it will happen at a later time and at an extreme level. And I said, here will be the sign. that you'll know because they're still not getting what I'm talking about. I said, when you hear this sound, that'll be the sign.

Yeah. And hopefully you'll be prepared because at the same time, Jesus will be coming back. There's a couple of things that play there. Second Peter 3, if you read it carefully, the last bit of that chapter there, you say, oh, it's more than, I believe in more than global warming.

I'm talking about, I believe in global heating. I said it is in the future and you need to relax about when it's going to happen because they've got it down, the left wingers to 11 years and we're out. We're gone one decade. Give a take a little and we're out of here. But the Bible says no one knows when that day will come, the global heating day. But, you know, the elements and the cosmos will disappear with a roar. But then it says some great news.

But we long, therefore, we long for a new heavens and a new earth, reworked the home of righteousness, meaning we'll be there forevermore. Well, let's face it, that's the difference in our approach. That's why lately we've had a now, the latest thing about climate change, is you have children. Now it's the children out front. And they're, oh, no, it's, you know, there's the little girl from across this pond. we're it's terrible you know it's all so it's it's kind of this fear deal about it's so imminent

how can you as if we had somehow the power to to but when you don't when you don't know the creator of the earth you're always going to be fearful about what goes on right on the earth because if it's just tied to the earth well what yeah you need to be scared that's you're imperishable and this place is violent there's hurricane there's earthquakes, there's meteorites. By the way, I just want to remind our listeners of this right here, my little sister, the youngest of the Robertson clan, seven kids. She's number five, not but three of us left,

but she passed on to the other side last night. And everyone said, y'all don't seem to be like really, wrong with grief. You don't seem to be grieving. Here's a very, you'll agree with this, Al, a very godly woman the entire time this woman was on the earth. She helped bring you to the Lord.

She was instrumental. She was the one that is the reason I'm here in Jesus. And here's what the text says, and I want all of you to remember out there, especially you people who have faith in God. And the ones of you who don't have your faith in God, remember, your physical, death is what happened

my physical death, my sister's physical death, all human beings. Physical death is a problem that God has solved for us. Here's the text. Read 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 13. Here's what it says. Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep. She died last night. I'm told by the Apostle Paul speaking on behalf of the Spirit of God, that we should not be ignorant about physical death.

Or it says to grieve like the rest of men. Distraught what's happened. I've lost her. We didn't lose my little sister. We didn't lose her. She just went on to be at home with God. Her soul and spirit are intact. She's alive, but her body has died.

and she really had a horrible disease that led to that. So watch. You don't want to be ignorant about those who fall asleep or to grieve like the rest of men. Here's a key phrase, who have no hope because of the resurrection of Jesus. We're sitting on this earth. The only hope we can hang on to,

the only one came through one person when Jesus became flesh, 2018 years of life. ago. He dies on a cross for our sins. That problem solved. Three days later, he solved our physical death problem. So we don't want you to grieve about people when they fall asleep or be ignorant. We believe, listen to this, that Jesus died and rose again, and that's exactly what I just got through explaining. Here's the good news again. And so we believe that God will bring with Jesus, those who have fallen asleep in him.

You say, well, if her body's down here on planet Earth, we're going to put her in the ground, but she is with God. And when Jesus returns, well, he's bringing something. How could he be, how could he be, we'll bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him? You say, good night, she's still alive.

Her spirit, her soul's alive. Her body's in the cemetery. And Jesus is coming back one day. even to get that, reclaim that far. According to the Lord's own word, I'm in 1st Thessalonians 413 and following. We tell you that we who are still alive, what if you're alive when Jesus comes back?

Who are left to the coming of the Lord will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. God's going to take care of them before he takes care of us if we're alive when he comes back. Say he comes back. today in the next five minutes. But we all go together. You bet you.

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Here's the good news with a loud command with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet call of God. Are you all listening? And the dead in Christ, which includes my little sister, will rise first. The bodies will start coming out of the cemeteries to meet their souls and spirits. Glorified bodies standing on the earth. my little sister would be one of them and if Jesus doesn't come

before I pass on to the other side I will be in that group the good news is whoever lives and believes in me even if it dies yet shall he live whoever believes of me will never die the dead and Christ arise first here comes Jesus after that

what if you haven't physically died yet we who are stood alive and are left will be caught up with them all together now in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we will be with the Lord forever immortality is ours and it says then in verse 18 therefore why would he write that encourage each other with these words you know that's so encouraged Al that I'm not grieving my little sister I'm saying Jan you're on the other side you your trial is over you're there you're good you're good to go.

You know, what's interesting is today, you know, we went duck hunting like we normally do. A lot of times we goof off out there and laugh. But today, most of the conversation was about things like this. Sure was. You know, Si was there because I'm the one that told you all this morning. I got your text last night, but since Phil and Cy are, you know, out on any kind of technology, you want to get you a message. I got the word this morning.

Hey, Phil. Yeah. So we talked about that. And I truly saw, of course, we were. we're all close to her as well. I mean, you and I. Yeah. But none of us were in that grief-stricken moment because we know this is what we live for.

I mean, that process right there, which, I mean, if you made a movie about what you just read, people said, boy, those are some science fiction stunts there. You know, if you had a graveyard just exploding. Exactly. Then people are just running and they're being changed instantaneously and just start flying around. it's a more but to us that's that's a fact and for all the ones who say you mean to tell me that's the genesis of what y'all believe and that's why physical death is not something you're afraid of that that's exactly so here's the question someone says well man that's science fiction that's

nuts do you have a better story that deals with your no it's just over you know And so my, my theory is 40 years ago, there was a movie, at least about 40 years ago named Poultergeist, very popular. You know, the whole deal was that this ghost is, you know, animated little girl gets sucked through the TV, blah, blah, blah. But at the end of it, these bodies, you know, it all happened because they were built their house subdivision on top of this ancient burial ground.

Yeah. And so then all of a sudden the bodies all start coming up out of the ground. So, you know, you think, man, that's some imagination. Well, not really because if it was all rooted in what you just read, which is thousands of your old text, then someone, Stephen Spielberg, or whoever it was, could conjure up the image of bodies coming out of the ground because they were animated by some force.

That's what we're talking about. We're talking about life force animating a bar. By the way, we've been discussing Abraham and before we got to Moses, consider this, Galasins 3, verse 6. You read about these Old Testament characters like we're reading about. He believed God, Abraham did, and it was credited to him as righteousness. Understand then that those who believe are children of Abraham. Well, here we are.

The scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham. So all of these guys were reading about Noah, Abraham, Moses, you say, all of them were way back long before Jesus had become flesh. All nations will be blessed through you, so those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. We're going to cover law this morning. All who rely on observing the law out are under a curse

for it is written. Cursed it is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of law. What a grand thing God did gave the law to make sin utterly sinful. No one ever kept it, but the one who wrote it. Jesus, the son of God.

And you're like, but he also came up with the law to bring out the best in you. I mean, you think about, I've thought about this. Like even as parents, if you look at the law, because that's what we're going to talk about, the Ten Commandments and all this, you're not telling your kid, you know, you don't want them to grow up

and flourish just because, you know, you had the law. You're trying, or certain laws. And what I mean by that, there's unwritten laws that we follow, like don't stick your finger in that socket. Well, the reason you've made that a rule or a law is because you're looking out for their best interest. Yep. But the problem comes in when you make laws and then you elevate the law. law over the individual.

It's, you know, I mean, you can think of any kind of analogy, but you don't come up, you don't set some law where you're so concerned about keeping the law that, you know, your daughter or son or whatever, you drive them into rebellion because you put the law. Well, perfect illustration would be, why is there a school zone speed limit? That's right. so much less than everywhere else. Why do they want to force you to go 15 miles an hour through a school zone? You know, you're not keeping that law because it's like, oh, boy, this law is really important

that I go to 15. You're keeping the law because you don't want to run over a kid. We don't want to run over a kid. But having said that, let's say something happens at your house in the middle of the night. School's not open. And, you know, you break the speed limit because you're trying to get your wife to the emergency room. Well, we've now got another situation, and we've trumped that law because now I have, this person is valuable. That's right.

And so I'm breaking that law. Y'all got pulled over one night, you know, for going to 100 in the 55. And I didn't get a ticket because we were at a softball game and we had a collision. And the second baseman went out and the center fielder came in and the center fielder dove for the ball. the second baseman's knee hit the center filter's head in that collision and it literally caved in his head I mean we thought he was dead

they bring in a helicopter airlift him everybody's you know tears in their eyes I mean it's like we're out there playing softball and so you know they sit they called me somebody called me they're like they don't think he's going to live and they had taken him to Shreveport well I just in a panic I just took off

I wouldn't worry about speed limit now granted I shouldn't have been going 100 I needed to be pulled over. And that's what the cop said. I get it. We heard the call. We know it's your buddy. He didn't know who it was.

But we ain't driving 100. I'll get out in front of you and get some sirens and I'll escort you. Because my first response was give me a ticket. I'll pay for it. You were a kid. You were 20. But I'm just making the point. And look,

and he extended me mercy because we put the people over the, the law and they didn't give me a ticket. Now he did escort me and he said don't ever do that again. By the way leading into the law of Moses being given, what shall we say then? We're back on Abraham again. What shall we say that Abraham our forefather discovered in this matter, law of works or faith? If in fact Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about. Kept all the commands, never violated one of them. But not before God. What? does the scripture say, this is a way better system, ladies and gentlemen. Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. When a man works, his wages are not credit to him as a gift,

but as an obligation. However, listen to this. This is one of the greatest reads in the Bible. I'm in Roman chapter 4.1 and following, however, to the man who does not work, but trust God who justifies the wicked, which we all are, his faith is credited as righteousness. David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness, another one of our fathers, of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works. Then he says this, blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven because they believe God, whose sins are covered because they believe God. Blessed is a man. whose sin the Lord will never count against him you just are not going to all who rely on observing the

law out are in fact under a curse grace is a wonderful thing boys what's difficult about what we're doing is we're trying to go through the Bible and most of the times when you're studying a book you go from the beginning to the end but in this case this is actually a letter wrapped around in history. Right. And you have this that reveals the answer to basically all our problems. That's it. Right in the middle of the book. Yep. And his name is Jesus because he was the image of the invisible God. He was full, I think of that verse when you were reading that in John 1, where it said, the law came through Moses. And then it says grace and truth came through Jesus. Yep. So if you started reading at the beginning of the book, you get to Exodus and you start

reading about the Ten Commandments, not just that. How many laws were there, six hundred and sixty or whatever? Several. You have all these laws, which you can't, one, you were right. It shows that we're sinful, but it was also intended for the, the betterment of their society. Right. You know, it was like, like I made that illustration with your kids. But what we have to do is we immediately go to the New Testament because we're like,

well, we're not under the law. I mean, you just read all who rely on the law are under the law. or a curse. James 2.10 says, if you break one, you're guilty of breaking all of it. Yep. And so it's kind of depressing. But you see so many churches in our society today. I'm not talking about the world.

I mean churches who take that law in the keeping of it and even rules that are not, they make, they make them into laws that are not even biblical, in my opinion. And then all of a sudden they wonder why they're miserable. And they missed the point, which was just. Jesus is full of grace and truth. So actually what we're doing here is we're reading the Bible. We go to the middle, which is where Jesus, and then you go back and then you go forward.

But when we're in the Old Testament and Exodus, we're actually looking forward every episode. Because if you just leave it that we're under the law, well, none of us are going to make it. Plus you're establishing context of what happened. And that's important because you think about where we are today. Look at the U.S. We're not even quite 300 years from the beginning process.

And look now at what we're going through by the misunderstanding of the original framers. You are correct. Without understanding context of why things were said and done. You think about our bill of rights. You think about those First Amendments. The reason why those were so precious, but now you come along. we're not even 300 years. I'm going to remember any of this.

Well, then you get into the sort of behavior you're seeing. So you look at the Bible, and now that's times 10. You're talking about thousands of years of history. And so when Jesus comes along, just like you said that, he made a point in this whole ministry. He kept telling the people around him who were wanting to stress law in Moses. He kept saying, Abraham came first. Abraham came first.

He kept looking at the idea of faith that that was established before law was established. So when we're studying Genesis and now Exodus, we're establishing historically exactly how it came about. And you're right. It all lines up perfectly. When Jason and I went to school to preach them, I would dare say, I mean, we learned a lot of stuff that we may or may not use. But one of the things that has stood the test of time is being able to see the whole picture of going back. as how it relates to what Jesus said, and now even more important, how it relates to us, which we're 2,000 years on this side of Christ.

Well, what's difficult is if you say like this statement around religious people, this would make people uncomfortable. If you said we're no longer under the Ten Commandments, well, most religious people, if they heard that statement, they were, what are you saying? That's right. The Ten Commandment. I mean, how dare you say such a thing? That's what I live by.

well they don't they're not realizing how when jesus came he redeemed us from having to be under that code where we had to keep let's just say the ten commandments but i'll give you another ten they were a lot more just for fun you know and so technically i would be right and saying that but those principles of the ten commandments well they are true they're good principles like i said about the kids because here you have god who is ultimately our father and we're his sons and daughters. The Ten Commandments, if we put those principles in every fabric of society, it would be a better run society. No doubt. But he didn't elevate the commandments above the people. And in fact, he proved that by sinning Jesus to redeem us from having to even keep all of it through grace. And that's

what it comes down to. He wanted you to be motivated by grace, forgiveness, his son on a cross, and to recognize not only did he have to rescue you on a cross, but what he had to rescue you from, which would be sin via the law. And so then we're motivated, not because we have to do something, but because we're so awed and thankful by him doing that, being that great God,

well, we want to do what's right. That's the difference. How thousands of years after the law was given, which we look at today, but in the book of Romans, just as the Apostle Paul in Roman 7, he says, sin seizing the opportunity

afforded by the commandment, deceive me, and through the commandment, put me to death. So then, the law is holy, the ten commandments out of the greatest code of laws ever written. The law is holy,

nothing wrong with the law, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. Well, did that which is good then become death to me by no man? means. But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, the law, the Ten Commandment, so that through the commandment, sin might become utterly sinful. Nothing wrong with the code, but there's a lot wrong with us. Well, just think if you

didn't have the code, where's the verse that says the law was not for those who keep the law, but for lawbreakers? I mean, if you didn't have some law? As Paul to Timothy, In order, can you imagine this society? Oh. If it was the strongness will survive. Which was why there were two purposes that God had in putting forth the law. One is governance. That's what we're talking about.

In other words, it was a governance for his people. These people that were at the foot of Mount Sinai would one day become the nation of Israel. And this was kind of the first step towards that. They would conquer the Canaan, which we'll talk about later. So the first idea was governance. This is good. These are things to govern people by. Just like we have a constitution of Bill of Rights,

those are governance. But that was just one purpose. That was the immediate in the time frame. I think the greater purpose was that God, you've got to trust God in how to live your life. Think about it, Jase. If human beings worldwide, if you just set,

if you just set the Ten Commandments before him, worship the God of creation and him only. Don't bow down to idols in the form of anything in heaven or on earth. You know, sticks of wood with faces painted on them and all that. Don't misuse God's name. Work six days, rest one. Honor your father, children. Honor your father and mother.

Don't murder. Don't commit adultery. Don't steal. Don't lie and don't covet. Just think of it. about if the human race just took 10 laws and actually kept them. Just think about what kind of world you would have. Yeah, and striving.

If children obey their father and mother, I'm starting number five. Well, you'd put the prisons out of business. No murder out. You wouldn't have to lock up anything. There's no adultery. There's no theft. There's no lying. There's no, you're like, man, this would be a great place to,

live. It's just 10 of them. But what's crazy is... If you kept two of them, look at... If you quit stealing and quitting murdering each other, you say, you know, we'd be a lot better off if we kept commandment number six and number eight or nine. But here's the confusion I see, because

people, when I have that discussion about the Ten Commandments, they're like, well, why did Jesus give you a new law? You know, Jesus summed up all the laws, because now we've moved forward now, because we know how the story ends. He said, why don't you love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Well, it wasn't an idea. Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. Well, the transition that he brought was that written code to the heart that understands God's grace and then just looks at people. And all these laws that were written down, they just go through that.

Those two, it goes through that system. Well, if you love your neighbor, you wouldn't lie. You wouldn't steal. But it, why people. You certainly wouldn't murder him. You wouldn't murder him. Well, why people can't see that is because it's the motivation now. That's right.

You don't feel like you have to. You're now compelled because you understand that God is love, that God is mercy. He is grace. And then that becomes contagious on you. And then you do the same thing, not because it was written down and you, you, you're going to have consequences for it, you know, that you just actually think. It's just like going back to driving through the school. school zone. If you really value kids' lives, you'll make it your ambition to pay attention

then. Because most times we break those laws, it's not that we're really thinking about the kids, you know, but if you make yourself do that and say, you know what, or even, you know, on the cell phone, you know, when you're driving around, all of a sudden you've become so selfish and self-absorbed that you're not looking at humanity in a loving, helpful way. You're disregarding them. what you're doing. Once you get rid of God, boys, once he's gone out of your mind, how lawlessness is fiction to kick into high gear, lawlessness. And then it's just a sexual, murderous, free for all. Which is why Jesus, remember he said in Matthew 5, I didn't come to abolish the law. I came to fulfill the law. Meaning the principles are good. He actually came.

He kept it. He said, the principles are good, but at the same time, I came here to fulfill everything. So then he dies on the cross. What's the last words he says? It is finished. What does that mean? I came here and did what I came to do. I fulfilled the law. I redeemed sin. Everything. I gave you hope from the ground, you know, eventually. So everything came together. Any problem that you might incur, he basically finished. Which is why he said in Colossians 2, he nailed. the law to the cross, meaning that's why the cross is so important is because in that moment,

that's everything. So therefore, we can put ourselves into him. And then we got two things to do, love God and love our neighbor. That's a way. By the way, by the way, the law, Romans 13, love is the fulfillment of the law. By the way, Al, once I understood that, it didn't begin for sure. I was a, lawbreaker from way back. You say once you came to Jesus, an amazing thing happened. Once I understood that all my sins had been removed,

all of my lawbreaking sins had been removed. A strange thing happened. And I want everyone to understand this. Once you understand that you've been forgiven of all your past sins and none of your future sins, because of the mediating work of Jesus at the right end of Father are not counted against you. Jesus himself said,

how many times do you forgive people? You say how much? And Peter said, what about seven? He said 70 times seven. That's the one who is removing our sins. Once a person understands that, Al, the sins of a man begin to dry up.

But here's what we do. Look, here's what we do on that point. then somebody in a religious church will say, okay, you got 70 times seven. That's your number. When in actuality, his point was it's infinity. That's right. He, God, he doesn't just decide it. He is love. He is forgiveness. It's into oblivion. There is no number. But I'm saying as human beings, we want to know exactly how many times. Remember the context of what you're saying, because Peter said, how many times do I forgive up to seven times? So Peter was putting a number.

That's why when Judge Kavanaugh was on the hot seat and they were looking back in his high school yearbook, his annual, and they were trying to see a little phrase where he wrote, looks like they were getting drunk. I mean, they were sifting through his life all the way back to Hasgoo trying to figure out one place that Kavanaugh had stumbled in his past life.

Now, just think about a bunch of human beings looking for one mistake, and if we find a mistake, we're not going to... And you will. And you will. We're not going to entertain the thought of forgiving you. We're saying you are out

and cannot serve as a Supreme Court Justice because you made a mistake. We found it right here. You were 16 years old, and you were getting drunk and messing with the chicks. So we got to bring you down. Al, that's a tough, tough, tough, tough. There's only two, there's two excuses from the world on why or, or, you know,

what they persecute Christians on. And they always come up with the same thing. You're all a bunch of hypocrites because you're going to fight because they're like, well, you, you sin too. That's always the number one thing. If they ever, that's right. I'm giving them. We're all thinner.

I'm giving them my past. I'm giving them my past up front on the front end, getting high, getting drunk, getting late. I've told them all this. as the way I was because I want them to understand. It goes with the territory. I know I'm out because of my past behavior based on your litmus test. I can never be anywhere.

I can't serve in Congress, Congress, I can't be the president. I can't be anything associated with government because you have to be perfect in order to make the cut. I haven't. I've, look, I'm out. I've never been drunk and I've never been high. And the only sex I have was with my wife. You might be a Supreme Court justice, dude. But guess what?

I'm no better than you. That's what the religious world don't realize. There you go. I'm out. So you could probably find something. And somebody said, well, yeah. And they're going to use that as an excuse for them not to come to Jesus because they're saying, because you have sin.

And the other thing they do is, well, how come bad things happen to good people? Jason, I'm glad. Jason, I'm glad I had turned to Jesus while you were still a very young little boy. And we had time for me as a father to point you to him. Especially you, Al, you were a little old or 10. Maybe that's why you turned out to be the product of son. Yeah, I watched mainly your past. It really wasn't the encouragement after that.

I just had seen your past and thought, that's dumb. I'm not doing that. Jay's when they found that girl in middle school that you co-cocked that time, that would knock you out. So you're not a part of the idea. You struck a woman. You struck a woman. Not only did I strike her, I K-Oater.

But I want to tell this story. Why did you knock the woman out? Look, I'm saying that- You all are saying a woman. We're in like fifth grade. Yeah, well, first of all, she wasn't a woman, fourth or fifth grade. So what happened? Why did you get it?

Here's what happened. She was the best-looking girl in school, and I liked her. And I thought she liked me. And, you know, I wasn't sure, but she kind of made fun of me in front of some people and an argument ensued. What I didn't know was she was, she was like that was her way of saying i like you but i thought bad idea so i started making fun of her you didn't understand right females at that time no i didn't i was in the fourth grade yeah

we're getting younger at this story so she bumrushes me because i i made a joke in class the teacher stepped out of the class and made a joke and the whole class laugh she gets up out of her chair and just bum rushes me and she starts swinging at me and so i just put up my hands because i thought i'm not going to hit a girl, but she started swinging harder and harder, you know? And just as a reflex, I just gave a short, quick jab to the chin. And she literally just, the life went out of her. And she fell to the floor. And I thought, oh, my goodness, I'm in trouble.

And so I get sent to, because then the teacher walked in, there's a girl in on the floor. And they're like, he just hit her. Well, forget the 40 punches I took. See, context matters. I walked in the back then this would make people feel warm and fuzzy. I walked into the principal's office and he said, I said, the girl ran to me. And when I said, I punched her, he said, lean over that table. And I didn't even know they were in the capital punishment.

This is a public school. He pulls out a board this long and just wham, wham, right in front of the whole class? No, in his office. Did it hurt your self-esteem as you got older in life? No. So I thought, okay, don't hit a girl, even in defense of yourself. Now, here's the funny part. And then they sent a note, you know, back home.

And he said, if you don't give this note to your parents, I'm going to whip you again. So I gave it to y'all. Y'all whooped me. So you've even forgotten this. I got whipped again. Yeah. And so then I went back to school the next day. And then the girl, we make up and I wound up.

She became my girlfriend. Yeah. She was my girlfriend for the rest of the year. So the punch paid off. It actually did. Because she felt bad because she started the altercation, you know. And so. But for the Democratic Party, that one lick, that would have cost you a seat on the Supreme Court.

You know what? I learned my lesson. You do not hit a girl in the fourth grade. Look, we don't have enough of that going on in our society. We need people in the fourth grade who defend themselves and hit a girl to get their butt whip twice. You know, because then I'm. I learned. The Democratic Party would be against you taking a licking because you knocked the girl out.

They wouldn't go down that road. That's out. They would just simply tell you you cannot serve as the Supreme Court justice. You shouldn't have hit the woman. You're out. I shouldn't have. My point for bringing up the story is that's the importance of context is to know something. Nowadays, like you said, to nail somebody, you just go pluck something out and then we just destroy them.

And it doesn't take much. It doesn't take much. I mean, just. But you also forget I was nine years old. Go find you a nine year old and look at them and say, oh, you were that age? I was nine. And everybody was and has stories. That's the point.

But if you didn't have a relationship with God, if you didn't have that and you didn't walk by faith in the Lord Jesus, what he's done for you, what he's now doing, what he will do, deliver you from death itself. If you didn't have that, why would you want to forgive anybody anyway? Well, you don't. And that's the- People don't. And here's the problem.

And if it's based on law, here's what- We've lost our ability as a country, half the country. They can't forgive, Al. No. And that was Jesus's point in his day. You remember he kept arguing with the Pharisees because he'd say, you don't even know what you're talking about. He's telling these people who are experts in the law.

That's what they claim to be. Top of the- But then what happened was, as we're seeing in our society today, you can take the law and twist it into whatever you want to. And Jesus dealt with it then. That's why grace is more important. And remember the context of what we're talking about. The Chilled these Hebrews were at the base of this mountain in Exodus.

And, you know, God in his infinite wisdom, he put on quite the show. The cloud comes down. Moses is gone for 40 days. They don't know what's going on. And fire and smoke. Fire and smoke and lightnings. And here's what he told him. He said, you don't even touch the mountain.

Yeah. You put one foot on the mountain. I'll strike you dead. So he created an atmosphere of fear when he brought forth the law. And we find out when we go forward, as your point earlier, Jays, you come forward and you read what the Hebrew writer says about in Hebrews 12,

and he makes that comparison. He says, you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire and darkness and glue. He paints that whole picture. He said, you haven't come to that mountain. You've come to a different mountain

when he's comparing to Jesus. And then he says, you come to Mount Zion. He describes what that's life. The first one was motivated by fear. Fear. Law and Jesus, the grace of God is motivated by love.

Watch, when the people saw the thunder, Exodus 2018, and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance, which makes sense,

and said to Moses, speak to us yourself, and we'll listen. but do not have God speak to us or we will die. I didn't want to hear his voice. Like a thunder coming off of that thing. Moses said to the people, don't be afraid.

God has come to test you so that the fear of God, this is the given of the law out, will be with you to keep you from sinning. And that hailed for about 1,500 years before Jesus finally came and fulfill the law. and saved us by grace saying it's i think we've made the point when he said in you know

in glacians where you started where he said now that faith has come we faith in jesus we are no longer under supervision of the law right then it says for all of us who are baptized thank god for that closed ourselves and the coloshans too says the same thing he canceled the written code nailing it to the cross and it by the way it brings up baptism there it's like everything coming together you have christ you have used surrender to him and then you now are no longer under the law. But I Googled this, and we can end here because this is kind of comical. But what people do in the religious world is they can't help it.

They try to do it themselves, number one. So, you know, how many laws have I kept? And if I keep most of them, I'll probably be all right. And then they get to that church building, and not only do they have a law-based system, they make laws about what happens in the church building. And look, I googled. you know, church laws, bizarre church laws, because I just want to see if I was right.

I'm going to just give you all a few of them. But in Delaware, you can't whisper in church. It's against the law. No whispering. No whispering. And look, this is not like pass law. This is on the books. They could call 911.

We got a whisper in here, and they take him back. So if you can't whisper, but you can talk loudly, you can speak normal or? I'm just giving you the laws. In Massachusetts, it is against the law. to eat peanuts in church. Any church bill against the law? No peanuts.

Somebody wrote that up. In Mississippi, a private citizen may arrest anyone who disturbs a church service. It's a law. If somebody's disturbed as a private citizen, you can make up. What is it? Citizens are in. Yeah. In Nebraska, it is illegal to sneeze or belch during any church service.

In New York City, it is illegal to break wind. in church, if it is deemed to be done with the intention of causing a disturbance, you can be arrested. So your motivation for farting is called into question. And listen to this. In North Carolina, you may not. It is against the law to have sex on church property, even if it's between a man and his wife.

I thought that was just absurd. I'm trying to. All right, hang on. I've got to come. I'm trying. All my years of pastor, I caught a few. In Ohio, it is against the law to kill a housefly within 100 feet of a church building without a license or permit.

To kill a what? A house fly, a fly. You can't kill anything, but I just, I noticed housefly was in the grapeing and I picked that one out. Well, just you can stop there, Jay's. I have two more. Phil. In Texas, it's illegal to go. to church in disguise.

In West Virginia, no clergyman may tell jokes or humorous stories from the pulpit during church. So I put in parentheses, that must be a dry humor county. That was a joke. And lastly, in Alabama,

it is illegal to wear a fake mustache or beard that causes laughter in any church assembly. We are, we have just been relegated out. What was that Alabama? Alabama. I will simply say this out and we wonder we wonder why more people do not follow Jesus. That's why I brought it up. I did it for a lesson I was given on grace and because look you know what disturbed me the first question I asked in this class I got up and I said how many laws are we under as Christians as disciples of Jesus and I opened it up to the crowd. I got everything

from well over a million down to one. But you know what I didn't get was zero. We're not underline. And I read these verses and I thought, I think we've missed something here. Yep. We've missed something. The law had a purpose and we missed it.

So human nature tends to want to go back. And that's what we're studying in Exodus. And really the context before we ever got to Mount Sinai, remember the people want to go back under slavery. We're hungry. We don't know what we're doing. It's that same thing as we bring forward. People seem to be more comfortable with law rather than not with law.

I'll just look at the United States government and look at the political parties and look at the extent that they will go. Rule upon rule upon rule, upon regulation, upon rule. Well, we need the rules, but within the context, of the overall big picture is that God's grace wins out. Once you understand what he did through Jesus, that's a way better motivation to do us right. No doubt.

And you'll have the laws there as guidance. That's why I brought up the analogy with your kids. You never put the law above the person. You never do that. You realize it was intended for the betterment of that person. We just take that law and enforce it no matter because there's no Jesus. I love the law of faith in the Romans 3, the Apostle Paul brought up law of faith.

You say it's a code of regulations, but it's not dependent upon keeping every last one of them. It's understanding that you are putting your faith in the grace of God. And that's what we've sort of lost in our current culture is the idea we have laws for governance, but there's something called common sense is the way we would describe it, which means you have to understand people have to come above. So good lessons to learn from the Old Testament.

We're kind of going forward. As Jay says, it's a great picture because we're trying to make everything relevant but at the same time show you the historical nature of the Bible and what it does for us. So great stuff. Next time we'll sort of advance the story as the Israelites go forward. There's so much to learn, but only in how it's relevant to us, which is the most important. This is just a thumbnail of what actually happened back there. Just a little bit.

I'll tell you, I love what. walking by faith. Yeah, me too. I love it. I do love it. I just love it. It's nice not to sit around and worry every day about in or out. Yeah.

Versus whether I'm keeping the law flawless or not. So that's kind of the whole point. So we're glad you tuned in today on Unashamed. We'll see you next time. We are so glad you're watching and listening to the Unashamed podcast. Be sure to like us on Facebook, subscribe on YouTube and iTunes. That's going to keep you up to. today with all the new episodes and it's also going to let other people find out about our

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