Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 239 | Phil Robertson's New Boycott, the Secret to Good Coffee, and Jase Finds Freedom in Florida

Episode Date: March 10, 2021

Phil is done with news and sports. With more time for TV Westerns, he realizes how many of them are fueled by one essential ingredient: coffee. He shares the secret that revolutionized how he makes coffee, and it's got nothing to do with coffee beans or water. Jase heads to an event in Florida, finds a packed venue, and talks to a 10-year-old cancer survivor he prayed for five years ago. Jase also experiences another travel mishap, but this time, his shirt saves the day. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? Everything centers. I've not watched any of them that didn't bring up. It's a coffee made. You're going to make us a cup of coffee. Do we have any? I mean, and it's like gold when they were traveling out across the West and fighting in between skirmishes with the Indians. You said, you got the coffee made? Yeah, I sit down and have cup. Coffee was a big deal in all the movies the way they're portrayed. Now, why of that, I'm not quite sure, but it's in every one of them.

You might have stumbled up on something because I used to say most good movies that I've seen, they start off with water. Somewhere in the opening scene, it'll be water. And I'm like, here. But now you're saying it's coffee on the western. Think about it. We're traveling across the wilderness, taming. the West. I'm trying to figure out what kind of train they had hauling the coffee out there

because they all had it. Every last one of them, I don't know whether they're just in the movies or really they drank a lot of coffee. But how did you get there in the middle of nowhere in a covered wagon? Make sure you got the coffee. No coffee, no trip. No coffee, no trip. Where is the coffee? I'm going to now put that into every, because I watch old westerns too. Have you noticed that? I hadn't noticed it, but You watch them. Every one of them has a coffee scene. Most of them, more than, more than three or four or five, six times.

No matter what, who was getting killed, stringing them up, we're going to go hang him, we're fighting the Indians, we can't cross the river, break out the coffee. I do remember that in the office. Quite a bit of liquor, but it was coffee and whiskey. Those were the two motivating. food stuff that you had to have if we're going to tame the West. I've been watching right here. So where are you going?

See, it's a coffee. The coffee. All right. We're in the wilderness of sin, and you say, did y'all keep the pot going all the time? I will say this. Every Bible study that I've had in the last, I would say, what was the centerpiece?

10 years, I get my Bible. They're like, they're on their way. Yep. And I make a pot of coffee. There you go. No matter what the hour is. There you go. Whether it's midnight.

Arras are raining down from the bluffs. But you in there, you got the coffee. A lot of bullet holes in coffee, coffee. The bucket. That's where the bullet hits. They're all gathered around the coffee. Shots rang out, you know, good night. They got a coffee pot.

hold it now i would have said a pot of beans probably more than the coffee because you remember those that is the coffee maker you remember the trinity is that what i'm here you remember the trinity movies yeah this is what started this i came in here and we hadn't been here in a couple days and somebody had put way too much coffee in the coffee part and and must have been the new guy The new new guy. Yeah. Was that you? No, he wasn't here last time.

Okay. So then when I opened it, it had like carterized into just something that's, because we put, we've told this before, but you put as much coffee as possible in the filter. As much of a hole. Almost running out, running over. I mean, in fact, we could do a whole section about how you came. about the world's largest coffee filters, which you gave me a thousand of them,

and I appreciate it. But I've looked across the globe for them, and somehow you got them. But I had to clean that out, and you were, I don't know, the next thing you know. I put a man on that task, Dan the eunuch, and to his credit, you know, when I looked at what he,

he had two boxes. I mean, it was huge boxes. Oh, I couldn't. enough coffee filters to last the rest of my life. He got them. And I gave some of you. Yeah, when I went down there and you, like, had him in a secret hiding place and you brought him up. He has thousands.

Thousands. Dan. He handed me a thousand. I said, Dan, you reckon that's enough to hold us? He said, well, I thought that you didn't want to run out. I might say, well, I said, I'll tell you what, you did well. But it took him several weeks. Yeah.

I mean, ow, it's such a supply. Dan is like, Dan is like Red on Shell Shank Redemption. He's a man who knows how to find things, except the difference in Red and Dan

is Dan knows how to find things in bulk. And bulk. I mean, this is, the amount he has is like a will-leaving amount. It's like the land, the houses, there's tens of thousands.

of oversized coffee filters up under the bottom three cabinets where you usually put pans. No, it's coffee filter. I couldn't believe it. I was like, the man has acquired. We're not running out of coffee filters. In this life or the next. If you stack them on top one another and it stands up that high, that's years. Well, Phil, but when you handed me them, I'm so excited.

but it's revolutionized my coffee-making process every morning the last month since he gave them to him, because you're not going to fill it up. So you, and it's a lot cleaner because you don't have what this happens. What happens is we want strong coffee, so we put as much coffee in there. But the filters are like so small.

Which may be why, like, restaurant and convenience store coffee is so weak, because they don't have big enough filter. It's not the coffee, it's the filter. Won't hold enough coffee. Won't hold enough coffee. Yep. And so, well, we corrected that problem.

So we will. We need to add that to our Western wares is to notice the coffee. I was going to say about the beans because those trendy movies, you know, dude's always eating not, but he always ate the whole pan of beans. Yeah. And whether you're acting or in real life, if you eat an entire black iron skillet of beans, that's impressive. And he did it in like 60 seconds.

And I thought, boy, I'd hate to be on that set the rest of the day. Yeah. Well, I think about around the old campfire, you know, after about an hour or two of that, all the old cow hands, that's close turned into something not pleasant. And you remember on, you know, they would let us on the TV show when we did it for five years. We would be ourselves and do the scene. And then the famous deal is, can you do that again? Yeah. And so at first we tried, which they never ran.

For safety. They, they, yeah, but after a while, they would say, can you do that again? I said, no. And we moved on. That, that was all of that. But can you imagine them saying, can you do that again after you just ate that whole pot of beans? I mean. And you know something else, Dad, you know, around the world, because I've done a little travel, people around the world, you know, some countries do, but they're not in love with coffee as much as it is here.

you know you find it like in in south america and some of the south america it is it is it is it is it's big but phil what happened but you go it's tea and tea in europe you know they're all tea drinkers you know like hot tea yeah i love the tea but they get offended when you ask for ice which is frustrating you can't find ice can't find big filters in america you can't find ice in Europe. No ice. And they're offended if you ask for it. But I like my tea over ice. Asians think that ice is a killer. Ice is a killer. No, no ice. None, none. Yeah. Really? No ice on anything. It's a killer. Well, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they're lipping fruit. They were like, you know, ice tea. They say, that will kill you. Well, Phil, you've defied that. Yeah. I drink about a gallon of that.

You're living proof. That's not true. Well, didn't you say that... It's funny. We all had... I was going to say that micro-bobobics. We all have ice makers, like huge industrial ice makers in our house. Didn't the microbiologist tell you that the ice in the tea actually does something that enhances the taste, the radiational cooling or something?

Well, I've heard that, but I mean... I thought you told me that. Well, I might have. wasn't it Stevenson the guy that told you that? Yeah, somebody told me that. He gave me that info. Okay. Well, you want to get us a coffee?

I'm going to tell you about, look, I got my cup. I got a Yeti cup right beside the, you want to make the coffee? We'll just keep going while you get the coffee. Yeah, all right. I mean, the coffee's made. I was going to tell you about my trip, unless you have something else planned, Al. No. I'm just laughing because we're the only podcast in America that,

opens up talking about Western coffee and then dad gets up and goes and makes coffee during the podcast. Well, Phil. Nobody else is doing this. No, I made the coffee. He just, he was so wound up about the Westerns and the call. He had noticed that, which I'm glad he's off the news. I said that this morning. One of my metal detecting buddy sent me a picture of what he had found this Saturday.

And it was, he found a couple of old coins. And we had this big contraption. And I said, what is that? And he said, not every day. Do you find a manure spreader at an old house? And I said, well, you can find that every day by watching the news. Well, I thought it was clever. I'm off.

I have boycotted all, I would say, 98% of all. sports, all news media, all TV shows meaning newscast. No, I couldn't take any more of it. So I just retreated. Now, we down here in the South, throw the coronavirus in you want to. That's fine with me. over through the recent election

which I thought was a bummer but I just boycott it all of it and it occurred to me that the centerpiece of all old Western you say so what actually do you watch all the episodes that Matt Dillon made

gun smoke is gun smoke they've got it going it's still making money to this But I noticed in all Western movies, I only watch the Westerns 99% of the time. Old Westerns, you pretty well know how they're going to end. It's always good and evil. And the good, the vast majority of time, the good win and the evil loses and nearly every one of them.

And it's the same thing there. But the centerpiece of all of them is what I have in my hand right here. here. There's not a Western I know of that does not have multiple scenes of individuals drinking coffee as the West was being tamed. In other words, the eras from the Comanches are flying by. You're over behind some rocks, but it all started when y'all were just sitting there having a cup of coffee. All right. I'm going to see if that's true. I mean, drinking coffee, so what I'm thing trying to figure out is I know how we get it. We ordered from people and they send in black rifles with us, wherever they are in them and the coffee. But how in the world did they get

that much coffee? As it's portrayed in westerns, we're going to drink coffee at least 10 times during the making of this two-hour film. We're going to have a lot of scenes where they're sitting around a coffee pot. I'm embarrassed that I missed that. Every fight you ever see for people are hurt, it's a fist fight. The coffee pot's in the middle of it. It's getting knocked over. It's stoned in somebody's face. Coffee is the centerpiece of all westerns.

I'm going to look. I watched an old western last time. So in reality, do they have a wagon train that's hauling this coffee as they tamed the west? Because they all had it. Or did they just get at each town? They got them a 50-pound bag because, you know, we got 20 drovers out there working the cattle. And every time they look up, they come over there to the wagon. And the cook there, he's always a strange acting fellow.

But they all have beans. They eat beans and drink coffee. That's what won the West, coffee and beans. I'm with you. I'm convinced you, right. I started watching an old Western last night. It was a Spanish Western. They talked English, but half English, half Spanish.

Was any coffee drinking scenes? Well, here's what happened. The first five minutes, I turned it on. it was I was getting I didn't think I was sleepy but I turned it on and it was this old boy and he was at a bull fight that's kind of how it started

and then they had caught there was a prisoner they had with just his neck from the neck up out of the ground they had buried him you know and they were they were setting all the stages and then the guy who was at the bullfight now he's at a poker game and well he noticed he was looking at the dice

kept rolling the same numbers so the dealer he got his pistol out and he handed him a glass of water so it wasn't coffee and he said drink this and then as he was fixed to drink it

because the guy was looking around like what he dropped the two dice in the cup and so the guy is drinking the water and the dice are like he's struggling and he gets them in his mouth but he's like he's a he said out of your mouth.

So he had his pistol and he shoved those dice. And he, and so they were setting. I thought it was a great scene, though. You don't see Westerns like that anymore, and that's what I was going to say. What's the last time you've seen a great Western? Well, they quit making them.

They did. They quit making them. I would tell you how this ended. Let's take a break. I would tell you how this ended, but five minutes later, I was asleep. and when I woke up, the credits were coming. So I need to watch them.

Well, you take Matt Dillon gunsmoke. You might as well get ready. When you watch these 30-minute little shows, they always had coffee and they always had whiskey. Whiskey and coffee. That put together, that combo won the West. Coffee and whiskey. Well, I think they were doing that too.

what's the word to be an apposition because if you drink too much whiskey you need some coffee counterbalance that's what I was like well let me remember that so they would they would come into town you know you'd have the the cowpokes and then they would come into town to get provisions and while they were in town they'd slip over to the saloon so they had their coffee they were taking back to the camp but they were getting them a little hooch at the uh at the old saloon that was kind of the setup for you got a member phil back then the average life expectancy was probably like

38. So I'm not sure. I don't know whether the whiskey finally got them. I think the whiskey. Or too much coffee or both a combo of both. But it was a lifestyle of

get up in the morning, hit the coffee. When the sun goes down, get on the whiskey. Well, I'm going to make you feel better today because the reason you stop watching the news and all that,

you have these moments in life that you just feel like are, a profound moment that's a game changer. Al, you preached on that yesterday, which was spectacular. It was really good. Oh, did you see the sermon?

I showed it to, I wanted dad to see it too, because since I did his video in it. Well, that was, was that off your show in the woods? Yeah. I might start watching that. I didn't know that's kind of stuff y'all were doing.

That was excellent. And I thought it was a creative way to share, especially in our modern world and people watching online. I mean, that was riveting. And I knew that we had researched that chapter on the podcast, which is helping you preach. Because some of our ideas...

Oh, yeah, you did. I put your questions in there, which are really good. Well, and you focused on another one that I did, which, by the way, I had written down, which was the why question, which was amazing when you did that part. It was awesome. I have found myself at 74, and I'll be 75 in April if I make it that long.

If I have no aches or pains anywhere in my buddy, maybe coffee has something to do with that. Who knows? No pharmaceuticals, none, zero, no pills from a local joke store, none. I'm off of that. I'm like, no, I'm going without the news and pills. We're learning a lot about it. and any kind of political wrangling, any kind of political wrangling on any of the news media. None.

Don't take in that, don't ingest that. So I have found myself at 74 boys completely and utterly wrapped in Jesus, the Son of God. That's good. His story, it convicted me, jumping off of Saul or Tarsus, you say, you know, what a change in a man's thinking. Amazing. And he's allowed, being an ex-murterer, persecutor of the nth degree, he's allowed to God, God's speaking through him through the spirit to write down most of what we read. It's incredible. about, but nearly all of the New Testament.

You just wouldn't have thought God would pick out that kind of person. It is a riveting. Hey, hey, Jay, let me plug to the audience where they can find what you're talking about. So he's talking about a sermon I preached yesterday. If you go to WFRchurch.org, you can watch that sermon. And it was called from name changer to Ganges. Let me give you a better plug than that. Look, I will guarantee if you go watch that, you will thank me.

It was also, even though we're brothers, and I'll tell you if, you know, if he lays an egg, I'll tell him. I was like, not one of your bad. That was spectacular. So would you call it laying an egg? Yeah, sometimes you lay an egg. I haven't heard that term. Yeah, you do a lot of preaching. You do a lot of preaching.

You're going to lay a few eggs. I'm not sure what that means. Well, just, yeah, I don't either. So dad is in the woods with Phil, which is on Blaze TV. which is his show. He did a two-parter on this same thing, and I showed a little bit of those episodes in my sermon. But I loved it.

The K and those guys were real creative. The name of Dad's episodes are Better Not Call Me Saul. And for those in the audience, you two won't know it, but there was a show called Better Call Saul, or I think it was Better Call Saul. Okay. So he did a little creative thing. That's a little cheesy.

But it was creative. But since the name of your lesson, is, what was it, game changer to? No, from name changer to game changer. Oh, name changer to game, because he went from solid Paul. Okay, I'm just now getting that out. But that was spectacular, very well done. But look, I had some good news that we got to chase some rabbits here.

And I think goose egg is the zero when you have the goose egg lay an egg. Yeah, I got you. Oh, like a zero. Yeah, it hit me. So I wanted to give you some good news. I think maybe the last time I was here or time before, I told about the trip that I took that was not good. You know, my troubles with the airlines.

Oh, yeah, the flight. I do want to report that when I said, they said, you're not going to get a refund. I said, keep it. They actually fully refunded everything. I don't know if they heard the podcast. And your advice was keep it. I said, keep it.

because they didn't want to let me off the plane. So I just wanted to say, I appreciate the refund. Awesome. Great. You didn't have to do that. I was getting off the plane. But anyway, it was a depressing story, and I gave you the pulse of what I thought America at that moment.

It was filled with fear and a lot of anger, and people were just coming unhinged. I just took another trip, and I wanted to share this, and it's really good news. I went to Lake City, Florida, which they said was known as the gateway to Florida. My opening line was enter through the small gate. I thought it was funny. They didn't laugh, but when I said, I thought that was funny.

They didn't laugh. But here's what I want to report. I had no problems getting there. And so I get there, and they do, you know, how it goes. we do a little VIP meet and greet and the people just kept coming and I thought where are these people coming from? Because I was expecting then this age of coronavirus and the fears and the last trip I took that I just didn't think it would be a big crowd. And I go out to this to the arena after the meeting greet, which was a lot of people. And this place is packed.

there were over 800 people in the arena that ceded 800 and I'm not sure how many other people were around let's call it a thousand there were zero mask none and this place was raucous in a good way I mean raucous they had a phenomenal worship team contemporary worship group saying graves in the gardens you people that listen to this kind of music you know well that I heard that I was back in the green room they sang one song I wasn't familiar with and then I heard the oh I searched the world

I'm like let's go right now so I went out of the United States where you're in I would say north to central Florida I'm not sure where Lake City is yeah Lake City Florida I said which which explains why there was there was freedom there Jay's Florida, you know, DeSantis opened up Florida pretty much, you know, full throttle a pretty

good while back. And they've been doing great. I mean, they, and they've got the population centers just like New York and California. But he realized that, you know, you don't have to just stay locked down all the time. He was one of the original ones. Let's take, hey, Jay's, let's take another break. I wasn't aware of that. But I didn't want to say this, Phil. Look, this event, they were, I think, raising money for, they have an outdoor ministry where they, take teenagers and young people and they go to the outdoors and they hike and boat and i watched a little video of it and they you know they try to share jesus with i mean okay and for that many people to show up which i looked at the guy putting it on i was like where all these people come from

well here's what i can't figure when all this started the the coronavirus comes out of China and and the havoc that it it reeked across the world. I said at the time on the Blaze TV that it came from China. It comes from bats, these cave bats. They know that, we know that much, and it either accidentally or on purpose. came out of one of these Chinese germ warfare labs, accidentally or on purpose. That's the way I left it.

But you got that from the news. So who knows? Yeah. So I just looked enough to say, that came out of China. What I can't figure out is I didn't wear a mask at any time. I never had a mask on. But Phil, you're not a, you're in a little.

I know. Well, I'm just telling you the quondrum that I have noticed. I never wore a mask. I never caught the virus. I said, well, you might have had it, but you didn't, not. Yeah. Some doctor showed up. Somebody sent him down there.

I didn't call for him. I didn't know he'd be coming. So this doctor rose in. He said, Phil, some of your family members or somebody sent me down here to see if you and you and Ms. Kay are doing okay. Yeah. So he sticks this thing up. nose and gets a swab takes a little blood from my arm he said i'll get back with you in a couple

days on this two days later he said we swabbed you we got blood out of you you've never had coronavirus you don't have coronavirus now and he said so i think you're good to go well i didn't put on a mask after that the only time i would meet with anybody is the sons and daughters of God go there, give them some words of encouragement like we do here, and then I'm on back to the house. I never caught it. Yeah.

I'm just looking at it saying, I was for the mask, you know, during when we were trying to figure all this out. But at this point, I mean, we're here. But I wanted to finish my story. Look, when I go to that event, the first person in line, is a 10-year-old kid with his mom in the VIP room.

Big smile on his face, had a suit and tie. Comes up to me. I was like, boy, you got the front row. How did you get first in line? And he actually had a duck commander hat. And he said, I want you to sign this. And he said, do you remember me? Which is always tough when someone says that.

We talked about that. Yeah. I'm like, you seem familiar. Hang on, you have this hat, but we didn't sign it. He's like, well, my mom sent a request for y'all to pray for me five years ago because I had cancer. And I just want you to know that I'm five years cancer free, and I wanted to thank y'all for praying for me. There you go. Well, I got kind of misty-eyed. A little for clumped.

Yeah, I stopped the proceedings, and we had a talk, and I wrote Matthew 1926. I couldn't remember my, I was having a brain cramps. I had to go get my Bible, and I'm looking it up. I said, I'm going to give you a little word today, you know, and it's that verse that says with man, this is impossible. They were talking about how hard it was for a rich. So the kid motivated you. Yeah, well, I just thought, well, this is why I'm here. Let's get that out of the way.

I don't know what's fixing to happen, but this is awesome. His name was Mason. And so we had this moment, and then I go out there. Of course, I'm the energy from the people that were excited and all the people. I probably met 250 people in the VIP line, and they were just all excited and happy. So I introduced Mason in my opening one minute. He was sitting on the front row and his mom, and I told him what happened. And I said, you know, here we are, and people wonder what, you know, this is dangerous.

All of you gathered up in this close proximity. And I could tell during the worship, a third of the people were worshipping with just no regard to anything. I mean just they were getting it. And that I'd say two thirds, I deducted either they come from a more conservative church or they don't have a church. because I could tell they were noticeably uncomfortable about these this many people. And so I kind of went through that a little bit. I was like, don't feel awkward or nervous. We're just excited.

And I went through the benefits of being in Jesus. I brought up the resurrection. I brought up Mason in that we pray. Now the world may say, oh, he just got lucky. Or, you know, fantastic doctors, which, look, we do appreciate the medical world. but we also look at this in his mind. He's like, yeah, I had some fine doctors, and I got members of the Duck Commander crew to pray for me,

and I'm healed. I want to thank God. Why are you there? Why are there? A lot of letters are poured in. I want everybody to understand. It's 350 million of us here. Just think about it now for a while.

In the computer world and all that, which I'm, to this day, I'm never on the cell phone, never clicked on a computer. No computer, no news, no political range. Yeah, I'm not searching the Internet to find out what you said, good or bad. None of that. I don't have it. But I will say, every time these letters come in, the names change, but the stories are all the same. I'm tangled up over here.

I was tangled up over there. I'm fixed to be tangled up over. There's a lot of, there's diseases, there's early deaths, there's early trouble. there's alcohol, there's drugs, there's this and that and the other. Just remember, we are praying for these people. I want all the listeners say, we pray for them on a regular, I personally pray for them on a regular basis. I know y'all do too.

And just like that story you talked about like the kid, there's been how many stories like that. So all of you out there in computer land, just remember, it's a lot of people with a lot of troubles, and we're on the earth and we're hearing about immortality here, we're pointing you to the one who can give you life and immortality.

Well, that's what I was going to say. Get you past death? You don't have to fear that. But just remember, you said, well, I wonder if they would say something and if they would answer me, there's too many of you. There's too many of you.

So look, our lifestyle is regular prayer on your behalf for your uncles, the ones who's on booed, them too much we're trying to help him he's an alcohol we're praying for all of you as much as we can all the time we're aware of what's going on out there just know that but we can't like be get contact each one of you they're not going to be offended what you got out that's just don't say let's take a break all right well let me finish my story so here's what i

think because then i i led that into sharing jesus to the crowd it was well received and it made me think from the world, this seems ridiculous. I mean, I'm sure they're like, you're putting these people at risk. And I'm like putting people at risk. I just got a five-year-old kid who's now 10 who has gone all in on people that have prayed for them. And now we have all these people that have gathered from all across this community. And we're talking about things that are way more important. impressive than the things that cause the fear, the panic, the anger.

And so what it made me do is after that trip, I thought, because I realized that, that I, you know, when I shared this story, I would probably get raked over the coals, you know, for like, oh, I cannot believe you are all gathering up that close together, you know, worshiping God, wink, wink. I mean, this is ridiculous, you people. But we believe this. So I was just thinking, what are the greatest American accomplishments? You know, you think about coming up with a vaccine for this, and you're like, it's great.

But when you think in the history of America, I thought that's something I need to Google. So I did. And what do you think they were? The top 10 greatest accomplishments in America. Let's say how many of y'all name. well the ability to break the sound the sound barrier on fast moving aircraft we just got off the ground at about 1908

there was a couple with aircraft related all right so you got two of them right here 100 years from the right brothers to go to Mars that was number one going to the moon went to the moon uh yeah anything else the internet was actually on there yeah so you mentioned that Car. Car.

It was like number three. Yep. Breakthroughs with medical, medical technology. Yep. Phone. A few medical. There was one, I think, you know, when it said, you know. The cell phone, which replaced the walkie-talkie.

That's a jump step upward. So you got the gist of it. They say. So look, I took the 10, here's my point. You take the 10 greatest accomplishments. You only have to read three or four verses. We put our faith and trust. If you take each of those issues,

you're talking about calling people. You know, our last podcast, he just came over and saw, he just saw, saw, he didn't need a phone. He just spoke and they thought it was thunder. I would say, compared to a cell phone, this is this is not even

something you can wrap your head around so you say well okay well the planes he's literally transporting and leaving and going to places we can't even see and when you finally get to the moon well he made that

and can make it has made hundreds of them throughout the universe so I'm like when we get together and we worship God and we celebrate him answering prayer. And when we introduce Jesus and realize that transformation in their life can happen, and I mean, that's something that sure you can go to 12-step groups and you can do things and get counseling,

but we've all seen the power of Jesus being shared and the transformation that happened. And sometimes in an instant, you know, I think about Mack Owen. I mean, he goes from just drug, craze, he's bam and now he leads one of the biggest groups of helping people

overcome that years later and you said what I have an introduction to Jesus so all I'm saying is when you look at it from that perspective I mean it just warmed my soul I'm like now this is the group that I want to be a part of this right here to me it was a little

touch of heaven of us despite all the pandemonium going out there in the world for those of us who were in that crowd that night oh i'm telling you it was inspiring i felt like i levitated to the hotel room and even in the next the next day and i'm on the plane which you know i'm going to tell this silly story because it was just totally different and i tried to go to one of these uh these little clubs when you have a long layover because people noticed me because i had the camo and i didn't have a change of clothes even with the mask people and it was getting

out of hand. You mean, you get noticed when you're wearing chemo and you don't, you haven't shaved or bath in a few days? Yeah. People know it's me. Makes sense. It happens, Jason. My assistant said, go to the club.

I can't, I don't know what those things are called out. Sky clubs. It's an airline club. Yeah, you go in there and you pay, I didn't know what it costs. Well, it costs $75, which I was like, whoa. So here we go again, take two. You have to have an American Express call. that I still don't have to get in the club.

I'm trying the old debit card again. James, I was about to say you're going to have to have a credit card because at least not go into them all the time. Hang on, let's take one last break before you tell the story. So now I'm... Why is this battle never ending? Because I don't have them. Because you don't go anywhere.

It's a lot. Over a debit card. This is good news. Why not just call the debit card and get what you need? But you got to remember, I'm levitating on the power of the spirit in this experience, right? So I had a shirt on. You know that yellow shirt that I wear?

That I think my wife designed that, that has the cross and it says, I am, and it has a verse there, John, I think it's John 8 or John 5. Yeah. It was, it was John 8, where he said, before Abraham was born, I am. Yeah, that's it.

It has that, well, I had that shirt on, I didn't know it had that shirt on. So the woman, an older African-American woman, she's sitting there, and I'm like trying to give her the card, and she's like, we can't, you can't. I was like, oh, I'll pay cash. No, no. I said, oh, she said, but you had the right shirt on.

And so I looked there, and she said, so it's on me. So that's more powerful than the debit card. I had a verse on my shirt, and obviously this woman, believes in Jesus and she thought and I mean look she doesn't know me and I look a little rough it's a wonderful thing when the sons and daughters of God are together I looked at and I thought well I appreciate it she said I appreciate you wearing that and she she started quoting the verse that was on my shirt and I thought now we're getting somewhere now we're getting somewhere I'm like, we've had a pivotal moment, a change from looking at it from the heavenly, from 30,000 feet.

Jayce, your dialogue, your dialogue, just a reminder on the atheist wing out there. They said, you know what they're saying? You talk about a bunch of idiots. Oh, I know. And look, check this out. So I land, I come back, the closest convenience store. to my house there's a guy from Europe there that I met

because I always stop in there. And since I traveled to, when I traveled to Ukraine, I told him about my trip, you know, because he has an accident. I mean, through the last few years, I've had many conversations with this guy and I've befriending him.

Because you know why? I want to introduce him to Jesus. And I've made little comments here and there. But that's gone on for years. And so I go in the convenience store because I always want to stop the same store right by my house, whatever, you know. And to get whatever I need it, I can't even remember now. Well, I'll go in there and I get the stuff and he says,

hey, I want to ask you something. My wife and I, we're thinking about coming and visiting your church. I was like, really? And so we talked about it, you'll like it. But it was just another little moment where I thought, man, Why, you know, why was I so upset? I mean, it's like I had one trip that it couldn't have gone any worse. And this, looking at it from a spiritual perspective, couldn't have gone any better.

And then when I get back here's the guy that you planted the seeds. Go ahead. I know exactly why. Because your trip last time we talked about it was just a treasure hunt. And not that, you know, you bring godly things into everything. But I'm saying it was, it was more. more for your own personal benefit and everything went haywire and wrong. This one you did for God in the kingdom.

This was a mission. And so therefore, God blessed you every step of the way. That's what I think. Maybe so. And I think some of its perspective, I think when you get really excited, you know, one of the things you can do to better yourself in Christ is go to these events where you know something good is going to be. happen in your spiritual life. I mean,

you remember the first time they used to have a workshop or like a conference in Tulsa that we went to. And I remember the first time I went, because to me, we're out here in the country. And our little church that Phil and them started was what, 50

people maybe? Yep. And here I am in, you know, my later teenage years, I'm trying to follow Jesus, but you feel kind of alone when you especially go to a public school, you're trying to live for Jesus. I remember the first time I went there,

and how many people would be in that arena? I don't want to misspeak. 30,000, 40, something like that? That wouldn't be quite about 8,000 to 10,000. Oh, I couldn't remember. I just remember singing just as I am, which is an old hymnal from, what, a couple hundred years ago. I remember sitting in that arena for the first time

with those thousands of people, and I'm like, you know what, this is awesome. And I got teary-eyed just thinking, this is, we believe in this and it's good and true and holy, but there is some power in that. And I had the same feeling a couple years ago when Missy and I, and we took Mia, went to a worship conference in Nashville. It just, and especially everything that we've been through with the coronavirus and everybody being alone. And boy, I'm just telling you, I mean, that was a long story to say that that trip was. phenomenal. I mean, I am fired up and I thank the people who were there in Lake City.

I made the same. I noticed that, Jay's. I've been noticing even at our church because, you know, we've been meeting back for a pretty good while, but even meeting just like part of a group and we're in this big room that normally holds, you know, three times, four times as many people are there. And, you know, and most of our, most time our church has been fairly open about not really super worried about the virus other than, you know, some aren't depending on their circumstances. But I've just noticed it's hard to get that what you're describing, that excitement, enthusiasm, because it's awkward. You're not sure.

Somebody has a mask. Am I making them uncomfortable? You know, and so I think now that we're kind of advancing along with the vaccinations, I guess, I mean, it just feels like to me, it feels like the old spirit is back. Like yesterday when I was preaching, people were responding. during the sermon, they were laughing more. It was just like, it just felt like they were more. You know, even our worship yesterday on both sides just seemed so phenomenal.

I mean, people just, I think there's a relaxing of that about people getting together. I think you're exactly right. Isaiah came up with an interesting, I read this yesterday. This was part of my lesson. And I was the old AC, D.C. movie, Highway to hell, the song they made down. There's roads you get on and paths you take. Isaiah 700 some odd years before Jesus said, a highway will be there,

these for the redeemed. A highway will be there. It will be called, check us out, Jay, in which you're on 2,000 years later, same road. It will be called the way of holiness. The unclean will not journey on it. It will be for those who walk in the way. wicked fools will not go about on it.

Where's that, Isaiah 35? Isaiah 35. Pretty cool. Well, it reminds me of when Jesus said, don't worry about the one who can kill the body, but the body and the soul. Yep. And look, we took our precautions.

We tried to help people out, especially the elders, you know, during this whole process. But you got to remember, there's something of greater importance out there that everyone on the planet, needs more than a vaccine and it's, you know, a cure for the soul and the heart. Yep.

And the Holy Spirit can not only, you know, heal, but also redeem and resurrect. So anything involving that, it's just more appealing. It's more appealing to me. And look, if you told me you're risking your life by doing it and all those people are risk in your life and other lives, I think it's worth the risk. Saul at Tarsus. I think you're right. Apostle Paul.

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