Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 262 | Jase Faces a Tough Crowd in NYC, Climate Change & Playing God, & an Elon Musk Prediction

Episode Date: April 19, 2021

Phil and his crew may have bent the rules for the sake of the kingdom when they filmed in Greece. Jase looks back at the street preaching he did in New York City and recalls a TOUGH crowd. The guys talk about the creation of cyborgs and other attempts to make the ultimate man without God, and Al makes a prediction about Elon Musk. They also get into Paul's sermon on Mars Hill, the religion of climate change, and what it means that God isn't far from us. And Jase proposes a global God test. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So in the last podcast, Dad, you were talking about, we kind of kicked it off going back to Daniel 2, talking about the kingdom idea and sort of looking ahead to Acts where we are. So this, where we are in Acts 17 today, on Easter Sunday, Mike and I preach together. And, you know, Easter Sunday always going to preach about the resurrection in some way, you know, because that's, It's obviously resurrection Sundays, what we call it, because it focuses, which I like that. I like that there's a day, at least a day a year. But we had never used this, we used this text when Paul was in Athens to talk about the resurrection.

And because we're in the book of Acts in our sermon series, just like we're on the podcast. So dad at the beginning, we have a, normally we have a kid or a teenager. We'll read our scripture. We do a public scripture reading before our sermon every Sunday. So we'll have some kid up, you know, it's a good. good way to get people up in front of an audience and the reason we do it is I like it you know and plus it gives me a chance to interact with the kids I usually have fun with them but this Sunday we instead of doing it we said we got a special scripture reader today and he's going to be coming to us remotely

and so we pop in a video and it's the video of you in Athens on mars hill which we filmed for torchbear and which was dad's movie. If you've never seen it, you can go to Amazon Prime, or also I saw where you could buy it on YouTube, which I didn't know that and watch it. It shows the collapse of these empires, which we discussed last time. But it also gives you a little time frame. Right. I happen to go to Athens, make a movie.

I'm standing within 10 feet. There's a little placard there in it. It says, here's where Paul stood. A little square. Yeah. Among the rocks, it was a square thing and said something about the Apostle Paul. You know what I found interesting? I literally was standing where it was dead.

I was swept up in the moment. Well, you are. And it was really funny because we were. I had tried to, I'd say tried. I did. I just. You memorized the whole speech. I memorized the whole speech.

And amazingly, the words came to me without me saying, you know, what did he say in the verse? We were kind of filming it, Jay's. We were filming like guerrilla style because like you had all these permits you had to get for stuff. And some we did. But some were just like, oh, just going to. It was against the rules to film. Yeah, there were some rules that we bent, you know, for the sake of the kingdom. And so like we had our guys just because there's people with cameras everywhere because they're filming each other.

So we had a couple of our guys just kind of incognito. There were hundreds of people listening. So dad's got his, you know, camo. It's not straight preaching because you were in the wilderness. I walked over to where the cameraman said, walk him, and I looked down, I saw that plaque. And I looked down there and I looked around. I said, good night. This is where the apostle ball stood right here.

I said, so I just, I mean, we started to see him. He just, like, lifts his hands up and he just goes into the speech where there's these people like milling around and they all stop. A lot of military people all for R&R. Yeah. A lot of them. It's a lot of Americans. Did you have your bulletproof vessel? No, but.

It probably would have been a good place to have it. But I'm giving the speech, in my mind, to the Ariopagus via the Apostle Paul. But what stunned me, what stunned me is when I said, he's the pointer today when he would judge his world by justice, that he is given proof of this to all of him by raising him from the dead. And then it right below there says, when they heard this, some of them sneered. So I was getting ready for the sneering. But amazingly, when I'm first. I finished the speech.

And, of course, the powers that be said, okay, cut. And they're ready. Well, I looked around and everybody, I was looking at the film crew. And everybody was looking around like me because people wept. Yeah, and we're clapping. People were just between. Really? They were crying.

Some were crying and tears coming down their eyes. And others were just giving clapped. Because I was out in the audience. What was funny, Jay. And some of them were like, who is that guy? And then somebody said, I think that's that duck guy. You know, so, like, people are, like, recognized. They were trying to figure out what he was doing.

It was really, we had no explanation. I will say that, because I hadn't, this first I've heard this story, that probably the people, if you went there on purpose, you probably were. Wouldn't have worked. Right. No, I'm saying the people that you were talking to went there because they knew this. is where Paul spoke. So that's why I'm saying you probably had an encouraged audience. I don't think they were familiar with where Paul spoke and the history.

Some of them. Some of them were. They were going around and taking pictures. But when tears started flowing, I was thinking, well, they sneered at Paul, but they're crying when I repeated it. But I mean, if I was in Greece and I said, hey, let's go see where Paul spoke. I'm like, oh, I'm in on that. Let's go to Mars.

Yeah. The production crew ran up to me. then when I walked where over, they said like that and I walked over, they said, did you see that? Look at this. And I was looking around and everybody was crying. So what was funny, Jay, so it kind of clears out and we're still staying around and they're deciding, you know, you've got a film again for safety.

So they kind of repoed dad and then dad did it again. Well, by now we got a whole new audience, but the second audience reacted just like the first audience. I know. Well, by contrast, what I was basing this on, I was probably 20 years old and I went to New York. on a at some kind of youth rally type thing and so we get all fired up they broke into small groups we had events there with speakers and somebody in our group said let's do some street preaching tomorrow i was like i don't know what you mean street preaching they're like oh just follow my lead

so we go to new york city have i not told you this story uh-uh we walk out on the streets because There's people everywhere. You're a teenager. I'm a teen. Well, I think it was about 20. And, you know, the guy, he just started preaching, preaching Jesus. So I thought, well, all right, went in New York. This is what we're doing.

I'm going to try it. Well, the place I, because I love this Act 17, because I think it appeals to people who are, who have no concept of. God because he goes up there and you really think about the significance of this story on what would happen later with all the Greek mythology and this people are enamored with making movies about all the Greek gods and here they are in this place and he's like I'm I'm seeing your your objects of worship and what and here's one that says to an unknown God And I see that you're very religious.

Yeah. And he's like, what you deem as unknown, I'm going to explain to you. So that's why I've always gone here with people who have no concept of God. So is that the sign that you preach this in New York? Yeah, I got up and started preaching. And what I was going to say is, I mean, I was nervous. And people are just walking by. And it's, you know, it's a tough crowd.

And, you know, the first time I got to shut up you, moron, I thought, I'm telling you. You took it up a night. And actually after I was done, once you realize you could annoy someone, then you really went for it. It's hard to stop because, you know, there's no, we don't have a song.

You don't. There are several times in there when the Apostle Paul was like that. It said Paul raised his voice. Yep. I mean, you know, they were. holler. I mean, I deemed after the experience, this is just not for me. I think I'm going to go to the relationship and I'm going to share with people who. Well, now with the cancel crowd and the coronavirus, I don't know what would happen about, you know, they're too close together. I don't know

what they would do. I think the problem is I've been to enough big city since then now to realize that there's a lot of people walking around who you think is in that crowd. So when you're up doing that, they just assume, oh, he's a crazy, where's his sign that says, The end is near. The end is near. Yeah. Because I think they think you're one step away from an empty can and a sign that says. Well, I did notice back during the summer of Chaz, when the, you're.

In Seattle, they blocked off some streets and just turned it into their own little kingdom. A guy decided he was going to take the opportunity to go in there and do a little street preaching. The difference was in Chaz, when he went in there, they beat the fire out of, I mean, you know, somebody captured on film. He started preaching, and they were like these guys in Axe. That's close to the book of Acts. It really was. You know, the difference was. They weren't open to the message.

When I was in Russia and we, the same concept happened, but not on. purpose. It's like when we started talking, people would gather. So like we would be in a marketplace or whatever. Because you're Americans, they're interested in what? Well, they just would gather up. And you start talking about Jesus, the crowd got bigger. And so I think that's where the concept came from. But you know, in America, New York City, I'd love to see what happened now. Probably get a beating of some sort. Probably the same type thing. Yeah. Well, what struck me about about being there physically, which helped me in the, you know, Jay's, you talk about a lot going to Israel, help shape your mind around reading the Gospels. Awesome. Which I can't wait to go.

But in this case, Dad and I were there, you know, what happens is you're kind of just walking up this trail and everything's up elevated because the Acropolis. It's a large hill. Yeah, the Acropolis is above Mars Hill. So you're, so when Paul is doing this speech, it's above him up there. You can see it. I mean, it's the leftovers of the temple where all these false things were. It has an eerie look about it. I think that's the reason God chose this. Now, a lot of the idols that they would follow down to, a lot of them are on the ground, prone on the ground,

and somebody pointed one out. That was the Zeus, the Temple of Zeus. I said, yeah, there's old Zeus what's left to him. I think God chose. Roked in about three pieces. He just lay in there. If you believe his sermon is true, which we all do, you know, you mentioned last podcast that Jesus,

picked the right time to come. If you believe verse 26 of the sermon, when he says from one man, he made every nation a man that they should inhabit the whole earth, and he determined the time set for him in the exact places where they should live, and he did this so the men would reach out, seek him, reach out for him and find him. That also means that he came at the right time for his plan. if he's an eternal being and he inserts the earth and people on it according to his plan, well, then he realized when the proper time would be to insert Jesus.

If you believe all that coming together, I think that's why when we went to Israel, we were going for ourselves because I thought I want to see the picture of what I'm reading. However, what occurred was that everyone around me, they were then curious, and I mean the unbelievers. Everybody said they were a believer that went on the trip because that was one of the conditions for being on the free trip. But when they got there, they're looking around for answers. And so what it turned into was a presentation of Jesus. and now I'm pointing, instead of just sharing Jesus, oh, when he was right here, this is what he said.

Because mostly it was young people that I was with. And they were like, well, tell me more. Tell me more, tell me more. And all of a sudden, then they started getting into their life. But it occurred to me, this is why God did this, because it's relatable to humans. I mean, when you start putting all the pieces together, all of a sudden, it trickles all the way down to the decisions you make in your everyday life,

which led Jesus to a cross. Does this sound familiar? Hang on, Dad. Let's take a break. When the time had fully come, God sent his son born on the law to redeem those on the law that we might receive the full rights of son. Because we're sons, God sent the spirit into our hearts, the spirit who calls out Father, Father.

So you're no longer a slave but a son. Since you're a son, God made you an heir. When the time had fully come. Right. There was only God knows, he said, right there in the reign of Augustus, Caesar Augustus. How many times did Jesus say that in the Gospels? Oh, yeah. A lot of time's not.

My time's not here. My time hasn't come. Remember even at the end when she's hugging him and he's like, hey, not time yet. You don't have time. I mean, hugs are in. Everything was on a, uh, uh, time slot. Yeah.

Amazing. Yeah, which is to get us there. So one of the things that, before we get into the actual speech, in verse 18 of 17, Paul basically, you know, he's kind of doing his thing. He starts with the Jews. Then he's moving out to the marketplace. And there was a group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers that began to dispute with them. Some of them said, what is this babbler trying to say?

the other cities, needs to be advocating foreign gods, which I kind of took to me and it's like, like we don't have enough gods around here. Now this guy's going to come in with more.

But what I was going to make the point, I researched these two different philosophers for my sermon. And it was, I found it interesting that no matter what time area you're in, the prevailing thought will usually come to two sides. Yeah.

And the same here. So these Epicureans, their deal was they were much more about pleasure. nobody really wanted to work. You know, that's why they were all just sitting around talking about ideas, which sounds for me or today in our culture. Very much so. But so the Epicureans were all about just good times,

like the good times roll. It doesn't matter what you do. You know, whereas the Stoics were much more like self-control, the mind, the body is no good, kind of going Aristotle on back to that. Aristotle. So it's interesting, the two things that these two groups were known for just in terms of practical living, the Epicureans was just rampant sexual immorality,

usually related to worship of some God. And then the other side, and it didn't matter who you did it with. I mean, they come up with more ways. And so the other side, the stoics, you know what they were known for? Suicide. Suicide. Exactly. They'd get to the point where...

One of that sounds familiar in 2021. It's thinking about without God, and you're trying to live this, like, control life and not give in to your urges without God. And so what happened was they just kill themselves. I mean, that's what they were known for, those two groups. So I found it interesting. I didn't know that. That's very interesting.

I've always said it's because even in God's plan, and I think it says something about baptism, when you come to God, you're basically committing spiritual suicide, which is a positive in the Lord. You put to death the old person. But the world. Jesus died far your sins. You are now dying to your sins. That's exactly right. It's a valid point.

That's why I'm not shocked that in the physical world, because you got to remember, they're known, especially from Greece. I mean, they had all these gods. You had, if you look them up, I mean, Zeus, you know, was the god of thunder and Poseidon the god of the sea, which Hades, the god of death. We don't wonder where they got that from. But, you know, they just were trying to find the answers to all these problems. So you've come up with your own gods. And even in our society today, there's still, how many movies have been made about Greek gods? Think about it.

And all their philosophers leading up to, say, from 400 BC, when God was silent with the scriptures, But all these philosophers had come up, you know, Plato, who's Aristotle and then there were But all of their thinking, there was no Jesus. Right. But the time he had not shown himself yet. But isn't it interesting to Jason's point, they still had this construct of their gods being someplace else and then coming to earth and interacting with, because they, the gods would come down here, have sex with a human beings. in, and then they would create a demigod or a half human, half God. But their constructs, Jace, were a lot like Christianity pre-Jesus.

They were still trying to figure out how does God, how do these multiple gods interact with humanity? Of course, they've got into all sorts of craziness. And they justified all the immorality because they were all waiting for the big thing. They literally would strip naked and be a mass orgy right on the ground. Well, you had Aphrodite. Oh, yeah. She was a sex guy.

Yeah. When does the fun start? Because our guy did this. This is perfect legitimate. Hey, we're worshiping God here. But even in that, the stoics were more like, ah, that's a bad idea because they were all about intellect. So I found it interesting that even today, you have two prevailing thoughts, you know,

even in our society. I mean, we say left or right. We say progressive or conservative. It's usually politically, it's a couple of lanes that people find themselves. That is correct. It's the same exact thing. By the way, it's pretty interesting that he goes back to, you know, the age-old question, Jace, where did the cosmos come from?

Where did I come from? What am I doing here? Yeah. You know, is there any way out of here? I mean, all the questions were there. Right. He would just tell him, giving it the facts. Right.

And what's amazing is it's a half a page on a written document. Right. Just a half a page. Yeah. It covers the whole thing. from one end to the other. You know what I found interesting, physically being on Mars Hill. It ain't rocket science.

I don't know if you remember this, Dad, but there's been so many people crawling around up on that rock because it's just a rock, but that it's worn the rock down as slick as glass. I mean, you bust your tail in a heartbeat there. Oh, yeah. And that's just from all the people that for 2,000 years have been crawling around on top of that rock. They've crawled on top of that hill by the millions. I mean, because there were thousands. We saw thousands.

When we were there in the, uh, cropping. Ann on Mars Hill. When I taught Corinthians, I remember looking at the history of Athens. And one of the unique facts that I found was it was the world's first democracy. Yep. I mean, you just think they were searching and they were looking, and this was part of that. Which in the Romans came along and had a republic. And so then here we are, all these years later, with a Democratic Republic.

We took two things from those two empires. Then they had, I think a lot of the problem here is they had all this quest for the ultimate athlete and, you know, it's famous for the Olympic Games, although I don't think it was ever held up. I wonder if that has that thing to do with us. The ramifications of that in modern day, what do you think, how? By the way, all the Olympics in those days, nude. Yeah. They competed nude. I don't know why, but when I read the history, you know, what's one of the, you know, what's one of the.

That's a way to spice up the Olympics. One of the more disturbing passages in the Bible is, is it 1st Corinthians 5 or 2nd Corinthians 5 when it says a man has his father's wife? It's 2nd Corinthians, I think. And you're like, well, wouldn't it be hit? No, it's 1st Corinthians 5. It's actually reported that there's a sexual immorality among you and of a kind that does not occur even among the power. A man has his father's wife. So you're kind of like, wouldn't that be your mom or your step mom?

But when I got to read in the research, what they had going on to try to, they would take the best athletic looking people and match them to create the ultimate athlete. So when you start looking at it in that vein, you see how this occurs because they're like they were trying to build the way. the world's greatest athlete. And they would have these schools. They would, and basically they would breed, take the guys, and they would be apart. They'd take the girls, train them up. Then whoever's the two best athletes,

don't matter where you came from, what, you know, your cousin, your sister. Yeah. Oh, let's put them together. I mean, that's how they were. Eugenics. Yeah, that's how they were functioning, which is why this immorality was,

there was no moral compass for that, which was really. And they think they have a, they figured out a way to give us all immortality through these cyborgs, you know, put a chip in your brain, and the next thing you know,

you know, your parts break down for forever, you replace the parts and you got little, you got little, you know, for whatever, little electrical impulses coming from the,

and next thing, you know, you can have a world full of, and they'll finally get a high, to put on them so you can't tell them whether people or not. It sounds like The Terminator. Yeah. All these future.

This stuff is becoming, you know, Elon Musk or whatever the name is. He's coming up with some dudes. They tell me, I've never read, I don't have a... No, you're right. Because these futuristic movies, that's what they, they always assume that what technology is going to get reached a place. We can make our own immortal beings. Yeah.

Yeah, well, you like, when you get shot, you know, as long as you're not decapitated or something like that, then you can now go to a stall and they'll put something on you and it's, who, up, you're back going again. They can make another you pretty quick. You know what? For six weeks, we'll have another one. Let's take another break. You remember when this started that it was in the 70s with the $6 million man. Oh, yeah. Back then, $6 million meant a lot.

It wouldn't get you very far now. No. But Lee Majors, he was some kind of CIA operative or something. He got hurt where they put all these bionics in him. And then he was like they would have the music. And it looked like he was running really fast, but he was just in slow motion. The reason if you look at it, it said in the Tower of Babel, Babel, Babel, he said, left alone, there's nothing that they won't be able to accomplish.

We've gone. So he slowed all that down. but now you hear people talking about the one world order. They're basically saying there's nothing we can't do. If we all come together, it be the world order. And all these cyborgs and all this stuff, they said, we'll create our own immortal beings. I was reading it.

They're playing God one more time. I think it's in the UK where they can now implant a cell phone in one of your teeth. Yeah. So that you can get it all in. So I was thinking we might do that for you for Father's Day next time we go to do us. Yeah, that's all I need. They need to dub in just in the promo, $60 million. And change, like when they watch the reruns,

I always notice there's a commercial that sells outdoor awnings. And look, they won't do another commercial. They run the same commercial. But if you watch it closely, when he gets to the price, it goes like these Asian movies where they have his mouth. His mouth, they dub in a different amount. I'm like, make another commercial. You keep going up and edit that out.

And they're like, oh, Bob, next year you want to edit in $2,500. So what they're doing now is they're trying to make their own offspring in the speech the Apostle Paul gave. Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone an image made by man's design and skill. We're going big into man's design and skill in the year 2021. In the past, what God said about it, the Apostle Paul is doing the talking for him.

In the past, God overlooks such ignorance. But now he commands all people everywhere to repent. We're back to it again. For he has said a day when he would judge the world with justice by the man he's opponent, he's given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead. They want to be able to do that out. Exactly.

They longed to do that, but they want to do it. They say, we don't need any help from God. That's why, by the way, nations rise and nations fall. It's their view or lack thereof of the God of heaven. They were trying to create the ultimate person. Yep. And that's why he was. They're still trying, Dave.

He was addressing it the way he was because they had all these philosophies. And for him to make them stop. think because really when you think about the questions he answered which is always i've revolved this sermon around three questions and i've shared it hundreds of times to individuals because when you think about how did we get on the earth that's question one what are we doing here and how are we leaving those three questions come to the forefront in his speech well if you're a human being no matter what you got going on, what's your philosophy, how powerful you are, because at this time, this place was rolling.

Those three questions stop them in their track. Now, granted, some sneered, but you get to the end, but some put their faith in it. Well, they had everything, when the apostle Paul gave this first century, they had everything but one thing. They didn't have the technology. Well, lo and behold, 2,000 years later, they do have the technology. But it's the same mindset.

We're God. We don't need to bow down to anybody, you know, to give us immortality. We'll make ourselves immortal. You know, I'm neither a prophet or a son of a prophet, but I'll make a prediction. Elon Musk, he's going to go on the ground. That's it. I mean, he's done some amazing stuff, but at the same time, at the end of the day, people are still facing the same thing, technology or no technology.

Well, that's what people fail. You can do all the research you want on it, dude, but in the end, they're going to have your funeral. Don't forget that. I mean, someone's going to be speaking. But you know, look, Al, we've met a lot of celebrities, a lot of powerful people. And you say, well, what do you do around them? I ask them the same three questions that I would ask my plumber or the guy I meet on the street.

I'm like, they're fairer questions. I would say, how do you think you got on the earth? And hear what they got to say. Yeah. And I'd say, what do you think you're supposed to be doing here? And they'll come up with an answer. usually they have the first two they have that worked out in their mind that third question is the one that usually stops them in the tracks yeah how are you leaving because the the obvious answer is

in a box and just unless you're hoping technology will somehow come along or they'll say my spirit and and i think they have the same response that these people is like we want to hear more on this subject. That's right. You think? If you can answer those three questions, you have my full attention. I don't care where you came from or what your pedigree is. If you have an answer better than what I've come up with, you should, you should pay more attention to this.

So I would, I would compare the current, one of the current philosophies that's very similar to what Paul's doing with here in our culture is this thing about climate change. I mean, it's a religion of these people. I mean, like, it is the, but why? Because we're going to fix the planet. You know what I'm saying? I mean, we cause this, they say, and now we're going to fix it. And we're going to do it by carbon emission. We're going to do this.

But they say, because you've got to leave it for, I mean, I'm being fair to what they're going to say. They're like, we should preserve it for future generations. That's basically their catalyst because there's no. I'm telling you, I'm saying there's more than that. I agree. And I agree with that. We're conservation as ourselves. But no, I know, but I'm saying it's a religion to them.

That's, they want to be God of the planet. If you have nothing else to do. Which is my point. And you don't know how you got here. But they're like preserve future generations. Okay, great. Until it all burns up. I mean, I want to preserve it for future generations because I want them to hear about Jesus.

This was God's plan. There's a way to explain how you got here, what you're doing here, and how you're leaving. but if I didn't have any explanation for that, well, it would have to be a religion. What else is there? Right. What else do you have? Maybe marks in the beginning, oh Lord,

you laid the foundations of the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish. They're not going to save it. They will perish, but you remain, you, God, remain. they'll wear out like a garment you'll roll them up like a robe like a garment they will be changed

but you remain the same and your years will never end the Hebrew writer when he hit on that one you're like wow in the world boy that was a thinker what are you talking about so yesterday I'm watching a... You can't save it because he said oh it's wearing out it's going to wear out like a disc cloth

a used dishcloth and be gone but you remain so we look forward to a new heaven and a new earth. And the men, it's not the one the men created. It's the one of the Almighty said, I'm going to wipe this and away, give you another one. The home of righteousness, which has no tears, no pain.

But it's perspective. Let's take no pain. It's perspective, though. It's like you think about the time you spend, I mean, this is a terrible illustration for us, but a time a lot of people spend, like gardening and having their yard look great. I was saying this doesn't apply to the three of them.

Well, I'm just going to make a point here. I didn't own a lawnmower for 50 years and someone said, well, what are you going to do about the grass? I'm like, it'll just fall down on the ground about the fall of the year. Because look, I'm for all these things. I'm for recycling. I'm for, you know, having a nice looking yard. Clean up after yourself. Yeah.

Yeah, and I'm for not having pollutants in the air. Oh, good night. Look, let's do all this. However, I'm saying you could give your whole life to that. And you could have the most spectacular yard and you've recycled everything. And then all of a sudden, in like 10 minutes, we could have an earthquake, a mudslide, the whole state catch on fire. Heavy rain. Well, this place is so volatile.

It's a reminder that, look, we can. do all this stuff, which we're all for. We're all for this. But you better have a bigger plan in mind, because this place is volatile. There's meteors coming by. How many doomed day movies are there out there? We're running on the planet. It's a tsunami. This thing is going to wear out no matter what you do or it just explode. I mean, an earthquake when you see it defies what your mind can even process. So I'm like, yeah, let's do all that. But if you put your faith and trust in the earth or eliminating climate change or something

else is going to happen to the earth and you're not going to be a part of that. I'll hear some expert talking about, you know, this is an existential threat. You know, we've got 10 years to the planet's going to implode, whatever. And they give the stats, the CO2 coming out of here and there. And then yesterday I'm looking at some island, St. Vincent. And there's just a volcano just, I mean, just belching out all this carbon and everything that's coming out of it. And all people could do was get out of the way.

Run. And I thought, there's your, how are you going to stop that? I mean, you talk about all your carbon emissions for your country. Well, that's what I'm saying. in their speeches, they say, can you imagine, I've heard them in their speeches say, oh, can you imagine if you go back before, you know, humans screwed up the earth? I'm like, no, there were still volcanoes going out. There were still floods going on.

And I mean, this is a volatile place, which all it does is show you that we're perishable and these things don't last. But if you could get in a real tight relationship and being good with the person who made this, who controls the atoms. Yeah. If you could pull that off, then you wouldn't have to worry about it. If there was a person,

and if you could get in good with this person. If you could pull that off, Jace, you will rest peacefully. Yeah, you won't. That's my point. Well, I spend all this time worrying about it. You can't control. Once you give that control to the Almighty,

you don't take it back. Yeah. It's like, I trust that he's going to take care of. And the other night, it's 3 o'clock in the morning. I meant down to the southern layer, John and Paula were upstairs. And it literally sounded at 3 o'clock in the morning like somebody, there was a whole group of people on my roof with sledgehammers, hail that came through on the storm.

It hailed in my house, too. Oh, my goodness. And look, I mean, Paula comes running in my bedroom. You know, at least had already gotten up. The women are just going berserk, you know? And I just kept laying there because I thought. A situation becomes a crisis when cattle are women. Stampi.

I knew that. I knew that quote was going. So Paula comes in there and she's saying something, but I mean, I'm just kind of half asleep because I'm thinking there's no point getting up. I can't read, you know, it's just hail. And she's like, Lisa, Lisa. And I said, she's already up. You know, we're just yelling at each other.

And her and Lisa just looked like the Keystone cops. They stayed up all night. Well, what's the running around going to accomplish? Exactly. John and I never got out of the bed. And I was like, what do you go? It's a hail storm. Yeah.

I mean, it's a bad one. But look, down the street, there's three. miles away. So these are these hailstones were about about quarter size that were hit my house. Pretty big. Pretty big. Putting some dense in the car. But about three miles east of me, look, this big. They just, they were out there, local people out there. They're looking at these car, you know, there's all these spring breakers down there at the beach. Look, their car, in the parking lot, they're all just smashed. Every back window smashed out. Whoa. Every side window. I mean, look, there were, there were holes in those windshields. And they were.

biggest softball. And I thought, man, I'm glad I wasn't down here. I mean, I just missed it by three miles. But I thought to myself, what are you going to do? It's crazy that it's going to come across. Nobody got killed. I mean, if a softball hits you in the head. All I know for sure is if you research the Bible pretty carefully, you go back in time.

And between the pandemics and the hail brings that up, hail and storms and weather. And the Almighty says, no, well, I'm going to control. all that. If you look at it that way, you're like, y'all are right. I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a turbulent piece of real estate. It is. And, and look, but when you ultimately trust, you know, and that was his point.

Some of these other planets out around us, they just show you how volatile this thing could get. That's right. I mean, you know, these, at least we can have these lives of gas on out there that are planets are going around and align with us. You said, they're checking them to see what they can find, Mars looking around. They got the rovers over there on Mars. They're looking around like, whoa, this is one dangerous place or a piece of real estate here. That's right.

I think in his... It can be worse, way worse than planet. I think in his sermon, I mean, you just think about some of the terrible agendas that he just eliminated. One is when he said in verse 24... Yeah, that's where I was going. That the God who made the world. He's revealing this unknown God. The God has made the world and everything in it is Lord of Heaven and Earth,

and he doesn't live in buildings built by hands. If we just eliminated that from society to think that God lives in buildings, temples, synagogues, churches, however you want to characterize it. Because the church, we know, is made up of people. Because he later on confirms that when he says, says in verse 29 when he says since we are God's offspring

we should not think that the divine being is like gold, silver stone or image may. He's not, he makes that kind of stuff. He's not, that's not where he is all about. By the way, James, what would be your answer? Hang on, Dan. Let's take our last break.

What would be your answer when he said from one nation, I mean from one man, God made every nation of one earth. He did this. he made human beings so that men would seek him. In other words, he made the heavens and the earth, then he made human beings. And the reason he made human beings is so that men would seek him

and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he's not far from each one of us. Is he saying, look, I'm gonna send you the one that will direct your path. I'm gonna send you the way that will direct your path. you the way. You know, Jesus said, I'm the way. I'm going to send you the way to reach me through a person. He's going to live.

He's going to stay 33 years, 34 at the most. He's going to die on the cross, be buried, raised from the dead. Is he saying just one step of faith? You believe he exists. Start there. And he'll reward you if you earnestly seek him. Is he saying you can find him? But he's not way off like you don't know who he is.

I've sent you written manuscripts on him. I've given you a historical basis of where he came from. You know he's there. You have the history. Why don't you just take the step of faith? Is that what he said when he's not far? I think he's saying, which my answer would be John 118 when it says, because he said, I'm going to proclaim to you the unknown God.

Yep. So then he gives some principles. He doesn't live in buildings. Well, to them, they're all. that's where they thought he was. Yep. Oh, he's in a son of God. This is holy.

This is the holy play. And they're still doing that today. Yep. Then he says, there's no racism. I mean, because he said from one man, he made all nations of men. No favoritism. Well, they thought they were the best. Yeah.

Because we've had all this genetically altered, you know, race of people that are the most athletic and the greatest and we're the smartest. No, we all came from the same place, so forget that. And then he starts explaining how they're getting off, which is going to be the resurrection of Jesus. But to quote the verse, John 118, no one has ever seen God, which is why you were bringing up the faith verse. But God, the one and only son, which we know Jesus,

who is at the father's side, has made him known. So if in his sermon, he's saying, I'm going to make known what you view as unknown. I know from John 118, Jesus is what makes him known. So that's why he went down that vein when he got to the end. And he says he's given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead. Well, who's him? that's why their theme was proclaiming Jesus. But now look, is it hard for people to get, wrap their head around that?

You're going to explain all life's problem through one person who was from Nazareth. Yeah. And ain't nothing good ever come out of there, according to them. Right. I think he was saying as well that God is not limited by time and space, whereas their gods and what they knew were limited. by time and space. I mean, they created most of them. So I think he was showing the infinite nature of God that he's everywhere, and yet he's also somewhere because of Jesus. I mean, that put him

in our proximity. So I think it's both. I mean, because, you know, this relationship in the Godhead with the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit, is really interesting in all the dynamics of God. It really is. I mean, because you think about the ones the Jewish people would have recognized Yahweh. But he's not beyond reach, is what he said. He's not beyond reach. Right. Because all these other things, you're reaching and you're clawing,

trying to make sense of where it all came from. What you're doing here is there way out like Jason's talking about. I mean, that won't answer the question. I mean, he's right there in front of you. Right. What? He's hiding in plain sight. I guess he is.

Remember, to the Greek audience, he's explaining the whole big picture. The Jewish audience, they get Yahweh. They understand him. But they just can't buy Jesus. So he's got two different people looking at them. You remember when Paul Ville, the Holy Spirit, wrote in Ephesians 4, and he was explaining, you know, unity in the church or however you want to categorize that he makes this famous statement.

And we all focus on the first two verses where he says there's one body, there's one spirit, there's one hope, there's one Lord, there's one faith, there's one baptism, there's one God and father of all. But then he adds a little statement that you're like, well, wait a minute here, that says there's one God and father of all who is over all and through all and in all. You're like, what? So I think the point is when he says he's not far from us, you know, okay, One is he's introducing Jesus, but he's also looking at the earth as far as this is all an extension of his power.

Whether you believe in him or not, oh, he's in you. Even in people, you know, when I see a doctor or he can be a non-believer, but whatever skill he has or, you know, I just picked a doctor, but I mean, a guy, you know, run the forklift or whatever, whatever people. whatever they can do, I see God in those people because I believe God created them, and he's given them their abilities and their talent, whether they acknowledge him or not. So when he's looking at it like that, he's not far because you actually have been given this, whether your acknowledgement is irrelevant. And I believe that the same way about space, the earth, the stars. That's what makes all these texts come alive when he's in.

Ephesians, and rightfully so, he said, surely you've heard about the administration of God's grace that was given to me, the Apostle Paul is talking, for you. That is, and he says this about four times in a little short space, the mystery made known to me by Revelation, he was struck down by the creator of the cosmos and had a little session there. You're like, it was made known to me, but it was a mystery prior to his arrival. By reading this, then, you'll be able to understand my insight into the mystery, there it is again, of Christ, which was not made known to me in and other generations, but it has now been revealed by the Spirit of God's Holy Apostles and Provin. This mystery, that's three times, is that through the gospel, Jesus' death,

barrel, and resurrect, the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together one body, And then he goes on down the bottom to make plain to everyone that the administration of this mystery, which were ages past, was kept hidden in God who created all things. His intent was that through the church, that'd be through the three of us, the manifold wisdom of God should be made on to the rulers, the authorities, and the heavenly realms. You get to read these things over in Colossians. What does he say? I've become its servant, the gospel, by the commission of God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness.

The mystery now we're in Colossians. I was reading from Ephesus that has been kept hidden for ages and generation, but now disclosed to the saints. That's the three of us seated right here. We're like, along with a millions of other people. Really? And look, if you say that mystery, it begins to unfold, you're like, So he's not far from each one of us he sent Jesus to bring us close, to bring us as part of him. But you look at it that way, you say, boy, what a mystery that he unveiled 2,021 years ago when Jesus showed up.

But to take your theme, he said in 27 of Colossians 1, I'm going to make known the mystery of the glorious riches of the mystery, which is Christ in you. which who made God known. You can be part of the, and that's what he was saying in Acts 17. That's what he was saying. But you have to be searching. The only prerequisite to a human being is you've got to be open-minded enough to at least listen to the possibility that Jesus is real in the image of God. So that's why I think, to the dad's point, I think that's why Paul would always start out in a synagogue. in one of these cities.

He was an envoy to the Gentiles, but because he had been converted out of Judaism, he wanted them to always hear at least once the truth. Because he kept thinking, you need to hear what I heard. That's why when we look at the unbelieving world now and back then too, it was a mystery. Yeah. Well, here's the newsflash.

It still is. That's right. To most. Well, I think here's all, I'll end with this. I think, you know how you have to, everybody has to take the ACT test to see where you're, where you're going to fit in. I'm in the middle. I'm in the middle. Well, look, I think we should go a global God test. Everyone on the globe should take a test, call it the God test, and there's only three questions.

How'd I get here? What am I doing here? And how am I leaving? Everybody goes in there and answers the three questions. And then you, you can, you can, uh, you can test it yourself. Because if you don't have a good answer for those three, Bomp! Find some answers. Search. Thanks for listening to the Unashamed podcast.

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