Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 317 | Jase’s Reasons You Shouldn’t Listen to Your Parents & Phil’s Amazing Softball Abilities

Episode Date: July 26, 2021

Jase and Phil explore their athletic attributes, including Phil’s incredible softball talent. Jase tells about some crazy golf adventures along with the interesting tales from the golf course. Al talks about giving yourself to God and being prepared for death. Jase gives advice to a Little League team that includes some unusual advice for children. And, Jase and Al discuss their wives cooking abilities and the impact it had on their neighborhood, especially Willie’s household. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So one of the things that you taught me, especially living in the outdoors, was, you know, when you live a godly life and you put your faith in trust in Jesus, you try to be creative in doing things that are good, clean, fun. Yeah. And so I've always done. You survey the landscape. You said, well, what's everybody up to? What can we do here?

Yeah. And try to bring glory to God. So, you know, later on in life, because I went through the stage, I mean, I'm always a hunter and a fisherman, and I visit God's grocery store. I take pride in that. And I was a competitor for years. So I played in all kind of sporting events, which I eventually got it. Another good way to keep you out of trouble.

It is. And another thing I've done is I've gotten into that metal detecting, because... Keep you out of trouble. Yeah. I mean, it's a good thing. Look, the last time I played golf, so I'm...

Keep you out of trouble. Yeah, we're playing golf. We're trying to put a ball in a hole in the ground. There's not a whole lot of ways to mess up. Because people don't view that as a sport, per se, because when you think about it, anything you can, you know, smoke and drink while you're doing, let's face it.

It's pretty much... It's not a sport. Throwing your golf club, either breaking them over, some of them break them, some of them slam the ground with them and break them. Some of them sling them out in the pond. So you can mess up and show out and pull some stupid stunt, even playing golf. But I'm just saying. Well, I was going to say this.

The last time I played, which was about a week ago, and it was the first time I played in a couple months, this guy. Be angry. and sin not. Well, yeah, I have seen people blow it. It's like Stone, our good friend, you know, I watched him play golf a few sessions, and I went to him and said, you don't need to play golf because he would get so angry. And I was like, you're not good enough to be angry.

And he said, what do you mean? It's like, to be, to get angry, that means you would have had to be good and not meet your expectation. You're not good. So when you hit a terrible shot, don't have a fit of race. Because it's of rage, it's never good. It's no longer good, clean fun. So I'm telling this, I'm playing a week ago, Al, with our friend Stapp, and he had a couple of his friends.

And these guys were, I would say they were about your age. And this is their good, clean fun. And so the guy who's really good, one of these older gentlemen, the club comes back and on the way through right before the crack of the ball against the driver face, there was a bigger crack that went, pow, and then boom, he hit. Well, I look back and he went, oh, his knee just popped in his three swing. As in, I need some help getting back to the cart. Yeah. And I said, well, are you going to be able to play?

Get an ambulance down here. Yeah. When I said, are you going to be able to continue? He said, no, I need somebody to take me to the ER. I've broken something in this knee. He's given, I haven't heard this story, but he's given new meaning to the playing a goth. Yeah, I thought, well, you know, I thought this was good, clean fun in a way not to get hurt, but upon further review, the older we get, two things are happening.

The resurrection looms larger, and you can actually break something, just swinging at a certain age. So I thought that was interesting. Jay, do you remember when your boys were there? It's been about four or five years ago. And Willie was there. It was five of us. We were standing on the T, number 14, at Calvert. And back in those days, they had these little flat rocks,

and they painted them a different color to tell you what T's you were on. So we were playing the blues. So it was a little flat blue. I mean, that thing wasn't, it probably didn't have a three-inch face on it. Oh, it wasn't even that much. They used rocks for the T-marking. Like you get in between the two little rock, but they're just little, almost pebbles, but a little bigger, flat rocks. Yeah, a couple inches.

So we're on the blues, but at the front of the T-box, about 10 or 15 yards in front of us are the whites. And there's a little flat rock there. So I go back, and I hit my drive, I hit a driver, and I hit just a low scud. that hit that rock came straight back and hit me about three inches from my crotch right in my thigh. Yeah. And it was, here's what it sounded. When you said that, it made me remember that. It went, p'paw, it hit the rock.

But you got to remember, and then it hit me. We were all there, and I'm looking for where the ball is because your club had speed, well, I was going to say 100 miles an hour, but I'll maybe 60. He hits the ball. So we're all looking this way. Did it leave a mark? Did it leave a mark? Oh, my goodness.

So look, so what happened was it went, and they're all looking up. Well, I'm standing there like I dropped my driver and I just put my hands on my knees and the ball is right there in between my feet. And so everybody looks down the fairway and then they all look back at me and there's my ball and I'm just sitting there with my hands on my knees

and then I start laughing. And then we just, all five of us fell out on the T-box laughing. It's the hardest I've ever laughed playing golf, which is the definition of big clean fun because, you know, now he came close to having some kind of redneck de-neck. I almost got, I almost neutered myself. Yeah, he almost was neutered playing golf. You think, how does that happen? But it did.

By the way, my whole dad, my inner thigh from the knee to my knee to me. my groin was solid purple. I mean, deep bruised. And there was a contusion with the golf ball, right where that golf ball hit. And it was there about six months before it finally healed up and went away. Man, I mean, you can't hurt yourself buying golf. Which was my point, which is why you get in, I noticed that now that I'm metal detection, and, you know, we're fixed to shoot this, the pilot show for that and see how it goes.

So no guarantees they may look at it and say, what, this is. this is not going to work. But I noticed most of the people who do this, they're old. So I'm getting old because you finally get to a point where you're just walking around. There's gray in your whiskers. Yeah, it's happened. Yeah. And I didn't do that.

It kind of creeps upon you, Jason. Yeah, it creeps up on you. So I'm running around with the old timers. And I think it's fitting because evidently I'm fixed to be a grandpa. which is kind of weird and sobering. But tonight, look, I have a real strange request. So one of my buddies that we actually play golf with, Al, his son, he's 11 years old, they're to the point in baseball where they're going to the World Series.

So how that works, you're in a league, you play, and then you play, what is it, the regionals, and then you win the state. Well, now they're going to the World Series. the way to the World Series. So he asked me to come say a few words to the team, which I thought was strange, but he's my buddy. I'm like, he's like, well, just because their mindset, we want to have their minds right. So I'm like, okay, so I'm going to go after their practice before they go,

wherever they go off to play the World Series. So what do you tell a bunch of 11-year-olds? who have made it to the World Series, how do you get in their mind? What would you tell them? I wouldn't even know where to start. Really? I wouldn't.

11-year-olds, I just said that. Suck it up. Here's what I'm going with, and y'all tell me if I'm wrong, because I thought about that. My first question was to him was, well, why do you want me? He's like, well, you've coached baseball before, kids. I said, yeah, I am.

And he said, I just feel like we need some spiritual guidance, which I thought, okay. And so what I thought I would do is say, number one, this is the only time. This trip is the only time where I don't want you to listen to your parents. Because my thinking is they're way too emotional. Now, because they've been all the way to the World Series, you need to listen to your coaches. and you need to play for each other at this point. I mean, by this time, if you've made it to the World Series, you're pretty good.

So then I thought I would also say that everybody's going to be good up there. So when you get in any kind of competition where everybody's good, you have to enjoy being there. Because now the room for error is basically, you know, you may strike out more, you may give up more hits because you're playing better competition. So you're going to have to deal with overcoming, especially in the game of baseball, that you're going to fail. And so I thought about asking them, how many of y'all have made mistakes or failed during this baseball season,

which hopefully they all raise their hand if they don't. We'll talk about lying. But, you know, baseball is a game, which it's good, clean fun, but you also want them to know, that baseball is a game about overcoming adversity. So did your speech work? Did they actually? Well, I'm doing it tonight. I'm practicing on y'all because I think you might get it.

Yeah, I'm doing it tonight. So, I mean, I just thought about things that are good, clean fun. I think baseball, especially when you're a kid, falls into that category. Yeah. So, and then, of course, I'll get to the spiritual side. No matter what happens, it teaches you about overcoming adversity, teamwork, you know, playing for each other. I mean, things like that, which ultimately, you know, if God is...

If you lose, we'll get them next time. Well, the fact that you made it here, you need to enjoy it. I'm trying to lower their expectations. So anything else are y'all like where I'm going with that? No, I love that. And I especially love... Look, you see that at the professional level. When you see a team come together and they seem like they're enjoying being in that moment,

I mean, they're the ones that almost are always successful. When you see the tight ones, you know, that they're, you know, they had an expectation they were supposed to be there. They're the ones that usually fail. So I love the idea that when you're at that level, don't say do we belong. Just have fun. Yeah, I think that. Do what you've done. I do think you have to, when you get at big stages in competition, you have to slow everything down because it tends, everything tends to speed up.

You take for granted that, oh, I got to see the ball and hit it. You just get up there and all of a sudden, you're facing. and greater competition, but the people, even on the kid level, that tend to slow everything down and just treat it like a normal baseball game, those are the ones that are successful. Most of the problems emanate from those type contests, young boys like this. Most of the problems come from their parents, not them. Yeah, that's why, look, that's why I'm saying. You might not have the greatest direction when, like you say, the parenting, they need to kind of just chill out a little bit here,

let the boys play well there's a rule that always follow was that the parents should cheer the coaches coach and the players play when that gets out of whack oh you got people fighting uh somebody sent me a video the other day that was i mean they were little league and it was some championship game and next thing you know there's haymakers being thrown by the two coaches who are parents But what stroke me watching the video is the kids were just looking like dumbfounded. Like what's happening? Your speech might have been better received and it would be better for all is to make sure give the same speech to the parents. Well, right.

Yeah. You know. Yeah. I mean, that's a little easier in saying this is at one time where you don't pay much attention to your parents. That's a pretty good advice. You know what? Little League Baseball, you could say, look, your parents get a little bit bent out of safe, but you all stay cool. You know, just remember, you know, you got to get.

Well, I think blocking out the noise, blocking out the noise at that age means this is the one time in life where you don't need to listen to your parents. That's right. I think that's what I'm going on. I think that's a good line. I like that. All right, I'll let y'all know how it turns out. That's pretty cool. Let's take a break.

May they win all their games and go to on to be the world. Greatest Little League team. But if they don't, they should be. Be thankful you got that far. Well, that's right. Once you make it that far, the room for error and the parity is there. So you just kind of kind of have it go your way. Yeah.

Enjoy it. Just remember it. Just a game. Well, that's right. So I'll lead that into the real game of life, you know, putting their trust in a little something more sustainable. the Almighty. Actually, it does make a good spiritual application because when you think about it, you know, that's what happens in your spiritual life is people become the biggest deterrent many times to how you view, how your attitude is, how you live. I mean, you let them drain on you,

you know, because their expectations are something different than yours. And so you start listening to all that chatter and all that noise. Sometimes you lose your way, which happens a lot of times. It would be good to remind them since we're fixing to get into Romans 12 that offer your bodies as living sacrifices. Well, a little baseball team out there on the field, you're showing everybody in the neighborhood your accomplishments. And if you are cool in situations where

their bases are loaded and you got two outs and they're best hitters at the plate, well, it's time for everybody to all right. be showing what this is about you know make the play yeah well yesterday i had a weird thing when i was coming back from south carolina they came over on the the intercom they were like jason robertson report to the whatever and i thought here we go and they had just said that they were overbooked by six on the plane and they were offering people it started off the bidding started off at five hundred dollars and it got up to a thousand

for somebody to let somebody else have their seat. And I'm like, how is this happening? And then they called me up there. And I thought, here we go. But, you know, I'm not taking, I don't care if they offer me a million dollars. I'm fixed to get on this plane. And so the woman said, we need to see your. I would take the million.

I was kidding. I mean, I just said 11 hundred. I just chicken, jays. I mean, you know. Yeah, I was embellishing the moment. Yeah, I may be late to the party, but. Yeah. No, if they had to said $1,500, I'd probably say, yeah, okay, I'll be a little late, babe. But so they said, here's the, because I thought that's what they were going to do.

I said, why did they pick my random name out of the hat? I was kind of making a judgment, which I was completely wrong on. So they, she said, I need to see your ticket, which I had it on my phone. And she looked at it, it was looking at me. And I thought, what is going on here? She's like, okay, scan it. So I scanned it. She's like, okay, you can get on the plane.

Well, nobody else he got on the plane. I was the first one on. I was like, why would they do that? So all the way down there, I'm walking. I get on my seat and I thought, why did that happen? That is strange. And so everybody else started boring the plane. Well, this guy's kind of limping.

He's about my age. And he sits beside me. And he said something about, oh, you know, he said, Jason. And I was like, I don't know how he recognized me with the mask on. Yeah. He said, yeah, I told them that I had just had surgery on my knee. And so that's probably why they called you. So I didn't have to step over you and all this.

And he was right. That was the whole deal. They were trying to accommodate this passenger, which then I kind of felt bad for judging them. But I said, well, I have to ask. I mean, what happened? And he said, well, he said, I used to play softball for years. And he said, I got asked. to play in a slow pitch softball game.

I said, now how old are you? And he said, I'm 48. And I said, that's probably a bad idea. Because I knew where this story was going. He said, you know, I thought, I'm playing with a bunch of old guys. I love softball. What could go wrong is slow pitch? He said, but when I hit that first pitch, he said, I literally took off out of the batters

box like I was shot out of a cannon because all these years are playing. He said, I took about 10 steps and just piao! He said, and just fell over in a hump. He said, next thing I know, I'm headed toward the ER. And he's like, you know, four hour surgery later, I'm limping around on a plane having to go ahead. I don't know when to hold them, when to fold them. That was so funny.

I said, well, I'm feeling better about my retirement and getting into metal detecting after hearing this story. Yeah, what ended my softball career up as I was up in the church league, you know, just trying to stay out of trouble. And I drove one deep in the right field, whom, over the head of the fielder. And I said, I may make it. I made the first second. I made it the third. I'm looking up there.

They're translating it in, getting the ball thrown up. And I'm running toward home plate. But I just noticed I'm barely making it. And I just, just dive, roll up in a heat. I made it. But I said, that winds it up right there. Well, the visual image. I made it.

Of you as an elderly man circling the bases in softball is just, it's kind of, I don't know, that's quite the sight. Oh, yeah. I decided right there, as I roll over on my back and I'm looking up at the sky. And I said, you know what? I'm too old to do this. Yeah. And this was full beard.

Oh, yeah. I never went back over. The dad was pretty, it was, our team was, our sponsor. We had camo shirts. You remember Jay's? Of course, we were all young. We were in our 20s, so I guess dad was in his 40s. But it was pretty amazing because we put dad in center field because he had such a good arm.

I mean, the first time he, somebody hit a ball out there, he threw the ball to third base. Oh, I remember. And it was rising. Yeah, it stopped the game. Everybody could you. You have an NFL caliber arm, even though it's the after years, playing center field. And when you threw that ball, both teams, because it just kept rising and it went over the third baseman's head. But everybody, it like became bigger than the slow pitch softball game that nobody cares whether we win or leave.

It's like, did you see that throw? It just was incredible. I'll never forget that. It kept rising. They went over the dugout and into the other. feel where they were playing behind us. I mean, that thing, you uncorked it, and I mean, I don't know how far it went,

but it went a long way. It was a throw that I thought, has it ever landed? It just, it was one of those things that you see in a professional, that only professional athletes can do. So yeah, I remember that out. That's weird. I just remember because everybody stopped right. What just

happened? It was like you had a cannon in your arm that literally went off. You're born with a good arm and they can't be made. Yeah, I saw one, born with them or not. Yeah. So, well, I'm glad that you turned that down. Dad, I remember another one where you were pitching and, oh, Marvin Stucky, who's not

with us anymore, unfortunately, he passed away a couple years ago. He was playing catcher. And there was a runner on first, and this guy hits the ball. He hits a gaper. I mean, he drilled it. And so the center fielder gets the, ball throws it to Bud Adam, who's playing shortstop, who also had a good

arm. And he threw just a strike, but you had drifted down toward the plate, and the catcher was there, but you just took over. You went to the plate. You took the throw. The guy that had been at first was coming in. You tagged him out. The guy that hit the ball was right behind him,

and you tagged him out. Double play at the plate from a throw from the center field. I'll never forget that. Because it was funny, you shouldn't have even been at the plate, but you just drifted down there and took the I guess you didn't trust Marvin to make the point. Yeah, I didn't think old Marvin was up to it. It was good, clean, fun until the body started falling apart.

I guess that's the theme of that. That's right. Well, and that's what happens to all of us, right? I guess that's a good segue to Romans 12 because it's actually about the body. It's kind of a transition, you know, because basically Paul's been making the case for the first 11 chapters about the gospel. and then how his own people miss the gospel because they miss Jesus. And then he gets to chapter 12, and he uses that word that you know he's fixing the transition. He says, therefore, and then he makes that transition.

But, Dad, you've observed that that's kind of typical for most of Paul's writings, yet he's going to lay out the case for the gospel in exactly what we're supposed to do in Christ. And then he starts talking about lifestyle. Hang on, Dad. Let's take a break for you. book that the apostle Paul wrote. If you just look carefully, it'll start out like Romans, Romans 1, called to be an appal, serve to Christ either. This is who's talking here. Called to be an apostle. Set apart for the gospel of God. That's the first thing he says.

The last thing he says in the book of Romans is now to him who's able to establish you by my gospel. he goes back to 1-1. On 16-25, he comes back and says the same thing, the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages path, but now revealed and made known, and that's what he's alluding to in Romans 12,

when he said, in view of God's mercy, he's saying, I started with the gospel, I'm going to end with it, and in view of it, here's how you roll. And he's saying that worship of God is a lifestyle, not a going into a place of worship and going away. And that's it for the week. He's saying there needs to be a lifestyle change in the way you view worship. It's not something you go to.

it's it's who you are at all times it's how you live how you operate how you get along with your brothers and your sisters and the world around you it's a big view now this is romans right after the book of acts so basically big picture starting with all the epistles you get to first corinth to the church of god in corinth sanctified in christ jesus called to be holy to gab of everybody. I always thank God for you. He's thanking them. They've received the gospel, and then it's how you live because of it. Second Corinthians, same thing. You get past 2nd Corinthians, and you get into Galatians. It says Galatians, I am shocked that you're turning to a different gospel because that's the fuel behind a godly life. But then you get

to Ephesians. This is what God has done for you, Chapter 1. Just start. There's the gospel presented. Then he gets over by the time you get to chapter four. Therefore, this is how you should live. You should no longer live like the Gentiles do. And it goes through all these epistles out. The Gospels of Motivation, start with it and end with it, and how you roll with it as a person on planet Earth.

It's a worship to God is a lifestyle based on your faith, and you being under grace and the spirit of God in you, this is how you should roll anywhere and everywhere all the time. It's not about going to church. That phrase is not in the Bible.

Going to church. It's not in the Bible for good reason. So that's just a little overview on each of these epistles and the message that's always front and center. If you live like the devil, you're not going to help many people. you're not going to bring many people to Jesus.

That's the point. Yeah. I think, you know, we spent a lot of time in Romans 12 because when you think about in view of God's mercy, you know, that mindset, what's, it may be going on to what we were talking about, talking about the kids and that we need to. So it's not a worldly thing. It's a spiritual thing. It made me think of that story.

And I believe it's Matthew 26, where. you know, I'll be interested to see your take on it. But you remember when Jesus was going up to the mountain to pray and he had some of his disciples there and he told him to wait right there. And he went up and prayed and he come back and he was, he wasn't frustrated, but he was like, they were all asleep. Oh, yeah. You know, and he goes back and does it again.

Great point. That's when he prayed and said, you know, if there's another way or if you can take this cup and he's like, I'm overwhelmed to the point of death. and he comes back and they're sleeping again. And then he makes that saying, and he says, the spirit is willing,

but the body is weak. He, I think he said, but the flesh is weak. And he made that analogy again. And he come back and they were asleep because they wasn't getting the big picture. And I think about that here

because, you know, when we're viewing God's mercy and we're having a renewed mind. It's a two-way conversation going on, and God is conveying through his grace and through us contemplating, because we always think of us thinking about him,

but as we're thinking about him, well, what he's conveying is basically two things, that I'm willing to love you, forgive you, to never forsake you, all the promises of God. And I'm able. And that's our problem. You know, we talked about all these, you know, playing golf when you're old or playing baseball.

Our problem is our body gets to a point where we're not able, you know, from a physical side, even though our spirit thinks, oh, I still got it, you know, I still got it. But I think in the spiritual world, when you think about us praying to God and us representing God, what he's offering through his spirit is that he's willing and able to do exceedingly more than all we can ask or imagine. And I do think that's why he refers to that is we offer our bodies as live in sacrifices. Because guess what? Whether you use it for the good or not, it's literally going to crumble right before your eyes on planet Earth. So use it for something good or just let it be used, but it's all headed south.

And he's basically saying in Romans 10, before we get to Romans 12, a couple of chapters earlier, he's talking about it's not rocket science. In other words, look, if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved. So he uses that as a launch pen for your behavior. You say, I just said Jesus is Lord. Well, God's saying, well, prove it. Prove that I am.

You can prove it by the way you live. And without that, you make up different reasons why you shouldn't be a godly person on planet Earth. Amazingly, 2,000 years later, from the time this was written out, nothing has changed as far as humanity is concerned when it comes to behavior. Well, that's right. And I made the same point that Jay's made, not as much folks on the disciples when I preach Sunday, but on Jesus.

I mean, he was about to offer his body as our living sacrifice when he was in the garden. And to me, it was the most human moment of his 33 years on the earth because he was, he honestly said, if there were any other way, I'd just as soon not do this. But then he said, but not my will be done but yours. And it's interesting that Paul uses the idea by God's will. He said, I came to please the one who sent me, not just me. And I've always thought that was such a, that's such a human moment for us, because we realized that Jesus knew what he was about to have to suffer. So when you give up your body as a sacrifice, you're going all in. And so that's the difference, I think, in what Paul's conveying here. To the Jewish mind, they're listening,

they're thinking, wait a minute, so we don't go and take a dove or take a lamb or take a whatever they used to, they offered everything with themselves into the Gentile. They were worshiping all these false idols and all that. But same thing. They would bring something other than themselves to sacrifice to their God, whether it was Yahweh or some false God. Now, Paul said, no, no, no, you are the sacrifice. You give yourself fully, which is kind of the point of the whole deal. In the centerpiece,

before you get to the behavior aspect and the looking at seeing what gifts are how you're gifted, everybody's worth something. Everybody has a skill set. He mentions that from about verse four, four and five, six there.

But the bottom line is, he does start howl, rightfully so, with God's, Mercy and God's grace. That's the two motivating factors. His mercy and his grace. In view of that, look around at the world. You say, well, you don't want to hold.

Don't hold to the pattern of the world. Most of them don't believe I'm who I say I am. Don't follow them. Be different. Be different. Stand out for good. Stand out for me. It made me think of this.

Hang on, Jay's. Let's take a break. What popped in my head was this, this passage in Mark 9, they had a, the disciples were arguing with the crowd. And, of course, they had the teachers there, teachers of the law, and they were having a big argument. And Jesus saw this crowd gathered. This is in verse 14 and 15.

And he comes up in verse 16 and says, what are y'all arguing about? And a man in the crowd said, I brought my son who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of his speech. and the spirit will seize him, throw him to the ground, he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they couldn't do it. And so Jesus is like, oh boy, bring the boy to me. And so they brought him. And when the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion.

He fell the ground, he rolled around, foaming at the mouth. So Jesus is kind of like, how long has he been like this? which is interesting. They're like from childhood, and it's thrown him into the fire or the water to kill him. But if you can do anything, this is the father saying, take pity on us and help us, which comes back to my point about God being willing and able.

When you talk about God's will and how we're asking for that. And I love Jesus' response because he says, if you can. Because the guy said, if you can do anything. Like, is it possible? And I think we do that in our own lives, whatever our problem is, or whether it's physical or spiritual.

We kind of pray to God like, well, you know, if you could. And Jesus, he bristles at that and says, everything is possible for him who believes. And immediately the boy's father, exclaimed, well, I do believe. And he says, help me overcome my unbelief, which is a really good response. And so then Jesus cast out the spirit. And then they asked him later, well, how come the disciples said, well, how come we couldn't do it? How come we couldn't get him out? And in verse 29, he replied,

this can come out only by prayer. And that's why I'm, I brought up the point about that, looking at it from God's perspective, it's one thing to pray or to have a list and say, help me do this, or can you do this, or if you're willing to do this? It's another thing to realize that when you're approaching God, he's responding of, I'm willing, and I'm able. You have access to the greatest power beyond comprehension. And nothing is impossible with me. That's what it says. That's what it says. I mean, if we just believe that, because I think when you think about it, you look around

all the things in our culture and all these problems, and you're like, well, I can't do anything about that. And then you have this story about our Lord and Savior, who we've surrendered to, saying nothing is impossible. I mean, you just praying for, you know, think of the craziest thing that you could think of, for North Korea to be liberated and to have an opportunity. to fall in love with Jesus. Never underestimate the prayer of people who have their trust in a God that says nothing is

impossible, just by your prayer. So I think that's the way we should look at it. I'm absolutely convinced that God's going to work in a little baby that that guy's, he's in the Air Force over in Boisier City, I think, staying at the big air base there. but he and his wife brought the little child over some horrible disease, you know, that he's had. I'm not quite sure what's involved in it. And they ask you to pray? He asked what to pray for him.

So we've, and they brought him back a couple of times. But I keep praying for that little kid. I am convinced the Almighty is going to deliver him, so we'll see. But that's just one of many that we prayed for here. recently. But with him, nothing is impossible. You're right upon that one, Jase. Yeah, I mean, that's what he said. Well, I think if we approach him that way always, that's why when someone asked me about prayer, I always pray for healing first, because that's what we want. We're human beings. We don't want to lose a child. I don't want to lose a brother or sister. But at the same time,

I also pray that as we're going through this struggle, that we bring God glory. Because sometimes people have died and even the way they died, they gave so much glory to God. Other people looked at him and said, man, what a life. You know, I had one of my neighbors down here that was telling me about his mother-in-law had passed away. She got struck by lightning. She was 72 years old. And she was just the godless woman you've ever seen your life.

And it's just terrible. And they're all at the hospital. And she didn't have any external, you know, signs of what had happened to her. But internally, 80% of her body's burned. So she's not going to live. and so he said that his father-in-law was standing there next to her and they were talking and she was still able to communicate and you know they were just down they loved her and you know they're basically saying goodbye and the husband looked at her and he said are you about ready to go and she said

I'm ready and she closed her eyes and she went and I just thought to myself man that's the way I want to be at the end of this ride whatever happens to me that I'm like are you ready to go yep let's see what's next I mean that to me that spoke more about about faith and totally giving yourself into the Almighty that you can know it's that moment. When I close my eyes, I'm ready for the adventure. Whatever's next. Let's do it. I mean, that spoke a lot to me, just a woman of faith like that. Well, that's the connection. What makes Romans 12 so powerful is because in view of God's mercy, you have this access and you have this new mind and you're actually tapping into God's will. And he goes through all these gifts that he's

given us that unleash his ability and his willingness. And then when you get down to the end, the result of that is how we, you know, live our lives. People don't, they underestimate you're unleashing God's power in your love being sincere like verse 9. You hate what is evil. You cling to what is good. You're devoted to one another. You honor one another above yourselves. You're never lacking in zeal. You're keeping your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord, you're joyful in hope, your patient and affliction. Well, then it says faithful in prayer. And you're sharing with God's people who are in need. You're practicing hospitality. Well, all these things that we just view as little bitty things, you're actually unleashing

God's ability, what he said when, you know, by believing, nothing is impossible. All these, all these awesome supernatural things can happen in your life via the spirit. of God in little moments that we just share in day to day. But in the middle of all the it, if you look at it, going to what you just read, practice hospitality, which means you're forking out the grub, you're paying for it, you're providing others for their enjoyment, and it says practice it, which means do this a lot. is the only thing I can get out of the way.

If you practice something, you become known for something. Well, practicing hospitality, you say, that would be your worshiping God? That's what it says. But you also, Phil, I mean, I'm going to talk to the baseball team. When you practice, you get good. You get good at it. Yeah.

I mean, that's the whole reason you practice something. Hang on, let's take our last break. Well, Gordon and the woman he is currently dating, and my sister that Gordon was married to has passed on. She's gone on to be with the Almighty. I'm convinced she's there for sure. So that's several years ago. So he's dating this woman.

I said, y'all come by and have a meal. So we provided them with beef tenderloin, you know, and hot bake rolls, you know, and green beans with a little bacon in that. So we had a nice little feed there, but we've done it so much. There's the artist, Phyllis's husband. He shows up. He lives right up the road. So we just had a little gathering there.

We were just practicing hospitality like it was, we do it so much, Al. Well, it's a practice. We put it into practice. You say, well, how come you do that? Well, there's the text right there. A lot of people tend to be very withdrawn, and they seldom interact with other people. And some woman other day, she said, I went to a church for six months before I came here, Mr. Field. She said, but no one ever asked me, how are you doing today?

No one ever spoke to me. She said, I stayed there for six months. No one ever said, what's your name? Where are you from? become she said they paid no attention to me for six months she said this right here she came to meet with us she said this is great we had a meal afterwards you know after we met got a meal over there at some local restaurant miss k went with her you know they got to know each other you know so she drove up three four hour drive from where she came from but that's what he means but look come

together find out who you are you know deal with your problems of different individuals you know but sit around to have a meal. So it needs to be incorporated into our worship. It's a needed thing in America. People get a little withdrawn, Al, and kind of camp out, and you never know them for anything. Yeah, well, that's exactly his point is that the body has many parts that have many gifts and abilities.

And you wouldn't think about it in hospitality. I mean, just even cooking becomes a great gift to draw people. in. I mean, I'm in the southern layer now. We've had, we've had three different couples that live in this neighborhood already in our home and fed him a meal. And the reason why, and some of those conversations, it's a lot of work. It is. But around the, around the street here, already everybody's like, oh, that Lisa, she can cook. Well, so you become known for something. Yeah. And we have a man. And of course, we're going to have spiritual discussion. That's what salt and light does. And that's why I think for any young couple, we got a lot of young couples at least in the

podcast. You say, well, I just don't cook. Well, you can always learn how to cook. And I mean, it's a good thing. My wife has proven that. I mean, I've told the story many times. I mean, because I was under the impression that I was going to do the cooking because I longed it to take you to figure that out as you ate what he was cooking when it came. It didn't even have to get, it never even got to that point. I just, I had been there, looked around at the The pant, you know how you. So you come to a conclusion, it looks like if there's going to be any cooking around there, I'm going to be the one doing it.

I'm going to share something that's like I'm never shared before. This is a revealing. The whole miss is listening. That's okay. She'll get over it. She knows this about me, not that I've told her. She's just observed. When I go to somebody's house, I'm a, you know how people, you know, are like creepy

and they'll look in people's medicine cabinets and all. I don't do that. I don't look in people's medicine. but I do look in the pantry. I open that pantry and I look and look, it takes me less than 10 seconds to say,

nope. So when I went to the in-laws during the dating game, I had already looked into the pantry and I was like, nope, I'm going to do the cooking. If we ever get to that, now having my woman's coming from,

But this is not good. Now, this is a sore subject with the family because I heard their feelings by saying that because like an idiot, I told them that. And so, yeah, it was a bad call. I should have kept that to myself. But. Yeah, sometimes you just do key things yourself. My wife, through perseverance, a lot of constructive criticism and even tears because I could have said this was a flop better. There's a way to say.

and she fully realizes that you have to convey that. Jace, you're talking and the listeners they say are into the millions now. Yeah. Out of all the people listening to what you are saying, there is a mighty throng of them who says, I don't cook and I... Well, and they're eating stock.

I'm not practicing hospitality. I don't know how to do. Because nobody... People are thin skin. And look, my saving grace was... when I critiqued her wanting to cook, because I kept saying, let me cook, but she, she, that hurt her feeling. So how do you relay with your own?

Because I've noticed the change in your wife, by the way. Oh, let me tell you. I remember when somebody said, let's go over there, Jason's and misses and eat. Yeah. Yeah, well. And now, I'm looking at Charles what you're laying out there, Jay. So I'm looking at fried shrimp. That's what I'm saying.

The power of God. and hard work has paid off here. It has. I mean, and having some money. I mean, I look forward to coming to your house and eating. Yeah, I've noticed. In the past, you're like, no.

But I noticed a few years ago that when our light came on, because we never turn on our dining room light until we eat supper. And then after we eat, we turn it off because we're like everybody else. But we come together at that table. But I noticed something. that when that light flicked on, neighbors, which is most of my family around,

started showing up. We didn't send a text saying, hey, we're coming over here. Which tells what your mother, proves what your mother has said. If you feed them, they will come.

Like I always, it was always funny because Willie and Corey, and everybody knows this about them, so I'm not talking about them. But Willie's a good cook. Corey, it's been a struggle.

And so when Willie and Corey's kids would show up at my house when the light come on, I already knew that Willie was out of town. I didn't have to say, oh, so Willie's out of town. I just, John Luke would just come in. And I realized he saw the light come on, which, you know, we never knew how he always knew. I'd look at Mrs. I said, how do you know? Well, one night she asked him.

She said, how do you always know? Because it's different times. And he said, I see that light come on. I know you are fixed to eat. So he just, but I thought, you know. So he was drawn to a person, a couple that were known

for practicing hospitality. Yeah, and we love it. Well, I love the point you're making, though, because we focus on the word hospitality, but Jay's made a great point to focus on the word practice,

because when you practice something, you get better at it. Exactly. And I was dead wrong. I will confess my sins. I should have quit trying to stop my lovely wife from attempting this. Because I thought, just don't even try. Don't eat.

And that was my bad. That was just immature because the woman turned into a phenomenal cook. Yeah. I mean, when she cooked something now, I'm excited. No matter what it is, it's going to be good. I mean, just at some point she made the crossover where I'm like, oh, I'm not even worthy to view how I viewed that. I bragged on you and your woman. after that last feed we had, they had the beef tenderloin and the fried shrimp out.

But, I mean, it would be wonderful desserts. But I thought, I told Ms. Kay, I said, I tell you what, old Jason, his woman, have stepped up to the plate when it comes to hospitality. She said, I know it. Well, Missy and Lisa both and Jessica to some extent, they did it the right way. They learned from our mom what we like to eat, and they took her recipes, and now they do it. And so mom lives on through our wife. you know and then they came up with some of their own stuff too which is great all right all right we're out of time thanks for listening to the unashamed podcast help us out by rating us on iTunes

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