Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 32 | LSU vs. Alabama, Global Warming Modified, and the Kingdom Is Here

Episode Date: November 24, 2019

Phil, Jase, and Al rehash the LSU vs. Alabama game. With record cold temps, the guys are wondering if the global warming claims need some modification, and they discuss why they believe that God’s kingdom is here now. ---   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So you know our podcast Unashamed is quite popular. We got a lot of folks that are listening, a lot of folks that are watching. And so the good folks at Blaze TV have encouraged us to add a second weekly podcast. Right now we're dropping one a week on Sundays, and we appreciate everybody checking us out as they do. And we're going to add a second one. Really? Yeah.

And so we're excited about that. It's going to be a lot of what we're going to do in that second podcast is try to answer a lot of questions that are coming in, a lot of biblical questions, a lot of, all kinds of questions. So it's like when I was a kid, you know, the first gun I shot was a single barrel, 410. But, you know, there was a lot of pressure because you only have one shot.

And so then I was introduced to a double barrel. And I was like, back up. I got a backup plan now. And so eventually, you know, I went to the semi-automatic, and I became quite the provider. So then it's boom, boom, boom. Yeah, that's what feels. So the greatest gun is one that goes boom, boom, boom.

So I guess we're at this boom. Without hanging up. Without hanging up, yeah. We're at the boom, boom. So I guess if people keep watching us right, we may wind up boom, boom, boom. You never know. I don't. We'll see about that.

We'll see. But I'm just saying a double barrel is, you know. It's better than a single barrel. Would you agree with that? I never actually thought about speaking to the numbers of people we are now speaking to. I never thought about that on how that would work. But it is what it is. What can I say?

Did you think we were just talking amongst ourselves? You know, I thought, you know, somebody said, man, you know, started talking about hundreds of thousands. And I'm like, do what? yeah i'm thinking they're interested in what you have to say well spiritual matters i keep waiting on somebody to come up with a better story but so far not even close i've heard all the stories out getting off the planet a lot that's exactly right i mean you'd think people'd say hmm so check out our two podcasts now per week uh it's going to be great don't want to miss it i think they're going to second one's going to drop on Wednesday, so be looking for that.

And more to love if you love it. Tell others about it. I am unashamed. What about you? Look, I went out there. You know, it's hard to step out there before something happens, especially in college football, because everybody goes crazy. I mean, it's a social media phenomenon over their teams.

But I really, based on what had happened this year, I felt like, LSU had a better chance than not to go into Alabama, despite they hadn't lost there in years, and whoop them. And guess what? They won 35 in a row at home, going back to Ole Miss in like 2013 or something. It was like 31, 35. But it was back several years. I mean, they hadn't lost their home in years.

And 49 out of 50 or 48 out of 49. We're talking about years. My prediction, what happened in my prediction? and mine. And yours. You went along. You backed me up. I backed you up.

In fact, I was getting text that day about the game because everybody gets nervous, you know, all our friends. And I got a couple that were actually at the game. And so they were sending me pictures, you know, and they're like, oh, I'm so nervous. And I was like, you know, and normally I'm that way if I think we're going to lose. But I was like, I've been cool as a cucumber for two weeks because there was a two-week lead-up to the game. I mean, I was like you. I just felt very confident that LSU was going to be. be better

and anything's possible and it's hard to win on the road it's hard to win it out of town but I just felt confident didn't you

I just thought we were going to win the game but you know what intrigued me and I knew there was there was

they were going to be a bone to be chewed is that the score ended up 44-41 I think 46 46 46 46 41 and if you noticed

LSU got ahead and Alabama would respond, but Alabama never got ahead of them. No, they trailed the whole game. They trailed the whole game, and that's what when I kept seeing that pattern, I said, it seems to be that no matter what Bama does in order to catch up, they just fall a little short

and they never overrun them and outscore them. Well, here was why you were thinking that. Burra and the boys just kept it right out of reach, right out of reach. Now they cut it thin a few places. But they never fell underneath staying ahead. Think about this. That was worthy of note. There were three touchdowns that one of them was our fault.

You do not punt the ball to the number one punt returner in the nation, ever. So you look down as a cut. I'm blaming the coaches. or the punter maybe said it went off the side of my foot, which means I punded it right down the middle. You know, this is one time, you do not, I would have taken him by the helmet before the game

and said, look, you do not punt to that man. He's number one for a reason. So that, okay, that had nothing to do with outside of the punter with the rest of the team. That was just dumb. So he gave him seven points there. So take that off. Well, now it's 46 to 34, right?

Right. We also gave up a touchdown that these Alabama coaches noticed that when they changed the play at the line of scrimmage, LSU's defense, they all turned their head and looked to the sideline and they changed the play. So Alabama, in the two weeks prepping this, said, look, when they do that, act like you're going to clap and change the play. So when they look at the sideline, They said hut, and here's a guy who runs a 4-2-40.

Devonta Smith takes off down the sideline. Whoops, touchdown. Well, they look over like 24. They're like, how come you let the guy behind you? He's looking at the sideline getting to play. So now. And that took a half a second. That was like flag football.

That was a me and Willie. Common sense would say if there's a minute 36 last. No, no. No, no. You haven't even got there yet. I'm not talking about that one. This happened early in the game. They threw a long bomb on.

this is something me and Willie would do and flag football recreational ball it'll be like act like we're going to call a play and then we don't we just you know take off while they're trying to make them just exactly what happened so now we're down to take those seven points off so where are we at now 27

now it's 46 to 27 those two plays should have never happened one was a was just an idiotic just brain fart from the punter the other was a trick play to the equivalent of like stealing somebody's signals, you know, looking at his mouth.

And hats off to them for doing it. Hey, they did it. It's Alabama typical, you know, just kind of shady move by the coaching stuff. Well, we can't win on the field. We're getting our butts whoops. So let's try some kind of very partisan individual. Oh, I am. He's reliving. Well, I cut my arm the other day and it bled purple and gold. So I love Alabama. I do events there all the time, but when it comes to football, you can't be either an LSU fan or you're not. They don't like me when we're playing,

and I don't like them. But now outside of that, we love each other. And they cheered for Trump, Alabama and LSU fans, which was nice. That was awesome because he's been getting booed everywhere. Now I'm getting to the third touchdown was the play. Your Tom Bow. Now, I don't know what the heck's going on.

A minute 20. We think we won the game, and I don't like Prevent defenses at all. Make sure they catch the ball in front of you. I'll say this with all enthusiasm. I do not like the Prevent defense. Unless you're two touchdowns up with a minute left, then what the heck? Prevent is fine. What are we doing here?

There's one thing that Cain happened, which is what happened. So that's just a brain cramp. So you take that off, and now where are we down to? 20s, 20. We're down to 19. You got to remember, it wasn't, it's not impossible to crowd the receiver on the line of scrimmage. It's not impossible that you can keep them in front of you and, you know, and swat down whatever comes your way. It's not impossible to do it.

No, they do it on time. But if you're going to try it, it just looked like to me a minute 20 left. Just give the man some room, make sure you keep them in front of it. It's not even a easier. There's not even a safety back there. Here's my point, though. everybody's talking about the game, they're dissecting the game, you just take those three plays out,

three plays that average 80 yards of play. You just take those three fluky, freaky plays that hardly should never happen. And not only do we dominate the game in yardage, because now that's 240 yards. You cut them in that. So we're almost 600 yards there at 250. And the game is 46 to 20.

Yeah. I mean, that's what happened during the, they had a couple good drives, you know, and you said, well, those plays happened. I was impressed with Alabama that they could make those type plays. Well, I said that. How many flaky plays do we have? Well, none. Except that if Alabama, if we had one of our Royal Tide fans on here, they would say if Tua hadn't to drop that ball, you know, that was a score they got that then we turned around scored on. I'll give you that one.

If they had just run the ball there with 20 seconds left in the first half, which they should have, instead of throwing a pick, that we then got a touchdown. So a couple of our scores were all mistakes today made. That's true. I'll take two touchdowns. If you took them away, you're at 38 to 20. I don't think there's any doubt at LSU.

34. It's really good dominating the game. But to your point, Dad, I mean, I think everybody said that everybody respected to a, I mean, he was obviously hurt. and yet he played amazing, you know, me. But he wasn't quite like he normally is, but you couldn't hardly tell. I mean, it was kind of weird.

He limped a little, but then after they lost, it looked like he needed to be air vacked out and get a, you know. Sometimes, you know, a little discretion on his part, you know. Basically, if I hadn't been hurt here, we'll have strapped you boys. I did notice one play on about the seven or eight yard line where when he threw it. that Richard Lawrence tipped the ball.

He should have, he should have just right. Oh, he had to walk. I saw it. And I thought, well, maybe he is hurt more than you. Because he didn't even like consider it, you know. Try that. Yeah. And so, look, am I saying that it didn't help us?

Oh, it helped us that he was not 100. I don't think he was 100%. He wasn't. There's no doubt about that. And yet he still was tough. I'll say this. Our best player, arguably has number seven for that reason. He did not play as good as he normally does.

say this about it, even if Alabama had won, you know, and then pulled it off, you know, the on-side kick, they could have gotten it back and, you know, put in the way they were scoring, you know, one or two plays. I would say even if Alabama had won it, it was a great football game. It was awesome. I'm not sure why they don't have Jamar Chase. Look, I love Justin Jefferson. He has great hand.

But I would rather, since you have the possibility of getting your clock cleaned on the outside kick, put your big. bigger receiver because Jamar Chase can catch just as good. Now the challenge is Al, and it's always that mystery, if you could pull that off, go into the crimson tide territory and beat them. Legitly, beat them legitimately. If that's the case, if you now don't win out, that would be the sad thing. It would be off or not.

By the time this airs, they're going to be. We'll have already played Ole Miss. The hardest I laugh. Of course, look, after the game, I was physically and emotionally exhausted. I had wrecked furniture. I had hollered outside. The neighbors had called. You may remember, don't get so deep into ball games.

I can't help it. Well, I said about you, because I had to do a wedding, which is the whole other story. So I had to tape the second half and go home and watch it. But I said, I said when we were leaving to go to the wedding, right at the end of the half, when they got that intercession, I said, Jace just jumped off the couch. Like when they scored that touchdown with six seconds left, I said,

Jace just went berserk. I ran, I didn't worse than that. I opened the door, and I took all running down the driveway, hollering. I just, I have not reached that particular level

in my ball game watching. Maybe when you get my age, you're like, okay, I mean, you know, may the best man win, but I don't get choose sides, hate people over a football game. I just don't do it.

I don't hate him. I love everybody. I've already clarified that. But I just think when you go to Alabama and he used to be our coach, nobody really was giving us a chance. You know, this Colin. My word was.

What's his name? Colin Cowherd. Calhurt. Look, he said, this is before the game. This is why I wanted to talk about my prediction. He said, this is not going to be a game. He's like, this is not a rivalry. He said, Alabama is. is the hammer and LSU is the nail.

Well, now. And you're getting hot now. Well, yeah, I'm like, okay, buddy. I think, because I'm like, what have you been watching? I think we've been watching? I would have said, so do you think on his show the next day did he go back? I would love to know.

I wish some of our listeners would go look and see what happened there. Somebody found out what Calhurt said about this guy. And the African-American guy who taught, is the NBA guy who's kind of annoying. He hollers. Oh, Stephen A. Smith. Oh, he said Alabama, you know, will just run over him. Same kind of deal. I loved, I want to hear his retraction because I heard that also.

And I thought, these guys are not, they're being too, you know, LSU's good this year. What have you been watching? I knew it wasn't going to be just, they're going to hammer and nail. That was a bunch of crap. So I guess I heard that and all the emotion. When your mother said, Dad, what do you think about the game? that's right before they came on. I said, I will be shocked if LSU beats them.

That was my sincere feeling going in. I will be shocked. Well, you bought into this narrative of that they're still dominating. I'm just looking at this season. I didn't buy into any narrative. I just went with the record that these guys have established. I know. And I've looked at LSU over the last, well,

how long has it been since we beat Alabama? But this year's definitely. I was just saying I'll be shocked if they beat them. Well, I will say, Dad, I had a little more of respect for you. Now I know why you take your hearing aids out. Because when I, mom was at my house for a part of the game. Did she go nuts? Well, she did.

And that's fine. I love that. But she asked so many questions during the, why did they do that? Too much talking. I was like, quit asking. Yeah, that's why. If it's a big game, I have to watch it alone or just went on. Did she call Jace?

She calls Jace right at the end of the half. And Jay says, don't talk to me. There's there still time left in the, call me at half. And then we scored. I know. I said, you're breaking a ruling. She said, what real? I said, you do not call me while the game is going on.

I thought that there may be a medical emergency is the only reason I answered this phone. I saw you. I was like, when you get 70 years old and your mom calls, okay, there may be a medical emergency. So I said, hey, because I thought she got so excited of that touchdown, we have now, you know, she had a heart attack. And she's like, what did you think about that? I'm like, there's still 17 seconds to go. Don't call me until that happened. I think William Shakespeare had it pretty close to right.

A situation becomes a crisis when cattle are women stampede. That's kind of what you saw with your mother. Because your mother was like, ha! She was screaming up, like, calm down. So is that where you got your illustration about saying women and dogs have quarts? You made that because William Shakespeare compared. I just do it to get the chick started. Well, that'll work.

That'll do it. That'll work. It's a joke. So you guys are telling me a little bit about you. You're heading up to Kansas from here as soon as we wrap today. We are literally leaving, and I got a text from, we're hunting with my old buddy, Barrett. We may not be in Kansas. We may be in Missouri.

We're going to the Midwest. Never identify exactly where you're going. That's right. So what would the temps be, Jay, Dave. on this little duck hunt this week. We don't want to talk about that. I'll tell you this. Because it's cold here right now.

In that area for the last 15, 20 years, many trips, and I've always been cold. Yeah. I don't, because when you're in Louisiana, you just don't have the gear nor the history of, you know, because I look at Barrett, he's running, ripping. Now, he's cold too, but they just, they're used to it. That great plains crowd, they're used.

It's cold up there. Oh, it's cold. So it'll be, I think it's eight right now. Eight. Eight degrees. So I told him, I was like, look, just find me something to burn. But he sent me a text wall ago because he said the oxbow is open. He was going deer hunting.

And he walks by this little oxbow lake on his property. And he said hundreds of Mallards got up. And so that's what led to this trip. I was like, well, what are you doing? And he's like, I'm waiting on y'all to get here. So now we're leaving. But so he saw that. Well, today he went and scouted because we're going to hunt tomorrow.

Because I said, well, it's going to be froze up if it's 8 degrees. And he said, well, maybe they'll keep it open because there's so many ducks. I said, it's too cold. It'll be frozen. Well, he just walked by there, but he eased up there this time. And he said, I saw 10 greenheads visual and backed out. So they kept it out. That's, you know.

So he saw and then he just slither it out. You know what's amazing about this hole? It's a, they dug it out, you know, 50 years ago to make a lake somewhere else a pond, a levy or something before he ever got it. But it's basically a big oxbow bar pit in the middle of the woods. And so we'll be hunting, we'll be shooting down like 20 yards. Hmm. It's just a steep bank. Yeah, I've seen this.

I've never seen a duck on it before. And he's like, I don't know why they're here, but they are. So now this is so, so just to let the audience know, you know, your pal is, I mean, he's like us. He's hardcore. And when you all hunted in the past up there, you've had to take chainsaws to cut out ice holes. Yeah. And so how deep was that? The best hunt, like if it froze up tomorrow, I mean, tomorrow's our worst day because it's going to be

obviously eight degrees. So, but you just, you hunt all day because they have so many more mallards up there because you're further toward Canada. Right. That if you can get an ice hole anywhere out there and put some decoys out when it's that cold, you have a good chance to kill them at some point during the day. No, Phil knows. Sometimes it's like the warmest part of the day.

It may be two or three o'clock. So when you go hunting up there, we'll hunt all day. So you cut the hole and then you have to get the ice underneath the other ice to get it out. the sheets underneath the other. My buddy is a professional ice hole maker, which is look, that sounds crazy, but it's hard to do because you don't want to break it up in chips because they glare so much off the sun.

The mallards are flying from the Canadian prairies, and they've arrived about mid-continent. We are flying from one end of the continent. The ducks are flying from the other end of the continent, and we're hopefully medium. in the middle. Oh, that's what we're doing. Because the migration has happened.

We're flying north to meet them. They're flying south coming this way, but they're just now moved about mid-continent. Well, that's where Jason's buddy is, mid-continent. But you realize last night it got 27 degrees here in Louisiana, it's never got that cold. I noticed they all got excited back when the temperatures were breaking heat records. But when this happened, I've heard no one say, you know,

It's never been this cold before in November. I wonder if global warming maybe has modified a little because we really were touting the fact that we're all going to burn up in August. Well, now it's November. And I keep going back and saying, trust that tilt, that 23.5 degree tilt, it gives you fall and winter, irregardless of what cows, how much gas, cow. We're back on this. Look, you know what it's going to be tonight here in Louisiana? I mean, it's the first week of November. 20 degrees.

17. Who? 17. Record level. I've never seen it 17. I mean, I'm going to have to leave the water dripping. I don't believe I've ever seen 17 in mid-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-Vember. I've never seen it in November or December.

It'd have to be. Which is why we're, usually I make a trip to the Midwest and hunt usually during our split. But since this front. And last night, I heard, did you hear the front come through? I mean, that wind was just. Yeah, I was just Howling. I mean, it was, I remember in the old days when that used to happen during duck season,

we would mall on it. Good time. In the middle of the night. So what does the Almighty have to say about this situation there? Well, we're talking about kings and the kingdom. This is my favorite subject that we're going to talk about. I know I'm excited about it because we got, you guys are two of the best I've ever heard at explaining what the kingdom of God is.

And so in our storyline in terms of Israel, we talked about that they had just gotten their first king, which God said was a rejection of him, which was interesting, by wanting an earthly king. Because the Israelites said they wanted to be like the nations around them. And they want to have somebody to send out and do battle for them. And God said, if you just trust me, I'll win your battles for you. So can we read the Daniel account? Yeah, that's where I want to start. I want to start in Daniel too, because.

I mean, you tell about the historical aspect of Daniel, just so everybody will know where we're at when I read this. Yeah, so 600 years before Jesus is when Daniel was under captivity by the Babylonian Empire. I took, I'm not a computer person, but I do have encyclopedias. I took the encyclopedias, the complete set. By the way, they have encyclopedias on the Internet. I know it. I just go to the source to begin with. So I'm reading in the encyclopedia that the Babylonian Empire was 606, 606 years ago, year one.

So after the Babylonian Empire came the Meadow Persian Empire. They came, they fell, and then the Greeks and Alexander the Great came along. They whipped the Meads into Persian and were moving toward when Jesus showed up. And then that fourth kingdom that Daniel mentions was a kingdom of iron partly mixed with brittle with clay. Well, we're going to read it. But that's the Roman. And that's the Roman Empire. When Daniel said, I just remember the encyclopedia and the dating.

When Daniel said all this, this was predictive. All these kingdoms that Dad just mentioned had not happened yet. And by the worstly kings. How did Daniel know all this 3,000 years before or however many thousand years? I don't quote me on that, but hundreds of years before. I mean, the history in this is incredible. And he points to it. Can I read it?

Yeah, hang on. So Israel has split at this point. There's been a lot of kings. We're talking about the first king, but there's been a lot of kings. They finally got down. We talked about the 12 tribes. There was only two left. I mean, they have been wiped out.

And so finally, the last little bit of Israel gets taken into captivity. And so they're in the kingdom. of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar is the king, and when Daniel makes this prediction, that's kind of what's going on. And there's other predictions elsewhere. And you got to remember, this all happened. When you think of king, I mean, because they still have modern day kings, right, in some countries.

Oh, yeah. Sure. I'm trying to name a few. But the point is, God set this up so that we would eventually have the king of kings. Right, which is an awesome thought. A little semblance of one in Britain, of course, but then you have like Saudi Arabia, it's a king type deal. In the princess. Right.

I mean, the danger of that is if you're having a person that's flawed, he could, you know, you just think about all the bad kings throughout history. Yeah, there's a lot of different kinds of earthly kingdoms. In this case, it was a monarchy where you have the king. And no matter what, they rise and fall. They rise and fall. That's why I said the king of kings, he rose and without the possibility of falling. That's why.

But this prediction in Daniel 244, he says in the time of those kings, Daniel 244, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. So you can imagine. Before you get to there, Jays, just make sure back in verse 39, he's telling Nebuchadnezzar what saw in a dream. He said, after you, which the Babylonian rule of the world, another kingdom arise, where you look in the encyclopedias, that was the Greek, I mean, the Meadow Persian Empire. In fear of your next, a third kingdom, where you just go through history and look who came

after the Meadow, the Great and the Greeks. Then finally there will be a fourth kingdom. Well, you just look at who took the Greeks out. Well, the Romans did. So you know from history. Yeah. Well, I'm getting there, but I'm just making the point that all of humanity and as a person that read this Bible, when I read this, I perked up here because you have a prediction that in a certain time in history. That's right.

You forget whether you're a believer or not. You have a prediction here that the God of heaven is going to set up a kingdom on earth. that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. Well, as a human being, you need to figure out if that is true or possible, you need to look into that. That's right. You would want to be a part of a kingdom that could never be destroyed, nor could it be taken over by another people. It's very critical because if you just turn over from Daniel and talked about that fourth kingdom of iron, and 600 years in the making,

you got Babylonia, Meadow Persian, Greeks, and Romans. Well, all you have to do is you say, well, who was ruling the world when Jesus was born? Watch, in those days, Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a sentence should be taken of the entire Roman world. That clarifies and make sure everyone understands,

understands that when Jesus showed up, the earthly kingdom that was ruling the world was, in fact, the Roman Empire. That's Luke chapter 2, verse 1 and 2. You're getting ahead of them. So maybe I should stop. Well, let me just read this. Just go on with what you got there. Well, then it says, Daniel 2, 4.2, it will crush this kingdom brought up from heaven by God. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end.

but it will itself endure forever. Now he said this is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of the mountain. So he had a vision back where you said in verse 39. And the vision was basically this. After you, another kingdom will rise, inferior to yours, next to third kingdom, one of bronze will rule over the whole earth. Finally there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron. So he has this vision.

He gets down when his explanation to the, vision is that there is a kingdom coming from heaven that will crush all other kingdoms. It will in itself endure. If you keep reading in the second part of verse 44 in Daniel, 45, the great God has shown because everybody says, well, when is it? Nebuchadnezzar is sitting there saying, you got to be kidding. You mean, I'm gone. I'm falling and I'm going to be overrun by the meat old person empire.

Yeah. So watch. The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. So when Daniel saw this dream, if Nebuchadnezzar was saying, when is this going to happen? He said it's going to take place in the future. Well, fast forward 600 years. You say, who ruled the world, the Romans? That's when Jesus was born.

So there you go. Well, you did the historical look, which I did myself, we didn't do it together. because I've tried to figure out this prophecy too. So you look in history via encyclopedias, and you start seeing these kingdoms that you named. Yeah, it's evident that Daniel had it right. Now, in his prophetic vision, he had all these other kingdoms right, because history supported what he said.

That is correct. Which is, if you want some evidence, I mean, I know this following Jesus is, on faith, but it's pretty remarkable that he had all that right. What are you talking about? And it is interesting, Al, that when 600 years after Daniel interpreted that dream for Nebuchadnezzar about these earthly empires rising and falling, rise and falling, in these days when Jesus showed up, there was someone else that showed up.

John the Baptist, and he came preaching in the desert of Judeo. What was he saying? Watch. Repent, remember what Daniel said? for the kingdom of heaven is near. You say, who's ruling? The fourth empire is what Daniel said. You're like, uh-oh.

Romans. And where is it? You say near at hand. Well, the only difference now is 2,000 years later, we're saying everybody needs to repent because the kingdom is here. It was near right here. That's where a lot of our listeners are probably going to say, do what?

Because inside religion, there are, different views about when that kingdom came or in some cases when it's coming some people believe a vast a big number in the religious world and I'm just saying this you know you can share you know listen to what we think about it but the two different or three different camps I guess is that people believe they're still waiting on the kingdom I know it so when you said the kingdom is here a lot of people like the kingdom is here So we would like to... It was near 2,000 years ago.

Well, I did meet a fellow. We were talking about this. The same fellow we're hunting with. If something is near, you don't figure you're going to wait 2,000 years later or longer for it to get here. You're saying that because Jesus and John the Baptist was here roughly 2,000 years ago. This is, how many years later after Daniel said that? 600. So 600 after that, John the Baptist said it's not.

near. And then Jesus, you were in Matthew 3.1. In Matthew 4, I think is 17. 417. Jesus began to preach, repent for the kingdom of heaven is near. Now, this fella that I'm talking with this about, he's still waiting on the kingdom to get here. I said, well, how come, well, that would make this seem wrong because Jesus said it was near then. So it had to have come back then sometime. And he's like, well, no, that doesn't mean what it said. And, which you're always going to be careful when you say that because he said well with the Lord a year you know a day is like a thousand years and I was like well you're taking a concept about God which is true God is not he doesn't have a watch nor will he ever have one and you're applying it to something where Jesus said it was near any human being that that reads that near is means near well why you wouldn't have said it while you're there how come

Jesus said in Mark 9-1, I tell you the truth. Great verse. Some who are standing here. Now we're in the first 30 years of Jesus. There was a group of guys standing right beside him. Some standing here will not taste death. You're not going to die before they see the kingdom of God come with power. Before they see it.

Well, that narrows it down that it came in their lifetime. That's a good verse. Because if you believe this is inspired by God. And you read that verse, that's Mark 9-1. You would have to conclude that whatever this kingdom they're referring to, it had to come before they die. That is correct. Unless you, now I read this verse to the same fellow I'm telling you.

Now, he didn't really have a good answer for that. Well, it is. Because I was like, are they all dead? And he said, well, maybe they came back from the dead, you know. But that, that's a good. Well, and to add a little bit more buttress to the argument you guys are making, 120 to 150 years before Daniel, so now we're going back to 700 BC,

two guys named, one of them named Zacharii, who was a prophet, here's what he said about looking forward. This is what the Lord Almighty says. Here is the man whose name is the branch, capital B. He will branch out for. this place and build the temple of the Lord. Yep. It is he who will build the temple of the Lord and he will be clothed with majesty,

king, and will sit and rule on his throne and he will be a priest on his throne, which by the way, that was persona non-Griot in Israel. You couldn't be a priest and a king. There would be one coming that would be both and there will be harmony between the two. Zachariah, again, pointing forward. Which is why Jesus, I mean, the Gospels, two of them, off with the genealogy of Jesus. Right. Oh, you're just as a kid, I'd wonder, why is this in here?

Because it was showing the concept that. Human language. Yeah, God is human in Jesus, and he's going to be the bridge via being a king and a priest. Right. When you think priests, we generally think some guy with a black suit on with a white. Right, collar. But the actual priest is just a go-between God. and man, well, Jesus is the ultimate

because he represents both. Right. And Hebrews 10 tells us he's the high priest. So one other thing I'll add and I'll let you guys go back. Isaiah is another one that was the contemporary of Zacharii. And he predicted a virgin birth for the king in Isaiah 714

when he said the Lord himself will give you a sign the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and he will be called Emmanuel. Because to have a kingdom, if you have a kingdom, that means you've got to have a king. Exactly.

So Jesus qualifies to be the king of kings because of what he just named. If you can come out of the birth canal of a woman without that woman ever having any kind of sex, you may qualify for being king of kings. Yeah. Well, there's a couple of texts here. Peter's talking. He said, you, this is 1 Peter 2, verse 9. you are a chosen people.

Love it. A royal priesthood. Now, Representatives of heaven. Yeah, it would be one of the most difficult things there is on planet Earth. If you being a member of the kingdom of God and a priest of the most high, and your king is also high priest, and you're a priest working underneath him, it'd be difficult if someone passed me up on the first high,

the road saw me walking down the road it'd be hard for them to say out when they saw me there goes a priest in the kingdom of god that's true they just wouldn't think that's who i was but where's the verse they didn't think jesus was the king of king lord of lords when he when he appeared before the big dog the big dog said are you a king he said you what you've said is true. But you remember when David who became king was chosen, you remember that little nugget where it said God does not, because they looked at him and said, this little small fellow, he's the youngest one. Right. It says God does not base judgment on the external appearance of a man. God looks at the heart. Right. Which qualifies for Jesus, for John the Baptist, for David. How could you be a king

if you've been strung up like an animal on a tree? and spiked to a tree. You say, and that's going to be your king? He said, that's him. Well, you're right. And it's a really interesting point because Pilate, who you're talking about in John 18, he saw himself as the Roman authority over this region. And he asked him that question.

He did. He said, are you the king of the Jews? That was his question. Are you a king? And then Jesus said, is that your own idea? Or did others talk to you about it? In other words, are you really wondering, am I a king? And Pilate said, am I Jew?

Your own people and chief priest handed you over to me. What is that you've done? Here's what Jesus said. My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. He said, you've missed the whole point. While you're there, if you read that, how come Jesus said, my kingdom, he's the king, he's on the earth. Right.

There's nothing about way in the field. future when how could your kingdom read that text again that last part he said my kingdom is not of this world how could that be if the kingdom wasn't there and the king wasn't there doing the talk it's great point and he says my kingdom is from another place and then pallas said oh you are a king then jesus said you say that i am a king in fact the reason i was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me. Well, then he says, what is truth?

And you know where he missed it? He missed it in the question. He should have said, who is truth? That's why when John said, John 14, he said, I am the truth. I am the way. Because even today, religious groups say, we're trying to find out the Lord's way,

the way to Reichson. Well, he said, I am the way. And people miss. missed that with it. Well, Pilate missed it about truth. He was thinking, give me some truth that will help me understand you're a king because he couldn't do what Phil is saying. He couldn't look at this guy and say, well, you're the king. You're the truth. Well, you can't be the truth because you're a human. Because he felt like he had power over him. He was like, I can decide whether you live or die. Oh, yeah, I can kill you. You have, you're not a king. That's why he never saw it. That's why he

didn't ask the question, who is truth? Because he missed it. I want to get to Matthew 16 because you say, what has this got to do with their prediction and the religious world that a lot of people miss this? When you think about heaven or the kingdom, or when you think about kingdom, most people think the kingdom of heaven. And they think who has the keys to that? God. Well, God. But, I mean, how many jokes have you ever heard about the pearly gates and who's standing at? Like, like, they say Peter is standing. Like, when you die, they'll say Peter, and I've heard people in the church I meet with say, well, you know, Peter's at the pearly gates. Now, I'm going to read something to where I'm saying every joke and every story you've ever heard about that could have been taken out of contact.

Because I believe when we die, Peter's not going to be. be standing to partly gates because I think it was a different gate and I'm going to read why I say that and some people probably just you know pull over on the side of the road saying what do you say but Jesus came to his disciples and verse 14 I mean 13 and 16 13 of Matthew he says who do people say the son of man which is your point about the genealogy and the virgin birth right is they replied some say John the Baptist others Elijah others Jeremiah won the prophets but who do you what about you who do you say I am Peter answered you are the Christ the son of the living God so he's man and God

representing priests in 17 Jesus replied blessed to you Simon for this was not revealed to you by man Simon Peter but by my father in heaven and I tell you that you're Peter and on this rock I will build my church in the gates of Hades will not overcome it and he says I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven so when people read this they concluded that well if he has the keys he's standing at the gate of heaven he's the one going to be allowing people in that's what they that's look I have heard hundreds of illustrations stating that right well what I later found out was just from from reading is that here's Peter he gets the keys to the kingdom of heaven

which seems to line up with the same kingdom that would happen in their lifetime well Peter was one of the people standing there in mark nine when he said that and it seems to line up with what Daniel said that there's going to be a kingdom come that will crush all other kingdoms it seems to line up with the one Jesus said is near and now Peter has the keys to it well what do keys do they unlock doors so you can enter the kingdom of heaven so when jesus dies and is buried and resurrected he gathers up in in acts chapter one and y'all know where i'm going with this and it's an interesting bit of dialogue here because in verse where is it uh verse 6 six of Acts 1, right after it says Jesus gave me any convincing proofs that he was alive.

It says, so when they met together, they asked him, Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel? Because they, they were thinking about Daniel. Where's all this kingdom stuff that's going to crush? Because now that you've shown, you've become our priest based on what? This ties in with Hebrew 714. Jesus has become their priests and their king. based on one simple fact, he's indestructible. He came back. He came back from the dead because he goes around verse three, look, in verse three, I need to read that.

After his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of 40 days, and what did he speak about? Kingdom of God. Kingdom of God. Okay, well, and he had already said it was near. And they said, well, you're going to restore the kingdom?

Because I still think they thought that this was going to be a physical thing, where they, if this guy, if our king's in inestructible, let's go whip some people. You see what I mean? This is going to be the biggest temple ever built by anybody. Well, yeah. And we can fight. That's why I think, you know, when he fed the 5,000, they're all thinking about,

well, we got those guys. Now I get it, that's our army. If you can't be killed, oh, we're fixed to become the greatest kingdom ever. Well, you remember what, you're right, because you remember when James and John, they were arguing, you know, where they were. about in their mom, who's going to be the greatest. And when we have our 12 thrones, where do we want to sit right up close to the front? I mean, they still saw it as a physical manifestation of an earthly kingdom that would be established in that lifetime. So let me read this. So his response to,

are you going to restore the kingdom in his verse 7 and 8, he says, it is not for you to know the times in the day. The father is set by his own authority, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes in and you'll be my witnesses. Well, they're like, what? What does that get to do with the kingdom and destroy it? Well, the next chapter of what happens in chapter two of Acts? The Holy Spirit comes on them with power. They start speaking in languages that they've never studied.

Worldwide. Worldwide. Them guys say, well, these boys drunk? And they said, no. Well, who stands up in verse 14, based on his confession that Jesus is the Christ, is Lord and the Son of God? Who stands up in verse 14? The one with the keys in his...

Peter, who has the key. keys to the kingdom of heaven and now the spirit is poured out simultaneously with Jesus saying the kingdom, y'all, are you going to restore the kingdom Israel? And he said, wait till the spirit's poured out. Well, why do you pour something out? It's poured out so it can become available. You pour a glass of milk so you can drink it. So here comes the spirit of God from heaven. And Peter gets up and preaches the first sermon post Jesus leaving the earth. He says that Jesus

died, was buried, was resurrected the son of God, it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. He's Lord in Christ. He gets to verse 20 or 37. He's Lord in Christ. The people heard this. They said, what do we do? The same confession, he said, was in verse 36.

And Peter replied, will repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you'll receive the gift. Doors. Doors open here. Let me open the door. The gift of the Holy Spirit.

You'll receive something from heaven, the Holy Spirit of God. So all of us believe that the kingdom of God came at that moment. When the Holy Spirit was given, you could now become a part of heaven. Made available to anybody. All men, women. here it is the holy spirit's poured out for all people because when you receive that spirit and he said that promise for you look it's the only time i think in the bible that looks at us coming to christ in a future in one little verse in a future generation

segment is verse 39 because it says the promise well what promise the promise of forgiveness of sins and the gift of the holy spirit is for you and your children and for all who are far off. For all whom the Lord our God will call. Well, how does God call us through Jesus? The same sermon Peter preached, that's how God calls people. That's why we go out as flawed individuals saved by grace and we introduce Jesus because the introduction of Jesus is God saying, hey, come follow me, be a part of our kingdom. So when those people were baptized and received God's Spirit. The actual kingdom of heaven was formed in spirit-filled people on the earth 2,000 years ago, which is why Jesus said the kingdom is near, because the spirit was

fixed to be poured out. And that's the only way this would make sense. Now, where people are going to disagree with us is they say, well, the kingdom is yet to be established. You say, but then that wouldn't make sense on why Jesus said it was near. It wouldn't make sense with the last thing. The Apostle Paul is recorded. to have said the last verse in the book of Acts, because you started with Peter, unlocked the doors of the kingdom. Why is it the apostle Paul was boldly

and without hindrance, the last verse in the book of Acts? He preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ. You say, well, he's preaching the kingdom of God. What is he preaching? Jesus died, was buried and raised from the dead, faith, repentance, baptism.

And look, here's the return of Jesus. I got a simple question for everybody. Christ has indeed been raised from the dead. 1 Corinthians 15, 20. The first fruits of those who fall in asleep, you say they're all going to be raised from the dead, the saved. Yep. For since death came through a man, Adam,

the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man, Jesus. As in Adam all die, so in Christ all be made alive. but each in his own turn. Christ's the first fruits. That's happened. Then when he comes, end of time, you say, where's the kingdom? When Jesus comes, final return, judgment day, those who belong to him, then the end will come. This is happening quickly.

He's on the earth. He's returned. Global warming. Global warming. Yeah. The end will come when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father. That'd be us. After he's destroyed all the men.

You're like, how could he hand the kingdom over to God the Father if the kingdom of God wasn't there to be handed over? I mean, how could you hand it over out if it wasn't there? I know we got an M, but I want to say this. the kingdom of heaven is bigger than just spirit-filled people on the earth, which is what we're saying. Peter had the keys to the kingdom of heaven on earth, because by introducing and accepting Jesus Christ, you could then get the Holy Spirit, which made you the most powerful, uncrushable thing on the earth. That's why he said, you're never going to be given to another people, because people can't destroy us.

They'll try. They'll kill us, but guess what? We have the Spirit of God. Guess what? Exactly right. The Spirit of God is eternal. So we'll obviously have some more discussions on this, but be open-minded to the fact that when we die, the Spirit will raise our dead body and Jesus will hand us over to the Father. And Peter has already opened the gates. He's already opened the pearly gates, and he did that 2,000 years ago, Acts 2 and that promise is for them, for the people that came after, and for us today. Final little text, 1 Corinthians 4, verse 18. Some of you, he's helping the church out, have become arrogant as if I were not coming to you, Apostle Paul talking, but I will come to you very soon if the Lord is willing, and then I'll find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. Got a little friction in the church.

How could he say this if the kingdom of God was not there and the Corinthians were part of it? Next verse, verse 20. For the kingdom of God, listen, it's not a matter of talk, but of power. Well, if it wasn't there, how would that make any sense? It wouldn't make any sense. Y'all would be an arrogant, you know?

The kingdom of God is not like that. The kingdom is here. We're a part of it, and that gives you confidence because you realize you're the most powerful thing because of God's grace and power on the earth. When I spoke to our king or our elected president, when I talked to him, you say, did you talk to him about the kingdom of God? Well, yeah, since I'm a member of it, you say, well, what was your message of the kingdom that Jesus came down in flesh 2,000 years ago, and died on the cross, was buried and raised from?

the dead. I explained that to it. Because you unlocked the gate, and I was just showing him. You say, so all the people were swirling around your people, hollering and carrying all like that, but no one knew what you were saying to our present, the highest official in the land. Right. True. Our president. So kingdom people, it's their obligation and their duty, just like Jesus with pilot. There was no difference. So I want to talk about that next time we're together. Maybe we need a part two on the kingdom. That's right. What the kingdom life looks like with earthly kingdom still going on.

So we'll talk about that. And I'll close with quoting my good friend Kevin Hall again. God bless Al in his ongoing effort to redirect and keep these guys on track with the agenda at hand. Are you going to do this every time? Maybe. Y'all tell me, the air traffic control podcast. You two were like trains. You're a seminary man.

now but I'm just trying to keep this train on the track. That's all I'm saying. You know what the number one rule in podcasts are? No rules. No rules. There are no rules. See you next time. The only rule, ladies and gentlemen, we have here is there are no rules. See you next time on Unashamed. We are so glad you're watching and listening to The Unashamed podcast. Be sure to like us on Facebook, subscribe on YouTube and iTunes. That's going to keep you up today with all the new episodes. and it's also going to let other people find out about our podcast. So keep spreading the word and watching and listening to Unashamed with Phil Robertson.