Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 396 | Jase's Guide to the Seven Woes & Phil's Alarm Clock Nightmares

Episode Date: December 13, 2021

Jase and Phil discuss their issues with alarm clocks, and Jase describes his new alarm clock's unintended feature. Phil shares his recurring dreams, which include fighting people. Jase gives his guide to the seven woes and how each affects our lives. Phil and Jase explain why you should not block the door to the kingdom. And Jase has another refrigerator analogy, this time to describe hypocrites. Read the first chapter of "Uncanceled" by Phil Robertson now: https://philrobertson.substack.com/p/uncanceled-chapter-one The ONLY place to get "Your Daily Phil" by Phil Robertson in time to start off your new year: https://talkshop.live/watch/QID3D1y77yHJ  - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? I appreciate everyone's patience. You've got to realize this is day two of the split. And it takes me a while to reboot. Reboot to just normal living? Well, I mean, you think about it. The term, the word is acclimated.

Yeah. But in the technology world, I'm rebooting the sensor. because you just duck hunt for two weeks. Yeah. But I have a life, you know. I have responsibilities. I'm still doing stuff. And so then you throw in duck hunting with that.

That's why I was getting all my words messed up. I couldn't think straight. He was land blasting. I look up. During duck says you get up a lot of mornings, dazed and confused. I actually told Missy about the land blasting versus. lamb bastard. Lambasted.

She's like, that is so embarrassing for you. So let me tell you. You butchered the English language. You know what? In the redneck world. Mom loved it. It is funny. It's acceptable.

And we have thick skin. I have, I claim to be good at nothing. maybe we'll put that on your two the man who was good at nothing yeah there's a certain talent in that so I do want to give you a couple of positive vibes that happened so I had a technology issue

where my phone upgraded I think I shared this before and the volume doesn't work and it caused me to be late a couple times and miss a morning duck hunt, which had never happened before. So here's what you do. And you say, okay, well, you need a new phone.

Yeah, do you know what phones cost? You could buy a shotgun for the price of a phone. This phone right here, well, this is an old one, but a new one like this. Boom, boom, boom. About 1,200 bucks. I'm glad we have great companies who have donated their weapons that we are to shoot to prove they are the greatest.

Let me tell you a happy story. Let me tell you a happy story, Phil. So what I do is, you say, what do you do when things like this happen? So I went to a couple of stores, and I was looking for an alarm clock. Oh, boy. Guess what? Tough find. I know it.

Ask your mother. I know it. Your mother. Your mother in the last. And the last year has purchased at least 20 clocks trying to get to figure out how you set the alarm. We're going to go really? All right. She says, can you figure this out?

And look, I've got them and tried them. I couldn't figure it out. Let me give you a riddle here. So I find it at a place. There was no phone and off. Look, I found it at a place which this place also was one of the top five reasons why I moved from Austin. the lack of having one of these places. I already know what you're going on.

Can you name this place? I know what it is. Dad doesn't know. It's a little place called Dollar General. I knew that's what you're going. Look, in our area, we have one pretty much every half a mile. About every half of miles. And I couldn't find one in Austin.

You know what? So what does it mean when your father has never been to that dollar? Because what is it? The dollar you get in? Well. The most you spend is a dollar. At one time. Dollar general means this stuff is cheap.

It sounds like it, but I've never been in a dollar general. So I don't know. I think that's how they started. But they've sort of expanded their deal. And, you know, they've got, I mean, I go there all the time. Do you tend to spend more than a dollar? You spend more than a dollar. Yeah.

But I think their principle is, and I, this disclaimer, I actually own the dollar. general stock. So I'm a part owner in the company technically. Now I have a little bit, but it's something. I'm feeling better about the 20 clocks Ms. Kay has purchased if they went to the dollar general route because she, that's some little gravy money. So listen to this story. So I could have spent $1,200 on a new phone, or I go to Dollar General and for $4.75. And I think that's the dollar general you you spend a few dollars yeah and i got an alarm which by the way it's better to be branded as dollar general which you like you say you could expand unlike the dollar tree where everything's a dollar they just had to rebrand to the dollar and a quarter tree because of

inflation so people are after this market there's another chain called five below and that doesn't mean it's cold it means most of the stuff in here is below $5. Really? Just a little factoid. So they try to keep everything they haven't. And look, Dollar General is actually expanding. They're going to have, they just opened up a new idea where they're going to have like up to five.

I don't think that's the name. But it's, they're playing with that because inflation, I guess. Have you stopped at the new one that's not quite to our house with the food in there? I made a courtesy call to check it out because I thought. So when you walked in... They have actually produce. Just a question. Here's what's crazy.

If it were me and if I had ever walked into one of them, which I haven't. So when you walk into this thing, Dollar General, what kind of clientele just... Our kind of people. People who spend... If you started right to left and gazed, who would you... What kind of clientele? People who spend a lot of time outside, thus the slang redneck. That's right.

They're burned. Like, if you look at my neck, it's a different color. So these are working people who are in there. Absolutely. And it's in their communities. I'm saying working, I'm being gentle with that term. Well, you're staying tight. That's right.

So I, you know, where's the alarm clock? You know, I'll four pass the, okay, they knew exactly. They have alarm clock. $4.75. So here's the funny part. So I take this, it's a little petite. You got to remember, this is under five bucks. Are these battery operated or plug them in?

Took one battery. one double a battery one double a battery i inserted the battery i set the alarm and i i waited with anticipation for the next duck duck season day to see what happens this was crazy

so it's when it went off it was a high pitch sound and it was kind of like what do you call it when you're on the operating table and they they have the uh the flat the thing you don't want it to go flat line but it So it starts off with a beat,

B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, which woke me up. But then it accelerates in its passion. So it's like, hurry, hurry. Well, it's like goes to the flat line. Bip B, B, B, B, and I thought, how clever is this? If this doesn't wake you up, you are dead. So look, my dogs start barking. When they hear it because it's a high pitch.

It awakened the dogs. It awakened the dog and aroused them. And I thought, for $4.75, I have now got not only an alarm clock, but alarm clock that triggers a reaction from my dog. So if this doesn't wake me out. Then they're going to start barking. And look, when I took begging outside, the whole neighborhood of dogs were howling. I thought this is the greatest alarm clock ever. Not only have I awakened myself, all dogs, and the neighborhood.

Just think of the research that had to be done where this wakes up not only you and the personnel located near you. This goes all the way to where the dogs are lying outside under the shrubber. In the whole neighborhood. And I spent $4.75. It was under $5. I literally felt like I had stolen something. I wanted to go back up there and throw in another five. You did better on your mother because I was.

She missed that one because I don't like the idea that if you're going to go to sleep and you want to get up at 9 o'clock, if it's 8 to 9 when you put that, it'll start beeping. You're 12 hours away, but you're still within 8 to 9. I'm going to go sleep. I want you to get me up at a quarter to 9 tomorrow. But it won't let you do it. As soon as you do that, it goes, beep, beep, beep, beep. It starts what you're talking about.

I said, why wouldn't they just wait that it's just 15 minutes, but you've got to get past nine if you want to set it to get you up before nine, eight to nine. It's a problem. Yeah, you lost me on that. I'm not sure. If you want to set your alarm clock, it costs $4. Okay.

To wake you up in the morning at 9 o'clock. Yes. You have to wait until after 9 o'clock the night before to set. set it or it will go off as soon as you put it on. You sit it down. Oh, there's an a.m. PM PM issue. Yeah, big time. I want to, I want to set it. It's 10 to 9. It's, wait me up at 9 o'clock. I got to wait. I got to sit time wait the other 10 minutes until it gets through ringing. So, Dad's having to wait until the way this sounds is you're sleeping more than 12. What if you sleep, I don't think they figured somebody was going to sleep more

than 12 hours. Gee whiz. We've had a podcast first. Y'all say I don't laugh or nothing. I'm laughing at this because yeah, there are some individuals.

Wow. I'm just about to wait till past a certain time to set his alarm by that. Oh, yeah. All the time. They're sitting there. K's on the couch,

Phil's on the chair, they're having to wait till after nine to set it if they wanted to get up at 9. That's correct. All right, I got it. It's a problem. That's a problem I did not know was there in our society.

But they do have electronic ones down that you can set it anytime you want to to a.m. or p.m., and so it could be 16 hours before, but you put 9 a.m. Okay. And it's going to go off. Yeah, but these don't have that.

Yeah, that's what you got. You know, it's crazy is me and you are the only two people, because I had a phone problem and you don't have a cell phone. Everybody else is like, what are they talking about? Do they set cell phones to wake them up? Oh, yeah, that's what I use. But when my volume quit working. Well, just think about a guy, I'm lost in a wilderness

because all of these cell phones are taking care of time, but I've never purchased one, a cell phone. So I'm not, I'm not. I'm not tuned into that at all. I recommend going to Dollar General and getting you another alarm clock because mine, I didn't have to wait, but I didn't. Dan ordered them, Dan, the Butler, he ordered. Don't order it.

You can drive five miles. Well, I didn't know that. Or half a mile. He said, I got to order them. So he ordered two, and he brought them in there. I said, this one I can make, I can figure out to tell Ms. Kay how it works. I said, you can set this thing. I said, turn the alarm on, get it ready.

And I said, it'll ring. the time it says it will. If you're wondering what this has to do with the Bible, I thought about this because when we got to Matthew 23, it's like Jesus's alarm clock went off. Yeah. And he's like, alarm. Beep, peep, peep, peep, peep, peat.

This group of people, Pharisees teachers of the law. It presents a problem because, and if you're looking forward in morning, one of the persons involved is me. I'm getting up at 4 a.m. Ms. Kay says I want to get up at 8.30 a.m. Well, because she's the night out. I've had one clock over here.

So it's got to where now I have a clock if you want to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning. She's got a clock that says, no, I want to wait to 8.30. I don't mean this to be insulting, but they actually sell an alarm clock that has two options. for times. You can set one. On your phone, you can do like up to, I guess, infinity. You can set multiple numbers. I didn't know that.

Yeah. But if your volume doesn't work, it's, it's, my alarm goes off on my phone. I'll be the first one to tell you. No volume. My problem is ignorance of the issue. I think our list is. I'm not used to, I don't, I don't have a watch. I never own one.

So I've got these devices, you know, 4 o'clock. Most of the time I get up at like 5 to 4. Well, there you go. That is the actual alarm. Oh, you set an alarm? I set the alarm. See, while we were talking, I set the alarm for two hours. Yeah, how is that going to wake somebody up?

Well, you can make it louder. No, that wouldn't wait Philip. That would just make him dream about being on a beach looking for some woods to hunt in. Yeah, well, you can make it different sounds. so that was just the sound of mine. I guess that automatically does it. But I have no sound. Because you don't have your volume.

Well, I have a reoccurring dream all the time. Hang on, Dan. Before you tell that, let's take a break. It's groups of individuals, of various ethnicities that are after me. I'm running. They're catching up. And it's quite the scrap for a few minutes there.

All the time. I dream like that. Groups are chasing. and I'm trying to outrun them. But it's quite the rigmarole, according to Ms. Kay. Which is why he needs 12 hours, because he's got a lot of battles to find out. Yeah, that's why he needs 12 hours of sleep. We spent a lot of that time in battle, so he needs some rest-up time.

That's right. I've heard some of the stories. Unfortunately, Mom has been represented in real time as one of those people trying to get you. That's right. So one time you were. trying to peel somebody was stepping on your hand and you were trying to peel off the fingers which i'm hanging on a cliff i mean i'm hanging just off of a cliff and they're stomping my fingers and i'm trying to get my feet up where i'd kick them back off of me where i'd come back over that ledge you know but i look

her up and it's her saying whoa whoa whoa and he's peeling mom's fingers as he's think he's he's in his dream he's peeling the toes of his oppressor but in real life it's mom's fingers which are Maybe you need to talk to it, counsel. Some have recommended more of a shrink. Well, so I don't know. So what's your takeaway from all your alarm issues? Now you're good to go. Yeah, I'm good to go.

I mean, what I'm saying is for $4. I was just saying for five bucks, maybe you pick one up for dad. Yeah. You know what? I'll go up there and see. Christmas, you know, four bucks, five bucks. It's the season, Jay's. It is the most annoying.

I mean, it was just crazy how annoying this was, and it triggered those dogs. I thought this is amazing. And Missy, she didn't like it. That's right. Because it woke her up. We're going into our text, when you get to,

when you finally do, where Jesus meets the Pharisees, he says about three or four times, Matthew 16, he will be betrayed by a certain group of individuals. They're identified. Must go to Jerusalem,

suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and teachers of the law. The most religious people on the face of the earth. Jesus said, I'm in Matthew 16. The most religious people, he must be killed. And on the third day, be raised to life. And the alarm clock says, yep. So you got 17, Jace, is going to be betrayed.

to the hands of men, he says, but he's already identified them. Chapter 20, we're going up in Jerusalem, and the son of a man will be betrayed to the chief priests and teachers of the law. So when you turn another page or two, the people that had been identified as the murderers, they're the ones he's talking to. He's talking to the murderers, and he's predicted they, it called them by name. You're the ones that are going to betray. me. What they didn't know, it would save the world. And even them, when finally Jesus

dies, is buried and raised from the dead. And he finally leaves after showing everybody. Acts chapter one, Luke informs the world that after his suffering, he talked about the kingdom. He did many things to convince him he was alive. So a lot of those Jews that had said crucify him in Acts chapter two Peter's sitting there the one with the kingdom gates to the kingdom the keys and it looks well lo and behold some of them were like

ah we kill the author of life we killed the Messiah and he's going to save up by his death and we're going to kill him not knowing this is the way it was going to go down you talk about a story on how that all came together it simply is amazing a lot of them they were cut to the heart

because they said, good night. We're sitting there, crucible him, cruisive him, just mob. Would Jesus had Peter be the one who also said, you're never going to die? You know, no way, you know. And he said, get behind me, Satan. So he was having. That's what I was fixed to bring up. All that friction aisle for all these blessings to come, and by his death,

he would destroy the ones who murdered him and save the ones who are going to murder him. He said, I'm going to save you. and this is what you just did. I mean, you just think about that. They were like, what in the world? Well, in Matthew 16, when he said that, because he said the elders, the priests, the teacher of the law,

they have to understand that he's going to be handed to them. Yep. And that he must be killed on the third day, be raised their life. So Peter said, well, never. But see, the prophets. Remember the prophets. The prophets had said, like Isaiah 53, you read him,

he's going to appear like a root out of die, dry ground. He's going to die, be pierced for our sins, but there'll be a burial in the rich man's tomb. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, all of that Al had to be fulfilled for him to be who he said he was. The fulfillment of all of what the prophets said. Well, you just think about a couple thousand years later, hundreds at least of years later,

sat in 800, you know, what the prophets were saying. You're like, man, what a way to get something proven to be true. He fulfilled every text that said who he is, where he'd be born, what they would call him, what he would do, who would kill him, how they would kill him. You just look at it and you say, man, there's a lot of stuff coming together at the same time. And during the Roman Empire, you know, 2000. 20 to 2000, you know, 34 years, all this went down.

You talk about 33, 34, you talk about a happening. That wasn't happening now. Well, and that's probably the number one word that Matthew uses throughout the whole book is fulfillment. Fulfillment. Fulfillment of the law. Fulfillment of the law.

You know, all these different things that are there. This should fulfill what was written. That's what Peter said. You called it a happening, and Peter said, this shall never happen to eat. In verse 22. But what I find interesting is when he said, get behind me, Satan, you're a stumbling block to me.

He then said, why? He said, you don't have in mind the things of God, but the things of men. And you think about what's the number one thing that people accuse their lack of belief in God over? It's usually, well, why do people die? Or why do bad things happen to good people? That's right.

Because they're in the mind of men, death is always negative. That's why Peter said, well, this will never happen. You're not going to die. And he's like, if he would have listened to a little more careful, and I'm not picking on Peter because we have the same problem because we tend to think like the mind, mind of men. You go to the doctor and they say, oh, you got two weeks to live. What happens?

Panic. You're like, oh, no, what happened? What happened? Well, you knew that in the back of your mind that that was going to happen. You know, just like the reason we didn't panic when the coronavirus hits is you're like, well, what's the worst thing that can happen? You could die. Well, for us, okay.

It's going to happen at some point. Yeah, at some point, I'm dying of something. I could be on the way to get my mask and my vaccine shot and have a wreck and die. And they're like, well, you're just being crazy. No, that's a reality. It happened. I mean, if you look at the deaths that happen in the world every day, it's a staggering number. Staggering.

So when you look at it from God's perspective, if death is not a problem, in actuality, in this case, it was an answer to a problem. That is correct. Which is why we have the mind of God. See, my phone is ringing, and you don't hear it. I thought she said it turned up. So how did you know it was ringing? Well, I felt it. It does a slight vibration, but no sound.

Here, same thing the alarm does. Right, nothing. So if you put it against a piece of wood, it might go z-z. Jayce, I always remember this. Too high-tech. Too high-tech. No, but we just have a problem. There's enough trouble in the world without you saying,

did it buzz my leg while ago? Well, I don't want to get. I don't want to get any devices. The upgrade of the phone caused, like right now against this phone. I've got a creature that sick to bite me on the leg if my leg is pulsating while I'm just sitting there. Well, if I made a list of woes for this phone, I'd have, I wouldn't have seven, I'd have two. You know, one is there's some, you have quick access to bad material. Yeah, I don't like it.

That's one. Whoa, whoa. And I don't, I mean, whoa, as in. whoa and two I don't have any sound that's a whoa because what's the use of having it if it doesn't make a sound

you're getting to my point so we're headed to say I guess when I get to seven I'll probably get a new phone right now we just have to or you could just throw it in the water like that and be done with it just have people chunk it too much trouble $1,200 would you chunk

$1,200 in the water and just say I wouldn't spend $1,200 on something like that it's great to do more what it's doing, vibrating on my leg. That ain't worth 1,200, Jace. It's the value of the vibration. I actually agree

with that. I mean, 1,200. That's a lot of money. Let's take a break. My first truck cost a thousand. Is the next one you get, will it top 1,200? I'm just guessing that it is. I mean... I don't know the current prices of Phil phones.

No, the problem that happens, Dad, is as Jay's described it. So you get a phone, it works. You know, you figure out how to make it work. Then they upgrade it. What about a person who goes through life? They make it better by destroying it. Then you've got to buy a new phone.

What about a person who goes through life? And he never is awakened or disturbed by buzzing sounds. He's a thing with him. He doesn't have that thing. So he's not tuned into it at all. Would it be more peaceful without it? than with it. It's just a question.

I don't know. Most people have a cell phone, and I said, would it be more peaceful for you if you didn't have that to worry with, to talk to, to start, to finish,

to charge, would it be just better just roll through life? You'd probably be more peaceful and less informed. Yeah. And less... But less informed about what?

Well, you know, you said, well, you wouldn't know anything about the stock market. I said, oh, that just kills me. I mean, you don't know anything about the

robbery, the murder, the killing, the shooting, the rapings, the pillage. You wouldn't know as much. But you didn't have it. But you also don't know what time are going to be. And look, you see pictures, you know, women gyrating. I'm just saying. Technically, you get the same thing from a time. I just smell trouble coming out of that thing, but maybe I'm wrong, looking at it wrong.

They say, yeah, but you've got to get informed, son. I said, women jumping up around and doing what they're doing, I said, look. It's just. All right. I'll give you a check on it. Check mate. Chase gives the red check. Check.

He moved the night to check. Right. Okay. So where were we? I don't know. My phone started reading it. It was chaos. I was thinking, sound the alarm, sound the alarm.

Jesus, I mean, we're right almost to where Jesus dies. Why don't you read? Why don't you read? Just start, instead of reading it all, you can get a big chunk of it. Just start in Matthew 23 and start verse 16, woe to you blind guys. Well, there's seven woes. Seven woes.

And I think we left off because this is brutal. Well, we set it up. Well, he says, you got to remember, the biggest problem here is that these people that he's a gesture right here were elevating themselves

rather than their Lord and Creator. Right. They wanted to look holy. They said it was all about how I look. I worry because I love them. I worry. about modern-day Jews who have access to these texts.

And I'm just worried about them that when they read these texts about themselves, the ones who are still waiting on the Messiah in the world, go to modern-day Israel and stand up and get the best minds you have, religious people, and say, look, y'all, this Messiah, he was a Jew through and through. His disciples were Jews. He's talking to them right here. Don't be like these people, but they are like these people. Well, some.

But when we had the guest speaker a month ago, he had a number of these type teachers of the law and Pharisees. Because he lives in Israel. He is a Jew, and yet he believes in Christ. I love them because I'm known. My heritage come from the Jews, my salvation comes from the Jews. Phil, he had a list of one after another who did put their faith in Jesus. So it doesn't, I mean, I'm grafted in, you all are too, Gentiles grafted in to the

Jewish tree. They're the root of the tree that Romans 12 and 13 and over you say, well, but, but the ones that were targeted to be the author of salvation are the Jews. But you read these woes and you're like, good night. But you think about though, dad, think about it. He, that's only, the were only to get Jesus here. Jesus himself said we go all the way back to Abraham, which is pre-Jew, that says we are people of faith. I mean, Abraham was the father of the faithful. So really, we've been joined together in the notion of faith

from even before Judaism. Jesus came along because the Jews carried him through their heritage, and that's the reason he chose to come that way. The seed line, the sea and the timeline was all Jewish. That's right. There were a lot of people when I went to Israel that it was evident. They embraced Jesus' Lord. I mean, it was just, it was a part of the fabric of society.

So I'm just saying, I'm taking a more positive spin on it because, I mean, God wants everybody to be safe. That is the overall arching message of this. Now, he chose, I think he chose a nation, just like he chose a temple. In the Old Testament, he was giving you the shadow that he wants to have relationships with people. Right. I mean, that was the, in every situation where God dwelt in a nation, in a temple, on a mountain. He wanted to connect with people. And that eventually brought Jesus in the ultimate way to connect.

So how do you describe Jesus being so, this is almost the names he's calling him. snakes brood of vapors I mean hypocrites I mean he's hypocrites he's using wordage that

that he's been it seems rather brutal well he says in verse 33 how will you escape from being condemned to hell that's pretty straightforward but I think it's all

but he's making the case remember that I've made the case for who I am if you reject me you have no way in he's still saying he is the way, right? I guess you're right. I mean, he's saying in amongst all they, look, I am the way.

And I think he's using graphic language. I love the way he described. Actually, your fear and worries are no different than Jesus's work. You remember when he rode into town and into Jerusalem, when you read the Luke account of that, he wept. Yeah. I mean, he looked at and said Jerusalem because he saw what was going to happen in 40 years down the road. And he thought, man, you're going to miss it unless you know, I mean, you know, the only one, you know, the only one, we we we we wept a couple of times in the Bible that we, the time we read about it. So he felt that way about his people too. And then Paul said,

I would rather be cut off and accursed and let you make it. I mean, that's how much he longed for the Jewish people too. So you're not the only one that's had a heart for that. Jesus did and so do it. Let's take a break, yeah. It starts off saying he was talking to the crowds and to his disciples. And then he made a transition in verse 8. because, I mean, he started saying the Pharisees, you know, they like the places of honor and they tie up heavy loads, but they won't, you know, lift a finger.

They're hypocrites, basically. They don't practice what they preach. They love to be greedy in the marketplace. But then he looked at disciples in the crowd and said, but you are not to be called rabbi for you only have one master and our brother. I mean, he was, so it's not like this whole thing was directed at just them, because he made a practical application. When you go around, remember who you're representing. This is not about you.

So he did take this little time out in verse 8 to 12. That's what I was going to read. Because it says, the greatest verse 11 among you will be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Now, to me, that's the global message to all humanity, the past, present, and future, no matter what nationality.

There is a central theme and rule to this whole thing that applies to not only Pharisees, teachers, the law, the crowds, the disciples, modern day religion, future generations. And is it not true? Whoever exalts himself will be humbled,

and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. I guess that's the point I was trying to get to is I was saying, and it's not just about the Pharisees. He's just making an example of, I would say the majority maybe, if you wanted to get a number. So then he comes up with seven woes.

The first one's 13 and 14. Yep. Woe to you, teachers of the law, Pharisees, you hypocrites. You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. well, so let's just keeping our global principle for whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

If you're making judgments on people's salvation, based on who you think you are, as in exalted to a point, I would say that would be a dangerous thing to be doing based on. Well, look, he says, what he's, the redneck way of saying is don't block the door to the kingdom. always err on the side of grace. By the way you act, if you're blocking the door to the kingdom, how many people have you heard, and this is outside of Judaism, but this is a modern day Christianity, how many people have you heard say,

well, yeah, I just gave up on all that because there was, you know, that thing, the church was full of hypocrites, so I'm out. I mean, I hear it a lot. Now, that may not be fair. It may just be some person's heart, but I'm saying, however you're living and acting, what people see in your life,

is blocking the door to the kingdom, then you need to change. Or if you just say you're not welcome here or... Or we don't recognize you. The only thing in the Bible that you can make a point on is if somebody, you know, you go to First and Second Corinthians, where you have someone living a sinful lifestyle openly in the name of Jesus, you know, open rebellion.

And I don't mean where it's, you know, if there's any doubt, you offer forgiveness in God's grace and you welcome people into the kingdom. but if there's someone openly living a sinful lifestyle claiming to be a follower of Jesus, you say, well, wait a minute here. And you're not necessarily blocking them out of the kingdom. You're just saying this is obvious

because Glacinuson 519 says the accidental nature obvious. But I mean, that's the one exception. In this case, that's not what was going on. They were, for whatever reason, he's already said they weren't trying to lift a finger to help people. and now they're appointed themselves as Godlike, and they're saying who's in and who's out based on what, Al. Oh, well, just, I mean, they're...

Whatever. He goes on to say you travel over land and sea to win a single convert. It's the second one. Well, this is the second one. Yeah, what's going on? You travel down and see to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make... This is rough.

This is tough. You make him twice as much a subject. of hell as you are. This is the hellfire and brimstone version. But I will say this. You know, what do we do? If you skip to modern day, we point people to Jesus and all for grace.

We don't know men's hearts and thoughts. You know, Jesus does. And so what I have a problem is is when men who have exalted themselves try to preach a sermon like this. Right. it doesn't usually end well. And look, what he's talking about is,

from the Jewish perspective, is they would, the word is proselytize people from other countries to accept Judaism, except Yahweh, God, accept the law. And so he's saying, you go to all this trouble to get somebody in,

to understand who God is, and then you turn around and make them think it's about them like you think it's about you. In other words, what he's saying is, don't draw people to yourself for the way you're acting,

you've got to do something bigger than that. And he says it in a bold way. Yeah, all right. This next one's a little more difficult. So the next one says, woe to you, this verse 18, blind guides,

you say, if anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing. But if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath. You blind fools, which is greater, the gold or the temple

that makes the gold sacred. You may also say, if anyone swears, by the altar, it means nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by it. You blind, man, which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred. Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.

Now, to me, to me, it's a lot, he says a lot, but you can boil it down to one simple thing. Don't value a gift more than the one the gift is given to. I mean, the idea is, they were looking at everything coming in and seeing more value in that than who it was given to, which is. That's why I came up with the refrigerator salesman, which was kind of, ha, ha, ha, ha. But if it's not plugged into a power source, you've missed it. It's not going to work. Well, it won't work. And you can argue about all the features on why this one is better and what it can do.

But in the end, you know, it comes down to you have one job. And it better be a function of you being plugged into the power source who gives all life. Now this is one, let's take a break. This is one, Jace, that modernizes quite well because we hear this a lot. If it's more about the gift and the giving and the building and the building and and how nice everything is and the more flashy everything. If it becomes about all those things instead of who we're worshipping, which, let's face it, it happens.

It happens. Then you're missing the point of what he said. The gift can't be held higher than God. That's right. I mean, I've said it thousands of times when somebody says, you know, if I just had a miracle, I would believe. I'm like, you have one who offered himself and he works miracles.

He's bigger than the miracle. Or if they say, you know, if I just had a nice house, we have one who can build you a house. He's a house builder. If you just do that in every situation, it always works. It always goes back to the one who should be exalted and the one who should be humble. God should be exalted.

We should be humble. All the stuff in between doesn't matter. matter. So next one, verse 23, woe do you teach the law of Pharisees, hypocrites, you give a tenth of your spices, he names them, but you have neglected the more important matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former. You blind guides, you strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel. That's a great illustration. You're after the little things, but then you swallow the big one. You know what I find...

It's interesting about that, Jay says. He says the more important matters of the law, and he talks about justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You don't typically put those three concepts in with law, but it shows you how that's what's most important, that what's right and what's good. So the way I put it is don't major and minors. I mean, so many people spend so much time

living out the minors and they miss the major. That is true. It happens all the time. And so what's happening for those guys, too? Or do the next one, Dave. All right, 25. What do you teach the law of Pharisees, hypocrites? You clean the outside of the cup and dish,

but inside they're full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside will also be clean. So do 27, 28, because this is really a part one and part two. It says the same thing. He says, you're like white-washed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way on the outside, you appear to people as righteous, but on the inside you're full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

So, you know, when I think of this one, I think of the idea, like when I was in Boston earlier this year, people were out there just combing the cemeteries because, you know, there were all these famous patriots buried there that we read about. about in American history and all that. And I was watching them walk around, everybody was reading the stuff, and I thought, just like what he's talking about, everybody was interested in the tombstone and who it says was here, but nobody was thinking there was just underneath was just what was left of bones and whatever. Not so illustrious.

That's the way he described who we are if we focus on the outside and not the inside, which was the whole point. Back to my refrigerator illustration. So let's say you have your refrigerator full of food and you accidentally. or something happens where it's unplugged. Now on the outside, and even the smell, there might be a hint. You wouldn't smell it, but you would think, well, what a beautiful refrigerator.

But when you opened it up, especially after a couple weeks in the hot summertime, I've known that when the hurricane went through. Oh, yeah. My refrigerator looked fine. And I just thought, well, maybe if I'll keep the door closed, it'll keep it cool. No.

When I pop that thing open every, about three or four days, an immediate gag reflex happened. Just all ruined. But you never would have known it by looking. And I mean, when you look at people's lives, we don't know that. So when you go to church, guess what? They're a hypocrite sitting all around you. It's part of the deal.

And it's not our job to try to police them all. I mean, we don't know. We offer grace and forgiveness. They've got to stumble up on these types of passages in Jesus' sermon and say, you know what? Who am I trying to kid? You know, I've got dead man's bones here. Wickling it's evil.

I mean, I think that's obvious that that's going on, but it's not obvious who those people are. This is where it comes to each person is responsible for their relationship with God and be honest. You may fool us. You may fool the church, but you're not going to fool God. Yeah, and again, that's a great modernization when you see people that only are focused on how they look.

They'll say, I go to church. church. I do this, I do that. Now, mention the handful of things that are seen, but what about the inside of who you are? I mean, do you really, are you really all in on Jesus? And it's hard for people to recognize it, because you get so in the habit of acting one way in front of a group people, and then you have to have a moment somewhere where you're like, what am I doing? That's right. An honest assessment. Yes, you've got to be staring at the ceiling one night thinking, who am I trying to kid? You're not going to kid the omnipotent Almighty God. It's not. It's not, going to work. And based on hearing this, that would be terrible if you live a lie, your whole

Christian life. And I mean just inwardly, you're self-indulgent and wicked, and then you stand before God. Can you imagine that encounter? I would not want that. So next one, woe to you. You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, and you say, well, now, this is just famous humanity here. Tell you what. If we lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets. So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up then the measure of the sin of your forefathers. That's harsh. But you know, look, we've been to everybody's hindsight is 20 and 20. You know, if I tell you what,

and if that had been me, I mean, that's a famous human flaw is to say what you. You're you would have done. Well, what he's showing them is, is the same spirit that was there throughout all of Jewish history, when God would raise somebody up that had a message they didn't like, that their answer was shut him up. And now we're getting to Jesus, and he's the fulfillment of all those prophets, and he goes into that next section of text saying, you're about to do that to me. That's right.

Because I'm the one. But I'm saying there's an underlying point here. People always love to look at other people's flaws. or missed steps and say, well, I wouldn't have done that. But don't, why don't you just look at yourself? What do you need to do instead of looking back saying, well, we wouldn't have done that? I mean, look, would it have been a struggle? If you put us in this situation back in a day where all of a sudden the Savior of the world comes in a manger from a town that's not known for anything,

and he built houses and he's claiming me the son of God, it would have been a difficult venture. to say, you know what, I'm going with this. So, okay. So then he calls them snakes again in verse 33. How will you escape being condemned to hell? I think the answer to that was you're not going to escape unless something, you know, repentance here. Therefore, I'm sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you kill, crucify, others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue them from town town.

Which they're going to do. Yep. So upon you will come the righteous blood. that has been shed on earth, and he goes back to what happened to Abel to Zachari, whom you murder between the temple and the altar. I tell the truth. And 36, this is the key verse.

This is a key verse. This is a key verse, because it says, this will come upon this generation. It's going to happen in the near future. Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen, gathers your chicks,

under our wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. And then he gets into this signs of the end of the age is what my little title says, but it actually, he addresses Jerusalem's temple.

Where is that verse in here where it says, well he said verse two of chapter 24 do you see all these things yes I tell you the truth not one stone here will be left on another everyone will be thrown down it sounds like Stephen

in Acts chapter 7 the most high does not live in house is made by men as the prophet says heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstew what kind of house will you build for me right

Well, he's already referenced about the stones, too, that he is the temple and that what he's going to raise him. He did that, John. But I just want to say a lot of people go to Matthew 24 and 25 and 26, which is what's coming up, and they talk about when Jesus comes back from the future of right now. But, you know, when you read 23 and he dresses all these religious leaders, and then he singles out Jerusalem verse 37 and 23,

and then 24, you actually point into the temple and say, Well, that was a historical event that happened in AD 70. And we'll talk about that next time. But one thing I'm sure of, that's part of the judgment that he's addressed. What happened in AD 70 is part of the upcoming judgment. No doubt about it. And you're right, because he sets it up in verse 34 and 35 when he says, you're going to do this to this next generation,

meaning his disciples and the believers. So we'll get into it. I'll say this as we close, that last woe, the way I put it is, whatever you do, don't miss Jesus. I mean, that's the final woe. Don't miss Jesus because that's what they're missing. So we'll come back and expand further next time. Thanks for listening to the Unashamed podcast. Help us out by rating us on iTunes.

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