Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 402 | Why Jase Struggled to Make Friends in High School & Willie Cannot Cook Using a Recipe

Episode Date: January 2, 2022

Al and Jase discuss Willie's incessant need to add ingredients to any recipe he uses. Phil and Al talk about Miss Kay's birthday and the one time Phil went shopping to buy her a gift. Jase explains how Si's complaining about the placement of decoys almost ruined their no-arguing streak. Jase and Al look at the past year and how rapidly their family is expanding. Jase describes why he was lonely in high school and how his friends turned on him due to his faith. Jase and Phil discuss why you get two ears and one mouth. And Phil points out the parallels between cancel culture and what is seen in Matthew 26. 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? So we're working a little bit ahead. This episode is going to air January 2nd, I think. Is that right? Josh, Gade. But we're still a little bit before Christmas, so we're going to get a little bit of a time off,

because we don't want to be filming during the holidays. Exactly. Everybody takes some time off and they clear their head. Enjoy our Christmas. So happy New Year on the episode, but we're still not quite there yet. If we make it. If we make it, that's right.

If the Lord comes back, this is going to be really some episode for the ages. We can watch it in heaven. We could. But I think we'll be busy doing other things. Yeah, I think so, too. There's a lot of questions. I got a lot of questions from heaven. So we just had the Jepico's in town.

I saw. So we're going to do a, we're having a big birthday bash, which actually this is the second year in a row. I'd forgotten last year. we actually filmed a little bit. Dad gave mom as far as I know the first like big present

you'd ever gotten her. You and Philis went and actually bought her a something, necklace maybe? Florida Lee. Do you remember that? That was last year today.

They actually filmed it. Yeah, we filmed it because it was such a happening. It was the first. You're probably good for 10 years. I mean, that was. You waited 50 to purchase some jewelry, so I'm figuring.

At this point, that may not be going to put off, you know, decades. I mean, do you have a backup plan for this year? What are you going with this year, Phil? No. That was her birthday. Today is 21st? It is. My woman is about 70.

She's about 74. You need to nail. As I said, he nailed it. He nailed it. I was fixed to say, we need to nail that down before the party. Yeah. And now he got it, 74. So we're going to have a big feed at our house tonight, which is so this will, I guess this is the official kickoff to the Christmas week for the Robertsons.

A lot of food. Always a big feed. Always a big feed. So last year, we did it at the house and we did that, but I don't know how we'll top it. Jepico's back. Jep's moving back to Louisiana, which we're excited about that or is planning to this summer, which is kind of nice to have the airing Texan back. in the foe, which would be good. Yeah, what was really disturbing last night,

I was playing cards. And my wife sent me, it said, schedule, colon. And every day from now, all the way to almost New Year's Day. You're booked? It's incredible. So I don't usually do the meme thing. Yeah. But I found this...

I like to do me. I found this kid. He looks about one years old, and it just says right below him. He's sitting on the couch. It says, me. And he just falls over asleep on the couch.

Nothing violent. He literally was so sleepy. He just fell over. And that was you. And so I sent that to her. And then she was, she sent me like the most touching, like almost surreact.

You know, with great blessings comes great responsibility. I'll be there by your side each step of the way. And like lots of... What she mapped out for you to do. Yeah, lots of hearts. I don't operate like that. Kisses. Your mother would come to me and say, listen, I mean, it looks like a lot of coming and going here.

Well, I mean, it's all good stuff. You know, you want to do like one of these? I was actually thankful that I know a schedule. You went like all ten of them or whatever. Yeah, but you got, so you're probably making a track at some point. Well, they're coming here. Okay. The family.

So, I mean, like, she's like Friday night. You're cooking, you know, our family. Saturday morning, you're cooking breakfast. Right. You know, that's Christmas Day, which. That's your traditional non-hunt day. Yeah. Well, you know what?

Last year, she said, knock yourself out, just be back. Oh, because it was just y'all, yeah. until I was like, okay. So, I mean, that is one day that I will take off if she like. I figure if I hunt 59 days and she never says a complaining word, I'll take one day and I'll cook breakfast and have Christmas together. I kind of enjoy it. So we do a, I don't know, I guess we've talked about it for one here. We do kind of a seafood, Cajun food Christmas,

because most people kind of do a rerun. We used to do a rerun of Thanksgiving with the turkey and the ham and all that. But, you know, I kind of feel like we did that. So it's kind of nice. We fry shrimp. Oh, yeah. Well, you've got to have the Cajun Christmas. Fried oysters.

I started on that early when we got, Stone said, you know, you don't start the podcast of 11 o'clock. It's 10, 20. Let's go get, that's it. Let's go fry some oysters right now. And you say you had a bucket of oysters? I said, yeah. he said let's do it right now well by the time I got there he had degrees

you've already eaten oysters the peanut the peanut oil was on when I stepped inside the thing and I got the oysters well I appreciate the heads up yeah I missed that memo oysters for breakfast Martinez and stone yeah and Cy was there side dragging up in the rear

you know he heard about them oysters he said hmm did he eat any you all did they eat any I was wondering if I was ate, they didn't eat but a gallon. But I mean, you know what I mean? I told me, I said a gallon.

The whole thing. The whole carton. And then I had some raw ones last night. I bought some, and got some boiled shrimp. And man, they were good. I mean, this time,

you know, this is prime time for worship. We've had them a couple days. I've been eating them raw. Just just right out of, you know. Canal. Little sauce, yeah. Yeah.

But we, I haven't, but they needed to be fried. I mean, know quick right right right I went to the fried oyster today that's well the last podcast I said that side and one of the reflection reflections was you know about me being a grandpa and I hadn't had an argument with sigh he went right to the line this morning it was like he somebody

whispered in his ear that I was bragging your years the more they mount he'll you'll see more of that well he went right to the line because it you know he said you boys you put in these decoys over in front of y'all so and i said what's your point and what was his line he said you've got the decoy it almost rhymed you've employed the decoys to benefit you i didn't know what that meant i said what i didn't notice that about the decar spread it's just right well most of the decoys this morning were in front of y'all and i was like exhibit A, whatever you're talking about. No duck got out of their alive this morning.

No, we got them all. So apparently the decoys were placed just right. Well, but he was saying. There was, but whatever came by, nothing left there alive. But times are hard because we saw about, you know, well, about eight to ten ducks and we killed them. That was it. Now, but what almost sparked the argument was I said, I can't help it if the dead ducks

are piling up on my side. I said, trust me, it has nothing to do with the decoys. So I said, here's a news flash. You know, I'm killing most of the ducks anyway. Well, he says that all the time. So for our viewers, the dollars said, hunting, Sa is shooting the equivalent of a pop gun. He's the only man in the blind if I was standing in the decoys,

and I was to get shot. I would say, I choose, Si. And I really don't think it would hurt me. Because it's just a pot, because he doesn't want the recoil. Right. So he's shooting a really lightweight shot. A small gun, and then he's claiming ducks at 100 yards. All right.

You can't, yeah. Because if you shoot simultaneously with someone else, it gives you the illusion that you killed it. Yeah. So no matter what happens, especially the way he size. He basically just gets up, boom, boom, bump, sets a gun. Well, he looks at what's falling and he says, because then.

When he said, every time I pull the trigger, ducks fall. But, you know. Well, today, that doesn't necessarily make. Three men on your ride. There's a lot of gunfire going on. Today, the furthest duck that fell, he claimed it was a wood duck. I didn't shoot it, but I saw multiple shots ring out. Well, the rest of the morning, so I said, yeah, that one I cut out there at about a hundred.

Which means a hundred dollars. I didn't argue with him, but I'm the one that I'm the one. You know what's funny? When he brought up, he said he did it out. Jay said the same thing. Yeah, that he didn't notice. So Jay was going through my schedule this morning that I got for my lovely wife. And Jay noted, he's like, what?

What? You made yourself a schedule? I was like, no, my wife made that schedule. He's like, yeah. Well, one of them was our cousin getting married. Yeah. And I was like, oh, no, I will be there. Because Missy said, yes, you're going on this.

And Jay is like, and we know, I mean, she is the mom of the bride. is just one of the most graceful, yeah, awesome. Character women on the planet. And I was like, if you have that kind of character and that kind of joy, I was like, I'm going to your daughter's wedding. Who is the daughter? Lulu, it's Lulu's daughter.

Yeah. Lulu's daughter. Yeah. And so look, here's Jay. What did he say about that? He's like, well, I'd plan on not going to that. And I say, why? He said, because if two people are dumb enough to get married in Doug Seasons,

I don't want to support that. What a mindset. So I gave, so I spoke the truth in love. I said, you need to repent and be more like Jesus because that is terrible. The only time I've ever come close to that sort of thinking is when I was doing, in 2019, the OSU's championship year, I was doing. Johanna Godwin's wedding on the night of the LSU Alabama game. And I was like, you know, Johanna, I love you.

I helped raise you. But you have put me to the test. I mean, and the wedding was scheduled right as the game is going on. So in the handful of people that did come were out there, I all saw it. They're watching it on their phone, you know. And I'm trying to, it's hard to do a wedding and you're trying to figure out what the score of the game. That was a bit.

That's when somebody during the process, in that case, somebody should have You know what? We love you and we're supporting your marriage, but how about let's move it two hours. Let's move one way or the other. Well, yeah, or two hours. I mean, I move it two hours. I'm just noticing, you know,

but I guess it goes to go with the territory. As your children, then your great-grandchildren and then your great-grandchildren coming along, what happens is the birthday schedule begins to start filling up quite a few calendar days. Right. You know, I mean, it's... Well, it's the same...

Between the birthday parties and then the Christmas and New Year, I mean, I mean, it's something. It was the same problem. Marriages. Well, it's the same problem we had last year, Dad, on the Christmas is we kind of, mom has always ordered the seafood stuff. Well, last year, and then we had a couple of years where we had, you know, we were for whatever reason we were in town, but we were back at your house last year. And you don't realize how big. our family is out. I mean,

with all the extra people that are married in now. And so you're frying shrimp. I mean, we're having our normal thing. And I look up, when there's people still coming in, I'm looking at the pile of shrimp just going down.

I was like, this, we ain't going to cover it. Whoever's in life is going to get what the little boy shot at, which is what great is it. So the last three or four, Jay and was deer hunting or something. He came in.

I said, well, we got a little sausage over there. I remember that because I, you know, I have about six, pounds of boiled shrimp coming that will be there in about 10 pounds of fried shrimp. And I hope that makes it, but that's a lot of shrimp.

16 pounds of shrimp. That's a lot of shrimp. That's a lot of shrimp. But I'm telling you, like, and these newest Willie's additions to his family, this Christian and Jacob, the one of married to Sadie and Bella, you talk about eat. You know, in Christian, I mean, he looks like his body looks like a greets, treat God, you know, it's like Achilles or somebody, but that man can put away some food. I mean, they're big eater.

So I told Willie, I said, well, you're going to have to start contributing and bringing like a big dish just because of your... Well, Phil, calls him a guillian, man. A slum guillian. A guillian. Throw everything in the pot and cooking for a couple hours and shovel it up. Well, at least ashamed him. We had a group text going about the food to night.

It's a slum guillian. What's the difference in a guillian and a slum guillian? Slum gullum. You know, slum. Just think about it. It'll come to you. The slum goreling is when you look at it, you say, what the world is that? You just got land blasted on that one.

I mean, it's still not registering at all. I've never heard that term. While you're looking at that up, let's take a brain. Well, actually, there is a slum. Gullian stew. That's what I'm talking about. This is, you know, you need to widen your service.

The podcast. I know you're into the internet and all that stuff. I'm not into it. It's just, okay, it's a noun. The podcast has turned into a vocabulary lesson for Jay's style.

All right, it's a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, et cetera. Yeah. Well, that's a poor definition. Well,

the et cetera. It's the slum part of the gullion, I think. You are correct. A beverage made weak or thin as watery tea, coffee, or the like. So I guess it's a combination of that. You know, these people are right. Nothing about coffee. That was number two.

That's an alternate. So I guess you could order a drink. People get now, they get their drinks, and, you know, if you look to what's in them, you're like, whoa. That's a slum guillian. You don't know what's in there. That's right. Which that's the idea is, but Willie's always been like that.

Willie is, he'll take something and it's perfect. And he'll say, this is the best thing ever ate. But then when he cooks it, he's got to add. That's right. He cannot do it without adding his own signature. That's correct. So I'll start eating someone's like, man, Willie, this is great. But what is all this?

And he said, well, I thought this would, I thought I'd add this. And he just keeps adding. And, I mean, it's. Yeah. Yeah, here's the key part of the definition. It's usually made. It's usually made. from whatever is on hand there you go there you go I don't like how this is I don't

like that means rummaging through the fridge or raider to get you know a little more stuff out of it I would love it say you know it's time to eat this I mean it's been in here a while I try we would go to a church function and somebody had tell dad you know because we were always really finicky and funny about it but they'd tell dad's yeah I had a bunch of stuff in my fridge it was about to go bad so I put it all together in a big casserole. I want you to try it, Mr. Phil. Why would people do that?

I said, yeah, I'll get right on that. Miss Kay, why don't you? Get over there and try that. Yeah, that's pretty funny. But, yeah, so food obviously is a big part of the holiday tradition with the Robertsons, especially this particular week. Jesus and food, how can you go on? So speaking of the wedding, I'm doing stepping in, the guy that was originally supposed to do

the wedding can't. Oh, so you're doing it. So I was the backup. Lisa and I have been doing Claire and Grant's premarital. You know, it's interesting, Jay's, because we did premarital counseling with couples for years. And so now I don't really do it anymore. We're on the road. But like for family, you know, so when Grant and Julie got married last year, our nephew, we did theirs.

So the last two I've done have been done via Zoom. Seriously? Yeah, because they live in other places. Like because Claire lives one place, Grant lives another place, and we were in Alabama. So this one that's coming up is going to be Zoom? No, the premarital was it. Oh, pre-marital. I thought you were talking about.

But it's just weird. You know, it's weird because it shows you a technology, but it was great because you don't, you think in a way you'd lose something by doing it that way, but you really don't. I mean, it's a full conversation. You get to know the couple. Yeah, I don't think we're ever going back to not having meetings via the Zoom or on the internet. Well, actually, it's a blessing for Dad because his book is really.

releasing in February, but I don't think they're ever going back to like everybody flies to New York. You might as like used to when you do a book thing. I mean, it's a week of just getting after. You know, I did a few weeks of youth events all on Zoom. It's just all the little square to look like Hollywood squares, but just a much bigger square. And you were just preaching at the computer. And they're all muted somehow. I mean, I don't know how all the practical ways of work. And I told them. Then after it's over, they kind of opened the blood gates. And it's, but it's pretty fun. So for me this week, I mean, I'm a volunteer. I'm a lay minister now.

I don't get paid. Man, you're talking about I feel like a full-time job. So I had three sermons this week, three podcasts, and now a wedding. And they're mixed in there, too. That's a week. That's good. It's noble of you today. Yeah.

That's just what I do. So this last Sunday, I preached on this section of text they were in. So I thought I just, I tried out on y'all and see what you thought. And you're a brave. person because we're going to tell you what we think that's right i'm not afraid jays so i called i called this text the king's betrayal we kind of in white sra wrote we kind of had a king theme throughout the book of matthew because there's so much about his approach about and the kingdom the kingdom right yeah we've had several podcasts about the kingdom is at hand the kingdom is near right this is fixed

to happen next time i see you kingdom time kingdom time so in matthew more than he any of the other gospels, he really stressed it more, wouldn't you say? I mean, the whole idea about the lineage and the king. Which we keep going back to Daniel, too, 44 and 714, but those are powerful things for our faith that Daniel, via the Holy Spirit and through dreams, he was making these predictions about the coming kingdom, and they came true. Right. It just didn't look like what all humans, pretty much all humans,

felt like it should look like right I mean we they everybody here in the context was thinking well when are we gonna start whooping Rome and when are we gonna shut down all these other kingdoms and but God and his wisdom through his spirit being poured out showed you that the most powerful force on earth would be the Holy Spirit of God right yeah when you start looking at the qualities of God and you have that spirit in your inner being, you just think about how powerful that makes you. All right. You can't be held responsible for your mistakes because God forgave you in Jesus, even if you

were locked up under man's law and broke a law. Right. And you can't be killed in a way that you won't return because of the spirit, the Romans 811, the same spirit that rose Christ from the dead is living in you. It will give life to your mortal being. Let me just think about that. That was his plan because a lot of people's like, well, what exactly is the kingdom?

Yes, it's where God reigns, but it's also what makes it the greatest kingdom ever is we have a spirit of the Almighty God in us. Right, exactly. That's a pretty good point Peter makes. Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth, so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, speaking of the spirit,

but of imperishable through the living and enduring word of God. You know, boy, you're talking about a statement. You're giving seed the Holy Spirit that's immortal. Right. And by the way, that was written down by the man who denied Jesus three times on the night of his death. So what struck me, Jason, about this section of scripture when I was preparing for it was how Jesus had been a part of not only his little community of disciples and people we've been teaching, but he also has close friends. He's been going back and forth to Bethany during this week. That's where Mary and Martha and Lazarus live.

And so, you know, he was anointed. Then they had the Lord's supper. So he's preparing himself for what's about to happen. But when he gets to the garden, what struck me about what happens in this next night until they crucified is how alone he was. I mean, it's almost foreboding. It's so alone. And, you know, it starts in the guard.

But even with the father, there's almost like a distance there because he's like, I'm going to have to go through this. And so I just feel like looking back when you realize what Jesus did, and he basically did it completely by himself. I mean, because the disciples desert him here in this next. Oh, yeah. Everybody's gone. So no support system. That's why, you know, Paul said in Romans, you know, when he was talking about the fall of man, when it says he used that quote from the Old Testament, or it says there's no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

A lot of people read that in Romans 3, and they're like, man, that's so depressing. But at some point in all human's lives, once we become an adult, we all go through, I mean, we all basically leave Jesus stranded. Yeah. We just, we come up with our own narrative of life,

and this is my life, and nobody's going to tell me what to do, or however that comes out. That's why when, you know, know, you're making that point. It truly, he was the only one at the time who got it. I mean, he was like, this will work. Yeah.

And that's what everybody else is the light. There's no way this is going to work. And there's almost it was against all odds. That's right. So let's take another break. So my point was, and this, you could put this for anything, the path to the right place, which is what Jesus does. He's been saying all along, I know what I got to do.

I'm going to die. I'm going to be raised. So the closer he gets to the end of this, where we're going, the lonelier it gets. And I thought, well, that's the way it is with everybody. You think about when you're asked to do the right thing, usually a lot of people aren't lining up to do it with you. I mean, there's usually people working against you. Yeah, I'm one of the few people, I guess, in our inner circle that I came to Jesus at a very young age and was serious about it. And the number one memory I have of high school,

it's not where I went to school, what I did, my extracurricular things I got into, or sports, or wasn't friends. Number one thing stood out, loneliness. Yep. Because you can't, I didn't play the game. It just, once they backed me into a corner of like, either come, you know, be a hellbreaker like us,

I just, now I wasn't perfect and I made mistakes, but I just didn't run. And you just, you get cold. Yeah. Not like, oh, we're, you know, we're not hanging around you. You just look up with that. Your friends desert you. That's right. You're just lonely.

I mean, it was, it was two or three years of just very few friends. Because you were, because you were committed to doing the right thing, which is, that's a great little strategy. I didn't even think about you, which, by the way, I, I don't. I talked to Blake Sunday, who's the first guy that you led to Christ. So he's still around. I did his wedding 30 years ago this February. You know, well, you mentioned this last week. We talked about there wasn't much written about the boyhood of Jesus.

But over here, he's talking to Ahas, whoever that is. Somebody smarter than me would have to know it. But he's talking to him in Isaiah 7. He said, therefore the Lord himself. will give you a sign. The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and will call him Emmanuel,

which means God with us. He will eat curds, listen to this. He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread would be laid waste so so he he mentions his boyhood right

other words as soon as it came time i guess for your conscience to develop and develop to a young boy from that time on i mean he well you know it's interesting i mean he he got lined out sure enough no it's interesting you brought up blake i mean he was one of the things that got his attention was i asked him to be in my wedding and we had gone two different directions. Yeah. I mean, in our life. And he was, he was,

when I asked him to be a part of the wedding, he was like, well, why? I was like, well, just because we've gone in two different directions, because he was, I mean, just running wild. I was like, it doesn't mean, you still weren't one of my best friends and are. Yeah. I mean, we just,

we went too different. I want you to celebrate this with me, you know? Well, that, that week, getting ready for my. wedding because I've gone on record meantime I wasn't you know my my wife I'd already told her next time I see you will be at the altar so I mean I literally went three months without seeing it I can keep my hands off of so I'm like I'll just meet you you took the we're not going to see you the day or wedding into the quarter before the way yeah I just like you know what if you change your mind let me know but other than that

that's a bold move jays out actually my first thing thought when she, you know, everybody stands up. I was like, what's going on? They're like, oh, no, this is customary. She comes in, everybody rises up. And I'm like, man, my first thought was, I have not seen her in forever. Here she comes. But that week turned into me and him just having spiritual conversation after spiritual

conversation. And I mean, that was like the pivotal moment for him. Well, you're going to love what he told me, Sunday. So he said, you remember 28 years ago, we studied with, and he said two guys. Yeah. And I was like, no, Blay on Mary. I said, we studied a lot of people back in those days. He said, well, I just want to let you know, it's working on them.

And I was like, really? And he said, yeah. And he told me about this guy. He said, they never really came around. He said, but this guy's doing a prayer thing. And he said, you know, he said, the gospel never comes back void. And I just thought, man, listen. I mean, that's the ultimate, right?

It's the guy that got it. It's a great analogy, though, because he just, you go back to wherever you were. And, you know, we had a lot of good times together and all, but we just reached that point to where it just wasn't going to work with. I mean, what are we going to talk about? You know, how hammered you got the night before. It just, so we just kind of drifted apart because of that because I just didn't want to be a part of it. And I was trying to survive. But there is a loneliness in there.

And look, then he had the same loneliness because all this stuff you thought, I remember the first conversation we had, all these things he wanted to do in a simple way, you know, be with a certain girl and run with these certain, you know, people be successful and make money and all that. All of a sudden he's like, I feel just alone. I mean, you go out there and you do it and you think, well, that was. that did nothing but just caused misery and heartache. So that's why I'm saying. It's so strange that you think you're having fun and this is going to be great.

And when you look at it, you have a lot more sympathy and a good sympathy for what Jesus did that he wasn't just hollered at everybody saying, look, I'm trying to convince you. He just, it's why that powerful verse in this process is that he wasn't. he didn't open his mouth in a way to say, let me explain this to y'all. He answered the questions, went through the interrogation, took the beatings, spitting, the whole thing because it was the plant.

Right. Well, and that's so, I mean, that really, so what got me into the lesson, I just watched Braveheart a few, maybe two weeks ago. I hadn't seen it a long time. It was on, so I said I watched the whole thing. And I got thinking about movies.

I was like, because we talk a lot about movies on there. I thought, you know, like most of the movies in my top 10, Mel Gibson either directed him or was in them. And I thought, man, I guess he's like the filmmaker. We talk a lot about Eastwood. But when I was watching Braveheart again, I realized how much he was preparing for the passion, which he would make 10 years later.

Braveheart was made 95. Of course, this is the story of William Wallace. you know, it was this great Scotsman that had rose up, you know, for freedom way back in the old days under, well, they kind of long shanks, you know. And so, but I noticed at the end it was a lot like the story of Jesus because he gets betrayed by this guy that was kind of the only true Scott Royal. And he was trying to get, he's like, look, we can do this. You can lead. And so he winds up stabbing him in the back, you know, literally.

and so that the whole thing just falls flat and he winds up dying. And of course, it's that last scene, you know, they're just disemboweling him in front of all these people, trying to make an example out of it. And his last word he yells out, at least in the movie,

was freedom, you know, and it was like, and so I thought, you know, Gibson was painting this picture that he was this guy, this great figure,

who gave up everything for the freedom of other people. And yet in the end, he was alone, totally. None of his people were with him. There was a couple of guys there in the crowd looking. The woman wasn't with him. Totally alone.

It was a lot like Jesus' story. Well, they had killed his wife. I mean, that's what started. Well, and that was my point. So my point was, William Wallace was motivated to free people because of revenge because they had taken his wife. Well, that was just injustice.

They were just, there was no freedom. Well, and they'd set it up where these nobles would sleep with your wife before you got it. But look, hey, modern day, you know, you talk about oppression. If some official, government official, knocked on my door and said, okay, we're now going to sleep with your wife. Right. Well, I'm fixed to go William Wallace on you.

I mean, we're fixed to have a scrap. Yeah. Right now. Let's take another break. So look, Jay, see how we think of light. There's the next point in my, the lonely path against injustice. Because that's exactly what happened in. William Wallace's case, but then in Jesus's case, what makes it so much more bold is he's not

motivated by revenge. He's not motivated by the injustice. And how could you have any more injustice in what happened to him? Perfect. I mean, whether you're a believer or not, he constantly said, can any of you prove me guilty of sin, which no other human past the past puberty can say. Because somebody could say, yeah. because all have sinned. Right. But even think about the moment when it happened. So in chapter 26.

Before you read that, I remember somebody saying, well, how do you say everybody, how can you prove? I was in a Bible study one time. They said, how can you prove that everybody has sent? Because I was making this similar point. Yeah. I was like, I don't have to prove it. It's true.

Just look around. Well, but I mean, it was like that they were just arguing for the sake of argumentation. just think about, so a lot of times you read something in the Bible and you're like, we only believe that because it's written, which is true in my case because I'm a believer. But it's actually true. Right. It is true. And people are uncomfortable with that because they're like, well, how did all these writers get that right?

I mean, you can be the most wacko, believing person on the planet. But when you start looking at your life, no, there's flaws. it's just and they had it down here and they figured it out was it just by luck chance or is it the truth so so this last opportunity to do it the other way as we talked about last podcast Judas had his mind how it was supposed to be done in verse 50 of course Judas kisses him we talked about that last time and Jesus says friend do what you came for and so he's betrayed him then the men step forward seized Jesus and arrested him. So now we're going.

This is the process. With that, one of Jesus' companions reached for his sword, drew it out, and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear. Now, we know from John 18, that was Peter,

once more, and Pastor was Peter. He's the one that had the sword. He cuts, so he takes a swing at this guy, and I guess the guy turns his head, and he just sliced his ear off. I feel like there's more to this story than written,

but I mean I'm taking what's written but I just you know how do you cut a guy's ear off and that's it I mean it just it was one swing I don't know this guy just got in the way you're talking about wrong place at the wrong time but I thought about it so

but Jesus put the ear back on well that's that's the point when you know it's not a rebellion when you stop and put the guy's ear back on and you also know that if you can do that you probably should listen to what this guy said you probably can't kill a guy who can put your ear off that's what i'd be thinking oh maybe we shouldn't did he really

i could have sworn i thought he had no ear that's what they said that's what they said that's what they said that it must not have been all the way cut off i mean can you think of all the things that people i've cut my ear before i mean i accidentally one time i was hung up in a bush and i flicked a spinner bait and so i was in a boat with me and it hit his ear but he thought it was a bug. So he just reached and grabbed it out, but the hook was in his ear. So he just ripped half his ear off

and didn't even acknowledge it, kept fishing. And I'm telling you in about, I'd say 30 seconds, his white t-shirt was half red. Yeah. It was just blood soaked. I was like, sigh of your ear, mine your ear. And he's like, could not that thing bit me. I thought, should I tell him that I did that with it.

You were making some wild casts. Yeah, but he never figured out that the spinner bait hit him in the ear. He ripped it off. He thought he had been attacked. Well, if you're looking down half your shirt is blood, that would be some kind of pretty good size barmit. Yeah, that thing bit me. We were catching fish.

I'm only saying that story because I think things happen from people's perspective because it just seems like such a crazy place here. Right. He cuts his ear off, he puts it back on,

but then we proceed. And look, think about this. This guy was the servant of the high priest in a few minutes in the story. He's about to be in front of the high priest.

And I said, Sunday, you know, him putting Malchus's ear back on didn't do anything to help him with a high priest. But I bet on Malchus appreciated it. And I said, you know, maybe. Yeah, you got to think he probably became a believer.

That's what I said. So maybe Jesus thought one day he'll need that good ear to hear the gospel. Yeah. You know, which is probably good. He probably was wondering about it. How do you do that? Well, Jesus said many times he who has ears. That's right up, I tell you.

Let him hear. I guarantee you if Marcus was changed. But think, that's an interesting thing he said many times about it. If you have ears, let him hear. And then Peter cuts the year off. It's almost sarcasm or humor. And he's like, I gave you ears, but you know, listen. You know, you're not listening.

What's the old saying? He gave you two ears of one mouth, and yet people usually go the other way. Yep. They talk twice as much as they listen. Well, we were debating about that today because they were making it. Somebody said that when your wife gets older, she talks more. And then somebody else observed, this is what we talk about. about in the duck blind and it was like well maybe that's why you lose your hearing when you get

it seems to all be to have a good relationship at the end you're going deaf and she's talking all the time yeah that way you don't you're not arguing all day and every day because she's talking more i've never actually thought about you and you can hear it's all by because i feel the last because she doesn't lose her hearing well the last women here fine oh yeah but phil i mean i don't to get into your personal business. But the last three or four times I've been out at your house, Kay's been talking to you and you've been staring and it's like you weren't listening.

And I thought, I'm not sure he can hear her. I was hearing it, but I've got in a zone to where it's not going to affect me. And it doesn't hurt her feeling. Y'all are fine with that arrangement. No, she kissed me about it, you know. You don't know what I'm saying. So in other words, he has ears.

At least not here. That's why Jesus said. I now got the point. Why he's like, if you got them up there, I want you to go ahead and use them. Don't you do that to me. So don't do that to Jesus. Let's take our last break. So the point is he tells him in verse 52.

He tells Peter, put your sword back. For all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Again, from my mindset, I was making this comparison between. I just watched this movie Braveheart, It was all about the sword. Yeah. But at the ultimate end, what do you get? You know, you're not going to get what you...

Which is probably why Judas didn't like how Jesus was because it wasn't about the sword. That's right. I mean, you got to think that you get a central theme in here. They kept waiting for this physical assault. Even when we get to Acts 1, are you now going to restore the kingdom? Right. I mean, when are we going to fight? That's right.

it, which was the thing. So I made the point in my sermon that Peter thought he was in Braveheart, but he was really in the passion of the Christ. He forgot his role here. And so he tells him, he says, do you not think that I cannot call on my father and he will at once put at my disposal more than 12 legions of angels? Do you remember what happened when one angel of the Lord went through Egypt one night? I mean, every first first. First born die. Can you imagine what would happen if legions of angels showed up? I really wish I'd have heard this lesson now.

I mean, because I didn't go hear your lesson on purpose. Because I, well, because I knew we were going to talk about. So you purposely stayed away. I didn't want to sit there in criticism. So,

oh, you shouldn't have said that. You shouldn't have said that. But we're thinking just alike. Because I've said that before, too. You know that song, that old song,

it's like, He could have called 10,000. You remember Mason Smith. he used to always lead it, a big old guy. Yeah, and he sang it angrily. Oh, yeah. Like, he could have called 10,000. And I always thought as a kid or, you know, as a,

or was it a kid when I heard it, but a teenager or whatever, I thought, well, he only needed one. What's this 10th out, you know? Yeah. I mean, one angel against as many humans as you want to form. I think the angel, because they're not bound by the same laws of gravity. in nature as we are. That would be pretty destructive.

And every picture we get of an angel in the Bible, not what you get from Hollywood, but from the Bible, these were terrifying beings. I mean, most people fell out like they were dead when they saw one. I mean, mortified,

terrified. So he makes the point, you put away the swords, boys. I mean, I came here to fulfill scripture. And again, my point is,

I keep coming back to it, he knew that what was going to happen. And yet they were continually trying to change and alter what he came here to do. And he kept saying, I came to fulfill. I came to fulfill. So you had the lonely road that was right. You had the lonely. Then I had the lonely road against injustice, which actually then takes us to the next section,

which is in 57. When he winds up in front of the Sanhedron of the chief priest, they've come up with a complete kangaroo court. because the problem is they can't kill him legally because they're not really in charge. The Romans are in charge. Now, which makes perfect sense because you think about it, if you had an occupying force, but you had a religious sect that could decide to kill people, what if they decide to kill you? There's no different than what happens today.

That's right. When you are opposed to someone, they basically just try to whip up the crowd against you. Right. When you can't win the debate of action. ideas. That was a point I made Sunday. I just wrote a book about it. That's right. When you can't win the debate of ideas, you got two choices. One is you can change your mind because you can't win the debate.

So you change or you can form a mob and try to shut up and attack the other person. Jesus was under the council culture's wrath. That's right. The entire time he was there. Exactly. Nothing has changed. Nothing. And I made the point Sunday, Dad, that his cancel culture was much more dangerous.

than our cancer. Very much so. I mean, you know, yeah, their ultimate way to shut you up. It's to kill you. We're getting pretty dangerous.

We're getting there. It's getting there. There's no doubt about it. And I couldn't believe the parallels. I'll point that out in the book. I couldn't believe the parallels that because you're watching these courts and you'll see a court now. You watch a case on TV.

You're watching it. You're just like, truth is so plain. How are these people missing it? But that's what they missed him too. Yep. And so they came up with all these lies. And finally,

the moment of truth, if you want to call it that, comes to the point where he said, He says, I charge, the thing about this, he's telling Jesus. This is the verse 63. Jesus remained silent through all the fake news. Then the high priest said, him, I charge you under oath by the living God. And I thought about that state, but he's talking to the living God. But he tells him, he said, tell me if you are the Christ, the son of God. And then Jesus says, yes, it is as you say, but I'll say to all of you, and this is the double down, in the future,

you will see the son of man sitting at the right end of the mighty one and coming on the clouds of heaven, which takes us back to Matthew 24. What he said was, you're right? Not only am I on the Messiah, but you ain't seen nothing yet. Well, he was kind of subliminally saying, you just think you're in charge. That's exactly right. Judgment is coming. Yep.

And that was his point. And, of course, look at the response. And I mean, did it ever come? Oh, my goodness. And we talked about that over a million. people died. He was introducing a new definition of the word power. That's right. Yep, that's exactly. You think about all these officials. You know, look at our world. It's all about who's in control politically and who has the power and who has the biggest gun and the biggest stick or whatever. And

we're talking about a power here that can levitate and evaporate only to come back and come on clouds and you don't need a plane. I mean, this is laughable. So I'll read this last part because we don't have much time. In verse 65, the high priest, when he hears this, he tears his clothes, which was a custom there, I don't agree with anything you're saying. And he said, he has spoken blasphemy. Why do we need any more witnesses?

Look, now you've heard the blasphemy. What do you think? and they said the people, which again, Jay's back to politicians, they already made his, he already made his mind up. But he asked the people like they're going to say, what if they had said, you know, release him? He is worthy of death, they answered. And you'll like this, Jay's.

I said, you know what made me think of it? Legally, that was not true because he had done nothing wrong. But Jesus said he came to die. So he was worthy of anything that he said he was going to do. I thought about Revelation 5 when they were saying, worthy is the lamb who was slain, worthy of praise, worthy of honor,

worthy of glory. All those things, I thought, he is worthy, but not because of you, and your injustice. That's right. But because of him.

So look at their response. They spit in his face, which is the most vile, disgusting thing. If one of us were to spit in each other's face, we're all family, we love each other. We'd be fighting mad.

Well, that's still today. That's what I'm saying. That's the word saying, they spit in his face, they struck him with their fist, they slapped him, and then they mocked him and they said, prophesied to us, Messiah, who hit you? Yeah, making fun of it. Oh, yeah. It was just such a demeaning, terrible thing.

But, you know, the whole point is this whole lonely path he took. And then later, of course, we'll talk about next time he's before pilot. But it's the same thing. It's people who think they have power. They really have no power. And the biggest thing he had to overcome, you know, emotionally. I guess, even as being a human in this moment, was then all his friends, all his friends leaving. Right.

That's it. Nobody left, but him. Yeah. And he does the right thing, which is very powerful. So, anyway, that's... Which was the thought I had when I came to Christ and my friends left. Well, you know, I felt sorry for myself after a few months. And then the more you spend time with Jesus, you realize, you know, true power.

powers on my side. I mean, you stick this out. Good things come your way that are indescribable compared to the earthly things you can achieve. And I mean, you look what he did. It changed the world. It gave us a vision of God. I mean, that's how he came to know our creator. Right. I mean, what a, what a plan. I mean, it was so awesome that nobody even noticed. Yeah, that's right. You just think about it. The Son of God came to Earth and nobody noticed until he came back. He did it totally alone. So next time we'll pick up when the Romans are going to take over and it's going to be

the very end or they think they're taking over. And we'll talk about the crucifixion. But then we get to the best part and that's the resurrection. Well, this is a good way to start the new year. It's an awesome way to start the new year. That's exactly right. Happy New Year. Thanks for listening to the Unashamed podcast.

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