Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 446 | Phil Compares Life to the Seasons & What Jase Doesn't Understand About Pet Fish

Episode Date: March 20, 2022

Jase shares his thoughts about aquariums, fish inside the house, and the oddity of keeping a fish as a pet. Phil discusses his view of time and of humanity like the flowers of the field, their glory quickly fading away. Al and Jase look at some of the mysteries found in the Bible, such as the use of the word "sleep" after death and the witch of Endor, who summoned the dead for Saul. Jase cracks a joke about branding and late middle-aged people clinging to their youth, and Phil discusses man's glorified state, mentioned in the Bible after the resurrection. Sign up to watch the Unashamed overtime show, only on BlazeTV: https://BlazeTV.com/Unashamed - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? Tom Brady came back. Did he? Yeah. Did you know that, Dad? Oh, yeah. I saw that. So he, Tom Brady was retired for 40 days. He's 44. That money got right. He said, okay.

You know what happened. I don't think it's about the money, Dad. I mean, it could be. You may be right. Who knows with all that? But I think he just got to realize and he's sitting around whatever he's doing. I don't know what you do when you're married to a supermodel. But whenever he was, he just looked up and he thought, you know, it's over. But imagine, I mean, he was still, he's an elite player. He still is.

Hard to give it up. It's just hard to give it up. I think he just looked around and thought, you know, I'm not ready to just. It's still fun. It is. They've got it to where they barely let him hit him now. Right. You can't hit him low and you can't hit him high.

Yeah. Well, that only leaves from your belt to right here. That's the only spot you can hit one of them. That's not much. And even then, you better not hit him, too. That's good for him. That's right. Because that's built-in longevity.

You know, Dad, if they had had the rules they have today, you may have given it a run. I would have. Money had been there like that. Right. There were no millions changing hands. What was it? What was it Bradshaw told us he got a million-dollar signing bonus? $100,000.

I was that 100,000 dollars paid out over 10 years. That's what he told me. I mean, that was 1970, which I mean, I guess $100,000 was a lot more money than. There was no draw for it to go play in the NFL because of the millions of dollars you can make. Right. There were no millions of chains in hands at all. What did they offer you? They offered Bradshaw.

They just offered me a tryout, come over a walk on. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Which would have been Leigh minimum, whatever that was then Which wouldn't have been much Not much

60,000 or something I bet even less than that Less Less Really? Yes But you got to imagine Him

Number one draft choice $10,000 a month For 10 years Which Ten thousand a year Yeah I mean that's less than a thousand a week I mean

It's like I almost kept up With that commercial fishing Oh 10,000 a month No, it's 10,000 a year Because it was $100,000 $100,000 paid out over 10 years. That was his bonus, his signing bonus. It went from that, but now, oh,

a million. So, I mean, yeah, it's a whole different ballgame. Yeah, so I just looked up. That's probably why he's still doing what he's doing. He's your age, and he's still. He's making, he's doing a lot better without violent men chasing him, and he's just pontificating here, there yonder. Oh, well, he's just goofing off. Yeah. Plus, he's, he's a lot. He's on every third ad is Bradshaw. He's publisher clearinghouse. He's a giveaway Terry's money. If I see him, I say, you need to, you need to, you know, push back from the table a little bit.

You're getting a little bit. He's a little heavy. A little heavy. That happens when you get older. It's jolly, Phil. Well, yeah, I looked it up. I put Tom Brady Resurrection just to see if somebody out there would use that. Oh, yeah, they used it.

He's back. Time ready resurrection. It just, it baffles me in any situation if somebody is famous or important or they're trying to sell ads or they want to use biblical principles. Right. I was watching that, the island green. Oh, yeah. Sawgrass.

Sawgrass tournament. Yeah, players. That last week, the players. That was too. I got into it. And, well, did you see the point? So here it is, Phil. This is, because look, I've been on TV, y'all been on TV, you understand.

You got these announcers up there. They're trying to capture the moment, and they're all in the golf whisper, and they're making jokes. And, boy, this is really showing the character of the individual. You know, they're going up, and it's, it's an island, you know, and the drama. Oh, no, he's hit it in the water. and they got how many balls they've gone in the water on the day. I thought, well, they're making a drama over hitting a round object in the water, which it is crazy that these professional golfers,

it just shows you how much of a, well, that one old game. That one day where the wind was so high, I think they had 65 balls in the water or something like. Yeah. So anyway, that whole tournament is about 17. And every year, you know, I've been to the. And we played there. Yeah, the Tebow event.

which I'm not going to be able to make it this year, but because we're... You're... Filling. Y'all taught me into filming this show. And so... Thank you, Unashamed Nation. You did it.

So I get it, but, you know, I got up there, and I think I'm, like, three for five. I've hit the green three out of five times. And I'm a terrible golfer. Yeah. So, but I don't care if I hit it in the water. So I'm not up there, like, nervous that I'm going to hit in the water. I'm like, I make duck calls for a living.

What do you expect? I mean, so the crowd, they're looking. The thing about it is with the Tebow tournament, I mean, it ain't like the big players, but there's a lot of people there because they hang out. It is.

And now if that bothers you, you know, I mean, I'm one for three. And not to know, but it was embarrassing the last time I played in the thing. I wasn't playing because I just hurt my knee. So I was putting only.

But when I got 17, I was like, one of the guys is like, you got to take a shot. I said, you're right. But so I hadn't swung a club. So Jay's,

I hit a hazel rocket. Look, it goes straight right and it lands on the little island with a tree on it. Oh, my goodness. That's how far off. That would be harder to do. Oh, it was. So look, when I did it, everybody cheered because it lands on the other thing. And I was like, I thought we were playing this.

And so I just kind of went with it. You should have said, is anybody got a boat? Because actually, if you could have found it, why wouldn't? Oh, it was sitting right there. I could see it. You should have just jumped in with one club and swam out there. That's right. And then played it across to the other.

Jump in the water anyway. So look, I actually birded it. You know, we do a scramble format. So I hit it behind the hole. It was probably 40 feet. Was it up top? The pin was on the bottom. A bottom.

And I was up on top. Well, all you do is touch it. You just can't believe how fast that I was just straight down hill, yeah. I touch it. And it was like the, you know, the famous Tiger Woods when he made that. Better than most. Well, I was saying that, being goofy. I was like, I never thought it was going to go in there.

Oh, hit the bottom. bottom of the back of the hole and I saw you go crazy oh of course the crowd went crazy that was the highlight of that round because I think I don't even if I'd have been playing my own ball to shot a hundred didn't play good but I did I did conquer 17 so what I was going to say is so you have all this drama because it's really all about 17 the tournament so Shane Lowry who's from where's he from he's north Ireland yeah north Ireland and everybody he's kind of a likable character on the tour or whatever He won the open a few years ago. I like him because he's chubby.

I like chubby golfers. So he gets up there and knocks it in the hole on 17. After all this drama and carnage, he hits it behind the hole, put the little spin on it. Sucks it back in there. It hits and goes all the way around it in. Well, his response was amazing. I mean, he just full scale and shaking. I mean, you could see as a whole buck because there's a lot of it.

Just ripping, you know. And they were high-fiving and then he gave everybody. You know, so he tried to high-five poacher, but poacher stopped short. He was afraid he was going to hurt him. And they did the chest pop. And so all this is going on. So what's crazy is after he makes the hole in one, and I apologize if you watch this with me, because I'm giving you the recap.

So he takes the ball out of the whole crowd going crazy. He just fires it into the crowd. End of the crowd. Well, then a scrum happened. I mean, people, that was, I was like, wait, don't cut away from that. Because I just saw people getting taken out haymakers being thrown. I'm sure they've had a few, a few bruise at that point. So then the story continues.

So they're still following him around. He gets to 18 T-box, which is very intimidating. It's like you're looking at a little stripping ground, and there's just like the Pacific Ocean on your left. And so the guy who he threw the ball to has made his way, or who came out of the scrum.

Who got it? He's made his way to the 18 T-box because now he wants the Irishman to sign it. And he does. So they've gone with this story now. I'm sure in the bus they were like, oh, here

comes the guy, get that zoom in, you know? So the announcer, he's watching this transpire. And he's like, What a guy. I mean, he wanted to document this momentous occasion. You know, he's now turning it into like salvation of the world thing that he's getting this sign. And now listen to how he closed the segment. And he said he got that signature from Shane Lowry and he'll have that forever.

I said, what? And Missy said, what happened? I was like, the guy hits a hole in one, a fight breaks out over the ball, the guy gets it. And then the announcer says, he'll have that forever. I'm like, didn't mention Jesus, no resurrection. How are you going to do that? He just, in that moment, said, I got to make this moment bigger than what it actually is. He's not going to have that ball forever unless he rises from the end.

He's probably already sold it on the internet. Probably so. He probably already got 10 grand for it. I mean, I know that was a long story, but I watched it. Look, I couldn't even watch it for 30 minutes after that. I thought, why do all of a sudden you want to participate in the resurrection in this moment? Just, why are we going there where if I came up out there and had a sign, which I know this would be creepy, and said, I believe in the resurrection, you'd say, look at that, weirdo. that's my point

if I had a sign saying that would he not think I was a weirdo I was in the crowd but in this moment he loved that word and he loved and the way he said it with the perfect

the centerpiece of the Bible is the resurrection of the dead that's it well that's my point I know we're in 1st Corinthians 15 one shot winner take all

that's exactly right so much more valuable than Goppa you know it's funny because one of the things I chuckled at was when when he threw that ball in the stand, Paul Aisinger, who was a great golfer and won some majors, he's the, he's the main guy now for NBC. And he said, well, I've still got mine. He was like, that's a treasure for me. Like, you know, I don't know, this guy's just throwing it up in the thing. He was like. I think that was crazy, you know, that he would do that. But I think he's a fan. That's why the fan is like. Well, he was in the moment. That's what, that thing is why the fans like him. Because he just was like, everybody's fired up, I'm fired up. I don't. I don't. But you know what, at first, like, when I started getting into treasure hunting, and I was like, I had like all these displays of the stuff I was finding and that was cool.

But the further I got into it, I started giving a lot of it away, like to the landowner or to, you know, people out there with me. And I was like, it's almost more fun. I mean, what am I going to do? At some point, once I got kind of one of everything, I got it. Here, I have one of these. Right. And it's, it's more fun. And seeing people.

When I go to Chris Sherrill's house, because he's a hunter, you know, he's into it, he and his wife. I mean, he's got a whole room full of stuff. And, I mean, after a while, it's like, that's what he's like. He's like, you know, now I'm having to, like, clear out kids to make, to make extra rooms for the stuff he finds. Oh, I know. I can't believe you went down this road. Miss and I, we had a huge, not argument, but passionate discussion. I need to make a note so I can bring it up next time.

Because she, you know, now that all of our kids are leaving the nest, she's like saying, look, you need to get all your treasure hunting stuff. Because I kind of got it in my layer. I mean, because I walk in and I just lean it up. She's like, you need to get all that down there to the basement room. That's your room. I get it out of sight. Get it, get it out of here. So, you know, that went on for a few months and back and forth.

When are you going to get this stuff out? Well, then one day I just came home, and everything I own related to treasure hunting was down in that room. Organized, you know, displayed. And so I told her, I was like, well, look, next time you go shopping, I want a large aquarium. And she's like, we're not having fish in the, I don't want fish. That's another thing I'd have to feed. I was like, no, I don't want fish. I want some fish.

I'll go catch them and eat them. I was like, I want to make a display out of an aquarium. I'm just going to dump all the treasures in the aquarium. Yeah. She's like, I'm not, first of all, I'm getting an aquarium, and you're not putting it in this house and putting a bunch of stuff that you find out of the ground in. I was like, why not?

That's cool. You're into design, and she's like, that's not cool. That's going to take up space. I wondered how, you know, what subdivision people argue about now I know. Yeah, Aquarius. I mean, don't you think that's a good idea? I like the idea. Instead of looking at fish, and I think that's stupid.

I mean, not that there's anything wrong with. I mean, if you could put fish that you could eat, like the lobster thing I'm all for, because when you get hungry, you go get you a lot. It's like the last line of defense when you've run out of everything and you need to go grocery shopping. But to put fish in an aquarium that you can't eat. Or just have some crappy in there like, man, you get hungry. But it's hard to keep them alive. Oh, yeah.

A type of fish, you know, that people want to just stare at. I never figured that out. But I like the concept of making it a display. So, I mean, I've seen there's a guy that what I went with in Virginia, he did. It's three huge aquariums, and they're just filled with all these treasures. That's a cool idea. One of the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. Let's take a break.

So I'll ask Missy about that next time she's on the pipe. Now, do not bring that. I mean, I've never had her just be sucked because I thought, well, why would she care? She's giving me this room. It was already your room, right? And then she's like, and the nerve to ask me to go haul around an aquarium? I was like, what's the worst thing that happened? She's like, it could bust.

So anyway, that didn't go well. But anyway, I got a new room. You got a room? That's good. So we're in 1st, Corinthians 15, which we've said going into this. And I had several emails since we started this chapter from people that said they agree with us. This is quite possibly the greatest chapter in the Bible. Oh, it's a good one.

In terms of. I'll throw Luke 15 in there. Yep, me too. And First Corinthians? Wait a minute. I just noticed. 15. There are some.

There's about half of America. Half. What they believe in is a theory. So a theory is not proven beyond, you know, it's not factual. It's just a belief system that we came out of salt water. Or a version thereof. Yeah, and evolved from something in the past. We used to be apes, ape-black creatures, but now we're human beings.

We were amoebas and then fish. And everything alive started from saltwater. But actually, wasn't the explosion? They have staked their life. And they only look at it. you come out of a female and then you die. So they say for that period of time, here's how we think we got here.

And when you die, so our lives, our theory doesn't give you long. Right. I mean, at best, if you're fortunate enough, you may live to 60, 70, 80 years old, 90, whatever.

Very few make that. But you say most of them die. and they're staking their existence on a theory. What we do is we found some old writings, a couple thousand years old, and we have staked our existence and our hope on the resurrection of this person. Right.

So our face in a person, the unbeliever's faith is in a theory of a guy about 1,805 to early 1800s, a guy came along and said, here's what I think happened. He said, I have no idea. I mean, if you ever can look inside a sale, you probably can, this wouldn't work. Yeah, he opened the door for disproving his theory. That's right. Which I found interesting.

I mean, he was saying this may not pan out. I mean, so without these texts right here we're going to look into, Without those, we know we're going to die. This says there's life beyond the grave. But no matter what you believe, the guy who introduced the theory is dead. He's dead. He's dead. So I'm just that that's, that's an important point.

Yeah. Well, and, I mean, as we. And the one who is at the, in the middle of this, the one who brought this forth, Jesus. He's a lot. did a lot. So you look at it and you say, we're counting time by him, which I think is always a point I bring up because it's hard for the world to count time by you. I mean, in his case, the world counts time by the one that the Apostle Paul is saying, if it's preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is

no resurrection of the dead? Well, that's a modern day question. Now there, if it's a, preached and you hear people talk about it and you I would think I don't know whether you've got to the investigation stage yet or at least investigating what went down there you know 22 years ago who we were the one were counting time by hmm he died he was raised from the dead well I don't know about that well you're going to say there is no resurrection we came from saltwater we're going to die and that's it. And I'm saying to them, what, what, what is it, what is your system offer you?

What's your belief system? What does it offer for you? Think about that. At the end of 13, when Paul said, and these three remain, faith, hope, and love, the rest of these is love. When you think about it, if you only had the theory of evolution as your basis for everything you believe, then you would not have faith. No.

You wouldn't have hope. No. And probably, I mean, you have some capacity to love, but most people, if you're that finite, you tend to love less just because of the nature. The world looks rather unloving at this time. It does. At this time, people are very fearful. They don't want to catch anything. You know, they don't want to put themselves at risk.

So, yeah, it's a, it's a. Death scares the daylight. It does. It does. Because without the resurrection, that's the ultimate looming spectacle. So I would think just off the top of your head, you say, well, I'll tell you this, if that's true, in order for all the atheists out there, I don't dislike them at all. I listen to what they have to say, and I'm like, I don't know, man, you're walking on thin ice there. You're giving up any hope you could have.

You're living a life. You say, where there is no hope to get out of here. You just die, molecules, rot, and then that's it. No resurrection. And I'm thinking, I don't know how that would be a whole, a good thing. good lifestyle or a good way to think. It would be tough. It looked like you would come out being a negative person.

I mean, I don't have a chance to get out of here. It's just one, one shot deal. And, you know, I may get, uh-oh, I'm 60. They just told me, some doctors just told me, I have a disease. It's fatal. And you have no hope, none. I mean, you just said, well, you know, easy come, easy to go. But I don't know how they could do that.

And it looks like to me that if something offered your hope and you can't disprove it and time itself is predicated on the person who pulled it off, why wouldn't you just follow him and see? I don't know. Some of the most famous atheists in the last 500 years committed suicide. You know, they wrote books about it and then they committed suicide. So, I mean, I'm not saying that everybody winds up there, but if you didn't have hope and you didn't have faith and not a lot of love, Because you've got to be open, you've got to be seeking, you've got to be humble, you've got to be broken. I mean, you don't, you don't, that's why there's so many facts. Jesus introduced that.

I mean, you have to have those qualities in your heart to seek. Right. I mean, and then you realize, oh, but I think it's a mystery. And I think, you know, when he mentioned it in, where is it at 51, he acknowledged, that this is a mystery. Yeah. He said, listen,

I tell you a mystery, we will not all sleep. Now, what are the different renderings of that? I wonder in different translations. Because he's talking about dying. Yep.

But he, they translated that. He talks about when you die. You say it's a mystery, but, you know, because they really, they died.

The, you know, And these are called tense, temporary, but you're still alive in some form. Well, that's why he used the word in most of his letters, sleep, falling asleep, because the idea is you're going to wake up. So he was really showing throughout all of his writings about the resurrection that it is, death is only temporary. But it's hard for us to wrap our minds around it because it's been 2,000 years since he wrote this.

And it could be a couple of things. one of the things it could be, I'm just giving you the options here, when you die, your body dies, your heart finally stops beating, and they pronounce you dead. But they bear you. Well, he goes into all this. He goes into the whole thing. He does. He said, you're not dead. You're asleep.

Right. So no time passes for you anymore. Correct. Now, it can be a thousand years later. Look, your eyes go. your eyes open and you're like, who, that was, that was quick. They put me under the knife when they took a kidney stone out. And I asked them later because they said, you're going to feel something warm here, Mr.

Robertson, in your arm, kind of in your arm. But then you'll fall asleep. We'll put you under. I said, okay. So they did that. And I remember it. She said, okay, and here comes the needle. within, oh, 10, 15 seconds.

I just got drowsy. I said, and I closed my eyes. Look, I closed my eyes and look, instantaneously, I thought I went, I opened my eyes. I said, Doc, let's get this thing over with. And he said, the show was already over with. And I said, I now understand the resurrection. I said, no time passed for me out. None.

Right. Because I was asleep. That's how the human body is before the resurrection. But you're not sitting there saying, I'll tell you what, I would hope he hurries up. No. Well. You're asleep as far as you're concerned. And the reason I think that was from his perspective, from the human perspective, it's like sleep, but you're dead.

But to dad's point. But no time is passing for you. But to your point. Well, time only exists here. Right. I mean, Noah is. not in the grave right now saying, I wish he'd hurry up and... No.

Although... Hang on, Jess. Let's take a break. Although, when they summoned Samuel, or was it Samuel they summoned from the dead? It was. He was like... And you got Elijah and Moses. He said, you shouldn't have done this.

So they brought him back in some form. He was halfway familiar with world events and I don't know. But it could be... That story is about the witch of Indoor. she summoned him, which I've always thought was interesting. I mean, obviously God allowed it to happen because he had a message for Saul. But it was interesting that there was a medium. She summons him.

He comes back. Everybody seems surprised, probably her the most. But God allowed it to happen because he wanted Samuel to deliver the message to Saul. Bad call. He delivered it. He said, you shouldn't have awakened me. Because I got some bad news for you. You'll be dead by this time tomorrow.

it's about perspective because you're you're trying to relate Paul via the Holy Spirit is trying to relate something that's unrelatable. I'm not sure what's going to happen once I die. That's why he said it's a mystery. And you're right at the Transfiguration. You have Moses and Elijah, which I thought was interesting. We talked about this before, that they're, that they had strange leaving of the planet. Nobody really ever knew what happened to their body. Elijah got caught in a whirlwind and Moses said he was buried by God on a mount, whatever that. But the evil one in Jude, you know, he was arguing with an angel over where that body was. That was important to him.

That's right. Which goes back to the Hebrews 2 thing, that his mode of operation has always been to kill. And confirmation is to see the dead bodies. Right. If we would prefer to be away from the body, which he's going to tell the Corinthians that, once he talks about the resurrection. and first Corinthians 5. This is 2nd Corinthians 5.

We're confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So you're not, your body's dead, but, and you're not in the body anymore. So we make it our goal to please them whether we're at home in the body

while we're here right now, today, or away from it after physical death. You like, we're, we make it our goal to please him whether we're at home and the body or away from it. So there's a part of you, your soul and your spirit. Jesus said, don't worry about the ones that can kill the body. He said, do you worry about the one and throw the body and soul into hell? For we must all appear before the judgment seat. You know you made it, which is good.

When you die, you know whether you made it or not. That text says. and you're alive in some form away from your body. Your body is just a pile of bones and the fluid that was put in it, you know. They drain the blood out of you replace you with fluid, put you in a casket. There's your body. What's left of it doesn't look good at all. But you have left and you're with the Lord.

abandoned your tent and you're and your and you're some say some verses say you're sound asleep and 1,001 your eyes open and there you are well and I was going to make the point when you're talking about a surgical when they put you under by that means yep you don't wake up until the moment you do and that's the difference in sleeping at night because you know you say well same thing when you're sleeping but not really because you'll wake up throughout the night you're That's right. You know, you're in a much lighter sleep. This is a deep sleep.

This is deep. This is so deep. You're right. There's a way. When I had surgery, I was the same way, they woke me up. I was having,

I was talking to the guy. And then all of a sudden, yeah, I come back, they wait me up. And how much time had passed, rough. I mean,

it felt like I had just closed my eyes. That's right. Exactly the same thing. And it had been several hours in my case. There you go. So it is a strange phenomenon. And, you know,

so the difference is, they call it soul sleep, Are you going to be aware or unaware? There are some stories in the Bible. I don't know. Do they bring them back? Then they went back to unawareness. Are you aware on the other level?

I don't know. It's one of those things we can't really ever know until you get there. You have that weird illustration. And is it in Luke where? Oh, yeah. Where he's got the rich man and Lazarus. Yeah. He's using real names.

But is that a parable? It's like there's a great chasm and he's like, The guy had an awareness that he was out. Because he said, if I could just go back and tell my relatives, you know. But he said, nope, there's no going back. It's really a scary. It's a very scary. That's a scary thing, the finality of it all.

Well, I was going to finish reading that way. He said, I'll tell you, mystery, we're not all asleep, but we will all be changed in a flash, to your point, Phil, in the twinkling of an eye. Yep. Which just happened several times. You twinkled. In the last four seconds. at the last trumpet. The trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised, imperishable, and we will be changed.

So to your point earlier... It's a mystery solved. Right. To your point earlier, an evolutionist, the biggest problem is you can't get to the point where it's body, soul, and spirit. Because you just think it's body with synapses in the brain. They don't see a soullishness about us. And that's where when you understand we're made in the image of God, that there are three components to a human being, if you don't have faith to believe that, then you just think it's what it is.

You're looking at it. Brain function. I guess everything evolved. I don't know where music and love and all that came from, but whatever. So it's just easy to miss. He mentions if there's no resurrection. If it's preached that there is Christ has been raised from the dead. Like in some of you.

Verse 12. Verse 12. If there's no resurrection, he goes on to say, of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, all these are negative things. Our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses. We're lying, a bunch of books. He said, we're not right.

Because we've testified that God, he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if, in fact, the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile. You're still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep, all the ones that have... Now, he calls it falling asleep. He didn't say those who have died.

He said those who have fallen asleep. So we know there's sleep involved in passage of time, unbeknown to us. Time is passing, but the clock's not clicking on us because we're asleep. We're out of it. Plus, think about this. Let's take a break. Think about this, Dad, in John 5, you remember Jesus. says all will be raised to face judgment.

That is correct. So everybody is in the falling asleep. A lot of people misunderstand. They think, oh, well, if only the saved will wake up resurrected. But Jesus said everybody gets raised to face judgment of what was done in the body. Yep. Done in the body. And then he goes on to say us, then those who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

If only for this life, we have hope in Christ. If there's no resurrection, we're to be. pitied more than I'm in. Let me just put it to you in simple terms. I'm a guy being here 75 years, 76 coming up in April. You say, if these texts were not in there about the resurrection of the dead, I wouldn't be sitting here. Yep. I mean, these texts that we're reading today, you say, that's enough for me to get in on that and let's see. Yep. I mean, you, you, and think about it, what do you have to lose? Your reputation?

Right. I mean, so I don't see the downside. Simple faith in Jesus, believe he died, was buried, and raised from the dead. I don't see the downside of that. You're not mean to people. You point them to them, say, there's a resurrection of the dead, dude. Think about it. I mean, your sins have been removed, but he'll raise you from the dead.

I said, I've never read a story like this, ever. No. And the ultimate reward is in the resurrection. resurrection is what he's saying, even more than forgiveness of sins, which is a powerful statement. Our calendars that we have 12 months out of the year, it's 2022, 2022, 2023 is coming up. You're like, and the time factor and all of that, because all this is about time and when then you run out of time. But this says Christian people do not, they never run out of time.

If you face in Jesus, there's no more time. You don't have to worry about that. Well, because the time is gone. That's right. Because the people who are in charge, God, or the person, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, they're eternal. Eternal. They're eternal. And Jesus, what makes him so unique is he has always been eternal, but then he became one of us to usher eternal life for all humanity.

I mean, obviously, that's the greatest moment in the history of the world. Look, my yoke is easy. It's light. That's what I'm asking you for the resurrection. You don't have to really go out and do some great thing. No. That's why when 1st John 3 says that we're going to be when he comes but like him. Like him.

So I'm in on that. And we've talked about all the different elements of what he did post-resurrection. I mean, that's some pretty exciting stuff. Well, and that's why when you... It's called the glorified body, the glorified body, glorified. Because that's what he was going. You got to remember, he also said, the reason I think this is hard to wrap your head. around especially for non-believers is because he's saying it's a mystery you remember when he told

the colosians he said the mystery of godliness is that christ is in you the hope of glory yeah he can be in you you said what well then when you start reading these passages like romans 811 it says if the same spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead is living in you he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who lives in you. So that goes back to that conversation that Jesus had with Nicodemus in John 3 when he said, you've got to be born again. Now here's a religious fellow, he said, you've got to be born again.

He's a what? How can I be born again? What are you crazy? Yeah. Get back in my mother's womb. He said, you've got to be born a water and a spirit. remember what he said he's like everyone born of the spirit it's like the wind and i think this is the mystery part of it because he's like you can't you hear it sound but you cannot tell where it comes from

or where it is going so it is with everyone born of the spirit and i really think the resurrection not only is this life in mind that he had in mind about the spirit leading you as you represent God. Yeah. But it's also where you're eventually headed. Right. It's like the wind. Yeah. You're like, I have the spirit, but it's hard because it's through faith.

Yeah. And to your point, right there, 1.P.1.22, after if you read what the Apostle Paul said in 1st Corinthians 15, Well, you look over here, I said, what did Peter say about it? Through Him, you believe in God, 1 Peter 1.22, 21. You believe in God, who raised him from the dead and has glorified him so that your faith and hope are in Christ, gain God. Now about the new birth chase, now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth, you believe Jesus died before he was buried and raised from the dead.

you believe that by faith. You die to sin at your baptism and are buried the old you, but what's the new you? Now that you purified yourself by obeying the truth, so that you have some sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply from the heart. Now check this out, Jays. For you have been born again. Well, when Jesus was talking about, he's talking about the spirit, what he was saying. You don't know where it is, but watch. You've been born again.

Not of perishable seed. That's what the Apostle Paul called these bodies. It's like planting a seed. But the spirit-filled, that spirit's there. So not of perishable seed, but of imperishable. So when God gives you the spirit, you are marked and you are guaranteed. You now are with the spirit of God living in you, which is given to you when you obey the gospel.

you will live forever. The worst thing that could ever happen to you is a short sleep before your death and the resurrection day through the living and during the Word of God. And it makes an interesting point for all men are like grass and all their glory is like the flyers of the field.

You're not here long. The grass withers and the flowers fall. Every year. They just, you look out there and it's all gone. but the word of the Lord stands forever. He will give you an imperishable body. So it's a body. Let's take a break.

So he uses the word that in Ephesians 1. He says the spirit is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance of God's glory. So the idea is that's just a little bit of what it's going to be like, but that's in us now. Much needed. But must need it. That's why in John 14, when Jesus said, look, I'm going to prepare a place for you. Now I'm going to go there. But I'm not going to leave you as orphans.

Right. Well, then he starts talking about leaving him in the spirit. And he'll be with you and in you forever. Right. So we need the counselor here. That's why we're pro-counseling because God, it was God's idea. That's right. He's like, you want a counselor?

I'll give you one. Right. My spirit inside of you. He'll be with you forever. That was the proper way to use the term forever. That's right. Yep. You know, not a sign ball that you're going to carry around forever

because you're not going to do it unless you have that in your pocket once you're resurrected. Yep. So I was going to read the Acts too. I mean, the spirit is poured out, made available. Because I'm thinking, you know, he spent 1 Corinthians 12th and we've all been giving. that one spirit to drink. And he went through all the different talents and different things that we bring to the table

through God's providence as a church. But it's the same church that Paul said in Ephesians 5. Remember when he said, this is a mystery, but I'm talking about you and Christ. We're married. We have the same spirit. So when the Spirit is poured out in Acts 2, there's two sentences in his sermon that I think caused the people to be cut to the heart and eventually come to the Lord.

I mean, profound statements like what we're talking about today. He solved some mysteries of humanity. One is when it says in verse 34, it says, God, speaking of Jesus, Jesus Peter was, God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, or being dead, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. You just think about that statement coming out of somebody's mouth relating to humanity. We have a person who became human, who it was. was impossible for death.

It was impossible for him to stay dead. The other sentence is in 31, where he said, seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay. Well, those are two things that most humans, they think that's going to happen. You're going to be abandoned.

I mean, people may come visit you, but will you really care? you're dead. But you're, you feel like you've been abandoned and your body's going to decay. So you're just thinking about those three points that Peter was saying. It was impossible for him to stay dead. He wasn't abandoned to the grave and his body didn't see decay. Those are three things I would like to experience.

Me too. What are you doing here? I mean, you can either do that or you can say, talk about hope man that's what makes me so angry about this stuff because people you know they go down and buy a shirt from forever 21 I mean that was they got in a boardroom and said hey I got it let's come up with some clothes we'll call it forever 21 because who doesn't want to stay at 21 you know a talented job I think that's a great idea people want to stay 21 and they'll buy our close to do it.

Guess what happened? Guess what happened? And the way to do so is staring at him, is standing up in there. It's right in front of it. It's the most sold book for the last thousand years. Since there's been books. It's been book. It's right here.

There is a way to forever. He's hiding in plain sight. You know what's the erection of the dead? You know what happened to Forever 21? Went bankrupt. Yeah. Didn't work. They tried it.

They put on some clothes. And I'm just saying it's so eerie. I bring this up all the time. One of them had a car wreck two days later. It didn't work. Yeah. Or the 21-year-olds became 42-year-olds. Later, they became 63-year-olds.

Well, there's nothing worse in life is for a 50-year-old to try to look like they're 21. That's right. That's what they didn't count them. That's what they didn't care. When you're trying to just, you just won't let go and move to the next level, well, you go bankrupt. He caused bankruptcy. For somebody who's trying to make everybody look 21. I've seen a few ads where they say, look, I'm 80 years old.

He'll just kind of jump and hit the – like, you know, he was being careful. But he did leap a little bit. Both feet come off the floor and then hit back. And he was saying nothing can stop me. I said, well, give another year to, dude. There's one I've been seeing lately, Jay's. called ageless male.

Yeah. That's a good one. I'm putting that in my space. Ageless male. Ageless. And it's mostly about testosterone and vitality, but it's like, oh, you take our stuff, you'd be an old man, but you'll be just like you were when you were young man, just ageless male. I can tell you for a fact at 75, that's a bunch of boo. But that's the, but you're right.

All of these, you know, corporations, because you're right, outside of the resurrection, what else you got? I'm going to try all these different things to hang on as long as I possibly can. What's interesting is that the current era we live in 2,000 years since the Apostle wrote this, what's interesting in all the other things I find interesting is that the whole thing is, is it's like a road map of the words on on on he goes all the way to the end of it first it's the resurrection but christ has indeed been raised from the day of verse 20 the first fruits he could do it we could do it of those who have fallen asleep since death came through a man he goes all the way

back to genesis in the beginning of this whole thing here's adam the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. As in Adam all die, it's a history lesson in about five or six verses, which is stunning. And even the kingdom is brought up. For as in Adam all die and Christ all to be made alive. There's a resurrection. But each in his own turn, Christ's the first fruit. We're reading about it. You know, we spread the good news, preach the gospel. Then when he comes, end of time, those who belong to him. Well, that, that, that, if those who belong to him, they're alive. They're not dead.

Then the end will come when he hands over the kingdom of God. That's us. After he destroyed all dominion, authority, power, Satan, his works, and all the ones with him. Let's talk about this and bones. Yeah, let's hang on down. We're out of time. But I definitely want to flesh that out, especially that concept you took back to Adam. All the way to Adam.

I want to go back and look at Romans 5 because he fleses that out some more. right there. So we'll do that in our overtime. Remember blazedtv.com slash unashamed is where you subscribe to get the content for unashamed OT. So we'll see you next time. Thanks for listening to the unashamed podcast. Help us out by rating us on iTunes. And don't miss an episode by subscribing on YouTube and be sure to click that little bell to get notified about new episodes. And for even more content that you won't get anywhere else, subscribe to blazed TV at blazedtv.com day.