Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 46 | Return of the Earwigs, Robertson Pain Tolerance, and It’s All About the Resurrection

Episode Date: January 19, 2020

THE EARWIGS ARE BACK!! Jase has found more earwigs in his house, Al breaks down the Robertson pain tolerance, and Phil raises the point that it’s all about the resurrection.  See episodes of "Unashamed with Phil Robertson": https://bit.ly/2J4XsiX   See clips from Phil's TV show "In the Woods with Phil": https://bit.ly/2PNM6k1   To take a FREE 30 Day Trial of Phil's TV show and the rest of BlazeTV: https://www.BlazeTV.com/Phil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am Unachanged What about you? So my question, Jason, because I know the answers for me and dad. So as you sit here today, because we're deep into hunting season,

which is always rough on y'all more than me because I don't hunt that much anymore. Physically, emotionally. Not spiritually. Spiritally is good. So is any, are you, you like something physically wrong with you at this moment do you have like some injury ailment i mean i've had a few as we've gone along right now at this moment other than a little

soreness in the back i'm pretty good so the reason i'm asking is because currently dad's show show our audience oh yeah i saw this i was impressed at first because i thought look at dad he's just all rip but then I realized, no, it ripped. You think I ripped. Get the light on it. See all this purple here? I thought you had shot your gun off your, what is it, your bicep? Yeah, bicep.

I made a quick move, a sudden movement with this arm. I made a sudden movement because my weapon was falling and I caught it. But, and I felt a pretty good sting of pain. See how much bigger it is here? So somewhere in this process, the bicep is bawling up now here. It's, you know, it looked like he said, you pretty talked up. So how long ago that happened? I would say this was three or four days ago.

Ms. Kay's physical therapist, he looked at it, it's a whoa. So he did a little stretching exercise, the first one thing, another. But the bottom line is, he said, man, you might have that checked. I think they're going to have to go in there. Surgically reattached. He didn't realize who he was talking to. Well, I said,

You're the same man that I saw. Suck it up after duck season, we may think about it. Phil was teaching a Bible class while he had, he was passing a kidney stone. Yeah, kidney stones. And they said, you might already go to the hospital over that. And Phil's like, nah, it'd be all right. And so about halfway through the class, he goes down to one knee,

and I thought, well, this is something. He's going to show people when you pray or humility. I thought it was an illustration, and he said, everybody rest easy. I'm in a little bit of pain here. And then he turned over and went, he's still teaching. He went on his back. So just imagine there's a class full of people looking toward the podium, and there's a man looking like Phil does.

On his back, look, and he started raising his feet up against the wall. And he kept on. So trying to get a little relief here, but never fear. I'll finish my lesson. And look, his intensity returned. He never stopped. And finally, after it was the time, okay, it's been 45 minutes that a man taught with his head pointing the other way with his feet up on the wall. Did he have a Bible?

He had his Bible. I was turning on and read it, you know. And the further I went, my mouth finally, there was so much pain, I said, I don't know whether my mouth's going to keep moving or not. His lips started quivering. And I thought, this man's fixed a die right here, and he's my dad. And they literally. In the Bible class. In Bible class.

And they finally convinced him to go up. Well, which was. The nurses back in the back, because we had some medical people there, they were up there betting on, is he going to make it or not? So they were placing their beds. So the idea just say, you know. And some of them said, oh, he'll make it. Of course, then he goes to the hospital and they say, you know, we got to go up in there

and see what's going on. and Phil said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, go up in there. I said, start, start with that. How does that work? Explain that one, go up in there. Phil gave him an exegesis on what a one-way road is supposed to be. Yeah, that's supposed to be an offer. But anyway, they said, well, Phil, we're going to put you under.

And I'm getting to the point that Phil does not, when he has an ailment, he just doesn't do what normal people do. And he said, I would rather you not put me under because he's kind of weird about that. way we're in the book of John and speaking of the resurrection of the dead i learned about the resurrection of the dead during that process because when they finally said this kidney stone is hung right where the the two your uretha right in there where they one one tube coming out of this kidney one coming out of that one there's a little fork and road there well it lodged the thing lodged right there That's why he said, go up in there.

We're going to look. I'm getting queasy. So look, they go up in now. They see this thing. They say, well, we've got to surgically remove or whatever. He said, we're going to have a little piece of, looks like a, you know, y'all catch garfish or rod and reel. Their teeth get hung on that's a little fuzzy ball. He said, we're going to foul that thing.

And I said, so what's the next move? He said, come on out there with it. So that's what they decided to do to get rid of it. Well, I laid back when it came time for them to go hunting for the kidney stone. And the guy said, some nurse said, you're going to feel a little warm pain in your arm. So they stick a needle in me, and I'm sitting there. And look, in a matter of seconds, I'm sitting there and I just start, and I fall asleep. As soon as my eyes closed like that, now listen to this carefully.

You'll learn about the resurrection of the dead. From a kidney stone. from a kidney stone. I had never been under the knife, as they say, except right here. So my eyes closed. Look, the next thing I know it's my eyes were like this. I opened them. I closed them and there was no passage of time.

There was no, I hope he hurries up. I closed my eyes because he said it's going to be a little warm feeling in your arm. I closed my eyes and I opened my eyes and I opened. opened them and when I opened him I said let's get the show on the road let's get this thing over with he said the show's over the doctor said the show's over and I said what he said the show's over I said did you get the kidney stone he said I got the kidney stone and he had it in a bottle and he shook it like that and handed it to me and I said I finally understand the resurrection of the dead and he said told one of them nurses I think he's a loose

You know, take it back to his room. I said, I ain't hallucinated. I said, no. I said, no time passed for me. I said, how long was that whole procedure? He said, about an hour. I said, I closed my eyes and I open them. That could have been 100 hours.

It had been the same result. I'd have closed my eyes and 100 hours later I'd open them. But the time that passed for me was like this, that long. the people who have died before us, they're asleep. That's why the Bible says they fall asleep. Well, that's like going under the knife. Well, if that had been 10 years, if they could have got some tubes, they'd have fed me, it would have still been this long.

Right. I'd have closed my eyes 10 years later. I'd open them. The Apostle Paul and all of them, they fall in asleep, their bodies. But they open that. The worst it can be when you pass, when you, when you, when you, physically die, you close your eyes, no time passes for you because you're dead asleep. Right.

No time passes and look, you just close your eyes. So a thousand years go by. A thousand years go by and you say, boy, resurrection day, that's the worst it could be. I think that's why First Corinthians 15 says in the twinkling of an eye. I had the same problem. When I went to the Ukraine and I was doing the humanitarian mission and we were sharing Jesus with people, When I come back, we all got sick. I think I've shared the story before.

But they started running the next couple of years, they started running all these tests on me. And they put me under, and they said, we're going to go from the other end and do this scope and all this. Well, when I, the next thing I knew, I was laying there just like you, the next thing I knew, I was standing on a hospital bed,

and I had a piece of the railing from the bed. And there was about three nurses there. and I was like, I can tell they were trying to calm me down. I didn't even know I was up on the bed with a railing. Yeah. I mean, they put me under, when I came to,

I'm in a war, ready to battle. Yep. But you didn't know why? I mean, no, I just when I, and then I like said,

what's going on? And they're like, everything's fine, you know, but I just, and somewhere in the process, I guess in my dream, state, I thought, you know, you shouldn't be doing whatever you're doing to me.

I was ready to fight. And so then when I started to ask them, they said I invited them all to church and a fish fry, but then I got, then I was like, hey, back off. So, yeah, there was no time and past. That's the scary part about it. Back to the original thing with Dad. So the Robertsons, I don't know if everybody does. I do for sure.

I don't know about you, Jay's, but, you know, we have a super high pain threshold. And it comes from our grandpa at first because Paul, you know, his gallbladder literally became gang greenness in his body. And he just sat there and never went to the dot, nothing. Oh, we all saw it happen. He almost died. I mean, one of his, well, we want to keep this PG-13, but let's just say he went from a marble to a grapefruit. And whether he had clothes on or not, it was noticeable. And the man just, it went on for weeks.

It never went to the doctor. So just a super high pain threshold. Dad's the same way. So when I walked in the other day and dad, the physical therapist is trying to work on dad. So I knew dad was in pain. And so the guy's like, you know, trying to figure out what's going on with him. And I said, but let me just tell you, what's his name? John, something.

John Wesley. John Wesley. I said, let me just say something, John Wesley. whatever that, if he's telling who he's hurting, whatever's going on with him is like 50 times worse than a normal person. So like if he's saying I'm hurting, like we probably should be taking him to the yard because something bad is going on. That was the other day.

Well, you just thought, well, now I look at it. The man's had a root canal with no deadening. We were on a duck hunting trip in Arkansas and he said, I got something in my eye. We pulled in over at a, you know, walk in. clinic.

It was in then they pull out a rod that was over, I'm not kidding, it was over an inch long out of his eye. It was just stuck in the corner of his eye. And he's like, put a patch on. We was, you know, I was thinking, well, then when I was telling you about his urinalysis, the procedure to find out what they were going to do, the doctor said, well, you're the first person that's ever done this awake. You know, Phil's looking at the screen.

They're looking up in there, you know. While they're doing the thing. Because he said, you know, we can put you under and it'll take two hours and feels like I'd rather just do it. And he's like, well, it'll take five minutes. But it's going to be excruciating pain. Feels like, oh, I can't handle anything for five minutes. It wasn't bad. So the doctor's like, I've never had a man looking at the camera screen while we're looking up in there.

So he told me, he said, good call. You all right? I said, am I all right? Yeah, I'm fine. No, I just, the idea. I mean, it wasn't something you want to go do, just mess around, but I mean. Not for funzies. Well, so anyway, the high pain threshold, on one side of that, you know, people are like,

oh, those guys are real men. The negative side of it is, is we don't always get the best of care when we're really hurt because we just tend to suck it up and go. So it's like this arm. It may have to be surgically fixed, but you're like, yeah. I mean, Phil, I would have the. I mean, I mean, yeah. Immediately. I think that's a torn bicell. I'm not a doctor, but I think that's a torn

bicep. It's a torn something. Because your muscle just doesn't turn purple overnight. And then it moved for inches. What are the guys, one of these surgeons, you know, that somebody is watching this show, call me up, give me a call, and say, okay, here's what's happened to you. Yeah, all the health care people out there. I feel like you're crazy. It doesn't hurt now like it did when I did it. Well, that was my question this morning. I said, Dad, are you hurt? And he said, well, you know, that's a relative terms. I feel like now he's going to be like he's football players every time they score a touchdown. Now when you kill a duck, you're, you know. Yeah. Well, I'm not raising it up too high. I'm not moving and I'm picking up my bag and my gun with this arm, not this one. I'm leaving that one there.

Well, the good thing is it's not your shooting arm. No. But that's what I'm saying. He's still huts every day. It's just, of course, look, my wife was on my, I had a ruptured appendix for a week. and, you know, I could have died easily and probably should have, but the Almighty looked out for me. Well, it was the same problem. I had the high pain threshold, also I'm having these rigors and fever at night, but I wouldn't go to the doctor. Well, it's like when I had the earwig in my ear, you know, my wife,

she said, I got two questions because I told her the story, you know, the next morning. I mean, the airwag eventually came out. But she's like, number one, why did it take you three hours before you went toward the vehicle to go to the hospital. And I said, well, if you were in that much pain, you know, why does it take you three hours? Because I'm like, well, I'm trying,

I was trying to figure out what the problem was. And it would just go. But does it matter? Were you in severe pain instantly? I said, yep, in so much pain. I said, well, number one, I couldn't walk. So you had this earwig varmint up in your ear

and gnawing on your eardrum. Yeah, drawing blood. And so she said in the second, question is why didn't you just crawl 10 feet and wake me up with that I never thought about I just I never crossed my mind you're not going to believe something's in my ear I mean it's I thought I'd busted my ear drum she's like but how I said well when I felt the stingy I hit myself in the ear so I thought well that was dumb I didn't want to go to the hospital and say look this sounds stupid but I thought something was biting me or stinging me and my ear and I

busted my own ear drum. The embarrassment of that was worse than the pain because I thought, I know what I did. So they say earwigs are not really, they don't go in your ears. But that's where Jason's ended up. Well, let me tell you all the airwigs. This is part two. We did, you know, a whole podcast about this. Three days ago, I have a bug person that comes in sprays.

I wouldn't do it, but my wife, she's terrified of all bugs. So we pay, you know, this woman to come in. They spray, you know, spray stuff, keep bugs. out. Okay, fine. So I told her. I was like, look, I don't want to, you know, say you're not doing a good job, and she stopped, you know, I said, but I had an earwig get in my ear, and she bust out laughing. And I said, I'm not, I'm not kidding. And I saw another one about a week ago. And she was like, well, where did you see it? I got out my Bible concordance. You know, how big those things are. And when I opened it up, it felt.

out and started calling on my leg which look I'd already have one in my ear so when that happened I stopped everything and killed that immediately it was like a bull rattlesnake had fallen in my lap yeah so I said I'm just saying is there something she said that that's that's folk you know that's folklore I said no I had an earwig in my this woman kills bugs and we had a five-minute argument she said no they don't that they don't really get in your ear I said wait a minute now I didn't say I knew a guy. I had an earwig get in my ears. You were that guy.

And she said, are you serious? I said, yes, I'm serious. She said, well, I'll have to check and see if I have something. You know, I was like, you don't even know how to battle this? This is way worse than a roach crawling around on your table. These things go for your ears. Yeah, I said, think. I said, do you ever see that movie Star Trek where the thing went in their ears?

You know, and she's like, no. I said, well, I don't know what I can do to help you. Do you need to, if I was a bug person, I would rent that movie and watch it. And then I'd get something that. Well, I've never seen an earwig of my life, 55 years old, and you've had two in your house? What do you know? I got an earwig problem. Yeah, you're on some kind of earwig burial ground.

No doubt about it. You got a problem there, did. You need to move out of that about three days and let them fumigated, whatever they do. Then Missy and I argued an hour because I said, you need to fire this bug woman. And she was like, what are you talking about? she's awesome she's my friend i was like she doesn't it she thinks earwigs is folklore so she should be fired when they're crawling out of your ear whatever class she went to to become a bug exterminator they missed that i'm telling you so the reason i bring it up about the injuries is because as dad

sitting here with his torn bicep i've got shingles on my scalp on the back of which is a very painful. I thought you died that. No, well, no, you don't die, but it's like your nerve in these. And it happens to old people, so it's welcome to 55, you know, that now I get shingles. Is it contagious? No. Oh. It's not as far as you know.

But it's, yeah, but it's super painful. And so most people, you know, are like inscrusating pain on it. I thought somebody told me that if you have shingles, and they go all the way around your body, you'll be dead within 24 hours. Now, that's folklore. Ask your bug lady about that. Well, I'm just saying, nobody believes the

wig. Well, you're right. You need to go to look. You need to go have that check. I've already been to the doctor. Whatever your discussion is, the resurrection is looming larger. This is why we keep coming back to the resurrection day because we're getting older and older. It's like that's the thing you talk about the most because it's on the horizon.

We have been talking about the book of John, which is a fascinating read. and I hope you guys are reading along with us since we're talking about it. Something I want to mention, we brought up last week or last time we were together, we talked about the idea about Jesus being before John and yet being after John, the Baptist, which was fascinating. But it reminded me since we talked about that, Jesus says the same thing, Jason, in John 8 or John 7, I mean. whenever you remember when they were arguing about the the we're the children of

Abraham because Jesus tells him he's like look you know if you you'll follow me you won't be a slave anymore you'll be you can be free and free indeed is yeah because they were the Jews were under a system right by which they had to try to keep the law perfectly which they couldn't then they had sacrifices which they had animal sacrifices and but you're basically a slave because no one is ever good enough right so So here's what they said to Jesus. They said to him when he tells him, he said, you can be, you know, know the truth and the truth will set you free.

Where are you at? I'm in John 8. It was chapter 8. So in verse 33, I'm my readers, they answered him, we are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free? So he's given them a spiritual picture of what it means if you follow it were to follow me. they're answering with the physical of who they are as Jews,

and they're like, we're not slaves of anybody. So then he goes through this whole thing. He calls them children of the devil. You know, Abraham's not your father. The devil is your father. I mean, he just rips into them pretty good. So now they're getting really upset. And then here's what he closes with.

And this is why I want to go back to what we talked about the other day. I tell you the truth, Jesus said, before Abraham was born, because they said we're children of Abraham. How dare you? before Abraham was born, I am. You're saying about that statement. Greatest statement of all time.

Before the guy you're talking about that, oh, by the way, lived a couple of 3,000 years earlier, before he was born, I am. Whatever one needs to understand is that when God became flesh, John 1-1, John 11 14, that didn't mean he didn't exist before then. That's right. He's always been there. Right.

He just became flesh 2019 years ago. When the time was fully born of one, God sent his son, born of a woman, born underlaw. But you know that because if you read 1st Corinthians 10, for I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized in the Moses and the cloud and in the sea. Old Testament way back. They all ate the same spiritual food

and drank the same spiritual drink for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them long before this being had become flesh. That rock that they were drinking from was Christ.

He was there. He was there in the beginning, John said, when the cosmos was made through him all things. He was there. But he wasn't flesh until 2018 years ago, and John was there to record God becoming flesh. Right. It's pretty cool, but you've got to remember that.

You know, he just didn't arrive on the scene when he became a human out of a virgin girl. But that's the old prophecy all the way back to the seed of a woman where Crest Satan's head. And you just follow it all the way through and you finally get to God himself coming out of a woman, a little virgin girl, and there's your Jesus. It's so interesting how they responded. They said, you're not even 50 years old. And you said you've seen Abraham, and then he's like, before Abraham was born, I am.

But then the next verse is always funny to me. At this, they picked up stones to stone him. I'm like, what are you going to do with some rocks? The dude just said, I am before Abraham. Oh, you're going to threaten me with some rocks? Now you're going to throw some rocks at me. I mean, just think how stupid humans are.

I would have ran. I mean, I'm just running saying that dude is a bad ombra. I mean, he speaks in outside of time. I mean, who's doing that at any point? He's either God or he's crazy enough to where I ain't going to. Either way I run. Yeah, this is a bad dude. This dude is crazy or he's indestructible.

Telling you. But you know, several times this happened over the course of Jesus' ministry in those three years. He bent their mind so much with what he was sharing them that you're right. Their instinct was, we got to kill this guy. We got to kill this guy. He got to kill this guy. He eventually did, which was God's plan, which makes this seem so erroneous that people think you could just make this up. When he kept dodging them,

because it wasn't time yet. Remember he kept saying it wasn't his time. So he would just all of a sudden not be there. I mean, things kept happening. But it was really amazing. You're right. Their first instinct was, we've got to kill this guy, the first time they ever heard him.

But it was just because they didn't understand. The Hebrew writer put it this way, you know. He said, he's, and what we have said is even more clear if another priest, like Malkazadegh, Tomah, Jesus appears, who has become a priest not on the,

the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry, but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. He said that's the difference between he and all the rest of him. Right. He can't get rid of him. Right. He's God. Right. And he fulfilled. He took her own flesh. He fulfilled every part of the old Jewish legal system too because he became, he was his own high priest. The Gnostics had started way back then in the first Israel. They weren't invited either, a lot of them. You got to remember the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. Right. They didn't understand it then, but they don't now today either.

It's amazing how that's lived on. Well, and we're saying all this because it comes back to those same three principles on his DNA that we noted in the first time that Jesus just didn't decide to live. He is life. He became flesh, verse 14, but he's also light. And he's also love, you know, the passages 1 John 4, God is love. So when he's trying to describe when they say, well, you're not even 50 years old, what are you talking about you saw Abraham? He's basically saying, I am life.

All life came through me. That's what John 1-3, that's what he started off saying. But it's just hard for humans to wrap their heads around that. I wanted to read the story of Matthew, what is it, 21, about the resurrection, no, it's 22. Matthew 22, because you think about these people trying to trick Jesus. So they come up there, and it says that same day, the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection. You know, the famous preacher joke, they were sad, you see.

But that represents from our culture, you either believe Jesus' life or you believe there's no resurrection. what other middle ground is there no no you know i guess the middle ground would be that somehow you die i've heard the hollywood type saying then you're absorbed into the energy of the universe okay and so they say well teacher they said moses now we're going back to this old law of slavery that says that if a man dies without having children his brother must must must must must marry the widow and have children for them. They had a, their law and tradition was that you just passed on if something, which I did, I would, I'm glad I didn't, wasn't in this time.

That if something happens, yeah, you got to marry your brother's wife. Well, it was mainly just to take care of them because you didn't have a man. You didn't make it back in those days. So, now they come up with this situation. Now, there were seven brothers, the first one married, and then he died. And since he had no children, he left his wife to his. brother and the same thing happened. And so they came up with a scenario, kind of like what people do when you talk about,

well, what if someone's cremated or, you know, or what if someone, you know, what if a guy is married seven times? So, and let's say he, you know, surrenders to Jesus and he makes it to heaven. I mean, whose wife is he going to be? Because you got a verse that says, you know, what God has joined together, let not man separate. And, I mean, you know, I mean, there'll be fights in heaven, you know, turn into a verse. the Jerry Springer show and you know because I mean that's my wife I mean what are we doing you know

she's married twice and whatever so they come up with this scenario and it says finally uh the woman died now at the resurrection whose wife will she be of the seven since all of them were married to her you know I thought it was a pretty good question and Jesus he did not think it was a very smart question because he says you're in error because you do not know the scriptures or the power God. Boom. That's a drop of, you idiot.

I mean, he didn't say that because he wouldn't do it because he's love also. I would have said, hey, we added that. At the resurrection, here's what Jesus says, because I think it really this clears up

a lot of things. At the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. They will be like the angels in heaven. But about the resurrection of the dead,

have you not read what God said to you, I am, we're back to the John 8, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Because he is life. He has the power to resurrect. In him is life. So it's not, just because you die physically, that means nothing. Right. He is life. He just, oh, there you are. he's back walking again. There's Lazarus walking around.

Which is why I think he did the Lazarus healing just to show that power anyway. Because obviously Lazarus died again and still waiting on the final resurrection. But he just showed, oh, I got the power. You want to bring somebody back from the death? Lazarus is asleep, but no time has passed. That's right. A blink of an eye. That's why I have, I've had some arguments with people who just chase the miracles of Jesus.

And look, if God wants to do a miracle, he can do it. He has got all the power. And, you know, we pray sometimes people are sick. We're asking God to intervene. And there's nothing wrong with that. He encourages to do that. But if that's where you put all your faith, you know, you're going to die anyway. I mean, so he gives you a few more years.

Well, at some point, you're dying. Yeah. You're out of miracle. You're out of, get out of time. Yeah. You're out of, you know, get out of jail free. It's pretty evident. It's pretty evident.

It's that all the, when you read about miracles, whether Jesus, did them or some of the early apostles, they were always to point people to him. You know? You think about that. You remember when John and Peter, right after the church was started and they're going every day of the temple courts

and so they're walking in to the temple and they're coming through the, it's called the beautiful gate and there's a cripple laying there. And he's been there, he's been a cripple since birth. So they're walking by him and they look over at him and he looks at them. he's got eye contact so he thinks they're fixing to give him some money and peter said look at us he looks at him he's excited now at face he's got some money he was like we don't have any gold or silver but what we do

have is better than that he said in the name of jesus get up and walk so this guy's been cripples whole life gnarled legs i mean you know this isn't like you know he he was which gets to all our ailments look we're perishable he's imperishable that's right so it's not a problem but here's my All right, your bicep, move four inches, and you're in pain. But guess what? At some point, Jesus, that's fixed. Yeah, that's right. That's no issue.

And that's compared to you being in the ground dead, that's a pretty minor injury that you're going. Very much so. That's why I'm not sitting there going, oh me, oh, me, oh, I'm hurting. What are you thinking about most people is always going to talk about. I'm thinking of the resurrection of the death. My shingles are. Most people look, in our world, they spend 99% of their conversations. talking about what's wrong with them.

So here we are in Jesus. We're trying to talk about what's right. Yeah. This is, we're focusing on what's right, not what's wrong. Because my whole point is like, we've had some serious discussions

when people come up and a child dies or something is terrible, you know? And they're like, why would God let this happen? I mean, they're just screaming. They're mad of God. And you're trying to convey to them, death is not a problem to God.

It's not an issue because he is life. He doesn't view that as a problem. No, we view it as a problem because we're going to miss them and rightfully so. Sure. But if you just think, if you're life, and it says Jesus is life, he said that to Thomas, I am the truth, the way, the life. I am life. Death is not a problem.

Ever. It's not a problem at the resurrection. It's not, whose wife is it? That's not a problem. It's not, doesn't matter how you died or how many relationships you had before you died. None of that's a problem. How many ailments you had? None of that is a problem.

What else could he, would he have to do to prove that? Exactly. And my point back to the beggar, so the beggar jumps up. He's running around. Who wouldn't you? He's fired up. So he's following, you know, Peter. He's like, wherever they're going.

That's where I, I mean, they just gave me my legs. Yeah, they won him over. So, but here was the whole point. there were, I'm sure, crippled people all over, you know, Jerusalem at the time. Sure. The reason that Peter did it is that then he went in there and said, salvation is found in no one but Jesus Christ. And then these got this Sanhedron, you know, they're like, well, by whose authority?

Are you doing it? You know, again, there's a guy running around, you know, for the first time ever in his life, ignore that. Who do you think you are that you can come in our temple and do something like this? this. They ignored it, which shows you about how miracles are. They saw the miracle and didn't even matter. They were more critical. The other people, though, saw it and were astonished. It said they saw that these men were unschooled and ordinary and yet had been with Jesus. And then they listen. So my point is, we talk about miracles are only there to point us towards what can change us

for eternity. It's not in just the moment of it. One guy sees it and it's like, ah, it's not a miracle. the guy just got better. The other guy looks at and says, man, I want to know more. I mean, I want to know more about why this is. A lot of people say if I could just see him, Phil, and talk with him, and he would appear to me. He said, then I would believe. And I said, well, if he did appear to you every 15 minutes, saying, keep the faith,

if he did that every 15 minutes, you would still have to put your faith in his death for your sins, his barrel, and his resurrection. So seeing him, it wasn't supersede your faith in him. That's right. So why would he appear until you ever 15 minutes? Do you believe in him? You say, yeah, he doesn't need to appear to me. He doesn't need to do that.

Well, that's my point. I believe in him. A lot of people. And who he is, God in flesh and what he's done, what he's now doing, mediating for me, keeping me clean, coming back to take me out of here alive. I'm like, I don't need to see him. but if he wants to show himself, it's not going to change a bit of my faith.

I'm still going to have to believe he's the one that came from God and removed my sin, deliver me from Satan, and raise me from the dead. See what I'm saying? A lot of people get offended, you know, when I talk about that,

don't chase miracles. I mean, if God wants to do that, great. And people, you know, religious people, they get offended when you say that because that's what they're chasing. And I'm like, God is giving you something greater than a miracle. And then they look up and like, well what could that be he's given you a miracle worker he's given you the one who could actually do

the miracles do you want the miracle or do you want to walk side by side with the one who can do the miracles i'm like i'm going to go with the guy who can do the miracles he wants to give me one every once in a while great but if not oh well at some point he'll say i'll take care of it i mean it's bigger than that and it's a never lose scenario they come in they say you know what you have I got this hurting in my gut. I don't know what's going on. You're full of cancer. You're like, oh, no.

And so you're like, so you pray. You know, Lord do a miracle. Take this cancer. It's not a bad prayer. I mean, you want to live a little longer. That's no problem. But the winner is, if I'm in Christ, what if he says, no, I'm ready, I'm ready for you to come on home now. I got, you know, I got other things.

You're going to bring me glory through the process of that. And then all of a sudden, it's a low, loose scenario. And I see it happening every day. I got a friend that's a friend who used to play golf with Jay's and I, you know, that's the news he got. Right now he's getting better. Maybe guys are going to give him a few years. But if he doesn't, it ain't going to matter. This guy is a follower all the way to the end.

If you want the scriptures to validate what we're proposing here, if you go to the book of Hebrews, and he says in chapter 1 and verse 3, he says the sun is the sun, Jesus, is the radiance of God's glory, the exact representation of his being. He sustains all things by his powerful word. After he provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty in heaven. So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.

So he starts off saying he's more superior than even angels. He goes to chapter two and he says, how can we escape if we ignore such a great salvation, which is found in Jesus, this superior being. Well, then he makes this reference in verse 3 of chapter 2. He says, this salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, our Lord Jesus, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

God testified to it, to what, the son declaring salvation? He testified to it by signs, wonders, and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. then he goes on to say you know he gets to chapter three and he says jesus is greater than moses and he talks about every house is built by someone but god is the builder of everything and he gets to verse six of chapter three and he says christ is faithful as a son over god's house and we are his house if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast and my point is i went through three chapters there right in the middle of that he brought up miracles and signs and wonders and all

they did the hebrew writer's purpose was that those were there to point you to jesus right if you miss the miracle worker if you're just chasing the signs miracles and and wonders well you missed the whole point of this thing you missed the image of the invisible god that's right and hebrews jays you're right you could just keep going because you stopped at three i was thinking The whole thing is Jesus is greater. The Hebrew writer was brilliant in the idea that he showed every tenet of Judaism and everything that had been before in law, Jesus is greater. Jesus is great.

You talk about a withering case for the greatness of Jesus is in that book. And then right there at the end of it is the Hebrews Hall of Fame, all these great people that lived before, but they all lived by faith, which was most important the whole way through. I'll give a helpful tip. A lot of people, somebody came up one time with the Romans. Romans road of salvation, you know, and they go through there.

Right. Because it talks about we're all sinners and it eventually gets to Jesus. Yeah, Paul makes a great case there. It's a great point. But when people are religious people that I introduce Jesus with, because a lot of people go to church and they don't have a relationship with Jesus. They've never surrendered. I mean, church buildings are full of people.

We know that. And it's a hard place to be because you're hiding in planes of us. Yeah, they kind of think they're in and give the impression that they're in, but their hearts a million miles away from having a relationship with God. Well, those are difficult people to reach because they pretty much heard the gist of everything. They just have it surrendered or repented. I go the Hebrews road with people like that because at some point they missed Jesus. It was right there in front of them.

They've heard about Jesus, but somehow the superior... of Jesus in their life, it just got missed. And I think it's a great place to go. And it has your favorite verse, Hebrews 13-8. I love it. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Which is my point about his DNA. And I keep pounding on this in every discussion we have,

but it's hard for us to grasp that there's a being out there named Jesus that just is. When he said, I am, it's hard to grasp that he is love. He doesn't one day decide not to love us. We come up with that in our mind. We said, well, God doesn't love me anymore because he didn't heal me. No, he is love. It never is, it's not going to change based on your circumstance.

He is light. He is life. You don't have to worry about death. But we, you know, we get that in our mind. until our heart starts going out and all of a sudden we're scared. What if it's not real? No, it's real.

It's not a problem. And we live for that moment. That's a bright, sunny thought to leave on Jace on a rainy day, as you can see out of our unashamed podcast command center. I watched the weather this morning before we dunk hunted, and they said, listen to this, zero percent chance of rain.

I'm telling you, them fine chicks are too fine to know about this right. You know why they don't know about the weather? I don't know. They never go outside. They're in a studio. They're in a studio. Working on hair and makeup.

Looking at the computer. It's all back to the computer. I'm just saying, look at the computer. Let me just check. Well, we better tell them it's raining because it is. All right. So we got to wrap this up. But since we're recording this on the day of the national championship.

And so I got to get us on record. is what we think is going to happen tonight. This is going to be later aired later. Is that why you watched War the L.S. Yeah, exactly. I will say one just short comment. Okay. Clemson will be difficult to beat.

Ah, so you're going with Clemson? You're going on record? I'm just making a statement. I agree. Based on what they've done over the last couple of years, they're going to be hard to beat. I agree. I got a hundo that I'm sitting on that says.

That's a hundred. it on a bill for our office. I'll take LSU and I'll give you a Well, I got a hondo in my right pocket. So I'm just, I'll just stick to what I said. They're going to be hard to beat. I'm not saying.

No, I'm just saying, if LSU beats them, they're going to really have to come to pull a lot. I don't like making bets when there's not a clear agreement. When Alabama was playing them, But Alabama played them in the championships last year, the year before. I'm looking over there, and Saban is using the Lord's name in vain.

But Davo is over there with his troops praying, and the prayers won. So I'm just saying these guys, they are there. They pray to God bless us with football energy. Have you noticed that? He's great. I love it. And I would be pulling for Clemson against Alabama. LSU by at least.

10. I concur. Which at least 10, which is not a whole lot. Right. Oh, I think it's going to be close. That's what I'm saying. They'll probably win, but it's going to be difficult to beat Clemson. I was trying to pick up a Hyundai, but I guess that's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. Go Tigers. I've never been much of a gambler. Go Tiger. It's not gambling if you know you're going to win. We are so glad you're watching and listening to the Unashamed podcast. Be sure to like us on Facebook. subscribe on YouTube and iTunes.

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