Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 476 | Jase Faces Disaster in an Electric Vehicle & Phil Warns About Earthly Treasures

Episode Date: May 11, 2022

Jase finds himself in an electric vehicle, struggling to climb a hill, and sliding into a dangerous situation, and Al talks about the problem with green energy getting its fuel from burning coal. Phil warns against earthly possessions and points toward the realm where nothing passes away. Jase reflects on the stock markets crashing and calls the earthly treasures of this world a distraction. Jase brags about his sons both shooting a 74 in a game of golf together and tells a story about his son's first time cooking crawfish for a dinner with his neighbors. And Al talks about learning contentment and what successful people have in common with each other: Once they reach their goal, they can't help but ask what is next.  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? So, Dad, you've been a, you've been a bachelor for a few days, right? Mom went to visit your youngest son. Oh, is that where she's? Your mother, she went to Austin. They took off to visit with, they had an event, Jay, so you'll know. Well, good, because look, I tried to call her a dozen times yesterday.

Oh, yeah. Because it was Mother's Day. That did too, and I never got her. Never got her. The mother was down in the Save the Children. All God's Children. All God's Children. Or Save the Children.

Yep. All God's Children. You have meant Save the Children. I like that too. That's pretty good. One little group, I think there was a surgeon or a doctor or two, but they came up with, they donated $50,000 toward Save the Children. If, Jay, that's where you come in.

Uh-oh. If you and I would take them duck honey. Well, I love how everybody's idea is to get me to do something. Well, what days? It's saving the children. Come on, man. It'll probably work because of that. Well, I'm telling you this because it was information.

You'd like to maybe know that information before, right? It was have a talk. It was new information, but she had a series of when she left. I looked over on the right side of my chair and she had Friday, because that's the day she was leaving. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, she had an envelope for each day stacked neatly on the right side of my chair. And I looked over there and I said, well, hmm. Every day you open a new envelope. Yeah, I kind of thumb to an envelope.

And I said, well, today's Thursday. She just pulled out. but on Friday she called me after she left she said you have some some letters

I wrote you for every day that I'm not there so the opening Friday I waited to Friday I opened the letter up so you waited you didn't go early

and I opened it up and it said roses are red violence are blue there's no one I love more than you no that's a classic

deep deep stuff mom's going with the classic this is a creative way for her to get you to keep up with what day it is. And to show her love.

Saturday came and it was, look, we've been together 61 years. She said, with a little bungling at first, she said, we went through it. That was the nice way to say. And she said, I wouldn't trade it for a minute. She said, she said, it was good. Sounds like y'all are flourishing. Yeah. You're thriving into your golden ears.

I'm getting a letter in writing every day. Yeah, that's good. I don't know what she's thinking, you know. Mom's always been a note writer. It's a good sign if your woman is writing it after she left saying, you know, roses are red, violet, blue, I love you more than anybody on the earth. I mean, I was like, well, that's pretty good. She just wanted you to know.

That's why I'm a man and she's a woman. A lot of people are confused on which one they are, but I've just noticed a giant difference between men. and women and how they think. Some men are no riders, but my mom has always been there. I took it for my team this week because I asked Missy, I was like, what do you want for Mother's Day? She's like, well, I want to go to Tennessee, hang out with the kids. I said, okay.

So we're driving her, you know, she's, my wife has never had a new vehicle. She just, she's had clunkers her whole life. I mean, she's fine with that. Yeah. She wants to get out every ounce of energy that any vehicle has. I mean, she just don't want to sell it. But this one she has, I don't know how many miles that had on it, but it was a lot. So what I'm saying is the present was the trip to Tennessee, but it turned into getting her a new vehicle.

I came back in a new vehicle. You bought the other one in Nashville? Well, my son did for her. using my money, which just reminds me of how this thing got started. Exactly. We need to have another family meeting on when your best idea involves other family members doing something or paying for something. That's really not your idea. Well, it made me your idea, but you're not really the one back in the play is the situation.

Well, so, but. So Mother's Day, just in case you forgot, she decided, evidently, the member. didn't get you. I'd like another vehicle. Well, the vehicle on her own. It was breaking down and it just, I mean, my son was like, I mean, dad, we can't have my mom, your wife driving hours at a time putting her life in danger. I mean, she needs to be mother of the year. That was the line.

Your son is always a little bit dramatic. He's always leans toward the dramatic. I'll say that. Is it an electric vehicle or a fossil fuel rig? No, that's an interesting story because look, here was our first night in Tennessee. So, because my other son, who takes care of the farm, but I guess he's been distracted because when we got there, I was like, welcome to the jungle, man. He's like, well, the lawnmowers broke. There was different things that laid out. You hate to be the caretaker and the owners show up and the stuff's broken down.

So me and my other son and the son who's responsible. We spent one entire day just cleaning this place up and getting the grass made. Well, my wife has an electric vehicle that was her grandpa's. He used it on construction sites. But you got to remember, this was an electric, it was one of the first electric vehicles before electric vehicles. That didn't say, it's got to be a while because he's been. This whole thing weighs, it looks like a little, a little truck. But it doesn't weigh, but maybe 100 pounds.

And you're going to drive around in this thing? We've been driving around. Reed found some tires for it that somebody had ordered once upon a time because he went to every tire place that he could. How often do you charge this thing up? Well, you charge it up. I don't know. But here's what happened.

I took it to the bottom of the hill because you've got to realize I'm at the top of a hill that goes straight up. And I walked it just because I went metal detector. to my neighbor's yard as soon as I got there. They invited me to come over and see if I could find anything. But when I walked up that hill, I was like, I mean, it's all I could do to get, when I got to the top, I was just wheezing. I was sounding like, sighed. Whoa.

Wow. Good. Whoa. Missy's like, what happened? I said, who walked up that hill. I mean, it's straight up. I don't know how far it is, but. That's sucking a lot of energy out of a rig.

So the next time, I took the little electrical vehicle, which, which seemed. dangerous when I went down it. There's a little brakes that's got, you know, you're hanging on going down the hill. So when I got it to go back up the hill, I got right to the top of it, and the wheel started spinning. I was going wide open.

I had to pedal to the floor. And I was like, no. And so let me tell you what a scary sensation is. When you're in a little 25-year-old electrical vehicle. You're going backwards down the hill. Yeah. Not good. I did three donuts without trying to, going back down on two wheels several times.

Because I tried it about four times. Because I was like, well, how do my sons get this thing up to hill? That needs to be on a commercial. This can happen with an electric vehicle. I think the Lord intervened just to keep me alive because, I mean, I run it up. Because I ran off the road several times. I'm just doing donuts all the way down. I'd go back up.

Then it finally, I'd finally, I'd. A little blurbs they say you see on the internet little things like that. Well, here's what happened. The battery was charged. So for all you electrical vehicle, electric vehicle enthusiasts, here's a problem. The battery was charged, but this thing has a, to conserve the power at a certain level, even though it's charged, it goes into what they call turtle mode. and it won't go over 10 miles an hour. So even though it was charged,

if you want to charge the hill, it's got to be fully charged. And it wasn't fully charged. So we get the new vehicle that my wife has gotten for Mother's Day, I guess, which this thing was, I don't even know how to describe this thing. It's when I rode around it, it's like a spaceship.

It's a new Jeep came. out with a luxury vehicle. I can't even remember what it's called. Oh, so it's a top-in Jeep. It's a top-in Jeep, but it looks like a suburban. I said, I don't think I've even seen it. Oh, is it the Waganeer? The Waggonier.

Oh, I've seen a Waganeer, yeah. Look, it drives itself. Uh-oh. You take your hand off the steering wheel. No, it literally drives itself. It'll flash the light to put your hands on the wheel. Jace, you're right on the edge of woke. I don't even know it.

I don't either. So anyway, look, this story's getting long. The woke wagonaire. I have to go get the wagon there. At this point, I hadn't even driven it yet. It just got there. Nobody's driven. And I said, go, you got, go get me a chain.

We're going to pull. Those are kind of hard to get a hold of, too. Read must, because I've talked to people. No, that's what I said. Nobody can find a vehicle right now. But you can buy this one, because one, it's really expensive, and it doesn't get good gas mileage. Yeah, okay.

So they walked, he walked in there and he's like, Dad, I found it. I was like, what kind of gas models do you get? Because, you know, it's $4 or $5 a gallon now. Terrible. And he's like, well, look, he didn't answer the question. He's like, this thing has this and that. I was like, he went car salesman on. It gets crappy gas miles.

He's like, well, it's not optimal. So anyway, he's like, but I mean, mom has never had a bit. He was wanting to do this for his mom. And it was true. I went along with it. So I go get the Waggonier. uh, coal comes out, no chain, no rope. I was like, oh, this is embarrassing.

We're on a farm. You don't have any, a chain. Because I don't have my rig. Yeah. And so we wind up doing something you're not supposed to do, which is tow a vehicle with a ratchet strap, but the electric vehicle only weighed 100 pounds. So I said, I think it'll be fine.

And so we, we pulled, this is, that's dark. We just did it. We pulled it up, got it where it's... Well, you managed to put a redneck situation into that deal. You got a brand-new wagon there in your... With a strap, pull it up your electric vehicle. Well, it was so funny. That's a redneck move right there.

We tried to just pull it up, but we realized somebody had to steer this thing. And Coe said, well, do you want to get in it or do you want me? I was like, well, here's the situation, go. If something happens to this vehicle, we just bought your mom. you don't want to be the one driving that. This hill is steep. Bad things could happen. I said, but it's more dangerous to get in the little electric vehicle and steer.

Yeah, because that thing, we're holding this together. That thing breaks. You're sailing off. I said, but look, somebody's got to live to tell the story. What do you want to do? I put it on him. I said, because I'm prepared to be with my maker. I'd rather be in iron.

gears, no buttons. I told the last one I got, the last truck I got it said, no buttons. I said, iron to iron. Iron gear shipped. Everything we had had buttons. Look, put it in low range and I just, I'm just at a snail's page if I want to. That's what we did. About like this, it never even been or nothing.

It just goes out of the point. This rig we had, it was rig. Now, the little electrical vehicle did get up on two wheels at one time, and I look back at Cole and he just had a wide-eyed look. When the wheels are leaving the ground, that's bad. I said, lean to the other side. You hate to put it like, who's the most valuable in this scenario? Because, you know, he's got a lot of years out of that road, Al.

We went, we went, where is the more, where's going to be the harder thing to live with? if you tear up this fancy vehicle we just bought your mom? Because we really wasn't worried about it. Sounds like to me, I mean, I know there's must be a sentimental value to the 25-year-old. It is. It was her grandpa's. We might already get a gas operated side-by-side for your farm. It's sentimental.

That's what I said. When I went up, I said, look, we need a gas operator. I said, we need these type, you know, the golf carts where you get in on hilly golf. Right, and their gas effort. And they're gas. I said, we need something like that. Or even just a John Deere. The battery technology sounds great.

But so far, it's not. It's not there yet. Not there yet. I will say, surely we've come further in 25 years. I mean, Tesla seems to have something figured out. Well, they do. Let's take a break. Well, they do.

But, you know, you got the problem is with the, at this point, and I'm sure they'll get better. Number one, guess where all the batteries come from? China, probably. China. So you got that issue. And then guess what they're building the batteries? Well, guess what's powering the factories to build the batteries? Coal. So this whole thing is like we're kind of chasing our tail.

I mean, you're right, though. The Tesla's are amazing. Corey's got one. So let me tell you what we did, because then a good idea came out. We went and played golf together. me and my two sons and that was awesome because I didn't get to play golf while we were filming this show so my and I've played like four times so they strapped you that's what you think because I haven't I played four times since the six-month layoff and I hadn't broke 90

and I didn't even come close to breaking 90 it's like I'd never played but they wanted to play and it was funny because the chipping yips because missy of course she we have this little baby that we're standing in the gap with. And then Brighton has our first grandbaby. Until Thursday, we had decided to go play golf. And so Brighton was like, well, yeah, y'all enjoy the Mother's Day weekend. And Reid said, it's Thursday. It's not the weekend.

It's really not meant to be a week-long celebration. We're going to do this before we pamper y'all for three days. gifts, which was true. I mean, my wife got a new vehicle, and then my kids cooked for everybody, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which was awesome. And we invited the neighbors. They've turned out to be pretty good cooks, aren't you? Oh, look.

Oh, yeah. So they had an idea. Cole's like, I've gotten to know some of the neighbors, and how about we do a crawfish bowl and invite them, and that's what we did. Yeah. And they came. And it was. You could get fresh crawfish.

He got fair fish Caulfish, yeah And bowl them up And boy, he put on quite the display He had shrimp, we boiled shrimp Crawfish And he had, you know, the corn, potatoes But he had different things in there

Holopinia peppers And it was a... That's kind of the new thing Is you put a lot of different They're doing like even veggies Like Brussels sprouts and broccoli They put them in bags And they boil them in there

So you get that good Crawfish boil flavor Yeah. You know, that was something. I started with a jambalai. I said, well, the woman's going to be gone. How long? All right.

Did she put this in a note? Tell you what to go. No, they leave on Thursday and get back on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. I said, five, six days. I said, I think I go with the jambalow. So I made a big jambalai. Just me was at home. So the artist came down.

He and his woman, Phyllis. They ate on it some. Stone showed up. We had Jersey Joe doing mechanical stuff out here on the equipment. He was there. His son. Jersey Joe's turned into quite the hand. He can do anything.

Yep. He's an IT man. His son is now in love with your granddaughter. I've heard. My granddaughter, you're, what, she. It would be my granddaughter, your great granddaughter. Great granddaughter. So what I was going to say is, we're making progress around you.

Jersey Joey. That's what we could have. One of the benefits from doing this is, you know, I was standing on our back porch. We had all the crawfish laid out. Of course, they had, these people were from Tennessee. None of the three families that came. There was one African American family. There was one younger like my kid's age.

Then there was one couple about my wife and I was age. And that's whose property I detected on. Well, I didn't find, I found a couple cool things. So did they have large? large areas like you. So these are kind of spread out. They're way off from me. I got you.

They're on kind of the same mountain. From hill to valley to hill. Yeah, I got you. And so they're on the other side. And so it was great. But they had never eaten crawfish. I mean, we're in Tennessee here. And so it was just like an adventure for them.

But it reminded me. I was thinking of the, I don't know why it kept popping in my head when Jesus fed the 5,000. So who did the crawfish? Read. He did the whole thing. Yeah. And it was spectacular.

Reed's a great cook. And he had never done it. I mean, he's been around Crawfish Falls this whole life. And this was his first time to actually do it. He was the man. He was a little nervous. Did you put in any corn and potatoes? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, Phil. It was a smorgish board of, and like Cole cooked like a huge, or cooked, he had a big, huge salad, and he cooked, somebody had made some bread, so it was bread. Well, you're doing remote. remarkably well during the pandemic and then inflation, you're still eating well. I don't know what that means. But here's what I was saying. Something special happened there.

You're not just surviving. You're thriving. Well, we were on top of this hill. Did you do it, Louisiana style, dump them on the table? Oh, okay. Yeah, that's why they started taking pictures in front of them. What are y'all doing? They're like, we've never actually, I think one of the men

had eaten because he could peel them. So I had to give a tutorial how to peel them. It's fun for them. They're screaming and, you know, it's fun. But the food just kept, so ever so often, it's another dump, you know. And they're like, boy, this is, this is just something. They were, you know, and we prayed together in the tone of,

and they were all believers, which was, I wasn't, you know, I didn't care. I mean, Cole was like, invited. That's the whole deal. Yeah, but I just thought, man, this is, when Jesus said, love your neighbor, I mean, it just was a picture of that. It was a fantastic night out in the woods, eating crawfish, having fun. You know, I just wanted to like, when you look at the dividing, because it was, if you looked at us, it was multicultural with different backgrounds, different races. And here we are, this is not something you legislate.

as much as you live and experience. I mean, that's why I thought it's the church's responsibility to bring people together. And it was a... Yeah, man in the wilderness. That movie about a big bear mauled, some dude, mauled him good. He's all torn up, and he covered himself up with mud and leaves.

And he was just barely hanging on the life about a week, two weeks. You know, a broken leg, a bear, just gnawed his leg almost in two. But they left him for dead. The movie is just about they left him for dead. And he crawls around. But his first meal, he crawled out of that, he's next to a stream.

And he crawled out of his hole and went down and then got in that shallow water. He looked down the crawfish there. Well, he has no food. His buddies left him for dead. Yeah. And he's trying to make a comeback. But his first meal was a crawfish about that long. In this case, not cooked.

just he was there and he caught him. He just, so he, he gagged about three times, but his first meal was a crawfish. But he didn't pale the tail. He just started eating. Well, he's starving to death. Starving to death. So that crawfish pulled him through, you know. He tried to reach some berries, but he couldn't get up there high enough to reach him.

He tried that. Is this what you watch while mom was going? Yep. But he finally, he finally made it. He needed some neighbors that loved him. He started. with nothing. Was that the same story as the, the Revolent?

Or what was it called, though? Yeah, I don't know, but that was a pretty good bear fighting graphic, but that was fake. It's a lot like a man in the wilderness. Well, if you think what this had to do with Colossians, I actually thought, because I was wondering how you're going to draw that distinction. Well, that was my story other than I didn't finish the story about the golf, so I'll go out there, this before all that happened. I throw up a 74.

What? Yeah. And I thought, you know, and guess what my... 20 strokes better than anything you've done since you... It was a slightly easier course, but it wasn't easy. 74 or 74, Jason? You know what my two sun shot? 74.

We all three shot 74. Really? We got there three totally different ways. Yeah. Because most of mine was my putter got hot. Yeah. So I was spraying the ball. everywhere but I was hitting it better than I had at any point I mean I was roughly keeping it in

play but if I got to the green I made it yeah and it was disheartening for them because we had our little competitions oh yeah you know they're hitting the green and basically two putting right they're playing real golf already they're scrambling me I'm taking a drop over there out of the hazard then hitting it on the green and draining a 40-footer you know hard and they're just like, are you kidding me? Yeah, that's actually worse when somebody does that. Oh, it's horrible. Because they should have, because my two sons have gotten good.

Oh, man. They blitz us. And if they would have putted decently, they would have broken part, you know, broken part. They played way better than I did. But, oh, Jay. Oh, man. Found some spirit with play. I thought, here's a father and his two sons.

I'm just proud of these. Mother's Day weekend. Grace down in here with that mild bode. So anyway, so I was happy just about that. I mean, it was a worldly, earthly venture, you know, playing golf. You still got a little competitive juries. What was that story about the guy, Caleb, when he was like, I'm 85 years old. I'm in my prime.

That's what you felt like. But I thought, because I had these promotions coming up about the show, which I'm excited for. And I'm going to involve the audience if I can. Hang on. Let's take a break. Yeah, I want to hear more about that. What is? Well, because they, I just, I saw the, the week-long promotional deal that I have to do.

Yeah. I'm like, man, I need to come up with some talking points. Because you just, y'all have been on these things. You go to one show to the next and they ask you all these questions. You ever done that, dad? Yeah. I just stick to the scriptures because it basically is the gospel on the front end and how you should behave because of it.

Well, that's what I'm going to do. That's pretty well all the epistles. Somebody taught a lesson in our inner circle. It might have been you that I had it in my phone because you know how these get-togethers go with the neighbors and you get to showing about big deer and fish you've called. But there was a picture that I had it. had taken of that I was at an event somewhere or somebody was speaking, it could have been bowls or men bowls. I thought it may be you, but they had a screenshot and it had treasures

on earth, treasures in heaven. Those were the two categories. And under it, it had mindset, emotional state, attitude, and disposition. Was that you? Not me. Okay. Well, I saw that I, I, I, I was at that lecture. I took a picture. But I thought, here's my talking points. That's it. Because we spend the whole episode,

which turns into four or five days of filming, it seems like we're looking for earthly treasures, which we are. But what the vein of the show is is the heavenly treasures that are found during the venture of looking for law. thing. Yeah.

And so I'll just give you this because I found a lot of these nuggets in Colossians in what we're reading. Mainly when we read Colossians 1, 5, where it said, because he had made the point that he had seen their faith, hope, and love. But he said the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven. So there's some treasures. that are stored in heaven for us.

Well, what exactly is that? So this little chart that I'm fixed to give you explains that. And then he mentions it in verse 12. He says he goes through these spiritual qualities that we grow in the knowledge of God, verse 10, verse 11, being strengthened with all power, you know, the Holy Spirit, according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience and joyfully

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. Well, what is that inheritance of the saint? What are these things? So we kind of imagine what they are. And even some people believe, well, that streets of gold and mansions over the hilltop. I've always viewed that in Revelation where that was kind of depicting us. But even if it was heaven, you're not, you would be walking on the streets of God.

You wouldn't need the gold for anything. There's plenty of verses that says that God is not like images made by man. He's not like gold or silver. Have you ever thought about that? Yeah, well, I've always thought the point is, once you're there, the gold is like what you'd walk, you know, that's like ass-go. Right. You're actually like almost saying, I'm going to walk on this go just to show you how insignificant it is.

Exactly, exactly. If you're excited about going to heaven because there's a street of gold, you're totally looking at this. You've missed something. He missed it. Somewhere. Yeah. So let me give you the two categories. And because what I'd like to do is we continue through Colossians.

and get into this, there's a passage that we're going to get deep in, which is, because you made a few notes about understanding, where's that one that says understanding the Lord's will? Where is that at? That's in verse nine. Yeah, so let me read verse nine that says, for this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spirit. spiritual wisdom and understanding. So with that in mind, I'm going to give you these two categories, because these are going to be my talking points. I'm not going to go through like on a show and say,

okay, here's a chart. But in my mind, I'm going to try to get into the weeds of the spiritual versus the physical and what we do. So you have treasures on earth. On one side you have mindset. your mindset is, think about it. If you're pursuing treasures on earth, well, you're never going to be satisfied,

even though you think you will. Because there's always something bigger, or you use it, you buy bigger barns, or you compare yourself to what somebody else has, there's an unfulfillment there. It's like really rich people. You say, what are they doing? Well, they're trying to make more.

They're trying to add a zero. It reminds me of the time I went to the LSU when they won their national championship under Sabin, and we got to go on the field because we had some special passes. So I went into the press conference right after the game was over, and they said, Coach Sabin, what are you thinking about, right? I mean, you won your first national championship that's the first one to LSU since 1958. What are you thinking right now? And he just, he looked at everybody and he said, well, to be honest,

I'm thinking about how are we going to do this again next year. Yeah. I mean, literally, you had just swapped out the field, and his mindset was, that's great, that just happened, how we go, which explains a lot about Nick Saep. You know, but I thought, man, you can't even enjoy it for an hour. No. And I've already thinking about the next one, which is kind of to your point, Jay. Well, it gets into people like people who win the lottery and, you know, they've done studies that it just, it's a whirlwind of emotions that usually. it just doesn't end well.

Yeah. The money comes and goes, and it just, because you think that, oh, this is going to make me happy, but it doesn't. Now, on the, technically,

whoever wrote this, I'm sorry, I don't know. I just took a picture of it. They had scarcity. Somebody's probably this list and said, that was my lesson. Yeah, I know.

It was good, it's good, though. It's deep. Hang on, let's take another part. So on her mindset that, I put never satisfied, but they had scarcity. And so if you read...

Which line was that under? This is under... Your treasures on earth. Treasure on earth. Okay. So mindset. Okay. Which is scarcity.

The state of being scarce are in short supply, shortage. And because what I deducted from that is you're putting your faith and trust in things that can be burned up or blown up or taken away. or you lose or you spend or it's uh and look all these things can be positive i mean we work and provide for our family and you know we call them blessings however you want to view earthly possessions but even the stuff i'm finding they're cool and some of it has value and but if you put all your hope and trust in that it's a never-ending cycle it was like i just thought about this jason james James 5 to your point, verse 2, your wealth has rotted.

Moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. James. Five. Yeah, I had that as a verse later. So let me give you other. That's pretty brutal about putting your trust in earthly thing.

Well, and you have the Matthew 6, 19, and 21 says virtually the same. things. Don't put your trust in earthly possessions where rust and cloth and destroy or whatever. So on the other side of the bracket, you have treasures in heaven. Well, you have scarcity with treasure on earth. Well, it treasures in heaven. Whatever it is, there's a surplus. There's a satisfaction because it's bigger. because it made that transition from perishable or temporary,

it is now eternal. So whatever that inheritance is, whatever those treasures that are stored up, it far exceeds any kind of goal that you could possibly have. It's more than enough to satisfy. Because it's all eternal in nature. And it's spiritual in base in that it's things that you can't see. It's not in a perishable realm.

So it's obviously number one on the list in there is going to be relationships. That's why you come up with the idea of forever family, the things that the faith, hope and love, that binds us together, these qualities. So what do you think about that? I mean, that's what they had. It's a surplus. It's more than you want or need, but it's only. a different level.

Yeah, and I think that would be both sides of the coin. One is that there's a surplus, but the other side of the coin is, once you have a realization that you're there for all eternity, there's a contentment for us where you're not looking to the next thing. You don't have that based human desire like there's got to be more. There's a realization in the end that this is everything. Which gets to the second point, exactly. You've never seen this.

I have not. I just fell right in it. Maybe I did. Maybe it was my lesson. So if your mindset is what you're pursuing, are you pursuing heavenly treasures? You're going after something way bigger than what you'll find on the earth. Right. Which leads to this emotional state.

Well, if you're pursuing the treasure on earth, the emotional state that goes with this never being satisfied, this pursuit of earthly things, you have fear and worry. I mean, the stock market came to mind when I thought. of that because that is a big pursuit. But you have the fear and worry because that thing is the most volatile earthly treasure form on earth. It just is pendulum. People are they panic, you know, and oh, got to get out of it. And just take what's left, you know, so I can live.

It breeds. It's like actors in Hollywood. They're never content in a great role. You're always saying about the next role. So in the next movie, the next whatever. Most people do not think about the realm in which they can be placed that everything is eternal. Nothing passes away. It's always there.

Yeah. Well, right. When you put your faith, trust, love, and hope in eternal treasures, your emotional state is confidence and peace. you lose everything here. So you're like, well, how are these people? How do they have confidence in peace? They just lost everything. Well, you just think about all the major characters in the New Testament.

They didn't have anything. No. And everything they had was taken away. Even their bodies were beaten, whoop. But what confidence they have. I mean, I think of John the Baptist just jumps off the page. It's like he's confident. He seems to have a piece about him, even when he had his head cut off.

Yeah. Okay. Because he's pursuing something that's not of the earth. Their emotional state is not what you think it would be. They're not, you know, looking around thinking, oh, what are we going to do, feel with worry and fear? So you see where this is going. You want to do the next one? So you have the mindset. You have the emotional state, the difference.

The next is attitude. So the attitude for the one pursuing the treasures on earth is greedy. That's where this comes in. And you have the fear, the emotional state, fear and worry if you start losing things. But the attitude is greedy because there's a trouble finding contentment, which would be on the treasures in heaven side. you have graciousness and contentment and generous. That's why people who have their minds on the heavenly treasure,

they give the earthly stuff because they realize that's not going to make you happy. And you're never going to be content. And you're going to be filled with fear and worry if you start to lose it. That's right. So on the other side of it, you're like, ah, here, you use it. And it doesn't matter. whether you have a little or a lot to be generous. We talked about that a lot on the podcast.

We were very, dad, you and mom taught us generosity when we had very little. Yep. You were still generous. Just like Jay's described that, that was an experience for his neighbors of generosity, the bounty of like, here's the way we, here's what we live and enjoy. I mean, they paid for everything. Right. We shared with our neighbors because we were like, this is a pillar.

and how we should operate. We could have just had our family thing. And it was actually my youngest son's idea. He said, I've gotten to know some of the neighbors. You want to invite them? I looked up, thought, that's a great idea. Yeah. Don't you love it when your grown kids have picked up on the same?

I take no credit for any of it because other than I just financed it, which is fine. That's good. I thought. Somebody has to finance. It reminds me of, it reminds me of, the issues you are discussing, the points, if God is for us over in Romans 8, if God's for us, who can separate it,

who can be against us? He who do not spare his own son, gave him up for us all. How will he also, along with him, graciously give us all things, all these things? Yeah, what does that mean? All things. Yeah, you get that.

That's a good verse. There it is again. What is, he's giving us all things. things. Yep. It means everything we could need that we don't know we even need. And then he goes down and says, who shall separate us from this? He said, nobody.

And all these things, he ends, but I said, we're more than conquerors to him he loved us. And he lists a long list of things that come up that scares the daylights out of the human race. I'm convinced that neither death, no problem there, nor life, why are you here? neither angels, demons, present, nor future, nor any powers, nor height, or depth, or anything else. In all of creation, what we experienced down here will be able to separate us from the love of God that's in Christ Jesus, our Lord. He said, someone says, well, you're going to be slaughtered. You said, we line up to be slaughtered. We know on the other side, eternity awaits.

Yeah. And it never gets old and it never runs out. With no death at all. Let's take our last break. Well, and I love the passage because it said in Christ there, which is the theme of Colossians, which is the theme of the Bible. Yeah. That in Christ these things take place.

It reminds me of that somebody wrote a quote. I can't remember who that was, but I remember reading it off the top of my head. they had it went something along the lines of you know Jesus had no servants but people called him master he he was not a doctor but he healed people he they had like 10 of those things he had he had no armies but people followed him and kings were fearful of him yeah I mean it was just, and you think about it, he had nothing, but he offered everything. I mean, and there's a lot of points you can make about that. But that's really, I think, the, what people fail to miss, because if you just look at Jesus from a worldly point of view, he just didn't have anything.

Plus, if you just went along, you saw, you see an individual poor and downtrodden thinking, And that person, you know, has it rough. But if they're reminded of the fact that now they are, that one, he's an ambassador for Jesus. They're like, do what? He's an ambassador for Jesus. Yeah. That's who he is. You didn't know that?

And they're like, but he's homeless. You're like, ambassador for Jesus. You just think about how that goes all the way down and what Jace was talking about. Whether there's be armies, the people who follow him. you say the ones that get it they get eternity right well you could just go down the list you what kind of car did he drive oh you know what kind of chariot did he drive and he's like that'd be a donkey i mean it's just i mean that's the equivalent of worse than that thing i was pulling up the hill but even the donkey was borrowed wasn't even his donkey did he eat at the finest restaurant

no he just created his own food from thin air and he stopped stuck with bread and fish. Yeah. I mean, of all the things, you'd think, how come he's not raining down T-bone steaks? I mean, all of us want to get in that position and say, oh, I mean, we want to have this, the finest of fine at these gatherings. When you look at earthly gatherings with the important people who have made the important

dollars, and you see this experience that they're offering, and you think, well, that is the greatest. way to exist on earth. But it's all fleeting. You lose it, you lose your status, or eventually you get old and you die. But here you have this pursuit of what we do through faith that is way beyond anything earthly.

You remember this scene, Jason, the Conan, the barbarian, when the king he had him in, he was going to send him to try to get his daughter back, and he had all these jewels, and he was just dumping them out. And he was like, the jewels have lost their luster. The gold has lost his significance.

All an old man wants is the love of his daughter. You know, he had lost the one thing that mattered to him. And he had all these gold and jewels. And, of course, they're thieves, you know, Arnold Schwarzenegger, this is his first big row. And they're just looking out like, this is everything. But it wasn't. Well, that's where I was getting to on this final point is it's like I found this button from the Civil War's really cool, it was infantry button, which is the only civil war-related thing I found on his property.

which I'm like, I know there's got to be some other stuff. Because that was right in the thick of everything. And I was excited to find it, but I gave it to him. And he was like, no, you keep that. I mean, you were out there because I hunted out there for four hours. I said, well, and this is to get to my point on my talking points about what we do when we treasure hunt, your disposition, which is the last thing. So you got mindset, emotional state, attitude.

and now your disposition is when you're concerned about earthly possessions, you want to be in control. You want to control all your stuff. And the more you have, the bigger you feel. You're like the CEO of your own franchise. And you think about the people that we view as the most powerful on the planet from an earthly standpoint is the ones with the most stuff. This Bezos and Elon Musk.

They have the most things. They're like viewed as, and they're in control. I want to do something about free speech. I'll spend $43 billion by on Twitter. We're enamored by these people because look at the stuff that. And we all put our, look, we can't help it. We're like, well, what would I do if I was in that situation? Because, I mean, I usually think I would just buy land.

I mean, what can you do with all that? You wouldn't, after a while. You wouldn't buy rocket chips. You can't eat 10 T-bone steaks at a time. You can only just eat the one. I mean, but you would think in your mind, oh, I'm going to have, it's going to be better, but it's going to taste a little better. What's funny is most of them have weird dietary stuff anyway, just they're eating tofu and vegan. So, but the treasures in heaven disposition, which gets to my.

point on why when I first started treasure hunting, I was so enamored with the stuff I was finding that I would put them in boxes and I look at them. I was like, look at all this stuff. And I still have some of it. But something Murray taught me, who's the expert on our show and one of my best friends in the world, the best thing I ever saw him find was a Spanish coin, Spanish real. I found one since but and it was seven oh all we could see was the 17 on the date which is just sent us into chaos we were like dancing around like junior high kids and when the homeowners of the old place that we were at they heard the just the carrying on they came out they're like what'd you find on our property they would say that but what'd you find and murray immediately i mean

we're still in the excitement of the find. He's like, I found you, one of the most special coins you can find on this earth. I found you a 1700 Spanish real coin, and he handed it to them. And they're like, no, you keep this is what you've been out. He's like, no, I found this for you. He just immediately went into that.

And the word under this treasures in heaven, because you've got to think about his life, here's a man giving up for dead. They said, you know, they said you have cancer. They gave him a number. Oh, yeah, he had a number. A few weeks, you know, maybe a few months. That was years ago when they gave him that number.

So here's a guy who's put his whole faith, hope, and trust in heavenly treasures because he's at the end of his road and giving up for dead and just keeps plugging along. Well, he's not going to, what are you going to do with this coin? Here's a moment. He recognized the moment. So the word under disposition, the opposite of in control is surrender, which is basically what we've done. And we've surrendered.

We use our things the Lord has blessed us to help other people. I can post a picture of this that I took, and whoever came up with this can take credit for it. And I'll give it. I'll give the credit. We always say the original thought is a forgotten source. Well, we'll talk a little bit more about this than the overtime because you introduced a, that's a heavy one there. Well, it's a heavy one, but look, I'll say this, and then we'll see you in overtime.

This is going to help us when we get to Colossia chapter 3 on how you set your mind on things. Yeah, I like that. I like that. All right, we'll see you in overtime. 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 blazestiv.com slash unashamed.