Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 54 | Did Phil and Jase Find Bigfoot?

Episode Date: February 16, 2020

Jase and Phil make a strange discovery on a deer cam. Could this be the first sighting of Bigfoot on the Robertson land?  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  - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am Unachanged What about you? So on the Dad on the last podcast You made mention of my hat Make marriage great again Which was I'd just been to a

marriage retreat That it's another local church in town And our cousin, John Gimber Who's kind of our In-family chef He's quite the cook, I would say. He was a fireman at one time. And by the way, I don't, every fireman I know is a good cook as well. And I guess because all the, they cook themselves. That's what I'm

saying. They cook at the firehouse. I guess they just learn how to do it because almost everyone I know is a decent cook that I run up on. And usually cooks in their families. John's like that. So, you know, John's been around a long time. He's, he kind of grew up with us. And, you know, when I was a prodigal, you know, the only thing that kind of kept me tethered, I think, to the family was that I live with my aunt Judy, your sister, in New Orleans. I was not living right. I was terrible. But it was a tethered a family, you know, even though I wouldn't fully out there just, you know, I'd have probably just got killed if I'd just totally been on my own. So I've always had a soft spot for the Gimbers and for John. And so, you know, Lisa and I worked a lot with John and

Megan, his wife, you know, and they had some marriage issues and all that, and that's a lot of what we do. So John invited me to speak at this, for Lisa and I to speak at his marriage retreat. And I just, the whole time was really funny because it's another church, it's another local church in town over in Monroe. But I felt like a, what my feeling was when we were doing it, because John's in charge, John and Megan and like these other three couples. But I was just thinking, man, look at my little cousin, like just taking off and leading something, you know, and he just, did great and he was just all of his stuff was really good. So I kind of had this feeling the whole weekend like I would imagine Paul and Timothy, you know, like the first time he like turned him

loose and he was able to like do his stuff. And so that's where this hat came from, they had these hats and make marriage great again. But it's, it's always impressed me that it kind of in our spiritual journey, you know, and this happened to be in our family, about when you see somebody sort of just take off, like that you spend a lot of time with, that you mentor, that you, you know, And you get that feeling of like, man, you know, this person has now got it. Like, and not only do they have it for their own life, but now they're leading other people in that. So there were 60 couples there. I thought, you know, working on the marriage, trying to have more Christ-like situation.

It was really perfect because at our church we're kind of having a couple of weeks where we focus on marriage. And so the guy that Tommy that spoke at our church, I thought was one of the best marriage lessons I'd ever heard. Do you think, Jay? It was. Which you can always check out our stuff at WFR Church, by the way. One thing he did was a lot of how we were raised or how anyone is raised affects what kind of husband you'll be. That's right. You know, and a lot of us will look, because I mean, no offense, Phil, but, you know, I looked at your marriage, a lot of advice, like eating fish, you know, when you come up on a bone, you just.

You know. From the early years. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Well, Phil had this big deal about, you know, trust no woman. And, you know, that was ingrained in my head. That was terrible advice, you know, because I was reading 1st Corinthians 13. It was like, love always trust. So I remember bringing that up to Dad one day and he was, we were arguing about it.

I was like, no, love always trust. You just do it. That's right. You know, you can't go through, you know, your life being a detective and a husband, you know, with you. I mean, you just can't, you can't do that. It kind of makes you paranoid or whatever. Well, I always thought. I have often said that someone said, when did you begin to trust Ms. Kay emphatically, explicitly,

trust her? I said, when I finally learned to trust me as far as I could see me, that's when I began to trust her. That's right. Which I always thought, Dad, that took me a while. Yeah, and the reason why was you were projecting that, that was your own weakness. That's right. And so you were projecting always that to mom and us. So that's what we tend to do, by the way. If you're like that and you've got a weakness in your life and some situation that's known on you, you tend to project that weakness on those around you. That's correct. Because you're dealing with it yourself, which is a big part of while we do marriage with. He was sharing more about, I mean, it was just ungodly how his dad

was treating. Yeah, they got our church, right. And he was just like, but he said he didn't really get it until he just, you know, he just started looking at the consequences of that. And then it wound up, you know, his dad has an affair and, you know, molested his sisters. Yeah, it was just doing all this stuff in the name of religion, you know, saying like, well, I should submit to their husbands. You know, he was like being hard on that version. And meanwhile, he's having an affair and, you know, and bragging about it to his own wife. Yeah. And why's a molest and his kids? So he's like, Like, what am I doing, listen to this idiot? I mean, that was hit.

That's what he said, not what I said. But I just thought, man, it takes a lot for a man to get up and share those types of stories and facts about your own life. And to try to use that, you know, to help other people. The walking in the light concept, you repent, turn to God. But if you live a sinful life, a very sinful life, as I did, you know, it takes a way. while to finally begin to walk trusting others by faith. It just, at least it was. At my case, it just took me a while and I was on a zigzag of a course, you know, when I first started out. So, Dad, the reason we talk so much to young people and young couples and people just

starting out is because you want them to not have that 10-year track record. like you did. Some other people have 20 or 30 years where you have such a lifestyle away from the Almighty that it builds in so much stuff that it's hard to get over. We get a ton of questions from you guys about like how do I deal with the guilt from my past and we get it because like dad had 10 years. You have enough sins like I did. They pile up when you know you've been cleansed from your sin. Right. Let's go here. So there's a difference. It takes a while to realize you've been cleansed. That's right. And we're all sinners. I mean, I mean, Jason is a sinner as much as me and dad.

But what happened was dad had a 10-year lifestyle of sinful living. I had four, well, really two years away, just full board. Well, those things build up consequences in your life. And it takes a lot of times a lifetime. But you've got to realize not from God's perspective. When you become a Christian, your clans is new. But you just got to take a while to get there. People and people like me, I never really had a wild lifestyle.

I'm a sinner. I had the same, you know, condition as everyone else. And I think people, they feel like, well, you can't have a testimony or something unless you're, you know, have some wildlife. But if that's true, Jesus would have been a horrible example. He never did anything wrong. He helped more people than anybody. So I always tell people, it's always best to do it God's way, you know, from sex to

staying sober or, you know, the best thing like me, I've never been drunk. I don't know. It's not a temptation to me because I've gone this long without it. I don't know what I'm missing, I guess, and I don't care. But it's not a temptation. I tell you, it's a good thing to miss. That's right. I did this thing the other day.

I was speaking at our one of our things I was speaking at, and I was like, I've been on drugs for years, and it kind of got awkward because everybody, they're like, well, I didn't know. It was like I was confessing. and I was like by three drugs are psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Because he compares that to getting drunk. That's right.

Don't get drunk, you know, a wine, but be filled with the spirits. I did this deal. I said, I'm under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Which is true because they call it spirits, you know, is what they call, you know, alcohol. So if you're under the influence of the spirits, you can never have room for the Holy Spirit. You know what I'm saying? Because if you're getting your high,

which by the way is a lie because alcohol is not a high. It's actually a low. It's a depressive. But that's what I'm saying. That's what they sell it as. And here, I mean, Paul came up with that via the Holy Spirit. He's the one that made that contrast. Basically, alcohol stomp me into the mud.

And I mean, well, the abuse of it. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, which we are when we get to John 2. But what you were talking about marriage, I mean, look, when I first got married, I had all these list of things in my mind that my wife was going to do, you know, and one of them was make tea every day. I just thought this is, you know, because I'm the head of the family.

This is one of your rules. Well, that's what I was thinking in my mind. And that lasted about two weeks. And I thought to myself, why did I? I think that. It wasn't like somebody rebuked me or even she, she didn't mind making the tea. It just kind of hit me.

I get, you know, things change when you're actually living with a woman and you're married, you know, there's no place. You can't leave. That's what hit me. About two weeks of it,

I thought, because up until that point, we'd have an argument. Well, I'd just pull out, you know, when we were just dating. But I'm like, well, dang,

I can't really leave. Where would I go? I live here, you know. So I was like, why did I have tea, making tea? If I want some tea, why don't I just make it

myself. What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what am I doing here? Well, that's a, that's what the first time he knows, they were at a large gather. Well, he spent his whole life, his mom and his two sisters just waited on him hands and, hand and foot. He said, I never filled a plate my whole life up to this point. So now he's in a setting and here comes Beverly, his girlfriend at the time. She's walking up with a plate of food. And he was, he said, man, I'm so hungry. So he puts his hand out like, man, thanks for making me a plate. She looks at him. She said, she pulls the plate back. She said, what are you doing? The food's in there. The food's over there.

And he's bewildered. She didn't even mean anything, Bob. No, she was just like, like her. She had no expectation that, oh, you go fix my plate. And so he made that point. It was the first time what Jay just realized. Did he realize that, wait a minute, this is the way I always have known it. But that doesn't mean that's the way it's going to be.

Well, it's when you read Ephesians 5, you know, he starts off. There's two bigger factors in Ephesians 5 than the one everybody singles out, which is that, ooh, I'm glad it's a. his wife submit to your husband. Well, right for that, he says, submit to one another out of Christ. And that's all the same context, but then he gets down at the end and says, hey, that's all great and all, but I'm talking about the church, you being married to Jesus. I mean, that was his point, is that in a way we're all submissive because we're all married

to Jesus. Yeah. All he's doing is describing, you know, if you hadn't figured out a male and a female or different, you know, go check in at some kind of. Which is why a mental evaluation clinic. Well, they're different. Which is where we are in our culture. We have different roles in how we do it.

But at no time was this some kind of map in that, okay, we're married. You're making the tea. What? Yeah. So much bigger than that. That is just lunacy. Which is why Paul brilliantly. And by the way, Paul's a single guy.

He was inspired by the Holy Spirit. But he brilliantly and summed all that up in Ephesians 533. with a statement that is still as true today as it was in the first century, that women need love, security. There's all the ways you show it to them, affection. I mean, every couple, at least I mean, hundreds of couples we've worked with. That woman needs that. She needs that security, that affection.

She needs that from us. And men need respect. I mean, that's what we thrive on. We want to, whether it's our job, whether you were talking about honey, I mean, you fixed your eye because you missed nine. straight times. But the bottom line is... I mean, that's a man that's like,

you spent your whole lot being able to shoot ducks out of this guy. And we have always said, I mean, no matter... But the bottom line is, to me, the point is the two become one. That's right.

So there's no... We're operating together. I wouldn't be abusive, you know, to myself. I mean... Right. It just doesn't work like that. To give you boys some words of encouragement,

it's good that y'all are learning that young. younger than I did, but I finally came around, but it took me about 50. Yeah, exactly. Oh, I agree. About 50 years, I said, okay, I'm beginning to get it now. And we're hoping, you know, at least not do a lot of marriage ministry, we're hoping to get it in guys when they're 20s, you know, when they're first started out.

For the first 30 years, I would just say when God made a woman, he made a strange creature. Then I began to mature a little bit and saying, maybe not so strange. Well, that's right. And I mean, that's obviously what we're trying to do. So, Jay, as you mentioned testimony a minute ago, and you hear that word a lot. You know, can I get a witness, testify, you know, hear that a lot. And so now it's almost like blurred from, because basically we've been studying from a eyewitness account of Jesus being here. And so a lot of times people kind of blur that idea about what a witness really is and what that means.

And so there's a lot in the Bible about being a witness. Right. In Acts 1, Jesus said you will be my witnesses. You know, starting in Jerusalem, my Bible's falling apart. There it is. I thought I gave you another. Well, you did, but they're not. It has the appearance of being the same Bible,

but it's on different parts of the page. Well, I'm just saying by looking at this every week when we get into this and the page is finally, you're going to have to make a transition at some point because this ain't changed. I have to have, you know, when you, where it is on the page means more to me than the numbers. I get, no matter how hard I try, I get four years out of a Bible. Yeah. And I just hate to set it aside because I've come so used to knowing where things are on the page.

Well, I just want y'all to know, I've run out of places to look for a 1984 NIV Thompson chain that fits exactly your deal. I've searched America, boys. It ain't happening. So y'all going to have to have to have. Back to the witnesses. Well, look, I wanted to read Acts 1-8. It says, you will, because this is, I think, where you get it, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. Jesus is red letters. And you will be my witnesses in Judea, Jerusalem, and Samaria. So I think that's where the church get. They're like, I mean, here's my deal. They're like, can I get a witness? that's kind of the phrase but I'm like these were actually our witnesses they

saw Jesus dead and he's alive and I think what people in the church mean is that you witness because Christ is now in us no doubt about it same Jesus so we witness transformation you witness transformation life it's the miracle of life that you can't explain because people go from the very worst to the very best but I just wish they would say it every once in a while yeah just say okay because it's Christ in you. When you say, can I get a witness? That's not really what he was talking about.

They were eyewitnesses. Right. They saw it. And they told the first story. The first disciples told the first story, which is crucial for us. In the back and the Luke 24, Jesus appears to the disciples while they were still talking about this. Jesus himself stood among them and said, Peace be with you. Now look, they're describing what a group of human beings would do, Al, if they actually saw someone be killed. And three days later... Come back to life.

Yeah, they are witnesses, eyewitnesses of it. Correct. So they were startled and frightened. This is Luke 2437. Thinking they saw a ghost. Makes perfect sense to me. Me too. Because they're like, yo, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Well, he said to them, why are you troubled and why do doubts rise in your minds? The guys who were there actually had a difficult time, which if you think about it, who would. So would I? Sure. I would say, whoa, here. Wait a minute. Wait a minute here.

So what? And they've been running with him for three years. Look at my hands and my feet. It's I, myself. Why would he say? and feet. The marks had to have been there. Well, yeah, he told Thomas. And now we get down to touch me.

This touched me and where he allowed him to grab him. Yeah. Now, that's Luke. When John wrote First John, I mean, the first paragraph of First John, 30, probably 30, 40 years later after that event that just transpired, that Luke was talking about. Here's the way John started it. That which was from the beginning, he's not quite sure what to call Jesus.

So he just says, I know I said in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. I've already said that, but then he meditates on it a while, and he says, that, look, which we have heard, which we have seen, that's one, with our eyes we've looked at, that's two visuals. Our hands have touched, why go into great detail about we touched him, we saw him, and look, he's just getting started. This week we proclaim you concerning the word of life appeared. That's John 1-1, what he's already written about. We've seen it. Well, he's back on the eyewitness.

Look, we saw this. What it does is, at least in my mind, we testified to it. We proclaimed to you the eternal life which was with the Father. And look, has appeared to us, he goes back to it. And then he says, we proclaim to you what we've. seeing he's still on it yeah four times in a space this big he said i'm telling y'all we touched him we felt him we heard him we've seen him we watched him he told us he was going to do it so going back to luke in the last part of luke verse about 45 this is what is written he opened a mind so

they could understand the scripture this is what it's written now you go back all the way to Genesis 2.14. Someone from a woman, the seed of a woman, would crush Satan. That's what he's talking about here. This is what's written. The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day. You read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and he keeps telling them, I'm going up to Jerusalem, chief priests and the Pharisees, they're going to kill me. Three days, I'll be back. And they were like, they're all looking at each other like, what? What did he just say? jumps up and says, no way. He said, get behind me. He said, I'm fixing

to die. Be buried away. Look, it wasn't, they weren't clueless. He told them that over and over. So watch. The Christ was suffering rise from the dead on the third day and repentance and forgiveness of sins to be preached in his name to all nations.

That's what Jason's talking about in the book of Acts. That's where all this is going to be to begin to happen. Beginning at your bruise, Acts chapter one and two all you have to do is read it you are witnesses of these things y'all been watching the whole thing unfold right in front of you are y'all getting it yet of course there's that and that remember he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures right these guys were jews they had to been at least well versed to know that Isaiah said yeah he'll be

like a root out of dry ground he'll be pished for our iniquities and they'll put him in the rich man's tomb that's all covered in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, three days, he'll, he'll see the light of life and be. Well, they had the concept of the Messiah. The problem they were having was that it was Jesus, that it was this guy. You remember what Jesus said about himself.

He said, remember what I said, I testify that I am the son of God and the people around him, including probably the disciples, said, well, who's a witness to that? And he said, the father's my witness. because if you've seen me, you've seen the father, you've seen the father, you've seen me. But think about it from their perspective, especially in Jewish law, without somebody sticking up for you, they didn't know. They were having a hard time with it. Exactly.

And they were seeing someone die and be raised. Watch, stay in the city, go to Jerusalem, stay right there, until you've been clothed with power from on high. Go down there and wait. within the spirit comes on them. They began to speak in all these different languages. Jesus, they said, whoa, is the kingdom coming in? He said, hey, he said, it's not for time you to know all that. He said, look, you're going to be my witness beginning from Jerusalem,

Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. And I'll, any way you want to slice, if that was 2,000 years ago, lo and behold, it did go worldwide, and we're proof of it. Oh, yeah. And at the time, the United States of America didn't even exist. Right. just wielding this over in here you say good

it reached to the Chinese from the Chinese to the Russians to us to worldwide for here we all are you know Peter when he told him you'll be my witnesses when he preached that first sermon in Acts 2 he got to 31 he said see what was ahead he spoke of the resurrection of Christ

he was not abandoned to the grave nor did his body seed decayed God has raised this Jesus alive yep then the next phrase he said and we are all witnesses of the fact. Yep. You know, later on he would write in 2nd Peter

in verse 16 of chapter 1, we did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we are eyewitnesses of His Majesty. Here's the problem I have. When you read that while ago about Jesus predicting his death, Right after that, you know, that was Matthew 16.

In Matthew 17, you know, where Jesus said, Get Behind me, Satan. Yeah. Well, in Matthew 17, they go up on a mountain. And there, Jesus is transfigured, which I don't even know what that means, really, you know, because I just have a hard time. It kind of goes from a regular human body living on the earth that's mortal to an immortal body. Yeah.

They're looking at it. He's just kind of like in a weird, because it says he was transfigured before them. Little glimpse of the glorified body is what I think. His face shone like the sun. His clothes became as white as the light. Just then appeared before them Moses and Elijah. They hadn't been around here for hundreds of years. Hundreds of years.

And so they're talking with Jesus. so these radiating beings start having a conversation. So Peter says, well, Lord, it's good for us to be here. How about I make some shelters? I don't know if he means because it's scary. Or if it's like somebody's going to see this or this is weird or maybe like I'm so scared right now that I'm just babbling. What he's saying is we need to do something.

to remember this. Well, look, here's what's funny. He's not believing his own eyes, Jason. While he was still talking about this, a bright cloud enveloped them and a voice from the cloud said, what now God's fix to start talking. So just imagine that you have a story

where you were interrupted by God, literally. You were talking, you're babbling because you're looking at what's going on. They're quiet now, though. And my point is, is, it's just, there wasn't very long after this, and then here's Peter denying him. I mean, you don't think he has a problem in real, you know, when you see your, this Lord gets arrested, well, all of a sudden, what happened to all this radiational stuff?

Because he's thinking, it's real simple, he's thinking, if I say I know him now, I'm fixing to die. That's it. Because they're going to kill him and they're going to kill me too. The old survival deal, Jason, you know, I think I'll just hit the road. But still had that doubt, right? You know what's interesting about this story? I was, I'm going to preach.

I'll tell you in a couple weeks. We did this on our podcast for it from the water to the wilderness. Because I think what God said to Jesus, because in this world, we're like Jesus. You know, I've been crucified with Christ. I no longer live. Christ lives in me. I mean, in this world, we're like, you know, whoever wants to be like Jesus must walk as he did. All these verses where we become Jesus, you know, through his.

spirit in us on this earth. The man who said what you just quoted, John, had in fact walked with him. So he tells us you need to walk as he did because I got in on the walk. John was there at the Transfiguration. He saw that. He's looking at it.

You know, Peter's there. But I mean, they're looking at it like, whoa, whoa. Well, one of the things you've got to keep in your mind is that we go from that to the world, which is, I believe the wilderness where you have the evil one out there attacking you. You have people who are insulting you because of who you are. Not everybody's going to say, oh, yeah, I want to come to Jesus. People hate you.

Yeah, I'm glad you brought it up. And so those three things God said at Jesus' baptism and are our baptism, this is my son. You're my child. I love you and I'm pleased with you. You've got to remind yourself of that. But in Matthew 17 here at the Transfiguration, when God spoke, he interrupted Peter. Have you ever noticed what he said?

He says the same thing, but he added one other thing. He said, while he was still speaking in 17.5, a bright cloud enveloped them. And a voice from the cloud said, this is my son, whom I love, with him, I am well pleased. Well, this is the same thing he said at baptism, but he added one more thing. Listen to him. You know, because Peter was just babbling. You know what I mean? He had just been rebuked.

I mean, the previous chapter, he was just rebuked and was called Satan by Jesus. He was interrupted by God himself. He added that one little phrase, listen to him. It makes me feel a little better when I get on one of the hard-headed type of rants. You know, when you look at Peter and how he would jump up and go to it, it makes me feel a little better. I'm not the only one who runs his mouth sometime when he was. The point I'm making is they were witnesses to that. You know, Peter finally got it in Acts too.

That's why I read that. He said, we're with, but from that point on, post-Jesus going to the right hand of God, when Jesus said, you'll be my witnesses, that transformation happened with Peter. He quit talking about himself. That's right. By the way. He started pointing people to Jesus. He was like, I'm witnesses to that.

Hold your thought. Here's that same Peter a few years after this happened, months, years, years. not long after. This is Acts 10. You know about verse 37. You know what's happened throughout Judea. Now, the Gentiles are coming into the kingdom. So Peter's got an update here.

He had already seen the big movie screen come out of heaven. You know what's happened throughout Judea. Beginning in Galilee, after the baptism that John preached, which you alluded to, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. hey went around doing good healing all who were under the power of the devil because god was with him now watch we this is peter talking or even he ran when jesus was being crucified but through it all jesus reinstates him in the end of john there we're all we are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the jews and in jerusalem

Now watch. The very thing he jumped up and ran his mouth about. Remember? Jesus said, hey, Peter, I'm going to die, be buried and raised from the dead. And Peter says, never. Watch this. A few years later, after all this goes down, they killed him by hanging him on a tree. The thing he was going to, that thing he said he was never going to happen.

Well, now he's got it now. He has God's spirit given to him. But God raised him from the dead on the third. day and caused him to be seen. He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses, back on the witness again, whom God had already chosen by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. Man, what a recap out of the events. He commanded us to preach to the people, which they did well if you look that's precisely where we are what we're doing ever since this went down well you know something interesting we we have the same message the same the only thing is none of us saw him right

we did but even then it wasn't it wasn't easy you remember that Matthew 26 58 where when Jesus had been arrested and they were fixed a crucifime in it there's a little phrase in there it says and peter followed at a distance. I mean, he had denied him. So even though he was falling in a distance, he's dragging up in the rear. But he was witnessing what happened. He still saw it. He still saw it, but he is, he had just fallen on his face. But you know what else is interesting? You know, the only reason Peter became a follower of Jesus was because his brother, Andrew, was one of John the Baptist disciples, which we read about in John 1. And he, his brother, heard the whole witness of John the Baptist, you know, that he's the Lamb of God. Right. And so he goes

and tells Peter, see, he knows, Andrew knew his brother. He knew what Peter was capable of doing. You know what I'm saying? I love that because, you know, inside a family, sometimes one guy, one kid will get it and one doesn't. And so sometimes some of the best evangelism we do is in our own family. Like we know, that's what your sister said about you. Yeah. She kept saying, if we can just get Phil turned around, he'll lead thousands to Christ. And was she spot on or what? It was unbe-knowing to me. So in our family, you were Peter.

She saw something I certainly did. She was Andrew, and she said, I found, you know, he said, I found the Messiah. So when you go to Luke chapter 5, you see when Peter finally got it. And the only reason he got it was because he was in a boat and they hadn't caught anything, any fish, and Jesus is preaching. He's listening, again, witnessing, but he ain't really believing. until Jesus said, hey, why don't we push out a little bit and do a little fishing voice? And Peter's like, Lord, you know, Rabbi, we appreciate what you're doing here.

And I'm paraphrasing. But, you know, we're the experts. There ain't no fish out here. We fished all night. We fished all night. Nothing here. So he says, throw your nets right over there. Thows them out in such a haul of fish that James and John had to come over to pick them all up and get them in.

And then, you know what he said? Go away from me, Lord, I'm a sinful man. What he was basically saying is, you're something big and I don't need to eat. But that goes back to when they were called. I need to get out of here. I need to get out of here. That goes back to when they're called. What you read is basically John 1.40-3-42,

where, you know, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. One of the two of heard that John had said and who had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother, Simon, and tell him, we have found the Messiah. And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, you're Simon's son of Jonah, which, I mean, you will be called Cephas. So he just like dad gives him a name. That's what it reminds me of him.

Phil always like, you will be now known as Colorado. Because he meets people and he will not call him. And once you're coronated, that's it. We got people that have been. By the way, I don't know where that came from. I meet somebody and I end up calling him something. But what's amazing is people like Burley, Billy Red Dog. For 30 years, that's what they call themselves now.

I know it. Burley's like, I'm Burley. Burley because Phil said I was 30 years ago. He signs his name, Burley. Well, you know, it's weird. It's the first time you started calling him that, he went and looked it up in a dictionary, and it said large black man. It's what it said.

Slang, it said slang for large, violent black man. Yeah. I never knew that. So why did you do it? And Phil was like, well, I didn't know that. He's like, I just, it just popped into my head because you're big. Well, he looks like a large violent white man. so I could see the, you know.

He just became known Burley. And he said, have you seen Bigfoot lately? And I said, no, I'm laying out. I saw that. That's what I thought. And he caught Burley with all of his hunting gear on, face painted, walking through the brush where his deer cam was. And he just had a close up of Burley walking.

And I said, it looks like Bigfoot. You know where that came from? He sent me that picture, Jay. and I said, you found Bigfoot. I mean, it looks identical. But Jason, well, I hadn't thought about that. I was like, y'all didn't plan that? He said, oh, no.

He just picked him up on a deer can. He just happened to walk by because it looks like they planned the shoe to reenact Bigfoot. And I was like, that's how it happened. That was a guy like Burley who was walking through the wood. That's why there's no wonder that I nicknamed him Burley, because he can be mistaken for Bigfoot. That's why I call him Bertie. We have one of our listeners asked us what we thought about Zascuatch.

That was one of the questions I ran across recently. Well, I'm an eyewitness. Saskwarks lives with us. Yeah, I found him. And we're eyewitnesses. I see this guy every day. If he puts his arms this way and walks through the wood, oh, it's Bigfoot. But here's what's scary.

This guy we're talking about, Burley, who now looks like Bigfoot. If I get that picture, we'll have their guys show it to him. Oh, we'll get it. But look, he is a registered nurse and works in hospitals. As he travels, he's a travel nurse. So think about the guy we're describing. You wake up from, you know, you come out of a surgery as you've been to sleep and you look up and this guy's walking toward you, putting on gloves.

Standing over you. Well, look, you know what happened last year? I would be petrified. And he lives in Colorado with his wife and kids. Ah, I'm dying, going to hell. He has a place here. right beside Phil's, he's been building on his house for how many years? Well, years.

A long time. So he tells his wife every year during duck season, I'm going to go work on the house. It never gets finished because every year he wants to come down here and duck on. I figured all this out. Oh, yeah, we know. So I hope his wife's not listening. But then he justifies it because he works at the local hospital. So his wife's like, okay.

You're making money. And they have a good relationship. And he's like, it's fun. She welcomes the break. Oh, so he's gone for two months. I know her well. She's glad for him to go south of a while. But what's funny is last year, so he's worked at this hospital,

so he can hunt most days, you know, the other times you're working. He's like, they brought me in and said that unless I shave, because you'll see the picture. We'll show it. But they're like, unless you shave, we're going to have to fire you. And so I thought he was going to say next. So I guess I'm going to have to shave. And he said, I told them, well, I'm not.

shaving. Why would you want to do that? And he went my little speech about you shouldn't be a facial profiler and, you know, the heart of them, because he's got a good heart and he helps people. And they said, well, you're scaring. We don't want you to scare the terminal ill patients into death. Which was my point. Yeah. Or we don't want them to wake up from surgery and their eyes are blurry and then all of a sudden it's Bigfoot. Their thinks they're in hell. This is what do they call the guy, the death guy the but through it all

Burley said the reason they did not remove him is that since he's about 6.3, about 260. Phil,

he's bigger now. He's like 6 6. 6.6. 6.320. Let's just keep on. He's big. He's huge. So what they do now,

he works the ER, works at the ER and he's there from like 7 in the evening. No, 7 in the morning to about 7 or 8 o'clock. at night. He works 12-hour shifts. Right. Yeah. But he began to tell

me what transpires at these ERs. The drunks, the people on Crystal Day. Oh, yeah. And he says he has now, when they have one that they He's an enforcer. Oh, they bring him in and they say we've got one with the pole where the drip

was and he's knocking out the windows and he's knocked the nurses down. You know, call Burley. And so Burley comes in there and Burley is he said all I do is just bum rush him and he said I tacked on like a linebacker you know he played for the University of Oklahoma he did so he told me that story he said they had a guy that was on something that was just I mean he was literally literally bouncing off the ceiling he was on the bed and just had wet yeah and just hollering I was like what'd you do he said I just rushed him

he said he was trying to swing at me on the way he just got on in too fast I mean I mean I mean, Burley is humongous. By the way, the next day when the guy sobered up and had a clear head, Burley walked in there and that guy, because they had him, you know, restrained. Restrained to the bed. The guy said, in a little meek voice, Burley said, he told him, he said, thank you for not hurting me.

And Burley said, so you did remember our little ruckus last night. He said, I remember it. I knew you could have hurt me bad. Isn't that funny? He went from getting, they were going to fire him. But now, given the right circumstance, he's perfect. I mean, the drug epidemic is so bad.

You have to have a man like that in the ER. So to go full circle, how dad nicknames these people, when I still remember before Burley was Burley and he was just Dane, he came down here for the first time he ever came down. And his family was at our church, but he had been living a terrible life smoking, I mean, talking about a dope guy. He showed up down here with this,

little guy, we called him Little B, that's about four foot tall. And Burley's this giant. So those two came together. You remember? They both dope smokers. You know, it's weird is when I was in high school, the worst guy I knew was that little B. Little B.

He was constantly in trouble. And so one night. Because he's a little miniature person. Like he's, like, the growth got stunned. So he's like this cocky, terrible. He was running around with Burley. And he's huge. But look, here's what's funny.

y'all were studying with him down here when i walked in and looked and saw that guy i was like because i knew him from high school i was like bon whatever he's selling you that guy's terrible but it showed you like i had to learn like many other people that the message of jesus the holy spirit of god can't change anybody so look they were both young men and they both came to christ and dad helped lead them and when they left out of here they threw their dope out the window. I baptized both of them in the river. You did?

And then I started working with Burley. I roofed houses with him. Long enough to realize that I didn't need to roof houses for a living. Yeah. Doesn't take long for that. But me and him talk about that all the time. We talk, because it was more of a spiritual thing for him. He was glad I was working with him because he needed positive influence.

But I saw that transformation happen. I would see him get so angry because, you know, he was a new Christian and, you know, when you're roofing a house. a lot of things can go wrong. You know, we left one day to go bid on a job. Well, he told the crew, you know, to go ahead and what to finish and what to do. When we got back, they had put all the shingles on the house.

They were done. The problem was they put them on upside down. No good. And me and him went up there. Because you get a large man that gets angry. He was taking those bags of shingles. They're pretty heavy. They're really heavy.

You're walking up a ladder, your legs are shaped. He was taking them and just flinging them. From the ground onto the roof because he was so mad. And he got up there. He was just ripping things with his bare hands. His hands was bleeding. I mean, he was angry. But, you know, we were talking about how funny that is now.

He's like, you just have to grow in your faith as it goes along. And you need other people there encouraged him because I was like, hey, in the grand scheme of things, this has no effect. When he was young, he had a mustache now you'll see when you see his picture. and he looked a lot like Randall Tex Cobb. Remember the old wrestler? It's a lot like it. So you look at their younger pictures. He was like that.

But this is what happens. I mean, it's sort of similar what we've been talking about in the sense that dad in a strange way, and I guess we all have led a lot of people to Christ. And in some sense, you disciple them a lot like what you see in here. And in dad's case, which is what we were talking about,

he's giving a lot of people other names. I saw Curley at Church Sunday. his name is Donnie, but he's been curly for 40 years because he had curly hair, so dad called him curly. And if you asked him who he was, he'd say curly. You know, I mean, he goes by the nickname. So it's really interesting. But these are all brothers now because we did what Jesus did.

Well, Jesus is the ultimate transformer. And I think there's something about there's just too many to be a coincidence. God, he would change people's name based on their circumstances and the transformations that happen. You think Saul to Paul. and right so there's something to that i've folded my bible up and that means y'all is that mean you're done well i just hope y'all are watching so when i fold my bible up that means call it a rap so i guess dad's decided that's all we need to say i would like we're kind of leaving off in

uh yeah don't do don't do that chapter one i want to do that next time yeah i want to introduce nathaniel next time i just i just wanted people to read that section john 143 to uh 51 next time because look I've got some deep water I want to take you to and we love when Jay's takes us to deep water I have some really deep thoughts

that come out of that section so what I would like to do is build some drama and some anticipation and see if all our listeners can read that section and figure out what depth of water

and where it's at that we're going to consider it a test Jayce you just sitting there oh it is drama dude. What does that mean? You know what that means? So deep water, Nathaniel. We'll see you next time.

See, y'all don't have any idea what I've told about. So I'm saying if everybody studies that, there's something really deep Silas Robertson. Oh, yeah. There's something really deep in this section that y'all haven't heard, and I want to see if someone figures it out. 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. That's going to keep you up today with all the new episodes.

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