Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 570 | Jase & Missy Welcomed 30 Families for the Mia Moo FUNDay & Why Miss Kay Kicked Phil Out

Episode Date: October 24, 2022

Jase, Missy, and Mia hosted dozens of families for the Mia Moo FUNDay, and the weekend even included a poolside service at the local hotel. Jase shares how families can get beyond the "Why me?" questions when they face adversity in their lives and the hardest part of helping a child — or teenager — going through what Mia has faced in her young life. Phil gripes at being kicked out of the house so Miss Kay could teach some college kids how to make chicken and dumplings. Phil and Jase have the same alarm system for unannounced visitors. Jase's frog hunt adventure led him to wonder why the first reaction to danger is to pull out a camera, rather than deal with the dangerous situation?  - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So, welcome back to Unashamed. I am, Jess, I'm in Lake Ufala, Oklahoma, which I'd never heard of before. It's a beautiful lake up here, and it's huge. I mean, we hit this lake probably. A lot of ducks hit that thing. Oh, yeah, there's been ducks waking right behind my cabin every morning. There's about a hundred Canadian east. You see any blue wing? Do you see any blue wing teal? No, just some mallards is all I'm saying.

There's a few mallards here, but I hadn't seen any small ducks. But yes, it's a beautiful. It's like it's low, low, though. There must be a drought because this thing looks like it's down probably four feet lower than it normally is, maybe more. Eric Bouget got in touch with us and said there's a big mass of teal coming towards you coming out of, and he's up in the upper end of the little big horn whatever he's way up at little big horn whatever where's that montana he's up in uh montana so he said he said they're coming towards you by the hundreds this morning within four days of him telling me that is when me and old j says smoked in

blue wings he he he alerted us and he was right i told him that he's your early scout your early warning scout he's our plant he's a plant up in the northern part of the united states when he sees the blue wings he alerts us we get ready for them and then we burn days is a long time this first i've heard this story this gets into the definition of near their teal coming towards you four days later they're here that's a long time hey montana i don't know how fast the teal flies right around seven miles an hour but straight through but he's on a different flyway they must have made a pit stop the point was he's on the central flyway pacific flyway the one that's over there way over there but

it was just a sign that there are one a good crop of them and they're all headed south but it was amazing that within four days of that report they loaded this up yeah i don't know how to how to wrap my head around that i mean because most times in life you don't have four days to stop everything thing and wait, but it's interesting. It was a little alert. I was surprised that four days after he gave me that report, here they come. How long would it take a till to fly from North Dakota to Louisiana? Well, he just took off.

Unlike an airplane curving around, if you just went pretty well straight ahead, 70 miles an hour from here to Montana, what you say? If you were driving it on a vehicle, probably. 12 hours, 10 or 12 hours. But you take birds flying through the air, they can get there a lot quicker than vehicles riding on the pavement. So you replace the old sand data as a crow flies, it's as a teal flies. It's about 75 miles an hour.

Yeah, a straight shot. Yep. Well, you'd have to figure out how many miles it is from Louisiana to North Dakota. Somebody figured. Not the Dakota. Everybody figured that out. further west than that he's in montana oh but i was just drawing a lot over if they move they all totally most of ours comes out of the dakota's north and south dakota straight shot down

it wouldn't take them two or three days well how many miles is it from north dakota louisiana i'd say seven 800 miles oh no more than that i was working on this maybe a thousand it'd be a thousand i would i would bet that's that's all the way of the top so if it's a thousand miles. And have we got how many miles? I haven't we got 70 miles an hour. Oh boy. Here's one of these word problems.

I was never good at these. It looks like it is, it would take 23 hours. Oh, it's 1,525 miles. Ooh. So if they were flying 70 miles an hour. So somebody needs to divide 1,500 miles by 70 miles an hour.

hour. You have our crack staff there, Jay. Are they working on the problem? 22 hours for them to get here if they flew in a straight line. I saw them four days later and nights. So four days and four nights is when we started seeing. That's when they just here they are. So they had to make some pit stops along the way.

Make a few pits stops. They could have made it in 22 hours. They could fly half the night. We've seen them. We made a pit. Well, they got to sleep. Well, you hear them come over. It's just.

before daylight you say boy they they seem well rested to me yeah by the way for for ducks to be able to do that they would have to have some kind of uh hardware hardwired into their brain some kind of GPS system because they end up most of them at the yucatan across the gulf of mexico so they have to have some kind of wiring in their head that the almighty put in there and the mankind had nothing do with it. These birds, they know where they're going almost, but a lot of them have never been to the Yucatan. They're fresh hatched out of the egg. As soon as they can fly, they look around and whoever, their mother says, load up, we're heading to the Yucatan. What do you attribute that to?

Huh? I attribute that to Jesus being the creator of all things, the cosmos and you and me. I'll agree with that assessment. So it was, it's, it's hardwired into it. And a blue wing teal, a blue wing teal, you say, who, where'd that come from? Somebody made him or we wouldn't have them. They said, oh, no, I'd come out of salt water. I'm like, salt water. No.

What did you say, Dad? The mom tells them to load up. Load up. We're heading. Here we go. Let's go. And about March, we'll be looking now. They'll go back.

And the same group, they come back through here. They go down on the carbohydrates when they stop to eat. They go down on the carbohydrates. What do you mean about carbohydrates? Grass seeds, corn, beans, rice, that's what they go down. They come back through the woods for their nesting food supplies, little bitty critters, a little bitty crawfish. Protein.

Protein. Protein. Protein. Protein. Protein. Protein. Proehydrates on the way down, protein on the way back.

And they're working out. They're working off the carbohydrates on the way back. They all gather back up, up in the hot hole country. And the Dakotas, Montana, going across the upper tier of states, the Canadian prayers, and we're all sitting down there waiting for them.

I cooked one batch of them just to see if they were good. And I made one big gumbo. And everybody that got into the gumbo, they said, what kind of, what you put in that? I said, blue wing teal. Because they used to have kind of a whang to them, kind of a smell about them that was not good.

But these, nope, they were fat and they didn't stink. So they made a good, great gumbo. I say it fed about 10 to 15 individuals. Well, that's pretty well a rule of life. If the food that you're preparing stinks before you prepare it, it's probably not going to be good. that's why when I take out a gallon of milk and I'll pop the lid, the first thing I do is put the smell test to it.

I know it, but the smell test, which is beyond me now, I've lost my sense. You could take a dump right there and the wind's blowing from the dump to me, and I couldn't smell it. It has it's a good idea. I mean, it's a good thing. You said, but what are you doing since you lost your smell? I said, a lot of people are saying,

what is that I'm smelling I'm like hey it beats me because I can't smell it whatever it was I have got them little dogs down there you know Kay got a couple of little I have no comment on that Phil that was a mic drop moment the conversation ended right there thanks for thanks for coming losing your smell is not the end of the world's what I'm saying there has advantages to it one of them Sometimes in life, the illustration is so graphic that I do forget the point. I forget what the whole thing was all about, and that was one of those moments. But Phil has a knack for simplifying. He does that.

One of the things that will leave you, Jace. How old are you? I'm in my 70s. How old are you? I'm over 50. You're over 50s. One of these days you're going to look up and you say, good night. My old dad told me that I'd lose my smell.

I've lost my smell. I don't know that it's a... You don't want the prostate gland. Your prostate gland to get the flaring up. They'll tie you down to a bed. Oh, no. They'll put drips in you. I'm nervous right now.

Antibiotics. The only thing got to kill that, we got to go in there, Mr. Robinson, and give you some of these antibiotics. I said, I don't like that. But they did it anyway. I come out of there. I couldn't smell your crap anymore. I took my smell away.

So I'm living with it. I've lost my appetite in the last five minutes. Man, that stinks right there. I said, not to me. It doesn't. Only dad can see that as an advantage. That you would lose your...

They don't smell anymore. They don't stink anymore. Yeah. Well, that's true. But then you also miss some of the beauties of life and being able to smell things. Dad, I'm not sure it's a universal truth. That every, all old people lose their smell.

some people smell right up to the end. I don't know if that's a... I just thought, well, I guess it gets coming to the old age or something, you know? Yeah. But my smell gone, but my taste is still there. Since you were in the hospital that time, you haven't been able to smell since then? That's that, you linked it back to there. Maybe you need to see a medical professional and see where all that started.

I don't think that's kind of thing. They said you got a prostate that's really infected, and the only thing that I get it, It's the most powerful antibiotic on planet Earth. But he got your smell as a... It robbed me of my smell. Their fault, but I don't hold against them. I didn't file a suit against them. The good news is, all our listeners,

I'm never going to sue you. I don't care what you do. I'm not going to sue you. Well, we appreciate that. Yeah. I don't sue people. And who won't? If we ever decided to use the bathroom anywhere in your dad,

there's no problem there. feels like i can go to the bathroom fine now but i can't smell so actually i consider that two positives yeah so okay now let me tell you about my weekend because we i don't know i've lost my appetite during all that i actually went frog hunting i think the last podcast here i was going to do something that i've never done before i'd actually attempted to catch frogs in october but was never successful so for the first time in In my life, I caught frogs in October. But you did ask me about it.

You figured I'm... I asked you because I thought... What did I say? You said, I think you're going to catch them. Now, I didn't catch many. I wound up. What I did was I asked one of my buddies to go as a plan B, because once I went on the venture, I said I needed at least 12.

So I actually challenged this fellow. I said, I will give you a critical. $100 bill if you come up with five frogs because frog hunting is an adventure and it is you get oh yeah I mean and he said are you serious I said yeah sometimes money is a motivation well it's a challenge you know motivator so so we went and my party it started off great we caught four pretty quickly and then the motor literally blew up. There was a sound. You know how when an engine backfires?

Yep. This was a backfire that was the end of the frog hunt. It was a kaboon. We all jumped, thought the boat. I was going to ask you what piece of equipment you were going to use. We had a mud motor, and he hadn't used it since. duck season of last year, but he had a mechanic come down

who was in the boat with us because he said, I'm not too sure about this rig, and he thought he had it working, but it backfired, and that was it. Now, the mechanic spent the rest of the time as we're paddling back

and push-polling back, which we caught another for all without the use of the motor. So we had five, which I thought, well, that's enough for me. What size of these frogs? running. Mid-sized or big frogs?

They were big frogs. I mean, we had one big frog, and then I'd say four pretty big. They were all big. Hang on, Jason. Let's take a break. So I forgot all about my buddy, and so at about 10 o'clock that night, he sent me a text saying he had two. He said, it looked like I have $40 worth of frogs, and I was like,

No. The deal is, this is not per frog. $100 for five frogs. So I forget about that thinking this hunt's over. So about 11.30, now I'm back home. He sends me a video and I thought, well, he'd come up with the five frogs. No. They go up under some limbs. They see a frog way back in the,

there which would have been their number three for all and when they push pole back there was as big a cotton mouth as you've ever seen in their boat so they go up under some limbs of course these people that says you know cotton mouths can't climb trees never look up that there's a rule about that wrong i've had cotton mouths i saw in my boat about daylight and i've jumped out of the boat into the bayou because there was cutting my eyes like that. He opened that mouth up when I was walking toward my outboard. Well, he just started coming at me. Well, I jumped

out in the river. I just jumped out. But when I did, I looked up on the edge of the boat. He was coming out of the boat into the bayou. Now I've said, I got to get back in the boat because he's coming out of the boat.

And I'm out here. So I get back up in there. My neighbor, she was an old woman at the she was drinking coffee watching this and boy did she let out a high out about laughing she she said i would have paid money to show somebody what happened right she said did you get him well that was well i didn't get him i said but i said i got back in the boat when he got out of the that was what was disturbing about this because they film you know they so they have to kill the cut him he's striking up and yeah but it's like we're in a society now

Where something dangerous happens, you know, Cottonmouth, you're a million miles away from a hospital. And I don't mean literally, but by the time you get the boat back and long, I mean, the time that's going to pass by is probably true. They'll make you, if they're in the boat and you all of a sudden see them, you'll get out of the boat, give it to them. My point is somebody starts filming it instead of aiding in the, in doing something about the problem. me there's killed the snake the danger of at hand so they kill the snake with the push pole and so i'm like that's not going to get you a hundred dollar i mean i i was like why are you sending me this oh yeah i mean it was exciting great we paid near death experience oh he was like well that was his point we're risking our lives here now for this hundred dollars your answer was where are show me the frogs

I say these boys, you know, it's not going to happen. And I'm going to eat the five frogs. And I'm not going to have any guest, which is what this had developed into. So I go in, go to bed. Well, well after midnight, I never looked at the clock, but the dogs rang out. You know, I got the same system you got. The alarm system is two little dogs. Yep.

And so I thought that's a dog, bark, grab your weapon. Yep, that's what happened. So I got my pistol. I said, that's somebody is in the yard. And so I look out there, we're in the wee hours of the morning. And there's my buddy. Y'all know him, old Chad Johnson. Look, I stuck my head out.

He said, hey, we're not to be team. I got you five frogs. The Joker's done it all night long to come up with five frogs. I said, well, I just wanted to see if you'd do it. Here's a, I'll, you take your woman out on a nice supper on me. Here's your hundo. And so I got my 10 bullfrogs. I thought y'all think that was an interesting way to get 10 frogs in October.

I'm not going to, Indian chief, Jace. Good trade. Good trade. So you had 10 frogs. Did you invite anybody over? You still just ate them by yourself. You had missing? Oh, yeah.

No, it was a family outing. You know, I had families and closest friends. I mean, at first I thought about just gorging myself on the ten frogs, but you know what the Bible teaches? You love your neighbor. And so Missy and friends got in on it, and we really enjoyed that. That was a good practice of hospitality. It's biblical.

It is. And look, you know, this guy that gave the $100 to, I mean, it's not like he's got a lot of money. I mean, he appreciated it. And it was more about the challenge, you know. So I thought it was a fun venture. So you can catch frogs in October, but there's not a whole, I think some of them had gone in. And it was kind of cool. I mean, it was probably the coolest I've ever hunted frogs.

I would say Johnson took his, he took his ministry because we all, all three of us spent a lot of time mentoring him as a young, young Christian. And so he took that our use of the outdoors. to help ministry and help minister other people. He took that to the full extent because he's worked that into his whole ministry. He helps a lot of drug addicts and people, but he does it by getting them out in the boat or getting them out on a frog hunt or whatever. Because Dad, you always told us that there was not much trouble in a boat, but there was a lot of trouble in town.

That's what you used to tell us. And I think he took that to heart. So now he's one of our ministry leaders at our church, which is pretty amazing. So, Jay, that was a good ministry. you were donating to the ministry. Yeah, that's what I thought. So that was the back story on that. But, look, we had a long weekend after the frog hunt.

We, you know, we had our Miyamu annual event. And we wound up with. Explain that to the listeners that might not know what you're. Yeah, we had 78 volunteers, and we had 30 families that we have helped through the Miamu fund show up. Now, we invited, I think we've helped 185 families in some way, I think almost 150 financially. And they all get invited. But you've got to remember, these are kids with special needs and families with special needs.

So it's hard to get everyone there. And usually every year we'll have around 30 families show up. Pretty well, it's facial aberrations, you could say. Well, it's craniofacial issues. But most of these kids have a second. dairy issue and it may be some sort of disease. I notice we do a, the parents get together for a couple of hours while we're out at camp,

which we all are familiar with. But one of the sessions, and I think it's the parents' favorite session, is that we just have a share time about where we're at. But I just noticed, because it's fresh on my mind, that most of these kids have more problems than just the cranio, facial issue. And you got to remember these kids that were helping, this is not, this is at least an 18 year journey, roughly 18 years, because there's multiple surgeries as you grow, because as you grow, since you started off with, you know, a lack of tissue where your palate is or your nasal

cavities, your jaw doesn't grow right. It's a managed situation. So this is a this is pretty well a life of misery and and pain and suffering that's being managed. And we had a real special time this time because that's a lot of volunteers. But you think about having that many volunteers who, because this thing is pretty well on an entire weekend. And we pay all the expenses of the families to come down. I think it was probably 130 people with the family. 30 families. And they do a night together on Friday night.

Well, on Friday night, we have the volunteers over. And I had Gimber, he cooked Jambalai. And it's basically just because all the volunteers don't necessarily know each other. So we have a coming together. You get to know everybody who's really just doing this because they love the Lord. And we get to know everybody. And then Saturday is a long day. It's like seven to seven out at camp.

There's various activities for the kids. Most of it's fun for the kids, but we have moments. The theme this year was from First Peter 2 that they're loved, they're chosen, and they're treasured. We had a little treasure theme to it,

which was awesome. And so we did that. We had a special time this time because we had a doctor there. It was actually one of Mia's surgeons and a speech therapist there and so they now look for them to take time for a whole weekend and come out and just be there for questions and answers i mean was really especially doctors they're busy people yeah and uh so and and i could tell they were impressed because we're

you know we just don't help them financially we're having these families spiritually and emotionally and and mea puts together the whole thing she's she's in charge of it she does a fantastic job. What I found fascinating is... Mia's had how many... He's had like 14 major surgeries and multiple procedures. Hang on. Hang on before you do tell the rest of that. Let's take another break.

And so what I found fascinating is, you know, she's fresh into college now for a couple months, but she brought with her eight new friends from her college who volunteered. Yeah. I was run off from the... premises and miss kays said we've got about eight or ten people coming here and i'm going to show them how to cook chicken and dumplings and uh you know college kids these day they never heard of dumpling but uh so miss k she said you need to hit the road finding some place to hang out for a few hours so i went over here the old day and the man and uh we're watching matt dillon while the dumpling cooking was

going on well the kids they said well we want to go over there and see the gray beard. Tell me of his friends. Mia's friend. Yeah, I knew she took them. So they loaded up. And a little knock on the door, you know, so here they all come. A little picture-taking event.

So we just did it, you know. But they thought it was the greatest thing ever. They made the dumplings, chicken dumplings, and then they ate them. Well, that should be a prerequisite for college kids, because they don't offer that at universities, how to make chicken and dumplings. That's what I was thinking. But, you know, you think about, I never heard, I never heard the word eight years of college. I never heard anybody's talk anything about a dumpling.

It just, just wasn't there. No Jesus and no dumplings. So added up. There's another T-shirt. No Jesus. You've now discovered the problems of society. Went to hell to all the education system. No Jesus and no dumplings.

It's doomed to fail. So think about, Dad. How much better would a college course you would get out of it if you had? if you had a semester of cooking with Ms. Kay versus gender studies. Practicing hospitality. They don't get into that much in college anymore. But you got to remember, too, you know, of course, we're going to be Jesus-based. And we all come together to help these kids.

And there's a lot of sacrifice. And for people, you know, giving up their weekend just to, you know, give some family, some hope. But we also, you know, us, you know, Missy and I, we're not, you know, we're not ball peeing hammer of, of, from, you know, preachy, but we can't help people without the Holy Spirit being involved and being Jesus focused, because that's just who we are. And so we tell them that. We say, look, we realize some of these families may not be believers and, uh, that's not a box you have to check to be a part of this. I said, but we're, this is what we're, this is what, we think and so we share our faith during the weekend and look there's a lot of questions that come up

i mean it was interesting with some of these college uh group that came with mea because they were like well we're we're having some interesting conversations about why bad things happen to good people and uh why do you think jesus was more than a prophet and and basically questions that you get you know from the world that of questioning whether this is whether this is true whether Jesus is true and how do you know the Bible is accurate and all these kind of quick which makes for great conversations but what we do offer and I wonder I set all this up to say because it was a great day and I mean it's exhausting but it's great and some of the activities we do we fish and there's a i think this uh my buddy murray showed them how to how to metal detect and treasure

hunt they shoot bows and arrows and we play basketball and i mean there's and they play cards and you think well why is they're playing cards because a lot of these kids spend a lot of time in hospitals and in recovery and they're all i mean cards is a big thing because you just think about how many times they played a card game or a board game so but then we offer an invitation for Sunday and we we did this last year and we decided to offer it again because they up we all put them up in a hotel and the hotel the manager the hotel's a believer and we offered them to come and have a poolside service on Sunday morning and they're all invited they don't have to come if they don't want to and but it's there and so in the hotel manager

allows us to do that. So Ms. Kay came yesterday. I think every family but one, and the only reason they weren't there is because they had driven 28 hours to be here, so they left earlier. But all the families came, and I would say about half of the volunteers,

and Ms. Kay was there. And so we did a poolside service, and so Mia and some of her friends did the worship, and I spoke. I basically introduced Jesus. I thought we could go over my lesson, what I did, and see what y'all think.

And Missy was supposed to wrap it up, but she gave about a five-minute sermon after I was done. I saw the look in her eye. I thought, no, she's fixing to she was inspired. It's a real, I think it's a beautiful moment when you're at a you know, a setting that's not religious. I mean, we're at a hotel. We've gone through this long weekend.

It was a simple message on where we put our faith. And I thought y'all would find it interesting on how I did the 10-minute lesson. And I wanted to get y'all's comments on it if y'all are up for that. Yeah, we are. Hang up. Let's take a break. Then you go. So what I did, I asked a question right off the bat.

I said, what does the world say, what is the world's definition of success? Now, you can imagine what they said. I mean, if I asked y'all, how does the world define success? They did this, that, and the other than made a billion dollars. Money, that was the first answer. How much money you got? Fame. Fame.

Yep. Looks. Power. was another. Yep. Looks beauty. So, and then I asked, so I asked two questions to start off. I thought, what is the secret to being godly?

Now, I was surprised at the answers because there were three or four answers, and they all focused on Jesus, which was going to be my point, you know? but the answers that were spoken. So what I did was... What's that verse, Jay's? Well, I... It's with contentment is great gain. Yeah, I didn't read that, but here's what I did.

I read Colossians 1.27. If I can find Colossians 1.27, it's... Is this still a part of your Bible? You know, it's missing right now. do you have Colossians 127 yeah

24 24 224 pitiful yeah no here it is I got it I found it I found it

look God has chosen make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mercy

yeah of this mystery the glorious riches see that he he God

you remember when Paul said God chose to make known among us people you know

the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, this mystery, you know, in verse 26 that have been kept hidden for ages, but now been disclosed to believers. And it says the mystery is Christ, Jesus Christ, in you, the hope of glory. So I read that, and then I read 2 Corinthians 4, and this was my main text, 2nd Corinthians 4. And I didn't like quote it.

I mean, I read the whole paragraph. 2 Corinthians 4 or 5 which says for we do not preach ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord now that and I made a little mention that this is the opposite of fame most people who are pursuing fame and the world's success well they what do they do they preach themselves but we don't preach ourselves but Jesus Christ is Lord and ourselves as servants or surrendered for Jesus's sake. For God who said let light shine out of darkness made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. In verse 7, but we have this treasure, which was kind of our theme for the weekend in jars of clay, to show that this all-surpassing

power, and there's the other definition of worldly success, power, so we got power, treasure, fame, glorious riches, that this power is from God and not from us. Verse 8, we are hard pressed on every side. Now look, and I'll just tell you all the back story, the reason I read this next verse is because look at these families, you're talking about going through tough times and going through a lot of years of misery, frustration, and pain. When you read eight and nine, just think about their perspective. They're hard pressed on every side, but they're not crushed. They're perplexed or confused or, you know, wondering what to do,

but not in despair. They're persecuted, but not abandoned. They're struck down, but not destroyed. And so I thought about, I thought that fit those families because in their mind, here they are, they have hard times on every side it's very perplexing and confusing and filled with anxiety they're persecuted because even some people believe you know they're at fault for the like somehow another god is not showing them favor and their kids are persecuted because they look different and so you have all these moments that happen and when i thought about the struck down I mean, there's a lot of times in this journey, because we had a daughter where you're literally on your knees thinking, please, Lord. I mean, it's just a tough venture.

And so, but then verse 10 says, and of course, I made a point, though, even though we go through all this, we're still here. And we're together. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed. So I read that and I said, look, I know some of y'all are new to faith and some of you may not even believe. I said, but for us, I'm just not sure how you can bounce back or have something to grab a hold of without Jesus. I said, because when you say why Jesus, and so then I went and focused on where it says let light shine out of darkness, I said to us, Jesus is the light switch of where things make sense. Because, and I went through the gospel.

You know, he came here. He lived an innocent life. He died on a cross so that we can start over, have redemption. And he was buried and he came back from the dead to show us that we can live again. And this is bigger than this life. So I made a comment that there's two things that Jesus provides. you can always start over. Just think about that.

You can always start over, and he introduced eternity. You can live forever. Well, if you just have those two things, you're good. So then I gave a recipe for what God viewed as success. I mean, being hard-pressed, being perplexed, being persecuted, and being struck down, which you would never think are ingredients to a successful life, is actually was God's recipe for success because his power works in that to show that it's from him and not in us. So that was the first the introduction of it.

What do you think about that? What I think is it's a good way to bring up what Paul told Timothy. Godliness with contentment is great gain. and here's the the brutality of it and just the way it is for we brought nothing into the world and we can take nothing out of it which which is really true but if we have food and clothing we will be content with that and he goes on about we talked about fame and fortune people who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

The love of money is a root of all kind of evil. So the bottom line is you brought nothing in, if you take nothing out, while you hear, if you just have food and clothing, just the bare minimum, it's enough. Yeah.

You can survive with it. Whether you have an ailment or not, just say this is the way it is. God made me. One day I will be, I'll live forever. It's worth it. Yeah.

Hang on, Jay's, let's take her last break. Yeah, I think Jay's, I think that's an excellent intro. And the main reason I do is because I think, you know, Paul was writing in a certain situation, second Corinthians, but what you, the folks you were talking to and even what you guys have gone through, I think is one of the most difficult trials that any family could ever go through because it's your kids, it's your children that are suffering. It's a tough. And it's one thing if I'm suffering, but when my kids or grandkids are suffering, it has a triple emotional effect on me.

And so I just, I think that's excellent, Jay, because it's, I mean, what, what a, what a encouragement, you know, to them for, you know, what they're going through. Well, what we did was, and what you got to remember, I'll give you insight to where we're helping these families. The first few years up until puberty, it's basically all physical. and the kids handle it with style and grace. I mean, they handle it better than the parents. And people, you know, when you're a kid, our families are trying to make them feel like superstars, you know, for enduring all this.

But once they get to 11, 12, 13, then all of a sudden these lures of the world all of a sudden they realize they look different they're not being applauded for all this physical flaws become yeah in their mind right and they're persecuted and so then it becomes a spiritual and emotional thing for the kid which is actually more difficult to address which is why a lot of the you know those parents come because some of them are teenagers that, you know, that were helping and they're just like, and look, we went through it with our, with our daughter. They've been in all this trauma, and it's very difficult for them to own this and

accept it that this is, this is just the way it is. And so, so we got into that on the spiritual side, and we introduced Jesus. And I said, well, why Jesus? and I read the Colossians 1. I backed up and read Colossians 1. He is the image of the invisible God. Let's see if I can find Colossians 1 here. Yeah.

For by him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authority, all things were created by him for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together. He's the head of the church. He's the beginning. and the firstborn from among the dead so that he might be supreme. And then I read that about he's reconciling him to himself,

all thank God is, you know, through Jesus by making peace. I'm going to preach that this Sunday, that text. So then I got into 21 and it says, once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior, but now Christ is reconciled. So I got into that darkness in life and we make decisions. And that's why the cross, mean something because look, these kids, they become teenagers and they already have this

condition they got to deal with. And now the evil one, like it does with everybody, uses everything and anything to get us off the right path. And so we as parents come in there and I'm like, if you don't have Jesus as an answer, it's going to be very difficult. Because I'm like, look at what he brings. So then I gave an overview of Mark where we're at. just think about what Mark wrote about Jesus when he introduced Jesus. And I started with that first statement that Jesus said, the time has come, you know, repent and believe the good news. So then I define repentance from Acts 2618 that it's an eye opening.

Because Paul, when sharing his conversion, he said, I pray, or Jesus, when he was quoting Jesus, that he would open his eyes, turn from the power of darkness to light, and the power of the evil one to God. You remember that phrase in Acts 26? Yep. So it's a, because of who Jesus is in God's plan,

you have this turn in direction and attitude and where you're putting your faith and trust. And so I just came up with all the things that we had studied in the first six chapters of Mark, which is, what did Jesus do after that? He showed that he has the power of disease, any kind of body issue ailment. He had the power over the demons over evil spirits.

He raised a dead girl. I mean, and so when you see all that he has this power, it gives us comfort and hope knowing that, you know what, God can use this. You know, I mentioned John 9, the guy born blind from birth. Yeah, and they didn't necessarily assess blame, but he's like, look, my power is sufficient for this. And so when you look at the cross and the resurrection and that light, all of a sudden you're like, okay, this may be difficult, but difficult. But it is, in all of us, there's got to be this desperation that we need something bigger.

and it leads us to Jesus leads us to God, the Father, and the Holy Spirit. So that's kind of the way I did it. And then I ended it with actually Colossians 3, 17, because I said, you know who were the unsung heroes of this whole weekend were the 78 volunteers? And I mean, I challenged the families. I said, think about, we didn't pay these people. They didn't, they weren't in the limelight.

They gave up their weekend for y'all. I said, so what you saw was, you saw people who had put their faith and trust in Jesus. You saw that at work. And I read Colossians 3 because it said, whatever you do in word or deed, do it as working for the Lord, not for men. And I said, at some point, instead of saying, why did this happen, I said, you've got a volunteer for being a part of this. even with your kid, with this condition. And I told about Missy and I when we did that. First few months, we were blaming each other and blaming God and saying,

why is this happening? And I think Missy was the first one to say, well, why not us? We've got to volunteer for this. We're going to let, you know, we're going to attack this and let God's power turn it into something good. Look, I saw it my own daughter. At some point, what the biggest thing that helped her when she became, a teenager and struggling from a spiritual and emotional way is when she decided to help other people. And it got the focus off her, and she started saying, I'm volunteering for this.

And so I really made it all about volunteering. And then I shared Jesus and what he did again. And I said, you know what's special about the followers of Jesus? I said, this is a volunteer army. And I said, if you can imagine in your mind that the last 2,000, years, all the people and all the world's hearing about Jesus and raising their hand saying, I'm in. I'm in.

I said, that's why this is the most powerful movement the world has ever known. Because we have the greatest savior. We have more than a prophet, the greatest person to ever visit the planet. He solves all the problems. You can start over. You can be resurrected. He introduced a forever family. I said, and then you just have people who volunteer.

to surrender to that. It's the most powerful group of people in the history of the world. I said, and you saw some of that. You participated in that by being at the feet of those 78 volunteers. I think it was a real moving moment. Of course, all the families were then volunteering, you know, in response, like, well, whatever we need to do moving forward to help other people. I was surprised that that was kind of the response.

Yep, you just about stole my sermon. James. Well, you use it. I got it from the Holy Spirit. Dad, you need to be taking some notes and add some. That's some pretty good stuff to add into your. Well, I had four pages. I hate to add another one.

Yeah, no, leave it there, Dad. We don't want to be there all morning. No, I think it was excellent, Jace. In fact, I want us to react to it in the overtime segment because we're out of time on the podcast. And I'm very interested to hear Missy's, I hope you remember Missy's addition to what you said because I'm curious now after you laid that out there what she said in response. By the way, Al, what is the time frame? How much time does a man have when he's speaking to the church?

They say usually 25 minutes, but they'll probably give you 35. So I'd go the 25 to 35. I can say what I want to say in 20. I actually did that in 10 to 15 minutes. Huh? Yeah, less is more. I think 35 should be your max is what I say. 20 minutes and I'm out of there. As our old brother, Carl Allison said, if you speak longer than 30 minutes, you should have just stayed home and written a book. Or if you unstruck all by the time, after 20 minutes, quit drilling. Quit bored. Quit boring.

That's right. Yeah, quit boring. Quit bored. All right. Well, if you want to follow us over to overtime, it's blazedtv.com slash unashamed. We'll talk a little bit more about Jason's big weekend. Thanks for listening to the Unashamed podcast. Help us out by rating us on iTunes.

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