Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 609 | Phil Injures His Back AGAIN & It's So Bad, He Can't Even Baptize People!

Episode Date: January 6, 2023

Phil's suffering ANOTHER back injury, and it's so bad it prevented him from baptizing a man in his Sunday School class. Phil wonders why Christmas celebrations seem to only emphasize the birth of Jesus without focusing on why Jesus was born here on earth. The guys encourage us to consider that there are consequences to saying "no" to Jesus in our lives. Jase asks if you can cry under water! Plus, an in-depth look at Jesus on the cross, the sweating of blood, and the agony of his death. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? I just want y'all to know that, you know, as far as just brain power, I openly, emphatically, without any hesitation whatsoever. You two, maybe it came through the training school of White's Fair Road, they taught you. But you came out far, far more adept at Bible verses in reading and reading. than me. I did notice, I said, we're in the book of Mark. The reason I think this is worthy of note, we just, if you'd like to, we just went through a remembrance of Jesus of Galilee, Christmas. The world has been celebrated. Not once in my, just listening to the cultures, what they had to say, no one has mentioned Jesus' eternal life is tied to him. They celebrate him

for this, for that, they sell you all this stuff. We've got the trees, the lights. People are out hauling and running and they're saying it's a celebration. But I did not hear one individual say, we're doing this, remembering the one who can give us eternal life. If you look at Jesus, and don't embrace him so that you will have eternal life. You can believe anything you want to and get out there and a lot of that going on. But I'm just saying, have y'all heard anyone raise his voice and say, the reason we follow Jesus is because this far into our study of life itself and everything that's been written, this is the only guarantee I've found that says,

you will, if you follow me, you obey me, you will have eternal life. I just think somehow that message, simple as it is, but mighty profound, I just think that we don't take it seriously enough, mankind worldwide. A lot of celebration, but I'm not sure they're celebrating because they have eternal life guaranteed through Jesus. That was my lesson. I think it's a valid point. John 17.3, now this is eternal life that they may know you, the only true God in Jesus Christ,

whom you've sent. That's one of the 80-something times it's mentioned in the Bible. When I got to reading those things, I said, you know, is there another way to get out of here alive? No, no one's ever had the proof or the language to even deal with it. is it because they say there's no way they know they're going to die we're all going to die if there is no no jesus you get him out you've you've lost everything any kind of hope you could ever had it's scary for me for looking at my fellow man they just dismiss him with that much riding on eternal life you can live forever so whatever people are getting now

of these podcasts like this, don't ever forget Mr. and Ms. audience that we are discussing if you have a better story than Jesus, his death, burial, and resurrection, if you have a better story in that,

well, fill us in on the details. But, you know, salt water made us and there was a light explosion, boom, they got the cosmos here. That's pretty weak, pretty lame. There's no incentive to live past it right now. So that's a little, That's just a little...

You come out of the New Year firing on all cylinders. I'm just saying, I mean, you know, to not even acknowledge someone and lift him up because of the hope that he gives us, I mean, where are we going to get some other kind of hope that deals with these kind of matters? I know of none, Al. So I told Jay's dad that I watched during the holiday season, they had a, on one of a fairly major next. I got an email that said the Chosen had like a special Christmas episode. And it was called The Messengers. And so I watched it. And you talk about powerful.

So the setup was they had Mary in 48 AD. So now Jesus has been gone for, you know, 15 years. And she's looking back. It's kind of one of those flashback episodes. And so, you know, it was really amazing just watching her in that moment. and kind of remembering it. And I'm telling you, when she and Joseph, when the baby is born and they hold up this baby Jesus, I mean, I shed tears because I thought that's exactly how the Lord came here and chose to come here was as one of us.

And it was powerful. So there's a few sources out there, Dad. You're probably right, not near enough. But those guys did a fantastic job. If the audience hasn't seen that, you need to go back and watch. It's really, really good. They were in the minority, weren't they? Most of it just spending money, Christmas trees, you know.

But you never get to why all this is going on, any kind of remembrance. It needs to be due to what you just said. We need to focus on that. Well, you've had an epiphany in your right. I had a similar kind of thought, though, is just from reading Mark, what's amazing to me is when you really look at who you Jesus is and what he did, people were fascinated by him. And you think of all the healings that he did and all the different miracles that happened. And in the short term, people would be amazed. But then, like, when you start, I was trying to look up some so I could quickly give them because these things

stood out and I'm going to make your point. So you remember in March, two when he heals a paralytic and everybody's amazed and they're like well i mean who who wouldn't admire and just looking at jesus in general who wouldn't admire a story where there's you know a guy there's something wrong with his hand and and here comes a guy and makes it right so everybody's amazed in the short time they're wow but when you get to like chapter three and the pharisees are watching watching this happen. Well, verse six, you know, they're amazed at first, but then verse six says,

then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the erodeans how they might kill Jesus. So all of a sudden this thing takes a turn. And my point is, when people really look at Jesus, there's only one of two responses ultimately. It's just overwhelming. I'm all in. He's the Savior.

you're like, no, I got to get, I can't, I got to get rid of him. And so I think there's some truth in that. Where do you go? Because I think in our society, what a lot of people do is just try to have the admiration in a comfortable setting, which a lot of churches do, where it's not real personal. And I think that would be actually worse than at least, the enemy has looked at him and said, oh, man, this is bigger than I anticipated. But just to give you a couple more examples, so like in Mark 5, you had the guy, the famous

guy, the Legion who was, they had him chained up and he's a famous guy. He's hurting himself. No one could subdue him. You remember all that? Mm-hmm. So he comes at the end of the day and Jesus heals him and he's sitting. sitting there, where's that verse where he said he was sitting there in his right mind. I'm looking this up.

Yeah. In verse 15, when they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons sitting there dressed in his right mind and they were afraid. Well, you would think they would be, why would they be afraid? It reminds me of the other example when the disciples, had the storm come up and they were they were in fear but then when jesus calm the storm well then it says they were terrified so when you start looking at who really jesus is in this power and how that it becomes personal it scares you a bit yeah so i think people

want to kind of keep a distance because in with this situation of the healing of the demon-possessed man the next thing they do is tell him he needs to go verse 17 then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region well you would think if you had this kind of power why wouldn't you want him in a deep personal way well the same thing happened in the next chapter in six I'm giving I guess a off the top of my head review but it's the same thing happened they they hear Jesus preach a sermon in his own town, verse two or three. It says, what wisdom has been given him? And he even does miracles.

So they're not denying the miracles. They're not denying the wisdom. They're all impressed. But then all of a sudden, they say, but in this, the carpenter, Mary's son, and we know his brothers. And you see the last phrase in three, and they took offense at him, which is to my point. every time you look at who Jesus really is, it leads you down a path of being an all and the beauty of what it does.

And then there's an offense. Look, that I'm proposing even happens in our own life because you realize I'm not going to be able to fake this. I'm not going to be able to hoodwink. That change will occur that may not be comfortable. it may cost me something. And so I think what you're describing, the reason I think people don't go to that end road of who Jesus is, eternity online,

is because it's scary. It scares people. I'll drink to that. So you're right, Jay's. So you're right, Jays. I think that that's a great case for either or. There's no way to take a little bit. bit of it and it be real. I mean, you're either in or you're not and when it comes to Christianity.

And so I think that's a great way of describing that. And you're going to see that quite a bit even this last night as you go through. Yeah. I think that's why sometimes when you're hearing a sermon and it's real and it makes you mad, it's a positive thing sometimes. You know, you realize, man, this is this is all up in my business here. But that's what realizing the gravity of who Jesus is, that should happen on a constant basis. It is brought up in Mark. The first time it's mentioned is Mark chapter 3. I tell you the truth, Jesus is talking.

All the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven to them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, he's guilty of an eternal sin. He said this because they were saying he has an evil spirit. The very one that came down to save men and forgive their sins. They were saying he has an evil spirit. That, according to Jesus, is an eternal sin. You have to put your faith in me because I'm the only one who has the power to raise you, from the dead. So any way you look at it, when you get down to the gospel message and him saying

what he's going to do and the way they're reacting, some with fear, some with joy, but you, at least, I just listened over the last week, the celebration of Jesus of Galilee, they just don't seem to ever get to the point of it all, eternal life. Yeah. Eternal life, in my mind, is a big thing. Yeah, I would say it's the biggest. Because we all die. We all die. I'm like, well, yeah.

The reason you don't see it is because they don't know it. I mean, it's like they know about it. So you get some mention from time to time, but they don't really know it. If you don't know it, you don't know it. I mean, that's why you don't see it. Hell, that's why I think, I would say most people have a favorable impression of Jesus. if you just asked them that. It's hard for him to drum up something on.

Well, what? You read this. Ready to go wrong. Even people who don't believe, they're like, well, you know, it was, you know, there's a reason that the chosen, if you look up on the, the worldly rating of the, you know, they have a rating system, one through ten on what you think of the movie or the show. What's that called? International Database or Movies, I think is what's called.

Well, the Chosen is like 9.3. I don't think I've ever seen a show over nine. Now, granted, you'd say, well, the people watching the Chosen love Jesus, so they're the ones going to rate it. But usually these attack dogs out there, it's like our little show, there's going to be some people who don't like us that see that and put a one without even seeing it just because he's in it, you know. Jason, if you look at it, it is the biggest worldwide, in my opinion. It's the biggest celebration known to mankind, the celebration of Christmas. Well, right. I mean, I mean, it's-

Well, my point is, Phil, everybody has a favorable impression, but when it gets personal and real, if you spend on a daily basis searching the Gospels to read about Jesus, do we need a break? Yeah, we need bright. If you put yourself specifically in the Gospels, which I think is the greatest New Year's resolution, is to read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John on a daily basis, because that should happen until you die. That's right.

Because you're looking at, I mean, Jesus chose to reveal himself as a human, and we've got four accounts of it written down, and the more you monitor who Jesus is, the more your life's going to change for the better. Because that is the question. It is always going to trigger an extreme response in your life. Yeah, and right now I'm 76 years old.

And you say, so what did you get out of the celebration of Jesus? I'm looking at it saying eternal life, eternal life. I'm sitting here with a backache at 8 o'clock in the morning down here in the middle of the wood. You said, well, what's on your mind this morning? that'd be eternal life. Yeah. So you had a back, just so everybody's along. So Phil had a back issue.

He had surgery. We appreciated the prayers. And we kind of celebrated because we're like, okay, he's healing. He's healed. He's back in business. But now we've had another encounter come up, which is in a different spot, right? More pain down the backbone. More pain down the backbone.

We're all in out of bed, you know. But I did say, Lord. I said, I would appreciate it if you took this away. I'm just saying, I believe you're there. I believe you're hearing me. Probably I need some suffering, but you're giving it to me. So I'd rather you not, just so you understand. I'd rather.

I'm looking at eternity, though, and you don't have to. I mean, I'll suck it up. I think it's a good point. When pain happens, our prayers have a lot more clarity. Don't they. Tell me about it. And intensity, yeah. And the thing about it is, everybody out there, they know I went over and over yesterday

the morning to a group I've never seen before. One little group of guys were from Chicago, Illinois, and something. I didn't even think you taught yesterday because of your backs. You were enduring the pain. I said, suck it up, you know, preach the gospel, if pain or not. So I went on up there. But the bottom line is, one individual, I said, do any of y'all want to do what Jesus said, I said, when he gets at the end of Mark, he said, therefore, I've got all the power in heaven

and on earth, go preach the gospel, he that believes and is baptized and be saved. I said, it's so simple, it is profound. Surely in this little group right here, there's one of you that has never understood this. I said, raise your hand if you didn't get it until now. After we've covered it, Jesus, his death, burial, resurrection for it, the settlement. of Christmas, that's what it's all about. It's all about eternal life. You're going to die for crying out loud.

This will save you from that. Well, let me try this. And the man stepped up and said, I'm ready, and I want you to baptize him. I said, I will defer to old Burley, and I baptized him about 30, 40 years ago. I said, but he'll be the man of doing it because my back is hurting so much. I couldn't even get you down in the water and back up out of there. I said, so let's just turn it over to the old barrel, and we'll do that in a few minutes. We didn't wait a few, two hours or a month later when there's a baptismal ceremony.

A man said, I want to obey the gospel. So we took him down there in the water. I stood there watching the whole thing, and he was baptized and went on his way of rejoicing. I just felt great about it for the one man who said, I get it. Yeah. Well, let me try this. because I understand what you're saying. In John 5, because I think Al, if we ever get to Mark 14, this will help us.

But I think it's a good question you brought up, Phil. So John 524 is pretty clear. He says, Jesus said, I'll tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. and will not be condemned. He has crossed over from death to life, which I think is your point. That was my purpose of the whole lesson. I tell you the truth,

the time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. Whereas the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the son of man. Yeah.

Do not be amazed at this for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out. Those who have done good will rise to live and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned. My point is, though, Phil, when people read that, that's scary. It's a lot easier in life not to think about these things. You've heard of scaring the hell out of people? this is a good example when you start reading about Jesus you're saying I think he's trying to scare the hell out of you and give you eternal life I think that's what his goal is for you and it's free and I told him I said it's free I don't want you money or anything like that

you're going to get this free of charge I've never seen a lot of you first time I've ever met you in my life they came from all of the country you know they were in there because of this podcast I was just letting them know what the main thing is. We keep it the main thing. Well, we tend to focus on who Jesus is and God's grace and love that, I mean, we're in the section of Mark where he's literally fixed to give his life for humanity, which is the motivation. That's how God chose to reveal himself and redeem mankind.

But there are consequences for, for looking at Jesus and saying, no, like in each of those cases I read earlier in March, those people, that was too scary for them to realize of being that powerful and possibly supernatural and ultimately eternal. That's a scary thing for people to look at it. Yeah. Maybe that's what it is, Jason. Oh, that's what it is. But you got to realize most people who talk about hell a lot have missed the grace of God.

hell is important to understand because it makes you appreciate God's love and mercy and sacrificed. But it is a real thing. I'm kind of in the C.S. Lewis camp that he said that hell was locked from the inside, which I agree. People that are going to wind up in hell, they're going to do it on their own accord. And everybody knows, Jace, when you tell them, they're looking like, oh, here, and they're the fear starts creeping in when I say, look, we all are going to die. God has come down and fleshed and died on a cross to remove our sins. And three days later, he showed us it can be done, being raised from the dead.

Whatever happens, get on that. But I'm saying people are a lot more comfortable if they don't think about that. They don't think about the consequences of that. so all this talk at christmas time and all the money i want to talk about eternal life christmas has got to where it's a money-making scheme building all these things and ever kind of hat and on a man and shirts and it's all gathered around you know but even the worst or the worst seem like they at least gather up and make some well that's why i said because jesus people admire you there's not you can't you read this he he's he's admirable but

But if you want to make him life changing, you're going to have to get in there and deal with the scary stuff. That's what I'm trying to get in your life. And so when you start looking at standing before God and the consequences, because we all, I think we all agree that on judgment day, for those who are in Christ, you've already been judged. It's more a sentencing to live forever. Yep. But now for those who decided to reject God, you know, I'm not sure people get into all the different, you know, most people, most scholars think that like hell, fire is a symbolism. But before you say, oh, okay, well, that's good. But then they say it symbolizes something much worse.

Yeah. You know, eternal condemnation, eternal darkness being cut off from God. it's not something that people want to consider I just noticed that that fellow was about 50 I would think 45 50 but you say what stood out about him he was shaking he was shaking with with fear so you know I'm saying that's a good thing look that's a good thing every once in a long eternal life is just a step or two away he's heard the gospel

but he's trembling. In the moment of laying down your life? What was making him tremble? What was making him tremble? He was happy or he was just like you're talking about the fear of the Lord? I don't know. He was. You should be trembling if this is the moment you submit to Christ, you know, forever.

So I think that's good. Let's take another break. You know what's interesting is we talk a lot about the kingdom of God, not being one place or the church. the idea is that we're spread out everywhere. Wherever we are is where the kingdom of God is. So while you were doing that yesterday, Dad, unbeknownst to you, I'm down here at the Southern Lair in Alabama, and a young lady had, you know, by faith, submitted her life

to Christ. And the only thing she hadn't done was to be baptized. And so she asked if I would baptize her in my pool out back that happened to be heated because my grandkids are down here, you know, during the holiday break. Better than the river. Yeah, I was like, come on. And so the same time that was going on with you in West Monroe, another person was cement their life here in Alabama.

And that's really what it's all about. I mean, it's a worldwide submission of our lives to Christ. And that's our role. I would hope that would come out of our modern day Christmas celebration. I just would hope that the message that we are speaking of is, He loved God's a love the world that gave his own begotten son, whoever believes in it won't perish but have eternal life i just think that uh for some reason that's not the weight of the argument at this point christmas it's a gift giving and money-making

machine out there that's what that's what it looked like to me so i was just trying to remind the guy of it he did move one out of the group it's about 30 or 40 of them in there all right well that's good that's uh let's get to mark 14 you ready jays we've we've been been kind of delaying getting here. I mean, yeah, I think it was just a good discussion just because when you get to the situations of where Jesus has his, I guess, the easy, the easy moments that we see Jesus as like being human, which we know he's human, but like, so when he has this prayer, you know, we talked about this before we started in Gassimony.

And even when he was on the cross saying, my God, my God, you know, why have you forsaken me? Because a lot of people are like, well, I'm, you know, I'm not understanding why he's Jesus. Why is he having these moments, you know, where he's praying? And I think that's why the discussion we just had is a good one. because when you think about Jesus being abandoned because that being in

Gassimony, which is what we talked about I guess the last podcast how, but we talked about the things around that. Right.

Because everybody's abandoned Jesus. I mean, he predicts Judas is going to betray and he does. And, you know, Peter, who not totally unlike

Judas, but from a self-righteous point, he's like, I'll never disown you. You know, well, he's being self-righteous, but just as bad because what do he do? Well, he denied him, just like Jesus predicted. And I think those responses were coming because they realized that if we're, same thing we've been talking about, if we're going to hang around this Jesus, he's going to get us killed. There's going to be a cost, and especially you see it with Judas, as long as he was profiting from Jesus, he was in. But the moment this thing got serious and it was going to cost him something,

he literally sold Jesus out. I think Jesus, in lieu of the larger discussion, you know, about what goes on during Christmas time, when the woman came up and poured that perfume over it, Jesus said an amazing thing. I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is, preached and it's still being preached out of here you can bet on that is preach throughout the world what she has done will also be told in memory of her i mean that's that's what i'm trying to

well she had the right response and and to grace because she she she was she saw a glimpse of what was fixed to happen here and it was god's grace judas she got the point did not did not have that glimpse and even peter in the short term did not but that's why you have this parallel passage where jesus said you know satan has asked to sift you peter like weak but i i prayed for you and after you turn back i mean he had already he knew peter's heart and he knew he was going to come back and he's already forgiven him and he got that glimpse of grace which is what we went over and uh John 21, the three times, do you love me, do you love me? You know, he reinstates Peter.

He finally understood it. But I think you're right. In this response of Mary, the Mary, we think this is the Mary with the Mary and Martha, she showed something beautiful. And it should all be our response. And I thought it's the opposite of Judas's response. And the person I thought about being the opposite of Peter's response was remember the story we did out with the Gentile woman where Jesus seemingly called her a dog, you know. And he wasn't calling her a dog, but he was like saying, well, I mean, it's not your time yet.

And she was not offended. She was like, yeah, I may be a dog, but if I can just get the crumbs, I want to be, you know, with you. I want to follow you. And she was humble enough, which was the exact opposite. of Peter, because when Peter would not admit that he was weak in this moment, I mean, Jesus himself is saying, you're going to deny me. Well, instead of Peter saying, oh, I am, what do I need to do about that? He said, I will never do that.

He had this self-righteous tone, which he was proven to be false. It was actually pride, Jay's. You know, a lot of times you say, what leads to a person to brokenness? In Peter's case, it wasn't sin as much as it was pride. He thought he was strong enough to follow Jesus straight to the cross, but he wasn't. Exactly. But that's why, you know what, we didn't talk about this. But when they had the Sopper and Jesus has this new idea about what the Passover is going to mean from here on out,

which hit his body and his blood being poured out so that we could all be passed over from God's judgment. I mean, it's incredible. But, you know, when he predicts that someone's going to betray him, I think it's interesting that they all had a discussion about, is it them? They always said, is it me? It shows you that deep down, they weren't as confident as you might think.

I mean, that's what it says. It says they all discussed. Well, you're talking to a substantially large population, and you point them to Jesus, him dying and being raised from the dead. Eternal life is writing on it. So you're telling somebody that, and he says, he laughs, and he says, no, no, I don't believe, I don't believe in Jesus. I said, so what do you believe in?

What's going to happen when you die? And he basically says, I said, how is salt water going to help you there when you're dead? Are you going to die? Yeah, I'm going to die. So you're going to tell me that I'm going to believe in salt water That's not going to be able to raise me from the dead as far as I can tell It would be in a person in his name with Jesus But you got salt water as

What made you But can it save you at the end of the day You're going to die You're going to die But you have absolutely no hope at least consider that there's eternal life here waiting on you if you want it. I mean, I just, to me, it's just hard to believe more people wouldn't say, you know what? So what if we did come from that?

It's certainly not going to save me a raided was from the dead. No, there's no help there. What do you say, Dad? Who's got the better story? Who's got the better story? Let's take another break. You brought up that Mark 14. there's a line in here we didn't really discuss but when Jesus you know took up for and said leave her alone

I mean here she's wasted this very expensive jar because she got it that he was fixed to die for the world he said the poor verse 7 you'll always have with you and you can help them anytime you want but you will not always have me and I love this just simple sentence of what Jesus described he said she did what she could which i mean that that's just little statement packs a punch in this moment because a lot of people they have all these excuses or they have all these uh you know grand ideas about what you could do with this huge sum of money and you can sell all that and he just simply said as a response of her heart she did what she could and he he he liked that she had something of worth to mankind at least sweet smelling perfume and she said i'm all in

i'm saying because he was he's he's he's he's the head of the eternal life i mean that's i think though if everybody asked themselves that question in response to jesus because there's always excuses there's always grand ideas and you say once you do what you can and you have a a moment with yourself on what you could do for Jesus. I guarantee you you'll come up with a lot of things. You give him all that you have. You're basically saying, I believe that you died for him, and I believe you can raise me from the dead.

You've proven that. Here, you need some. But what I'm saying, though, is it's like Peter was saying, look, I'll die for you. He was coming out with all these grand ideas, but she did something simple that was extravagant that but it was real it was happening you know saying you're going to do all this and coming up with a plan and sitting around in a room and but to come out there and do that took a lot of courage and a lot of humility at the same time which i i just like

how he summed that phrase up with what she did you know don't you think that applies too jason a big way to people that think, well, you know, I don't have your gift of this, that, or the other, and I can't do the grand things in Christianity. And so they think, you know, they have nothing to offer. But one thing you see from Jesus is when you offer, he's like, I recognize it. Yeah. No matter how small it seems to mankind. Yeah, that's why I brought, that's, that's why I brought up. Small and large don't matter. That's why I brought up that demon-possessed man. I mean, you would think a guy that terrorizing and that beat up. and scary, and he's sitting there in his right mind with clothes on,

because, you know, he wasn't, he wouldn't, whether it was because he was insane or just, you know, by lack of self-control, he wouldn't wear clothes. I mean, there's just something beautiful about that scene, but then there's something so frustrating that because of that, that power that Jesus showed that they're like, can you leave, can you, will you move out of here? I don't know. It's just baffling to me. And I think there's something in that for us that there's a fear that comes about when

you're seeing this kind of action. I mean, I guarantee you, if you're at an assembly and you saw this type of affection given to Jesus in this moment and without really knowing the details, we would probably be like the disciples and be somewhat offended. We would say, no, wait a minute here. This is, she thinks she is.

What part of the church? Well, that's why we made the point that when she let her hair down, that was in their culture kind of like a romantic issue, you know. But, I mean, she was taking that and wiping his feet, which was a, you know, there was nothing sinister about it whatsoever. I mean, because Jesus said she did a beautiful thing. But for those on looking, you know,

it just, it was uncomfortable. And that's why I said, Phil, back to your point, that as long as you keep Jesus as just something you occasionally admire, and that's not in a power to move mountains in your life, you stay comfortable. I mean, I really think that was the evil ones intent the whole time. is to make people as comfortable as possible because they become ineffective and unproductive when they're in that state. But what she was doing, though, you think about it, she was offering the same thing we see when people join their lives together. We talk about a lot of times Christianity being sort of the big picture of what a marriage looks like, and that's the closest thing we can see to illustrate it. She was saying that my body, my soul, and my spirit belong to you.

And in that moment, that's what that showed. And so I think that's exactly what we do. That's who we are. Yeah. Let's take our last break. So to lead us up to where we were, I think, because what happens in Mark is he'll tell these stories within a story. And so when he talks about Peter saying that he wouldn't disown him, then he comes back to when he did disown Jesus. so we did that in the last podcast,

but we skipped over the prayer in the garden and telling them to watch, which, by the way, mirrors what happened in Mark 13, when Jesus went into the signs that not one stone would be left on another and these predictions about the Jerusalem would be destroyed. Well, you remember when he got down to the end of that in chapter 13, in verse 32 through 37. You remember what he said in 37. What I say to you, I say to everyone, watch.

You know, don't be asleep at the post. This temple's going down. Jesus is ascending to the right hand of God. And even the implications of their death and Jesus coming back, I think, are involved in this. But you be ready. You watch. Well, then when he gets to Gassimini and the prayer, it's like he takes on that thought again. because, and I'll read it in verse 32, they went to a place called Gassimony, and Jesus said to his disciples,

sit here while I pray. He took Peter, James, and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed in trouble. My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. And I mentioned this earlier, because people are like, why is Jesus being like this? Which we'll discuss. He said to them, stay here and keep watch. is like all of a sudden in between the prediction about what would happen to the temple, you had this outpoint of worship from the woman. You had the prediction that Judas would betray. You have the Lord's Supper. You have the prediction with Peter's denial. And now he brings this up about them keep him watch. Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if it

possible the hour might pass from him. Abba, Father, he said, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me, yet not what I will, but what you will. And one of the other gospels, Al, you probably know, said that he was so moved that he actually, you know, angels attended him, and he sweated out blood because he was in such agony. right? Yeah, that's in the Luke 22, 39 through 53 version. Luke mentions that, and we don't get that here,

but that tells you again how deeply emotional and moving this moment is. And I actually looked up if that was possible to, you know, what people said about it. And they all said there's a level of stress that can happen. They had a word, you know, it was about. It's called hematohydrosis, a very rare condition. in which an individual sweats blood. It may occur in an individual who is suffering from extreme levels of stress.

Can you use it in a sentence? Barely. Hematohydrosis. You are nailing it down to how big this event, in fact, was, which was my point on saying, if we're going to celebrate, give these stories. Now, I was looking it up just because I thought, you know, I'm sure there's people out there that have said, oh, this wasn't possible.

But I was actually kind of surprised that everybody said, oh, yeah, this is the thing. Which then I got sidetracked because it was in with all these controversial questions. And one of them that I went down a 45-minute rabbit trail on was, can you cry underwater? Do you all know the answer to that? No, I don't. Al. No, I do not. You can't cry underwater.

So I thought, well, there's another good case for being baptized. You can die there, but you can't cry there. So do the math. I will say this just before you finish reading this text, I didn't know that. That's good to know, is that Luke, it's interesting because Luke's, you know, his version includes this. He's the only one, and he is a physician. So, you know, it would have moved Luke, I think, as a physician to understand the stress of the moment. That's a good point.

That's a good point. Look, if I would have had a picture, because Missy came in and I was studying last night, and she came in and asked me something, I can't remember what it was. But when I looked up, I said, did you know that you can't cry underwater? If I could have taken a picture of her facial response in that moment. She said he's gone off the deep end. She just had a look that I just hadn't seen. I mean, I don't, it was, I'm not sure if it was good or bad, really, but I thought, dang, I wish I'd had a picture of that. It was more like bewilderment, I think.

So, sorry, I got, I got off there. So in 37, he says, then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. Simon, he said to Peter, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour? Which is what I told you. It's like Mark is very clear. ever because he had already said because i think you start realizing that he's making these these great predictions about what's going to happen and the temple is going to be destroyed he's like

y'all keep watch i mean because there's going to be rumors and all these things and of course they're oh we got it we got it well then a chapter later they can't even i mean here jesus is fixing to die for the world this is the crescendo moment of the scheme a redemption. It's fixing to happen, and they can't stay awake. I mean, it's where we got the phrase asleep at the post. They are literally asleep at the post, which is why they're all going to desert him. Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. Once more, he went away and prayed the same thing. When he came back, he again found them sleeping because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say.

to him. Returning the third time, he said to them, are you still sleeping and resting enough? The hour has come. Look, the son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go. Here comes my betrayer. So what I was going to make the point was you really see how he was alone in this moment. I mean, in his mind, he knew what was fixed to go down, but he can't even, they're not

even. They're over asleep. the spirit is willing but the body is weak yeah so i was going to bring up three things on why i thought uh jesus sweat blood and why he's asking for another way and these three things i think you're going to see mirrored in uh peter's sermon fast forward to acts chapter two there's three things he said that i think are profound about when jesus came back from the dead. And he says that Jesus was not abandoned to the grave, that he was freed from the agony of death, and that his body didn't see decay. So when you say...

It was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. So my point, though, is the reason he, he, you got to remember, he took on our sins. he those three days of the burial i would i would interject that he visited hell for us he he experienced the punishment on what was due us and he did it abandon agonizing and being dead i mean just the eternity for us is riding on the whole thing yeah so i'm saying the weight of that would lead to, I think, this kind of serious moment. I mean, that, you just think, you're the, you're the creator of the world, you're eternal, and you're going to be abandoned by, you know, Jesus, Peter, yeah, all, everybody's going to fall. And even God himself, the father, in this

moment, to redeem us, that those were the abandoned, the, the, there's something evidently agonizing about death. That's why nobody really wants to deal with it. And they don't want to even And, you know, it said it freed him from the agony of death, not the as he was dying, but just being dead is evidently agonizing. That's why I was stressing eternal life is writing on it. So what do you think, Al? No, I think that's good. And I think we need to flesh that out a little more in our overtime segment because we're out of time for this Unashamed podcast. If you want to follow us over, it's blazedtv.com slash unashamed.

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