Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 63 | Jase's 'Skinny-Dippers' Encounter, Phil's Implied Threats, and Jesus' Righteous Anger

Episode Date: March 15, 2020

Phil surprises Jase with a new definition for "skinny-dippers." Jase wonders if he made a mistake when he channeled Larry the Cable Guy. Phil tells the tale of a barge captain who got a not-so-subtle nudge toward paying for damaged property. And Al offers insight into what Jesus' anger in John 2 teaches us about cleaning house.  -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? We had a good day yesterday at our service. You know, we did the worship. And I was gone, so yeah. It was good. Mike did good. He was speaking out of John 3, and we did, you know, we did some songs that went along with that.

But I have to confess, you know, I guess I'm not, I'm not sure. I did something happen yesterday that I thought was bizarre, so I was going to tell you all about it. I kind of, I thought, should I have done this, you know? But so as soon as the service is over, all right, and we do our class. And we had a good class, you know, the worship class, and we're actually being, we're being pretty ambitious. We're going to try to do, there's a song that Johnny Cash actually wrote. I mean, I'm thinking outside the box here. Folsom prison?

No. No, ain't no grave. And some brothers somewhere, I can't remember where. They took that song, and they basically, because the theme of the song is, ain't no grave going to hold me down. Well, okay. Johnny Cash, he got that one right as far as, you know, what we're talking. Then the hellsters who did the song no longer.

slaves and the raise of hallelujah they added a little part to it you know uh which i think goes something like uh the house or that's your if he came out of the grave i'm walking to or something like that you know it's like if he came out of the grave it's kind of a spiritual you know song so we're going to do that with our class you know we presented yesterday which i told missy i was like we can't do this what are you talking about because we're going to do an acapella but you know They're talented and they got the energy. And I think when I said, we can't do that. Well, then it's like, oh, okay, watch this.

So we practice. So they're all fired up. We're going to do it for Easter. Okay, good. So, because it's about the resurrection. But anyway, so I leave. Well, I'm driving back. And you know how I go through the neighborhoods when I leave where our church building is?

You know, because I don't know why. I don't know how you drive there. But I don't go down the main roads. I always go through the neighborhoods. cut-throughs. Do you do that? Sometimes. Okay. And so I'm coming down and I'm...

No speed in there because there's a cop that's... So it's like 11 o'clock and I pull up to the stop sign in that, in that neighborhood, and there's a guy and the garage is like really close to the road. You know, now that they've made four lanes, they're doing roadwear. This guy, I would say he was 300 pounds, no shirt on, no shirt on, no socks, no shoes, just like little shorty shorts. Ooh. And that's not a good look.

No. He comes out, but he's close to me as I'm pulling up to the stop sign because his garage, his garage looks like a hoarder's convention. It's just stuff everywhere. And I could tell he was sunburned. So, and I'm like, he ain't been to church today. I can tell you that. He just rolled out of bed.

You know what I mean? Probably had a few adult beverages, you know. So he kind of turned toward me. I mean, here he is. It's just a lot of humanity in one body here. And he looked at me. And I said, it just came out. I couldn't help it.

I went, get her done. And look, his facial expression did not change. Because I thought he was going, I thought he recognized me from Dynasty. So he's looking at me. You thought he's going to like flex or something. I went Larry Cable they got because I thought if there was ever a moment to get her done, this is it. Right here. And he just nothing.

And I thought, should I not have said that? And I kind of gave my thumbs up. Nothing. He's just looking at me. So he wasn't in the mood for whatever you. So then all the way home I'm like, should I not have done that? I mean, was he offended? Was he?

Well, if he was offended, he probably would have charged your truck. So he probably just wasn't in the mood, I guess. I just thought it was a strange occurrence, you know? I think it was with Jason with like, you know, he told a story a few podcasts ago about, remember he went around some woman and said, live, you know, he's yelling and talking to just strangers. You know, it's weird that you mentioned that. Somebody heard us, heard us talk about that in the podcast. And they said, oh, that's the title of Sadie's book. You were hollering that. I didn't know that was a title of Sadie's book. Is that her new, must be her new book. They said she has a book called Live. I was like, well, that's. And you. And you. You were cross-promoting it and never even is. The difference between me and Jace. Do you yell at people going down the road? When I'm driving to get to a destination and some guy's got his skinny dippers on or whatever,

standing out of the yard, and he's staring at people that are coming by, my mode of operandi would be not to even glance at him. I just drive on by, Jays. I don't stop and say, get her done. Because he's, I'm thinking, no, I don't. Well, as a treasure hunter and a metal detector. What you did there, James, was sort of stir into an area that you didn't have to be stirring in, son.

What I'm saying is you could have seen this from the moon. This guy comes out and just don't give a rip. I'm like, you're on a major intersection of a highway. Number one, I was thinking, put some clothes on, but then I thought, no, he's out here loud and proud. And so I was going to. In today's culture, I've trained myself not to become overly involved in those particular situations. I just drive on by.

Actually, probably speed up just a little bit. That's my mood. Well, so I guess the- But I don't holler out anything, get her done. He was thinking you were some fool, and you was thinking he was some fool, so you all meet. I kind of felt bad about it, honestly. So I thought, well, you know, if he's a listener, which I'm assuming not, I apologize. I was just trying to have some fun in the moment.

But he didn't get the joke. He didn't get it. And I thought since I was a redneck, I could say that because that. But maybe he just didn't realize the image he was portraying. Well, let's ponder that question during the break. So we've established that no skinny dippers for dad. I like these skinny dipper. That's amazing about our dad that I've been around you since I was, you know, born pretty much.

give or take a month or two. And Phil is always saying something every day that I've never heard him say before. I've never heard the term skinny dippers. You said tight pants. No, he had shorty shorts. Shorty shorts to skinny differs. That's a Larry the Cable Guy reference, you know. Oh, that's right.

So you were staying in Larry the Cable Guy kind of mindset mode. Instead of like get the cell phone out and take pictures of stupid human tricks. You know, that's what most people would have done. I know it. What I do is I have a pair of sunglasses on and even when I'm looking at it by the corner of my eye, they can't tell where I'm looking. And I pretty well just breeze on by in this culture because of the, if you're looking around for a sit, let me sit and find me a stupid stunt this morning.

You don't have to go far. They're all around you. That's like one to be a visit. as he's driving through, going to the outpost that he goes to. Amazingly, I get to town once a week, drive up with the brothers, meet with the brothers up there. But other than that, I just don't hang around town. Very rarely am I in town. Yeah.

Well, I drive through. I come to one of y'all's houses on some kind of feed, some kind of celebration, somebody's birthday, y'all, Christmas, Thanksgiving. But other than that, I don't drive around towns. I just don't do it. What are we doing here? Going to outposts where people wear skinny differs in. Well, that's their audience know the different mode of operandi, different kind of people.

My only point. I'd be really interesting to hear from the audience on the two, because there'll be a lot of opinions about it. If people think that was wrong that I did that, I will apologize. But from my view, look, I'm in this worship world that I'm having all these songs and I'm, you know, I think about that verse in First Peter that even though we do not seem, you know, we're filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, you know, I'm worshiping God like he's watching, you know, and listening and all these posited things. And so you're just engaging people as you come out.

Well, I mean, and I come out of that world. It's just like it's, you know, we're just on top of mountain and I just see this guy. And it's like I'm, you know, it's kind of like when I was talking about from the water to the wilderness, you know, and I just, in a moment of, I don't know, insanity, I just thought this guy is loud and proud. Get her done. Well, I'm sure we'll hear from folks. But the response caused me a hesitation because his lack of a response.

You expected something. Yeah. I thought he was going to be like, yeah. I can't imagine I don't even smiling. That is weird. No smile. All right. So this Sunday I'm up at our church to preach.

So we're going to talk about what I'm going to be preaching about. Which is, look, of all the things that the problem with going through a book is then you've got to cover everything. Right. And if you just went through the book of John and said, you know, pick one topic that you want to avoid as far as preaching a sermon, this would probably be that topic. I'm just the opposite. Like, I was excited because you notice Mike went ahead to John 3. I wanted him to leave this for me because I saw something in here I wanted to preach on.

And it's kind of a – and it's a bit of an allegory type sermon, which we'll get into. What do you mean by allegory? Give her a world. Well, hold on. What do we mean by allegory because I'm not familiar with it? An allegory is when you take something, a story, and then you have an application that's something different, but it's like that. the story. Did we learn this in school? Well, I did. Yeah. See, I never... We were sitting next to each other.

There are a lot of things I learned that it went right by you. So I've heard two new phrases today, skinny dippers and allegory. And they have nothing to do with each other. Yeah, so we're in John 2, 12 through 25, if you're following along. And by the way, I know a lot of you are. Look, by the way, so I'm in this yesterday. I was in Bel Air, Maryland. And that's the way. And I was speaking at the Oak Grove Baptist Church, great guys, pastor, and they got a guy that's over their men's ministry. So they had a beast feast, you know, we spoke a lot of us. Oh, yeah, they take the wild game. Yeah, and they had, so they had rattlesnake, grill water buffalo, water buffalo sliders.

Wait a minute now. What is that? A water buffalo. Water buffalo. I don't know where they got a water buffalo, but they had water buffalo sliders. Is that a slang for something? No, it was an actual water. Yeah, from Africa.

Somebody went over and killed him. Wait a minute. Are you kidding me? No, no, no, no. And you ate it? No, no, no. I mean, they were eating it. But, you know, us.

It was funny because they were like, well, we watch the show. Y'all eating anything. So, wait a minute. I said, I tried a nature rat. Once. I said, we portrayed a lot of stuff of the shows. So we're very picky. And here's the bottom.

I try to say this up front, so nobody will be offended. I'm like, we only eat game, we clean. So, no offense to anybody else, but we're just like that. I mean, we always have been. But, yeah, it was that all this example. exotic meats and stuff. But there were people that came, and I know they're watching, I'm sorry I don't remember everybody's name, but from two or three hours away because they're watching the podcast and listening. Because, you know, I told them on here, we were going to be in

Bel Air. So, I mean, I'm talking about six different groups of people, families, whole families. It was really awesome. Did you use Genesis 9 in your speech? I did not. You got to do it at a beef feast. Well, I know. But that's your thing. No, I mean, that's God's thing. I mean, I think if you do a beast feast, you've got to bring Genesis Night because you're fulfilling, you're fulfilling his idea. Because some people are like, I can't believe, you know, you're eating a rattlesnake. I'm like, Genesis 9, it's a crawler of the ground. That's right.

You know, which have you ever tried rattlesnake? Dad does. I do it every time. Usually, if I'm out of any kind of gathering, especially I'll be at one next Saturday. Oh yeah, that's right. Fort Worth, Texas coming up. That's right. It's a beast feast.

I allude to that either, you know, Acts 10 or Genesis 9 or put them both together. Yep, I do the same. I'm going to Michigan. So we're all going somewhere this weekend. It's biblical to eat meat. It is. And Dad does the thing out of Acts as well. That's all the reasons.

Well, wait, before we get to this text, let's take a quick break. So let's get back to the text. All right. So, anyway, we appreciate everybody. You guys coming to see us. I'm hoping one day we can do a with Zach and I've been talking about us doing a live podcast somewhere with an audience

and so we're working on that for somewhere down the road which I think would be a lot of fun to do one with people there which I think would be cool John 2 so here's the setting and we've kind of been following the narrative the last time we talked from the book of John we talked about that wedding

where we had the water into wine that's my thought is he does two things that I think are kind of, they represent two cultures. This is the way I've always looked at it. You had a wedding party type atmosphere, and he made an impression there. Right.

Well, then you go to the polar opposite, which is the synagogue, temple, the temple crowd. Right. And now we make an appearance here. I mean, I think that is a good thing to keep in mind as far as... Well, I think the key to understand the concept, context of this is understanding this is at the beginning. I mean, in other words, he's just

coming out. This is kind of like his coming out party. So it is interesting that. The size of that, it's a barge going down. Oh my goodness. I don't know if you can say that on the camera. If you get a shot of that, where else can you do a podcast, talk about spiritual things, and then the biggest barge I've ever seen in my life? It's almost as wide as the whole river. Look at that. That's a doozy. So you know this is a hard turn right here isn't it normally I guess one of the water is a very sharp curve we've had them run a ground here remember the time filled that in the middle of the night you heard that barge

and went out there and it had literally torn your nets up and he got over on the bank with his propeller too close to the bank and he destroyed about a thousand dollars worth of trammel net webbing I came up there and they were just torn from their moorings gone. I had like nets all way across the river. Well, he was just going, it was foggy. So he was bouncing off the banks. Or he had been. Take it up or whatever.

Don't drink and drive. Applies. So I knew the barge was heading north. So I called some people up north up the river here, you know, 20, 30 miles. And to find out where he had docked. Well, when I located the bar. bars. I said, I called them up. I said, y'all got that barge that coming out about three o'clock this morning sometime another, you know, and the guy says, yeah, he's out there, you know, unloading fuel or

whatever, hauling gasoline on the bar. And I said, well, I need to talk to the captain of that boat. And he said, okay, let me get him. So I got on there. I said, you're the captain of that boat to come up through here last night. He said, yeah. I said, it was foggy, wasn't it? He said, yeah, boy, was it? I said, in fact, you. you were bouncing off both banks all the way up this thing, tearing up trees, running over trees. And I said, you also got into my nets. And I said, I make a living fishing. You make a living driving a barge.

Foggy night, I can understand how you go over. I said, but you wiped all my nets out. And I said, on your way up. And I said, I'm out about a thousand bucks after that stunt you pulled. I said, you're going reimburse me for my nets. And he said, is this a true story? Yes, true story. I said, you're going to reimburse me for the Nets?

And he said, hey, that's your problem. I said, no. I said, you got a bigger problem than I have, actually. And he said, well, how do you figure that? I said, because you're up river and you're going to have to come back down through here. I said, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to be waiting on you. And I said, you know that thing that twirls on top of your boat? I said, that radar looking thing.

I said, I'm going to start that. I said, but it's going to cost you. No, he was a good. No. So this is the. It's going to cost you way more unless you buy them nets. I said, you tore up. I said, because I've been fishing this river for years, you got to keep it barred in the middle of the river.

I've never heard this story. Anyway, that's what I said, well, you might need to call the main office. I said, that's fine. What's their number? So I called the main office and I told that guy, I said, one of your boat captains tore all my nets out of here. And I said, he's claiming he's not going to pay for him. I said, oh, he's going to. going to pay and you're going to pay.

So you went to repent. I said, I reminded him that he's going to have to come back by me down here. I said, no, I don't want to feel. You went the redneck on the riverbank menace. Yeah, so anyway, he said, he said, you know, a few years ago, Mr. Robinson, he said, we'll pay for him. He said, a few years ago, the same thing happened. And we tore up a bunch of fishermen's nets.

And, you know, the captain said, no, we ain't paying for anything. He said, man, that bar. had holes in it. They took the, they shooting high-powered rifles laying up on the bank. He said, we got in a lot of trouble over that one. I said, well, he said, how much of your nets, you know?

And I said, I'll check the exact price. An idea and gave it to him. He said, we're happy to help. So he was. Well, in the spirit of how to, they paid for the nets. In the spirit of how to handle anger, I'm not sure that what would Jesus do principle here was followed.

I had, that was when I was young in the faith and I was a little bit belligerent. It's too belligered. But it worked out well and they did what was right. Which makes it okay. I never said, I just said you have to come back by me and. Well, the implication. You didn't make a threat, but you had an implication that it might be. I laid the groundwork to where you understood what I was saying.

Well, I'm fine with it now that you said I was young in the faith. And you probably could have handled that better. I didn't realize that that had happened before, and they had gotten into a lot of, you know, commercial fishing's hard work, and it's not a lot of money in it. Well, you were mad, too. And you were mad.

I was. And, I mean, we're talking about being angry and sending not, you might have blurred the line there with the threat that was implied. But he was acting like a horse's butt, sounds like. I mean, he did tear up your net. That would be like going to. to a plumber and destroying all of this.

He knew that he had, you know, because things like boat docks and stuff on the bank of the river, sometime they get over in them and they have to pay for it. I mean, the barred gets away from them. Well, a lawsuit you'd want. Pretty swift, and they're going left, right, you know,

but you need to keep the thing out there a reasonably reasonable distance from the bank because if you don't, you'll run over people's boat houses, their camps, you know, they get their nets. I bet you when he looked at his propeller, you're net he said that oh he said that he said that he said i noticed i had a huge ball of net on my propeller we had to get somebody else you got him you got you didn't need that you got to come back by well but he did that because the guy's like you know he said you know you the ones got the problem

it's your problem not speaking of get her done you have a problem too so i just made a little was he wearing skinny difference i don't know but it worked out Well, actually, so this story, thanks Jay's for squirrel, you know, looking outside and getting into that. Well, I didn't mean to disrupt it. I was like, I don't think that's ever happened before while we've been sitting there talking. I've never heard that story. That's an amazing story. But it sort of applies to what we're talking about because we talked about anger last time.

And this is a situation where Jesus gets angry. You know, I mean. And he didn't sin. He didn't sin, which, you know, in your anger, don't sin. is that we established it as the biblical principle. But this is, we happen to be in one of those stories, which is kind of the gist in my sermon, Jay's, is that sometimes things should bother us to want to make change. Okay, I like that.

My lesson is sometimes you just got a clean house. So that's the allegor. I noticed he didn't direct any of the things he did toward the people. He was directing it toward the tables, the money, what was going on there. Right. You know, exactly. What they had, what happened.

Romans 12 says, hate what is evil, not who is evil. Right. Hate what is evil. Right. Cling to what's good. So this is one of those situations.

That's a very, that's very important. Well, I was just going to say, you can't violate the fundamental in your doctrine or your religion or your stance on what happens at a church building. You can't violate the overall characteristics of God. which is he loves everybody that's correct so no matter what you think or you came up he loves everybody uh he he committed no sin right so people who then start trying to argue here that oh would you know well he committed no sin so whatever he did was righteous was was good but you know you've had

these silly arguments it was righteous indignation it was but i've had people say well you can't i mean just go with me on this. They'll use this passage to say you can never make a transaction of any kind in a church building. Oh, yeah. They go the full other bit. Well, because they're, so they clear another temple here. Well, wait a minute here.

This is a totally different situation and context. But it does have a lesson in it, in my opinion, that you never want to turn Christianity into a money-making enterprise for yourself. Exactly, which is what they were doing. But look, always remember this. I mean, to think about it, modern day American Christianity, you reckon some people are in it for the money out? I mean, they are. And that's part of the reason he's talking about it.

And again, you've got to go back to what was the purpose. Why was there a tabernacle or a temple? I mean, those were God established. We can go back in the Old Testament. And God, not only did he say, bill me one, he gave him the dimensions. He gave them what goes in it. I mean, down to the exact, this is where you set this, this is where you set that. There's a curtain in here.

You can't go in there. This guy can go in there. These three can't. There's only one guy that can go. I mean, temple worship was very specific from God. Rule and regulation. But here's the thing. Here's what Jesus knew.

This is what upset him. So the purpose of all that was two things. One is that God is to be worshipped there. In other words, his presence. with them was linked to this place. It was linked to the tabernacle and to the temple. And they had this room in the middle called the Most Holy Place. And so the idea was is that this is the closest you're going to get to my physical presence with you.

The focus of that whole man-made enterprise was the crest for money. And then that's what happened. So what happened is, and the reason that thing, you got to. Money is a root. of all kinds of evil. So the context was, we're here to worship, number one. And then number two is there was a connection of the worshippers. The idea was that they all would come there.

So everybody had to come once a year. It was part of the law. That's why Jesus, in this context, is going down to Jerusalem. All Jews had to go to Jerusalem. Now, they got all out of whack because they had two places in Samaria and a lot of history. But the idea was once a year, you come here. And the idea was when they all came together, there was something. powerful about that. I mean, they didn't all come at the same time, but there was something

powerful about being together. So in a worship context for today, I mean, there is something powerful for us in that. I mean, when we come together, the idea should be focus on God, you know, focus on Christ. Yeah, and have a worship experience. And I think he knew their hearts, because he says that in 225. I brought that up when he was talking about to Nathaniel. Right. But it was more in the context of here. I mean, here's the temple courts. We're gathering up to worship God. They're just trying to make money.

And now there's, you know, I thought about when they're selling the doves because now the dove has become infamous. They probably heard about that. Oh, it's carried the Holy Spirit, you know, down. And so now instead of saying, oh, the Holy Spirit was given to somebody, you know, they're like, let me start selling doves. You see what I mean? Yeah.

And I think that's kind of the. take on it. They were just looking at the excitement of hearing maybe about the miracle and hearing about there's, you know, all these people that are being baptized, John, and then Jesus' followers, all the people that were being baptized. I think there was a buzz going on and they were turning it into a way to make money. The modern day internet is a picture of the lengths

that human beings will go to in order to make a buck. the somebody said good night it's a pandemic coronavirus here it is and all these ads and all this stuff start popping up on the internet on people selling you whether it be mask or medical supplies and claiming they're with the government and donate this amount of money i mean look they the internet will turn any kind of crisis or any kind of anything until a money-making enterprise at the drop of a hat, Al. But the number of one, the persecution against the church is, well, they just want my money. Would you agree?

That's what you hear. People I study with, they're like, oh, they're all out of there. And look, and it's true in a lot of religions, a religious setting. That's the reason I don't take any money from the brothers when I'm up there, when I'll drive up on Sunday morning, I was there yesterday. There's a couple hundred people in there, but you say, are you charging them anything? I would not charge them one nickel. But some people do, and it's fine.

Worker deserves his wages, but I mean, I'm so aware of what people would do in the way of making money that I'm, I made it my own personal policy. You don't owe me anything on this. I think the money side of this was, it was a problem, but that wasn't the major problem. It wasn't that it was just the money. What happened was because people at all, you know there had to have been, their only understand, why were they selling? why were they selling this stuff anyway? Because of the sacrifices that they made. But the idea was, is that you brought your stuff and sacrificed it to God.

That's what he asked for in the Old Testament. Again, this is we're going to that. So what I'm saying is these people thought, so now it's just, I just show up, I hadn't brought anything. And so I'm going to buy something to go in and make my sacrifice. Yeah, it's like easy. Yeah. What happened was it was the convenience and the lack of the heart that created the industry inside the temple. You see what I'm saying?

Oh, yeah. This is pre-Jesus's death balance. resurrection, so it's kind of a legalistic setting, and rightfully so. So what I'm saying is, so a lot of that doesn't apply to us today. We don't have a temple. We don't. Right. That was my point.

Right. People go here, people go here and use something post-Jesus' death, and down resurrection. I'm like, you've completely, you're trying to apply something that has nothing to do with what we're doing now. Now, the principle there, okay, maybe. Right. You know, but still you can't look at it legalistically.

Which is why my sermon out of this is more of that big picture about what do we bring to, what do we bring to the Almighty? And if we're coming to God and we're holding on the things that we hadn't cleaned out, because here's the thing, Jesus, I mean, he was upset and when he got upset, he cleaned house. He went in, he's turning over tables, you know. I mean, like, he went off on the setting because they had turned. God's worship experience that he had told them to do. Remember, he is God.

So he's offended by what they're doing. I mean, because they're worshipping him too. You see what I mean? Yep. All right, before we get to this next verse, let's take a quick break. You know, I think what's, when I see this, when I read this story, I immediately think my number one thing, because this is in my speeches I give, is that God doesn't live in buildings. So when you go here and you see Jesus clearing out this group in the temple courts

and people making a big deal about what was happening in the building, I get it. Because I think about that Hebrews 3, where Hebrews 3 4 says, every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything, which I like. But then he goes on to say, and we are his house. And he talks about those that have literally Christ end upwelling. That's Hebrews 3. And the reason I'm bringing that up here is because he seems to make that analogy from a futuristic viewpoint when he clears them out and then the Jews come and they say, what miraculous sign?

This is John 2.18. Can you show us to prove your authority to do all this? Because they got offended. They're like, you're cleaning out the temple. Who do you think you are? Who are you? And by the way, that's going to be the first of many of those that we're going to see. And I love this.

Jesus answered, destroyed this temple, and I will raise it again in three days. And the Jews replied, it's taken us 46 years to build this temple. And you're going to raise it in three days. But the temple he had spoken of was his body. And so he made it, you know, he's housing the Holy See, Spirit. He's going to be resurrected. He's planting that seed. He has their attention from the tables flying in every direction. Well, right. And then he said something to them didn't answer the question because they're like, okay, you went from a fit of rage to now insane. That's right.

Now we've made the connection. Oh, well, you're crazy. You're crazy. Because you're talking about raising the temple that took 46 years when he was talking about his body, which is my point. Don't focus on this as, oh, what can I do in God's house making a terrible translation to what happened here to a church building now? Well, the reason why is because we no longer worship in temples. We no longer. We are the temple. We are the temple, which is actually the very point he made.

Exactly. Here. Well, now you're getting into my sermon. Okay. Because the thing about it is, what I want to say is if this made Jesus that angry, God, when he was, because he didn't, he only got angry a few times. He was indignant when they wouldn't let the kids come to him. There's just a handful of times where he showed anger. And when the Pharisees, you know, a couple of times he got into them pretty good.

But so my point is, as a worshipper of my Lord, I want to know if this made him angry, I want to make sure that. when I'm coming to him, I want to do what he wants me to do. And so then you make those applications. So the allegory is, in my own life, in my temple, what am I doing? And then there's some applications. Now, I like this. So that's the route I'm going on to say. Yeah, I like that.

And sometimes Jesus needs to come into your heart and clean house. Do some rearranging. That's exactly right. With some whips. Turn a few tables, though. Some things should make us angry. We talked about that before on the podcast. I mean, there are things going on in the culture.

But what about things you need to be? You got to get mad about it. But I think there's the point, Al. Most people want to say, yeah, well, I hope God, you know, comes to your house. That's right. They're always looking, you know, he needs to go down that church building and clean that place up. Going to start in the back of that four year. There's a lot.

But then you're like, well, why don't you let him come into your house? I'm talking about this house, the body. That's what I'm talking about. Well, then people, wait a minute here. Hang on. What are you trying to say? It's like years ago, I heard a guy talking about the, you know, it's easier to talk about politics in the White House, the man in the White House, the man in the White House. He said, what I want to get to is the man in your house.

And I was like, well, that's pretty good, you know. All right, let's take one last break and wrap this up. So what we're looking at here then is in a context of Jesus, this is something he did. You're right. the message that for them and anybody was listening was, I'm going to come back. And the temple that you guys are so into is going to be right here. Here's what's interesting, though, just to finish that thought. He says this.

And then it says after he, in verse 22, after he was raised from the dead, his disciples recall what he said. So remember they were watching it, but they didn't remember that. Oh, they never got it. They never got it. But then he comes back. But then listen to this. then they believe the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

So it's really interesting, until Jesus came back from the dead, even though who saw every miracle, everything Jesus did? You have to remember when they crucified him, they hit the road. That's right. All of them. Every one of them deserted him. Right. Well, then when he calls him back in, this is one of those times.

He said, yeah, now we're beginning to get it. We're putting it together. That's exactly right. And then this thing finished his up. This is now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, many people saw the signs he was performed. This is going to be the whole issue for Jesus' ministry and believed in his name. But we know they didn't really believe in him because, like you said, at the end of the

day, they weren't there. All of them scattered, including his own disciples. So it took the resurrection for people to finally say, okay, we're going to put our trust. Even Peter, when Matthew said, 16 and there when Jesus said, we're going up to Jerusalem, the chief priest and the Pharisees, they're going to kill me. I'll be buried, but in three days I'll be raised from the dead. Peter took him off on the side.

She had never, it's never going to happen to you. The very thing that saved the world, Peter was against it. Not knowing he's fixing a pull this off here. That's right. So even then, Al, it took more than the resurrection. I mean, even when he was resurrected, it took him appearing to him, many times. 40 days.

And it took him open in their minds. It took them in their own lives and understanding of the scriptures. It's like when you read all the resurrection accounts, it wasn't just immediate. Right. I mean, they're like even Thomas, you know, famous. Yeah, yeah. But the other ones, you know, I mean, I think about why is that story about the road of Amas? Why is that even in, why did Jesus do that?

It's kind of a strange thing. He just picked two guys walking down the road who had hoped that Jesus was the Christ. But since he died, they said, well, no. Well, then Jesus just appears with them. And he, you know, he was kept, he kept himself from being recognized. I'm not sure I did that. But when you have power over molecular control. And so then he has this conversation.

And then the story is like really interesting. Then he's like, he was going on away from them, but they were like, hey, why don't you, you know, come eat with us? So then they're like eating at the table and he's serving them. And then all of a sudden it says he opened their hearts to understand. Remember, he kind of rebuked them saying, you don't understand the scriptures, you know, about Jesus. Luke 24, they thought he was a ghost. He said, a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones. You see, I have.

He showed him his hands and his feet. they still did not believe it. Right. Because of joy and amazement. He said, hey, you got anything here to eat? He's showing them, I'm alive, and let's see, I'm hungry. Well, they gave him a piece of fish. He broke it, and he ate it in their present.

This is what I told you while I was still with you, he said. He goes back to reminding him. Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms. He told them, he opened their minds so they could understand the story. scriptures. Now look. That's what I, the same thing you said in John too. They've been running with him for three years. You say, did they, did they get it yet?

No, they don't have it yet. So he says, and he told them, this is what is written. He said, all these things have to be fulfilled. The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day. Well, he told them that repeatedly. Right. But even when it happened, they hit the road. That's right.

You said, well, I'd have stayed. Well, that's what Peter said. Well, look, I wanted to ask you all something. And he ended up. repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in the name to all nations that even reached all the way to America all these years later beginning in Jerusalem, Acts chapter 2, the Spirit come out. You are witnesses of these things. I'm going to send you before the promise. Stay in the city until you clothed it eyes.

So the Holy Spirit came upon them and it took off and it reached all the way over here to America, which is amazing. It did go worldwide. But we always stop there, but I'm doing a lesson on worship. and praising God. Because the next paragraph, which is the last one in Luke 24, it says, and I think this is an interesting image of God, and I think it applies to what we read in John 2 when he said the body he was talking about, I mean the temple he was talking about was his body.

So this is post-resurrection. It says, when he had led them out, verse 50, to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. So it gives you this visual image of Jesus, you know, with his hands. raised blessing them look and while which is by the way if somebody says why are you raising your hands you can say i'm trying to be like jesus while he was blessing them he left them and was taken up into heaven now watch the next phrase then they worshipped him and returned to jerusalem with great joy and they stayed continually at the temple praising god so what my point was it took a lot for them to

realize, okay, he is who he said he was. But one question I wanted to ask you before we go, because I know we have to, when they were having trouble believing him, you know, when at first he came through the walls at Phil Red, it said they were startled and frightened thing and they saw a ghost. So the first reason they didn't believe is because of fear, well, it can't be him as a ghost. But that next phrase is what I was curious about, because he said, look at my hands and my feet. But then when he said this, and you read this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while

they still did not believe because of joy and amazement, that's what I was curious about. What do you think that meant? Read it again. It says, when he said this, which is touch me and see, a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have. He showed them his hands and feet. So now they're looking, and we always like, well, that's it, slam dunk. They believe. but actually it says and while they still did not believe it it simply was a story that and they're still saying it today it just seems too good to be true yeah that's what i had concluded but i was wondering if y'all had more because it's like even though how can this be exactly and it goes back to all the things we've talked about in previous podcasts about looking for these

miraculous signs and, you know, trying to have a sign to know that this is true. Somebody do that, and I'm there on the premises, and I saw him die. Well, you would think it. And look, and then three days later, he's standing there saying, you know, give me some fish. He said, look, look where they stuck at these spears, these spikes. And if I'm there with him, I'm looking at him and I would see how you could have a little anxiety about, is this real? There was two things.

One is you're bewildered because of everything has happened. Number two is, remember, none of them, the Holy Spirit's not showed up yet for them. Because remember when he was leaving even, they were saying, when are you going to establish a kingdom? I mean, like, they still didn't get it. That's right. He's literally leaving the planet, and they're asking the wrong question. But everything changed for them when the Holy Spirit shows up in Acts 1,

because then all of a sudden they were changed men. Well, and combined with the scriptures and that's why I keep saying. They opened their mind you. Remind you. They thought back to what happened in John 2. Remember when he cleared out those courts? And he said, hey, you destroy this temple. I'll bring it back three days.

I'll spend a couple thousand years. But even to this day, you know, when you contemplate human beings dying. And three days later, they literally are back from the dead. You're like, you know. It's a powerful stuff. It's a, it's a... They make movies about stuff like this. It's a wild story.

It's way better than a movie. All right, we got to run. Great stuff. So check it out. WFRchurch.org. You can see our sermons. You'll have to check out my sermon, see if I did this justice

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