Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 73 | Socialists' Pandemic Power-Grab, Phil's Selfie Discovery, and the Kingdom of God Is Here!

Episode Date: April 8, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has taken dependence on government to a whole new level, and Phil says the socialist agenda right now is the scariest thing he's ever seen. Phil discovers selfies, and the look on his face as Jase fills him in is as funny as you'd think. And a lot of religious people are waiting for the Kingdom of God, but Phil, Jase, and Al make a rock-solid case that the Kingdom is here and we're a part of it. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So I guess now you've got the fishing in the quarantine, huh, Dad. Is that the... Fishing in the quarantine? Hey, I have fished more in the last three weeks. Are we running? We're running.

Phil, we're running. Well, what I do is... Move in a little closer, Dad. Twice a week. Move closer to the mic, Phil. There you go. Twice a week. I don't have but one net

But if you're If you spent probably 12, 15 years commercial fishing All you need to feed you and a small clan during a pandemic Because normally when you do fish, you've got a bigger crowd, right? That, plus you don't need but one net Because if you know where to put it, there's no problem with the fish Just got into.

I've described it as under the water. You can fish so long using nets that you learn that there are actually highways under the water. There's underground fish highways, just like humans have highways where we go about. Well, you figure out what that all.

Runs, we call them. Runs. And you get it on the highway, and what's different is each fish has his own highway. So if you get deeper water, you start getting into blue cat in Gasper goose, you get a little shallower, and then you get into the flathead opalus. Then when you get real shallow, you get into the things that are illegal to keep.

I didn't have about seven or eight on Monday. One of the ops was about, I'd say, four pounds. I said, that's good. That'd be perfect either. I'd feed three or four of us. Well, did you run them today? I just got through running them. I didn't have but three fish, but they were all three catfish.

but they weighed together about 50 pounds. What were these? That was two blues and one op. The op, one out on the color. I just simply grabbed the op, cut him up under his tail so I could bleed him like a hog, you know. I cut him up on the tail. I said, that would feed 20, 20 people.

Well, how many of you got eating that? The other two, I just threw them back in the river. I catch them laying in a row. Well, let's interrupt this podcast to see what you're going to do with the Catfish because I sense the one-op has now been dressed and cut up and deboned. And the belly meat slabs on them were about six, eight inches wide, about like that. Well, here's my question. Well, here's my question.

If you have enough to feed 20 people and there's only two of you. We will eat them every other day until they're gone. Now they're just Miss Kay and I, maybe one. You're not hearing what you want to. Nan, your daughter. We're not, we're having a failure to communicate it. I would just like one flank. One side of belly meat.

Yeah. Done. To take with you. Stop by and pick them up. So we got a fish dispensary here. I'm excited. Two things. The rule, the rule to go by is two, two things.

One, be independent of everyone else. You say, be independent of everyone else. else and practice God reliance, not government. Two people come to your door. We're with the government. We're with the government. We're here to help. Get them out of the get. Do not fall into that trap. So the declaration of independence, we all revere the declaration, but we don't realize what Thomas Jefferson was saying. You have a God-given right. All of men are created equal. They've been endowed with certain unalienable rights from God, their creator, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. What he was doing, he was taking a page out of what the Apostle Paul told the Thessalonians, make it your ambition. Our ambition as a nation,

should be a nation full of people who are independent, fiercely individuals. Right. We're not worried about, I don't expect anything from the government. I don't demand anything from the government. That's not the government's job. We've raised up in the pandemic, the recent, the ongoing pandemic has shown me one thing. We have run this victimhood and this reliance on the government. We've taken it to a level. I mean, they're saying shut it all down. I mean, you can't get out of your house.

You can't go there. We'll get you through this. We'll get you through this. Just for it, look, they barry trillions. We're in debt trillions. They just barring them over. They just keep shoveling out there. At some point, someone says, you know, whatever happened to make it your ambition.

Here's where Thomas Jefferson got the declaration. of independence from old King George or any other government. Whatever happened to just make it your ambition to live a quiet life, mind your own business, work hard with your hands, just as we told you. So your daily life, people watch that, hmm, quiet life, he works hard. He's not dependent on me, his neighbor. He's not dependent on the government. he's just going it as an individual

so that your daily life will win the respect of outsiders so that you won't have to be dependent on anybody. I'm telling you, I'm trying to get that into people's heads, but it's hard to get them beyond government programs, government assistance, the government's going to bear you. I don't trust in any government. I just don't trust them. You've been watching a lot of news, I think.

No? I've just been reading a lot of Bible. And when I read a lot of Bible, I'm like, I need to rely on the one that can raise me from the dead for crying out loud. To put some practicality. I hate to start preaching this early in the morning, give me a break. No, you don't. You don't.

Well, we are dependent on God. You know, if I get my, you know, I'm. Your life is in his hands. Yeah, my life. But as far as going around here, I think. think you have so many people taking advantage of that process? Well, look, here's the, here's the practicality. So obviously a lot of the whole sectors of jobs go kaput because when you tell people stay at home, you can't go here, you can't go eat, you can't, you know, so all of a

sudden these people are, man, what are we going to do? But I saw it was very interesting within the first week of when all this started happening, the quarantine and your home, well, then the Walmarts and the Amazons and so many businesses, America, they're rolling. I mean, they're like, they can't get stuff in fast enough. They can't get it on the shelves fast enough. So here's what happened. A pandemic hits, you got a lot of jobs shut down, but then you got hundreds of thousands of jobs that open up because now the one thing that is rolling is come get some

food, you know, come do this. We're going to ship your stuff. So to your point, if your mindset is if I've been working at a restaurant, I lose my job and the government says, well, you know, we're going to try to help you best we can. We're going to sit in your check. But you look over here. here and all of a sudden the opportunity opens up at 15 bucks an hour, whatever they're starting out, which is not bad.

It may be best to just go work in this opportunity. And then when this thing dies down, you may get to go back to your old job. What I'm saying is that's the mindset you're talking about of, I want to try to make my own way rather than wait around for somebody to take care of me. Well, the panic broke out because the jobs numbers last week. I think it was 3.3 million people lost their jobs. Now it's 10 million as of yesterday. Well, I think today's the number.

So it may have came out today. So another seven. So look, the highest ever in a week, I think, was 700,000 before this. So now, I mean, so I think everybody's like 10 million people lost their jobs. Okay. Well, and look, some of them, you know, they're, I've noticed they're trying to form it in like a loan on some of the business stuff. Yeah. But then it's like a loan that you don't pay back.

It's a grant. So I thought that was kind of confusing. The socialist among us via the college professors indoctrinating for about 60 years the socialist agenda. Well, now the socialists are literally during this pandemic. They are rubbing their hands together. They said, finally, we've got it to where they are completely and utterly dependent on us to government. You're right. We have to get power.

Get rid of this Donald Trump because he's. He's standing in the way. He's in the way of the socialist agenda. They're looking at it like, what an opportunity. We can gain full control over the whole bunch, and they will bow to us from now on, and they will be relied on us and not God. We finally got them where we want them.

That's the scariest thing I'm seeing unfold here. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen. I'm down here on the riverbank. You say, did you ever get any government assistance of any kind? No. You said, are you getting any now? No. I mean, I turned 62.

They said, well, you know, you paid all this money in. We got Social Security that when you get old and gray there, Robinson, we'll give you some of your money back every month. Not near what you paid in, but we'll just be there to help you. Well, they delayed me on that for about eight or nine years. I said, well, forget it. I don't even want that then. If that's the way they're going to do it. Oh, they love my logic.

They said, yeah, we got that old guy. He's going to be self-reliate. He's not going to want that. even the money he paid in, and we're slipping them a little, by law. Well, I thought I had them, I said, forget the whole bunch, yeah, and that's what I figured. Well, look, I turned 63, where we changed it, we could earn 64. Well, I had to hit about 70 before they finally said, you know, we said we'd pay you, yeah, but I quit dealing with them.

But little Miss Kay, y'all's mother, she didn't quit. I love they always reminds us. She said, you paid it in. It's not their money. You paid it in. your money they just get me i'm kind of agreeing with miss k may miss k stayed the course i said i don't want a dime i don't forget it so they were all rubbing their hands together the the the social security outfit saying boy we finally we got one of them it says well you know i'm sure forget it

i'm sure that's exactly people out here in the world called financial advisors i think you know just say it might want to look at would you have to be dependent on them yeah yeah they take your money you're depending on them on how they spend not they're out that's why i was joking, but I say be so that you can be dependent with a quiet life, hard work, and minding your own biddy. You won't have to be dependent on anybody. That is what Thomas Jefferson was saying.

I got it. But I will say. God's the only one in the Declaration of Independence that Thomas Jefferson said, rely on him because that's where your rights come from. I will say this. It's not the government. It's your rights come from God.

I'm not saying it. So I'm just saying. I agree with the Bible. I agree with the principle. I agree with you. However, I will say this. In times like this, there are, you know, I think of James where it says true religion is keeping oneself polluted from the world and being good to widows and orphans. I do think it's our responsibility as sons and daughters, brothers, and sisters to look out for those who are widows, orphans in that world.

and I think that's where we should step in as the church. Yeah. As faithful members. We were talking to Willie today, and he's been cooking food, and then some of his folks have been delivering it to older people at the church they attend. I mean. Well, you do the same thing. By the way, we have a steady stream of food every Sunday morning.

The homeless gather up at that little structure where we were meeting. Now that's all gone. But they come. I said, need to keep. the grub going to those guys on the street and those gals living on the street. So they're coming, you know, and they get them a little can beanie-weenies, you know, and some chips, you know, and a little bit of grub there. Yeah.

Every week we're making sure that the food supplies going to them. So we're looking after our neighbors. My point is, is there are some legitimate people that we need to show compassion and that need, you know, a hand. But our world just takes advantage a lot of the corrupt. in a world. They take advantage of that situation. You are correct.

And then people try to find excuses not to work or, you know, when you're like when I, I remember when I was in Russia, you actually got penalized if you got married. Right. You got tax-wise. You got penalized if you lived in a house that was finished. So guess what? There's no house or flat that's completed in the whole country that I saw. everything was under construction. It just was crazy.

The same thing they do in the Caribbean and Mexico and all that for the same reason. So you just always have some rebar sticking up out of everything because it's ongoing. You get rewarded for not doing a good job. So everyone will understand my logic. Just remember, you say, well, whose job is it

to, for the homeless's sake, the poor, the downtrodden, It is the job of the kingdom of God, the body of Christ, to reach out to your neighbors, the downtrodden, and the poor. It's our job to help each other. We should not palm that off on the government because there's so much graft and corruption. Very little of these trillions of dollars ever gets down to them. So you're saying we're independent so that we can then help those who can't help themselves. As opposed to becoming dependent on the government, we can't help anybody.

That is my. That is my... I like it. That is my stated opinion. I like it. So let's take a quick break. And that's a perfect segue to what we can tell about in John 3 today. So we talked about John 3 in our last podcast about baptism and sort of its implications that come out of this John 3 text. And we, of broaden that out. Jason gave us some good illustrations on looking at that. There were a couple of concepts that come out in this text that I wanted you guys to touch on today. one of them was Jesus's reply to Nicodemus when he's asking about, you know, obviously we see

your prophet of some sort because you're doing all these things. And Jesus says, I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. We talked a lot about the born again factor, but I want you to talk a little bit about the kingdom factor they talks about because Nicodemus, obviously like any Jew of his day, would have seen the kingdom of Israel as it had always been, a physical manifestation of a country, what you call it today. It was the kingdom of Israel.

And so it had kings, you know, and even in this day, he still had kings. Herod was there. And so they saw it as a physical thing. So their concept was Messiah when he came, he would establish that Israel would then be this physical place forever and everybody would, you know, they would be. basically rule the world. Let's just read what you're saying. I'll give you an example of it.

So I want you to talk about the difference. And what is Jesus bringing in this different here than what they've always thought? I got the question. But I was just going to say their interpretation and what was making, I think, people nervous about Jesus is just think about it when he fed the 5,000 and then on another occasion he fed the 4,000. Well, if you were in government, and here's a guy who's claiming he has some kind of miraculous powers.

And you're looking over there and you're seeing 5,000, it says 5,000 men. Well, what are you thinking? And they started talking about kingdoms and setting up a kingdom. And you see a guy with 5,000 men. And he can feed him? He's an army? I mean, all of a sudden, they're like, well, you're thinking war. We got a revolution going on that's fixing to happen.

I think that's why he got into so much trouble and eventually died. Because when you put all those things together, they were thinking physical kingdom, him, he's starting a movement. They're going to try to take his over, snuff him out. Well, you know that was true from the disciple's standpoint because they were looking at and say, well, where do we slide in? Well, that's what I was going to read. You got to remember the political arm that Jesus was doing also battle with was the

government of that time. We're talking about the period of time 2,000 years ago when Jesus, Caesar Augustus was there until Jesus was about, you know, teenager or so. then I can't think of the second one, but he'd come along, and that went to the 33 when Jesus left. But if you remember, the Jews instigated it all, but it was the Roman Empire that said, okay, let's crucify it. Well, because they were the arching power. They were occupied. So Jesus was worn against not only the government authorities of that time frame.

that time frame I mean you know it was emperors and kings I mean you know the law of Moses you say they didn't fool with that

we are the law well and that's why they thought it was going to be an overthrow I mean look sure when Messiah comes even today

they're sensitive about that but I mean it was God's plan anyway I don't think they should be sensitive

you know when I went to Israel our guide who was obviously a Jew you know I could tell he got easily offended if you tried to blame the Jews for crucifying Jesus, you know, because he himself

believed Jesus was here, but he didn't believe he was the son of God. Right. And so we would have numerous discussions about that. But I noticed he was sensitive if you were, if he thought you were blaming the Jewish nation for crucifying, you know, Jesus. He's all, that was the Romans. I mean, we didn't have anything to do with it. And I was like, wait a minute now. I might want to give him a new testament. You remember throughout Jesus' ministry, he said, submit yourself to the government authorities. Pay your taxes. Honor the king.

I mean, he wasn't like a revolutionary about, I'm against the government. And look at the government apparatus they had going then was way more strict than what we have now. You can believe that. You say, man, they— It's one of my favorite stories in the Bible. I brought this up before when Jesus, they asked him, you know, about paying taxes, Peter did. Remember when he came in? But Jesus, like, picked it up big conversation, which shows you he knew the conversation you were having a mile away.

And he was like, go down there and catch a fish. And the first one you catch, it will have our taxes and go turn it in. I was like, no, that. You're talking about an adventure. You get to go fishing. And one of the fish is going to have money. You have just stated, my friend, why my allegiance is not to government. It's to the ones who brings money out of a fish's mouth.

I'm like, I'm with him. I think that's the answer. You rely on the government? I said, no, I'm the one that, I'm like relying on the one where the funding is coming from. Real funding. That would have been a good line when they're asking you why you hadn't paid your taxes. And you're like, well, I keep catching these things, but there's no money. I'm fished it.

There's no money in it because they're not, I mean, I want some literal money coming, rolling out of the fish. It's pretty funny, really. I wanted to read this Acts 1 because, look, after all that, we just said, you would think by this time his disciples would have got the concept of the kingdom? I know where we're headed with this, but he says, I mean, this is right after Jesus was raised, and in verse 3, he gave many convincing proofs that he was alive, which is our point, that he can put coins in a fish's mouth,

he can come back from the dead, he can walk on water, yada, yada. So you get to four of Acts 1, and it says, while he was eating with him right before he leaves, he says, do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift, my father promised,

which you have heard me speak about. Well, you're talking about the Holy Spirit. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you'll be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Well, this kind of going back to this concept, this conversation that Nicodemus is having, but Jesus had brought up the kingdom there. Well, they were familiar with that story, I know,

because their next question was, so when they met together, they said, Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel? They were thinking it was a physical thing. They were like, what are you talking about this? A lot of them still do. That's right. That's right.

To this day. And he said, it's not for you to know the times or days. the father and said he didn't answer the question he didn't say you still haven't got it you still haven't got it when because then he says but you will receive power because that's what they were looking for are we going to take over the world now are we going to that's why they're getting the swords out when they try to get jesus cutting the ear off yeah because they're like we'll have the biggest structure on planet earth well it all comes from it'll have 12 thrones and we'll sit on all 12 of them.

It all comes from those prophecies, and y'all know them, but our viewers may not. We've touched on it before in other podcasts, and you go to Daniel 2 and Daniel 7. You have these prophecies that God was going to establish this kingdom, and it would never be destroyed. And it goes... 600 years before it happened. And it goes through the kingdoms in... It's like, what is the word? It's a irony, not irony.

Historical. But Daniel and then, they use a metaphor and you can figure out which kingdoms he was referring to. I mean, it's kind of a long historical. Babylonians, meet in Persians, Greece, Rome. He said, during that time, that's when. It was laid out pretty clear, yeah. So you can go, look, if you want to go to Daniel, too, Daniel said, you'll see that. So they're all sitting here saying, well, I want to be a part of this kingdom.

we're going to take over the world because it says it will crush all other kingdoms it itself will never be destroyed well then here comes john the baptist who is baptizing in water for forgiveness of sins pointing people to jesus and he had a phrase that he would say and y'all know what it is he would say repent for the kingdom of heaven is near yeah at hand it's at hand or at hand and well i met a fellow one time that said that at hand didn't mean near so i used near now well because look that this is a little bit of a little bit legitimate problem. It's going to happen before you die. Well, that's, that narrows it down quite a bit. Mark 9.1. I'm just going to throw in a few texts in. Luke 17, 20, and 21 is another one. But it's an issue in the religious world because, look, we have the same problem today in the

religious world. There are people, religious people, Jesus-loving people. They're still waiting on the kingdom to be here. I know it. And I'm like, well, wait a minute here. If, if Jesus, because then Jesus said, John. You know why they're still looking for it? Because a guy like you or a guy like me and oh wow there. But especially they look at a guy like you and you say, actually, actually, actually, I'm a priest in the kingdom of God. And they see you walking down the road and stop them chat. They keep the six to ten foot.

They would keep about a 40 yard distance between you and you'd be talking out your truck window. I'm a priest of the most high I'm in the kingdom of God. They would walk away and say he's a complete idiot. He thinks he's some kind of member of some kingdom here on earth. Some of this is true.

Some of this is true. All the parts about especially me compared to you. I love it because I know you don't have mirrors. But let me just be the first one to tell you. You know, Phil don't do selfies. No. You don't check his hair.

You can turn them. the camera around on a selfie and you can look at yourself. It's like a mirror. That's why mirror sales have gone way down. I think when you start taking pictures of yourself, you're on a, you're on a slippery slope. Well, trust me, buddy, we're there. We, it ain't me, dude. I don't take pictures of myself and say, well, look at that. I mean, you know, what are you, I'm like, I'm thinking, no, slippery slope, Jason. Well, let's, let's take that slippery slope into a break. Phil has now discovered the most slippery thing in life because look, there are people taking

selfie. Look, everyone between the ages of 13 and 20, here's what they do. Here's the big thing now. I know we're completely off on a rabbit chase. They take pictures of themselves literally every few minutes and send it to their friends. Then their friends, they send it back of their cell. I know this because when I got. when my daughter, when I was checking her phone,

which if you have a person under 20 years of age in your house, you need to check their phone constantly. And so my daughter hadn't had a phone in months. And so... That's y'all's job, and that's not mine. Y'all monitor your own children. I'm old grandpa around there. But I've noticed one of the things they do is they do that.

They send that all day, 24-7, of pictures of themselves. To each other. the entire time. Everybody on there has multiple selfies within an hour. So when you said we're going down a slippery slope, we've fallen off a clip on that. If that's a sign of slippery slope. I'm beginning to gather from what you just said

on how far out of touch I actually am. I thought it was pretty interesting. I don't know what the obsession is with taking a picture of yourself and sending it. I have no desire. But I noticed even my wife, she'll send me a selfie on occasion, which I don't mind that. That's just short of street jacket time. Look at me.

I'm like, what? What I took issue with the illustration was, so you don't do mirrors, you don't do selfies, and then you're commenting on the way I love. That was one of you going to bring it back. No, I'm bringing it back because Phil is a cardboard sign and a little 10 cup away from people just throwing their money at you. You know what I mean? All you need, Phil, is a cardboard sign that says the end is near. And people would get exactly who you are.

Maybe we could put it out there on I-20. Because he always talks about that. Anyway, the end is near. I would just simply say it's nearer now since Jesus died on the cross, and that's been two thousand was raised from the dead. That's been 2,000 years ago last times, Hebrew chapter 1. I'm just saying we're 2,000 years closer to the end.

I put that on a sign and hold it up somewhere. Well, I was reading Acts 1, 6 to 8 because they didn't get it. Now, they eventually got it because that power came through the Holy Spirit, which is what makes us the most powerful, unshakable, indestructible force on the earth, the kingdom of God. That's why I'm looking at the pandemic and some of the offshoots of what it stirred up where no one could meet in a large crowd, and they said they were no longer be what they called church services. We can't do that anymore. I'm just saying there's a possibility that God is

telling us, like he did at the Tower of Babel, they were going to, you know, all of them had one mind, one language, and God says, they're going to, they're going to, this is going to globalism is what they were hot on about that far back. That's right. Well, to this day, they're still pursuing globalism. You take that in the book of Acts, when they started to just kind of get camped out in Jerusalem. Well, God went out and got to persecute them so they would scatter. He said, I said the kingdom is going worldwide. Move out.

Go forth. Go forth. Well, to this day, it reached all the way to hear from over there in Jerusalem. It reached us over in the United States of America. You say it reached worldwide, just like God said. But it won't do that if you've got a bunch of people congregating in a small little group. if they don't take it out. But Phil, I want to be clear because we get, every time we do a podcast, it's weird.

You've been keeping me in the loop of some of these emails from our listeners, you know. It's like we spent, what, two sessions on baptism. But some of us Angquan got out there, so people are looking for. I know, but she sent me those questions last night. I was like, every question that we answered or said this is a bad question, it was weird that, you know, we did the podcast. Well, then he sent it to me, I think, kind of funny. Because we were like, you know, like this question is a dumb question.

But those were the questions. And I feel like the religious world, some people, and I think it's coming from a legalistic mindset, they're trying to check all the boxes doctrinally. And if someone, they're looking for someone to agree with them on all these theological doctrinal agreements. And if you have one thing that they don't agree with, bong, we're out. And I'm just saying that's not a good way to be. It's not a good way to be. If you just took a couple of texts and you say, let's see here, what does that John

3 mean? Unless a man is born again of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Well, first he says can't enter it. Then he says you can't see it. He says you can't see it first. Now look, if you read that and then you just moved over to Titus. three, three, same as John three, three. If you just go tight as three, three, they're easy to remember. When the, when the, when the, God or Savior appeared, he saved us. Not because of anything we've done,

but because of its mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit whom we poured out on his generous. So it's watered spirit. Which is, which is good point. You say, you know, and I don't want to revisit that. Are they saying the same thing? I'm like, Well, yeah. It seems like. Hang on, hang on. Let's take a break. Then you answer that.

But I said all that to say this. I want to be real clear on my position because I like this position. And if people take issue it, so be it. My position is Jesus and John the Baptist both said multiple times. Matthew 417, Matthew 4-1, repent for the kingdom of heaven is near. repent for the kingdom of heaven is near Jesus told Nicodemus you can't enter it you can't see it unless this happens

Mark 9-1 you will see it before you die Before this group of people are standing here He was said some of you who are standing here Mark 9-1 so he was talking to them This is a hard thing for people to get 2,000 years later because they're like We're going to see it for we die No he was talking to a group of men saying

before you die, all these men are dead now, they died 2,000 years ago. Yep. Before y'all die, you will see the kingdom of God come. So you must make the inference it came in their lifetime. Or Jesus would be just lying. That is correct. It's impossible for God to lie. So we know that didn't happen.

So all I'm saying is they then ask him in Acts 1. well, what about all this kingdom stuff? That's not what they said, but they're like, are you going to restore the kingdom of Israel? He's going to happen. Well, he starts talking about the Holy Spirit. What? Well, when Nicodemus was confused about being born again,

what he started talking about? Holy Spirit. He said, you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit. So what happens? The Holy Spirit is poured out. There's fire. There's people speaking in languages. They've never studied.

Worldwide languages. People thought they were drunk. They're like, what the heck is going? on. They didn't, the Holy Spirit literally fell. It was poured out. So then Peter gets up, preaches Jesus, death, barrel, resurrection, among other things. Yep. They, the people heard it, thought, good gracious, this is awesome. What do we do? So he says, repent, be baptized. We spent two sessions on that. You'll get forgiveness of sins. And uh-oh, you will receive the Holy Spirit. Yeah.

Peter, the one doing the sermon, if you go back and read, what is that, Matthew 16, 15 and 16, Jesus, based on him saying that Jesus was the Lord, actually gave Peter the keys to the kingdom. That is correct. Well, it seems like to me, instead of all these jokes in life and all these pictures and all these illustrations, we say every time somebody dies, who do they say is at the gate? Peter. Peter. What?

We have a disconnect here. They already open that gate. Well, Mark 9-1, Peter's dead. The kingdom had to come before that. That gate's already been open. You missed it. When they said, what shall we do after hearing that Jesus was crucified, he is now, you're saying both Lord and Christ, the Messiah,

and he died, was buried, and what raised from the dead? They're cut to the heart, rightfully so, and then they say, what shall we do? Well, then he tells them what they do. And he said, the promise is for you, your children, all those who are far off. That was us 2,000 years later. He warned him and he pleaded with them. And then 3,000 were added to that number, the ones that were baptized.

And the kingdom starts. It's still here. It's a lot bigger now than it was then. It seems pretty simple. Well, I want to read you this, because a lot of people say, yeah, but all that's about in Revelation, you know, about the kingdom coming. And, you know, it's not here yet. What are you talking about?

which I don't know how they really explain Jesus and John the Baptist saying it was near back then. And like I said, the one fellow I met that said, well, that didn't mean near. Because that doesn't fit his narrative, you know, because 2,000 years later, because what they'll say is they'll read 1st Peter 3 and say, well, with the Lord, Adai is like 1,000 years. And I always say this, yeah, but with me, it's never that way. Near is near. He's written us to us. And John wrote in Revelation 1 and in 22, it is coming soon. There's another word.

So soon doesn't mean near or doesn't mean, you know. Right. And a lot of people have trouble with that. And one of the things I came up with on some of these passages that are difficult when it gets to timing, you know, we're all one generation away from soon. You know, I would rather go with that logic than what they're going with. You see what I mean? It's like when you die, the next thing you will know is Jesus coming back. Because time really cease to exist.

So it's actually kind of soon if you look at it that way. But we're talking about a different issue. But I want to read this in Revelation 5 because here you have this vision that John's having. And people say, well, all this is futuristic. All this is futuristic. All this is futuristic. But you see this picture that he sees in verse. verse 8 you have the lamb in the center of heaven you have the elders around it and look each one had a harp

which it's kind of weird when you're having a vision and the elders have a harp you know some of these people say you can't play these musical instruments you know i mean if it was bad you wouldn't have a vision of heaven and revelation with the lamb in the center and elders playing the harp anyway that's a different subject you digress and they were holding golden bowls look full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. Well, all of a sudden now, he's going back in this vision of what happens when we pray. Prayers on earth. Yeah. Prayers be, you know, the incense are going up to heaven. So that's not a futuristic thing. That's going on now. That's happening. Right? Okay. I just think that's important. Because when you look at the song they're singing,

Listen to this song. You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals. We're talking about Jesus because you were slain. And with your blood, you purchase men for God, every tribe, every language and people and nation. Now, this is the verse 10 is what I'm trying to get to. You have made them to be a kingdom and priest to serve our God. Pious tense. It's already happened.

Yeah. Yes, sir. Look. And they will, look, now here's the part that my buddy, I have a, look, I love this brother. He loves Jesus. I love Jesus. We completely disagree on this. And look, you say, well, what do you think?

Why are you friends with him? Because I love him and he loves Jesus. He's just dead wrong about this. And I'm like, you're going to be pleasantly surprised. And he's fine with that. You know? But this phrase is what he can't figure out. And I want to try to explain to it because I know a lot of people believe what he

believe. And that's okay. It says, And they will rain on the earth. And he said, the problem with your logic on how he views me interpreted. And he's like, we're not raining on the earth.

And I'm like, well, you know why we're not? Because you're not out preaching Jesus. Well, he's highly offendable when I say that. But in his mind, you're going to get a second chance.

There's going to be this war, break out. God's going to establish his kingdom in the afterlife, and then we're going for take two. I'm like, well, why priest Jesus now if all that's going to happen? Well, he's like, you've got a valid point. I said, you don't realize on what reigning on the earth means. You just think about it. We're the most powerful people on the planet despite how we look,

because we've got the Holy Spirit of God. That's right. You can't kill us. You think you can. You can't kill us. you can't bring up our past, we're forgiven. We're like, oh yeah, thanks for bringing that up. That's going.

You can't bias with anything material. You can't bribe us? See, they thought all the people who were preaching Jesus beginning in Acts 2, the fire coming off of the apostles head, you say, how many of them made it out of there? Our take on it, by looking at it, they died. preaching the kingdom, Jesus and the gospel. And God had every one of them slaughtered.

And you said, well, they were all slaughtered. But what they don't realize is they just moved over on the other side. And Peter said, Jesus told me, he said, this is going to end rough for me. He said, but I'm prepared to do it, how he would glorify God by his death. But here's Peter said, I just departed. They don't they kill me, but I just depart. Hang on. One last break and then wraps up.

I know we got to finish. So I want to be very clear on this. What we're projecting today is that when John the Baptist and Jesus said the kingdom is near, and what Jesus was discussing with Nicodemus, we believe today the kingdom of heaven, the indestructible, most powerful force ever created on earth, is here. Correct. And we're a part of it.

When a person is introduced to Jesus, because a lot of people may listen and say, well, that's something I want to get into. You are part of something that's indestructible. Yeah. You are the most powerful people on the planet? Yep. People just don't realize it.

And you say, well, how do I become a part of that? Well, you hear what Jesus did. You're introduced to Jesus. And you say, yeah, I think I'm going to surrender to him. Well, what he was trying to convey to Nicodemus, that's why he later on said, for God to love the world that he gave his son, that love story on what God did,

which brings people to him, what he was trying to tell Nicodemus is when you're born again and you start and you get that spirit leading you, that spirit of God in dwelling your physical body makes you the most powerful, indestructible force the earth has ever known. It's called the kingdom of God. And you are reigning on the earth. Act like it. That is correct. Yeah, and you're right.

He said you can't see it without this new birth. And therefore you can't enter it until the spirit is entered into you. That's why Phil's point was good. If you saw me, or especially him, on the side of the road, and somebody said, look, there's the most powerful force in the world. Well, they would laugh. Well, they can't see it because they don't have the spirit. But if they listen to you for five minutes. Look, you're all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus for all of you who are baptized into Christ, have clothed yourself with Christ.

Now they neither Jew nor Greek nor free, no male, or female, and then he drops down. He says, when the time it fully come, God sent his son born of a woman born under law, to redeem those under the law that we might receive the full rights of sons. Watch. Because your sons, he just told you when you became a son, you were baptized, you clothed yourself. And whoever you are, may he feel male? Because of your sons, God sent the spirit of his son into your hearts, the spirit who calls out, father, father. So you're no longer a slave.

This goes to your indestructible. but a son, and since you're a son, God has made you also an air. You're like, yes, please. No wonder we're considered pretty powerful. We inherited what God has, and he has at all, Jase. Oh, that's why I said yes, please. Air to what? Everything.

That's why you're the most powerful thing on the planet. And that's why the Holy Spirit, as we've described, is so powerful. The way Jesus would describe it to Nicodemus back in John 3 is he said he described like the wind. He said, it blows wherever it pleases. You hear it sound, but you can't tell where it's coming from or where it's going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. So it's a force that makes us powerful and active because it changes behaviors.

It guides us. It shapes us. Galatians 5 says it bears fruit in our life. I mean, think about all the things the Holy Spirit can do for it, which is why he told the disciples in John 14, 15, and 16. And he was like, if you guys think this is something running around with me, and I'm paraphrasing, he said, wait till the spirit comes. You have a guide and a counselor. The way you can tell you have an evil microbe in the world is you say, can you see the virus? They're like, can't see it.

It's invisible. He's an invisible enemy. That's what Trump's called it. But you look at what he causes that microbe. And you say, and you see death. You say, hmm, sickness and death. Same way when you see someone who has a spirit. Fear or panic.

Yeah. You see someone with the spirit and you say, how would I know? Because I don't see any, I don't see any spirit or anything. You say, do you see love? Yeah, I see that. Joy, peace, patience, kindness. Let me read this. By the way, you just tapped into the best way to deal coronavirus.

An unseen enemy, you deal with an unseen force of good. You are. I want to read this. I want to read this to close. John 3, 7 and 8 is what Phil. describing, Jesus said to Nicodemus, you should not be surprised at my saying, you must be born again. The wind, you can't see the wind. The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear it sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the

spirit. You got it. That's why people don't realize the kingdom is here. That's right. But they see the effects. They're like, the wind's blowing. Oh, no, that's just. spirit-filled people making something happen. They see a man or a woman who should be mad, but they're not. They're still loving. You're like, wait a minute. Someone just mistreated them, cursed them out, and they didn't even seem like a bother. Or they see a person that should be panicked and they're like, yeah, trust in Christ. I mean, I'll walk with God. You're never alone. I'll keep a six feet. I'll keep using my hand sanitizer. But you know what? Ultimately, Holy Spirit delivers. So good stuff. See you next time. See you next time.

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