Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 77 | Phil's Cellphone Epiphany, Misconceptions About Christians & Women, and Jase Talks Dr. Fauci

Episode Date: April 17, 2020

Phil and Jase reveal some of the cool stuff fans have sent them in the mail. Phil diagnoses Miss Kay's "leg volcano” and discovers a strange new respect for cellphones. Jase thinks one of Dr. Fauci's ideas is right on the money and explains how the Book of John can help tear down the Left's false stereotypes about how Christians perceive women. See episodes of "Unashamed with Phil Robertson": https://bit.ly/2J4XsiX   See clips from Phil's TV show "In the Woods with Phil": https://bit.ly/2PNM6k1 - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am Unashamed What about you? I go out to the plantation yesterday because Missy had the yard man like move around some of the flower beds

that had grown up, you know, to a treasure hunter and a metal detector. That's called New Ground. Yeah, dirt disturbance. Yeah, I was on the case. You're the posse riding in because we got disturbed dirt.

Yeah. Well, the guy that works, Jay, that's what you are. You are a disturber of dirt. Yeah, a dirt disturber. Look, in the coronavirus epidemic, it's the perfect thing to get into. You're by yourself. I'm out in the middle of nowhere.

It's a good quantity. No, it's what people do when they become independently wealthy, like you have a case. You run out of time, and you're like, I think I'll just go play in the dirt. disturbed the dirt today. As hard as I've worked in the last week, and I take a couple hours, and I'm getting trashed your brother is a dirt disturber, and he, and he's watching the stock market every day. That tells you about that. We've come a long way.

I wish you would quit saying that, because I get all this hate mail on the email. Hey, tell me about it. So look, I may finish my story. So I'm out there with a new ground. Look, as soon as I got into the new ground, found a penny, which it was 1959. So I went 10 more feet. Bam. I found another one, 1920.

Now we're getting into the range I like. And I found some other interesting things. Well, there's a couple, older couple that works for us. And they're the caretaker of the out there at the place. Well, she scared the daylights out of me. Because other than my wife, I haven't had human contact. but I got those earphones on. Well, she snuck up behind me because she was probably saying my name,

but I had the phones on. That's all I'm here. And she, like, tapped me on the shoulder. You know, I thought it was cotton mouth, bit me in the back, you know, because I was under a tree. I was like, oh. And I turned around. I was like, oh.

And so she said, there's a package that came for you out here. She handed it to me. But when I picked it up, it was heavy. Well, her husband, who works for me, He talks like this, you know. He said, well, what is it? It's heavy. I said, well, let me open this thing.

Are they local, that couple? Yeah. They're from here. They're awesome. She's a great cook and just a great, she makes a place just a home. She's good at it. And he can talk to a telephone pole. So they're the perfect caretakers.

For a B&B, that's what you can do. Yeah, that's what they do. So I opened it up. They were exciting. you know, there's, you know, because it's hurt our business because everybody had to postpone or cancel. Yeah, I'm the first person that's been out there in a month. So, you know, they're following me around. So it's like, it's a human being.

So look, I open this package up and I said, well, this can't be right. Look at this. This. Now, I don't know if y'all want to get a tight shot of this at some point. But look, it's, it's an, here's what it is. because I had to figure it out. These are replica championship rings for the LSU football team. Because it's got 15 and 0, I saw on it.

It's got 15 and O. You need a magnifying glass to read all this. Is that even legal? Is it legal? What do you mean? To make one? Make replicas of the real thing? Well, I think these are the people who make the rings.

We think they're the people that make them for them. Because he put on the side, Robertson, Number one fan. And look, he gave me eight of them. Now, these are replicas, but they look real, don't they? Oh, yeah. I mean, look at this thing. And so you said, well, what do you, who is it?

The guy never even said his name. He sent, there was a little card, a business card, because all I saw was a champ ring guy, which is his, you know, website and business, I guess. He makes championship rings for teams. and out of Missouri. And, but look, he never gave his name. He just said, hey, I thought y'all would get a kick out of this for the real ones, you know,

are given to the team, you know, carry on and God bless. So it was sent to you? Yes, and he just signed it with a smiley face. So look. Oh, I didn't realize there's something inside of it. Our time. Oh, our time. Oh, that's awesome.

Yeah, that's on the inside of it. It says our time. So look. So now. That'd be quite the chore. Just wearing that if it was wearing. I'm hoping. What if we have five of them?

We just go all bleak. It made me think of the. So I want to thank this mysterious guy. Me too. And hopefully if they don't edit this out, you'll get some business from it because this is awesome. That's right. Now I got everybody's Christmas present. You know, Yet he sent me some LSU cups when they won.

And that was what I was going to give. but now I've got birthdays and Christmas because he sent them to me so I'm the distributor. You know what it made me? That's how Jace is independently wealthy. All of his presence to his brothers and family are things sent to him by other people. That's pretty good.

Well, you'll have to admit. About half way of cheap scale. You know what I'm saying? So I gave it to me. I'll give it to them. I mean, I'm glad to take it. I'm not going to... Keep this up.

I'm not going to give you and carry your ring. Because I was going to give Ms. K one. Oh, Mom, he's a good. to get one for sure. Oh, yeah, she'll be happy. She's a big LSU fan. And by the way, Jay, I know there's a pandemic going on. We're missing our sports.

They're showing these old ball games. Even Trump mentioned the other day. Who wants to watch an eight-year-old ballgame? But LSU is still the national champion. We don't talk about that enough that we need to remind people. That goes all year until we start over again. Well, I have to tell you this. I've watched the LSU championship game.

How many times? Double digits. You probably could analyze the first. Here's what's funny. Missy come in there when she's like, why are you hollering? I'm watching the LSU game. He's still yelling like it's happening. She said that happened three months ago.

I said, and it was still a terrible call. I'm a bizarre old. I will have to admit that the Tigers in 2000 and what would it be called? It'd be the 19 season. The 2019 season. The 2019, I will have to admit that the Tigers did literally strap the whole bunch. Yes. Well, Missy, she had a magnifying glass looking at them.

Because I told her, it's like, look, we got a package out there and it's good. She said, what is it? What are the changes of, and the way they did it, they were led by a Cajun. I mean, can you imagine that kind of stuff? A Cajun said, Oh, I ask that. We're going to get out. Who, look.

Who are you. Go talk us. Look. Who 99% I practiced on that. 99% of the media when he was hired. Oh, dumpster fire. Bad hire. Horrible.

What are they doing? That's all of it. And it's the same thing people do about people in Louisiana. It's facial profiling. It's stereotyping. I mean, they think you have to be, you know, what I thought of when I got these rings is that silly insurance commercial that Nick Saban is on. He has like, you know, because you can't, and I know we got a lot of people from listening from Alabama. But look, our problem with Nick Saban is that he was at LSU.

And so we feel there's, you know, it got personal there. You know what I mean? And he turned our program around. So he did. I love. I mean, I'm glad when he was there. But once he left, hey, you're talking about it. You're talking about.

tagging. So we're done with that. So I'm like, don't wear your rings on this little insurance. I can't even watch that. Every time it comes on, I, because he has all his rings on. And he's like, oh, I've done pretty well. Louisiana is the place where you can have a college degree or a couple of them. But in America, even though you have a couple of degrees, which means you're not an idiot.

But still, if you're from Louisiana, you seem like you do not have the degrees. You see what I'm saying? You have something about the way you put things. I looked that up in the dictionary and had your face there. Is that right? You're the poster child. You're the poster child of what a two-degree person. My line on it is, I'd rather be a lot smarter than they think I am.

So I'd rather act dumb and be smart than think I'm smart. Well, you told us that what was the guy, what was the saying you always used to say about it's better to be quiet and assume. Now there's a primer. No, no, assume you know anything, then open your mouth and remove all down. What was that? I don't know, but I've heard it before, you know. Well, you said it for 10 years. Yeah, I got off of that.

I'm not half a bubble off, but I'm happy to be on planet earlier. So the moral of the story is if you're looking for something to do, you can go back to your championship moments and pass the time. And I just wanted to say whoever sent me these rings, look, normally when someone sends me something cool, which... If that's a replica, are they, are the real rings, are they that heavy? Oh, yeah. Well, look, I'm going to say this. Unless maybe is gold lighter?

I mean, how could you wear that as heavy as that? Well, you don't really kind of just put that on the shelf somewhere. You put it, yeah. I mean, that's what I'm on the same. That was the commercial. He had his hand there and he had about five rings on it. That's Hollywood. It looked pretty bulky.

That was Hollywood. That was probably fake. He said, well, we try. You believe the story. He doesn't walk around. That's buying the insurance now. Well, I'm telling you, that's disturbing. So look, what was interesting?

Interesting, though, is the guy sent me this, and, you know, every once in a while, I mean, someone sent me this Bible. So I'm going to put the rings right under the Bible, but it's close. And it was awesome. So usually I'll send a duck call in a book, which I will, old champ ring guy, he'll be getting an assortment of duck calls. He's earned it. Because I don't know what these calls, but they don't look cheap. I mean, even the replica version, that's not cheap. That was made just the craftsmanship alone.

It's amazing. It's amazing. And it's way heavier than it looks. I mean, this thing weighs, what, three pounds? Well, I mean, yeah. I'm excited about Christmas. So we're going on record here. So Al gets bills in the mail.

That's what I get in the mail. Bills. Well, because you pay here, pay that, pay your thing. Because of your condition. I get nothing good. That I helped you with on our earlier podcast. Jay's, jays gets cool rings with monogram names on them,

which thankfully he did enough for the rest of the riders. So what do you get in the mail, Dad? Do you get stuff in the mail? Well, I've received this last night. You got to get in front of the mic, Phil. You're past the mic. I received this last night. I read it in about an hour.

It's from an MD, a doctor. Your mama wasn't a monkey. Oh, Dr. Tex. So did the title draw you into the book? Dr. Tex, I'd never heard of him before. Phil, that's the difference between me and you. Look, if I got that book and read the cover just from a random person, I wouldn't read it. That's why I receive hundreds of books.

Really? People send me hundreds, almost every day. And some of them I read, some of them I don't, but at least... They're sending me rings and they send you books. They send me bills. I said, well, I said, this guy is on to something. Your old mama wasn't a monkey because I'm thinking what he said, I read in the book, but what I've been saying for years and how we used.

we all have said. Well, give us the point. I mean, what was... Well, he started with basically, uh, had some serious problem with... Don't, don't ruin the book. Yeah. Don't give us the end. But the main, bottom line is, I mean, you could just boil it down to common, he's long on common sense and short, very short on bull crap. So I read it. I said, you know, that's something. By the way, give his address there. All right. So this is, uh, Tech Cyrus is his name. Dr. Texx. And if you guys want to email him. This is turned into a book endorses.

It is. It's a great little book. These people are thinking that we planned all this? We didn't plan it. It just happened. It just happened. So, Tech Cyrus 7. I never heard of him until last night.

Text Cyrus 7 at gmail.com. So if you guys are interested in reading your monkey, your mom ain't a monkey. Your mom is not a money because he would just say, look, look, if we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys running around? That's a good point. And I'm like, you know. he's got a point there. I'm not sure all those words fit together. Yeah.

So let's take a break and jane that happen today. Speaking of that, somebody sent me a, I try to stay out of politics. I don't want to bring up a political subject, but somebody sent me a, I think it was a, it was Joe Biden, he was doing an interview or something. And it was the most bizarre, phraseology. Incoherent rant. Yeah, and I was like, all of his are that way. Somebody said, check.

this out, I'm like, what, what, is this the best we got? I was saying. And Bernie dropped out this week. And so it's, here's where I feel. It's funny, Republicans, most of them you see, they feel sad about it. What's the way I feel? I'm like, someone in his family needs to stop this. But now it's like it's taken off the trains out of, I thought it was edited. I actually think they're going with it. I think they aren't. So Republicans seem to be sad about it. And I guess the Democrats that are pushing this up don't even care about this. poor man. He can't hardly even put two sentences together. You know what I think it is? It's these people, they'd miss the forest for the trees. I think they look, like try to get the

same age in these political, because they're like Trump, what is he like 70? He's 74. He's my age. He's 74. There's only four years difference, but that's why. By the way, speaking of birthdays, what day is today? April or what? Because I've lost all track of time. You know, we're in the corona thing. The quarantine is knocked out the day. It is April 9th. April night on the 24th of April, I will be 74 years old. Well, happy birthday, okay, so I forget. Hey.

I know what you're going to get. I have no eggs. No, Kay's getting the rain. I'll get you. Because Dad would try to wear it. I was going to do some a little bit of Lansing doing a little doctrine on your mother's leg last night. Oh, boy. I just spotted it.

That leg was up on the couch, and I said, wait a minute, here. I walked over. I said, I said, what happened there? What, what, what, what, what do you do? And she said, I don't know. I just, so it looked like it was a deep bruise with a volcano fixing to explode on the top of it. I'm like. On her leg?

On her leg. This was eight o'clock yesterday evening. Volcanoes and legs, that's not good. I said, Ms. Kay, you need to have something done about that right now. I'm feeling. Or I'm going to do it. Or I'm going to do it. And she said, what are you doing about it?

I said, I'm going to lance that, and I recommend soaking your leg and some Eps and salt. That's what Maul would have said, my mama, back there 50 years ago. I said, that's what we do with this. So I reached over and started to get my needles ready and everything. And they said, wait a minute here. Who said, wait a minute. There's nobody else down there. Mom said, wait a minute.

Miss Kay calls up her nurse friend. The nurse friends had sent me a picture of it. He said, Phil said what? He said, he said, I need to do something about this, or he's faking to do something. something about it. He's got his tools coming out of it. She said, tell him to keep his knife in his pocket. Well, let me look at it first. Okay. So she looks at it. The nurse looks at it and says, come up here. And my sister, who's a doctor, would be waiting on you, gave her the address. I said, good to go. So they go up there. And the doctor said, what did he tell you? And Ms. Kay said,

well, he said it needed to be Lance and he was going to do it. She said, he's exactly right. but he didn't need to do it. Tell him to calm down. Because you've got to give him a few hundred dollars. Well, no. So my diagnosis of the situation, me not a play of a doctor, but I just said that needs to be taken care of now. Plus, is that something to do with sterile equipment.

You just don't start taking stuff. She said, the doctor said, you wouldn't have wanted to wait until morning. Yeah, which you were right there. So it's a good thing you noticed it. So your mama came back and, you know, now I'm kind of looking after early eggs. So, you know, old age is creeping in. That's what I'm trying to tell you all. Yeah, she looked like the mummy this morning.

Was. But this is from a guy, Jay, says he calls Jay Stone when he had his thing. Remember is whatever it was that bit him or whatever happened, his little core thing he had. And he calls Stone and says, Stone, you got a sharp knife? Are you coming out today? You got a sharp knife? Stone said, when I'm coming out, yeah, I got a sharp knife. Why, what do you need?

And he's like, well, I got this thing on my leg. And I'm going to get you to cut it out of there. And Stone's like, nope. He backed out on it. He got a hold of a nurse practitioner. Because he wants sterile stuff. He sent me a picture. They look at my leg.

He said, I can get it. So he took out a plug about almost a half inch around. What was it? He called it a sebaceous cyst. It was just a ball that kept getting bigger. And I said, I'm tired of food with this thing. I don't know. It kind of began to bother me a little bit.

But he just took a plug out. Sowed it up. What's amazing to me. It's no problem. What's amazing to me is as many times as you or Ms. Kay, call me. Y'all never bring this stuff up. It's, you know, you're talking about something else. I didn't even know all this was going on.

Right, just small injuries during a pandemic. I don't want to spook anybody. Well, I mean, Dad missed the point. In case, she has a mask on and she goes up there and the doctor has a mask on. And, you know, we're, so that's why she said, tell him to calm down. I diagnosed the situation correctly, by the way. But what if you had been wrong? Hey, I knew I wasn't wrong.

I look at somebody's leg and I spot something like that. I'm like, I'm not a doctor, but common sense tells me that needs to be dealt with. All I wanted you to say is I'm not a doctor. I'm going to consider that a win. We better be able to. I've done a lot of cutting on myself and a lot of thorn removing like hundreds of these old thorns, you know, thorn trees down in Louisiana. You know, I mean, briar tickets. a cutting on myself.

I've done a lot of cutting. You know, there's actually a serious condition where people cut themselves. But they do it kind of for like mental problems or whatever. I only cut some. If it's like a thorn, I can't get to it. I have to dig it out and all this stuff, you know, or just. You had a purpose in cutting yourself. Sure.

So speaking of doctors, Jason, you'll love this. I heard this coming out here today that I guess now Dr. Fauci, he's the most famous doctor in the world because every day he's on TV. He and the woman with Trump. You always say it's talking about somebody's the most famous person in the world, and I've never heard of it. Yeah, well, most people that are watching stuff would know this. But what's he on to explain? Because so there may be 10 people.

No, trust me. Trust me. Our audience knows who Dr. Fauci is. I don't watch the news. Jason's six people don't know Dr. Fauci. I don't watch the news. Dr. Fauci is one of the Corona Task Force doctors. He's a little short guy.

I guess he's from New York. Okay. I've seen him. He's from New York. He's from New Yorker. Yeah. So, and he's just. kind of flamboyant, you know, he's really, and so like people have flocked to him. And, of course,

you know, half the country hates Trump, so they don't even want him to talk. Everybody loves Fauci. But Fauci said today, which I wanted to mention this, Jace would love it, he says when the coronavirus is done, when the virus has been killed, we don't have to worry about anymore. America should never start shaking hands again. He's like, thank you. He's like, that needs to stop going on. I'm right. I'm like, I'm like, I'm not. I'm not. But I know. You know how many apologies I've had? Zero. And y'all were two of the worst ones, saying, oh, you're a germaphobe.

You know, my wife was, no, I'm not a germaphoed. I said, quit shaking hands. Because I've said this 100 times. Every time I would do an event, you have a VIP meet and greet. You shake people's hands, you hug their neck, which is fine. I love people. Because we're getting paid to do it. And we, you know, and I love people.

And people are great. I don't, I mean, I'd rather hug them from the side than shake their hand. But I would do it. And so the next morning, I would wake up after these two to 500 people and my throat sore. And I thought, there's a connection going on. Every time I shake that many hands, the next morning, I have some kind of cold. So I didn't, I wasn't a germaphobe. I just looked at it and said, I need to quit shaking people's hand.

So anybody I knew, I figured they were big, you know, big boys. they can take it. So when they stuck their hand out, I'd say, like if I know them, if I'm buddy, it's like, I don't shake hands anymore. Let's do something else. But now it's been sanctioned for that to happen. You have the option of. But every time I would say that, people would get offended or they make fun of them.

Because my friends are like, well, we're friends. I'm like, yeah, but I don't want to shake your hand. What he's trying to say, Al, is that the text that the Apostle Paul wrote, speaking on behalf of God, greet each other with a holy kiss. That is out in Jesus mode. operandi. I have used that many times. I've shared a couple times in here as an illustration for these people that will we say, what are they, hardliners, I guess, who are legalistic with scriptures, I'll bring that verse up to prove a point. But would you, but would you agree it? I mean,

if we were just saying, that's what it says, then we should start kissing people again. I know this. That's my point. I know this. People say, you're not doing what this says. You're not doing what this says. I'm like, well, next time I see your wife, I'm going to kiss her. Well, I like this. In a holy manner. I can't get off that Psalm 91. The pestilence will not come near you that stalks in the darkness nor the plague that destroys at midday.

A thousand may fall at your side, Jace, 10,000 at your right hand. They're dying all around you, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. That's Psalm 91. I keep going back to that. It comforts me to say. say that God says, I'll protect you. Just trust me. Well, ultimately, that's where we land. Well, no, I don't have a problem with, I'm a social butterfly. But I don't want to test God by saying,

I'm going to run up there and jump in the middle of a big crowd just to show you that he's on my side. I'm not going to do that. You know, I'm going to, hunker down. That's what I'm saying. It's not, you don't have to have meetings, have to have them. Jesus said, we're two or three of you gather together, two or three of you in my name, I'll be there. Well, if you look at that, you say, you know, and in lieu of Romans chapter 12, look, and feel God's mercy, offer your bodies, offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual act of worship, how you operate at work, at play, in the gym, on your job, out talking to people, what we're doing now. You say so, biblically speaking,

what we three right here today are doing, we're in the process of worshiping God as we do every day. Well, let me read the American model is go to a church, build, and worship and leave. The biblical model is worship God all the time and spirit and truth. There's not a place. Now we're to John 4, I, where you were heading out long. Hang on, let's take a break, and then Jay says it were. Colossians 115, one of my favorites. Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the first born over all creation.

We all agree with that, resurrection. For by him, all things were created, things in heaven and on earth. Well, here's the phrase I wanted to get at, visible and invisible. So, you know, I've heard Trump, they've been calling the coronavirus the invisible. The invisible enemy. enemy so germs atoms molecules you know he eventually says he is before all things and in him all things hold together what what things atoms molecules the atomic structure of everything yes so having said all that am i going to fret about shaking someone hand and getting a disease no i'm not

not going to fret about it because I'm under the protection of the one who has made all things, whether it's visible, invisible, invisible enemies. So, but, you know, the scary truth about the earth and life is that we all die. All the main characters in the New Testament, guess what? They died horrific deaths. That is correct. In the name of Jesus. That is correct.

So I took that to me and you said, well, they died. As far as men are concerned, they said they died. But God said, no, they just departed. So that told me something. Look, that's not a problem. God doesn't view that. You die in a horrific way because of your faith in him. He just not view that as a problem.

Correct. Now, to Dad's point, because it was interesting, when we made a decision, I mean, like when we were asked not to meet in groups larger than it started out 250, then it was 50, then it was 10. Governing authorities has issued an edict. So a lot of people, I think, took it the wrong way because it was very obvious to most of us that this wasn't an attempt to take away your religious freedom. I mean, it was in the context of why we were asked, it made sense. I mean, it made sense to me.

Well, you have to make it work in your mind, though. I mean, look, I was at an event. Right. It was a Christian school, and I was in Michigan. Yeah, I remember you told us. I was actually in Detroit, Michigan, which turned out to be one of the hubs of the coronavirus. And you're fixing to speak. Yeah, I'm fixing to speak.

And shake a bunch of hands. Well, the guy, what did they call him at these schools, the headmaster or whatever? He's like, we don't care what the governor said. Yeah, we're meeting. But I was the one that said, well, wait a minute here. You know, because I felt like we're going down a road now where I'm not sure I want to go. Because I had to, in my mind, process it. I'm like, well, why are they doing this?

And so basically, I was telling them, I'll come back, but we need to protect the vulnerable. Yes, all of us are in good shape. We're not in the prime because at that point, we even knew that the ones that are suffering are really the older ones or underlying health conditions. So let's, this is no longer about us. Okay, we may get the flu. You know, because a lot of my buddies, there's like, well, the whole world's going crazy because of the flu. You know, but when you look at it, you don't want to be the one responsible for taking the last couple of years, maybe, you know, an older person. So let's pull back, take a deep breath.

But in your mind, you've got to figure out, well, what am I going with? I think that's people had a, there was a process that had to happen because you're like, well, how do I feel about this? You know? So if you were, you were being wise, by the way, there are a lot of laws that various countries have. start with the Chinese Communist Party. It is against their law for us to do, we three right now, do what we doing right now. They would not allow it. You say, well, there goes Christianity hardly.

Look, there are Christian people all over Red China. Oh, I know. In secret, but still. In secret. You say, where are they meeting? They're doing what Romans 12 says. they're whispering, whispering the Bible text, and they're the little groups all over China. But the Chinese communist, how are you going to find them and root them out?

They don't have a structure with a steeple on it against the law. They cannot meet. So what they're doing is they're fulfilling what Romans 12 said. You can't stamp out the kingdom of God by some government edict. People need to realize that. What's interesting, you're bringing up Romans 12, but then Romans 13, he actually says, submit to the authority. Yeah, God put the authorities in place now.

That is correct. And the point is humans, some humans, it's being wise. Have abused that government process where they're, you know, now controlling the people in abusive ways. And then as a result, you lose your freedom. Well, a classic example is in our state in Louisiana, John Bell Edwards, who's a Democrat and who I know.

I mean, I wouldn't call us friends, but we know each other. And I've had dinner with he and his wife, police and I have. And he's pro-life, pro-gun. He's got a lot of good things going for him. But he, whenever he made the mandate in Louisiana about not meeting, he provided an exemption for churches, still wanted it 10 or under, but an exemption to do church work. In other words, do your live streams, you know, have a few small people get together. So what I'm saying is, he knew the value. He called churches and essential business. And he, even though you're, we, tend to look at Democrats and Republicans and, like, you know, put them in boxes, but you can't

be a liberal, like, left-wing. You know, Louisiana is a conservative state. Yeah, you'd never get elected. Well, right. He kind of gets it. Okay, I'm a Democrat. There's things, you know, we obviously don't agree with. He's not a far-left Democrat. And he never, people wouldn't vote for him. He's a blue dog Democrat. In fact, Dad told me. Y'all got all these labels. I'm just clarifying that, It's not a typical. You told him that you said, why are you a Democrat? So we had breakfast with him. Well, way to just get to the point.

That said, why are you a Democrat? I mean, I see what the stuff you talk about. You seem more like a Republican. Why wouldn't you just leave them and come over to our side? And I don't know if you remember what he told you. He said, Phil, he said, my party has gotten so far out there. It's how I grew up and union, a lot of different reasons why he's a Democrat. But he said, I want to try to pull them back.

And I don't think I can do that if I just bail out on it. What a slick answer. Yeah. So, you know. Phil wants to do it. You're never going to, you're never going to out-question these politicians. I mean, because the reason they're successful is they got an answer for everything. You know, I mean, though, they can be just caught dead to rights for something.

But they got an answer. Always got to spin. What you're saying, Jay, in a nice way is they are experts at lying. Politicians make me, I feel the same way. I probably shouldn't say this, but I feel the same way around politics. that I do when I'm in the woods and I smell a cotton mouth. I feel the same way. I'm just like, proceed with extreme caution and put distance in between me.

Tell me about it. And you wonder why I've been hiding out for about 40 years. And what's funny is most of our audience wouldn't even know what a cotton mouth smell like. Let's take a quick break. And we'll try to get started in John 4. Get started. It's been 33 minutes. You're rambling.

You started this with your ring talk. The guy sent me. those rings. I was so shocked. I thought it was a box of rocks. Hey, Jay, here's the newsflage. Get off the rings. Okay, you're happy.

You got a couple of rings. I'm just saying the greatest. Disturber of dirt. Now we got the ring man. There was a point that I forgot to tell. Look, when Missy had a magnifying glass, she was losing that ring. She was like, 15 and 0. Did they win every game?

Oh, my goodness. I said, where have you been? She needs to pay better attention. So I'll introduce John Chapter 4. All right. That's ready to get some Bible. All right. So, yeah.

So we remember we talked about John 3 and he had this kind of clandestine meeting with John the, I mean with Nicodemus. What does clandestine mean? I have no idea. Yeah, it's got a lot of syllables, Jays. So he had this secret meeting with Nicodemus. And it was at night. And so in that, the reason he did that is because Nick

Nicodemus didn't really want to be seen talking to Jesus. He kind of was getting it, but he was like, I'm still got a whole lot. Yeah. You know, he was being a politician. Yeah, but he did. But we know he came around. Yeah, he did. Because he winds up helping and taking Jesus' body off the cross, which was awesome.

So now it's really interesting. So he's, so Jesus is still kind of not out there yet in John in our study. He's just kind of, he's having these little forays into stuff, you know. And so in John chapter four, it starts out by saying the Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, which makes perfect sense because, remember we started in John. John the Baptist is the hot guy. I mean, he's baptizing people, this baptism repentance.

By the thousands. By the thousands. So these Pharisees are checking out John the Baptist, and he's calling him, you brood of vipers. I mean, he's like, you know, calling them out. And then all of a sudden, everything changes because Jesus was baptized by John. And then John has this realization because of this whole experience that happened. He's the one. He's the guy.

So he starts naturally fading back. And he even tells his disciples in John 3. He's like, you don't, you know, because they're kind of feel like they're competing with Jesus. He's like, there's no competition. He's the guy. So this is what's going on. And the Pharisees find out about this. Now they're like, well, who is this guy?

But this Jesus guy, you know, because we were worried about John the Baptist. So it's a new guy for them. And I think just the. backdrop of this story is so it's something that I think the Hollywoods, you know, of our society, they don't realize, because you look at what they do. They try to take all social classes and tear down those barriers. That's like their causes. Now, granted, they go down roads.

I don't think they should be going down. But basically, that's what was causing the stir about Jesus, because here's a person that they don't. associate with a Samaritan woman, especially in the daylight. And she was a woman. So you got the kind of the gender issue here. We had severe racism going on. Severe. And here's Jesus. He is fixing to make a social statement, which is all that did was bring him overall in the big picture backlash. Exactly. So just the geography of it. So Jesus has been down Jerusalem and now he's going to head back up to Galilee, which is where he's from. If you'll notice, every time Jesus gets into something he's not quite ready for, he

retreats back to where he was from, that region where people knew him. It was really interesting. And I was studied on the resurrection lesson for this week for Easter. And I didn't realize that, you know, when Jesus was raised and the dead, he went right back to Galilee, which I thought that was, I'd never thought about that before. You know, you'd think our thinking would be will appear in Jerusalem. That's where all the people are, and that's where they killed you. but he didn't.

You know, when he did his appearances for the 40 days after he was raised, all in Galilee, which is really interesting. I never really noticed that for. But anyway. What do you think the significance of that? Well, I think it's because he's always, one is their safety there, because that's where the people he knows the best are and his, and his mom, his family. But the other thing is, and of course the disciples all ran back there.

But I really think, Jason, is because Jesus, his whole philosophy and ministry was that he wanted seekers. He was always like he would take a step. He wasn't obvious about what he was talking about. He would tell parables and he wanted people seeking him for the right reason. And you notice that's why he always had that step back. He was always like, you've got to have seekers. And so I think that's true even of today.

I think people have to want to find Christ to be able to find him. That's why it's just not so obvious to it. But we think you just snap your finger and everybody's converted. Like the text in Hebrews, you know, without faith, it's impossible to please God for will. ever comes to him must believe he exists and he rewards those who earnestly seeking. I like it. So I think that's what's going on here. So just Jesus is on his way back to Galilee. And the problem is the way it worked out is to get to Galilee, the way the geography worked out in those days, is you had to go through a region called Samaria. And the problem with Samaria is that it was

full of Samaritans. And this goes way back. And I don't give you all the biblical history. But basically, this place become a kind of breeding ground of all kind of different religions and falsehood. The Old Testament is full of it. This was part of the split in the kingdom. And so that's where Ahab and Jezebel, they had all these false gods and bail and worship and all that. So they had just become kind of this muddled group of people. They still had a Jewish connection. But the problem was they didn't go to Jerusalem to worship to the temple. They didn't go there for Passover. They went up on their mountain, you know, which was in Samaria. So God had all had had had, had basically cut them off back in 700. They've been cut off for 700 years when we get to the story.

And I tell you all that, just to give you a background, that this woman, Jason mentioned this. One is she's a woman, but then two is she's a Samaritan woman. So to a Jew, if you went and talked to this woman or if you touched something that she had touched, you would be ceremonially unclean. You couldn't go to the temple. You would have to go and do a blood sacrifice. I mean, there's a whole big thing. Jews didn't mess with Samaritan. So that's the backdrop. of the story. So let's take a break and then we'll get in as far as we can get today. So that's the backdrop. Well, eventually you're going to get to those passages that we treasure about. There's no social class.

There's no, like Galatians 3, 26 and 27, there's no male or female. There's no, what's the other, nationality, Jew or Gentile. I mean, that everyone comes together at the foot of the cross and at the empty grave, no matter where you're from, no matter how much money you got, no matter what you look like. And so the reason I brought up what the world tries to do, and I mean those are outside of Jesus, because they look around and there's a draw

to find all people meaningful. Even people outside of Jesus, it's strange to me, because I think it's evidence of God, that people, whether they know Jesus, have read the Bible or not, there's this pull to unite despite our differences. And I think it's unfortunate that people don't realize that, because religion might have screwed it up, that actually that's what Jesus did.

He valued all people. I've seen more coming together as human beings. As the pandemic, when it hit, began to spread, people began to die. And people began to fear. It put fear in them. They're wearing masks and all kinds of stuff, trying to, they're getting ready. And you look at the human race, but the more I look, I've heard more talk about biblical matters, prayer, coming together, loving your neighbor in the last month that I've heard in my life, all on the earth. That's a great point.

You say, I wonder what was the motivating factor behind it? And I ended up with fear. Yeah. You know, the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. I say, well, at least they're beginning to reach out to each other, no matter the circumstances, no matter where you came from. I'll just see a coming together under the pandemic. And maybe that's why God is possibly behind it all.

Well, certainly that's our reaction to it. He's done it before. As believers, that's our reaction. but I love to Jesus' point, we had just come from this Pharisee that Jesus is sharing with him. I mean, he's the ruling counsel of the Jews to this woman out here in the middle.

Who's had a, what would we describe her life? Well, we'll get into her life next time. By the way, if the Apostle Paul had had the luxury, and I'm the last person you'd think would ever say something like is because I've never purchased a cell phone, never turned on a computer. Is that right? The Apostle Paul had had this particular vehicle.

We're sitting down here. Somebody says, well, what about it? Y'all can't meet in a church building down here now because of the pandemic. Wow. We're sitting here talking. I'm glad everybody else has a cell phone or they wouldn't be hearing what the three of us are now saying. Thank you. You've been converted.

Well, I'm just saying through the, if he had had this opportunity to speak to, what, a half a million people a week. Well, it's even bigger. I mean. the opportunity, but yeah, but there's a lot of people watching and listen. And a lot of people, and we appreciate you telling us it's impacting your life. And from a non. So Christianity's alive and well.

This is Easter week when Jesus was resurrected. We're beaming it out this morning, sitting down here in the middle of nowhere. You're like, well, man, it's not that bad a situation to be in as far as the gospel goes. It's a great opportunity. What helps our message, it's from a non-religious origin. I mean, you know, there's a difference in. with a group and having a religion and taking up for that name. But we're just trying to represent Jesus and study the Bible,

and we may be wrong on some of our assertions, but we're at least trying to get there and we're discussing it. The lack of agenda is what I think makes it appealing. That's why I always bring up things that I see in common with the world. And this is one, because even the feminist movement, Well, if you just look at Jesus's life, take out what they're representing and what they're saying. Look how many times he took up for women. This is a classic example.

I mean, he's talking to a religious leader, but you'd think he would only stay there. What separates him from most religious leaders is then the next day he's out here at a well with a woman who, let's just say, has a past. I'm sure she was dressed like she had a pass. She's in denial about it. She's not even someone that they... She's been married five. times and is currently shacked up. And here's Jesus taking time out of his life.

You know, just think of giving her a one-on-one, and despite her in every part of the conversation, doing what she shouldn't be doing, denial, lie, you know, getting religious, hypocritical, at every turn he takes up for, you know, and he's showing the value that he has for, ultimately with being his creator and what he would do. I just think it's awesome. Now, see, that's pretty deep thinking. But a lot of people would say if they looked at Jace, if they just looked at him sitting there,

or saw him walking down the road, the last thing that would enter their mind is there is a great theologian. They would say, no, now, get him out of here. Now, have you looked at that dude? So I'm just talking about you, Jace, no telling them what they say when they see me. Al is, you know, he's got the spiffy little whiskers gone. and all that stuff.

They say, okay, he may be going to work. But theoretically speaking, it doesn't match because you don't have the look, Jason. You sure what I'm saying? No, I really don't. Somehow another, this guy, I don't. Well, you might have had the look for this era. No, I was just thinking of all the women. No, I look at patterns.

You got to John 8, you had the religious people on one side. Well, here you have a woman who's on the wrong side of things. well what did he do he took up for the woman but what i'm said is what we're the the far left heap abuse on people like me just because they think oh here's a religious person and then they stereotype me and they're like he doesn't like women and i'm like oh my lord and savior i mean he he he put his life on the line way more than anything i've seen you do you know he's out here with the women that you would think Well, okay, he's for women, but not for this woman.

I mean, because she's a doozy. I mean, the woman they brought to him that was caught in the act of adultery, the man has never mentioned. She's there all skinned up and beat up. Jesus reached down, picked up, says, you know, he said, I'll tell you what, the one of you is without sin. You throw the first rock at her. And they're all looking around like what?

Said the ones of you who have never sinned, you know, he didn't say, by the way, where's the man here? What happens to him because he was tomorrow with this woman. So the bottom of mind is he told he said, look, leave your life of sin. Where's your accuser? They all started to drop their rocks and all walked away. We've got some great stories coming up for sure. Well, I want to tell this last thing. I know we got to go. And I've told this story before, so I'm just going to give you the cliff notes. I say that because my theology came from when I met a woman who, I don't even know what they call each other now, but a gay woman who is

working on our TV show, who had an unfavorable view of Jesus. But after I told her to read the book of John, because she fell in love with us, just like we loved her, you know, as a human being. And she read it, that was one of the things she said, because she had never read the Bible. But she said, I was shocked at how much Jesus took up for women. So I formed a theology there because I needed her perspective. That stood out to her. and it made it appealing because she had stereotyped it.

Let me put just one point in as we leave this. When Jesus was talking to the woman, read her mind and he loved her and he wanted to be saved, he said, believe me, woman, a time is coming are all you people who are saying, no, we're going to the church bell and no matter what, because that's where we go to worship. Just remember this. A time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain. nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know.

We worship what we do know for salvation from the Jews. Yet a time is coming, as all you theologians are listening here, and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they're the kind of worshipper the Father seeks. God's Spirit, and His worshippers must worship in spirit and truth. you don't have to the day of going to a place let's go to church

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