Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 795 | Phil Colludes with a Game Warden & Jase Enlists Si & Godwin for a Revolt against Willie

Episode Date: December 1, 2023

Jase instigates a neighborhood revolt against Willie’s newest pond policy, and Phil gets in good with a game warden over an illegal but delicious catch. Jase’s cleaning fairies make a joke that he definitely didn’t see coming! The guys explore the concept of surrendering earthly power to Jesus and his fulfillment of prophecy on the road to Jerusalem. In this episode: Luke 18, verses 31-42; 2 Samuel 7; Jeremiah 23, verses 4-6; Mark 10, verses 17-31 — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? Welcome back to Unashame. We're back to be, Jason, Dad. We feel like we kind of got the gang back together again because Dad and I were kind of carrying it while Jason was away on his travels for the show. And Zach's been in the MIA. We're going to put some missing posters up out on the Internet and computer land at if we don't see him. If he doesn't show up by the next podcast, we're going to start. start looking for him. It'll be interesting to see if he shows. Because I don't know. I lost connection when I tried to get all of the filming I had to do done by opening

day of duck season, which I did pull off. I know, which was pretty impressive. I didn't know what day it was. I didn't, but I had a couple. It was like you appeared during the wilderness. Yeah, I just appeared. I mean, I hadn't seen y'all in. It's been a minute, yeah.

So, but I did a couple things. You know, Missy didn't come in until the day after I got in. And our showrunner drove me from Nashville because they were still filming. Yeah. And so, because we had something happen that I thought would make good TV. And this was a real, you know, a lot of our show is real life. I mean, there's no script, you know. So our brother, Willie.

you know, he had a conspiracy because you know how he is. He's, I live, he's my next door neighbor. So, you know, you love your neighbor, but in my case, all my neighbors are my family. That's right. So it's a double challenge because. Because you have to love your brother, as Granny always tells us, love your brother, whom you have seen. But families can be difficult, especially when one of your brothers builds this pond that's like

a lake. Yep. And he has all... It's not like a lake. It's a lake. He took it from a pond to a lake. Yeah. And he filled the lake with all kinds of fish.

Well, we're, you know, based on our last podcast, you got to be willing to give up everything you have for Jesus. All right. But Jesus himself said, we were right at the, in Luke 18, we read it. Yeah. But you will not fail to receive a hundred times, you know, in this age, because you're part of family what yours is mine and what's mine is yours you know so jee i mean so willie has this pond and so for the last couple of years i've been slipping down there and look i haven't been greedy

i'll usually stop at five because that's enough cropy to feed me and my wife well when willie goes down and goes fishing he's put so much money in this pond which is now a lake he wants to catch them immediately. So when he started struggling, I noticed he started making a few comments every time he saw me like, hey, you're going to catch all the fish that I put in there? And so I offered, I said, well, the next time you buy some fish to put in there, hit me up. I'll split it away because I felt guilty because he thinks, whether it's true or not,

I mean, in the back of my mind. Yeah, I was thinking, I can't catch all those fish. I'm only taking five out of time. Somebody called me up about that. I said, he's never going to out catch the lake. Yeah. So, you know, he was kind of going the 10%, but, you know, rule. And I was thinking if, if, because I said, I'm only keeping five.

And he said, yeah, but if you do it 50 times, I was like, well, that's 250. How many fish did you put in there? He's like, well, I put a thousand in. He's like, but other people maybe, you know, and it wasn't like, didn't get ugly or anything. Right. But he was just giving me little jobs like, I really. you're my brother, but you're catching all my fish without contribution. And that's...

He gives me the same jabs for living in the trailer on the compound. So... He'll say stuff like, yeah, whenever I have people over, I have somebody hold a sheet up in front of ow's place so they can't see it. You know, I get the same jazz. So look, so Willie, you know how Willie is. Everything's bigger or better. He brings some, you know, fish experts, in quotation marks.

because it's been so dry here, the palm is so low. They came in there and, like, did a diagnostic evaluation of the fish that he had out there. And according to him, you know, they saw one cropy. You know, they put something in the water that makes them come up. Doesn't hurt them, but you can kind of assess what's there. And, you know, he's got a few bass and one crappie. I was thinking, pff. I call hogwash on that.

I didn't know this was running so deep. Oh, yeah, it's running deep. It's been a thing for a couple years. So lo and behold, he buys a bunch of more fish after this assessment. And he gets Jay, which is your son-in-law, to kind of run, you know, he's like in charge of this. Jay's new role for the company has been more like managing Willie's, you know, properties. Properties and the lake. And I would never be sharing.

this if I thought Willie would listen to this podcast, but he's never going to hear it. He's not going to hear it. So I'm, you know, I'm just telling you what happened. So he puts all these new fish out there. And along with all that comes these little signs that says no fishing. Oh. I don't know this. I haven't know. And now look, so I went to him, he's like, look, send me a bill because I'll go in with you. And he's like, oh, yeah, I'm not saying no fishing. You're welcome to fish there. But we need to give these fish some time to grow up, you know. And so. So I thought, man, I have an idea. I was like, I'm going to tell all my buddies. I mean, buddies, as in family, sigh, and, you know, God winning them. It's like, Willie's got all these new fish in there because I know they can't stand it, you know what I mean? We're going to go check on the pond and see what it's down there. So I told my TV crew, I was like, we're just do it. Don't tell Willie, and maybe if we're lucky, he'll catch them red-handed.

I wasn't a part of it. I just wanted the fish. But I kind of organized this, and from what I heard, it was a home run. Because they're all out there catching these new fish around signs saying, don't do it. And Willie gets there, and he's not happy. But part of the reason I'm telling this story is because I thought, now I've got a new tradition. Because on duck season Eve, I got six of those crappie that they called.

And I thought, what a way to start the duck season. with eating fried, mustard-battered, fresh white perch from my brother's pond, who is not happy, which I told him, I'm going to pay for him. You know, I'm going to go in 50-50. But I don't know, somewhere in between all that, it was just exhilarating and very entertaining. Of course, he was mad, but, like, with a smile on his face. Yeah, because he's not really mad. No, he's not really mad, but it's like what I told him, I'm like, the worst thing you can

do if you don't want people to fish, especially members of your family. Let's say they can't fish. Let's say they can't do it. Well, then we got to do it. You are 100% going to. You opened yourself up. You started this by putting a lake in our compound, and then if you're going to try to keep us from getting fish out of it, good luck of that.

I mean, let me get this right. Hey, Judge Harrison tried it for years, you know, down here is his place. I mean, I'm like, look, I quoted the verse that no temptation to seize you what is coming to man. The Lord always provides a door. I was like, but for you to put over a thousand cropy in a pond surrounded by your family and say, don't do it, there's the temptation that's just more than we can bear. Now, here's what's funny.

And the only reason he was being over there is what's funny is the bass that he put in there are all still in there because nobody will eat a bass. So they're like 12 and 14 pounds. They're massive. My grandkids love to catch them, but then you just throw them back because nobody wants a 14-pound bag. What are you going to do with a 14-pound? bass. Well, exactly.

So here's what's funny about this story. The only reason that he didn't get really mad is because most of the fish that they caught and the six that I cleaned were not the new ones. That's it. See, that's where the humility happened. I'm like, the whole time. Maybe really just a bad fisherman, is that? That's what I was implying.

I didn't say it. I was like, two people or one person is not going to catch all the fish. You can't catch all the fish. Well, they claim. add that these fish won't reproduce is what they claim. Oh, yeah. But I don't believe that either. No.

I mean, that's what they say. Wow. There's some kind of hybrid non-reproducer. So that was because I was by myself, you know, that's where I was going with this. I was a bachelor for that night. And it was before duck season. This has been your gifted season because you didn't tell me this. So you got the, you got the crappy gift from the little.

That's true. I didn't know that. I've actually gotten three gifts in that. I called over there and checked on the film crew and I said, how's it going? And the showrunner was like, oh, it's fantastic. We're catching Cropi. They're catching a bunch of them. And Willie just showed up.

Like, what are y'all doing? I kind of had him handcuffed because they're filming you. He doesn't have embarrassed him. He can't. Right. You had a bit of bad. So then I'm like, oh, by the way, do you mind? The theory, though, what would bring a man to say, I won't fish.

and I'm going to buy them and stock them, and they're going to grow. They can be used as a food source. Does somebody believe they're really with a pole and a hook, catch all the fish? A thousand fish? They're not that good. His point was they advised him to wait before you caught them because they're all small. He's like, well, they're not big enough to catch.

So if, I mean, big enough to eat. Like anybody would keep fish you couldn't eat. So all of a sudden they go down there and they're catching ones that you didn't put in. You know, it just turned into just typical fish. You don't catch all those fish. And whoever you're little testing people, that experiment didn't work. I reel back in time, and you'll verify this, I would pick up a hook net. Some fish, they don't want you to sell.

And one of them, they don't want you to keep them either. If you caught them in a net, you pay for the net, the ticket for it. So you pay for the, but you're catching buffalo. Well, commercial fish. Commercial fish. But many, many, many, many, many times I would pull the net up, and I'm not kidding, there would be three to 400 pounds of crappie. Yeah.

What he put in that pond. A few times, though I few out there on the side of the boat, and I just save about 10 or 12 of them, fry them up. and eat them. Yeah. You know, I just paying for the nets and all that. Technically, you got to release them back in the water. Yeah, it's not illegal to catch them.

It's illegal to keep them. It's just can't help catching them. But the people who enforced that law, the game wardens, one of them came to see me one time, and he said, I'm fixing to have a, he, he, he's the one that will find you, turn your number for catching croppy. That'd be breaking a law. So we go out there. He said, I'm fixing to have a fish fry.

Do you mind maybe if you have a few nets you didn't run? They knew I was a commercial fisherman by trade. That was my livelihood. And I said, let me see. I said, I got a few nets that I didn't run this morning. I said, well, you got it. He said, I got a fish fry, but no fish. I said, no problem.

I'm getting the boat. He got the boat. I pulled out there, ran a few nets on the bank. And, I mean, there were several cropy, fine cropy. when they dropped in the bottom of the boat, I said, we got Cropi, but you got to throw them back because you don't want to keep them. He said, hey, hey, hey, hey.

He said, put that in this. I said, well, you're the one to enforce me catching Cropi. All of a sudden, the spirit of the law, I would have thought that was a setup, Phil. No, I didn't. I said, hey, you want them. I said, but, you know, they're going to be fined. I said, but you're the one that finds them. I'm betting he wasn't fine.

I bet he paid no pie Pointed to the bucket He said right here Right here So I just kept fishing And I said when you get enough I'd run another net Some things trump all

Law and everything else Fresh, crappy to eat Will trump everything And this dude is going to throw them back Well he saw my end of it Yeah So for some reason They never bothered me

Yeah Oh that's good You did a good thing So when I got back home I cleaned the fish. I was going to save some for my wife because I had six of them and they were pretty, you know, pretty decent size. But that's-

They weren't newbies. But I just ate fish and fish and I just couldn't, I just couldn't quit eating them. You know, they were, they were so good. And I looked up and ate, I ate them all. So there was none left for Mrs. It was that. Let's take our first break. No, but we had a, so she was a little frustrated at me.

And the house was spectacular. clean because we have been gone so long. She had hired this little group of people that clean houses. They're called the farmhouse fairies. You know, they're local, which what a name. And so, you know, when you cook fish, you need a lot of paper towels just because, you know, I have the batter and you're washing your hands off. And then you put paper towels in the pan because I don't.

Soak up the grease. You have to soak up the oil that you're fried in. Well, everywhere I turn, there were these little. little phrases and I realized they were Bible verses and I thought at first you know because I've done so much just ripping the how were you getting these things these information well I'm just saying I look when I used to grab the paper towels there was a Bible verse there was a tape piece of tape I didn't realize the farmhouse fairies had cleaned the house when I walked in I thought boy this place is spectacular you thought real fairies they claim that I thought I thought

Missy had lined it up, but there was a verse on the paper towel, but I thought that somebody selling paper towels had attached a verse to it. And I thought, now we're talking, you know, because I've made fun of so many products that use spiritual principles. Now they're actually putting up. That are just lying, you know. They're like selling you angel soft toilet paper, and nobody knows how soft celestial being toilet.

paper is and even the implication is wrong. They also don't know how soft celestial beings are. Well, exactly. And so I always make fun of them. So I thought, this is funny. And so anyway, I tell you that story to say when Missy did get home, because I had collected all, one of the stickers I had taken off, it was so good. I mean, it was like the Lord is my shepherd or, you know, it shouldn't be in one or what. So I just stuck it. So the verse. I hated to throw it away. I'm like, no, what do I do with it? I hate crumbling up. So the verses. were not just linked to paper-related subjects. It could have been anything.

Well, it was just anything. And here's why I say this. So, Missy, she came in there because I had told her about it. I was like, they're selling paper towels now with Biblebird. I was so excited. And she's like, no, that's the farmhouse fairies. They clean the house, and then they attach that to toilet paper, like a roll of toilet paper and to paper towels.

They're just, it's their way of ministry. Well, then I was like excited because I thought, well, here's a group of women who love the Lord who are cleaning people's houses and they're leaving a bird. I was really excited about it. But then when Missy, she went into our bathroom and she said, you're not going to believe this. She said, listen to that. And she read the one that was attached to the roll of toilet toilet. paper and it said the moment has come to your royal position for such a time as this I said that's a Bible verse she said that's in Esther I was like that's not a Bible verse and if you think about the implications here if you're fixing to use some toilet paper on the throne you've got a moment the moment has come for such a time as this

for the royal position. I was like, what are we doing with the Bible verse? Like the one piece of course. And sure enough, my wife was right. She said, that's in Esther. It's Esther 414. And I thought, you know.

It's actually a very famous verse. There's a difference in having a ministry and using a Bible verse completely out of context, which was funny. I have to admit. Which is why they did it. They were trying to get loud. I don't know why I thought that was so funny.

I had to share. I just thought, okay, you had me, then you lost me. It makes me think, now I'm going to tell these, I'm going to tell because Jersey Joe's wife, Christine, she makes these, like things you hang in your bathroom or in the house with the lesseans on them and verses. So she's like a decorator type. She got a whole business doing it. It does really well.

But I'm going to tell her about that verse. I'm going to say, if you want to sell these like hotcakes, put this in your bathroom. I think that's a... But I told that story to say... You're running into situations that I've never even contemplated. Well, I thought that's why you find it interesting. 75, 80 years. But what I was going to tell you, because I know we're in Luke 18, and I said, look, there's so much,

there's so many sermons and there's so many thoughts and so many commentaries about what all this means. And I want to reiterate, the Bible is about Jesus. Jesus. And all the issues that go out, we talked about money, because here's Jesus telling the rich young ruler for our last podcast, go sell everything you have. Well, you know, legalistic people, they, and what I mean by that is like a rule-oriented type religion. I mean, their heads start spinning. Yeah. Because Jesus is saying stuff that they're like, well, he didn't. And they'll start telling you what he didn't mean. You know, when they read a verse like that. because here was that this rich young ruler was a very righteous person i mean how many of us could i mean jesus said you know the commandments don't commit adultery or murder or don't steal or don't get false testimony honor your father and mother i mean how many of you could say what he said when he said all these i've kept i got those and instead of jesus making some kind of legal argument after that he took the one area because he knows our hearts

where this guy had put his power and security in, which was his money. And he's like, go sell it all. So we had a wonderful discussion in our overtime last time about it's not really about a tenth. That was under the Old Testament. Jesus actually, what he does is he offers way more than we ever could expect or imagine. He really does. He's talking about forgiveness, purpose, how you got here. He offers you eternal life, a character that the world desperately needs.

He offers way more than we can grasp or imagine, but he also demands more. And I think in this case, you see that. He wants all of you. He wants you to surrender. It's not like he's trying to inspire you or make you better. He wants to make you a new creation. And I think that's the thought that I wanted to get across as we move on to the next two paragraphs at the end. of Luke 18. No, I think that's good, Jay's. And I think, and you made a point, I think, in the last,

in the last podcast, but then we kind of reiterated it again during the overtime, that the, the situation here is as much about power as it is anything and money relating to power. And I think that's so much, that's so true in the biblical narrative, but it's also true today. It should see that, before we totally leave the idea of the rich young ruler, because we can get a chance to talk about it as much at the end. And I want to talk a little bit about that before we move on to the next one because I think there's a nice link into this when he pulls the 12 aside is that they were, the apostles, Peter is the one that gets the credit, but I'm sure they were all thinking it.

They basically come back with a fairly fearful response of, wait a minute, like, one is, if this guy can't, if he's not the picture of everything, then what about a? us because he in their minds he was bringing way more to the table what they didn't realize is that they had surrendered everything to farm which is what jesus was looking for at the beginning it didn't matter that you had a fishing enterprise or you were a man of great wealth the idea was whatever you have goes at the feet of jesus but they were fearful in their response because jason i think they were comparing themselves to other people which people still do that today they look at it and say, well, this guy over here, yeah, they really have what's going on.

But, you know, none of us should ever do that because God has called us to surrender. So no matter what that guy over there does, no matter what she gives, I mean, all that's between them and the Almighty. We shouldn't compare ourselves. I think that's something the apostles do here. And then he comes back and says, look, you gave up what you needed to give up. You don't need to worry about other people. Don't worry about this guy that couldn't make the cut.

you need to keep doing what you're doing, which is why you try. Well, are you really going to rely on God's power or are you not? That's right. Well, it's interesting that $33 trillion, the United States of America, is in the whole, $33 trillion overpayment. That's a lot of money. That's how much we've spent. And it just climate and climbing and climbing and climbing. Correct.

Now it's up to $33 trillion. There's somebody who says, do what? how in the world is a country going to get over that debt right there that's that's that's that's the people the powers that be right well you'd never get past anything like that in your personal walk right well you might are to put your confidence in a heavenly country you better you better go for something to use hebrews 11 as is an example so we watching your budget has pretty well flown away yeah exactly uh let's talk take another break. I do think that there is a kingdom analogy that Jesus is using in this when he told his disciples in the latter verses of this in Luke 18. I mean, I was in Mark 10

in Mark's version, but because I want to use that to correlate with what we're going to talk about today. And he seemingly does the same thing that he does in Luke 18, except in Mark's version, he adds the story of where James and John request their position of power, which is where I got the idea. Yeah, I got you. Because, you know, if you go to Mark 10, if you're able to do that conveniently, so he tells, Mark gives the account of the rich young man, Mark 10, that's 17. through 29 and 30 and 31.

But what I wanted you to see is when he says in 29, he says, I tell you the truth, no one who has left home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or fields for men in the gospel, will fail to receive 100 times as much in this present age, homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, and with them persecution and then they used to come eternal life.

So he says similar to what Luke, account is. And I said the only way that that can be true, in my opinion, is if he had this view that the kingdom is made up of people who have surrendered to the king, you have a forever family who are linked by the Holy Spirit of God, those who have surrendered to Jesus. That is the kingdom on earth. And on the age to come, when the kingdom is transformed into these same group of people, who are now imperishable via the resurrection. Yeah. Then you live forever.

Right. I think people who are still waiting on the kingdom, they have trouble with this verse. That's right. Because they're like, well, what does he mean? Because most of the Christians I see, they don't have much. Oh, yeah, you do. You have a forever family that's across this globe of people who have surrendered to Jesus, whose responsibility is to take care of each other.

That's why when you look at Acts 2, when we say the Holy Spirit fell, and the kingdom was established on earth through the church, and those 3,000 came to the Lord after Peter shared Jesus. Do you remember that next paragraph where it said they had things in common, they shared with those who were in need? Well, that was all this that Jesus was referring to, in my opinion. You're correct. You thought about that?

No, I hadn't thought about that. So then he predicts his death. He does it in Luke 18, I'm fixed to read it, but he also does it in Mark 10. But in Mark 10, he then adds this where James and John in verse 35, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, we want you to do for us whatever we ask. Now, I want you to notice in verse 36, he asked a question, and I missed this when we studied Mark, and I really think it's powerful, which is why I'm going through this.

He asked a question, which I want to ask our audience today. He says, what do you want me to do for you? He asked. And the reason I'm making a big deal out of this is because I didn't realize Mark 1036 said that. And then in verse 51 of Mark, Mark 11. Mark 10, guess what he asked, the blind man who was on the side of the road saying, Son of David, you know what he asked him in verse 51? What do you want me to do for it?

What do you want me to do for you? Jesus asks. We have the same question in the same chapter given to do two different groups of people. One is a blind man, which the blind man responded in 51 I want to see. In verse 36, when Jesus asked his disciples, James and John, who were saying, will you do whatever we ask? Because they obviously had gotten that question from the sections where it says, asking it will be given to you. You remember when Jesus said that over

and over? Well, they replied, let one of us sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory. Uh-oh. They wanted some selfish power here. A right hand man and a left hand man. Jesus said, you don't know what you're asking.

Of course, I'm sure they were thinking, well, what happened to this, whatever we want? That's right. Whatever you're asking my name? Jesus said, can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with. We can the answer. Jesus said, you will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared. And so when the 10 heard about this, they became indignant with James and John. Jesus called them together and said, you know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lorded over them and their high officials

exercise authority over them, not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be servant of all. For even the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many. And then he goes into his last miracle before his death on a cross, which is a man. who was blind hollering to Jesus saying

son of David and the reason I'm making a big deal of that he realized who Jesus was even though he couldn't see which is incredible and Jesus eventually healed him so when you go back to Luke 18

when you have the story of the rich young ruler in verse 31 he says he took the 12 and he said, we are going to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the son of man must be fulfilled. So keep in mind, he's going to Jerusalem to die. That's a mouthful of what you just said. And everything about him coming in the line of David, this promise to the, what's that phrase, the Davidic line, this promise. about the kingdom coming that would destroy all other kingdoms and itself endure forever.

And all the prophecies about Jesus not having a bone broken or, you know, there's a lit, I don't know how many fulfilled prophecies. Riding on the foal of the donkey. I mean, the praises coming in. I mean, just over and over and over and over and over. Which is fascinating that God chose to work this out in action. actual time in history and to fulfill prophecies that did come true, which gives you all the evidence that you should need to realize that Jesus truly did come from heaven through the

human ancestry, and it was prophesied, and they all came true. And while you're there, the entire world, the entire world to this day counts time by Jesus Christ. You go to China. What a coincidence. Yeah. So look, in verse 32, it says, he will be handed over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him, spit on him,

flog him, and kill him. And on the third day, he will rise again. Now, what happened eventually? What he just said? Everything. Yeah. Luke is recording this as a prophecy, and what Jesus is actually saying,

did come true. Now, watch the next two verses. So it says the disciples did not understand any of this. It's meaning he was hidden from them. And they did not know what he was talking about. And you say, well, why? Because that's why I read Mark. They're wondering, where's the power?

Now let's take over. Who's going to be on your right, left? And Jesus starts talking about dying and being flawed. And he's spit upon. And he's king? Yeah. Now, obviously, I think the biggest problem was they got so upset about Jesus being mocked, insulted, spit upon, flogged, and killed that they weren't hearing that last part. Because, I mean, to me, I ought to thought, but you're going to come back from the dead.

They were like, what are you going to be spit upon? Let's take another break. And even the idea, Jay, is that when it says its meaning was hidden from them, we kind of take that as that was some sort of supernatural withholding, but he could just very well, I mean, they weren't ready to understand it because they didn't understand it. In other words, Well, they didn't understand it,

but I think it scared them. And my point is, I think you have to tie it in with the next story. I mean, your death is going to save us. I think you have to tie this in with the next story because I think that was Luke's intent. I think that was Mark's intent. And so I'd like to read it,

whether we get to it all or not. Yeah, go ahead. We can do it next. but because I want to show you their attitude here. So in verse 35, as Jesus approached Jericho, which is we're getting close to Jerusalem, they approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.

When he heard the crowd going by, he asked them what was happening? They told him, Jesus of Nazareth is passing by. He called out, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet but he shouted all the more what my point is why are they why are they rebuked why do they want him to be quiet because jesus had just told them i'm going up to jerusalem and here's what's fixed to happen and they don't agree they don't want that to happen there's multiple places where you remember when jesus

when Peter said, oh, that'll never happen. When he predicted his death, he actually said, get behind me, Satan. Because they don't want that to happen. Well, who would want their leader to have this happen? So they're like, shh, shh, don't we hollering about the son of David? That's right. We're getting closer to.

Trying to sneak in here. You tell they're fearful, and they're not, they don't understand what the plan is, and maybe it's hidden from them to your point out. It doesn't matter. But you're seeing a different attitude in the way they're, responding and then how the crowd is responding because watch what happens in verse 40 jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him when he came near jesus asked what do you want me to do for you there it is again this question keeps coming up which is a it's a

really good question when you realize that i don't think mark did that on accident same question and you have one having a selfish motivation saying i want a place of power because it really goes back to the rich young ruler on the reason his face fell too on how sad he was is because jesus attacked the very thing that made him uncomfortable his power which was his money when he said give it all up for me and rely what would jesus says and the disciples do the same thing Here, they're like, he's like, you trust me. This is the plan of God. This is going to happen.

But that goes against everything we define as real power. Real power to us is crushing people or having enough money to where you can go anywhere you won't do anything you want to do. And if somebody crosses you, you can call your other powerful people and take him out or get him in jail. Is that not what power is? He's the one that's correct. And he said, I'm going to be crushed. You're like, never, no.

So you understand why this is happening. So in 41, he says, Lord, I want to see. So Jesus said to him, receive your sight. Your faith has healed you. Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus praising God. Now here's what's amazing. The last sentence says, when all the people saw it, they also praise God. But now I want to want to want you to fast forward and think about this.

So you have the disciples being fearful and not understanding. It's a little headway. He's making some headway. Well, you have all the people praising God saying, yeah, but where were these people when he was being crucified? Nowhere to be seen. Nowhere to be seen. Quiet, scared.

And my point is, yes, Jesus is awesome when you can get something out of it as far as earthly power. Oh, this is fantastic. That's why there was such a long line when he was doing miracles. Because it's like, well, if it's for me, that's why it's going to mean more when we didn't grasp eternity. No. It's like, it's good if I can get the benefits of this, but still keep my own controlling power. But when I don't, I'm very uncomfortable. And that's why I think the disciples were nervous, but he wanted them to be because he realized I'm going to redefine what you view as power. Yeah. Yeah.

Plus, I also think, Jay, is that the reason Jesus was so confident in any setting when he was talking about, whether it was about wealth, about surrender, that conversation with the rich woman. I mean, think about that. If the Pharisees, teacher the law, the people that are questioning Jesus, they can't deny something unique and special. I mean, he is a rabbi's rabbi. But at the same time, they're like, he's from Nazareth. He doesn't have anything. He doesn't even have a home. He's traveling around with this group of fishermen and a tax collector and these people. And so they

can't put it together. But Jesus is so confident when he tells a man to give away all as well. The only way you could do that is if you had, you had been the one that created all things. and so as you're standing here in a human body that you've confined yourself to as the deity that created the universe, you made the earth full of all its precious metals and now you can tell people, yeah, just give all that stuff away, it doesn't matter. The only way you can have the confidence to do that is if you made all that. That's true. Which is why he was so confident about what he was there to do. It was so funny because everybody around him, including his inner circle, could not understand that he was the son.

of God. That was the one they were tripping over every time. And then the one time they swerve into it, as James pointed out, that was brilliant, Jason, Mark, is that all they want is the earthly power from it. I want to be sitting on the, I'm going to be sitting up on the dice. You know, that's what I want. That's what I want out of this whole deal. It was more power. I think it's giving you a leg to see, look, because when you get to Zach Kish, you're going to see this. You know, Zach Kess is a very interesting fellow. because most of the times when you hear a sermon in church today, the preacher is like, well, you've got to be broken.

You've got to be desperate. You've got to realize this. You know, and look, I'm not arguing with that. But in Zacchaeus' case, well, he wasn't desperate. He was rich. That's right. He was by the worldly standard, a powerful person, you know? Yep.

And so what happened? Salvation still came to him. Jesus, you know, came, and the point I'm making that you see in this, that question is very important question when you say, what do you want Jesus? What do you want Jesus to do for you? Because you really have those two dilemmas. Do you want him to help you on earth and have a nice life and give you a bunch of money so you can retire and, you know, live in whatever retired people do? You know what I mean? It's like have a golf cart right around.

Or do you want to go to heaven? You want to live forever. Because Jesus' model is not the earthly model for power success. And, you know, if you live forever with your forever family, I would say that's a higher standard. That should be a more, a greater focus than having some little retirement. party on earth and having a few gadgets and a lot of money. What we see in the world. Exactly.

But you're right. Let's take our last break. But you're right, Jayes. The, the really the, which by the way, the Bible, you won't find the word retirement anywhere in the Bible. That's not a biblical term. No. So the only reason why retirement would appeal to you, really, if you think about it, is that if you thought this life was all there is. Well, you know, I've worked, I've earned, I've got a certain.

place in life and so now I want to enjoy it. And the parable that Jesus dealt with with that was, remember the guy that built the bigger barns. He was like, what a foolish thing. All this you've built for, all this retirement you've put up and you're waiting on to enjoy because this life is all there is. Tonight, your very life will be taken from you. We should turn you to, the two of you, turn you loose on what is really real. That's right. And get to both, houses of Congress. That's right. Oh, we can straighten this out, Dad.

Jason and I could fix it. I'm telling you. This changes your perspective on how to solve problems. Yes. If you, Jesus can change your heart, change your view about money. On political spectrums. You wind up $33 trillion in the hole. On political spectrums, all you can do is pick aside.

But Jesus can change your heart about this. That's why we're open to all people and we love all people and why Jesus had a bad reputation because he can change how you view everything, including money, and it puts it in the proper perspective. So you should use it for things that, you know, make the world a better place. But you want to do it in a way that gets people to focus on Jesus because he can change your heart. And that's the one thing the political spectrum can't do.

They're always just offending their side. They hate the other side. They're never contemplating about changing the mind and heart of the other side. side because you don't have the weapons to do it all you have is arguments i looked at the woman this morning just a woman and her husband brought her but but i just noticed that there was remorse and tears remorse and tears and we're standing in a pool of water down there i thought yep she she she made it here. She made she made the call. Oh yeah. Because that is what changes everything. So what I thought we should do, and now you may know more about this history than I do, I do think those two questions,

well, one question given in two different paragraphs in Mark 10 and then mentioned again in Luke 18. So here you have a guy who's blind. And I don't know if he was told about. I picked out a couple of the verses where he would have known the prophecies about that the son of man would come through the Davidic line. And the two verses you can read, or there's many, but the two I picked was 2 Samuel 7, and it gives a detailed prophecy, not only about the coming kingdom and the coming king, but of the son of man. There was a promise made to David in that, you know, through through Nathan, it's a long read, but it helps you understand, too, the circumstances around the kingdom coming. And then you have Jeremiah 23, 4 through 6, but it also brings to light the genealogy

we read in Luke, the reason that's in Luke, where you're going through David's line and lo and behold, here pops up Jesus. And to go through what we talked about the king, them and a Zerubable building, rebuilding the temple, the first temple that was destroyed, where they were worshipping with God, then it's rebuilt in the same line. And now here comes Jesus, which what I say and present is the fulfillment of the building of the temple of God, where people can dwell with God. It's in Jesus himself. So if you read those, I mean, that was a one-minute overview.

I obviously didn't do that justice. But what I'm saying is that beggar on the side of the road, we have a contrast that Jesus and the Holy Spirit through Luke want you to see. That guy was looking for the right kind of Jesus. Here's a guy. And the irony is he couldn't see. Well, he couldn't see, but he wasn't bitter. He was intellectually open-minded,

and he was open-minded despite the difficulties he was going. He was looking for the promise of God to be revealed. his heart was right. And the crowd wasn't with him. Well, and the crowd was amazed that he was healed, but then all them scattered like a cubby of quail when Jesus was fixed to be crucified. That wasn't anybody taken up for Jesus in that moment.

They wanted the miracles without the crucifixion, without the weakness, without this blind man through his humble circumstances, which is an indirect way to answer this forever question of why do bad things happen to us, human beings, on earth? Well, it gives us perspective. And it always concludes, and there's a God and I'm not him. And I guarantee you that blind man had realized I'd rather be blind

and have a clear vision of who the king of kings is, then have good sight and a lot of money and miss out on heaven, eternity. I mean, that is the contrast. So even his own disciples didn't see it in that moment. But Jesus, look, they came around eventually. They hit the road at his crucifixion themselves. I mean, we're trying to give you a 30,000 overview of why Jesus is revealing these things, and I really think there's a way to see, even though you can't see.

And you see it here. Which is, and I think that's why these three encounters appear in Luke, because the first one is sort of a culmination with the rich young ruler. Who was a good guy who had a lot of good things going for him, but he's a culmination of everything, used to have been talking about after this point that you can't do it yourself. Then he comes to the blind beggar who sees though he can't see. And then even Zakias, what was the thing that marked him?

He climbed a tree to get a better look at Jesus. So he was a short guy. He couldn't see over the crowd. This rich short tax electry. We'll talk about the next podcast. Yeah. Climes a tree to get a bare look at Jesus. And that opens him up to salvation.

Because he was open-minded despite his power. But I want to leave with this. One of the greatest questions you ever ask yourself in your faith is that question, what do you want Jesus to do for you? Yeah, that's a good one. Whatever you answer and however you answer is very telling on your character and perspective in who Jesus is. Because there may be some pain and some discipline that needs to happen in your life

for you to have a clear picture of who Jesus is and what he really wants from you, you know. It's just a fact. In this light, it was. If you asked that question, the privacy of your own mind, and then answer it honestly, it'll say a lot about how you're viewing Jesus. Yep. Exactly. What do you want from me?

All right. So we're going to go to overtime. Just a minute. BlaisTV.com slash unashamed. Because I wanted to dive a little more into that, the Jay Stomack by the Davidic line. There's some really good stuff in there. So we'll talk about that. And the next time we'll pick up with Zachias on the next Unashamed podcast.

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