Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 970 | Phil & Uncle Si Duet the Gospel Presentation & Why Si’s Political Career Never Happened

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

Uncle Si and Phil join up to tag-team a gospel presentation unlike any other to benefit a young lady Jase met recently. Si unapologetically reveals why his political career never got off the ground when he was in the military, and Jase schools his response to a controversial “Duck Call Room” podcast conversation that made its way back to him. Si has a few tough questions for the human race, and hope doesn’t equal uncertainty when it comes to Jesus. In this episode: Matthew 28, verse 18; Mark 16; John 3, verses 1-8; Romans 10, verses 4-15; Colossians 1, verses 15-18; Colossians 2, verse 9 -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? Welcome back to Unashame. We're super excited. We have one of our favorite guests from our brother podcast. One of our favorite. It's the favorite? Yeah, I think he's the favorite.

Okay, we've got our favorite guests on Unashamed because he is the rock star of the duck call room. Let's face it, we love those other boys, but without sigh, it's a band without a singer. You know what I'm saying? Well, that's why I tell people all the time. Y'all need to look at this crazy old man. I'm living proof that God, the Father and Son, the Holy Spirit, are alive and well. Okay, and I really am. Great.

We're two minutes in, and I actually agree with that. Well, no, no, I'm serious. That's why I size the rock star of the duck call room, because there's no one there to keep him in check. Yes, right. They're just, yes, man. They're like, well, hey, look, everybody that I've ever been associated with, That's that problem.

Okay, keeping me in check, okay. That's why my military career was such a disaster. That's why I got screamed at. Yeah, that's why I never did make any rank, okay? But you were in the military for 24 and a half years. Yeah, but I should have been the E9. I didn't make it but the E7. It was my own fault.

It was just two numbers. Yeah, but two numbers means a lot more money than this. I understand. But on a scale from one to ten, if it's a nine, I'm like, oh, but if it's a seven, I'm like, okay, it's pretty good. Well, yeah, but here's the bottom line. I never did see a job that I wanted from E8 to E9. Because in that world, you've got to be political. And y'all know how political I am.

You couldn't play that game. Yeah, I couldn't play that game. Every time they'd ask me a question, you know, they wasn't ready for the answer because I hit it was a truth. Now we're talking. Okay. No, no. And they couldn't handle it. Okay.

They couldn't handle the tree. Yeah, it was like a little. Jack Nicholson. Yeah. You can't handle the tree. That was your line in the military? Well, no, no. I just always told them.

I said, hey, look, here's, here's a warning for you. Y'all. So you're giving you. This is to his commanding officer. I have told them up front. Yeah. Y'all. I said, hey, look, if you don't want to hear the answer,

don't ask you better not ask this kid question. Okay. Because I'm not going to. going to lie for you or anyone else. Yeah. Okay. And, well, they were stupid enough to ask the question. And then, hey, you gained that?

And they walked away with their nose bleeding because they hit them with the truth and they couldn't handle it. Sign once told me that out of all of his COs, because I guess you get another on every year, out of all of his CEOs, only two had any idea what they were talking about. And all the rest of them didn't know. I'm serious. I think we had a submission problem. Well, no, no. That's what Harold said.

Yeah. Harold come home one time. I'm going to leave. Okay, he was the first lieutenant in the Air Force. And he told me to do something. I said, hey, do it yourself, punk. And hey, Mama had to step in or I'd be dead. I'd have never lived another day.

Harold's pretty mean. You wouldn't want to do that. Oh, no, no. I'm serious. Mama had to step in and physically restrain him. Yeah. From just absolutely demolishing you. Oh, no, because he was fixing to hurt me.

Yeah. Okay. And then she kind of told me after we finally calmed down. He left. She said, don't talk to you, brother, that way. He can't handle it. Yeah, okay. Speaking of truth, a little birdie, or I guess a big birdie,

because y'all don't have any little birdies on your other podcast. Actually, we could trade out me inside. We probably all be the same size. Yeah, told me that I was part of an argument of a situation where you were not present, which was kind of odd. Oh, no. I thought I was. Another time that I was a present that I should have been, and I could have told the four idiots in the vehicle.

Yeah. That, hey, here it goes again. Y'all are looking at something, and then you ain't got to say it was a black person. I was referring to an incident where there were four of us in the vehicle, so he just referred to the four idiots in the vehicle. One but four. You are one of the four, by the way, which is how these stories get messed up. but where we saw a dark object that seemed to be sitting in the middle of the road it was only three hours that day me you and got one was it me you and got one yeah originally

originally there was four people in there who was the four not one or not four four wasn't three was three of yeah because they recreated you know we all recreated driving and john had myself in the middle of a mixed belief But I'm driving slow. I just got back from preaching the gospel and baptizing about seven or eight people. I'm just cruising along, making my way back down to the house. I look on my left at 25 yards. There is a animal coming right toward my car.

Yeah. I stopped. And this thing come in front of me, he acted like I was not there. He was black. Mm-hmm. Facked. He had a tail. Fack.

Fack. He was, I'd say, 30, 40-pounder, not real big. Interesting. But he did have a tail. And he was black. And he was black. And I was sitting there looking at him. First time I've ever actually said, okay.

Okay. It's 20 yards. He's walking. Well, let's, we've heard these stories. Let's get to the issue. He was a large for cats, the way they go. He was far bigger than like a tomcat coming out of your garage. Not quite the size of a regulation jaguar.

That's right. He was not a big, big guy. Which presents a problem. He had a good look on him. So, Cy and I saw this bobcat that turned into a Black Panther. So a week. Well chronicled on the show. A week ago, we're its till season.

and there were four men in the little side by side. Jay was driving. I was in the passenger seat. No windshield. So, because it was five degrees cooler than it had been, which felt like wintertime. Yeah, it was like 64 degrees. Oh, you're going 50 miles?

No. R-10. So we're driving pretty slow through the woods on a dirt road. And something is coming toward the side. my side at a pretty good clip as in slow down and what color was this varmint black no no jet black i see it but when i see it it looks like it's moving fast but it's moving weirdly fluid like i got a hand going up and down. Kind of like, what motion is this?

What motion would, uh, serpentine? I was thinking accordion, you know, just like, so that got my attention. So I kind of. It wasn't like a pig because the pig has a certain way to run. This is all happening quickly. Yeah. It happened pretty quickly, but I'm saying it was it was so close to us as in I reached over to Jay because I thought we're fixed to have a collision.

So he tapped the brake a little bit. If you had had that collision, we would all know now. But now we're just saying, I'm not to encourage you to. That may have solved the entire issue. We've had so many sightings that in this moment, I thought, uh-oh, because it's a large black object, kind of low to the ground, but very long. Did he have a tail? The first thing I thought is,

Let me just look at the tail. I looked at the tail as it's going under the vehicle. I mean, Jay literally stopped. It's in the headlight. It's not like way up there. It's right here on the truck. I would say this creature was five to ten feet in front of me. You could almost read it out and tested it.

I looked at the tail and I went, wow, because that immediately told me that this was an otter. Now it was in a place, it was in a place, a river otter. It was in a place that you would never think you would see a river otter. But you were fixing to say it. No, it was a river on. He said it up for me. He's been thinking about this. He was thinking about it. He worked on that all the way out here. To quote a wise man, I'm giving you the truth. Oh, I don't doubt that. And Jay said, that's a black cat. And I said, River Otter. And the two guys on the back seat said, that was a black cat.

And I said, River Otter. It was an otter. That's the first I've heard of any agreement on this sighting. Because I was told, okay, is it, you know, Jay said, black cat. You said, River Otter. Clay said spiritual being. and then whoever else was in there. Yeah, now Clay did say that.

He said it was four different stories. Okay. And look, four different things. No, that one of the guys. There's four people sitting in a four foot area. Looking at something that's 10 feet or closer. Why ain't there an agreement somewhere?

Well, because it was dark. Yeah. And this thing was moving. Yeah, there's all kind of excuses. Have you ever seen a, I wonder if there's a picture somewhere of a river otter on the run. Oh, I've seen that. Have you?

Yeah, I've seen it on top of the levee down there on Phil's property because it was unidentified. So what you're saying, size, you know the difference between a river otter and a black cat. Well, no, I, hey, one time it was unidentified. I'm on the four-wheeler going down the levee. Okay, and he's up there about, oh, 150 feet. Yep. and I see it and I can't identify.

There you go. Maddie's got it pulled up for you, too. That's it. See, look, just hold it right there. On the top left, that's what I saw. Oh, I see the long tail. The long tail and see how it looks. See how the body has that hump? Well, when it's on the run, it's moving like.

It seemed to be very close to what I saw. See, we've got it all corrected right here. Oh, I know y'all have got to correct it. I'll say that I was the only person who thought it was a river otter. But I was the closest to the actual being. Here's the thing. Okay, there was three times. What I saw was not low hugging the ground.

He was. Well, his hump's pretty hot. There's another picture of one. There's one running. See, she got it. That was fantastic. That was video. We just showed a video.

See how it was doing that? That's what this was doing. And that thing was big. Yeah. Five feet long. Well, that's big. That one in the pictures big. No, no, because he weighs an otter or a grown otter.

I would say weighs 20, at least 20, maybe 25. That's what I said. Whatever I saw. We've solved the problem. Are you on my team now? No. No, no. Because, hey, I've been there before.

Okay. There was three different times. You may have seen a river out. No, no. There's three different times that I looked at. an unidentified object. I never did identify it. UFO.

I had seen it. I run to it with a four-wheeler. Yeah. And hey, here's, you know, I can come up, could have say if for sure, you would have said for sure it was redder by her. Because where it went off the levee.

Yeah. I was up there like that quick. Well, there's one of them pits that red dug in put, yeah, bar pit. Yeah. Well, now it's full of water. And guess what?

The water's rippled. Yep, but you see. You're only not going to say, well, it could have been an honor. So I said, well, Garmin I saw was not even close. That's a mile away. A levee. There was no levees, no.

Well, there was no levee. I mean, so here was their argument. So whatever I saw was kind of in tune with what you're saying. Well, they said, well, we're too far away from the water for it to be a river otter. I was like, well, we're. quarter mile, but I said, well, there's a corn field out there. Yeah. Landed.

And I was like, I think he was out there eating corn. Eating some corn. Now, will a River Otter eat some corn? I don't know. Well, that one did. Because he was coming from the field. He saw the headlights and said, hey, let me go back down. Good and water.

Which he was a long way from home. But if you're hungry, I would go a long way from home. Yep. So now, the question. Quote I heard, though, because I think you were arguing a lot more passionately. Cepheus. Without my presence there. Oh, I'd have been passionate.

No, in the Duck Call Room podcast, what I heard was is it's a miracle that Jace even believes in Jesus. Well, it is. You ain't seen him either. I know, that's what he said. I was like, what in the world? He's like, he's not really, that was just. hyperbole. Yeah.

He's like, he's seeing a Black Panther and won't admit it. And won't admit it. He'd see Jesus is like, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna try it.

So. That's why most people say, hey, Jesus give me a sign. Well, hey, you can get all the signs. You won't.

But you still ain't no believing Jesus. It won't do any good. Right, but you could, hey, signs ain't going to save you. You got to believe that he is the man.

He says he. Oh, man. So I just made the perfect segue. Actually, a really good point. It is. I mean, we don't haul around signs in a,

in a trailer saying, hey. That always shocked me. Okay, it really does. It always shocked me because I seen something on the show the other day.

And the guy was saying, well, if you'd only give me a sign, and I'm saying, dude, he gave you so many signs when he walked this earth. And we've got it recorded.

Yeah. It's been recorded for us and we can read it. Right. That won't help you. You have to, believe okay yeah and once you believe in him yeah uh if you want to ask for signs as you're trying to make decisions and figuring out what his will is that's fine if you want to ask for help exactly

right that's a problem with that's a difference in that well there's a guy we play cards with that you'll like this that he buys and and sells and trades signs yeah so one day as he was talking about sign he's always talking about showing people picture look this sign you know old son and i said at what point are you going to get to the destination and he looked at me, he said, what are you going to get to the destination? You went over his head. He said, well, I got some trips lined up. And I was like, well, that's my point.

When are you going to get to the destination? But I wanted him to figure it out. He never, he never got it. Oh, no, it went over his head. Like, I spent my whole life in dealing in signs, which basically say, which way. to go, where am I headed, turn around, do not enter, off ramp, exit. One way.

Yeah. One way. I was like, when are you going to actually do it? It was like that. He never got it. He never got. It was like the old joke where the guy keeps passing the sign. I said, the end is near.

The end is near. About the third one, he'd just run off a ravine. For help it was. And he was like, yeah, why. He said, I thought I thought I was just talking about the end of the earth. I didn't know there was the end. Of the road. In the road.

So my wife had a, she had a good point this morning. We were talking about people coming to the Lord. And because I was like, babe, what did you share with these women where all of a sudden they all want to start coming to Jesus? Because she was mentoring these. I talked about this previous podcast about this event. She said, well, one thing I did, I got to thinking about that wedding. banquet in John Chapter 2.

And because she said, I just said, look, she invited these girls to her, our bed and breakfast place, but the last night, she invited them to our house. And she went and got all the preparations. She cooked for them.

She actually hired Lynn to help her. She got the house clean. The yard was mowed. I mean, everything. was ready. So when they walked in, it literally was... So the guests ever arrived.

The guests arrived, and it was ready. Yeah. And so she said, I told them that story and then mentioned John too and is like, that's what God has done for us in Jesus. He's got it all ready. He's preparing for every time. Yeah. It's a party, a feast, a good time.

And then when you come in, you're like, all right, do you want to participate? Well, of course. It was awesome, you know. Right. And she's like, next thing I know, they all want to be baptized. I was like, pretty good illustration. That's pretty good. Yeah, it was powerful. Hey, you got to fool.

She just participated in the Great Commission. Yeah. So before you start your presentation, I wanted to ask you all this question, because one of the girls that night asked me something, and she said, look, my boyfriend, I'm trying to bring him to the Lord. And so I introduced y'all's podcast or whatever. She said, but you know what would be great? She's like, if y'all just did a podcast where it's like, here is the presentation to get in Jesus, you know, because she was like, I can tell she is obsessed with Jesus Christ, number one.

And number two, she's like, well, I'm dating this guy, but this is never going to work on its current tradition. Dextery. Yeah. So she's like. Because he's not where I want him to be. Well, right. She's all of a sudden had this awakening, which led her to be a part of this program. So I thought it would be, you know, in honor of her request.

And we're studying the book of Colossians. And the first chapter really is a definition of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. I mean, it's done in a way of, I've heard about what's happened here. And then he, like, tells what happened, your faith and love that's springing from the hope. And then he gets into the focus on who Jesus is. And so I just thought that might be a good thing for this young woman. Well, there's a lot of confusion about how you get into Jesus Christ. Yeah.

It would be a good thing to do. Well, that's what I'm saying. Why don't y'all give us? Everybody give a little. Yeah. So, so. Because we all have a different way. I mean, how do we want to label this?

Do you want to say what it means to be a Christian, which is the word we use, which is Christian? I would say the path to Jesus is what I would. Path to Jesus. Yep. Okay. So look, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. At the end of them, you could take Matthew or Mark. We'll just take Matthew.

The Great Commission. Which is. When does this end? When did this end? And Jesus gave that. That's right. 28, 18. The 11 disciples went to Galilee to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.

When they saw him, they worshipped him. But some doubted. Then Jesus came to them. Now listen to this carefully. All authority in heaven and on earth. That's a lot of authority. I would think that was. Has been given to me, Jesus said.

I have all the authority. On heaven and under earth. Here's the marching order. My question is, when did this end? It hasn't. When did that you are correct. All authority in heaven and on earth, that's a lot, has been given to me. I have all the authority on every issue.

Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations worldwide. it says baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you. You look carefully, what you'll see is that right there, when that end, we're still in that. He said, That's when it started.

Hold on that because that's not all of it. So you turn over and you get to Mark. He said to them, this is Mark. I wasn't reading from Matthew. Mark 16. Mark 16. Go into the world and preach the news to all creation. We got it.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. But whoever who does not believe will be condemned. So you got that. Yeah. Well, then you've got the thing that seals the deal. And you can tell me, when did this stop? When did this stop? I don't believe it.

It's not. John chapter 3. There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council, big dog. He came to Jesus at night. And he said, Rabbi, we know you're a teacher has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous salvation. signs you are doing if God were not with him. Now listen very carefully, and then you ask yourself a question, when did this end for the

world? When did it end for these people? They're being told. I tell you the truth, Jesus said, verse 3, unless a man is born again, which is difficult to happen if you don't know what he's talking about. Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Can't see it. Can't even see it.

How can a man be born when he's old? Nick the name is asked. Surely he cannot enter a second time until his mother's willing to be born. Jesus answered. Now listen to this very carefully. I tell you the truth. Unless a man is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

So you get down to... First, he can't sit. A man is born, unless he's born of water, and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. You're out. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised by being saying, you must be born again. You've got to go.

You've got to die and get out of the way, and you're going to be replaced with an eternal life. And this is for something right here. The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear it sound, but you cannot tell where it's come from or where it's going. So it is with everyone born of the spirit. Now, if you'll look, if you move forward from right there, over and over and over and over, we took on Ephesians. They didn't miss it.

There's one body, one spirit, just as you were called, one hope, and you were called. People are told to go out. They're called to go preach the gospel. There's one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God. Got to be there. One baptister. You say, got to get in connection with water. Got to be born of water.

Water's there. That's Ephesians that we looked at. Cleansing her by the washing with water through the word. Yeah. Well, you start seeing these texts. That's Ephesians. We just got through Stedernet. So you get to Galatians, when you back up a little bit, you say,

is the Great Commission still? It's still in place. It is never ended. It is there now. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all, far, because all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourself with Christ. There's neither Jew or Greek, Slade, Great Commission, Great Commission. So when you see John 3 in the Great Commission,

given born of water and the spirit. You better get you some water and get ready because we're going to bury you and then the new one's going to come forth. It's a death, burial, and resurrection. And that is the rest of the Bible. This young lady is worried about the man she wants to marry. She wants him in Jesus. The question was, how you get in Jesus?

Right. Okay. He read the Great Commission. Yep. Jesus is the one that gave that. That is correct. Okay. This is the man that was killed and rose from the dead.

Now the question is, how do you get in Jesus Christ? Okay, I'll tell you. You've got to get in contact with water. You've got to get in contact with death. You've got to get in contact with the blood of Jesus. Well, how's that going to happen? Well, hey, God is the creator. Okay, so guess what?

Here's how you get in Jesus. You hear his story. Who is what he's done in the past, the present, the future, okay? And then, okay, if you believe that, you've got to obey it. And the way you obey it is you reenact Jesus is real death, peril, and resurrection by baptism. And guess what? when you go under the water, you're burying the old man of sin

or the old woman of sin. You're correct. You're burying them. Okay, there's a burial. Somebody has died here. There's a burial. Okay. Roman six.

And when you come up out of the water, God's speaking. Okay. You are now a new, the old is gone. You are a new creation. For crying out loud. You are,

Clean. We are. You are no longer a sinner. And guess what? The reason being, you are now in Christ's Jesus. Over and over. Over and over. That's mentioned.

Don't miss this. It's not funny. I just don't know why I'm laughing. Oh, it's deadly serious because, hey, guess what's writing on what you believe and what you do? Eternal life. Hey, your eternal destiny. Jason said it while ago, where are you going? Hey, I'm going, hey, I'm passing through here.

I'm a pilgrim on this piece of earth. Yeah. Okay, I'm on a voyage. I'm headed toward heaven and Jesus Christ, the one that rose from the dead and is still saying, hey, go do the great commission. That's correct. So both of you.

That is what you're here for. Both of y'all mentioned it, and especially the final point. I think which at our baptism is that final commitment. We're all in. We're willing to show this. The Holy Spirit is in. Let me give you the first part because we're all just contributing here. And mine is from Romans 10, which is one of my favorite texts because this shows you

the condition of your heart and where you have to be. In the context here, he's talking about the Jews who still are wanting to hold on to law. But he says something interesting. He says that Christ in Romans 104, Christ is the end of the law. Yep. So that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. That's right. So they were still trying to hold on to this old system.

And he's like, no, you can't do that anymore. Yeah, we can't fulfill it. We can't fulfill it. So here's what he says in verse 8. The word is near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith we are proclaiming. This shows you the condition you have to be before you get to the point you both described

to finally submit in water baptism. You are correct. That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised on the dead, you will be saved. So we're talking about this pathway to Jesus, this pathway to salvation. It is with your heart that you believe and are justified

is with your mouth that you confess. He's now going to be the Lord of your life. And are saved. And then he says there's no difference to a Jew and Gentile. So he's saying this is available for all of us. as dad read in the Great Commission. And then listen to this. How can they call on the one they have not believed in?

How can they believe in the one they have not heard? How can they hear without someone tell them? And how can they tell them unless they are sent? As it is written, back to the Great Commission, how beautiful are those who bring. That's why it really makes Romans chapter 6 jump out at you. What shall we say then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase by no means?

We died to sin. How can we live in it any longer? Don't you know by this time, based on what Jesus has said, don't you know that all of us were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death. In order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

And it's worked out where you say, you need to run toward the water. Run toward it. Yeah, don't wait. It's a message in your head. Because again, it shows the condition of your heart that you're ready. I think it's interesting based on what they said. I'm going to change what I was going to do based on what they've said.

So when you come to Colossians and he writes this letter to this little town that was in between bigger towns and Paul had never even been there. Yep. but this fellow named Apophrus had fulfilled the great commission. Yeah. And look how this is. He had started the church there. Look how this is described.

So when Paul starts off, first he says, grace and peace to you from God our Father. That's like in verse two, but he calls them the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colise. So, and we realize why he's, demon them holy because they have surrendered to the one who is holy. Jesus is perfect. That's right. He was set apart. And was he faithful to what God's plan was? Absolutely. I mean, he became a human and despite all the attacks from every evil power and authority on planet

earth in that time, Rome from Judaism, from hypocrites, Pharisees, demonic spiritual forces of evil. He was faithful to the planning, never messed up. Read 211, Colossans 2.11. Well, but we got to get there first. Because I'm saying if someone doesn't understand, because people immediately, when you bring up baptism, they think, well, what is that? you know, when you immerse someone in water.

Well, without Jesus, you're just going under some water, right? Everybody think is you're just getting wet. Well, that's what I'm saying. Well, without Jesus, you are just getting wet. Yeah, then it's a chicken fight in the pool. Yeah, it's my waiters were leaking the other day, and guess what? I wouldn't be baptized. I was just getting wet.

Get wet. Yeah, it had nothing to do with anything. So that's why Al read that Romans 10, 9, and 10. But I think when you look at where this starts, he says, we always thank God the father of our Lord Jesus when we pray for you because we've heard of your faith in Christ Jesus.

So they've put their faith, their belief, their assurance, their certainty that Jesus is the son of God. Not only that, okay, like he said,

if you had to literally, physically die to get into Jesus, I don't think we'd have many takers. Yeah, exactly. Okay, now, you got to think about this. Great good point. Look what the son has done because, hey, look, guys, that was the plan that the father,

the son, the Holy Spirit made before the creation of the world. Great point, because he did physically die. No, no. He's done that, and we get to reenact that. That's right. His death baron resurrection. Great point. direction and then we are in him and just what in him all the answers are yes yeah that's

hallelujah so then he heard about their faith and their love the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard and this gets back to where phil started you heard about in the word of truth the gospel that is coming to you. They're going to the whole world and preach to God. Well, this a paraphras preached it. And people said, you know what? I'm going to put my faith in it.

And it caused them to love not only God, but to love other people. And it came from, and I mentioned this on the last podcast, a hope that is different from how we defined it in the English language. When we say hope, we think that there's a possibility that it may not happen. but in the Bible when you're talking about hope in Jesus there is no possibility that this is going to fail it's very certain that's why it says faith is being sure of what we're hoping and certain of what we do not see so that's why it produces faith and love because when you start talking about heaven and eternal life well we're certain of it because when he gets to the next section on who Jesus is

there's two interesting phrases. I mean, there's a lot of power in that 15 through 20. But there's two interesting phrases because when Phil brought up being born again, Paul in his letter to the Colossians says, Jesus in verse 15 is the image of the invisible God. And then there's an interesting phrase here. the first born over all creation.

And you say, well, first born of all creation. So when Jesus was born, he was the first human that showed that God could dwell in people. Yep. Because he was God in a man. So that's why he was the first born. Now, our guest a few weeks ago, what was the pre-Jobie? Jobi, he brought this up something I noticed also. The Greek word for that is something I can't pronounce,

but it's where we get the word prototype. So the Greek word is like proto something. In other words, if you want to be like somebody. Well, just think about it. What is a prototype? When you made your first duck off, Phil, remember you said, hey, here's the prototype. What did that mean? There's way more to come.

Yeah. So Jesus is the original. Exactly the same material. Except, yeah, we're going to reproduce this by the millions. And it's the only one there is. I was excited, that's the original. Original. So when Jesus was first...

By the way, it's the only place this term is in the... When Jesus was first born, he introduced a prototype that God can dwell in humans. Yes. So then it says, for by him, all things were created, things in heaven and on art. That's why he was able to be the first born, because he was actually part of the creation. process before the creation process he was there he can create anything he wants to do so he's like all right took raw power to save the human race exactly the creator interjected himself and said hey you want to see a new creation how about god in humans and so then he goes on to say he's above all

authorities and what you read all authority's being given to jesus why because he came from something outside time and space and the earth and matter. And here's the amazing thing, and he's willing to share all of it with us. Exactly. Now, the second point, though, is then it says he is, in verse 17, he is before all things, in him all things hold together. He's the head of the body, the church, which is our connection to him, those who have surrendered.

He is the beginning. But now watch this next prototype word. And the first born from among the dead. He has another prototype. He was the first to show you that a human could come back from the dead. Well, what did that imply? There's more to come from that prototype. So when you put the two prototypes together on who Jesus is,

God can live in human flesh. In human flesh. And humans who have God living in their human flesh can come back from the dead. That's it. Well, all of a sudden, now you're seeing the reason why people say, I need to put my faith in that. I need to start having his love in my heart. So I'm saying, though, you get that in order.

So when you get to Colossians 2, which is where you wanted to jump to, when you get to verse 9, it says, for in Christ all the fullness of the deity, God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to the Great Commission, lives in bodily form. He's the image of the invisible God. We just read it. And you have been given fullness in Christ when I used talking to humans, these people from Colossi.

You've been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority in Christ, you had something cut off. You were circumcised in the putting off of the sinful, nature or sinful flesh, that old man, think Adam were all humans with no hope. And you need to remember what failed read when he first started. Jesus said, hey, all authority have been given me. Exactly.

All of it. You had this circumcision take place, not with the circumcision done by the hands of men, talking about the Jewish system when a baby. Which is back to Romanston, the law. But with the circumcision not by Christ, having been buried with him, and baptism and raised with him through your faith in the working of God who raised him from the dead. And so I think that's why people get off on that because they think it's something you're doing when actually I'll have all the work. It's what Jesus is doing. It's the working of God,

which then he goes into he disarmed the powers. He canceled the law. And that's why he then makes a point to them so why are you getting into these other theologies and beliefs that don't have jesus at the center and then he made a graphic illustration you've lost connection with the head when you lose connection with your head nothing good is going to happen they're going to put you in the ground in two pieces like i'm something sticks to die yeah you're dead yeah so you can't live from the vine i've been warning that particular lesson you've been waiting on that i've been patiently waiting a thousand podcast. I just kept looking at all.

After the Great Commission, I just noticed it just keeps coming up. Well, the point is you can't... Being born in water, if you're not, you can't make it. You can't get the cart before the horse, though, which is why I like what my wife did, she's simply for two nights in this little gathering hung out in the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and taught them about Jesus. Well, that's a good place to hang out. Well, right.

And what he said, what he did, how he acted, you know, all the details of that. And so what happened is these women fell in love and were convicted by the image of the invisible God, which is Jesus, which was his plan. Then all of a sudden, there was a rush to want to know him better, to get in Christ, to make him Lord of their life. And so that's how this works. So you share Jesus and the illustration that he made in Colossians because I quit reading in verse 5. But he gives this illustration of like a garden, which takes you back to the original garden when God made two humans and said, you know, here we go. Well, now we have a new garden, a new creation.

And it is, it comes from the gospel. And just to finish this thought, it says in verse 6, all over the world. world, this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just that it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth. You learned it from Epaphras. I think it's a very interesting illustration on how to do it. I mean, I gave you the one Missy said about I prepared everything. This is how God did it for us on the planet. And then he welcomes you in. says you want to participate in this. Well, here it's like you're planting a garden. You share the gospel. And it brings back all those passages when Jesus said about the parable, the sower, you know,

farmer was scattering sea. So when you hear the gospel, which is Jesus and what you said, what he did, what he's doing, what he will do, but just who he is, it's like a seed that comes to you. And all of a sudden, you're like, yeah, yeah, I want to do this. And then it's starts bearing fruit and growing. It causes a response to surrender your entire life to him since he was creator. So when Jesus was on the earth, he called 12 men to follow him. 11 out of the 12 men and 11 out of the 12 were all in, even though they struggled, they were all in. And once this commission went out, as you read, then they led other people.

What's interesting is one out of the 12 was never in because even though he got, he became part of the group, his heart was never right. It was evident by the end because his heart was in Satan, not in Christ. So it really shows you this is what happens. So what we've done today on the podcast is we've thrown that call out to you. You're listening. And are you all in? Is Jesus who he says he is to you?

You're all in your heart. your mouth, you confess him as Lord, are you willing to totally go in and be his? And the call goes out to everybody. Peter said he doesn't want anyone to perish. That's right. So the call goes out to everybody. The question is, can you confess him?

Can you make him your Lord? It's not an interstate to heaven. This is more like a deer trail of heaven. I like that. And the sign says, Jesus. few search for it and few finders. You got to know what you're looking for on a deer trails. I'm just saying.

That's a great point. Like I said, that's why I just. In fact, the way Jesus put it was wide as the road that leads to destruction, narrow the road to eternal life because most people aren't seeking and yet he's calling. So all you got to do is make that connection. We're proof of the great commission just like today.

That's right. That's we're part of the great community. And we do it all the time. That's never going to stop. Never. Until the father has the sons and daughters he wants. And we're never going to know when that is. Right.

And it's a mindset because, you know, recently we've been talking about these storms that happened. You know, our cousins who are believers, they went about one day from worried about themselves to then trying to help other people. And that's what this is about. I know. This is about, look, I know my salvation.

and I know who I'm all in, but I want other people to know. That's why we do that. It's like the human race needs to ask this question. Who's got the power? Who's got the power? That would be Jesus. The one that overcame death, okay?

I don't know who you're going to go with, but trust me when I tell you, I hope if somebody stuck a 45 caliber pistol upside my head and said, you're going to deny him or die. And I said, pours the trigger. You don't know who you're talking to. I know the man that raises dead men, Jack, and he's promised that to me.

So, No, just go ahead, shoot. You're going to waste a bullet, but hey, that's okay. I'll be back. All right, Jack, we're out of time. So that's always a pleasure to have you. Podcast you're with us. I always seem to go fast. Well, I always, you always learn something.

Yep. You got one thing. Okay. Is it just a coincidence? Father, son, Holy Spirit, faith, hope, love. Ooh. That's right back in Colossians 1. We will pick up on that theme next time we hit Collegians. Thanks, Sa, for getting here.

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