Jase's Road Trip with the In-Laws, Al's Preacher Smack-Talk, and Going Public for Jesus | Ep 146

i am unashamed what about you all right so teal season has begun i scheduled an event which is why you have the face paint on yeah well it's because i went to you on this board thanks for the clarification i don't know if you were trying to do blackface or what i just want to make sure we i just went with it i hadn't had any sleep and i'll tell you why because i hunted opening day and then i get up and my in-laws drive me to stephenville texas i did an event wait a minute black lives matter would see your face paint and say he's moving over on our side and you know uh it's a start i'm i guess i've gone on a record to say which some people got offended one time but it's true i said look the way i look i've been a victim of facial profiling facial profiling my entire life because people who don't know me they think well he doesn't shave so he's a threat they clutch their little children and they lock their doors and they call 9-1-1 and when they just come walk him back that's totally good and uh and so i don't notice in jesus i will say this again he made me colorblind that's one of the things you know when we talk about seeing the unseen because you know when you read all the verses what is seen as temporary what is unseen is eternal because we look at the heart of the matter you know god told us that but what's interesting is the opposite is also true what other people see which is the color of the skin and the difference in christ you don't see that which i think is kind of cool it's true if you think about it very good and i have a great illustration of that because when i went to this event my wife was going to meet us meet up with us did i hear you say you rode with your in-laws i did and uh which was crazy look you know what the first thing and you rolled a long way with your six and a half hours and i haven't seen them in a couple months oh yeah because they've been quarantined in new mexico but missy missy's the one lining this up she was in south texas she said i'll meet you there she's just going to head north you ride with my parents because they were going to give her a ride back to south texas when all the smoke was settled because you got to realize we i have that dual citizenship going yeah well after you know a couple days you start missing the wife she starts missing me it's one of the glorious things of having a godly marriage passion desire dot dot dot whatever and so we had a plan so i'm i'm going and when as soon as i got and because of the separation you're going along with this plan because i'm pretty sure in a normal setting you and missy are together without this you know romantic interlude coming you would have never done this with i'm not sure where the the the her parents you don't even like to drive with somebody in town that's true but it's teal season so i had gotten up early the day before and i was going to want to get back which you know i got back at midnight and then i went hunting this morning so when you start looking at all this i hadn't had much sleep so she was worried about me driving by myself okay and so it was the safety so she lined that up which was fine but look you know what's interesting as soon as i got in the vehicle you know what the first thing they brought up was you're not gonna believe this the dishwasher larry said i heard it keeps coming up he said i heard you fix the dishwasher he did his laugh yeah i was like missy told you about that yeah he said i mean it's still on the center block he said so what i don't understand i hadn't seen him in two months that's the lead yeah and he said what i don't understand is why don't you just cover up the cinder block and i said i'll tell you why i hadn't thought about it but i thought for a second i thought because i want everybody to know that i did that he's now you're proud of us he hasn't seen the dishwasher so i'm i'm deducting she told him the story because look you know what the next thing he said he said why didn't you at least wash the center box i thought because i thought no one would notice the dirt i mean we have a broken dishwasher who's going to notice a little dirt on the cinder blocks i have nowhere i'm going with that i just thought what i'm thinking is you've developed a story which which riding around with your in-laws is true it is nightmarish if we're discussing what a dishwasher says i didn't say it was nightmarish you said that they brought up the dishwasher and i said well you know i'm not good at fixing things and and he said yeah i said but i did fix it and i was proud of it but maybe you're right i should have going back and thinking about it i should have thought of the uh what's those little things they put under the houses that i never figured out why people do it uh the lattice yeah because what what does that do it's like i could break one you know it's like oh i'm gonna put some lattice around my house like they hadn't lived with critters that's not gonna work well that's right so we did we wouldn't do lattice here but okay i should have done something like that well you said something about putting some curtains or something well also i always thought out if you built a tower a cool tower and used duct tape to make the tower well the last thing you would want to do is not show that you use duct tape that would be the cool part i built a tower out of duct tape it's skewed thinking but we'll overlook it okay so so before we leave that so i was just sitting there thinking when you said that at least i've been married 30 to 36 years this this year wow and my in-laws are they're gone now they're in the look in the lord and but i was just thinking when you were saying that i thought back did i ever go anywhere did i ever ride in a vehicle with my in-laws and i never did look but yeah i think that's how i maintain it look this was the first time without missy that i was alone in a vehicle with them for six and a half hours and uh it was it was comical because you know they they have yuppy tendencies and it was fascinating on what yuppies do on a road trip and what i notice is they do the opposite of everything i do they stopped where i was never surprised i would never stop here we're stopped you know we after the event i had me a little cooler and i had me some some cold cuts and some cheese and some bread and because that's very at the event it was like four o'clock we've eaten nothing i mean we've been on the road i had to go we did a meet and greet you know and he's like he he looked at me in the green room and he said i'm starving to death i said oh i forgot to tell you i don't eat before i speak sorry because because he was looking around for something to eat he thought somebody just don't have a little food well and they didn't and they had a little few little candy bars i noticed he was hammering that he had no sugar i thought that's good because he got drive back home but uh so what what what i was telling was this event what what got me you know thinking was i was surprised that during the coronavirus we were doing an event and i knew it wasn't going to be over 200 people because they have the edicts but what this was was a foster home with counseling that helped kids who basically and i met all the kids or i met a hundred of them that were there and uh you know what what what stories they told they spoke before i did some of them and uh it was very touching and i realized something that there's a lot of things out there a lot more important than the coronavirus and in this situation and they were from all different backgrounds and colors and creeds and so i got up and just felt a connection with them and what i did was when we did the meet and greet i wrote the gospel symbol because they all wanted a picture so i'd take a group picture with the family whoever their family providers or sponsors would have to stand six feet away from them or just well they all came in with a mask on and i said look if y'all want to wear the mask because i didn't have one on i said that's fine i said if you don't want to if you're if you're only wearing the mask because of me i said i'm not worried about what what you have going on in your lives is way more important than whether we get the viral i don't want the virus so but don't think you have to because of me when i said that all the kids took their masks off they looked around so the adults kept theirs i did the same thing yesterday there were five people came from arkansas to get baptized and so they got there early and so they were like well five people here to be baptized and there was nobody around i said what says bring him up to my office because we i'm going to explain to him you know what baptism is about and all that and just meet them and so they all came in with the mask of course again i didn't have one on i said look if if you're wearing that for me you don't have to wear it but if you're wearing it for you i don't mind and they and they all took their masks well i want to stress this because a lot that may offend a lot of people but look these people have some of them you know have murders for parents and people in prison and they're on drugs they've been abused and they've been used by their parents for just oh and i'm like you know what if you view me as risking my life to try to help you turn this into something positive in your life so be it i'm not worried about that at this moment this is way more important and we're going to trust god which is exactly how i talked about because i knew in two hours hour and a half to two hours i'm gonna be standing in the baptistry or grabbing a hold of them without a mask there's just some things in life that are more important exactly and i'm not gonna worry about that so so what i wanted to tell you is though so when i sign my autograph which is embarrassing but they're kids and i did notice this i would say half those kids mentioned this podcast really i was shocked so it made me feel good now i don't know if the center is encouraging that or somebody heard it and said yeah you gotta listen they're just finding it a lot of y'all we have a lot of young fans well i asked one kid because he said i love unashamed and i said really he's one of the first ones that said that i said what's the number one thing you get out of it and he said laughter and i didn't know what he meant i thought laughter i said oh you think it's funny i said well it's not really designed to be funny he said oh no it's funny no i didn't know that but i said which by the way was the number one thing for dynasty it was laughing i mean it's it's the same thing well i mean there were spiritual concepts but people enjoyed the show because it made him laugh well he must be laughing at you phil because i i didn't so i so what i did he's a funny man i wrote down the arrow pointing down the cross the tomb the arrow pointing up in the arrow pointing back down and i put jesus as lord and i signed it jason every one of them i did that 100 times well every one of them said well what what is that and i said well when i speak here in a few minutes i'm going to explain that to you well one kid who was multi-racial i'm not you know he had he had like a blonde streak on his hair good looking athletic kid you know he's probably 14 or 15. he said now what is that and i said well i'm going to explain it when i speak he said what if you forget i said well i'll tell you what i said when i start talking i said i go through there you know i'll talk a few minutes and toward the end if you think that i've forgotten which i could i said i want you to raise your hand i said i'd be embarrassed and he's like oh no i'm on it that's okay he's unashamed yeah and so i told another kid that later we had the same kind of conversation so here's what's funny i go out there and when i saw i get up to speak and i had googled uh i keep forgetting where i went where did i just stevensville yeah i don't know why i remember it but yeah you can't so i googled that two minutes before i got up because i thought cause larry come in there and said are you ready and i said ready for what i didn't know what he was telling me he's like well you're fixing to speak i was like oh i just have one speech i'm good thank you i'm always ready but then i thought well maybe i'll look up stephenville see if there's anything interesting so i googled stephenville and only one thing come up they were famous because in 2008 they spotted a ufo and it was like national news i mean these people were convincing there were interviews they were like oh we saw it you know it was a big long whatever and so when i said that i said i googled well i got up there say how many y'all duck hunt about three people raise their hand out of 200. i was like what are the rescue people eat the number one answer was beef and deer i mean beef was number one and deer and i was like oh that's why y'all look kind of like willie which was a joke pretty funny but they were you know they were healthy and hang on jesus take a break so uh we've talked about this before dad when you uh when you preach you wear your armor i mean we got the armor of of god we're talking about from ephesians 6 but you actually wear some other armor body armor right i was coached by the local swat team members yeah they all said we all wear body armor yeah we we we we we hope for the best but right that's what you need it's crazy that we're living in a town i reckon you feel like you have to have that i said whatever you guys say so we've got a new sponsor on the podcast ar 500 armor and let me tell you something these guys have something loaded for bear feel that thing right there oh you put that in inside this vest right exactly i'd rather a bullet stop right there then go slam through you that's exactly right every time i see this i think about that clint eastwood movie remember when the guy he was like the greatest rifle shooter oh yeah and he was shooting him and he kept getting up he shoot clint made his made a little he made his own he took it he took out took out his poncho and there was like five bullet holes that was a stone they got a backpack it's got one inside there you know protect your back which is pretty cool uh so anyway these guys uh that make some great uh products and so we're excited about having them on the podcast so here's what you do if you want to check them out ar 500 armor that's their name ar 500 armor dot com slash phil and they've got some offers here for since they're new to the podcast first one is if you uh if you go to them now you get 30 percent off their get started package so that includes several different things that you'll see on their website you use the code feel you get 20 percent off of everything else in the store so you can really save some money if you check these guys out ar 500 armor dot com slash phil so i do this little deal every speech i give i was like look at willie i say tv makes you look bigger so when people see me they're like boy you've lost weight no this is the way i've always looked the problem is ducks are appetizers that's what i'm after i was like now when you get into deer you got all-you-can-eat buffet that's what see willie's big deer hunter he just looked at the what he could eat and said i'm going with the deer that was a few chuckles i thought tough crowd because i thought that was some one of my better jokes and it just so then i said i googled stephenville and guess what up and guess what came up you all saw a ufo they all roared what just the place come down so i thought oh i've hit a nerve and i said i knew i was in the right place i said cause i got an uncle just like you his name is psy oh they're falling out of there all you gotta do is mention size name and people that's right start laughing get the same reason so that was my connection and so look so i look to the left i see a hand up i thought what's this kid got us i'm like oh that's my kid i'm like three minutes into it he got that hand up i thought okay this is going to get awkward right to the explanation i said see this guy over here he's got his hand up i said here's why and i went through a sign you know jesus the arrow jesus coming down he died on the cross he was buried he was raised and he's coming back there's two kinds of people those who are ready and those that will be surprised i mentioned the first thessalonians five so i started the speech i explained the bible in less than 60 seconds i mean and we just kind of went from there and then i said how many of y'all love jesus and it was it was a more raucous response than everything else but it wasn't raucous enough for me so i you know i was like hey we're going to heaven let let's act like it and i think at that point the crowd kind of changed and it was a really good event and then i just focused on the kids but when i got back to the end with jesus and this is what i wanted to say is that i said look i got three questions for you i've done this many times on the podcast how did you get here because i wanted those kids to know you're made in the image of god i don't care what anybody told you what your parents told you or what you're made in the image of god you're a masterpiece and of course there was a few amens the kids were just because that's what they need to hear they've been told to junk you know their whole life you're here to share jesus i introduced him to you you go back read the book of john see what you think about him i think you'll fall in love with him now you know what your purpose is go share him that's what i'm doing to y'all i told him about my biggest weakness being public speaking well they all laugh i was like god takes your weakness and turns it into his strength that's what i'm doing here and so then i said well how are you leaving well nobody knew the answer to that so i paraphrased acts 1 flying i said see i believe in an ifo they're all looking i i said ifo nobody i said what is an ifo nobody nobody they were just looking i saw a couple of them look at their phones i was like you're googling ifo i said it's an identified flying object in this case it's a being and his name is jesus that's how we're leaving the earth so i went out and had a prayer with him for the kids you know and then i came back another six and a half hours riding back but here's what i found out about my in-laws it's a lot like me and my wife we only have one thing in common jesus a love for jesus and the and their daughter and your wife i mean that's two things that come well okay technically i guess so but if i hadn't had that one thing in common with her i wouldn't that would have never happened that's true but you're right and so we come back they stayed awake i made it three or four hours sleep we go till hunting this morning and i just knew we were going to get them because they shot three while i was gone sunday morning right three three three singles which i didn't feel too bad because i'm like well they killed everything that come in because saturday we killed nothing right but i thought man i was doing the lord's work preaching jesus was just selfish i should have been doing that but this morning time the wind was blowing and i thought i just cannot believe i did all this to get back and we got nothing yeah and then at 7 45 we heard the sound which is pretty late for way late that the the prime time is 6 45 7 15. depending on what time zone you're in so at 7 45 we heard the sound that makes all of our hair stand up on the back of the neck it's something like this it feels like i'm saying everybody starts talking in gibberish it's like a little holy spirit breakout in the blind it's that you know and everybody's like don't move and it's everybody's moving gravity don't move don't be shaking the string the cameraman clanking around the way out of the camera so i looked ducks going they just came over and they're going so fast straight down and look they go down there about a 75 yards 100 yards below us and just hook hard right yeah hear the camera come on i told jace i said jase get ready here to come yeah and they they came they got scattered out so i was just hoping that nobody would jump the gun but it was only i mean we had the professionals there you got me jay and phil feel inside who is a professional but he's he's liable to do anything at any any moment he gets a little antsy he's a loose cannon shocker shocker so i was like please don't please don't shoot because i was waiting for them all to get in there because this is my first month of the year and i went because i watched the they filmed it so i i didn't know what i said but i said all right i've never said that before i said all right and we boom boom boom boom and i hadn't shot since last year i went boom one boom two bump three of course i was sitting right on my left eye too and what's funny is when they all were down you only get three shots i said well i went five no five for three we didn't pick up at six there was eight we shot six and so i said i got five for a three we got a man claiming ducks i said wow that's pretty empty so he's not claiming just one now he's claiming two per shot yeah so it was awesome i mean what's funny is i told phil i was like it's probably the most tired i've ever been you know last night when i got home it was it was 11 whatever almost midnight and i because i figured my wife she's in the bed because she's like yeah okay i'm see when you get back but i thought that meant i'm going to bed and i was literally delirious and i walked in i was like this is the most tired i've ever been you know it's all like i'm on the way to my bedroom and my phone goes off and it was from my wife and uh she's like can't wait till you get here what well i'm here calling you from the bed i thought i'm so tired that i i literally it's all i can do just to get to the bed and i so i i got there and i'm like i wasn't as tired as i thought i was the only difference between what he just said and the reality of the situation i told him when he told us that tale this morning i said jason let me explain something you're 50. i'm 74. i said when you get to be 74 and your dog tired it doesn't make any difference when you look at your woman and she's clothed or not clothed you're still tired that's the difference between 54 and 74. so when you were finished i just wanted to give him some encouragement when you were 50 there would have been a spark that you weren't there whoa i'm not tired what i thought these days i'm like i'm tired when i got here and i'm looking at it i'm like i'm still tired i'm not tired anymore old age is creeping in so we enjoy a good godly marriage you know it was god's idea not mine a lot of people they're like oh we shouldn't talk about that well god did he he designed it go for it which is interesting let's take a break [Music] so one of our favorite sponsors jace is 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they're going to let you keep it and to make sure you love it so that's that's people that stand behind this key in this neck of the woods don't put it out by the dumpster for sure so and also they have just a forever warranty forever really that's what it says forever warranty so i guess they plan on going to heaven they plan on that's right so check these guys out all form a-l-o-f-o-r-m.com unashamed all form dot com slash unashamed you're going to get 20 off all orders just because you're a unashamed listener which is interesting because um you know that's basically an adrenaline rush you know in a different sort of way so yesterday i was preaching at wfr and i was i mean i was so excited but i woke up i felt bad because i've been having some sinus problems for a couple of weeks got an infection and so i just man i was so excited about this text because i was in john 11 you know the resurrection and the life i mean just and we had talked about it we talked about the people you get all your material from the podcast a lot of it i did yeah i quoted you in it at the at the end of it i had a when i read about him coming out of the grave i i did a mummy walk on stage you know it was the first zombie apocalypse that's right it lasted four days and that got some huge laughs but yesterday was funny since the coronavirus at our church you know we've been just people are spread out in a big huge room and it's just been a hard audience to you know from a speaking standpoint or a worship standpoint it's really hard because you're not getting much back from them you know it's just i don't know if it's spread out people are tired i don't know what it is now in the other nothing but their eyeballs showing well a lot of that mass that's right so but yesterday we had because the governor just you know we're in phase three in louisiana so you can get 75 percent of your audience well i didn't think well i didn't know that yeah it just happened so i i thought well that ain't gonna make a difference because a lot of our people are watching from home anyway but it did make a difference we picked up about 150 people in the big room well that made a huge difference yeah so i kind of felt bad but i was so excited about this text you know so i'm just like praying you know give me a jolt of holy spirit something you know because i just didn't feel well and uh so i go in there inman tommy emmon had preached the week before and i heard that he did a joke about me at the beginning he got up wearing a vest and then he and i was listening to it i couldn't get the video on my thing but i could hear the audio so i didn't see it but he took the vest off and he said well i'm not like some guys i don't have a gut to protect or something like you know tap me so he poked the bear yeah so i had a whole little bit lined up for him and which was a great way to start it you know well first of all there's a little scripture reader she's 10 years old and we have kids read scriptures you know and it was the tonnage's daughter and she had helped with a hurricane just i always find out a little interesting facts about him so i said what does she like to do and so she they send me this thing because we do the scripture first it says she likes coloring and uh something else and then she wants to work at stanley steemer when she grows up what that's what say so when i when i said that like she's coming up on stage and i said this little girl helped with the hurricane everybody's clapping because and now my adrenaline is was the point i'm trying to make i'm getting into it you know i don't forget about i got to sign this thing because now i'm in front of an audience and i'm saying this they all just start clapping for this little girl and i said and by the way she loves coloring and whatever else it wasn't she wants to work at stanley steemer when she grows up well it was just a roar of laughter and then i said something like now this girl knows where she wants to go and she's a little bitty thing you know so that so it's getting me going backstory to that i don't know i i asked shawn about it her dad and he said oh she's serious about that they got a stanley steelers like that they they to clean the carpet so they got they rented one and she was so fascinated by it she was like i want to work for these people yeah i was like well she knows what she wants to do so i get up and i'm like so the uh i hear that tommy yemen decided to poke the bear and so everybody starts laughing when emin gets up like he's gonna walk out and everybody starts laughing but i'm getting them into it now and i said and not only that he poked him right in the belly and more laughter so i said but you know what lucky for emin i'm like former first lady michelle obama when they go low i go high of course everybody laughs then i said just like inman's voice and then i went into a about a three-minute rep on it but who don't know edmond he has a tenor i mean a tenor's tenor a tenor on steroids i said you know i lost my video i said i didn't know if i was listening to a sermon or an opera last so then i started imitating his voice i mean by now sighs back there just like i can hear him over everybody else so by the time i get into that text you know i'm now i'm i'm ready and the whole sermon between kurt lively who we've mentioned on podcast 4 and psy i could just hear a whole like i'm preaching and i and i didn't i didn't stop you know i didn't make mention of it but the whole time i'm preaching it's a dueling back and forth between kurt lively yelling jesus and other things i couldn't make out and sigh i could hear psy he's not as loud but i could still hear him the whole time he'd he commentary yeah the last time i preached i just he had a running commentary that's what he did to me and finally i said hey let me let me do this because i'm because i he you ask him to speak and he's like no i don't do that but when you speak he won't shut up you can't shut him out i don't know that's why i'm named after him well he's some kind of one-man or two-man amen section no but it is fun i think when people interact that's why i loved the event and the crowd i was at i was going to say the other thing the other adrenaline rush i was i was so sleepy this morning in the dark blind which never happens but i just and any sleep right but when those duck when that i have been floating on air it's like immediately so it just shows you we're done with this podcast so you're going to crash and burn into this when the when the burn when the crashing burn hit y'all what to say is about tommy emmy the first time i met him because people they're like who is tommy because i played fast pitch softball which is the equivalent to baseball i mean you do the same thing you they're throwing the ball extreme you know i mean it's it's hardball with a bigger ball and uh somebody recruited him to come play one night because we didn't have somebody i didn't know he was that joker can hit he played college baseball yeah i mean first time he hit i was like oh my goodness it makes a whole another sound look he turned around and went hey guys what do you think of that one and i thought boy that guy's got a high-pitched voice it was like i just see this manly shot and then when he said that i thought well this guy's weird but that was my first impression of him so when you said that it's pretty well i sent him a i sent him a text after you know because that is just merciless you know and then i said i said you know you got to come out of it at some point and finally i said well you know what wasn't a joke was emma and sermon last week yeah it was fantastic i agree so that kind of led me into that whole thing but anyway it was fun to do it i i we'd like to do that back and forth i do little funny videos about our other preacher it just makes it you know it makes it fun uh i guess we need to get into ephesians six right well we introduced it maybe a couple of uh podcasts again yeah i think it was the last one and what we're gonna do for our next it was a question i wanted to give a teaser for our next podcast which we'll have some guests which you know i'm super excited about so we want you to listen to that and and really we just what is that i think yeah zach first found them his two guys their their podcast is called just thinking and uh they've done about 100 just a little over 100 episodes so not as many as us but they have their podcasts are long they're like long form they do an hour and a half to two to two and a half hour podcast so everything is kind of basically once a week right yeah one it's the same concept but they're they're a lot smarter guys than we are but you know what's weird is we're from different parts of the country we have different backgrounds but we're different colors or different color which i didn't even know that when i listened to them but it doesn't matter i think that's what we one of the benefits of being in christ is you know we are colorblind i mean it it doesn't matter we we have this what we share in jesus well what i like about these guys is that they they go at it from the bible just like we do but then they talk probably more than we do about cultural issues but i mean it was just you know what it is yeah they do they're not scared of any subject and but what occurred to me is that they're unashamed that's right that's what brought us together there's no we weren't trying to promote them for any reason other than we just we found some guys who are also unashamed or on the same page so it'd be an interesting talk yep let's take a break so the question was asked what does covet 19 have to do with losing your home uh stay in it so long you finally just burn it down in the road well this says a lot uh and the reason why is because the fbi has reported that since the virus struck cyber crime is up 75 good good more people know what cybercrime is just sounds bad so basically criminals get online forge your signature uh and basically claim the deed to your house and this has happened to a lot of people unfortunately so there's a company home title lot that protects your home's legal title so the way you get to find out about these guys is you go to home title dot com register your address make sure you still own your home you use the code fill you get 30 days of free protection so that's home title lock dot com code name fill 30 days check it out so ephesians 6 somebody sent in a question and said they would like to hear what we thought about the armor of god and um and that's a great so last time i think james kind of gave a 30 000 foot of the first three chapters i believe yeah i i you know and basically the book kind of breaks in two halves because the first half it's more of this is christ this is what we believe this is you know he kind of gives the foundation and then you get to four five and six it's all applications here's how you live because of the first you know because of the gospel because of jesus here's how you live well look and think of all the passages that say that you think about romans 12 1-2 everybody reads the part that says don't conform to the pattern of the world but be transformed but that whole in romans 12 it started saying in view of god's mercy and i believe it's titus that says you know people say but just say no that was famous thing nancy reagan even just the the just thinking podcast have a have a just say no uh say no campaign but it says the grace of god i think it's titus 2 14. the grace of god god's riches at christ expense if you did the what are those called anagram acronyms acronym that's close same words anagram is the opposite of that yeah god's riches at christ's expense grace unmerited favor from god however you wanted to find it that in view of god's mercy his love on a cross that teaches us to say no it's not about just saying no to worldly passions and concepts that's what the book of ephesians really sets up you know he says it's for grace you've been saved it's not through yourselves it's the gift of god and he brought us together we talking about race relations you know ephesians 2. he he made us one in christ he's not even addressing the color thing which is ridiculous he's much broader than yeah jew and gentile all under the umbilical christ he goes to the church you know in the in the the grace that have been administered to you but it's also about the people doing the work not necessarily we in our churches where we view the paid guys doing the work we like that view well you work yesterday which you didn't even get paid for that but no you're inspiring in by pointing people to jesus to go out during the week in their homes and their schools in their neighborhoods their job play and share jesus the people were doing the work during during the week and so then he talks about living as children of light ephesians five being taters of god he i love the contrast of light and darkness he makes this deal about don't get drunk on wine in ephesians five but be filled with the spirit you know be high on jesus in the spirit well then he has this marriage thing people go to ephesians 5 and talk about marriage and i started this talk talking about marriage but he said oh no that's great but i'm talking about being married to christ and then he comes all the way down after he talks about the kids and then the social roles of society and he does all that talk about relationships you know you got husbands wives in chapter five children and parents six and the social social makeup of the workplace in chapter six and then he gets to the armor of god and he makes a statement that is so profound it says for our struggles not against flesh and blood we just spent three paragraphs talking about relationships but it's against the rulers against the authorities against the powers of the dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm and it only makes sense if you miss the fact that when jesus when we covered over in john 12 what what shall i say save me from this hour it's time for satan to be crushed from genesis 3 15. someone from a woman the seed of a woman would crush satan so here he is by my account over 5 000 years earlier the prediction was made so here's jesus father save me from this hour is that what i should say no it was for this very reason i came to this hour father glorify your name it sounded like thunder and the voice from heaven said oh i have glorified you this voice was for your benefit not mine now i'm here on the earth time for satan to be crushed uh now is the time for judgment on this world now since i'm here what i'm fixing to do the prince of this world shall be driven out i'm here to take care of satan for you i'm going to conquer him he said but when i am lifted up from the earth i'll draw all men to myself he said this so what kind of death so by his death he delivered us from satan and proves it by being resurrected three days later so when you begin ephesians the apostle paul he first tells you what you have that power is like the working of his mighty strength know that you've been empowered by god's spirit because you came to jesus which he exerted in christ when he raised him from the dead seated him at the right hand in the heavenly realms they're all there 24 7 to keep the cleanse far above all rule and authority so then he says as for you in lieu of the question was how do we know we're armed well know where you came from as for you this is all humanity you were dead in your transgressions and sins if you're like uh-oh everybody's out no savior no no remission of sins uh it's not there no resurrection in which you used to follow you're dead in your sins when you used to live when you followed the ways of the world and the ruler of the kingdom of the air there's satan the spirit powerful who is now at work and those who are disobedient but you made it out of it all of us lived among them at one time gratifying to create them or sinful nature following its desires and thoughts we were by nature objects of wrath but going back to john chapter 12 because of his great love for us what am i do father my hour has come let's save them let's save them uh but because of his great love for us god who's rich in mercy made us alive with christ even when we were dead and transgressions just by grace you've been saved it's a free gift by the time he gets from there over to the end he said finally be strong in the lord and in his mighty power your sins have been removed you're guaranteed to be raised from the dead he's at the right hand of the father mediating for you everything's been covered and i did it and it's free of charge but make sure you're aware that your enemy is still prowling around like a roaring lion seeking whom he can devour stay the course and don't back off because i've done it for you if you can keep it hang on jesus take a break i think what's important about this the reason we're stressing this you're like well how come you're not talking about the armor of god because what we've illustrated spirit of god is your armor it's not it's not your wife you know people they sit down and say well i got a pro you know i'm not living for jesus but my wife she's the problem no you know or you got children and parents they're like i don't know what i'm going to it's not your struggle's not against flesh and blood he you're targeting or you know the holy spirit is through the words of paul what the problem is there's a bigger problem and the real enemy is sin in our lives and it's coming from the opposite of everything godly which are the spiritual forces the evil one now we blame people that's how you you've heard the statement you know you love the sinner and hate the sin but when you say that that's a mouthful because most of the time we just put them all together and say i don't want anything to do with you and so when you get to the armor i think number one the number one thought that stands out in this is these are people who are ready to go public for jesus and i mean go public in their home in their workplace where wherever they're at in their marriage i'm going to make jesus the top priority because when you do that well the spiritual forces of evil they're going to attack that and all you've got to do to test this because a lot of i've had debates with people who don't believe it's our responsibility or god's using us to go out and share jesus they just i've heard them say well it's just a private thing between you and god keep coming keep your religion away from mainstream right i'm like well why are we on the earth what is the purpose to me that's the number two question when i ask those three questions that event number two is why are we here we all agree on how we got here as far as in the religious world god made us why are we here i believe we're here to point people to jesus right when you do that there's going to be an attack so he then and a lot of people who disagree with that i'm i'm like well why do you need an armor what's the if we're not supposed to go out there and do daring things eat you know much less in our home but i'm why do we need armor you're up against your enemy who's been destroyed for you but he's still there and you're like uh let's see what's he famous for lies and murder so well that was the core point of my lesson yesterday from john 11. it's funny how it all kind of streams together because if jesus is the resurrection and the life and he says if you live for me you'll never die and even if you die you're going to live forever because you're going to raise you up so if that's true i said just what you just said just we're playing out we're just playing the clock out here trying to point as many people to that as possible and i was like people that don't understand that or know that they don't realize they're following the evil yeah they're just living out their little ideologies or whatever they don't know what drives them this is why we we say what's what's the name of your podcast unashamed because you say where'd that come from because i'm not ashamed of the gospel for it's the power of god there's armor here it's the power of god for the salvation of everyone who believes first for the jew then for the gentile for in the gospel a righteousness of god is revealed it's by faith so when you look at that you say i just need to live by faith and the enemy my enemy will never get gained back control of my life again and you notice how they they graduate like you get to 6 14 truth and then righteousness and then being ready to present the gospel is what jay said with anybody that would ask and then there's faith and then there's a helmet of salvation there's the sword of the spirit which is the word of god and then he says you want to pray you know well but you know and i it's all spiritual warfare i have a little different take i mean i believe if our purpose is to share jesus despite your flaws or despite your personality or even your talents there's different ways to share jesus as long as we we got a job to do that's right so when i when i read with the belt of truth well i immediately think when that conversation with pilate when he said what is truth which i've always said he was close but he should have said who because he was jesus had just said in john 14 which we'll get to eventually i am the truth and so i'm like i'm doing this in the name of jesus with the belt of truth and you look at what's next it says the breastplate of righteousness which is the grace of god teaches us to say no and to say yes to a lot of things so when whatever situation you get into when you're sharing jesus are out there you have a responsibility to hunger and thirst for what's right you want we want to do what's right because of who who we are and then you get to the next one the feet fitted with the readiness the gospel which is obvious it's one i'll say and then in addition take up the shield of faith well jesus is not going to tap you on the shoulder while you're doing this right and say hey good job it it's hard to live out faith because faith being sure of hope for uncertain of what we don't see because all you're going to do when you go into battle and you bring up jesus or you bring up someone's life is it's going to get uncomfortable and people always ask me that they're like well i can't be comfortable talking with other people's lives and getting in their business and talking about jesus i'm like perfect i'm never comfortable doing that i would rather watch a football game but i know that i'm going to trust god and we're going to do some spiritual war here and i don't have all the answers but i know who does i'm going to point people to jesus it's going to ask answer your three questions which is how they get here what am i doing here and how am i leaving you get those answered what are we worried about the rest of it doesn't matter when you walk as jesus did that is your armor uh no one who is born of god will continue to sin he's talking about as a pattern your pattern will be walking in the light as jesus did god's seed remains in him the holy spirit he cannot go on sinning because he's been born of god this is how we know who the children of god are and who the children of the devil are you say how would you know anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of god as a pattern neither is anyone who does not love his brother it's not complex your armor is you just do what's right and you love your brother yeah i think a lot of people have a hard time understanding that because they're like well but i've sinned so i'm disqualified i don't share jesus because i have sinned in my life you know i'm waiting to get perfect for him to do it yeah and don't misunderstand what he's reading jesus has made you perfect despite your past your presence read first john 1 and 2 and 3 and it helped me a lot and that's what part of living in the light is about is that when we do mess up we are honest and you know we get to the end about praying in the spirit on all occasions well you're communicating with what you're representing which is what's different than sunday morning christianity versus people out there in the war everyone you see and you form any kind of relationship in 15 20 minutes 30 minutes or an hour it does not take long now to pretty well get a pretty good take on who i'm talking to is he a spiritual guy or is he or is he up to no good right it comes forth pretty quick well where i'm getting my view on this is when he gets down to verse 20 of ephesians 6 he said you know he said pray that i will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel and to me that's what it's all about all these all these weapons go back to the gospel in some capacity salvation well yeah jesus jesus is who saves us uh you know you know the sword of the spirit which is the word of god jesus and the bible yes i've run upon many ones jason filth was coming out of their mouth a lot of cursing until i brought up jesus and began to point them toward jesus and every time they all of a sudden the the filthy language it all dries up quick because it's a great and award i want to mention this one last thing i know we're out of time but it in verse 20 it says for which i am an ambassador in change in chains and so when you read it corinthians 5 you realize that god is making an appeal through us we're ambassadors when you go out there and decide to represent jesus in a public way that is that is your armor yeah god is providing all the weapons everything it's all coming from him you're just taking the stand because he says three times ten when the day of evil comes when that probably today if not i know it's tomorrow yeah but we're gonna stand in jesus and be purposeful in public in private for jesus christ we're going to stumble as we go forth but your overall life is the tenor of your life we're out of time throne of shame appreciate you guys watching but i got one point i got to make so we're going to do it over time for those of you that have that have in the woods so appreciate you guys thanks for listening to the unashamed podcast help us out by rating us on itunes and don't miss an episode by subscribing on youtube and be sure to click that little bell to get notified about new episodes and for even more content that you won't get anywhere else subscribe to blaze tv at blazetv.com unashamed you

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