Ep 1010 | Jase Issues a Correction for What He Said About Missy
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What about you? Welcome back to Unashamed. We're going in for our, Lisa's got her six-month oncology follow-up, you know, because she had the breast cancer. Everything's been great. The surgery was amazing. All the prayers have been fantastic. So now every six months you got to go and, you know, just make sure nothing new has popped up or whatever. So it's always a reminder that, you

you know, we're still in this. I thought I told her about it. We prayed about it today. And cause you never want to just take that for granted. It's like, once you've dealt with something, you know, it's just like, but it's always a reminder that, you know, we're on this earth. It's just, you got stuff you got to deal with, you know, time keeps marching on. It keeps marching. You know what, you know what I'm scheduled for Al?

At 46 years old. Your first colon check? A little thing. We like to call it colonoscopy. Oh, yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, it's fun, Zach. Well, let me just give you. It's a barrel of lass that night before. I'm excited about it. I don't know where they're at in the colonoscopy procedure. Yeah. But the last time, I think it's the only time I had that procedure. It's still bad. It's been a while.

But I will give you some words of advice. I think I shared this before. They handed me what looked like a strawberry milkshake. I don't know if they still do this. And they said, we want you to drink this and it'll clean you out. So I'm going to give you some words of advice. And that's a short statement, but it means a lot. I was in a hospital bed.

when they handed this to me. They were trying to, I had some, something, some kind of a parasite or something. I couldn't figure out what was wrong. So you did yours as a test. It was a test. It wasn't a screen. We were trying to look. Here's my advice. When you drink said shake, be closer to the commode than I was. I was 12 feet away. I would recommend everyone. If they hand you a shake,

Go ahead and go to the bathroom, although that's not a normal place to eat and drink. Yeah. Be sitting on that pot when you drink that because that was really incredible. It was molten lava with such force that it literally lifted me off the commode. And I mean, within 12 seconds.

But you did make it. Did you make it to the commode? I mostly made it. And at that point, it didn't really matter. But I just thought, is this what we're doing? And I told the nurse, I said, hey, how about a heads up on handing me that shake? She's like, what? I was like, because it's clean up on aisle four.

She said, well, that doesn't normally affect people that way. I said, well, we need an amendment. Some people make calls immediate. I mean, as soon as that hit your stomach. I just couldn't believe it. I thought, what are we doing here? So that's my only words of advice. That's really the only thing I remember. I do remember when I came to because they put you under. Yeah.

There was a nurse pushing my wheelchair. I mean, they put me in a wheelchair. There's nothing wrong with me. Yeah. But you know how they procedure. Yeah.

And she had a grin on her face. And I said, what's so funny? That's when I came to. I just looked up and I thought. You don't want to come out of a deep sleep and people are laughing. That makes you a little bit suffering. Yeah. And she was laughing. And there was a couple of her friends there. I had a little posse there.

By friends, you mean colleagues, like other nurses? Yeah, they were joking around. And in the moment, I didn't mean it hateful, but I just said, I'm sitting here buck naked with a little gown on, and they're laughing. And I said, what's so funny? And she said, well, you invited the whole wing to a fish fry. And you were talking about you were going to share Jesus. And I said, really? Really?

I said, well, why is that funny? And they just, she said, well, I thought it was funny that you're just inviting everybody that we pass. So I thought, you know what? So you went highways and byways. I thought, you know, that's a pretty good condition. That made you feel good. If I'm out in the spirit world and I'm inviting people to fish fries.

Because if she had been laughing because she said you were just cussing when you came to, then you would start worrying. I'm worried. I'm worried what I'm going to say or do. I do, too. I can't wait to hear from Jill. I may or may not have said some things when I got another procedure that Jill was in on. Well, that's what I'm saying. In the room with me. Prepare your speech. And if you told me what I said, I was like...

I don't know where that came from, Jill, but it was not true. I don't know what I, you know, but yeah. Well, that's what my other advice was going to be, Zach, is to prepare your speech now that you give in the spirit world, which made me rethink my idea when it said Jesus, you know, in first Peter three, he went and spoke to the spirit. You know, I actually think that he was talking about the, those, uh, in the days of Noah. However,

I was preaching a sermon in the spirit because I was not aware. I had no memory. You know, it seemed like I was going to have this procedure. And the next thing I knew, I was in a wheelchair with nurses laughing. Yeah. And there is something in the Bible, a lot in the Old Testament, especially about the subconscious level.

communications through dreams. I mean, there's a lot of stuff in there about that. She also said, I tried to get up on the table during the procedure and like, you know, I just tried to get up. That's nice. And I thought, well, y'all, y'all might should have given me a little more of that dose. That's on you. You don't want to be getting up. I think I said, I'm out of here. I love the fact that we started the podcast. We don't have a cold open. And Jace said, I will figure it out. And this is what,

Like literally completely unplanned. You brought it up and then he went there. I did bring it up. I didn't know where to go, but this is where we figured it out. We figured out our opening story. The colon. And I had a hot take on that because that's what that developed into. So the problem is that now, unlike, I didn't realize Jace's was some sort of test in the hospital, but for a screening, they give you Jace about two or three of those bottles.

And you have a schedule. You take one at this time, then about three hours later, you take another one. And then the last one, this is what got me. So I mean, you're on the pot all night. You know, you start this process like early evening. And then they say you take the last bottle of it at 1 a.m. And so I'm like, and I'm reporting in at 530 to do this thing.

So basically what you're saying is there's no sleep because you can't go to sleep. If you're going to take the last one at one, guess where you're going to be from about one to three 30. So by the end it's three 30, it's time to get up and go get the thing done. So the worst part about it is you don't get any sleep and you feel terrible the next day. But the best part about it is when they knock you out for that hour, however long it is, it's the best sleep you've ever had. But one,

when you wake up you feel terrible because you didn't get any sleep the night before so anyway it's not I have to do it every five years you know because I have polyps or whatever so this year is an even year is the division of five so next year I'll have to get it done again and I just dread it you know but you know

Well, it is. A lot of people die from colon cancer that don't have to because if you got the test, you'd know. And so it's very treatable. Well, it's 845. You're supposed to get one. Yeah. You're doing the right thing. And I want to encourage people out there because, look, it's Johnny Howard always says because Johnny found his early and he, you know, it would have killed him if he hadn't been checked. So it was kind of. Well, I'm glad you brought it up because I wanted to impart that wisdom. Yeah.

So get close to the commode and work on your speech. Yeah. That is encouraging. And look into what you talk about when you're just not aware of what you're speaking about. I thought that was interesting. Pretty good. So I'm loving it. Matty, this is what happens when you have a podcast with old men. These are the kind of cold opens you get into. I'm feeling older. Actually, we're in the split of duck season.

And I had a rare getting the band back together on the treasure hunt yesterday.

Well, it's funny, Jace, you said that because right now Fox is promoting Fox Nation. And so they show all their different things. And they have some pretty interesting stuff out there. And the last shot they have, and it's just a quick one, but it's like a second. It's you, Murray, Cy, and Jep. It's just like a, it's a, oh, by the way, we got these guys too. So I just thought it was interesting that they're running that. I actually saw that. And I thought, well, I guess we're still in the game. We're still in the game.

And look, we're thankful for Unashamed Nation for that venture. I keep saying I'm not sure what the Lord is going to do with that. I think it's the best show that very few people have watched. However, I mean, considering humanity is a big place. But I do think I was proud of the God family treasure hunting in that episode.

was portrayed, I think, in a noble way. And look, shows live on. I mean, shows live on now, so who knows where it'll wind up. Here's what's crazy about yesterday. We went to one of the places that we actually filmed, and it was the first time me, Jep, and Murray have been together since for filming for the show. What's so funny is Jep had none of his equipment. He borrowed...

Some things never change. Me and Murray, it was like, oh, I got there at 7 o'clock. Jep and his buddy rolled in at 9.30. I mean, two and a half hours. And so we're out there. So we have a rookie out there, Jep's friend, who's actually Murray's son-in-law. And wouldn't you know it, we hunted all day. And nobody even said bye. Look, you know how I left? It was about, I'd been there since 7.00.

I looked up at 3.30 and no one's there because you get so into your world. I mean, we ate lunch together. We, you know, shared our finds and all this. And they were just gone, which I found out later. They just went to another field. But it wasn't like, hey, Jace, I called Murray. I was like, what happened? And he's like, yeah, we went to another field.

But the rookie who Jeff's buddy. Is this Blake? Yeah. Okay. Blake found the best thing. He found a 1941. I mean, 1941. He found an 1841 silver dime in a place we've hunted about five times, which shows you, you never find it all. And didn't even know what it was. I mean, it was a seeded Liberty. We look at a coin and we're like, we instantly know. And he's like, I found some weird stuff.

And so everybody hoot and holler, but it kind of made me think about where we're at as far as new creations. And, you know, when you first get in a treasure hunt, it's so fun. Every find is you're running around acting just crazy. And which he was, he was more shocked.

I think, and just bewildered. But he hunted after that harder than all of us. Even when we broke for lunch, he didn't. Oh, yeah. He was like, okay, now I got to find another one. Knowing him as well as I do in his personality, he's probably fixing to get seriously into treasure hunting. But it made me think about how you're first converted and you're so excited and you're living on cloud nine. And then-

You kind of have to find ways in what we talked about our whole last podcast of being renewed day by day. Yep. And it just made me think of a line I heard in a sermon not too long ago is, you know, if you're bored in your faith, so is God. You know, it was a good line. It's like, if you're bored...

What do you think he's doing? Looking like I've given you everything you possibly need, including the spirit of my son for you to be vibrant. And I think he made the point of,

You know, in the book of Acts, they had the Holy Spirit and they were actually listening. Yeah. And so I do believe he still speaks today and we have his word and we have his spirit. The question is, you know, are you listening to the Spirit's lead? I might have to write that down because... Write it down. That would make a great sermon title, Is God Bored With Your Faith? Yeah. Okay.

I thought it was a great line. Uh, and, and I can't, I feel so bad. I can't remember where I heard this, but all this stuff went into my head and I

Another point that was brought out was he's like, you know, we talk about having our daily quiet time. He said, why don't we call it that? He said, it should be a roaring time. We should be roaring with the Holy Spirit instead of, oh, you know. But I just thought it was a good take on realizing that you have the spirit of the creator of the universe in your mortal body. Right.

Romans 8, 11, if the spirit is living in you, the same spirit that gave life to Jesus and raised him from the dead, if he's living in you, will also give life to your mortal body, which we focus on that as a futuristic thing, but he's literally living in us. Yeah. Which should be, which should be very fulfilling. I mean, it's interesting. We had a,

A few weeks ago, I had on my other podcast, I had a couple on that they came from Silicon Valley. They've gone all over the world. Like this couple is so interesting. He was a founder of I think the company was DivX, which is early days Internet, had a huge tech exit.

was doing the Silicon Valley thing, going off to these foreign countries. And they were doing the psychedelics and trying to find God in all these places, all the retreats and all the different ways of trying to find him and create this new society. And they wound up in Black Mountain. And Vanessa, she talks about this on the podcast. She said she was talking about when they moved here,

She said, I came to the church for the first time and kind of shared her experience of coming to know Christ. And the big thing that was hard for her to overcome, she said, I'm looking at everybody here and they're not aspiring to do all these crazy things. And I'm like, are these people really satisfied? Are these morons really satisfied? And then what she's come to realize over the last several years is that she said, now I live a very quiet life.

local life, raising my family and being in the community. And she said, I've never had more peace in my life. And what she thought would have bored her has now been the thing. And it's all through the spirit through which she's finding fulfillment. And I thought about this verse when she said that I didn't say it on, on the not yet now podcast, but I want to read it here because it speaks to it. First Thessalonians four, Paul says, make it your ambition to lead a quiet life.

You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of others and outsiders so that you will not be dependent on anybody. And I think some people would read something like that, like, oh, that life is boring. If you find the life in Christ boring, I think you're not experiencing a life in Christ. You know what I mean? There's a piece that comes with this.

So, Zach, I guess you're the only one of the three of us that has had the pleasure, I guess it was a pleasure, to make a Christian film.

You made it about us, about our family. But what's the importance, you think, of having Christian films and being able to put those themes out there and really to do them well? Well, you know what? We are shaped, our imagination for the world is profoundly shaped by the content and the media we consume. So I think it's very important.

for Christians to be in this business and the content space, particularly with film. That's exactly why Angel Studios, some good friends of ours, have an upcoming movie called Homestead, which is about a nuclear blast that devastates Los Angeles. When I watched it, though, I was thinking, you know what I would do?

If we ended up at some type of apocalyptic event, you know what I would do? I would make my way down to where you guys are at because I know, Jace, that you would survive, that you would feed me if I show up. So I have a homestead plan, by the way, already in place. And I'm a long way from Los Angeles. That's true.

basically what happens is there's a nuclear blast that devastates all of Los Angeles. So kind of like a apocalyptic end of the world type movie. Um, it's got Neil McDonough in it, which you, you love him out. He's been in so many good things. He's a fantastic actor and a believer. Yeah. But in this one, it's, you know, you have all the, like the dilemmas of what, like what would happen in some type of, of a apocalyptic event. There's a lot of moral dilemmas in it that you got to work through. But, um, I'm,

I love those kind of films anyways. I mean, I think I've said it on a previous promotion that I love anything that like apocalyptic or dystopian. So this is kind of in that vein. It's done. It's a very, very good movie. I highly recommend it. Yeah. It becomes about humanity. This, this film is coming to theaters December the 20th. So we don't want you to miss it.

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I was thinking about that from the standpoint of in the last podcast, we were talking about the idea of being renovated. And you think, man, I don't know, you know, believers, non-believers, would they really get that? But they do because, you know, they do because what has been the most consistent reality show for the last 25 years?

It's house renovation shows. They're everywhere. And look, they live on. You just put some different people in there, a different set of people, a different couple, and they roll. And the reason why is we love renovation. We love to see something old become something new. So don't tell me it's not relevant into our culture and exciting. And even in the spiritual sense, I mean, this was a couple –

who, we need to have them on this podcast too, but this is a couple who, they were not Christians. They had no concept of the God of the Bible, but they were seeking to create a better society. They were seeking to renovate

the earth with, I mean, it had different language for it. It was all humanistic and, and, and self-centered in their approach, but, but they had, they, they saw the brokenness around them. And that was part of the conversation too. Like they saw that brokenness and like, we see the brokenness, we see that society's broken. And then they were trying to find a fix for it. And what they ended up discovering in the end was that they were basically trying to build a tower of Babel, you know, in their own life. And so I think it is interesting. We are kind of,

longing for that no matter where you come from whether you come from the church or not i mean everybody's longing for something new a renovation we know whatever this cistern that we currently have is not holding water and what we're looking for is i want a cistern that holds yeah that made me think about uh i got this wrong about three or four podcasts so it's too late to correct it it's it's already out there but for people who listen to every podcast

Remember when I was telling you about Missy came out and made me laugh? And I think I said in the podcast something like, oh, for thee and not for me. Well, I told Missy I shared that. And she said, I didn't say that. And I was like, well, that's what I said. She's like. That's why she doesn't listen to the podcast, Jay. You keep misquoting her. So what did she say? She said, I said, rules for thee, but not for me. Yeah.

That makes a lot more sense. That makes a lot more sense, babe. Whoops. But the reason I'm bringing that up, one, is to...

make amends for that mistake. So that was when President Biden pardoned his son. Which I had, when you said that, it didn't make a... I interpret it that way. Well, I did too. I had the... Y'all are smarter than you look. I implied that the rules... Well, I wish you would have just said it. Well, because I didn't know that she didn't say it. I messed up. Well, I thought...

I thought it was like, when I heard it, I was like, okay, that's a very poetic way of saying. Yeah, pithy. It was a pithy way of saying it. Yeah, well, I'm glad y'all got it. It was a little Shakespearean. The joke was on me. Rules for the, not for me, but in that context, which I'm glad I remembered that.

Because I was going to correct that at some point. Because I told her, I was like, I didn't say that. And she was like, oh, my. She rolled her eyes like, oh, my goodness. They think I'm some kind of idiot. I was like, all right. No, it was still good. No, we thought she was brilliant. It was still good. She's an experienced. Sorry, babe. But the reason I bring that up is so when you really look at what happened there, not to get all political here today, but you think, oh,

Well, basically what happened was the story of what we believe happened. Jesus died on the cross. We got a full pardon. Yeah. We just forgiveness and grace and a new life. And everybody's like, okay. But you're like,

You didn't feel the same when he did it because, number one, he lied that he said he would never do that. Right. And then he did. And I just thought, you know, context kind of matters when you're trying to make things do and give somebody a new lease on life. Because other people now are so upset because they have people in jail, and a lot of them feel are injustices or whatever. And then all of a sudden, the president is just like –

Nothing applies. He's my son. Not only am I pardoning him, I'm doing it for 11 years. Anything that was... Well, that was the thing. It wasn't just the two things he got convicted of. It was like, we're going to go back another few years just in case. Which a lot of people, by the way, have said that may be because...

Old Joe may have had a couple of things, a couple of things in the hopper there during that period. So do you know the only person that is happy about that is actually the son? The son. Because he doesn't have. And the mom. Yeah, and probably his parents. But everybody else is like, oh, boy. But I do think it is mirroring what we have in Christ as far as, I mean, we got out of, get out of jail free card as far as the dumb decisions are.

But I actually, I like the way that you have gone into that, Jase, because I wanted to make the point, last podcast, we were in verse 10, we made a point out of this renovation concept. We were being renewed in the image of the creator, which we have talked about that. Obviously, that's the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. But look what happens when that happens.

When you get renewed here in this renewed place, renovated place, there is no Greek or Jew circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and is in all. Yeah. And I wanted to make the point today, and it kind of goes into the political realm that you mentioned, is that that's the difference in eternal equality, true equality, where

where we don't see the things that divide us because in Christ, it elevates us to beyond all the different things that divide us. Yeah. But in the political world, there's a new word that has been floated out for the last few years and it's equity.

You remember when the Biden-Harris administration started, because equality is in the Declaration of Independence. It's a part of our founding. It's in the Constitution. But this concept of equity is something there. All of a sudden, you start hearing this word. I want you to listen to this. You know this is a new definition. Because equity, when I think of equity, I think of my home. When you pay into it.

You build up the money you've been paying as equity. That's earned. I've earned equity by paying my house off. Here's what it means now. Equity, listen to this, refers to fairness and justice. Often in the context, now listen to this, of treating individuals according to their needs,

rather than providing the same resources to everyone. Now, that is a modern definition of the word equity now. Yeah. But man, you're talking about fraught with the issues of this concept and the way we look at things. So you can't just look at it even playing field. You can't really look at true equality. You only have to look at it, this person needs this or is perceived to need this. Therefore, we have to treat them differently.

Well, the language constantly evolves, right? And so there's always a redefinition of the same kind of idea, particularly when it's opposed to maybe what I would call truth. But it used to be called equal opportunity and the idea. But really what they were really after was equal outcome.

And that is a very different thing. And I think that it's the conversation that has to be had, the conversation with equity and equality. Yeah, that is a very fundamental conversation of what are we actually talking about? Because if we have to manufacture and ensure that everybody has the same outcome and that everybody's equity stake, for example, is the same across the board,

then what you end up having to do is you actually have to distort people's opportunity to ensure that the outcome is equal. And that's not, I don't think that's biblical at all. It's not. But what is, and the other thing is that you can't conflate the word equal.

equality with homogeny, meaning that we can be equal, but not all be the same. And so that's what you're seeing in Scripture. You see, even in the triune nature of God, who's more valuable, the Father, the Son, or the Spirit? Or who's more God?

Well, they're all equally God. There's no like there's not one of the members more God than the other. They're equal when it comes to their Godness, their God quality. But are they the same person? No, there are three distinct separate or three distinct people or persons. There are three distinct persons. And so in the same way, like like a man is not the same thing as a woman.

But neither a man or a woman is not greater in their value. That's the whole point of this kingdom, Jew and Gentile. Who's greater?

Well, in the kingdom, there's no distinction. Like, right? There's a distinction. Yes, there is an ethnic distinction in the world, but in God's eyes, the value, they're equal. And I think that plays out through all of Scripture. And the differences make you stronger, especially in a male-female marriage relationship. But you're right. We consider ourselves equal in the sense of who we are in Christ. Well, Chase, I don't know if you knew this or not, but some of the best ways to let people know what you're into is to—

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We're probably going to say the same thing. I mean, there is this. Oh, no, we're not going to say the same thing. I'm fixed to open up a can of worms. You go ahead. Are you sticking with the text or what are you fixing to do? Oh, I'm sticking with the text, buddy. And I don't even know what you're talking about. But go ahead. Well, what I was just going to say, it's interesting. It moves into very controversial topics.

verse in 18 and gets into this idea of rule or mine says rules for household christian households oh yeah well we'll okay so save that because we'll get to that because i want to i want to go down a rabbit hole so and and this came from now remember last podcast i said there were two thoughts i had when i read galatians and compared it to colossians and i only talked about one

And we got to the end and I was like, I don't have time to bring this up. And I wasn't sure I wanted to, but now that y'all went here, this based on what you just read out Colossians three, was that 11? 11. Yeah.

So I was watching, speaking of our treasure hunting show, I actually watched the Martin Scorsese, the first two episodes. Oh, the Saints thing. Of the Saints. Have y'all watched that? I have not, but I really want to. Okay, I want to talk about this. Because, and through this, I want to give this second thought I had about similarities between,

with the Colossians line of thinking and Galatians, because the one that we did last time was really more about grace over law, spirit over sinful self, new creation, and how all that kind of works. And then they had the same deal about where all it divided. I mean, all the things that divide us is buried in Christ. We put on Christ and we become a new humanity. So Colossians 3.11, think that.

So I watched, the first one was Joan of Arc. And look, I'm not a history buff. I'm sure I've heard of her before, but that story was crazy. Yeah. I mean, so, and I found it interesting. It's kind of a documentary type style. And I don't know what to think about that. I thought it was interesting though. And then the second one was about John the Baptist. So what I found most interesting

I guess from my take is because I'm used to like once the show started, I'm thinking the chosen and it has a similar feel to it. Cause Martin Scorsese knows how to, I mean, all the cinematography is fantastic. Yeah. He's a very gifted movie. And what I realized is it's kind of, I don't know what, what he is. Maybe a, uh, maybe, uh, I think, and they have a little group session after each episode. Uh,

And what I found profound is, you know, John the Baptist, who it was on when they they started with him baptizing people when he got to that part. Well, they had Jesus as just a guy in line being baptized. It's like they didn't know each other. And I was thinking, well, I thought they were cousins. You know, my take on how that went down.

What's different? Not that that bothers me because I think when people, Missy and I talked about this, when people do movies or shows like the chosen,

Even the four gospel writers have little subtle differences here and there, and nobody thinks a big deal about that. So I think when you're putting it on film, they're kind of using their imagination on some of it. What it look like, yeah. So I didn't have a problem with it at all, but I just wanted to say, and I think the show is pretty good. So you can watch it if you want to, but what I was going to say is, and I want to

you know, bring up an old wound, I guess. What I did notice in Colossians 2 and Galatians 3 is baptism is inserted in this as far as this dying to self. I mean, you have Colossians 2 talking about your old self is circumcised. Galatians 3 is you're putting on Christ. And I felt when I watched that show of John the Baptist,

They were just like, what are we going to do about this baptism? And they actually talked about it after the show. And I feel like even as a church in the West, as they say, North America, people don't know what to do with that. And that's why there's so many different versions and semantics, I guess, of when it comes to baptism. Because they were kind of putting it on, well, this was a Jewish custom of ceremonial washing.

But when you actually read what happened, and I'm going to make a point here and then get your comment. So when Jesus was baptized, let's just take Luke's account in 21. When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too, and he was praying. Heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. Then you hear the voice. And they didn't do the voice properly.

you know, in the show. Yeah. He just was baptized and he was just like one, just a guy in line and then they kind of zoomed up on him like, and he just like went walking down by himself. That was it. Yeah. And then it got back on the story of John the Baptist and, you know, eventually him being beheaded.

It was really more from their storytelling perspective that, oh, by the way, this is something John the Baptist did. He baptized Jesus. Yeah, it was just kind of because it was about John the Baptist. Right, is what I'm saying. You know, you take it for, I'm not being negative about it at all. I thought the show was well done. And any, Missy said this, and I agreed with her, any show that's well done that makes people think about Jesus and the characters in the Bible, I'm for. I'm for.

And it was well done. And they talked about, you know, how kind of how baptism tries to fit in. Well, you know, I didn't really agree with everything that was said, but they were giving their opinions after the show. By the way, the arch of the whole series, from what I gather from the previews, is it's all about people being so all in for Jesus that they'll go to their death for him. I mean, that's kind of the... And look, out of a thousand podcasts, thousand plus...

We spent way more time talking about Jesus. But I did just want to point out, this does come up in Colossians 2, and it does come up in Galatians 3. And here we are as Gentiles thinking, well, we weren't raised in a society, because that's kind of where they went in the show.

Where ceremonial washing was a part of it because they were acting like, well, this they all realized what this was for. But now it has a new purpose because John the Baptist is kind of saying that the king is here. The kingdom is here.

which it actually says the kingdom is near. They were saying the kingdom is here, which, okay. And we all know baptism was a new thing for John. They had not been baptizing people. Yeah, but they kind of made it seem like they were. So anyway, I'm not taking on them in a critical way. I'm just introducing the thought. Building a portfolio with Fidelity Basket Portfolios is kind of like making a sandwich.

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And I've said this before, Jesus never did a miracle until that baptism happened. Right. Which I think is interesting. Something happened there. Yeah. That was profound. And I've always said, I believe that God was revealing this shadow that his Holy Spirit could indwell a human body. He had to break that ice somewhere. And there's other reasons for that happening. It was declaring Jesus as the Messiah. Yeah.

So we all agree on that. But what I was going to say about it is, and what kind of struck me in reading that, is when Jesus at the end of his ministry, his death and burial and resurrection, in two places, in Matthew 28, what is that, 16 through 20, he actually says, I just didn't know if y'all ever thought about this,

He actually says, and this is in sort of response to the John the Baptist documentary. In verse 18, he came to them. Now, this is post-resurrection. And he said, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. I mean, he's declaring himself king of kings because of the resurrection and his death on a cross. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations.

which I had never really thought about this as it relates to Galatians 3.27 and Colossians 3.11, which is right after chapter two. I'm talking about baptism. I thought, so even if it wasn't a part of your culture, he's saying...

You go preach, which is why my dad all the time reads this, you know, it kind of clicked for me, you know, because we tend to think, no, well, what is this? You're going to go dunk people under underwater. But that's what he says. He says the same thing in Mark 16, 15 and 16. He says, you know.

Go preach the gospel to the whole world. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. Whoever does not believe will be condemned. And people try to, you know, and kind of talk about that. Well, if you don't believe, you wouldn't do it. Right. And I get it. All groups have different ideas of what we're going to do about baptism.

But we've already set up that this is all about God's grace. There's nothing you can do. The whole last podcast was about his power moving in. And I've always said, I think it's an opportunity when you try to turn it into a command. I mean, when you read Matthew 28 and say, well, Jesus said it, that's why we're doing it. I just think something is missing of that Paul seems to say we're fulfilling what he said to do.

And if it's a death, you're not really doing anything. As far as a work-based thing, you're saying, I can't do anything. And so I just wanted to bring that up because I thought,

You know, in Colossians 2 at the end, when he said, you have a rule-oriented system, stay away from that. He said, that person has lost connection with the head. They've been decapitated when you're trying to bring a rule-based system. So we're not saying that, but I just look at it as part of his plan, kind of what he did, right?

of making this, this is a real thing. Because why was Jesus baptized? That was their question for discussion, which got four different answers. They were like, you know, it's a good question. They didn't really have an answer for it. So I just thought I would combine Galatians 3.27, Colossians 2, and 3.11 with Matthew 28.

and mark 16 and say you know what it is what it is and they followed that plan to the letter in the book of acts i i love that i think that it's um yeah i used to i used to think this that eschatology doesn't really matter and i'd even say that when we get to the book of revelation it doesn't really it doesn't matter and and as i've gotten

I'm like, oh, it matters a lot because there's a thread throughout all of Scripture of exactly what you just said. It's the Great Commission. Go make disciples of all nations. It's in the text that we're in now in Colossians chapter 3. It's in Galatians, the entire book. It's the whole thing about the mystery that's revealed in Ephesians that the Gentiles are now fellow heirs. It's Romans chapter...

That's a whole book of Romans that Paul, the apostle, called to bring the Gentiles to the obedience of faith. And what Jesus is doing, and I think this moment you're talking about in particular, is this is the inauguration of his ministry. What ministry?

to bring all the nations to him, to fulfill that kingdom that he had talked, that was all prophesied in the Old Testament and all of those Old Testament scriptures. And so when you read something like 1 Corinthians 15, when it says that Christ died, was buried and raised according to the scriptures, what scriptures is he talking about? He's talking about these Old Testament scriptures. And if you read here, I turn over to Luke 24, because I think this is more towards the end

of basically the gospel story. This is when he's on the road to Emmaus, and they see the resurrected Jesus. And it says in verse 27 that Jesus, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them all the scriptures of

the things concerning himself. In other words, there's a whole lot in what the prophet, they knew the Bible. They knew Moses's writings. They knew the prophet's writings, but they did not understand them in the light of Jesus. And that's why they said, did not our hearts burn while he was with us on the road, while he opened up the scriptures, what scriptures, all the old Testament scriptures. And then in verse 45 of Luke 24, it says, then he opened their minds to,

to understand the scriptures. Because up until this point, nobody understood them. They're reading all of these Old Testament scriptures, and they do not see the correlation between all of those prophecies and the inclusion of the Gentiles that God's going to build

a new people group of Jew and Gentile, and he is going to send people out to make disciples of all the nations. They didn't understand that from the scriptures until this moment. He opens up the Old Testament to them, and he opened their minds to understand this. And he said, thus it is written,

Where? In the Old Testament. That the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to who? All nations beginning in Jerusalem. I'm like, this is the Bible. This is the story right here. This is the gospel. This is it. You can't get away from it.

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I want to read one passage, Jason, before we finish up, because I think this adds to what your point you were making and what Zach just made. And this is John's account of the same thing you read on Luke's account.

And remember the book of John, he's describing John the Baptist, who people say he is, who he says he is or isn't. And then you get to John 1 29. It says the next day, John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him. Now this is after he's baptized him. He sees him and he says, look,

The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. So now all of a sudden he's viewing him a certain way. This is the one I meant when I said a man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.

I myself did not know him. Now, Jase, you said it. He knew him as his cousin. He knew him as a good man because when he came up to him, he says, you need to be baptized in me. So he knew about him, but he didn't really know who he was. He says, I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed.

Excellent point. So I wrote this down. I heard it somewhere. I can't remember where.

on why Jesus was baptized and the reason I focused in on him receiving that spirit, to your point, and I wrote this down. Jesus now had an inner world that gave him access to another better world so he could overcome this world. And when you couple that with what we have

with repeating the process because we're baptized into his death. Think Romans 6. We were therefore buried with him in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead to the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. So you think about that. God has given us a new world, a new self, but he's given us the way through his spirit to reproduce it, which I think is just fascinating. We're going back.

thousands of years to a story of God coming to earth in Jesus. And now all of a sudden, all nations can come together into one new humanity on earth. Right. And for a purpose of doing the same process that he did. Right. And that's why when you get to revelation, all of a sudden it gets into this, which I'm really itching to go there.

Because it's basically a manual of nations rise and they fall and they come back again that are against God. And here's the spirit filled people who are even losing their lives during that process. And the bottom line is, no matter how many times that happens, you know, Babylon is kind of featured in Revelation.

The ones with the Holy Spirit of God, they win. They have the purpose at each rise of nation because in the end, we have the Holy Spirit of God, which is an eternal spirit. So we can't lose, which is really what it's about. It gives you a historical picture of what's going to happen for the remainder of the earth, which nations rising up as power and they're unable to snuff out

The nation of God. Right. And look, it still does go on because I mentioned a previous podcast for my second cousins. And these were a couple of teenagers and then two college age. And they were my second cousins, our second cousins.

And so they want to get baptized. So I was explaining to them the importance of this moment, what it means, because they're young. I mean, their hearts are in the right place. They want to do it. But I'm not sure they exactly understood, because a lot of people say, why do I need to be baptized? Why was Jesus baptized? And so I explained it just like we presented it here today. I told them, I said, you're making a public proclamation today that you're all in on what you believe. And I asked them all. I asked every one of them. I said, do you believe?

Jesus is the son of God. Do you believe that the Holy Spirit lives in you? Do you believe? And I gave them several things. They said, yep, yep, yep. I said, well, today is a public proclamation of that. And you're saying I want to put to death anything old and have it renewed in Jesus. And so I said, look, here's the thing about it. You four will never forget this day.

Just like your parents remember the day you were born, because this is a day of new birth. That's what the beauty of the moment. So I want to give them the gravity of it on why it's so important to publicly make this proclamation. And that's what this was. This was a public proclamation. The King of Kings has arrived. And it's not just for the Jews. It's for all mankind. Yeah, I just think it's a way, look, because I realize there's so many people

thoughts on baptism and so many different interpretations we don't know what to do with it and it was not a part of the north american culture right other than you know you read the bible and some people do it some people baptize babies and some people say you don't even right it's irrelevant you know or and i just feel like when i listen to these sermons and different speakers i

I keep sensing that. We just don't know what to do with that. Right. But I think if you just read the Bible and look at what was happening, and I think those two passages from Matthew and Mark are very profound when you look at it in this new identity that breaks down all social barriers. You would have to come up with some way for us to have something in common with people around the globe. And it is Jesus.

But it's also, they seem to be emphasizing that act as a way of starting over in Jesus. And the thing about it is, the beautiful thing about this idea, this picture of baptism, is that we talked about eternal equality, is that Elon Musk, Donald Trump, whoever you look at as being like a great person, does a lot of great things, they walk in the same pool of water.

that the person does who's over here who doesn't have two nickels to rub together, and that the idea is that in Christ all are to the same. Well, that's why he's fixed to turn this Roman view of the family on its head because they had masters and slaves and all this kind of thing, but then here comes a scenario now where you're one in Jesus, equal in Christ,

And I'm sure Rome was not proud of that. Which is really, I mean, we won't get into it on this podcast, but that is a shocking thing.

I mean, what he is about to propose is a shock to the cultural world at the time. Well, we're out of time. We'll pick it up here next time on Unashamed. 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.

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