Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1035 | Phil Delivers a Fiery Portrayal of John the Baptist & Jase’s Date Night Gone Wrong
Wed, 05 Feb 2025
The tape has surfaced of Phil’s full performance as John the Baptist during an Easter drama nearly thirty years ago, and the guys are thrilled. A weather anomaly at Al’s house leads Jase down memory lane and how he used fish heads to capture Missy’s heart on their second date. The guys make connections between the lives of Moses, Elijah, John the Baptist, Jesus, and even Phil, and how God’s power is demonstrated repeatedly in similar ways throughout history. In this episode: John 1, verses 31-32; Matthew 11, verse 12; Luke 1, verses 11-37 -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What weather event led to a fish kill?
I am unashamed. What about you? Welcome back to Unashamed. I'm still in the southern lair. Chase, you're in the new studio, the new Unashamed studio, and Zach is still up there in North Carolina. Zach, how are things in North Carolina?
Things are coming along now. We are getting back to, well, I'll say normal. It's going to be a while, but It looks like a war zone. I can't figure out how long it takes to clean stuff up, but apparently it'll take a few years.
It's not like you guys didn't have quite a bit. When I got back down here, it was interesting because I came home and I missed the snowpocalypse, as they're calling it around here, because they had a snowfall so deep in the southern regions of Alabama and also southern Louisiana that it matched records that went back to the 1800s. in terms of amount of snowfall, just, it just happens.
This is a, that was a once every, whatever that is, 125 year event. And what happened to me and our place here is, you know, you get back down here. By the time I got here, there was a little bit of snow left on my steps, but that by the next morning it was gone. But what happened and Jace, I didn't know this was possible.
You may know more being a fishing expert, but when I went out to my dock about, maybe three days after I got back. I mean, I kept seeing this just huge congregation of brown pelicans all over my dock, my neighbor's dock, everywhere. And, you know, you see them around this time of year a little bit more, but not like this. This was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie of the pelicans.
And so I walked down there to find out why there's so many pelicans everywhere. And there has been a fish kill in the lagoon here in right behind my house. And I would say it's probably about three foot wide and about six inches deep of about half pound mullets just piled up all along the edge of the lagoon.
So, apparently, I guess the cold water, because it's shallow this time of year, I guess froze them to death. And so, they just died and then washed up on the shore. Well, what happened was, as we know how nature works, that brought in the pelicans because they saw a feast. So they are taking these fish and eating them on my dock.
And then as we know, the digestive process of animals, they have left those fish and through the process of the brown pelican system all over my dock. So I've got a major cleanup on aisle seven that I've got to do before I leave down here. But I've never seen anything like it.
Circle of life.
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Chapter 2: What embarrassing moment did Jase experience on a date?
Due to illness. And so a couple days later, she was like, okay, it's sick. I got us reservations. We go to this. We don't eat out much, obviously. A couple times a year. I say obviously because it's not worth going out if you're recognized and you're trying to like celebrate something special.
Yeah.
So do you know what we celebrate every year? It was her idea.
The post ordeal? Yeah.
The post ordeal. We have a duck season ending celebration. Is this like a date night out on the town?
Is this like a vacation?
No, it's not like a date night. We go to the same restaurant. every year because it's good. Which one do you go to? I'm not going to tell you because you can barely get in this place. I mean, I had to circle the premises three times to find a parking place. I know which one you're talking about.
I know exactly which one you're talking about.
It's fantastic. And we actually saw some friends there, and, I mean, it was a nice little – you know, they have good food. That's the prerequisite for me. So yesterday I go to the store in my pajamas. I come home and Missy's like, why would you go to the store in your pajamas? And I said, I wanted to be comfortable. I was wearing Cozy Earth, which you gave me for Christmas. That's right.
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Chapter 3: How did Phil connect fishing with faith?
I mean, then what happened? His ministry started. I mean, it was pretty, look at the Israelites wandering around in the wilderness. Then they make it to the promised land.
It was actually, we've talked about this before, it is this overlay of what's happening here with the Old Testament when Jesus goes into the wilderness. How long does he go for? 40, 40, he fasts for 40 days. 40 days. And which is, that is very similar to the 40 years that Israel spent in the wilderness.
So I think that this, these timeframes, the places, the comparison to the different prophets of John the Baptist and all of that, Jesus being a new Moses like figure. I mean, there's all this is kind of imagery is in this text and in this picture of what we're seeing in the gospel of John and all the gospels for that matter. These aren't random. That's what I'm saying.
This isn't a random thing that's happening.
No, there's very purposeful. And that's why there's this link again to Elijah, because you remember Elijah also came about in a time of great apostasy. And I mean, Ahab and Jezebel were the king and the queen and the false, you know, the idols. And it was terrible. And he was forced out into the wilderness for three years during this, you know, great drought. Before he had a showdown.
But so you see, there's a lot of similarities. And then we've talked about before. I think it's in Second Kings 2. Elijah, of course, even how he left the planet was in a unique way because it says he was swept up by a fiery chariot. It just went into the heavens, never to be seen again.
So there was definitely something unique about this tie-in, which is why when you read about him later in Malachi and all the things pointing to John the Baptist, they thought he was Elijah.
You can't separate what John the Baptist is doing from the story of the Old Testament because Jesus is actually living into this story. He's coming to show that he is the fulfillment. of the story that he's coming in. It says here in John 1, 32, and John bore witness, I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove and remained on him.
I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, he on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, that is he who baptizes me. And he says before that, the reason why he was called to even do this was to reveal through this baptism, to reveal to Israel who this Christ is. So that's in verse 31.
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