Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 999 | Jase Challenges Zach to a Boxing Match & Why Being Self-Righteous Isn’t Righteous
Wed, 27 Nov 2024
Jase prepares to don his figurative boxing gloves as he reveals the difference between hypocritical self-righteousness and the righteousness of God. Al breaks down their study of Colossians thus far into bite-sized themes, and the guys explore the mutual relationship between Christ as the head and the body as an instrument of his will. Jase and Zach agree that the little kids in Sunday school are right about one thing in particular. In this episode: Colossians 1; Colossians 2; 1 Corinthians 1, verses 17, 28-31; 2 Corinthians 2, verse 15; Galatians 3, verses 21-26; Romans 1, verses 16-17; Romans 6, verses 1-13; Matthew 6, verse 33; Titus 3, verse 4; Hebrews 7, verses 2, 15-16 — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the challenge between Jase and Zach?
I am unashamed. What about you? Looking for some boxing gloves. Welcome back to Unashamed. We've already begun. We were sparring just before we came on air, which is the way Jace likes it, because he's already said he likes to argue.
Well, when I heard the, maybe you shouldn't call our audience simple-minded. That's what Maddie said.
that's a good thing. I'm in that camp. I defended you.
I said, Matty, he always says like me, so he's not saying anybody's unlike him. And then I made the comment that Jace loves Acts 4, but he forgot about Acts 17.
He said, you know where I got that from was a little place called Acts. And you said, well, Acts 4, but you forgot about Acts 17. Yeah.
I said this before. It's not either or. It's both and. We've got some intellectuals.
I view Paul's dissertation in Acts 17 as pretty simple. He basically answered how we got here, what we're doing here, and what's next.
Well, in the boil it down version, you're correct. But in the way he gave it was pretty, pretty philosophical.
But we don't really know the full conversation. You know that he was, I mean, it probably was an interesting moment when he's up there on Mars Hill with the brightest minds in the world at the time. And then the apostle Paul walks in and just, I mean, really does levy one of the greatest defenses of the Christian faith ever, ever written.
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Chapter 2: How do we define self-righteousness?
Zach's hesitating on how to answer that. Now, I will say this before you comment. I do think that finding some system where it's involving your own righteousness or your own intelligence is a problem. But in their context, it was. I mean, we were fresh off of this crisis. Jesus being the fulfillment of the Jewish system.
And they were having a hard time recognizing that, especially that he became a man. He humbled himself. But we, by our nature, we want to figure it out. We want to be in something. There's some knowledge out there that we miss that's by our own involvement somehow or another. We're going to figure this out. So to get back to my 92 times,
I went to the first time righteousness is mentioned in the New Testament, which it was at Jesus' baptism when he said.
Fulfill all righteousness.
Yeah, the first red letters in Matthew, he's baptized. Yep. And he receives God's spirit. And then it says this was to fulfill all righteousness. Mm-hmm. Well, I looked up the Greek word for that, and it's mentioned 92 times. And I read every verse in the New Testament after that. And after every time I read it, I went, hmm.
So somehow during the conversation that we're fixing to have, I will try to bring out the spirit of what I discovered and what that means.
And your first time was Matthew three. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
I think that when you read the context of Colossians two, and there's this temptation to go into these, yeah, like into a system. Um, it's, I would also argue that they're misinterpreting what the, what it initially was in the beginning, uh, which we'll get into that in a second. But, When you were talking about the systems that we developed to try to – I forgot how you said it.
I was thinking of this T.S. Eliot quote who said, They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within by dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow the man that pretends to be. And T.S. Eliot wrote that in The Rock.
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