Jake And Friends
Jake And Friends
Episode 56 - A Christmas Story with William (S)Teal
William is back and we've forgiven him.
Topics Discussed:
William's apology tour
Jesus'(s?) birthday
It's
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Where you've never been duck hunting? I'm turning the
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:been duck hunting
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:The machine's on, um,
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:the machine's on.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:you've never been duck hunting?
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:I've never been duck hunting. No,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:I haven't either,
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:dude, I'm telling you, man, it's, it's like wood duck hunting is different though compared to like cosway hunting, because wood duck hunting, like as soon as the The daylight hits. It's like the, it's, it's like war zone. Like for like, probably like a good, like solid 45 minutes to an hour. Like ducks are flying everywhere. You gotta keep your head on the swivel, they can fly on you really quick. But like when you go in the causeway, you can see, you know, forever away. So you can see'em like come in, you try to call'em in and you can hunt for a lot longer, but it's a lot of fun.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:I love it. I want to go. Everybody I know who goes up to Arkansas's says they have a just an absolute blast.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Oh man,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:I mean, you don't have to go to Arkansas.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:dude, we.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:in Arkansas. I'm, from what I've heard,
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Me and, um, hunter and John have started a tradition where we, like, we have one of those, like, you know, those portable grills that has like propane, uh, for camping. We take it on our on, on hunter's boat and we like cook up some eggs and sausage and bacon, uh, while the hunt's kind of slow and it's, it's really fun.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:teal. Teal's. So Rich. Someone cooks it up for him though. So like teal, show us you're rich. Christmas tree. What's it like to have two Christmas trees inside?
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:have three.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Dinging, so, so question, when did you, when did you put that? When did you put those Christmas tree up and the Christmas lights at your house? When did you put that up?
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Christmas trees went up November 2nd.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Oh
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Exterior lights.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:my gosh,
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah. Hey.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:The second.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:November 2nd. November 2nd. Yes.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:gosh.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Well, why, why wait. Why'd you wait so late?
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:exterior, exterior decorations didn't,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Took a day.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:did not go up No, they did not. They did not go up until, after Thanksgiving, but inside was decked out November 2nd.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:So you weren't playing when you said like, when, when Halloween is over, like the decorations go up immediately.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Oh yeah. Next day. Next day.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:So, but you know, that has a lot to do. Y'all know my mom. Um, so that has a lot to do with how we celebrate Thanksgiving. Yeah.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:and how rich you are.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Jake?
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:richer you are, the longer you can celebrate. Christmas is what a statistic I saw.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Jake, I'm an adjuster brother.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:I didn't even donate a dollar to sponsor the show
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:we thought you were gonna take up on that so fast.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:I figured you would.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:I was planning on it.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:That's okay.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:know. My, my, all my professions have been, uh, have, have been tainted through the history of the show. So I'm out here trying to, uh,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Trying to
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:reputation back.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Will, will you please tell everyone the story you told us about your friend's mom checking in with you?
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah. So every year we do a, a trip with guys that I played with Troy.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:And, sorry, this is, this is William Till speaking, by the way. So William's been on a previous episode of the podcast, and as you all know, a former contributor of the show since has been excommunicated from the show. But now we're inviting him back. We're giving him his final chance. So
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:so we're down in Yeah,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Is this the trip with the, is this the one we all have? Matching tumblers.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Okay. Grown men with tumblers. Got it.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:yeah. Um, so, so we get down to Florida and, um, a friend that played with me lives in Fort Lauder or Fort Pierce. Fort Pierce. And, um, he comes
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:that like South Florida?
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:it was. Yes. Uh, Palm Beach. Close to Palm
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Okay.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:And, um, when y'all did the, the episode with Tyler
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Mm-Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:pathology and his story, um, so Shane, Shane McCain's his name, well, his mother her from Tyler Vaughn. So when y'all posted it on, on Instagram, he saw Tyler was tagged in it. So he said, Hey mom, you need to listen to this. Well, she she calls Shane and she's like, Shane, hey, William okay? What's wrong with him? Like, does he need help? Why is he stealing people's money? And he was like, uh, mom. I think that was a joke. I think, I think, I think he's okay.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:yeah. Jake, what did you say? I can't remember what you said.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:That I was prac no longer a sponsor because I've been stealing people's money and false advertisement with the many, the many companies that I said that I had or something.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah. Uh, so. story. I've had people, not a ton of people, but some people will be like, Hey, is your buddy really? They're like, that's real. And I was like, absolutely not. I was like, that guy does, did, does nothing of the things I say he does. And then I had to explain to like a couple people, they're like, you're kind of mean to that one guy. I'm like, you're talking about, well, you, they're like, yeah, the guy you make all these a that you talk, that you say is like no longer a part of the show. I'm like, it is just a joke. I was like, he's, he's my best friend. So. Well, William, welcome back. Thank you for joining us. Um, I'm, I'm glad you could, um, I'm glad you're on the pathway to freedom and recovery and so that's really why we're here to celebrate you today. this episode's gonna come out, so whenever you listen to this episode, you know it's never gonna be irrelevant, but this episode's gonna come out basically like, uh, what the. I don't even know what day it'll come out. It'll come out, let's see if you're listening to this episode, it's gonna be a couple days after Christmas, but it's not too late. Um, it's never too late. Um, so obviously we're, we're right in the thick of the Christmas season right now, and we wanted with him to just come hang out with us, but also just wanted to talk about like, you know, what's something we could all talk about and something very relevant. And that's the story of Jesus, which is, you know, the, the point of this podcast, I've told people a lot, like, why do I wanna do it? You know, or what, what made me start to wanna do a podcast? And I thought, you know, I could have done a podcast about, uh, a lot of different things that I felt would be not very, um, well, they wouldn't be entertaining if I did a podcast on many other things. It's not gonna be that entertaining. Um, but, you know, I thought Doing a podcast about Christ would be, or just centering it around Jesus would be like the most fulfilling thing. And the something that would have the most, the, the, the most impact. So I have a pacifier in my hand that is randomly picked up. That's what happens When you have three kids, you just pick'em up and they're there. You just reach, you just reach out and like one's there. Um, so, that's, that's, uh, you know, we just wanted to focus on like the Christmas story and just sort of like dive deep dive into that. Um, so Parker, why don't you start, I want you to start us off if you want.'cause you suggested that we, you came up with this idea and I just thought it'd be good for you to lead us off.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Yeah.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:what made you wanna do this? I guess let's start,
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:well,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:that you need a big reason.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:right. Well. Jake and Teal and I were kind of talking about, okay, we had like 24 hours notice where we were going, like all meet up together and we're like, all right, we're gonna do this. We're gonna do a podcast. And so we were all going through like different, like, should we do a book of Bibles? Like what do we should talk about? We've been talking about manhood for the past couple episodes. We're trying to, you know, kind of ease on from that. Um. And I've went on two runs the past two mornings and have been trying to listen to, uh, Luke chapter two a lot when I run, just to prepare my heart for what Christmas actually means. Um, and, um. Man, it's just been like really good. Like, just to hear the, the scripture, uh, as I run the sun's coming up, I've seen this one star. I know this sounds really crazy, but, and weird, but I've seen this one star as the sun's coming up shine bright, then every other stars. Um, the both mornings I went for a run and I was like, man, like this is awesome. Like I, I mean maybe it's coincidence, I don't know, but um. Oh No. I just thought it would be a good idea just for us to, for, I mean, I don't know who's gonna actually gonna listen to this or not, but at least for us three, like to really prepare our hearts for what Christmas really means. Um, because man, think about like how much is involved in Christmas now, like in our American culture, like you have, obviously you have Santa Claus, which, you know, some choose, some Christians choose not to do Santa Claus in my house. We choose to do it. Um. Not for any particular reason. It's just fun for the kids. Um, we can kind of talk about that in just a minute, but, uh, you also have like, elf on a shelf is like a real big deal. Do you guys do elf on the shelf?
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:No.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yes,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Pagan
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:We have fun with it.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Sure.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Right. And it's fun. Like, we do like this thing called Shepherd Boy, which is kinda like the same thing except like they, it's not elves for Santa, uh, it's like a. I'm not trying to sound like super, like Christian and holy or anything, but Well, I'm just saying like, it just, it it, every day he kind of does like kind of what Elephant and Shelf does, except he like leaves a letter to prepare the kids for like Jesus' birth. Um, so anyways, you got like Santa Claus, you have like Elf on the shelf. You have all these Christmas parties, you have all the gifts, you have all these things that I really do feel like Satan has. Like has used this to like change our focus on what Christmas really means. we always hear like, you know, Jesus is the reason for the season. Which is true, he is. But um, you know, how often do we really meditate on what the implications of the birth of Christ really means for us, especially as Gentiles? Like, um, I mean, it means so much for Israelites, but for us as gentiles, us being grafted in. Like without Christmas Day, like we would have no hope in the world. Like we would be completely separated from God forever. Um, so I saw, you know what, let's talk about it. So, um, y'all, would y'all agree like there's a lot of things in this world that like, especially like how we can get so distracted by what Christmas means, like based off of what is going on in our culture.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah. Yeah. Um, you know, I feel like too. When I think of Christmas, have y'all noticed too, compared to when we were younger, how the season has kind of died down? Some also, like, you know, families, you don't see as many decorations Jake, um, put up on the outside of houses or anything like that.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Jake has no decorations outside, by the way, for reference, he has none. Me and Teal do, but Jake has zero.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:so we doubled our, our decorations in a day. So we had a frosty the snowman blow up and like, and our neighbors are across the street neighbors. Both of them have what I would consider very respectable, neat looking like good looking Christmas decorations that make you feel like it's Christmas season and if you look at my house, all the lights are off and it's just like a single Frosty the snowman outside. But then Al got, the girl got a blow up Santa to go sit next to Frosty now. So we got two. We're working on it.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:You are getting there.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:sorry, you were saying something Te.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Well, when I guess, I guess when I think of Christmas, I think of just happiness across the board. Right? Um, I feel like everybody's in a good mood. You know? It's, it's the season for giving, not necessarily getting or receiving, and people are more willing to give during this time. Um, but that hope that that happiness, I feel like, comes from somewhere in something. But I've, I've noticed, know, since we've gotten older, maybe it's just I've been more observative, you know, I've been able to observe it more, I guess let's just say that, that I feel like a lot of people are taking a step back when it comes to Christmas time. But I wonder if that is because people are celebrating it in ways of, oh, it's just Santa and just gift. And they, they don't, they don't understand the real meaning behind it.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Mm-Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Um. And I feel like if the real meaning behind it was talked about more frequently and more consistently than, than would make entire holiday season more enjoyable. that's just me.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah, Parker, you were talking about like how Satan tries to take something that God's created for good. I'm using, I'm paraphrasing, which you said, and like turn it into something like selfish. But like you think about any of the major Christian things that have gone on, like, I mean, I know St. Patrick's Day is like sort of post like scripture, but like that whoever St. Patrick was, I don't even know the full story, but like was a believer in like, that story was like Christian Center, but now we're like, let's turn into a drinking holiday and everyone's gonna wear green. Like, because people are like, that sounds cooler than talking about Jesus. And then Easter you got the Easter Bunny and all we do there is just give out a bunch of chocolate. You know, that was like, as good as that got. But, uh, Christmas is the, I mean, that, that one's like full fledged, you know, let's. Let's just make it as much about, uh, materialism as we can. Um,
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Yeah.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:so,
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:yeah, And that's how Satan works, man.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:way.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Like, he'll like take like, and it'll like slowly happen over time. And he's okay with that. Like, he's totally okay with like taking what what is not, what's pretty innocent, uh, I guess for kids. Like it's exciting for them. Um, but it's like it can be such a huge distraction and like as a, as men of our households and raising children, like it's our job to make sure our children are Focusing on what it, you know, truly means. Um, and it starts with us. So I know Kayla and I have been really trying really hard to, um, talk with our children, especially Beckham, um, a lot more every moment we can, like what scripture is about. Like it's not about Santa Claus, it's not about getting gifts. Um, it's about receiving the best gift that we've, that there is no hope outside of Jesus being our greatest gift. Um. Man, it is so easy to get so distracted. So Yeah.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Uh, I was screw tape letters referenced. Here we go. So, if you've ever read the screw tape letters by CS Lewis, uh, Parker hit on this. You're talking about how Satan's okay with something taking a long time and making it slow, methodical, like, then this is the same way with everybody. Like, if, if you were to come in day one and say like, we're gonna take this, this, this, and this away, people would be like, no, I'm not. No, you can't take that away from me. But if you like, just. Ease into there and just sort of creep your way in, then you can gain more leverage. And CS Lewis talks about that. So basically, screw tape letters is about a guy a, a captain demon who's in charge of several other demons. And this one low level demon is in charge of like, trying to get this guy, uh, to sin and forsake God so he can, uh, go end up in hell one day and he does a poor job at it, or he's either doing a poor job or this God loves Jesus. And they, they're, you know, the whole, the whole book is about, like these letters back and forth between the, the, I think the, the captain's name is screw tape, and then his low level, uh, guy, but the captain. towards the end of the book tells the guy, he is like, listen, he is like, you're doing it all wrong. He's like, the quickest, the best way to hell is the slow decline. Like, it's like boiling a frog in hot water. Like you don't realize you're sacrificing something. You know, you don't realize you're on that like slow, steady decline until you're there. Um, and so, so I think that's a true testament. Um, so where do we go from there? Like how do you guard yourself against like, getting sucked into like the materialism?'cause I'm very good at like, whenever, uh, whenever Thanksgiving dinner's over, I'm like, let's turn on one of those stupid Hallmark Christmas movies and we're gonna guess everything that happens.'cause you get to like, that's the part of
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:yourself.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:what watch myself.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:yourself.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Teal. I feel like you're the guy that watches
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:what need to watch,
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:all year long.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:dude.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:uh,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:I watch them
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:not all year long, but I do watch'em, uh, starting in November.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:too, but they're November 1st.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:no, no.'cause they're not Christmas yet. It's, you know,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:2nd.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:uh, maybe like second, third week of November.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Okay.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:All, although, although we have graduated from, uh, hallmark and we've leaned more towards Great American family,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:What,
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:same, same type movies.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:what
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:it's a sister station of Hallmark. Same, same type movies.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:is that? Like a, B, c, family, but it's great American family. Is that like family guy,
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:it's a, it's like a branch off of Hallmark. A lot of the actors and actresses from Hallmark moved to a great American family.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:why they moved there?
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Um, I, I don't know the exact reasoning, but I think some of the things that Hallmark was allowing into their movies, um, kind of crossed some of the actors and actresses, um, where they didn't ag tend to agree with'em. What's the, uh, um, I have not seen one with in there, but I think they have had a movie or two with that. That played?
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:You sound like you're telling, like you're holding on like company secrets. Like
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:no, I mean, I,'cause I'm, I don't wanna sit here and tell you just to, to tell you something I'm not a hundred percent sure
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:I don't, I
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:but just, just put it this way. So Tori and I's favorite actress in Hallmark, um, help me with her name. I don't know. It's Candace Cameron
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah, she's the, she's the, uh, full house girl who's a Christian and yeah.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yes. So she, she exited Hallmark and she is now at Great American family. Um, and so we tend to, you know, if we watch those movies, it, it, we want it to be wholesome. I mean, I think that's why I enjoy'em is because they are wholesome. You know, what's gonna happen? I mean, let's be honest, big time Guy goes home, runs into old girlfriend from back home,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:You got it backwards.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:her husband. Yeah,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:got it backwards. Wait, did that, is that what they changed on Great American family?
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Oh no.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Everyone knows on a Hallmark movie, it's the big town girl moves new from New York back to her hometown and meets the guy in the flannel shirt who chops the wood for a living. know what I mean,
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:flight of shirt is for real.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:both ways.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:The final stir. He helps out. He helps out children on the side when he is not busy repairing old cars and keeping the town afloat with his single family income. Buying off all the, buying up all the bakery items at all six bakeries so that all thousand people can shop year round at Christmas time.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:That's right.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:I mean, it's ridiculous. Girl, girls comes home. She hadn't been home in 10 years they're like, guess, Hey Jessica. Guess who we saw this week? Derek. Oh, how's he doing? Well, he is the, he's a fire chief. He's a police chief, and he also runs the orphanage. his wife just recently died.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Dude can grow a beard too, but chooses not to. And his name's always like Cameron with a K
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:he wear like a Carhartt vest? I feel like a Carhartt vest is in there
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:No, absolutely not. He wears a nameless vest name brand. No name brands
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:it's good and it's good wholesome though. I mean, it just, you know, it's wholesome, it's happy
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Hmm.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:called Christmas and Christmas with a Prince Aless Christmas. Anyway, I'm sorry, that was a
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:So I think your question was like, how, how do you make sure
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:remember.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:well, I think you said like how do you
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:That's a prime example. How do you, how do you not get sucked into that? Like,'cause that like I'm sucked into.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:well, like when I say like Satan likes to like sneak in, like I. I don't think inherently it's like wrong to like watch Hallmark movies or like Celebrate Santa and all that. Like I'm not saying that like I started listening to some Christmas music like Thanksgiving week, maybe a little bit, maybe a week before Thanksgiving.'cause I was like, oh yeah, I like me some Christmas. I like getting the spirit of Christmas. But I think, um, I don't know. I think we have to be careful. I don't know really know how to do that. I know. Just know that for our family. You know, we try to take every opportunity we can to talk about the birth of Christ and like, uh, and we have like a little, you know, the Jesus Storybook Bible for kids. Uh, the same author that wrote that, um, she has like a devotional that goes with that storybook. Um, and so like that starts in like December 1st and goes all the way, uh, to Christmas. And so we do that with the kids, um, and they love it. Uh, shepherd Boy, we do that to try to You know, focus in, but like for us. It's, it's difficult man. It's difficult to, to not get distracted from like, oh, I gotta get this gift for this person. We gotta go to this Christmas party. And then I have, my birthday is in December, count's birthday is five, or, Yeah. five days after mine. So like, we have birthdays, we have by all these gifts. It's tough. It's tough to not get distracted with all the stuff. what what would you guys say that, how we can like, make sure we don't get distracted? I.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:So one thing I think of when I think of Christmas is traditions keeping tradition, like yearly traditions. You know where you go for Christmas day or Christmas Eve. Do you? Do you go to Christmas Eve service? Do you spend it with this family? That family or what? You go look at Christmas lights, you cook cookies one night. My thing is, is you can just simply use discussion as a tradition. Just install in your kids what the actual mania is. And it starts with reading the Bible. It starts with reading the nativity story and just let them know. I mean, for instance, we try to, every Christmas morning we try to read in lube, you know, about the birth of Jesus. And that this day is because of the birth of, of Jesus Christ. It's a tradition. It's just something that you can instill and, and hopefully it's, it's, you know, something that you can implement, you do every single year. And it just helps them remind, you know, it helps remind them as well as yourself of the reason why we're celebrating the season.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Mm-Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:a reason why there's so much joy in the season. It's meant to be joyous because, I mean, it's, it's you said, Parker, I mean, it's, it's the ultimate sign of hope. It's, it's the ultimate gift from God showing grace, number one.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:And so you think of Christmas, you think of giving, God gave us Jesus. That that's an ultimate, symbol of his grace and his love for us. So, I mean, if you think of traditions, you know, being consistent with it, you can implement the reason for Christmas and your traditions every year.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Hmm. I think that's a good segue to looking at Luke chapter two. Wouldn't you agree with that Smitty?
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:yeah, yeah, for sure. Um, I was gonna say too, uh, like piggybacking off of what you guys say, like we just try to, especially when I see something that's. You know, like there's a Veggie Tales episode. This is a good example what my kids watch, and it's about like the true meaning of Christmas and like, you know, this one guy, the bad guy in, in the Veggie Tales episode is like, thinks Christmas is about presents and he's gonna make it to where like everyone forgets about. I can't, I, I've barely seen the episode, but I think he tries to make it about not Jesus basically. And then the people who know what Christmas is about are like, no, this is really what Christmas is about. And then so then my daughters are like, so Christmas isn't about Santa and getting presents. I'm like, no, it's not. But like I'm not relying solely on someone else to tell them, like, I'm not relying on a television show or even my own church to tell my kids what Christmas is about, because I think you'll find that you'll be failed a lot. There and like now that your own church is in the business of failing you from a shepherding standpoint, but they're not, you know, the, the church is not supposed to be the primary, um, leader in your household. Um, so I'm just gonna say that. So step up.
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:step up.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah. You wanna go into Luke two now
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:Yeah, I think
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:or do you want me to?
parker-sanders_1_12-19-2023_194650:yeah, go ahead dude. Go for it.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Um, so if you, I think we will, I'm just gonna go through now just verse seven and like, you know, we don't really have a plan of like how this is gonna work out, but, you know, I, I think of. Uh, if you don't have anyone, if you're driving and you're listening to this right now, which I know some of, some of you listen to this podcast solely when you drive, um,'cause you've told me that, and so I'm very appreciative, but, so I'm gonna read it for you so you don't have to pull your phone up and crash. And I just lost my spot. No, here we go. We're back. This is Luke chapter two, verse one. In those days, the decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Cornelius was governor, Quirinius was governor, whatever, of Syria and all went up to be registered each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth to Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem because he was of the house and lineage of David to be registered with Mary, his Betroth, who was with child. And while they were there. The time came for her to give birth and she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swallowing clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no place for him in the end. Probably a very familiar intro to this story. Um, but I think two thing, or maybe the first thing I think is important is that like it highlights that, that Joseph is a descendant of David, which was prophesied, um, in the Old Testament. And I don't know specifically where, but I think it was a couple times. Um, so yeah. Parker, are you frozen?
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Maybe
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Parker looked like he was gonna say something and that guy Parker, we, we lost Parker.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Uh oh.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:That's not good. Okay. Um, I'm gonna continue. I thought Parker was gonna add to that. So, and in the same region there were shepherds out on the field keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared them in the glory of the Lord, shown around them. They were filled, filled with great fear and the angel said them, fear not for behold. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people, for unto you is born this day a sit, uh, born this day in the city of David, a savior who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you. You'll find a baby wrapped in swallowing cloths and lying in a manger. And suddenly there was an angel. There was with the angel. A multitude of heavenly hosts praising God, saying glory to God in the highest and on peace, and on earth peace among those with whom he's pleased. Sorry Parker. I paused Parker's back. I paused halfway during, uh. Or I guess like after I finished with verse seven,'cause it like, you're gonna say something and then you just froze for a second and you kept freezing. And then I was like, is he not gonna say anything? And then you vanish. So if you're not, if you're not watching this on, uh, on YouTube and you're listening to this, uh, through like regular podcasts and it's gonna be a little confusing, but Parker's back. So I just finished through verse 14 and was just gonna see if you had anything to add. I was just really adding that from the first seven verses that I thought it was in that it was, uh, a key thing. I guess one of the key themes to pull, uh, was that Joseph was from the direct lineage of David, which was a, which was prophesied in the Old Testament. Or was it? Yeah,
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:like, it's like when you, I'm second guessing myself now'cause I didn't research that.
Track 1:There we go. Okay. We're good.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Okay.
Track 1:We good?
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah, don't know if it's prophesied that, that Jesus is going to be a direct descendant of David, I said it like I knew, so I'm just not gonna say that.
Track 1:I think it does. I think it does
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:know where though
Track 1:because I don't know exactly where, but I do know where like God promises David that one of his descendants will sit on the throne forever.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:So, I think one of the most interesting things, Parker. Parker, what do you think is from the first seven verses is something that jumps out to you about what we read than looked to
Track 1:so I'm gonna kind of back up a little bit and look at Luke one just for a second, because like I. I just now kind of put this all together, uh, like this week when I was kind of thinking about like, you know, the, the importance of, of Jesus being born and, and we could talk about so many different prophecies and all that, but I like, you know, after watching some of the chosen series, which if you guys haven't watched it, I would highly encourage you guys to watch it because, you know, some of the things they kind of, you know, make, make up, uh, because scripture doesn't give every single detail. Um, but I think they do a pretty good job of like, right. I think they do a pretty good job of like humanizing Jesus and like, you know, making this like more, um, I don't know, just more visual I guess, because we are visual beings. Um, but one of the things I, I realized, um, going back to Luke one, as you know, where it talks about like The birth of Jesus foretold to Mary. Um, and, and how, and also of, of John the Baptist, um, with Zacharia and Elizabeth and like, what is so crazy about this is to me, and I just kind of put us all together, like Elizabeth and Zacharia were, it just says they were well and aged in years. Um, which we don't know exactly how old they were, but they had to be at like At least I would feel like they had to be like, at least over 60, like no chance of them having kids anymore. And like, you know, in this culture, that's what it was all about. Like it was about having children, burying children, especially sons, um, but having multiple children and she was bearing and like she had no hope. And then all of a sudden when she's well out of age of having, having children, God steps in and said you're gonna be her child and Just think about like our day and age when, when people that are like 50 have children, like, what, what do people, like, what do y'all, what do y'all see? Like people like in our culture, say about people that are having children at 50,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:What are you doing that for? Like, you're gonna be dead by the time they're, you know, amount of years, whatever, you know, you're not even gonna be able
Track 1:right?
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:whatever the benefits of
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:accident.
Track 1:Yeah, exactly. So like
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:accident.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:oops.
Track 1:what do you think, what do you think this, like these people were thinking too, like when Elizabeth and Zacharia who are way past age are about to have a child, like that's just, that to me, just like, it just kind of made, kind of hit me in the face this week. And then like the same thing with Mary, like, know, she was young, she was a virgin, she was betrothed to be mirrored, which basically means she was legally mirrored, but she hadn't had like formally been married, so they. They haven't, like, they're not officially married, it's kinda like being engaged and now she's pregnant and like, so basically she's pregnant out of Woodlock. And so like, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's punishable by death, like by being stoned to death, I'm pretty sure. Um, I'm not sure. Don't quote me on that.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:that, that, wasn't that why Joseph was planning on it off silently?
Track 1:Right. Which he did not have to,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Right.
Track 1:he could have publicly humiliated her.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:her and Ben
Track 1:Yeah.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:and being well within his reason to,
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:as a, as a man during that time to like
Track 1:Right. And I think there was some, like, there was some Old Testament, uh, law that told, you know, someone, if a man or woman does that out of wedlock. Then, you know, there's a way they can go about it. And I don't know the exact way, but you know, first God chooses two old couples to have a child to prepare the way for Jesus. And then Jesus or God chooses a couple that's not even married yet, and a young girl to have the Savior of the world. And that to me was like. Just crazy. Like first it started out with no hope, like Elizabeth had no hope, and then now there's hope. And she was completely barren. And think about all the lists of women in the Old Testament that were barren and had no hope. And then God provided for her. Like so I wrote down a list'cause I was like, I'm not gonna remember, remember any of this, but like, so Sarah, for example, Abraham's wife, she was barren. God provided for for them and got Isaac. So there's one woman, another woman, Rebecca Isaac's wife was Baron. God provided for her and Isaac and they had children. And then Rachel Jacob's wife was also Baron and she had Joseph and Benjamin. And then there was a Samson's mother, uh, I forgot. Her name, but she was completely barren and was just wanted a child so bad. And then God provided, um, Hannah, uh, Samuel's mother, Hannah was like, you know, I want a child so bad. I'll give it back to you, Lord. And so here comes a prophet Samuel. Um, and then I think there was, let's see. There's two more. I can't remember. I know the last one I remember is obviously Elizabeth, but all of these, like women had zero hope in like having children and then like God provides. Um,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah.
Track 1:and so like I just
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:I'm sorry.
Track 1:No, go ahead.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Oh no, I was just, I was just gonna say like, I think it's important to note what you're saying is that like God provided, like God, especially in Genesis, it uses the phrase that, that God closed the wombs of these women and then it would go on to say God opened her womb being like,
Track 1:Mm-Hmm,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:God, decided not, like, not like it was an accident or like, you know, third time's a charm, but like, God decided when these women would become pregnant. But sorry, go. What? Were you gonna
Track 1:right? So, so we're talking about like, like how Jesus is the hope of the world, like he's the hope of every single person on this earth. Now and forever. Um, like all of these women had no hope. They had absolutely no hope. And then God intervened and it's like a perfect picture of what the world is like. Us as Gentiles and Israelites, they were, you know, hoping for, they were waiting on, uh, you know, the savior to come save them from the Romans. They were expecting it differently, but you know, they had no hope'cause they felt like they were being taxed like crazy and they were under oppression. And the Gentiles us have zero hope and then all of a sudden God steps in and the way he chooses to step in is like so backwards to what we would probably choose to do. Like he chose an out of wedlock, basically. I. Pregnancy. Um, and I think about Blake and Jasmine all the time, like I know for a fact me and my family never judged them because we loved them and would always care for them, but I know for a fact that Jasmine and Blake both felt judged a lot because they had, you know, coen out of wedlock. And I don't know if I should have said that on podcast, but it's the truth and that's part of their redemption story, how God redeemed all that. And I just think it's amazing how God just chooses to. Do completely different in what we would choose to do. Um, and so all this hopelessness is hope now. So anyways.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah. Just adding to that real quick is if you go into Matthew one and like everyone loves the genealogy, right? of joking because people don't like to read like 50 names back to back. But if you read in verse five, it's and uh, the father of Boaz by Rahab. So Rahab the prostitute, if you remember from Jericho, then Bo, I think, if that's right. I think same
Track 1:Mm-Hmm.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Boaz, father of by Ruth. so like there's O2 other women, like, and I, I wanna say Ruth's husband's. haven't read Ruth in a while, but I think Ruth's husband and she had to
Track 1:Mm-Hmm.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:land and then go, and now she's like a widow, so she's like nobody, know what I mean? Like,
Track 1:Right.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:and she's in a foreign land and she's like, this is just my life now. But God redeemed both of those women. I think that's like what you're saying is like how you think, just'cause you think like God should use this woman or this situation or this person because this'cause, this is how Jake would do it. But like God's like, I don't care how Jake would do it. I'm gonna do it the way I wanna do it. But
Track 1:So think about this. How would, how would you guys feel like, think about Joseph for a second. Like, let's pretend here for a second. You guys are engaged to your now wives, but you're engaged and then all of a sudden she gets pregnant and then she says, this is by the Holy Spirit. Like will we be like, oh, so what you're saying is you're pregnant, but the Holy Spirit got you pregnant. Hmm.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah.
Track 1:A little fishy. I mean, how would y'all respond to that?
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:ha never happened before
Track 1:Like, I try to put myself in Joseph's shoes. Like how would, like, how, how did he in the world did he feel when that, when he found out that news? I.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:you,
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:I'm just sitting here, I'm just sitting here thinking, because, you know, I try to put myself in, in those shoes. And what I would do in that situation, I, you know, would like to say I would do my best in modern day to, to make things work, but I don't know if I would be able to,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:I.
Track 1:Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:and two in, in one of those situations, like, like we were talking about just a few minutes ago, in those times, you know, punishment for that was severe and the fact that him being the man he was, he was still going to take the silent road out to, to benefit Mary.
Track 1:Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:so I feel like there was, it was as much of, feel like I can't help but to think that as much of it. As big of a blessing as it was, was a test of the faith. Um,
Track 1:Absolutely. Absolutely.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:know, and so it's a situation where you can't, you can't sit here and say they failed the faith test. Um, it'd be hard to say they failed that the test of faith, um, you know, especially when the angel came to Joseph in a dream and
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:was, you know, it was before he went through his, uh, his separation. So I just, you know, I don't know if I could handle it nowadays but you look back and, and you, you just wonder how he was able to handle it the way he did. and Mary too, herself. I mean,
Track 1:Oh my gosh, man.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:we we're, we're, we're talking about, we're talking about Joseph getting the news, but could you imagine being a female and having to go tell your husband, Hey, by the way, I'm pregnant and I've never had sexual relations with a man.
Track 1:Hmm,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Oh
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:you imagine having to break that, break that news to your fiance the repercussions that they had back then?
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:yeah.
Track 1:gosh.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:was, I was gonna say, I was gonna say that like it would to, it would take divine intervention for me to, uh, me not believe, you know, like I would be telling
Track 1:Yeah.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:like, you wouldn't believe what this woman told me. Like, And I don't know. Does that like hurt Joseph's ability to like, you know, remarry or like get reengaged? I have no idea. But like, you hit on it till on Matthew one. Who did take divine intervention. Verse 20, it said Joseph or said an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying, Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. will bear a son, you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. And so like, and what
Track 1:Hmm.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:saying is like, he woke up and if it were, and you know, if it were me, I'd have been like, uh, was that real? You know what I mean? Like, uh, and maybe
Track 1:Right.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:a random dream versus having like an angel come to you in a dream. I better too. Completely different things. Um,
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:I know. I mean it that, yeah. Could you imagine that?'cause some of the dreams I'm having at night, man, if that was real, woo.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Oh man, it.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:in the pool do. That's awful. You know?
Track 1:Well, I just like, I just feel like it's, it's so, I don't know it. I just. The faith they both had to have.'cause. Think about this for a second. Like before the angels appeared to both Mary and Joseph like. Mayor is probably thinking like, oh, I'm about to get married. Like, I'm super excited, like I'm about to have a normal life. We're gonna, you know, work jobs and um, you know, just let's live a perfect Israelite life. And then all of a sudden God rocks her world with like, your life is not gonna be the same anymore. Like, it's gonna be completely different than what you had, you had, you know, concoct in your mind. And, um. And the same with Joseph. Like, and it's funny in, in Matthew one, after Joseph had the dream, in verse 24, it says, when Joseph woke up from sleep, he did as the angel Lord commanded him to do and took his wife. And it was that simple, like he just said, alright, let's do it. And like I just think about like how much shame Joseph probably received from, you know, maybe his rabbis and his, um, you know. Where he did his studies and yeah, family, I mean, people telling him like, you're staying with her, you're crazy. Um, and then like she leaves for a couple months to go stay with Elizabeth and then she comes back and, you know, her baby bump is showing now. Um, you know, the shame she had to have too, like, and they just like remain faithful to God. Like, it's just, I don't know. I guess coming from now having children and understanding kind of A little bit of what, you know, goes through with having children. Like it's just, it just amazes me their faith and just being like, they listened and they obeyed and then that was it. Like they just did whatever. God didn't matter about the consequences at all. Um, I don't know that just, yeah, it's pretty awesome.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah. Yeah. I
Track 1:So backwards from what God, I mean from what we would say to do, like if we came up with a plan of the savor of the world coming. That's the complete opposite. What I.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:like, why don't you start with Alabama football you can let them lose a couple games. just kidding. Teal Teal. I'm playing Williams's an Alabama fan and that's okay. And we love him and he can still be a Christian, we think. But
Track 1:It's okay too.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:just playing I'm really just playing. But yeah, no, you're right. And I think, uh, I mean could go through like the entire. You could go through the entire book of the Bible, uh, or sorry, not the entire book of the Bible. You go through the entire Bible and just like, hammer out all these things. I just think it's so cool how you've got like a, I kind of wanna skip to eight through 14. I know we read eight through 14, a few minutes ago. And this is, just, just to recap, this is when the shepherds, uh, or when the angels appeared to the shepherds. And I wanna say my pastor was talking about this, this Sunday now, or this most recent Sunday that I was at, which was this past Sunday. But um, I wanna say he was talking about how the shepherds heard what was said to them. And let's see, verse 15, when the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherd said to one another, let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us. And when they went, they went with haste, uh, and found Mary and Joseph the baby lying in a manger. When they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. So he was saying how like the shepherds like saw something and went and told other people about it. So he wasn't like saying, I don't think he said they were like technically the first but he was just saying like how, immediately the angels came to lowly shepherds who were in the same way we've been talking about, like people who were somewhat on the fringe of society was like, here's this good news. And they felt compelled go tell it to other people and they wondered. And that's what something he harped on is like, they in like they they thought about it and were thinking about it in awe, which I think was was pretty neat.
Track 1:Another example of how,
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:that, you think,
Track 1:go ahead Te.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:oh, was just saying, you know, they left quickly
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yes.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:and what, what are shepherd's jobs? I mean, what, what do shepherds do? They look after a flock a shepherd. They are in danger and that's their livelihood. And they dropped everything
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Hmm
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:leave the flock to go. And so again, that, that's another example of faith is dropping everything and then going and not waiting and say, Hey, hold on one second. Let me get somebody to watch. They drop and go. I mean, that's three quick examples of faith. I mean with Joseph Mary, and then just, I mean, back to back to back, you know, in the nativity story, um. That's just three examples of faith, um, you know, or while bringing Jesus into the world.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:mm-Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:that's just a quick thought.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Yeah. What you got? Parker? Another example of how does what one
Track 1:Just another example. Yep. Just another example of why would God choose to, to reveal his angels to shepherds. I mean, these are like the lowliest of the lowliest of society and God chose to show it to them first. Um, just a another example of how God. uh, chooses to, you know, tell the world about who he is and the outcast, the, the broken, the, the hope, the hope hopeless people. Um, that's who he came for. But I, um, you know, I was, I kind of, I was kind of asking myself like. This past couple weeks, like, you know, why did Christmas have to happen? Obviously we know that it had to happen because we are completely separated from God without Christ. Um, but I was looking at like, you know what verses like kind of. Really put it all together, like really puts it together why Christ had to come. And obviously we know, like there's Romans 3 23, you know, there's the, you know, the Roman road going through all that. Um, but I fell on like first John three, uh, four through eight and it kind of talks about like how I'll just read it. Um. This is one John 3, 4, 3, 8 says, everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. So you know that he appeared. So here, here's a, here's an example right here of why Jesus appeared. You know that he, Jesus appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. So right there, right off the bat, it says he appeared to take away sins. In him, there is no sin. So it proves his deity proves who he is and he's our savior and Lord. And then continues of verse six, says, no one who abides in him keeps on sinning. No one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children. Let let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he's righteous. And whoever makes a practice of sin is of the devil. For the devil's been sending from the beginning, so from the very beginning, this here, there's Genesis right there. Uh, and then it says right at the end it says, the reason the son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. And so the works of the devil is sin, and what he has accomplished on this earth is separating us from God. And why did Christs need to happen? Because he wanted to destroy the works of the devil and to save us from our sin. And. If that doesn't, uh, you know, stir our hearts and our affections like for Christ during Christmas, if not any time of your life, but definitely Christmas, then we should really check the callousness of our hearts.'cause man, Christmas is like so big. It's so, such a huge event. Um,'cause like, like we said in the beginning, without that, we have no hope. We're hopeless.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:So one, one thing, and I, I'm probably gonna butcher this story, but one thing I think of too is without the birth of Jesus Christ without the death on the cross, you're without the perfect sacrifice.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Hmm.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:So you think back to the Old Testament, how people offered sacrifices. Once Adam and Eve sinned, every descendant was born into sin. no matter how good of the works that you do, you are born into sin, meaning. No matter what you're going to, you're going to perform sin. So every sacrifice made, even with the animals that were, that were offered, is impure to an extent. And so when I think of that, I think of, you know, to offer the perfect sacrifice. It had to be godly for it to be godly, that person had to be born. And that's why we celebrate Christmas. That's just, uh, just a thought that I had and that that's a way I can look at it as Jesus was that perfect which we could never give or people could never give in the Old Testament. Um,
Track 1:Hmm. Yeah.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:to, just to fact check both of you, not, not fact check, teal what you were just saying in Romans three, it says, no one is righteous, not one. It's Romans three 10. So like if no one is righteous, then how can anyone create a good, uh, something? How can anyone create a perfect sacrifice if no one is righteous? Not one other than God, right? And then Parker,
Track 1:Hmm.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:talking about in first John, talking about like being, uh, I think you said in the V or being a Vine. I don't remember. But John 15 is like one of one of my favorite strings of verses you know, one of my favorite chapters in all of scripture. And it just like harps on being about how Jesus is saying that he is the vine and his father's the vine dresser. And he is like saying like, abide in me. I think that's what what you were referencing in First John. It's like abiding in the love of Christ. And like doesn't mean you just like hop in and out when you feel like it. Right? To abide in something is like you stay, like you hang out there, you stay there, you there. Um.
Track 1:Hmm.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:every time someone reads something it makes me think of something. So then I'll turn there. Anyway, I think that's a
Track 1:You know, uh, well, let me add one more point. You know what makes this one, this one event. This one Christ coming down, God in the flesh. Emmanuel, like this one event separates Christianity from every other religion because, and every other religion, it's like mankind has to reach up to God by doing all these X, Y, and Z, um, or reach up to their gods. Um, but. Here in Christianity, it's God coming down or Godde descending to us, uh, to to be one of us and to serve us and to give up his life for us. Like it's the complete opposite from every other religion. And so we either, Jesus is either just a crazy man and we are fools for believing in him and following him or everyone else is foolish. Uh, and so like this. I, you know, I, I, I didn't come up with this, this was in a different podcast I listened to this week. Um, and I was like, holy cow. Like, that is so true. Like Christmas, like the birth of Christ separates it from every other religion. Um, and I, I praise God for that because man, we would have no hope. I mean, it's just. It's just amazing to know that we have hope outside of this world, um, that no matter what happens in this world, no matter how distracted we can get, like we always have hope and the day we lose hope is, I, I, you know, that's what I think hell is like, is like there's no more hope. Um, and you know. For anybody that doesn't know Christ, uh, I would highly encourage you to reach out to somebody, you know, um, because there is no better decision you can ever make. And I think both these, all three of us would agree with this. There's no better decision you can make, um, than to give your life to Christ because there's nothing in this world that will satisfy you or make you never lose hope than in Christ. So anyways, that's it.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:No, that's great. That's a perfect place to, to stop if you want. Um, I don't, I don't even wanna, I don't wanna try to follow, uh, and just clutter words, you know, think you, I, no, I think you nailed it. So, uh,
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Mic drop.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Well, teal, you, did you have fun? Will you join us next time? Maybe not next time, but like, will you join us in, in the future? Will you, do you wanna be semi
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:So, so you just invited me and then uninvited me all in the same sentence.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:I don't mean like do you want to come back? I don't mean like, do you wanna come back every episode? Like I don't want you to come back every episode.
Track 1:I mean, you can come back some episodes. That's what he's saying. You can come back like episodes that he chooses, like that's basically what he is saying, teal.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Huh?
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:episodes. I choose, this is all part of the plan.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Absolutely.
Track 1:why this is called Jake and Friends podcast. Not like Jake and Parker. It's Jake and friends, you know, like,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:Rotate them.
Track 1:but seriously, will you come back?
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:absolutely. Yeah. Oh, have the equipment now
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:it's because
Track 1:Yes.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:rich.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Jake?
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:It's because he is rich
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:No, it's because Jake gave them to me the other day.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:It's the
Track 1:Oh, so I guess you're rich, Jake.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:Oh yeah. Jake has like 12. He has like 12 microphones,
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:I've
Track 1:Oh, he's deep in the podcast game. He's deep in it.
teal_1_12-19-2023_194649:That's.
Track 1:Hey, my man's been doing this for like, like seven. This, like, this is seven seasons. He's done it for like 50 plus episodes before, you know, we even joined. So my man's been getting it.
jake_1_12-19-2023_194649:we'll see you guys next time.
