S2 Episode 13 | One Year Anniversary

S2 Episode 13 | One Year Anniversary. In this episode Leon discusses the podcast journey and testifies of God's goodness! Thank you for all the support!!!

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Hello and welcome to the Unqualified Podcast with Leon Wilson. That's me. Thank you for one full year of this ministry. Uh today is the one-year anniversary for the Unqualified Podcast with Leon Wilson, and I'm being attacked by a cord. Let's just get that out of there. Thank you for your patience. Um, and after a year, you've uh you've stood by, you've um watched, you've helped, you've uh donated, you've uh liked, you've shared, you've subscribed, you've connected on other platforms other than YouTube, and a lot of you have watched from all over the globe. In fact, and pardon me, I'll pull my phone up here. Um, and and this is for my uh listening audience as it as it sits right now. Um on the uh on the listening audio version only, we're in 44 countries and territories around the world, uh 270 cities around the world. Um Apple Podcast right now is uh is our top percentage, um followed by iHeartRadio, then different web blur web browser platforms, and then Spotify bringing up fourth place, and then Amazon Music um for two percent um and they're our our smallest amount. Um the 86 percent of all of our listeners are in the United States, and then Canada is is second place there. Um and then also let's I'm sorry, the second place would be actually Singapore, they just moved into second place, Canada's third place, Brazil is fourth place, and Spain bringing up the fifth place. Um, and that's to me, that's just amazing to to see what the um what the Lord has done with this podcast in in just a year's time. And so since I'm the only one in the studio, let me use one of the first sound effects on the show. Our canned audience. It sounds like one or two of them have been drinking, little digital drinkers. But um thank you for for all the support over this past year. Um, what have we what have we learned over the the last year on the podcast? Um number one, I've learned that it's a lot easier um in concept than it is in the studio. Uh number two, I've learned that when you are picky about who's on, um there may be some uh jealousy about who's not. Um I've learned that uh in in oftentimes, you know, the the people that you know are um are not your biggest supporters, but this podcast has proven that in a lot of cases, um the people that you know are some of your biggest supporters. And uh and honestly, supporters come out of the woodwork. Yeah, and I've I've met several who have I hadn't seen in years or and in one or two that I I maybe has seen at one point in time, but have run into them um at different churches and what have you, who have said, oh, you're that Leon Wilson, and and I say, uh, yeah, I I I guess so. And you know, so that's that's been pretty significant. Um and also on on like the TikTok ministry and and on the YouTube shorts, the uh you know, the small sound bites have uh have been um instrumental in in getting the the podcast out there and and sharing with people and and people have watched the full episodes that um air on YouTube, like probably what you're watching right now, or if you're on the audio version, the you know the all the different platforms that we're on. And it's it's just grown. It has grown. Um full way, way further than I could have ever imagined. And and this is where the Lord um pulls people like me who are nobody, who are who come from nothing, live in small town America, and and then we're you know, we're in Singapore, Russia, China, all these other nations, and who'd have thought, who'd have thought where I come from, they say who'd have thunk, who to thunk it. But the the truth is God has shown out. God has really shown out. When I started the podcast, and I looked over to my wife and I said, I can't buy a camper, I gotta buy, I gotta buy product and um and what whatever we're gonna need, the equipment for this podcast. You know, her biggest thing was, oh gosh, you know, what is what is this gonna cost us? And honestly, I do it again and again and again and again, because the amount of fulfillment that I get from being obedient to the Lord, um, will it it just goes a long way. It just goes a long way. Today we had a group, a singing group, Christian singing group in our church. Um, and the name of the group is called Heaven Bound Trio, and they blessed my heart. Um, they and a lot of us at at the church were just man, we just worshiped today. We had a great time. It was like Camp Meeting atmosphere and uh or revival atmosphere. Some of y'all don't say camp meeting, some of y'all don't say revival. Um, but the um the atmosphere was just great, the Lord was moving. Um, and and there was an 11-year-old that they brought with them who sang um a handful of songs, and it she'd been saved when she was seven, and she wrote a song. It's gonna be releasing an album, might get her on the podcast. Um, but it it just was a blessing to have these folks there, and it was a blessing that this this young girl is involved in this ministry, and you know, she's their daughter, but involved in this ministry and has such a passion for the Lord, and that that goes somewhere for me. You know, like if you're one of them people that you don't look at children um and see the the value in in a child's perspective, then you know, uh I dare say there may be some hate in your heart or or there might be some hardness in your heart, and and you need to get that checked out. You need to work that out. There's there's a Bible for that, and and that's your prescription is to read that Bible. Take two of these, call me in the morning. With um, you know, when you see a child who has any kind of passion for the Lord, you best be cultivating that because if you don't, the world will cultivate the world. Um, and that goes for every everybody of every age, but you know, chief among them all are the new convert and the children. If you do not cultivate the image of God in this, in this person's life, in this child's life, in this human, you know, grown adult, uh, both of which can have the same amount of um mental fortitude and capacity. If you do not cultivate that, then you're doing a disservice, and and I dare say you're not a very good idea of a Christian. You have to cultivate Christ uh or the idea of Christ in the child. You do the enemy is fighting tooth and nail for the souls of our children. Tooth and nail. And it's a knockdown, scratch, drag out fight every day for your children. If you look at um some of these countries that don't believe in Christ, and we'll just say Muslim countries, if you look at the these Muslim countries and look at what they're teaching their children, they're teaching these children that slaying people from another state and and country or nation state and country is is what I mean by that. But they're teaching these children to be violent toward them, slaying people, and and that if they are infidels, if they're not Muslim, you know, that you should that they basically don't don't need to be here. They're teaching their children to kill people effectively. And we can't teach our children to love people because God is love. So if I'm te if if I'm teaching my children to love people, to be like Christ, and other people are teaching their children to hate people, I better be teaching my children with just as much vigor as those people. Because the vigor that they are teaching with eclipses the amount of passion that we're pouring into it, hands down. That's what they're doing. That's you you have to understand that this is not anymore just a conversation in passing. This is a fight between good and evil all the time. That's where we're at. And and it's hard to get that through an American's head right now. When it's Palm Sunday, what a good day to decide I'm going to change something about my life and the walk that I'm living and walking. I I'm gonna change it to where my walk talks, like my talk talks. What a good day to decide I'm gonna double down for Jesus. It's a great day for that. Because Easter's right around the corner. And why wait? A year into this podcast, I've had some incredible guests on folks who have uh poured their whole life, essentially, into servitude. Others who haven't, others who haven't been saved very long, and and they do what they do, but they're outspoken and vocal about their walk with Christ. You know what amazes me about that? I'm glad you asked. What amazes me about that is that there's so many people who are vocal about and passionate about everything other than their walk with Christ. And the moment somebody is vocal or passionate about Christ, they want to shut you down. Let me explain. I had a guy one time reach out to me and tell me how fake I was for praying for praying with people and for people in the aisleways at church. We're at church, and you're judging somebody for being for doing church people stuff in church. It just fascinated me. Like, what? It's like and it made me think, and I and I I coined this phrase, and you can write this down, you can rewind it, whatever you want to do. The people who are doing nothing think the people who are doing anything are doing too much. Let me say that again. The people who are doing nothing think the people that are doing anything are doing way too much. Because the moment you are the contrast that shows just how little they're doing, they're offended. Wait a minute. You're not helping people because you care. There's no way you care that much. You gotta be doing it just for show. And here's my thing. If you if you knew me even a split second, and I'm not singing any praises about myself, I'm just being honest. I don't really care to be around people. I really don't. I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you're ever going to meet in your life. Like I don't have to be around people. I don't have that need in me. I don't have that longing in me. I don't. I don't really care about attention. I don't really want it. I don't. I don't want it at all. I do what the Lord puts on my heart because if I don't, he whips me about it. And I don't want to be whipped by the Lord. And I know that conviction is the first stage of whipping. And if I'm feeling convicted about it, I'm already too late and done, you know, didn't do or did what I was not supposed to do. So if I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I act when the Holy Ghost moves, I don't care what anybody says. Because I'm gonna be obedient, even if you don't like it, it don't matter to me. And if if you're if you were doing more for the Lord, a dummy like me wouldn't have to step up. That's how I feel about that. So, anyways, if that doesn't convict you, let me put it this way. If you don't praise the Lord, rocks are gonna cry out in your stead. If you don't step up and help people, someone else is gonna answer the call. If you don't do what you're supposed to do, your time goes into perdition, into nothingness, and you leave so much on the table. Jesus put it like this. Okay, you you did the right thing with the ten talents that I left you. You did the right thing with the talents I left you. And son, according to your ability, I only left you one talent. What'd you do with your talent? The guy turns to Jesus and to the master, he said. And he says, Well, I know that you plow fields you're not supposed to plow or that aren't yours, and I know you reap from fields that aren't yours, and and whatever, and and uh so I buried the talent that you gave me. The talent was a piece of money, by the way. I buried the talent that you gave me so that I wouldn't lose anything, and I brought it back to you, Lord, now that you now that you're back, I brought it back to you. You know what Jesus did? He said that this that this master, this this leader rebuked that servant and was telling him, you should have done something. You should have taken it to the people so that you could at least cash uh collect interest on it. But you didn't do anything with what I left you. That's the church. God gave you a talent. And it's not just like the money. He puts some people over money, he puts other people over abilities, he puts other people over uh influence, he puts other people over other things, and and whatever he put you over, whatever gift he gave you, you're supposed to use it for the kingdom. And if you don't, you will answer for that one day. You see, we think, oh, I I accept the Christ as my personal savior, I'm done. I'm it, you know, cash it in. Wait for the trumpet. I'm good, I'm I'm going up. But the truth is, you've got a job to do, you've got work to do. You should be about your father's business. Because at the end of the day, when the trumpet sounds and we meet the Lord in the air, guess what? He's gonna ask you. Might not even ask you. It might be a question that's inside your head, what did you do with what I left you? I wonder what you would say. I wonder. You know, a lot of the Hollywood movies they kind of make it seem like you are the reluctant hero, this, that, or the other thing, and you know, all your your newer superheroes are real sensitive, emotional roller coasters and and all that. And that this superpower's gonna come over you, and that you're gonna be a reluctant hero. I never wanted a superpower, and I always wanted to be just the normal. So stupid. You know, people think you know, that uh I don't know, you know, if it was me, I'd be doing this, I'd be making money, I'd be doing this, or whatever, you know, and and I've had conversations, and and I, you know, is when I was younger, a lot of us had those conversations, and and it now, you know, that I'm saved, I you know, I I look at you know, this this gift that all of us have if you're saved, this gospel gift, salvation that I could never pay back, never earn, and we never could earn it. And it was free, straight up free. But somebody who's out there somewhere is waiting on that superhero that we'll call it the Peter Parker moment, where this something's gonna happen in their life, it's gonna change their life. It might. My thing is all of us Christians sharing the free gift of salvation with somebody, just sharing about this gospel could be the Peter Parker moment for the next person. That we could share that there's a man named Jesus that loves us. He was born of a virgin, he lived a sinless life, he died on a cross, he was resurrected three days later, and he was seen by so many, and he uh ascended to the Lord God Almighty, he's seated at the right hand, make an intercession for us, and one day he's gonna return, and that he will change fundamentally and radically change your life for the better and and give you a purpose where you never had one before, and and we're sitting on that truth. We are sitting on that truth. And we shouldn't. We should be ashamed to sit on that truth. And the moment we talk to somebody and we find out they're not saved, it should be that wait, you're not saved? Do you know who Jesus is? Because I've got you. That should be the conversation immediately. When someone says that they're not saved, what? I got you. I got you. Because that's what love does. If you knew someone was driving down a road and and you knew That there was a pothole, a big old pothole in that road, or a cow was out, or a flood was across the road, or something crazy, a tree across the road. You would not tell people uh to stop, turn around. Of course you would. Hey, you'd blink your lights, whatever you got to do. Hey, hey, hey, don't don't go down that way. There's a tree down, there's a flood across the road, there's a cow in the middle of the road, there's a something, whatever that case is, you would be warning people that the danger's there. Well, honey, hell is real. And there's somebody you know just going full tilt to hell. Wide open down the road to hell. And you don't love them enough to tell them about Jesus. You should. I don't know how long the unqualified podcast is gonna be around. But I do know that as long as it is, and as long as I'm the host of it, we're gonna talk about Jesus. You know, I started this thing a year ago discussing launching into ministry, what what the challenges of ministry is, the different types of ministries that we've we've talked about and discussed from wrestling with Christ to um the mixed martial arts, the um motorcycle ministries, singing and and preaching and pastoring and um even a food uh cooking um TikTok ministry and and another TikTok ministry. And uh we've had some some viral videos that uh clips that have gone viral, and and uh we've had others that have just been um ramping up and and and all that, and we've had some collaboration, and we've had um folks who have reached out and said, Hey, you know, I got a friend and uh all this, and we've had folks who have come out of addiction and have helped other people stay out of addiction, and and and we're gonna keep on, we're gonna have more host or more guests on on the the show, and I'm just excited because as long as I can do this, I'm going to. But I never want y'all to lose sight of this. I love you, and God loves you. And this has been the Unqualified Podcast with Leon Wilson.