S2 Episode 17 | Being the Champion and Mark 6

S2 Episode 17 | Being the Champion and Mark 6 this episode Leon covers the topic of championing for the people with smaller voices. He also covers the 3 types of people in Mark Chapter 6.
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Hello and welcome to the Unqualified Podcast with Leon Wilson. That's me. Just want to uh first off say that uh I'm sure appreciative that um everybody who has been stopping by sharing these podcasts um on all the different ways that you've you've been watching them and and finding it all over the world. We are in um we we've doubled the countries that that we had like a month ago, um, or somewhere near that. And it it has just been fantastic what the Lord is doing. And let me try to pull this up real quick and and I'll tell you exactly how many countries and cities worldwide that we are in. Um it is wild. Just a like a month ago, we were in, I think it was 34 countries or or something like that, or whatever it was. It was like it was amazing that that the Lord had done that, and then it went to 37. Now we're in 65 countries uh around the world and um over or and we're in 353 cities worldwide. That is uh incredible to see what the Lord is doing in in this respect. And um even in YouTube, we're growing just a hair and and it's steady and and all that. And I'm I'm just ecstatic because only God could do this. This isn't like something that I can, you know, that I have been able to manipulate in any kind of way. It's not like you can just throw money at something and and grow or whatever. I don't have anybody that I'm using as like promotional or anything like that. Um, it's just simply what the Lord is doing um to a servant, an unwilling or just a willing servant and an unqualified servant at that. And and God is is just multiplying uh all of this. And so I'm super thankful for all those who have um who have liked and shared and subscribed and uh commented, even your comments matter, and even the comments of the haters do you know does something. And and so the algorithm algorithm sees that and all that, and I'm just so thankful that y'all like, share, and subscribe this and uh to this podcast. If you um if you stumbled upon this podcast for the first time, um welcome. This is just a raw, uh unfiltered, just straight up. I mean, you won't see cuts in in this. There were I did cuts in the beginning because I I just wanted to make it just more streamlined. And then I got to thinking, no, I don't want anybody to think that I'm doctoring this thing up. So literally all I do is I record it, I use my software that that records it in there, and I add the intro and the and the outro, and and then I just roll with it. And whatever the finished product is is um pure, unadulterated, no additives, nothing. It's just straight um straight shooter. And and that's what I'm trying to do is just be upfront and transparent. Um, so the let's see, where are we at? When it comes to how the uh podcast is performing, um, only God can do something like this. And and you know, like I'll be honest with you. When I first started this, I did research. I did research on the on the different um hardware, on the software, um, even even the microphones and everything else. And I was thinking, you know, what is the best of the best? What can I use that's going to be future-proof and be able to just roll with it? Uh, what hosting platform should I use and all this other stuff? And if you're jumping into ministry and and all that, or you're trying to set up a podcast, I'm I'm all for helping you. Um, this podcast is uh it's relatively future-proof. Uh, I use Road Gear R O D E. I use uh Sony cameras, I use uh they're called newer lights. Um, and I and I use a lot of uh I use uh all my mixing and everything is done on the uh uh as far as sound is on the Rodcaster Pro 2. Um I use Rodcaster video to feed the sound or the visuals in um an external hard drive, an Apple um Mac Bro Mac Pro 2 um and or MacBook Pro, I'm sorry, and then um and then I roll from air, but the stands and all this other stuff. I I'll do a uh another at some point tour of the studio so that you can see what I'm talking about. And and I missed the light, watch this. There's that and that. So typically I have those on uh for some backlighting so that it adds a little bit more dynamic and and stuff like that. And I I neglected to do it, forgot to do it. But now you see what it looks like. Um, but anyways, so this studio um it is like I said, it's future-proof. It's it's just um as simple as uh simple gets. My wife helped me um decorate and all that. So yesterday I um I was able to see some rain. And if you live in the south um like I do, you know how dry it's been. There's been wildfires working their way up from Florida and Georgia, and and I'm in North Carolina or South Carolina, just uh on uh this side of the border on on this side of 85. And um there's there's this time last year we had wildfires all over the place, and and they were in the mountains and everything, and we had one over here off 26. And it once it gets dry and and it's it's warm out here, um, it it you know it's a tender box. And I got friends in who live in Georgia and and folks who uh who I know who live in Florida who are suffering right now, and and they don't know how bad these uh fires are gonna get, and they need rain, so they need your prayers on that. Um so we're praying for that. But yesterday we got rain for the first time in um a couple weeks, and and we needed it. And you get folks who, you know, they get they get real fussy about rain. And that wedding yesterday, not one person complained. Nobody. It was it was a beautiful wedding. Uh the couple, you know, we've known them. I I used to enter them at their church, and um, and they were just you know, they were just so lovely and so sweet. And uh I got to um officiate the wedding yesterday. And my goodness, the the pictures and everything else in the area is just so beautiful. It's one of the most beautiful wedding venues I've ever been to in my life, and and it was just so awesome to be able to officiate that wedding. And and I was kind of nervous because you know, like I didn't want to go too fast. I wanted to, you know, I wanted to let them be able to savor the moment, but it started raining during the ceremony, and we're outside and we're standing in front of this beautiful cross, and it's got flowers in front of it, and it it was just gorgeous. And um, I might be able to just hold my phone up and show you a picture. Um it was gorgeous. I mean, just a beautiful venue. And you know, here in South Carolina, there's a lot of like real pretty just places that you can you can go and and see, and um and it just looks like something from a movie. And wow, that ain't even showing up. Well, it is kind of fading in there, but yeah, so the the cross with the um with the background on it, it's hard for the for the camera to really pick it up, but um you can kind of make it out, but that camera won't pick it up like that. Anyways, I might just make the thumbnail that, but it was just such a beautiful place, and I got to thinking, man, you know, like we're we were kind of hoping the rain would just hold off a little bit, but it was like, no, even the DJ's like, man, we'll do all right. We'll we got this. I I'll just put an umbrella over my speakers, and I'm I'm mic'd up at the time. I I had a lapel mic on me, and I was just like, I'm just rolling with it. And it was all biblical based, a beautiful wedding. And um, and I got linked up with the groom and the bride afterward, and in their room as we were signing the um marriage license, and I was like, Did that go all right? She's like, No, you did perfect. I said, I tried not to go too fast, but I I wanted to speak cut a little bit out that way we wouldn't get soaked. She said, You did perfect. And uh, you know, that meant so much to me that you know this this wedding, this once-in-a-lifetime event, and you know, that that she's they're young and and they're just precious, but they were both like, it couldn't have gone better, it couldn't have gone better, like that type of attitude. That just amazes me. You know, there's there's several different types of people, but you know, the people I think that that kind of soak your your you know your day down in in negativity are the people who can't you can't get nothing right for them. And the people who make it worth it, who who just like make your day, are the people that like, man, we're gonna roll with it. We're gonna take care of it. You did great. Man, this is great. We got something to work with because of this, and and we can push forward. There's no big deal. We got this, you know. Let's you have to decide what kind of person you're gonna be. Are you gonna be the person who's always critical, or are you gonna be the person who says, I refuse to be critical because life is too short, we're gonna keep pushing forward. And, you know, in our church life, you got those people who it's never warm enough in the church, it's never cool enough in the church, it's always it's either too crowded or there's no one coming. Um, if there's food, it's too cold, it's too warm, it's too sweet, it's too salty, it's whatever. And there's there's those type of people who are just never satisfied. And you have that's a conscious effort, that's a conscious decision you have to make right there. That uh are you really gonna voice that much criticism or are you gonna roll with it and and just make the best of whatever you got? I was raised real poor, so I had no choice but to make the best of whatever we had. If the if they cut our power off because we couldn't pay the bill, we just hung out in the dark and we lit candles and we made a game of it. And the same thing happens like when I was a young parent, you know, there was we missed a couple bills or whatever, and you just gotta you gotta roll with it. Like you're playing the game where you got to push this bill off and then you pay the pay it the next month and you push another bill off. You decide what you're not gonna be able to pay. And if you're if you've you know been there, then you understand that. If you've never been poor, then you don't understand that. And and like some of us, we're the good kind of poor now, where our bills are paid, but we don't have any money to do anything else. But I've been in both situations where I haven't had plenty of money, and I had to choose what not to pay that month. And you it was a balancing act every month. There was a balancing act. Either I'm gonna eat or I'm gonna pay the power bill, or either I'm gonna eat or I'm gonna pay this gas bill, or either I'm gonna eat, or I'm gonna have fuel to drive back and forth to church and or school or work or whatever it was, and sometimes it was all three. And so you had to you had to make a deal. Like you had to like balance. But here in in church, you got people who are so critical and so mean and so nasty and so um arrogant to think that their opinion is what is should be valued the most, that they quiet the mind of everybody else around them. Like you gotta walk around and you gotta walk around on eggshells when this person walks in the room because if you say something, it might just set them off. And here's the thing you might be that person and not even know it. And then there's the people that are like, man, we're just gonna make the best of it. But let me submit to you something else. Sometimes the people who are being quiet ought to be the people's champion. I've spoken to people who have admitted to sitting on their hands when situations are tough, and they feel like they've let people down because they should have spoken up and they didn't. And here's the thing there's gonna be people in your life who don't want anyone to speak up because anything that challenges the norm scares them. And then there are people who are just so timid that they're praying that they could have a champion, that someone would say the quiet part out loud, that someone would speak up, that that someone would be the voice for them. And you know, when it comes to people, you need that. Let me put it this way. Before Donald Trump, there was a qu a silent majority in America who we were speaking in the background, and we were thinking, this is pre-2016, where is our country going? And and we were thinking, who is going to help us? Who's gonna be our voice? Because our voice isn't being heard, and we were trying to vote, and and and the the problem was the system was had been so corrupted and and so perverted that we didn't have anyone willing to champion for us. And for all of his faults, you know, and and all of his imperfections, Donald Trump stepped up. And the people had a champion. And he won in a landslide and should have, because he was on the outside of of everybody, even Hollywood turned against him. And so we needed somebody to to you know help us to get us, you know, to be our voice. Because everybody we voted in was I don't know how do you want to s how you want me to say it, but other than they were corrupt or corrupted. They had some kind of uh we'll call it some type of level of corruption. I've said it before, I'll say it beg again. Politics in and of itself is a pure thing. It really is. Just like the founding um of this country in and of itself was a pure thing. And I know it sounds like I'm babbling and chasing rabbits here, but bear with me. It's the perversion of politics, it's the perversion of our founding principles that have turned this country into what it is. And all along, we have lacked men and and men and women, but you know, uh I condemn the men because I am one. We have lacked men who had the audacity to stand up and say, I will champion for the people. And I will be the voice of those who who don't have a voice loud enough to be heard. The same thing happens in our churches. Because strong men sit back and they wait and they sit down and they and they shut up and they become timid, and the church gets steered in different bad directions and whatever, or directions that aren't necessarily in alignment with the Lord, uh, the Lord's will for that church. And and and here's the thing: you want to know how to know if your church is on the right path for the Lord. Uh here's here's how it goes. Everyone is growing, and people are wanting, you know, just tripping over each other, trying to be involved, and the morale of the church is is next level. Like it's it's moving in a right direction. You want to know how your church is is not healthy and not moving in the right direction? Um, it's when people are so pitted against each other that there's toxicity in the church. And guess what? You can not blame leadership if you want to, but it becomes a leadership problem, or it is a stem from a leadership problem if it's not corrected. How do you correct it? By honesty, transparency, by admitting there's a problem, by exposing the wound, cleaning the wound, and getting everybody on the right track, doctoring it up. You got to fix it. You got to fix your problem. Admit you got a problem, expose the problem, be 100% honest and transparent, clear about it, so that the healing can begin. And once the healing begins, then you're on the right track. You're good to go. The problem is we start throwing each other under the bus or whatever, or we uh we cover up the problem and and we don't expose, and the people don't have a champion. I mean, you look at you look at the the situation in in the the valley where um Goliath and and all of them were pinned pitted against each other. You got David's brothers out there, he had all of his brothers, any one of them could have been a champion. And all this army of of Israel, you know, who was pitted up against these Philistines, and they were all watching each other, and and everybody was just, you know, scared to death, and and the the Hebrew I army was was worried sick that Goliath was gonna just break out against them, and then here's Goliath coming out there and you know just fussing at them and making fun of them and all this other. And guess what? This is what happens in our church. Because any of us could be stepping up, and none of us are. If none of us are, then shame on us. But nobody's stepping up to the Philistines until David shows up. And he's the smallest person, got the smallest voice, and and all this other, but he's stepping up and he's got a big God that is there with him. And so God uses David, a little boy, a small young man, to kill the Goliath, to slay him, and then the whole army breaks out and does what armies are supposed to do, and they're victorious because of one man's courage, they were victorious. Fast forward to today's church. You know, David's brothers told David, get out of here. You don't even belong here. This ain't this ain't your fight. This ain't where you are. Shut your mouth. Go and do whatever little shepherd boys do. The same thing goes on in churches today. They don't there are people who do not want you to voice your opinion because they don't want the apple cart being upset. It makes me wonder, are they on the take? What are they getting out of it? You know, what are what are you getting out of it if you don't want people to sh to share their voice, to to share their sentiments, to speak up? Like, are you on the take? Who's who's throwing you a kickback? Because I worry about that. A lot of churches are closing the doors. And it breaks my heart. And I know I've been on a kick about this, but I'm just saying. I mean, we you know, we want it to rain, but we don't want to deal with the mud. We you know, we don't we don't want we want our church to heal, we want our churches to heal, we want our land to heal, but we don't want to admit there's a problem. And if that hits close to home, then either A, you can be part of the solution or part of the problem. There's no other ways. And no decision is a decision. So if you stand back and you say, Well, I'm not in this, then that's a decision, and silence is acceptance. So either A, you're part of the solution, or B, you're part of the problem. There's no in between. Either you're going to help fix it or you're part of the problem. And that's that. Today I preached on my Mark 6. And it's where Jesus went into Nazareth and He went into the synagogue and he started preaching and teaching. And they it was his own people. And they were offended by him because they didn't think he should be that wise. Brother of James and Joseph and all them. His sisters are even here. They were offended by him. And so he's he still taught a little and he laid his hands on some folks and healed them. And not many, though. The Bible says that he couldn't do a whole lot. He couldn't do great things, miracles. Because he marveled at their unbelief. And then he calls for the disciples and he says, Hey, um, I want you to go and and and teach, preach, cast out devils, all these things. Don't take anything with you except for a staff and and your the shoe the shoes and your clothes on your back. Don't even take a jacket. Just go. And if anybody rejects you, just kick the dust off your feet because it's going to be bad for them in the day of judgment. Worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. And so they went. And this is how this all comes together. There are the people that know of Jesus. Those are the people who I, you know, grew up with uh in church or whatever. I know, I know the Bible, and I can go to church and I can do this, but you know, they're they know of Jesus, but they're not saved. And they think they are. They think that they're going, they got a ticket to heaven because you know they read the Bible three times and and they got some Sunday school lessons at the house, still sitting still magneted or stuck to the refrigerator. Well, then there are those who are known by Jesus. And what I mean by that is those are the ones that Jesus called his disciples. He it calls the twelve and he says, Hey, I want y'all to do this. And those people, those are the ones that the people in that town and or in Nazareth didn't want to didn't want to talk to Jesus, but they Jesus said, Look, you may not want to talk to me. Let me call some people that I trust. And he and he brought the 12 in. He brought them in. Sent them out two by twos, and he said, They'll go. Y'all be my voice. And they did. And people were getting saved, and and they were getting uh relief from all kinds of whatever you know, bound, uh bound up people who were being who were demon-possessed and everything else. They got freedom. And miracles were done. Well, then the third type of people are those who reject knowing Jesus. These are folks with hardened hearts and and all these other things, who have put up boundaries and and even you know, church talk just makes them mad. And some of them have commented on these videos. People who are just hateful. The thought of Jesus just just makes them just angry. And those are the people that need the Bible the most. Those are the people that need the gospel the most. Because it's not that they're that far gone. Here's here's what where my mind goes on this. I'm just saying. It's not that those people are that far gone. It's that they are so passionate that they're either all in or all out. They're actually closer to being saved than the people who are on the fence. And and I can, you know, I can tell you that because I was that person. You see, people, I was, I was people number one, I was raised in church. The first kind of people. I was raised in church. I had a lot of head knowledge, but I didn't have it here where it belongs. I would have missed heaven by what, 12 inches? The distance between my brain and my heart. And and that you couldn't tell me anything. But I was also people number three, in that I had a hardened heart. I had developed a defense mechanism, a shell around my heart, a uh a callus, if you will, around my heart, and and a callus around my mind. And in my mind, Jesus was just a fairy tale until he wasn't. Because one stormy night, he got a hold of me. And I knew that if I died in that moment, I was in a storm, I was in a tornado, and I knew that if I died, I would have split hell wide open. And I wasn't afraid of dying. Never been afraid of dying. I was afraid of what was going to happen after I died. It didn't matter to me about dying. But I knew that eternity is a long time to be wrong. It's an awful long time. And I cried out to Almighty God, and I repented of my sins and I asked him to save my life. That I believed in Jesus. That I believe in him. And that if he wanted me to speak, I knew I was called to preach. I said, if you want me to preach, give me a platform to preach from. If you want me to sing, give me a platform to sing from. If you want me to go through a door, show me which door, lock the doors you don't want me to go through because I'm I'm stupid. I'll go through those doors. I seen me do it. But I was like, lead me where you want me, guide me where you want me, and I'll go. And then I became people number two. The ones who are known by Jesus. And I was uh I went through all three, and and you might be the same kind of person, and you might have listened this far 29 minutes into the broadcast, and you might be thinking, you know, that I'm too far gone or whatever. No, buddy. No, ma'am. I was way far gone. And he still saved me. You don't know all of my past. One day I'll do a testimony um program and and share it all with you, but you don't know my whole past. I was I was real bad off. I really was. But God, who is rich in mercy, reached down way further than I can reach up and pulled me out of the just the crevice of sin that I was buried in. In that nail-scarred hand, brought me salvation, and honey, I'll never look back. You can make your decision today, and like I said earlier, making no decision is a decision. You can make your decision today to call out to God. Just understand that you're a sinner. We all are. The Bible says, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and it also says the wages of sin are death, which means if you're a sinner, if you haven't accepted Christ as your Savior, then you're destined for a place called hell. And it's real, it really is. But the Bible says that whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, that if you believe that Jesus is Lord and you confess it with your mouth to the glory of God the Father, you're gonna be saved. That if you confess your sins, he is faithful and just to forgive you. Which means I can't, I don't deserve heaven. I don't. I'm a sinner, I was born in sin. I'm in this flesh, it's a sinful flesh. But God, who is rich in mercy, has ordained this free gift, and we call it salvation, to where through Jesus Christ and just believing in Jesus Christ and confessing my sins to Him and believing in Him I'm saved. Transaction complete. And you can do that today. Play it back, rewind it. Just 10 minutes and listen to that last part again and pray a prayer. And it says something like this. You gotta believe it. Lord, I know I'm a sinner and I know I'm destined for hell. Forgive me for all my sins. I believe that you sent Jesus to die for my sins, and that he rose again, and that he's gonna come back. And I believe what that Bible says that as long as I believe in you and I confess it with my mouth that you're Lord, that I'll be saved, and I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, save my soul, turn me from my wicked ways, and with your help I'll live for you for the rest of my life. In Jesus' name. Amen. If you prayed that prayer or something like it, and you confessed that you're a sinner, that you believe in Christ, and that you are saved because you believe in him and that you're gonna commit to him, then my friends, I believe you're saved. And just let me know in the comments, and you can email me at mwilson 4646 at hotmail.com. And if that's you, if you just got saved today, I'd like to know about it, and I will send you a Bible. And if you start reading that Bible, I promise it'll change your life. Either way, listen, I love you. God loves you. This has been the Unqualified Podcast with Leon Wilson.