Episode 29 All men die but not all men rise again

Thanks for listening! R.J. and Fred start by talking about their weeks, which turns into "What are we doing?" After R.J. stops his rant, the guys go over this week's topic. As Easter approaches your hosts wanted to talk about the real reason to celebrate Easter. R.J. and Fred do their best to discuss the death of Jesus Christ and His miraculous resurrection. And as always, they cover a listener submission for this week's wildcard! 

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SPEAKER_00 0:12

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SPEAKER_02 1:18

So how's your week, man? It was pretty good week. Uh pretty packed. We had birthday parties and um those are always fun. Uh Iowa weather made it really eventful, but um then kind of battling some sickness because the weather I think is the biggest uh push and reason for that, because it's just it's been fluctuating pretty hard. So and then now it's raining and wet, so on top of 40 degree weather. Yeah, and yeah, that's that's exciting. So uh work-wise, everything's going pretty good. Um kind of able to do more, so we're still waiting on other people, but able to work and and that's good. Um looking forward to the weekend, although Saturday I'm remodeling my bathroom, ripping out some subfloor. Yeah, it's gonna be blast. So but how's your week?

SPEAKER_00 2:26

Um, it was good. My dad had his 30th anniversary. Um, the church did a really good job. They celebrated him pretty well. Um, him and our family. It was it was a very good time. Um, our kids have been sick as well. Um fever's throwing up, all that fun stuff. Uh so we've been we've been working around that, mainly my wife, because I work so much. I got um my extra run back, so I'm working more hours, which is a plus. And my cut has healed up very well, so um, I'm hoping to donate back on Saturday. So that's gonna be awesome.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

You should have showed everybody. Just be like what the beginning?

SPEAKER_00 3:10

I have pictures, I can put it up on the show. I mean, well, it's feedback to see if they're gonna see it. I don't I don't know if everybody because I'm I'm one of those types that don't want to see that kind of stuff, and most people are like, nah, I'm good. I'm like, yeah, I figure.

SPEAKER_02 3:27

Yeah, most yeah, it was it was interesting to see.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

Yeah. So um, and Josh from our church, he was showing me a diagram. Maybe I'll have to put it up for you guys. I won't show you the picture of my arm, but I'll show you this diagram. And he showed me how close it was to like actually hitting that main would be artery in your arm.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:49

Um, because yeah, you could see the white part of my arm, what the tendon, the fat in the tendon, and then he's like, it was like one sixteenth of an inch off, or something like that. And I'm like, that's uh kind of in perspective.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Did you see the person who got a cut on their face how close they were to there's like an artery or something in your eye? Yeah. Yeah. Dude, that stuff's gross.

SPEAKER_00 4:14

Um, but what was it? So the past like three days, I've been debating on whether I just kind of go off a little bit on the show or not, because I'm just like, what are we doing? Like, as a nation, as a people, what are we doing? And I'm very frustrated. So I'm gonna start off with a story and we'll see how far down the list I go.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

Alright.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Alright. So I read this, actually, this happened today, so this compounds on everything else.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

Let's make this a segment called RJ's Rant.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

And then we might have to look into something.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Just yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

But, alright. So on August 29th, so I assume this may have been last year. Um, so a man called 911 and reported that his four-month-old baby wasn't breathing. When paramedics arrived, they found the room tightly shut and almost completely dark. Inside, there was a strong, overwhelming smell of urine and feces. It was immediately clear that the baby was no longer showing signs of life. When they lifted the baby, numerous insects scattered from underneath him. The child's mother claimed she had breastfed him around 9 a.m. And the father said that when he checked on the baby at 11, he was already not breathing. Medical examiners later determined that the baby had been left alone in the clothes room for two weeks. And during that time, his diaper had not been changed once. On top of that, he hadn't been fed or given any water. Reports also stated that flies had laid eggs and larva had begun developing on the baby's body. The father later claimed he didn't change the diaper because the baby had constant diarrhea and he couldn't stand the smell. Probably because you weren't taking care of it. Even though it was his own child. The mother said she was suffering from postpartum depression and barely got out of bed. However, prosecutors proved these claims were false. At the same time, the parents were still taking care of their two-year-old daughter on top of the four-month-old baby. So that just kind of really like makes me ask again, well, like, what are we doing? And I'm reading, we will be reading a lot today because we're covering a huge topic today. We want to be accurate, so we we'll probably be reading off our papers quite a bit. But abortion pills. We can just get them sent to our mailbox. So we have abortion clinics here at home. Hey, we overturned Roe versus Wade, and I know that wasn't going to be the end of it. Each state had to do their thing. But now we have that. The Senate can't vote on the Save Act, even though 80% of Americans want it passed. Instead, we have Lindsey Graham going out to Disney World playing with a bubble wand. Did you know, Fred, that the people, I I assume it's Congress people as well, but the senators, they get a skip TSA when they go fly on their plane. So they don't even have to deal with everything that's going on. I did not know that. People like your poor brother who had to go without a paycheck for over a month, I believe.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

What are we doing? With that, with that, he had scheduled vacation. I hope he doesn't mind me telling this, but he had scheduled a vacation. And the last day of his vacation was like first day of the shutdown, right? And he volunteered, right? Because that's what we do, is we volunteer when we go to jobs. He volunteered. And then he got some, but they were gonna give an extra bonus if you showed up that whole shutdown, right? But because he was on vacation that was scheduled way far out in advance before they even dreamed of a shutdown, right? Because he missed that one day, like they didn't pay him that full thing. They gave him what like he should have gotten paid or whatever, maybe a little extra, but like one day for a scheduled prior vacation day. And yet, apparently, if you are a federal level or sometimes even state level, local levels, you don't even have to show up and you still get paid. Like, I really, really think they should get paid hourly.

SPEAKER_00 8:53

And I'm gonna continue on my react. I'm sorry. No, you're good, but you're good. No, trust me. It's very frustrating. It is, it is the double standard. Um prices of goods, homes, services are all way too high. I had four estimators come out to my house to do gutters on my house. Three of them quoted me reasonably fair:$3,500 through$3,900 to do my gutters and covers. That's reasonable to me. I had one other big business come out and quote me$23,000 to do my gutters.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

But they would work with you probably to file a claim on your insurance.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

After I told him I wasn't gonna pay that much money, they of course wanted me to do payments, and I told him no, they bumped it down to over$7,000. So I could have been paying them an extra$16,000 just because. Talking about homes, 33% of 30-year-olds own homes. And that is down from the 80s, which was at 47%. People can't afford stuff, they can't afford a house, they can't afford to fix their house, they can't afford to pay for things. Rent's getting outrageous too. Rent's higher than what owning a house is. Um, I'll just go with the medical because why not? I you guys know I do not love the medical field, but um, I just got my bill in for my arm. My insurance covered everything for my ER visit except for the two um emergency room remarks on there. There's emergency room and the emergency room, and they covered about half. So I have to pay$1,200 just for sitting in the room. And I assume one of them was the actual emergency room, and the other was the room that you go in to get seen before you go into the emergency. Yeah, which it's a clinic, clinic, normal clinic room, and I have to pay twelve hundred dollars for that. And the pharmacy. I'm oh I'm not done. Over$200 to get my medication from the pharmacy. Not because that's how much that the pills cost, but for the use of the pharmacy. Which pharma? I'll I'll show I'll show you my bill. Maybe I'll put it up there too. But it's it's ridiculous, man. Did you go to a special pharmacy or something? Just at the hospital. Oh my gosh. Not the Catholic one, not the Lutheran one, but the other one. So look up the moines, you can find them. It's it's pathetic. Like, what are what are we doing? And you know, the inflation on things. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna blame Trump wholeheartedly. But the whole shutting down of COVID, giving the government over the Anthony Fauci, giving us all checks to sit at home, and then not to correct it, but then also the wonderful four years of Biden that just sealed our fate, and why we're sitting here. My grocery bill has doubled since Trump first took took office, man. It's doubled weekly, yeah. Like, what what are we doing here? We're not serious about anything, we're not doing anything, we're not taking care of anything. I I don't know, and this probably wasn't the right thing to talk about. Kind of still showed, but it's it's it's needed, man.

SPEAKER_02 12:12

Like, we went when when we had a family, I'll say family medical emergency, we went to where did we? I think we went like an urgent care. No, we went primary, urgent care, ER. The urgent care literally goes, yeah, we can't do anything about that here. Charge us like$250 after my insurance. Yep.$250 just to be like, yeah, we can't do any of that here. Nancy wouldn't let's let's just pull out this app. Oh, look, you go to this hospital, their ER wait time is, and I'm like, I wasted more time coming to you and$250 for you to be like, yeah, we can't help you. Like, then what are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 13:02

Nancy had to go see a specialist over at the Mayo Clinic to see what was going on with her, and I'll be gracious, we took two hours, even though I think it was more an hour and a half. We got a bill, I think it was more like$1,200, but I we'll say it was a thousand dollars just for an hour and a half of his time, just to visibly see her, talk about her scans, and then to give her reflex tests. What are we doing here? How did that cost me that much money? Plus, I had to drive all the way up to Minnesota and back.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

And I'm like, I do get like special specialist care, but I'm like, it shouldn't be that much.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

There's a point where you're just ripping off the people. And this, I was gonna wrap it all off with this beautiful bow because I've seen this video going around. Two of them actually. Well we'll we'll go with two of them. A man calls in and talks to the billing department and says, Hey, you guys are quoting me this much to pay. Um, you guys don't have my insurance, so I'm gonna give you my insurance. So he gives them the insurance, and guess what? The cost actually goes up.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

So then the guy goes, Oh, can you just take me off? I don't have insurance then. Nope, because you've already given us proof. So it actually costs you more, even though you're already paying more for insurance than what you would have if you didn't. Um, and then the other, there's a new hat going around. Just go into the ER. Don't bring your phone, don't bring your wallet, don't bring any identification, don't tell them who you are. How can they bill you? I'm not promoting that, by the way. That's why I have to pay twelve hundred dollars just to walk into an ER just to get a stitch and a flush.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Well, and there are, yes, there are a lot of cases. I think of the are they county? Is it the county hospital? We have a county hospital, right? It's kind of a mainstream one.

unknown 14:47

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

Not the Catholic, not the Lutheran, um, not the United, but the B one. Oh. That's probably anyway. There's people that I forget about them, I need to go over there more. There's a lot of people who go in there and kind of do what you were saying, and I mean it's like, yeah, they they treat 'em and basically get them alive, and you know, you're not gonna get a big thing. Alright, we'll bill you, and then yeah, you don't have the right address. I'm not Bob's, you know, Smith, I'm whoever, and there's no way to track them down. And it's like, yeah, how many people have done that? So then their reaction to it is is oh, this guy's got really good insurance. Like, I feel like whenever they see my insurance, because I do have really good insurance, it's almost like they think of how much more like I've gone to the doctor for simple stuff, and they're like, uh, let's do a blood test.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

Every time.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

And I'm like, why? Every time they want to do a blood test and like a urine test, either or I'm like, I understand if you pull my like there are cases that I'm like that makes sense, and I agree with that, but I'm like, why would you pull my blood? Like, did you look at my insurance and oh he'll they'll pay. And they charge so much, and I it's because the insurance will pay, but then it's like you're you're trying to supplement the service that you did for this person by almost double charging me. If I mean flat rates, what what it cost, but it's like, man, that's that's not right either. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 16:33

We have the Supreme Court. What are we doing there? You know, the whole 14th Amendment talk is popping back up in the Supreme Court and uh talking about anchor babies and such, and yeah. What are we doing? So failing apparently. So now that that's done, let's jump into our main topic, shall we?

SPEAKER_01 16:59

Yeah, I have a feeling that's all gonna go back up in a couple weeks. It's all gonna come right back up.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

That might just have to be a monthly thing. Oh man. All that aside, because we need to give an important week.

SPEAKER_02 17:14

Very important week.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Yes, and I feel like both in you and my personal lives, there's been a lot of stuff going on. Probably trying to make sure that maybe we didn't do as good of a job or even cover this this week, right? So let's give credit where credit's due. So this week we wanted to share something that is near and dear to our hearts. Some may call it Easter, but we call it Resurrection Day. For many, it may just be another holiday, and you may celebrate by being with family and just doing an egg hunt. There's nothing wrong with that, but to us believers, it means so much more. So during Christmas, we talk briefly about Jesus Christ and how he was born as a baby through a virgin birth. As you read through the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in your King James Bible, you see Jesus live a perfect life. You see him teach and you see him perform miracles. But we don't just see how he lived, we see his death and his resurrection. That is what we'd like to focus on this week. Both his death and his resurrection. So we thought it'd be really good to kind of summarize it for you all. Um, a lot of our audience, I believe, goes to church, um, they're very familiar with this, so but we're trying to reach others also, so we didn't want to be very theological, we didn't want to deep dive, get crazy deep on stuff. We I guess more of a surface level, right? For the everyday man to understand and grasp.

SPEAKER_02 18:59

Just just real quick interjecting. The the interesting thing is I'm in this prepar wow, in this preparation for this show. Um I have found many sources that will acknowledge the fact that there was a man named Jesus that was a radical teacher in the Jewish religion. So so people recognize his his life, he existed, they will also recognize his death, and a lot of them will come short of recognizing his resurrection. But so if you're if you're a listener and you're passing this information on, or a podcast listener and and you're sharing this, like uh and you've never heard, or you're listening and you've never heard um about Jesus, and and you think it's just whatever Christians and Bible people believe. No, like there are historians who will reference and and state for fact that there was a man named Jesus Christ, and he was a Jew, and he taught way outside the lines of Judaism, as far as like he was radical, is what they'll call him, and then they will talk about his death. So this isn't strictly our opinion. I mean, even if there weren't people backing it that are historians that are very against the Bible, I guess is what I'll say. But like for me personally, and I believe for you too, even if that wasn't there, I still believe the Bible. I still believe that Jesus Christ came and and lived on this earth and had a birth, death, and resurrection.

SPEAKER_00 20:36

Right. So Right. Um You'll see his death, well, the events leading up, and his death, and the passages we'll use would be from Matthew 26 and 27, Mark 14 and 15, Luke chapter 22 and 23, and also John 13, it starts and goes through 19. So we see a few things in these passages leading up to the death of Jesus. Um many of you probably have heard of this man, probably don't know exactly what his story or what his role was, but Judas Iscariot ends up selling out Jesus, and he does this just for monetary gain for silver. He told no one about this, okay? And Jesus and his twelve disciples have a feast in the celebration of Passover. I wish I could go over Passover with you too, but that would be another story for another day. Um, but fun fact here. You ready for a fun fact? So Luke 22, verses 19 and 20, is where we get communion from the Bible. Alright. Jesus tells his disciples that one man would betray him, and that also Peter would deny him three times before the rooster. Woodcrow the next morning. This is all happening during the feast. After the feast, Jesus takes his disciples to go up and to pray. Jesus was under agony in his prayer. So much so we see him. Oh man. I had different wording on here. But we see we see the blood is mixed in with the sweat. And is dropping his uh great drops, but the the sweat was mixed in with the blood. And this is actually, some of you may not have you haven't heard about something like this before, but it's it's an actual thing that does happen to people. Just he was under so much agony. They're talking about like maybe before you get into a fight or something. Hopefully, I'm getting this correct, and please forgive me if I'm getting this wrong, but so much agony, like so amped up, or like um just so much going on in him. Like, can you only imagine if he knew what was gonna happen soon? You know, he knew he was gonna be dying on this cross, he knew what was gonna be happening to him, the beatings he was gonna take, the separation from God, his father. Yes, I mean, just all these things that were gonna happen, and he's going up here to pray, and then there's just so much agony that is happening, uh a turmoil maybe in him a little bit. He knew he he was gonna do what he had to do, but just knew that this was coming. Um, his disciples fall asleep, not once, not twice, but three times. Um, and Jesus wakes them up. And on that third time, Judas appears on the scene with Jesus' captors. Um, and it's a word of note here, they didn't necessarily know what Jesus looked like, so they had Judas come along with them, and I believe he kissed them on the cheek to show them who Jesus was.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

Which is where the kiss of death was first.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

I did not know that.

unknown 24:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

Interesting. First kiss of death. So then they take Jesus away. In our next part, Jesus was brought before the people in the custody of Pontius Pilate, who was governor at that time for the Roman Empire. Um, it was tradition to release a prisoner during the feast of the Passover. Passover was just It was a big thing.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

Dive in the big thing. Give us a surface level what the Passover is.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

Surface level of the Passover. So when the Israelites were taken slaves or captors um in the land of Egypt before, um there had been plagues that had happened throughout, and um Moses and Aaron were talking to Pharaoh at the time, and Moses Moses' intent was to get Pharaoh to let his people go, the Israelites. And Pharaoh just would say no, and God would bring a plague along. Um was it seven plagues?

SPEAKER_02 25:23

Ten.

SPEAKER_00 25:23

Ten, excuse me. So every time he would say no, God would bring a plague. And finally, the one that finally broke him was the last plague, which was the Passover. And what would happen is the firstborn out of every family in Egypt, um, you're supposed to put blood from a lamb on the post of your door. Okay? You're supposed to do that, and that's how the angel of death would know whether you were what would be a good word here?

SPEAKER_02 26:03

I'm gonna say.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

Some things to remember them by. You know, they also had monuments or altars, I believe is the word that they would use that they would set up in remembrance of something that Jesus had done for them. Right.

SPEAKER_02 27:06

Which is why we, as Christians, now do communion or the Lord's Supper to do this in remembrance of the what we're talking about today.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Yeah, exactly. Um thank you for that. Okay, so like I was saying, it's tradition for them to release a prisoner during the feast. And today it was a choice of the people whether it would be Jesus or a man named Barabbas would be set free. Now, Barabbas, he was imprisoned for certain sedition, and I looked up sedition in today's terms. Um, it said, conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state. So that's the sedition part. But then not only was he charged for sedition, but also for murder. And a sad part here is that the people chose Barabbas over Jesus. Um they called for Jesus' crucifixion. And in Matthew 27, verses 24 and 25, we see that Pilate, um, we see him wash his hands. He's talking to the people and he's washing his hands of this thing, you know. Um, more or less, in my opinion, it's riding offense a little bit. He's saying, Oh, like, I have I have nothing to do with this. You people have chosen this, you know, I can't do anything about it, but he was the governor, right?

SPEAKER_02 28:30

Yeah, he had the power to stop it and chose not to. Um, I mean, even the fact that his wife warned him, you know, do nothing with this man. And then he's like, his way out in his mind was, well, they're gonna definitely not choose Jesus to be crucified or punished or anything. So they'll they'll accept him to be released, and um it it didn't happen that way. So then, yeah, he just, oh, I'm just it's on you, you know, his blood be on your heads.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

And the people's response to that was that they would accept Jesus Jesus' blood to be on them and their children. But before Jesus goes, we see him scourged. Um, this means that he was whipped and he was beaten before he left. And it wouldn't have just been probably what you were thinking, maybe just belts or sticks on them. No, they um back in Roman times they would actually use a whip called the Cat of Ninetales. And the Cat of Ninetales was a whip that had the nine strands that came off of it. And at the end of each strand would be some type of sharp object. Um put that in your mind, whether it be rock or glass or whatever they had, maybe it was clay pot, I'm not sure. But they would have a sharp ending to each one of the whips. So it was designed to be whipped around to wrap around the body with the whip, dig in, and then when they'd pull it away, it'd rip you open. Yeah. Um, yeah. So um from what I heard, it was supposed to have been 39 times that he was whipped the cat of nine tails, but I'm just gonna say that's what I've heard.

SPEAKER_02 30:13

Um a lot of people didn't make it.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

Correct. Because if you think about it, even just through once it would shred you apart. So doing it so many times, like probably disembowel a lot of people doing that.

SPEAKER_02 30:24

Um it's pretty gross.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

Yeah, um, very brutal. And then we read about the crucifixion of Jesus. We see throughout this whole process that he was mocked and the brutality of it all throughout his death. So they start off by stripping him and stripping him down and putting on a purple robe. Purple back then. I don't know if it's so much today, but it meant royalty back then. Um, so they're mocking him, obviously. Um they then pressed into his skull a crown of thorns, they put a reed in his hand and bowed down to him, saying, Hail King of the Jews, mocking him. They spit on him, they hit him on the head, and then they take off the royal garments. They continue on, they they tear out his beard. We see this all the way back in Isaiah 50, verse 6. It was prophesied that it would happen. He carried his cross, and later on we see that a man named Simon carries it the rest of the way for him. And I was told, a fun fact, but not a fun fact, that if Simon had chose not to do that, it would be punishment of death. Yeah. That's a lot of the stuff that happened with the Romans.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

The nice way the Bible puts it is they compelled a which uh either carry the cross or you're gonna get one of your own.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

Um, you know, this would have been a grueling time for Jesus, very um physically exerting of himself. Sure, he was super thirsty amongst all this. He said, I thirst. And they tried to give him wine that was mixed with myrrh. Um, talking with my pastor last night, um, this would have been the myrrh mixed in would have been something that they would have used back then for like a pain medication, something that would have taken the edge off, helped them out. But we see here that Jesus refused it. Um yeah. He he suffered and he suffered feeling all of it. They took his clothes and casted lots. That'd be like gambling today, right? In a way. Yeah, kind of. Um they placed this is Jesus, King, the King of the Jews, over his head on the cross. Um and when we talk about him being placed on a cross, he was cross, right? So then um they would hang men from crosses. Um I'm guessing depending on the severity of their crime, and what they would do is they would literally have this cross high up in the air. Um your arms would be out like this, and you'd get a spike in each hand to the wood, and then your feet would be crossed together, and you'd get a spike between that as well, and they'd leave you there until you died. Um, and it would be very hard and taxing on your body, being out like that, and then also trying to get air. So some people they didn't do this with Jesus, but some people that would um be going on a long time, they'd eventually break their legs, so that way they would just suffocate to death on there. It was just a very cruel and uh brutal punishment.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

And that king of the Jews, this is Jesus King of the Jews, what they would do on the cross is they would put your name in your charge. So he was literally, according to the Romans, put to death because he was the king of the Jews.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

That was his his charge against Rome. Um, you know, and like we had said, Jesus was thirsty, and what they give him, they ended up giving him vinegar to drink. Um, an important part of the story was that there was also two thieves hanging on their crosses beside Jesus, one on his left and one on his right. Um, and this shows us a perfect picture of salvation. Um, your choices. Yeah. Um, we see that one man wanted Jesus to save them by getting them out of this situation. He wasn't focused on the future, he was focused on the present here and now.

SPEAKER_02 35:04

Physically.

SPEAKER_00 35:05

Yes. The other knew that they deserved their fate, and that Jesus, this man, he didn't deserve it at all. He then asked Jesus to remember him when he comes to his kingdom. And Jesus answers him, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. This shows that all you need to do in order to be saved is to repent of your sin and have the faith that Jesus did come and die for us. And it's very important. Jesus had to die in order for us to go to heaven because there's a word that is used. It's a very important word, and the word I'm going to use is propitiation. Jesus is the sacrifice that satisfies God's righteous demand for sin. It is something that we could not pay.

unknown 36:00

Right.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

We were not perfect, we have blemish, we have spots, we have a sin that we, I mean, we sin every day. Jesus lived a perfect and holy life. Right. The entire life. Jesus was the only sacrifice that would satisfy God's righteous demand for sin. We couldn't do that. So Jesus had to die on the cross in order for our salvation. Right.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

The interesting thing, go back to the two thieves, is if if you're just looking at it, you're one of two people. You're either pleading for Christ to save you physically, get you out of this mess and situation you're in, and have no desire to be with him at all. Just save your skin and kind of live for yourself. And the other man, I think it's interesting because he says, like they're they're all three dying, right? But he says, Remember me. Like he knew that Jesus Christ was not going to stay dead. Right. And in in his confession of who Christ was, he says, Remember me when you go um what's he saying to thy kingdom. So he knew he's like, This is the Son of God. Like he's going to not just die, and that's the end of the story. Like he's like, remember me when you go to your kingdom.

SPEAKER_00 37:18

And it's and that's important too that he also used the word thy kingdom. Right. It's his. Right. Yeah. So it's not just some random place, like it's his kingdom. Yeah. Um, and Jesus' death concludes with him yelling, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. So that's the death. That's the summary of Jesus' death. But that's not where the story ends. No. We jump into the resurrection.

SPEAKER_02 37:50

So after the death of Jesus, a man called named Joseph of Arima Ariath. Arih? Arimathea. Arimathea. Uh, he went to Pilate to plead for Jesus' body. Um, and uh is did I say Joseph? Did I say that?

unknown 38:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:09

His name's Joseph. Joseph or Arimathea. Yeah. And I heard um today um on Steve Day's show, he was talking about actually the opposite of this. Not that we'll go into that, but ten reasons, um, ten things you'd have to believe in order for this not to be true. And you'd have to believe all ten. You couldn't just believe, pick one or two, three or four, but all ten. But he was talking about um that um Joseph of Arimathea, like he had to be a man of wealth in order to have a tomb for his body to be placed in the tomb, too.

SPEAKER_02 38:50

That's what the Bible says.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

Because otherwise they would have just thrown his body into a pit, more than likely, with all the other bodies that they had crucified. Right. Yeah, sorry about that.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

So, no, good point. Um, but he goes and pleads for the body of Christ, um, and then he prepares it, he wraps it in linen and lays it in his tomb, um, which tells me he was a believer because he he cared and loved for Jesus. Um, he placed it in his, like I said, new tomb. Um, and then he rolls a great stone in front of it. Uh, the next day, the Pharisees, the high priests, they're all gathered together and they're like, Um, we need to do something because when he was alive, he said three days later he's gonna he's gonna rise up again, you know. So we gotta we gotta make sure none none of his radical friends come and steal the body. So they go to Pilate and they say, Hey, we need we need someone to guard and protect and keep all these maniacs from getting the body of Christ and saying, Look, our Lord rose. Right. Um, so Pilate gives them Um A guard to keep watch and and they set them out Um for the sole purpose to to make sure nobody instills the body of Christ and then on the third day the soldiers all fall asleep, like there's a giant earthquake, soldiers fall asleep, um which is very uncommon for Roman soldiers who are live, eat, breathe, die, war, you know. So they they take that very seriously.

SPEAKER_00 40:25

With also the cost being if they fail their post, let somebody go, or they don't do their job, it's death.

SPEAKER_02 40:31

Yeah. Yeah and most of the soldiers would fall upon their own swords if that happened to avoid that. Um but uh they fell asleep, the stone gets rolled away. Um then we see Mary coming and she's talking to another lady, and and their biggest concern is how are we gonna roll the stone away? Because they're coming to to um take care of the body of Christ. And um when they get there, the the angel speaks to them and um tells them that that the uh he's risen, you know. Uh why why I love this. This is probably my favorite was like, why do you seek the living among the dead? I I love that because it's just like he he told you he was gonna rise again. Why are you coming to the tombs? Like what you expect. Yeah, that's not where that's not where people who are alive really go and hang out. So um, but then after that, he he meets a couple men on the road and and talking to them, and just he's he's seen, he gets to see his disciples, he eats with them, he sees over 500 people is is what it says. Um just millions of people, I'm not millions, but multiple people have seen him, and um one of the key figures in the spreading of the gospel is the apostle Paul, and he meets Christ on the road to Damascus, and um just just that account of of Paul echoing what the the four gospels tell us happen with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ that Paul is later painting to the New Testament churches um just strengthens that even more. Um but uh for us as Christians, this is a fundamental um part of our faith. Um by Christ's resurrection, he conquered death, he conquered hell and sin, and he proved his sacrifice, was accepted by God. Um, like RJ said, the propitiation, he is Jesus Christ, the sacrifice that satisfies God's righteous demand for sin. Um and because of this, we have salvation. Without the resurrection, it it we we would not have that. So that that that is very key to our faith.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

Um yeah, because it's like kind of like the the the 101 for Jesus, you know, um have them to be born of a virgin woman, you know. Um the sin line falls through the man. Yeah, um, that's where tendencies and the sin comes through is through the bloodline of the man, not not from the woman. Um, so that's very important. That's how he lived. I mean, that's not why he lived the perfect life. He's God, that's why he lived the perfect life. But and then you see, you know, he had his death. He had to die, he had to be the propitiation, but then also the resurrection. Just three simple but key. Key things that had to happen.

SPEAKER_02 43:48

And I I found I was so I don't know if you can read that guy's name. Lionel Lacoux. Lionel Lacoux is a uh He's a very successful lawyer, um Guinness record holder, um, but he analyzed the resurrection using legal standard and found the evidence in the Bible true. Like it's it's uh undeniable. And it's it's like you can see people through history who try to lack a better wording, debunk Christianity, the Bible, and and many of them, if you come into the Bible and you you study it out with an open mind, I guess, not slanted, twisting everything and trying to make it say what you want, literally taking it word for word what it is, these people come in with this like complete against God mindset, and they okay, they come out and they're like, the Bible's true, Christianity's true, like Christ is who he said he was, and it's like like big names like C.S. Lewis, who is a huge apologetic apologetic uh for the faith he he was totally against the Bible and Christ. He thought it was just a little storybook, you know. And he he delved into it and became one of the the defenders of it, you know, and it's like that's I don't I don't know I don't know how else to say it, but that's just like that's that's God you know, and and like like we're saying, these are these are cores to the Christian belief and faith. And um just I don't know, I know with Resurrection Sunday, it's it seems to be a very busy day, but take that time to just set aside where you truly look up these verses and passages and take time and and and see what Christ did for us to give us salvation, to to allow that to happen. Um and then just thank him and then I guess do better as a Christian because I know myself, I'm like, man, that's you know, you you do communion and stuff and then you think about it, or the Lord's Supper, you know, but just really diving in and thinking about what how much he loves us. You know, he he came because he loves us, he came because God loves us, and um, that's just powerful, man. It really is.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

Yeah. He just he went through all of that just for somebody like me.

SPEAKER_02 46:41

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 46:42

Um, and the crazy thing too is um you see after Jesus dies, his twelve disciples, they all kind of like or is yeah, they all kind of just kind of go back to what they're doing hiding out a little bit or something like that. And then you see them after they s after they see Jesus again, it's like they're revitalized and they spread out through the world. Um, and I bring this up because you know, there's people that want to debunk, they want to say it's not true, but then you look at how these men died. Um like the whole fact that if your person, let's say your commander, your leader dies, well, you're probably gonna go through a grief process and a slump, and you're well, that's the end of that, right? Well, no. Not only did they see him die, but they saw him resurrect, and that rejuvenated them to go out and do what they were commanded to do. And then on top of that, not only going out and doing that, it's not like they're buddy pals all going together in the same place, they spread out, right? But then also to die for him and in the ways that they died for him.

unknown 47:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:56

Being crucified upside down, martyred, yeah, gruesome deaths, and like John didn't even get the the beliefs of death, I guess is how I'd say that. Like things that should have killed him, like being boiled, and you know, he still lived, you know, and it's just anybody, if you're literally spreading a lie, you're gonna just debunk it right there. You know, like hey, no, you're right, you're right. I didn't know, but it's like, no, they they you know, and I think of Paul, I brought him up, man. Paul was persecuting the church, like killing Christians, and then gets saved on the road to Damascus, completely 180 his life to where the people he's killing, he's now one of. And and he spreads the gospel so far and and pins the the scriptures under the inspiration of the only God or Holy Spirit to where that is like the core for church, the the New Testament church and how we operate things. And right, um yeah, I'm just there's no way that's a lie. Like people would not do that.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

No. We hope you guys learned something. Um, I know I learned even some new stuff looking back through scripture again and looking at things, and even the whole prophecy of him getting his beard yanked out, because you hear that as a kid. Um, they teach you that in like Sunday school and stuff, and I was looking through the gospels trying to find it, but then realizing it's actually back in Isaiah's when that's brought up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:40

So and and I'll I'll challenge just one last thing, I guess. I'll challenge the men, the dads, take your family, read through this with them. Um what we try to do is even before um Resurrection Sunday, we try to go through uh it's 21 weeks, I believe, and we have like Palm Sunday. He rides in on the donkey, so we got a little donkey figurine and kind of lets the kids look at it, and we we talk about Palm Sunday and stuff. So it's um I might post that. I might post that up. Well that's that's that's super important because how many times do we see the birth of Jesus in or nativity scenes, but we don't yeah, I got we made a little like tomb, like rock, and then we have a little rock that rolls in front, and then so like Friday is typically when we throw them in, but I think there's discrepancies or whatever variations of what people believe, but we just kind of put Jesus in the tomb and then we shut it, and then Sun Sunday, Resurrection Sunday, we'll have the the tomb rolled away and Jesus will be out. And we're like, Go look at the tomb, go look at the tomb, you know, with our kids, and when they're little they get really excited, and you know, now the older ones are kind of like, Where'd he go? You know, and did you play with them? And because they know like they got little wooden figurines that not you we don't let them play with Jesus, but right seems sacrilegious, yes, a little a little bit probably so but they get excited, you know, and it's like he's not in there.

SPEAKER_00 51:24

That's the other thing. I I don't think Jesus would be too sad if they're excited about him and playing with them. Yeah, but want to jump into a wild card? Let's get on that wild card. Let's do it. Okay. Listener's submission yet again. What's my saying? You always ask and we deliver. I'll I'll read it because you go first on this answer. Oh, okay, okay. Alright, so. Oh, but thanks for so much for interacting with us. Yes. If you have any questions or topics you'd like to discuss, continue to send them our way.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

Now, this listener asked, is DoorDash blue collar? And what qualifies a blue-collar job?

SPEAKER_00 52:23

So, in my mind, I would say DoorDash would be blue-collar. Um, typically, when I think of white collar versus blue collar, um it's just that. Like, what do you think of a white collar? Somebody sitting behind a desk, management, um to an extent, depending on the job, but the ones that sit behind a desk, that's why I'm thinking white collars, finance, banks, white collar. Um, they don't want to get their stuff dirty, but then the blue collar mechanics, exactly. Blue collar mechanics. Um, I would say I work blue collar, I'm running around getting dirty, um, delivering stuff to people. You're blue collar, you're working, you're getting in there, supervising some a little bit just kidding, but um half blue, half white collar, though. Yeah, it has its perks. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I I would definitely say DoorDash is a blue-collar job. And uh I think there's nothing to be ashamed about with blue-collar versus white-collar. I mean, if you're a person that does white-collar, um, good for you. I wish I could have, but there's a major bank that rejected me three times, so I wasn't meant to be white-collar. So um the way of a driver it is for me.

SPEAKER_02 53:41

How about you? Uh, I would say yeah, it's blue-collar, and I I kind of cheated because I looked up what a blue-collar definition is, is I mean, it's it's kind of insulting, but we are definitely blue-collar. It says, um basically, like little to no education, maybe a skill trade, and can be unskilled.

SPEAKER_00 54:08

I just and I didn't really want to go there because then it makes me want to flip the script and be like, can you do your own oil and blue cards? Right.

SPEAKER_02 54:15

And and that's why I'm like, yeah, blue-collar is not. I'm I mean, I'm blue-collar, and I'm like, yeah, white-collar, if you're white-collar, like I think you're a special kind of person. And I don't mean that like insultive, like it really I I struggle with white-collar work. I really do. Like, eight hours staring at a computer screen sounds horrible to me. And like a lot of the white-collar people that I know, you know, they got bad backs, and you know, sitting for that long. Um stuff like that. I think of that. But they're more prestige jobs, you know, the big names, and normally they carry a degree, but jokes on them. I have a four-year degree and I'm blue-collar.

SPEAKER_00 55:01

So white collar, blue collar, just as Michael Scott has said, I'm collar blind.

SPEAKER_02 55:08

Yeah. I mean, as long as you got a collar, you're doing pretty good in this day.

SPEAKER_00 55:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:15

But yeah, I think um, you know, the the weird aspect is like, if you're an entrepreneur, is that what would that be? Because this is I think like building your business? Well, like entrepreneurship is kind of you're doing both. Like, let's say you you start up your own diesel mechanic shop. Diesel mechanic is very good. Well, you're gonna be working in right, but then eventually you're gonna step more into a a white-collar job.

SPEAKER_00 55:48

If it gets big enough, I'd say if it's corporate, but I mean, how many mechanics have you known that own their own shop? Are they really sitting and doing paperwork? Most of the time they're doing it.

SPEAKER_02 55:58

No, because that would drive them nuts. Yeah. Nuts! Nuts! But DoorDash, I think I think they classify it actually as like subcontracting, I think. Well yeah. Or something like that. So you're literally, I think, like your own contractor.

SPEAKER_00 56:14

Which same with like flex, you're a subcontractor.

SPEAKER_02 56:17

I'm gonna say you're you're both, dude. You're doing blue-collar work, but you're you're a contractor, so you're white-collar.

SPEAKER_00 56:22

We don't ride the fence here, it's blue collar.

SPEAKER_02 56:24

You're totally mixing it up, dude. You gotta do your own paperwork. So, yeah, it's blue-collar, dude. You gotta change your own oil on that.

SPEAKER_00 56:35

So well, that's a pay for it, but yeah. Okay, bud.

SPEAKER_02 56:40

Well, anything else you want to add? Uh, from my family to everybody out there, um, you know, post this up, but um happy Resurrection Sunday, and uh definitely encourage you guys to read and remember what the Lord has done.

SPEAKER_00 56:58

Couldn't have said it any better. Thanks for listening to This Is the Day Show. Don't forget to stand. Thank you.