Joshua Broome

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The Shawn Ryan Show · #196 Joshua Broome - "Rocco Reed," Inside The Adult Film Industry · 1 May 2025 podcast

I certainly have no business here is what I was thinking. And then, you know, my, my only like, I think a lot of people can relate to that. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I thought, you know, if you had tattoos on your arm and wrinkles on your shirt, like you're going to hell. You know, that's what I thought. And then I saw a man with tattoos and, you know, a T-shirt and jeans get up on stage preaching. And he told the story of 2 Samuel 9. And just to provide a little bit of context, so 2 Samuel 9, it's King David.

David had just rebuilt the temple, and now he's kind of at the pinnacle of his reign as king. And he's just rebuilt the temple, and he had done something for God. And then he was asking himself introspectively, Lord, what can I do for your people to show your loving kindness to me? How can I reciprocate the love that I've experienced from you to your people?

And then he's like, oh, yeah, I made this promise. to my friend Jonathan. So Jonathan was the son of Saul. Saul, his kingdom was stripped from him when he sinned. And then David was chosen and anointed to be king. And then there was this conflict between Saul and David. And Saul had a son, Jonathan. And Jonathan and David were great friends.

And Jonathan even was like, hey, I know my dad's trying to throw spears at you and trying to kill you. And he's kind of lost it.

he's plotting on you i'm gonna have your back i'm gonna let you know and then david said hey i'm gonna make this covenantal promise with you that i'm gonna show you love and affection not only to you forever but to your family as well now fast forward he's remembering this and he's saying man um how can i show this to you know god's people and he's oh

I wonder if there's anyone left out of the house of Saul. And he finds a guard, Ziba is the guard's name, and he served under Saul. And he's like, hey, is there anyone left? And he's like, yeah. Mephibosheth was the son of Jonathan, but he's in this place called Lodabar. It means place of no pasture.

He's in hiding because when he was around five or six years old, when his dad and his grandfather, when Jonathan and Saul were killing battle, There was this hierarchy where he was next in line to be king, but David was chosen and anointed to be king.

So if David had his right place on the throne, historically, if there was an opposing person that could potentially cause an upheaval, they were identified and eradicated. That was the plan. So he was in hiding because he thought his head was on the chopping block. David goes, finds him, brings him in front of him, and Mephibosheth is like, you know, doomsday. Today's the day. I'm going to die.

I've been found. And David says, actually, I'm going to give to you, I'm going to restore back to you your grandfather's land, which is part of Canaan, so the promised land. I'm going to give you... access back to your land, and I'm going to invite you into my kingdom, and I want you to have a seat at my table, not for a day, not for a week, but forever. You are now part of this family."

And I was like, wow, this is amazing. It's a beautiful picture of grace. But 2 Samuel 9, verse 8, Mephibosheth, how does he respond to this? Does he's like, wow, you know, God is so good. Wow, this is amazing. No. He refers to himself as a dead dog. He says, what would you want to do with a dead dog like me? And I was like, yeah, that's it.

Because before he was talking about, man, Romans 3.23 says that we've all sinned and fall short of the glory of God, so everybody's guilty. Romans 6.23, the wages of sin is death. So if we're all guilty and that guilt equates to death, eternal separation from God, if that's true for everyone, then okay, I'm on the same playing field. But then you're talking about this grace of God.

You know, I'm like, okay, you know, Proverbs 10, 9, whoever confesses with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe that he was raised on the third day will be saved. I'm like, this is amazing. But then I still find myself, don't you know who I am? Don't you know what I've done? Don't you know who my daddy is? Don't you know even he didn't want me? And then he read Hebrews 12, 2.

It talks about how Jesus went to the cross with joy in His heart set before Him, scorning our shame, before He sat down at the right hand of God. Joy. You're talking about that Jesus was fully God, fully man, so fully perfect. He's omniscient. He's all-knowing. So an all-powerful, all-knowing God went to the cross. He was obedient to his Father, so that makes sense.

But why would he have joy in his heart? And then it hit me. Because he loves me. Because He loves me. God loves me. And I just kept saying it to myself over and over and over again. And I fell to my knees and I started to cry. I'm not sure what happened that day, but when I stood up, I gave my life to Jesus the best I knew how. And what I felt when I stood up was the rock was off my back.

And I understood the Father that I always wanted. He gave me pictures of shielding me and protecting me and walking with me and fighting for me and believing the best about me. That's why Romans 5.8 is so powerful. While knowing the worst thing you've ever done, Jesus went to the cross and died for you.

It talks about how you wouldn't do that for a bad person, maybe for a righteous person, but not someone that had done the things that we did that put him on the cross. Like, no way. While knowing the worst thing you've ever done, the thing that you would not want to say out loud, he knows that and he chooses you. Why? Because he loves you. And that love, it changed me that day.

It didn't fix all my problems. I was still very much a knucklehead. But man, if there was something that I was sure of, it was that God loved me. And I wanted to be different. And the thing that I didn't think was possible just came true, is that I had a father. who adored me. And that girl, her name is Hope, which is pretty cool. And I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I married her.

And we've been married for nine years. and got four boys, and I've just seen so much beauty come from the ashes of my life. And from that moment of being discipled and going to Liberty and getting a theological education to Preaching at Liberty at Convocation last month and doing, you know, having conversations with incredible people like yourself. Like, I didn't have the guts.

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