Phil Robertson

It's sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, joints, marrow.

discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

No creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him whom we must give an account.

And it just goes on and you think, well, how in the world can he then just say just a few verses later for me to have confidence and enter into some kind of confidence to the throne?

I don't understand that.

I think the confidence is like, because that's that same picture in Revelation 1 of Christ post-resurrection.

that John on the Isle of Patmos has, you can't enter in with your own confidence in that setting because God is too glorious.

But when God reaches down, when that sovereign king, when that son of man reaches down and touches your shoulder and says, don't be afraid, now I can have confidence.

Not because of me, because of him.

So when Phil steps into that setting in the Superdome,

It really was a key moment.

I don't know what shifted in him.

He's always been a confident guy, but something in there was like, my confidence is in that Bible that's sitting right there inside that bag where I put my duck calls.

He's looking at the Word of God, and he's thinking, that's where the confidence is at.

And so when he pulls that sword out, when he pulls the Word out, and he gives it to this group of men,

I think what they experienced there was not the confidence of Phil Robertson.

It was the confidence of Phil Robertson that he had in Christ, and that was the power.

So then you go back to the whole premise of this podcast being unashamed.

It's not because we're so great and we're not afraid of anybody.

It's not that.