This is the Truth Network. Coming to you from an entrenched barricade deep in the heart of central North Carolina, Masculine Journey After Hours, a time to go deeper and be more transparent on the topic covered on this week's broadcast.
So sit back and join us on this adventure. The Masculine Journey After Hours starts here. No. Welcome to Masculine Journey After Hours. We are in the middle of our foundation series, aren't we, Andy?
We sure are. Mr. Architect, Andy, the architecture. I've been called that before. I know.
I'm trying to find something that sticks. Man, I'm telling you. Hey, I got a new name.
Okay.
Okay.
You'll have to go to boot camp to realize what we talked about. Yeah, it needs to come from. Yeah, but no, Andy had the idea of: hey, we're on in a new area, so let's go back and play some stuff that we haven't talked about in a while. You know, and go back and revisit some topics. And it's great for us to revisit those topics because it puts them fresh in our head.
It does. We are leading up to a boot camp, but also it's just. Um, we do topical stuff, and it's great, and it's what's going on in our lives, but there's also a foundation that we work from that we that has brought a lot of growth in our lives. God has done a lot of rescuing and healing, and it's good to share that in the context of our lives, but but there's a basis for all of it. While the heart is a big part of it, Bible obviously is A bigger foundation of it.
But it just, it's what we're about as a ministry and how, you know, God's how He rescued us and then how we are. you know, pursuing that, understanding it more, and then being able to share what he's done in our life and maybe help somebody else. Absolutely. And we're in the middle of the core desires, Robby. And so I know you did this at the last show, but just touch briefly on it and case I picked up at the middle of the show.
Yeah, it's important. I Have thought about it and thought about it. Genesis 1:27, you know, God created us. In his image, in male and female, he created us. And so, you know, what does that mean to bear God's image as a man?
And You know, I see a lot of men That are out there trying to figure out what does it mean to be a man and You know, this is an opportunity to push into some areas that you wouldn't think because. What John Eldridge points out really well from my perspective is that Satan has been stealing. Masculinity. Yeah. Yeah.
he fears it. And the things that he fears, like your enemy, will make you wise, the things that your enemy fears are obviously quite valuable. And so that which has been stolen is that idea of Little boys have got a battle to fight. And so you can take away their guns, but they're still going to. carve a bar of soap into it or whatever it is that they gotta take their finger, but they're gonna they're gonna They're going to be little warriors and they are going to be adventurous.
They're going to the last two weeks we've talked about both the battle to fight and adventure to live. But you know, if you watch the movie Breyhart, they're Very masculine movie, and we talked about it in the first show on A Battle to Fight that. Jesus Like William Wallace, calls us out to live in a larger story, to fight the big battle. But in the movie Braveheart They were warrior poets because there's stages in the masculine journey that when at some point when we're doing our foundations, we'll get to pillars. But nonetheless.
Th one of those things is that Love enters into a boy's life at some point in time. And then all of a sudden, your heart ceases to make sense to you in lots of different ways. And so it's fascinating that God kind of puts Put that in all of us, that idea of love, that idea of rescue and the beauty, and those things that we talked about in the first show. We're going to go deeper about that now. And I think the deeper place for many of us that have tripped us up and have been taken, like if there was one idea that Satan would consider to be a place to really send you into the dungeon, it's love.
And so, you know, this is a big Opportunity. Right. For us to push into what God has for us. And this part of the the masculine journey. Thank you, Robby.
Jamal, you want to add something? Yeah, just for my small contribution, I just wanted to jump in since it's been a while. movie a long time ago uh with uh Sean Cornery um called The First Night. Oh, yeah. And one of the lines that's always stuck with me, which took me a while to process, he was talking to Lancelot.
And La Lancelot in that movie was kind of like a wild kid just kind of going here and here and there, not really settling in. and whatnot. And he said that he didn't fear anything, or Lancelot did.
Well then Sean Connery the king, King Arthur, said, Oh, you've got to be careful, Lancelot, a man that fears nothing, loves nothing.
So uh that that stuck with me for a while.
So My my question to the audience is, you know What what do you love?
Well what? And by loving something, you're going to fear something hurting that love of yours. Doesn't matter what it is, is it your family, friends? Um Could it be, you know, uh Your your talents, your job. which we all know it shouldn't be anything material.
And maybe that sh could be a chance for you to Can it change? Uh some love. in your life if it's not God and family. and looking out for others. But uh if you love what you're supposed to love.
then you are going to have that fear of something threatening what you love. Wow, that's profound. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you, Robby.
Well, Danny, we are going to start with a Braveheart clip. We are. Right? And so, as we all know, William Wallace was a rescuer. Right.
Of his country, of other people, those types of things. But there's more to the story to that. There is more to the story. And I just thought I was in the studio with Sean Connery. What an impression, right?
That was good. That was good. Yeah, the the clip is from Bravehearted and and if you hadn't seen the movie, William's dad and his brother have been killed in war. And so he's on the farm by himself and and you know, he's a little boy. And his uncle Argyll shows up.
With great socks on. And he uh nice sweater, too. Yeah, nice sweater. Yeah, but uh yeah, and he showed up. Yeah, and the and the The clip is is, you know, is Uncle Argyle speaking into his life.
Yeah, 'cause he's going through some stuff. And so the the clip's not very long and there's there's a lot more to it. But if you play the clip and then we can talk about it on the other side. William I'm your uncle. Argyle.
You have to look at your mother. We'll stay here tonight. Tomorrow, you'll come home with me. I don't want to leave. You didn't want your father to die either, did you?
Did the priest give apologies? Poetic benediction. The Lord bless thee and keep thee. It was in Latham. You don't speak Latin?
Well, that's something we shall have to remedy, isn't it? You know, we talk about it a lot, and you know, we've talked about it in the first show, you know. We tend to think of it from an aspect of rescuing the women in our lives or whatever. But there's part of this in creation that in Romans 8, where it says, For creation was subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope. because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
And it was several boot camps ago after the beauty talk or something. Maybe it was after I just got to pondering rescuing the beauty. and there was far more to it to me That, what Uncle Argyll is doing is rescuing the beauty. In William Wallace. And if you know the movie, you know, William goes on to I mean, he's just being hisself, but he's alive.
I mean, very alive. But his passions for Latin, for French, for the finer things in life, if you will, his uncle Argyle introduced him to those things and rescued him from a very dark time in his life. And that's what God does for us. He rescues the beauty in us. Because you know Adam Fail.
And not only Adam, you know, we talk about, you know, humanity fell, but creation fell. And but what happens is that when the beauty is rescued in us, we come alive with the passions for. Rescue in creation, rescue in the beauty that God's created. You know, poetry, you know. Robby talked about the warrior poets.
And you can't You know, miss that in a sense because, you know, when I watch my wife quilt, she loves a quilt and she's good at it. That's a passion of her. Her creativity has come alive. because she's been set free to do that. You know, I like to write, and people say I'm good at it.
I don't do it near enough. But that has come alive since, you know, coming to boot camps and stuff like that. But if somebody hadn't stepped in and rescued the beauty in me. Ultimately, Jesus, but Jesus uses the flesh of other people to rescue us, then. That's part of the deal.
I love to fly fish, and there's nothing more beautiful to me sometimes than standing in a stream, you know, with fly rod and watching the water, listening to the sounds of nature. There's nothing mechanical around other than me and fly rod. And But knowing that, you know, That needs to be rescued. that you know that's why men start petitions to save You know, a section of nature or, you know, the national parks, you know, they came apart. Yeah.
Those kind of things because. how many times do you look at something like that and you just gasp in awe, like, wow, I can't believe I just saw that. And that's the kind of passion that that is ignited in the Rescuing of the Beauty to me. That You know, we are, yes, it's in our families, it's in our things, but it's also in the things around us. And it's in the people we encounter every day.
You know, you know. one person speaks to something in you and it it's part of the rescue. It's part of the rescue boats here. And to me, that's just simply beautiful. That's what God does because.
John Eldridge talks about he created this vast wild world for us to just discover and take in. you know, if you live in a smaller story. you know, you're caught up in what's going on right now. You miss it all. And so, when that world opens up to you, you realize: man, there's all kinds of things going on around me, and this is just awesome.
So you'd uh Jumping in again.
Sorry guys, I just feel compelled to jump in on uh Danny's point. Got it right? All right, Danny. All right, cool. I gotta keep saying your name, Danny.
Um.
So when you're talking about rescuing that that boy, From his bad situation in Braveheart, that could be another beauty that can be rescued, rescuing the beauty that was in that boy so he doesn't go down the wrong path. Because if Argyll didn't come in and rescue Um William Wallace. then he would have gone down the wrong path, as Sam said a while ago. Uh he would have been probably at home. you know, just alone, he probably would have went on a um Path of Revenge.
uh probably would have been some kind of tyrant himself. But Argyle rescued him from that path. And that's Kind of part of the beauty in that rescue. But it led me to another type of rescue. where you're talking about, uh, you know, what's what's what else is beautiful.
And also led me to Hillsdale's um I guess their creed, you know, they value what's beautiful, what's good, and what's true. And that's kind of my mission as well. you know, in a in a godly frame. Because I do like the beauty of nature. I do like the mountains and the the rivers and the trees and, you know, all the animals and how it all just Works together when you go out on the beach and you go out to these mountain trips, you go overseas, you go on a cruise.
You see that sunset over the horizon, even the beauty in the stars and the galaxies and the nebula and all that. uh the beauty in the human creation how we're beautifully and wonderfully made. Everything in God's creation is beautiful and I want to protect that. You know, I love that. But there's also beauty in the in the what they call the beautiful struggle.
So when you rescue a kid from human trafficking, What the guys from Lantern Rescue and the victors do. That's another beautiful thing. When you see somebody rescued from that kind of traumatic life, when you are fighting on behalf of the poor. the elderly. who don't get a lot of uh shine in the in the media.
So what if you're doing some kind of rescue, Just realize that you're part of that beautiful rescue, no matter what it is. Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, Danny, that clip And just a little part of the clip, it sounds like Uncle Argyle is such a nasty guy.
Well, you didn't want your dad to die either, did you? And he's kind of a very crazy. Crass person, but when you watch that scene play out, if you go watch the movie during that segment, you know, you learn about his story. that he had a similar thing and that he shared that his dad got killed. you know, and ultimately his brother got killed, you know, Wallace is William's dad, right?
He's lived that same thing that William has and he lets him know that and right away you see a rescue forming in this guy he didn't even know. Right. And that's a cool thing that God will do: He'll give you opportunities for you to be rescued that you can turn around and then later on share with others down the road. Yet he speaks to him later on in that thing and, you know, dealing with death. But even you know with the with uh the eulogy or whatever in Latin But he even brings out somewhat the beauty in death.
In knowing that there is something sacred, you know, with the bagpipes, and there is something sacred, and there's something beautiful about. You know, a transition, if you will, because you know, one day we're all going to transition one way or the other, and but that's that's the kind of I love the scripture: old death wears your sting because Christ redeemed that, and you know, so you're just passing from one life to the other. And, you know, he, Argyle kind of speaks to that too, as well.
So, absolutely. And so, Andy, we get to your clip, which is also a Braveheart clip. Yeah, Danny and I didn't get together on this, but it's the rest of the story.
So, great bald man's thing. That's right. Yeah, that's right. You don't have all that hair getting it. It came from the bald section.
Yep.
So, uh. Our time to shine in. Exactly.
So, what you don't see or hear on that clip right before that is there's his dad's burial, William's burial. And at the very end of it, it's just a. I mean, in the movie, it's just the music will tear you up. And this little girl walks up to William and hands him the thistle, which is like the. The flower for Scotland, and she hands it to him, and just it's the love of God really reaching out to him.
And she You see a tear from his eye. And then Argyle does come in. But then Argyle takes William on these pilgrimages and really enriches his life with beauty and adventure and all this stuff. And William is at the age now of beginning to be interested in women or whatever.
So he comes back to the village, and in that village, they show a scene right before. Not to tell you everything, trying to set this up. He's 20 years old, boy. Yeah. True.
No spoiler alert here, but. But he comes back to this village and um Long shanks, the villain in this story, has all these. Armies that are basically taking the women for themselves, the Scottish women for themselves. And I didn't really think about it. I've never really put that together, but it's a bit part of the story.
William sees that, and in protection, he begins to move towards this girl.
Now, this is a girl that he's really always loved anyway, but he's moving towards her to protect her. And he's coming and he's trying to approach her parents about seeing her. And then he takes her off on a ride, and they go up and he goes after her heart. Truly is a rescue, it's a pursuing of her. And it's not that you think, well, what she needs to be rescued.
She's just this young girl in her home or whatever. But he's coming after her heart in the way it needs to be come came after. And she truly is rescued in this scene. Yeah, in this exchange. Believe me, sir.
Ah, young Wallace. Grand soft evening, huh? Hi, it's that. I was wondering if I might have a word with your daughter. What do you want to have a word with her about?
Where? Not it. Would you like to come and ride with me on this fine evening? And that's. You're out of your mind.
Oh, it's good Scottish weather, madam. The rain is falling straight down, slightly to the side light. She can't go with you. No. Oh.
No the now, anyway. Northern Iowa. Northern Iowa. We'll see you later. The weather's just fine, it's happy, Brain and Did you know here what I said?
Hold on, kid. How did you know me after so long? Why I didn't No. It's just I saw you staring at me and I didn't know who you were. I'm sorry, I suppose I was.
Are you in the habit of riding off in the rain with strangers? It's the best way to make you leave. I wonder if I can ever work up the courage to ask you again. Send you a written warning first. Oh, it wouldn't do you much good.
I can't read. Can you not?
Okay.
Well, that's something we shall have to remedy, isn't it? You're gonna teach me to read number if you like. And what language? You're sure enough now. Right, you impressed you?
Why should he be? Do that stance on your head and not be impressed. I might kill the fly up, but I'll try. You certainly didn't learn any manners in your travels. The French and the Romans have far worse manners than I.
You've been to Rome? My uncle took me on a pilgrimage. What was it like? Real push.
So, in that exchange, there, what he was saying to her in French, Latin, I don't know French, French. Not as beautiful as you. He told her beautiful.
So he's just playful and all that. But it's what a young heart like her, I mean. Her as a beauty, as somebody that's meant something to him in the past. I mean, he's truly going after her heart. And you see, later he tries to defend her, and you know, it's a brutal movie, Brave Heart.
But there is beauty in that movie. You think of it as nothing but there's the you know the natural beauty all throughout that movie, but you see that beauty that he has an appreciation for and her and and and the arts and whatever, kind of what Danny was talking about. But he truly is that warrior poet. He has an appreciation for that beauty. But rescuing her, you see it in that scene.
Sometimes I just think about it. There's times whenever I didn't rescue the beauty well. I mean, a lot of times I whatever I said, you know, not realizing it was probably not It wasn't pursuing or rescuing a beauty. It was something for my own validation, like what we've talked about here earlier. And, you know, I know it's a movie.
But What is it? Art imitates life. I want that. You know, I want that kind of. I've used not used I've uh approached a woman's heart much differently, whether it be my daughter, my mom, or even My wife and and it's It's um when you begin to see the full story and the context and what God intended for man and how him how for him to pursue a woman and how mussed up we get it a lot of times, you just have a desire to do things right.
The next time. I would like to have done it like he did. A lot of times we don't get initiated like he did, and that's an important part of the story. What Danny's point is, is he had somebody to rescue him, so he then therefore could go and rescue them. Yeah, and I think what's important is, you know, you've got to check the motive.
What's my motive, right, behind what's going on, and to walk with God through it. I'm going to play one other clip and then we'll sum some stuff up for whatever time we have left. But this is from the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, right? And so part of what you want to try to look for when you're working with God is: say, God, help me see the warfare. that's in this person's life.
Because we all have warfare coming against us. You know, Wallace saw warfare in Muron's life, and so he went after that warfare. That's what we try to do when we walk with God. And so even when you don't know it, God will kind of give you a bone once in a while and say, here you go. And I think that's what happens in this scene.
But he fights against an agreement that she's made about her family. And so she's on a date with somebody who's not Greek, and that just doesn't happen in her life, right? And she has to hide it from her family, and she's having such a good time, but then she starts thinking, oh, I can't ever do this again. And she starts telling him all these excuses on why they couldn't see each other again. And see how he handles her heart in the agreement that he goes after.
I'm Greek, right?
So what happens is, my dad and my uncles, they fight over who gets to eat the lambraine. And then my Aunt Vula forks the eyeball and chases me around with it, trying to get me to eat it, because it's going to make me smart. I have 27 first cousins, just 27 first cousins alone. And my whole family is big and loud and everybody's in each other's lives and business all the time. Like you never just have a minute alone, just a thing, because we're always together, just eating, eating, eating.
The only other people we know are Greeks. because Greeks marry Greeks, to breed more Greeks, to be loud-breeding Greek eaters. Yeah. I'm serious. No one in my family has ever gone out with a non-Greek before.
No one. But I just don't see how this is gonna work out.
So Work out. What's to work out? We're not a different species. Yes, we come from different backgrounds and and hey, here's some news about my life to this point. And it's boring.
Then I met you in You're interesting and you're beautiful and fun and You get a weird family, who doesn't? You know, I just want to spend some time with you. I just want to spend a little time with you. Did you say I'm beautiful? It may not be real clear what her warfare is there, but there's warfare against her about her value is found in following her family values, what her family's always done, that I have to stay within this.
And my values with what I bring to the family, and not as much as me an individual. And so what he goes after is he says, Look, every family is weird. And if you have a family, I promise you, you can probably agree when you get a few cousins out there, right? I mean, it may not be your immediate family, but for most of us, it's pretty dang close, right? And so he lets her know: you're not alone.
You think you're alone. Right? And I see you. I see you for you and I want to know you for you. I don't care about that other stuff.
Right, when her whole life she's never heard anything like that. Yeah, she's isolated herself so other people won't see that about her. Right, she hides. She hides her beauty. Yeah, a lot of shame there.
Yeah, and and who she is. And if you watch the movie, at the beginning she's very frumpy. Right? Because she chooses to be, but as she learns to walk in her beauty, she becomes a very beautiful woman throughout the show. Right?
And as somebody loves her well in the midst of it. Robby, you'd like to add to that? Oh yeah, just Yeah. You know, I loved it. I never had spotted it.
I'd love the movie. I loved that clip. Um But it's biblical that a man shall leave his Your mother and a woman leave her home.
Well, that's She can't leave her home. Right. And how many women do we know? You know, that's a struggle. And it's a beautiful place to start for a lot of us to go, hmm.
Man, maybe that's some warfare I can walk into, yeah? Absolutely. Well, that is the. Beauty to Rescue, we will have another topic next week in our Foundation series. If any of this intrigues you, come see us at a boot camp.
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