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It's time now to get the hell out of your life. A weekly broadcast with real people sharing real struggles and offering real hope. Today's show will encourage, inspire and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope. Now let's join our host, ron Myers. The promoter.

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Hello, my friends, it is so good to be with you today. My name is Ron Myers. I promoter. Hello my friends, it is so good to be with you today. My name is Ron Myers, I'm your host and the show is called Get the Hell Out of your Life Personal testimonies from people just like you and just like me. Have you ever heard of the show Duck Dynasty? Well, today you're going to hear the personal testimony of Phil Robertson. I thought it was important to air his testimony because he just passed away. What did Phil do before he was on Duck Dynasty? How did he meet Jesus? Those questions and many more will be answered today, along with a personal message Phil has just for you. So let's take a listen to Phil Robertson's personal testimony.

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God does work in mysterious ways. Before I became a child of God, I owned a beer joint. My little sister told one of the brothers at a congregation there in West Monroe I'm up in Arkansas my little sister told that guy, one of the brothers, if you could convert my brother, if you could convert him, he would bring many, many people to Jesus. And she kept on after him and he says I don't know going to how far is it? 75 miles. I don't know about going way up in there. You know. You know going to a beer joint, is that where we're going? Do you have to go to the beer joint? That's where he is. Finally she talks him into it. So they come in, unbeknown to me. My little sister goes around to the front of the bar passing out tracks. Everybody's getting drunk. You know what in the world is a religious Bible thumper doing in here? They started getting a little hostile toward my sister so I had to go in and break that up. The guy walks in. She brought the preacher and the first thing I asked him was you some kind of preacher? He said I am. I said let me ask you something. You ever been drunk? He said I have. I said so why are you up here telling me about getting drunk? Because you've been drunk just like I'm getting drunk right now. Right, to make a long story short, that first meeting he walks outside and tells my little sister when they get in the car I don't think he's ready.

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A year later I ran Miss Kay off and Al was there. I think Jace was too a little baby. I ran him off. I was like getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Pretty well, in that order. I was a scumbag and a heathen. What's amazing is, a year after the initial meeting with the preacher, my loving wife that I'd run off said why don't you talk to him? Just sober up a little bit and talk to him. So she talked me into it and he shared with me what I'm fixing to share with y'all. I decided, since I didn't even realize who Jesus was, I'm too busy smoking dope and getting drunk, getting laid. I'm thinking how did I miss that A couple of college degrees? No, they didn't say anything about God or Jesus when I was in college. Did you at your college Never brought them up Father, son or Holy Spirit? The only time I heard the word God mentioned when I was in college? Did you, at your college, never brought them up? Father, son, our Holy Spirit? The only time I heard the word God mentioned when I was in college was they would use his name in vain. So I decided, having been a heathen for 28 years, and I put on my brakes.

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The preacher didn't have to tell me to repent. I knew what repentance meant. He didn't have to say Phil, look, you can't go whoring around. Once you become a Christian, let me explain to you what repentance means. Phil. Oh, phil knew that. And you know what. All of you know that, don't you? You know what doing good is. You know what love is Joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentlenessleness, faithfulness, self-control. We all know what that is.

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So I didn't need a big long explanation. I knew it was time and I was motivated by the gospel of Jesus and I said well, I've served the evil one all this time. Now I'm fixing to serve God. So I go from this way to about face and I'm going that way now. And I was committed to God and made a pact with him. I said I'll run wide open for you, god. So now I've been at this for 42.

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Heathen for 28,. A son of God for the last 42. Trust me when I tell you this last 42 has been way better than the first 28. The rarest of commodities has come my way. You say what is it, phil? What's the rarest of commodities? What is it that came your way?

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Peace of mind Finally got it, texas. You're never going to have peace of mind without Jesus Christ. Ever. It ain't going to happen. Fits of rage, sexual immorality, hatred, discord, factions, envy, jealousy. You know the list of sins. I gave you the list, the fruit of the spirit, about five minutes ago. Now you're hearing the list of sins. You want to keep that up thinking, boy, life will turn one of these days. I don't need no God, no Bible. Tell me about it Now.

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All I work with is people who are getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. I'm dealing with them. They said well, if you just understand what I'm going through. I said trust me, honey, when I tell you I know exactly what you're going through. I've been there. I didn't realize it was such a trap until I got out of it. I get out of the trap that Satan had me in and I look back and I said what was I thinking? The truth is, I wasn't thinking so I've been delivered from Satan.

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So now I went from getting high, getting laid and getting drunk to being a son of God and now, shocker of shocks, I'm rich and famous and you say there's no God. You know something, texas, the problem with fame one, it's a big headache. Two is fame can't remove my sin or yours, it can't do it. And on top of that you say well, phil, you said you were rich, it's not going to help me when it comes to being raised from the dead. All the money in the world is never going to be able to raise me from the dead. Texas, right, Better keep first things first. We have humanism and atheism and agnosticism, and, you know, post-modernism and materialism.

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Ism, ism, ism, ism, ism, ism. That's all I heard in college. This ism, that ism, this ism that ism. One day I finally said I think I'll write them all down. Look, I filled up, tablet after tablet after tablet. Is them, this is them, that is them. You know what they're all about. They're all trying to get around this story right here and none of them have succeeded.

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If there's no God, texas, you're never getting off planet earth alive. All of you, they're going to have your funeral and mine. You can go yeah, they're going to have my funeral one of these days and they're going to have Phil's too. You can go like that. Or you can say like the guy told me one time you're not going to put that on me, you're not going to tell me I'm going to die. I said, oh, you're going to die. He said, no, sir, buddy, he gets up. He said, no way. I wanted to tell him the good news about the resurrection of Jesus, but he was saying I'm not going to die. I said, oh, you're going to die. So we're arguing about it. I said, well, everybody else has, and so are you, dude. Live with it, face it.

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I argued with him for 30 minutes trying to convince him he was going to die. He left my house saying ain't nobody telling me that kind of junk? Six weeks goes by and the guy that brought him. He said you know the dude that was arguing with you about dying Phil. I said I remember him. He said he just did.

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I said what happened to him. He said he was knifed to death in a bar right up the road. I just wonder when the blood spurting forth from him when he hit the ground hit the floor. I wonder if he thought about our conversation. God had spoken to him through me six weeks earlier. No takers. He said, nope, I will not die. I said he's the only human I've ever run up on. I've run up on a lot of them said they didn't sin. Of course they were lying, which is a sin, but he was the only one I've ever run up on who said I'm not going to die. I said oh, you're going to die, face it. So are all of you, texas.

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If in the beginning, god did not create the heavens and the earth, if that's not what happened, you're not getting out of here, unless you have some information that I'm not privy to Medical technology. You think that's going to help you. Maybe you can go with Obamacare. Maybe that'll help you with the grave. It ain't going to help you. Not going to deliver you from the grave, nope, you're like.

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So what's the scoop? You have two problems you cannot fix. You can't fix them. One is you came out of your mother. I mentioned that earlier. You know what. You weren't a sinner because you didn't know what the law said. You didn't know what line was. You're about two hours old, you're in a little crib or you're at your mother's breast. You say you don't know what stealing is. You don't know what getting high is, getting drunk, getting laid you have no idea what that is. You're an infant. This stuff about pouring water on your head like you. Remember that, you sinful little booger. You Give me a break. However. However, you were a toddler. Good to go. But when you hit them teenage years along in there, somewhere something happened.

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The commandments started coming and you did understand what you had from Adam. What you inherited from him was the ability to know the difference between the. You had the knowledge of good and evil. Remember what God told Adam Don't eat over there, because if you do you eat of that tree. You will know not only what good is but what evil is. You don't want to go there Because if you do, you're going to die. Yeah Well, every last one of us found out what evil was at some point. Some of you started being sexually immoral early, early, early.

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So you violate one of God's commands. You say how many does it take? Just one, and you've been dead in your sins ever since you used to be dead in your sins and transgressions in which you used to live. For the saved here. When you follow the ways of the world and you followed this ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who works in those who are disobedient, you're like, oh my goodness. So when physical death comes along and you're already spiritually dead in your sins, along and you're already spiritually dead in your sins, you're cut off forever, eternally. God's not like our government, can't pay him off, can't rope-a-dope him, get around him. You say, god is just so for the saved here. I'm like be thankful and you are blessed because your sins have been forgiven, your sins are covered. No sin will never, ever be counted against you. It'll give you peace of mind, knowing, on top of that, you can be raised from the dead.

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How did it happen? Something rather large must have happened in year one. What could have happened that? Your calendar is based on it. You say, well, what do they call all the years before Jesus showed up? That's one, two, three, four, five. You say you call all the years before he got here, all the years before he got here. Right, you know why you're counting time by the creator of the cosmos.

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Has become a human being, coming forth out of a woman's womb, just like all of you, same kind of birth, the difference between this one and all of you. He got to the early teenage years and he grew in wisdom and stature and he never made one mistake. He never violated the law, 100% God, 100% human, and he never made a mistake. A mistake. That's why this Bible says everyone who sins breaks the law, that's you but not him. In fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared, god becoming flesh. If you could speak a cosmos into existence at a word, by faith. We understand the universe was formed at God's command. Something like I'm a redneck, something like do it, the cosmos there you're like, and that God becomes one of us and walks on the cosmos. One little bitty piece earth, he's walking on it.

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You talk about a story. You know what you call that the mother of all arrivals, the creator of the cosmos, becomes a human being. I've never heard of that. You know why. There's no one like Jesus Christ, no one. God becoming flesh, the creator of the cosmos. Through him all things were created. He appeared to take away our sin and in him is no sin.

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Jesus is rehab. Right, you say I get in Jesus. Rehabilitation has come my way. No doubt about it. Redemption has come your way. Holiness has come your way. You have to stay in Jesus. You have to walk as he did. While you're on the earth you say and no sin can touch me, no sin can ever touch you Under law. You have to be perfect Under grace. You just trust God and try, and when you stumble, there's provision for your sin, the blood of Jesus. It'll give you peace of mind. It'll get you off planet earth alive, because you're going.

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Don't be like that guy that says, well, I'm not going to die, okay, you admitting you're going to die, all you Texans going to die. You can go like this or no, I'm not going to die. Are you going to die? Yeah, everybody's saying y'all, have you ever sinned? You can go like, hey, well, I've sinned a few times. Now if you say I haven't sinned, they're sinning, they're lying. See, you say we're not getting out of here unless Jesus became flesh, took a cross for your sins, for God in flesh to love. Phil Robertson being the scumbag that I was A scumbag, I told you Filthy language coming out of my mouth. Oh, it was pathetic, I didn't know any better. Dead in my sins, the guy who wrote most of the New Testament, murderer.

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We converted a guy because he was running dope across I-10. African-american guy he was a brother. He went to college in South Louisiana, started running with the dopeheads, hauled a load of dope across the great state of Texas. The laws caught him. His mama, one of our sisters, asked me to go down there and plead for mercy with the judge, huntsville, texas. I said I'll do it. So I drove down there on the day the old judge sentenced him and I got up and I made a plea for my brother who was fixing to be sent to prison. Please cut him some slack. Mr Robinson, you have any problem with dealing with a drug dealer? The state of Texas dispensing justice against a drug dealer? I said I have no problem with that. I know what justice is. I'm asking for mercy judge. I know what justice is. I'm asking for mercy judge. He gave my brother none. So 13 years later after they sentenced him, I was there when they sent him up and Willie was there when he walked outside the prison gates.

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You say y'all stuck with that brother every step of the way he walked out of prison. Willie said was it worth it? He said no, it was not worth it, not at all. So 12 and a half, 13 years he spent in prison. I said Paul. I said you come to my house, you stay there, no charge, you live with me, miss Kay, till you get on your feet.

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He married a girl who was half black and half Latino. We married him in my yard and the local rednecks were driving by, launching their boat down the way and they were looking over there and they saw Mexicans, blacks and rednecks eating cake and singing songs to God and the rednecks, the rednecks of Roswell. When I pulled by, I launched my boat and I looked over and I saw all of that going on. He said I knew right then, there's got to be a God. They ain't shooting, they ain't cutting, they're all loving one another and singing songs of God, thinking God. Old Paul was there after being in prison all them years.

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You see what the family of God is like. We are known for our love for one another. God became flesh, died on a cross for the sins of the world. Jesus is his name. Three days later he solved your grave problem. All of your problems have been solved.

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God did every bit of this. You can't earn it, you can't work for it. It's all been done for you. It's free, it's free. And the bottom line is you're not getting out of here without it. Don't kid yourself. You're arguing with your wife and cursing and carrying on. You're like what am I doing?

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Repent, turn to God. Believe the gospel, obey it. They'll baptize you. In a few days. The old you will disappear and the new you will come forth. God will seal the deal.

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Now that you purified yourself by obeying the truth, peter said love one another deeply from the heart, for you've been born again. I told you, the first birth gets you here. The second birth, being born of God, of water and the Spirit, will get you out of here. We got one shot. Look at our culture. You telling me, running with this bunch in America. The cops are the problem, we're the problem. Why don't we repent and turn to God and show our culture what real love is all about? And our government and Hollywood and all the news media? Why don't we just get out there and show them what real love is? Texas, I love you dearly. The clock on the wall says three minutes and 49 seconds. I'm going back to Monroe. I've enjoyed my stay with you. If there's no God, we're done. We are done. If there is no God.

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It's like Jim Carrey. When he ran up on that little fox in that movie he said what do you think my chances are with you? Maybe one out of a thousand. And the little fox said more like one out of a million. And Carrey smiled and said so you're telling me there's a chance.

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Well, we got one chance, from my viewpoint, to get out of here alive. One thing's for sure You're not getting out of here alive. You have no chance. If you keep getting high, getting drunk and getting laid and wallowing around and filth coming out of your mouth, you'll probably die an early life or early death. You say I have no shot to get out of here alive. None, I'm saying how could they have dreamed this story up?

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Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, constantly cleansing us from any sin. He's given us imperishable seed implanted that marks you for the resurrection. I pray that you respond to that. If you haven't, father, we love you. We got one shot from my vantage to get out of here alive. It's putting our faith in the death of your son on a cross back there 2,000 years ago and three days later raising him from the dead.

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And three days later, raising him from the dead, guaranteeing ours, father, you have told us plainly as in Adam, all die. That is a fact, irregardless of that guy that challenged me on it. But in Christ, all will be made alive, each in his own turn Christ, the firstfruits, and then, when he comes, all of all of us. Father, for our loved ones who have gone on before us, the saved, they're still alive. They're just separated from their body. Right now their bodies are in the cemetery, but their spirits, their souls, are with you and Lord.

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When you come back, jesus, you're bringing them all back with you. That's why you have told us, father, 1 Thessalonians 4, 13,. You told us we shouldn't grieve like the rest of men who have no hope. We believe Jesus died and rose again. So we know, father, he's going to solve our grave problem when he comes back. If he comes back before we die, he'll change us on the spot and we'll live forever. Thank you for that great hope. Help us grab a hold of it with both feet, stand on it, not budge on it, and live happily ever after. Thank you, father, in the name of Jesus, amen.

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Boy. What a testimony. Phil Robertson, born April 24th 1946, and died May 25th 2025. But his story will live on forever. The one thing that struck me in that testimony was his sister telling the preacher that if Phil could ever find Jesus, he could lead a lot of people to Jesus. Friends, I would say Phil Robertson has led millions of people to Jesus. Thank you, phil Robertson, for being a bold, unashamed follower of Jesus, and may your words encourage, inspire and empower us to share our story, to interact with other people and discuss who Jesus is and what Jesus will do in the lives of those that are looking for hope. Thank you, phil Robertson, for that wonderful life and your wonderful testimony.

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You're listening to Get the Hell Out of your Life with your host, ron Myers. Real stories, real struggles and real hope.

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Ron, we'll be back in a moment to wrap up today's conversation. We want to encourage you today with God's promise to you. It comes from the book of Jeremiah chapter 29, verse 11. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and the future. That's God's promise to you when you choose to commit your plans and future to him. Now back to Ron.

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Well, friends, here's my challenge to you this week Seek out opportunities to hear from real people sharing their struggles and the hope they found in Jesus. Engage in conversations that lead to personal encounters rather than just intellectual discussions, and I highly encourage you to have morning coffee with Jesus. I'll be back next week with another great episode. In the meantime, please tell your friends about this podcast. It's called Get the Hell Out of your Life and it's real stories, real struggles and real hope. Until next week, this is Ron Myers, reminding you that I love you, jesus loves you, and when you give Jesus your heart, not only will you get the hell out of your life, but you'll begin writing a story that will be talked about forever.

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