Speaker 1: Hello, Hi Delilah, Hi Jim, how are you. I remember
Speaker 1: meeting you with Michael W. Smith. Oh my gosh, that
Speaker 1: was a long time ago. Yeah, that's right. He's one
Speaker 1: of my best, best, best brothers and friends in the world.
Speaker 1: Love that man, Love that man, love his family. How
Speaker 1: are you? I'm great? Thank you. So let me introduce
Speaker 1: you to our our listeners because they might not recognize
Speaker 1: you as Jim Covizil instead of as Jesus. Do you
Speaker 1: ever go anywhere when people don't, you know, refer to
Speaker 1: you as the Great? I am well, thankfully I had
Speaker 1: a career before the Passion of the Christ, so some
Speaker 1: of them remember me as the Count of Monte Cristo,
Speaker 1: and you know, some of them watched a person of interest.
Speaker 1: Um so uh, I've been fortunate. I've been doing this
Speaker 1: for what thirty years now. And I used to listen
Speaker 1: to you on the radio all the time when I
Speaker 1: was in high school in Seattle, Washington. Ah, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for those sweet words. I I was young,
Speaker 1: uh when I got into radio, but I was twenty
Speaker 1: six when I gave my heart to God. And once
Speaker 1: I gave my heart to God, and I started to
Speaker 1: understand that Love wasn't just romance. Love wasn't just a
Speaker 1: good feeling. Love was a decision absolutely right to stand,
Speaker 1: to stand when the winds are blowing and life is
Speaker 1: pulling you apart, to stand and say no, I am
Speaker 1: invested in this child, I'm invested in this family. I'm
Speaker 1: invested in whatever it is that's true love. It's not
Speaker 1: just lady and red love, you know. And I think
Speaker 1: then my show took on a whole different uh meaning
Speaker 1: a whole different color. Well like what you said, you know,
Speaker 1: in the Passion of the Christ, you know, our Lord
Speaker 1: gave himself to us on that cross because at some
Speaker 1: point we're all going to we're all going to meet
Speaker 1: death temporary but going from this into the great eternal life,
Speaker 1: and we have to we'll have to go through that
Speaker 1: and there's no avoiding it. But He will be there
Speaker 1: with us because he loves us. And in the same
Speaker 1: point that we did that Paul the Apostle of Christ
Speaker 1: and St. Paul refers to that who live as Christ,
Speaker 1: die to gain and come hell or high water. I'm
Speaker 1: going to stay with that, even even in this industry.
Speaker 1: Like you said, it loves a decision, and he loves
Speaker 1: me unconditionally loves me despite my own a discrepancies of
Speaker 1: my own sin, loves me, loves me before my sin,
Speaker 1: after my sin, and he loves me during my sin.
Speaker 1: And that right there hit me so hard that actually
Speaker 1: made me want to leave my sins forever, just move
Speaker 1: on and keep and keep and bringing others in so
Speaker 1: it comes out all the Apostle of Christ. Wanted your
Speaker 1: viewers to know that, because when they see this, their
Speaker 1: hearts are going to swell and they're going to cry
Speaker 1: because they're going to feel God's love for them. So
Speaker 1: I got to watch a sneak preview of Paul the Apostle.
Speaker 1: My kids and I got to watch it. Your film
Speaker 1: company sent it to me, and I did cry a lot.
Speaker 1: M I was so touched by the staying true too
Speaker 1: to God's word. Favorite scene in the movie when you
Speaker 1: playing the character of Luke and Paul were in prison,
Speaker 1: sitting back to back talking about the past thirty years,
Speaker 1: the journey you had made. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: did it, but the way that you brought thirty years
Speaker 1: of history and the stories that we know in the
Speaker 1: Bible that we've read into such a deep, personal, intimate
Speaker 1: level of two best friends, kind of a father son relationship.
Speaker 1: Blew me away. That's where I cried the hardest. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny that scene, Thank you Inness Andrew High put
Speaker 1: it in there at the last second. That wasn't even
Speaker 1: in there, and he he wrote it up and said,
Speaker 1: you know, smite um personalized it a little bit more.
Speaker 1: The humor was added throughout the film. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of venturing back and forth. Um. They were real people,
Speaker 1: you know, and they couldn't have picked a finer st Paul,
Speaker 1: I said somebody recently. He is just too This film
Speaker 1: is a three. Was the Superman. He's the greatest Paul
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. And they we had great chemistry. You
Speaker 1: had great chemistry. I cried and I cried and I cried,
Speaker 1: and I laughed and I clapped in ah. And I
Speaker 1: might have had a little crush on Oliver Martinez and you.
Speaker 1: But James Faulkner uh played salt turned to Paul really
Speaker 1: did a fabulous job. It's extraordinary. You certainly brought Dr Luke,
Speaker 1: the great physician to life and that real nous. He's
Speaker 1: gonna I I'm just I'm I'm gonna pray, but I
Speaker 1: believe that that realness that you portrayed is the great
Speaker 1: physician is going to be a physician. Too many, two thousands,
Speaker 1: let's pray for millions. One of the actors that was
Speaker 1: watching the movie, I won't tell you his name, but
Speaker 1: he was watching the movie and he had an opinion
Speaker 1: about Christians. It discombobulates the the world and how it thinks,
Speaker 1: and God can has that power, and he sat down
Speaker 1: and watched it. You bring someone to this film and
Speaker 1: they don't believe they walk out, boy, they won't leave them.
Speaker 1: When they're done, they won't leave them. It will hunt them. Amen. Amen,