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