Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the podcast. On this podcast,
Speaker 1: I answer your questions you email me podcast at grangersmith
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Speaker 1: having a conversation, and the conversation could really be about anything, life, love,
Speaker 1: the Bible. Ask me anything, and I'm going to answer
Speaker 1: it like we're friends and we're trying to talk through something.
Speaker 1: That's always what this podcast has been and what I'm
Speaker 1: doing now for the second week in a row is
Speaker 1: I'm taking a collection of the most popular questions that
Speaker 1: gets asked on this podcast all of the time. Instead
Speaker 1: of answering them individually over and over again, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: for the second like last week was Eschatology, it was
Speaker 1: like the End of Times. I get that. I get
Speaker 1: asked that all the time, so I thought I would
Speaker 1: just react to a few videos and give you my
Speaker 1: thoughts on the end of Times. This week, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do something similar. I'm going to answer a question that
Speaker 1: comes in all the time, and that is should Christians cuss?
Speaker 1: I get that quite a bit, and I think probably
Speaker 1: that there's a good reason I get that quite a bit,
Speaker 1: and probably because if you go back over the last
Speaker 1: decade or more two decades of my music, you hear
Speaker 1: curse words in there, and it's like, hey, Granger, now
Speaker 1: here you are all into the Bible, is it okay
Speaker 1: for Christians to cuss or to listen to songs with
Speaker 1: curse words in them? So, you know what, I think
Speaker 1: that's a great question, And because I get it all
Speaker 1: the time, I'm probably not going to answer every individual
Speaker 1: one because they're all pretty much just like I just said.
Speaker 1: So instead, let's use this episode and let's walk through
Speaker 1: that question. And ant Man has now put together a
Speaker 1: few videos. I think we have two videos here, so
Speaker 1: I'll start with this. I'll watch these videos a little bit, pause, react,
Speaker 1: and use that as kind of a platform to discuss
Speaker 1: this topic with and then I'll give you my own
Speaker 1: opinion after we walk through these videos. So this is
Speaker 1: the first one. Let's hit play.
Speaker 2: I actually I have a question for you, and I'm
Speaker 2: just really curious your opinion on it. What do you
Speaker 2: think about cussing? Yeah, but it'll take on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the reason why it doesn't affect my heart too
Speaker 4: much is because I know my God doesn't judge like
Speaker 4: swearing like that, and it minds you like yes, I do.
Speaker 3: I have to change now. Okay, let me rephrase this.
Speaker 4: I have to change now because God put me in
Speaker 4: a place for me to be speaking, and I'm realizing
Speaker 4: that I have to be better and more diligent with
Speaker 4: my tongue because if I'm not that, I'm showing that
Speaker 4: I'm not disciplined. Therefore, it gives room for the devil
Speaker 4: to come and just move my tongue in his direction.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pause here and I'm just gonna say that
Speaker 1: I will definitely address this idea of God judging or
Speaker 1: other people judging. Well, we'll deal with that. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna wait a little bit longer. I'll keep
Speaker 1: seeing what He's got to say here.
Speaker 3: So, yes, I have to be obedient on the tongue.
Speaker 4: Now when I swear, if I say, I'll just say
Speaker 4: if I say both like to me, I don't see
Speaker 4: my God looking at me in the same way that
Speaker 4: other people think my God is looking at me. Because
Speaker 4: in the scripture says do not curse your neighbor. Now,
Speaker 4: cursing isn't like like F this, f that, because an
Speaker 4: effort here can mean something in a different language. Right,
Speaker 4: it's your intent on how you're using it. I think
Speaker 4: there's a difference even with my own child. If I'm
Speaker 4: looking at my child and he stubs his toe as
Speaker 4: like a four year old, oh like that to me,
Speaker 4: I'm laughing like, oh, like, you shouldn't say that, versus
Speaker 4: my son out in the street being like I'm gonna
Speaker 4: few up and I'm gonna blah blah blah somebody.
Speaker 3: I'm like, whoa, that's gonna come with some repercussions. My man, Like,
Speaker 3: you can't talk like that.
Speaker 1: So I think, let me stop it right here. So
Speaker 1: what we're going to deal with eventually on this on
Speaker 1: this episode as well, is that there's like sliver, there's
Speaker 1: a sliver of agreement I have with him here, and
Speaker 1: that is that Jesus is looking on the heart. In fact,
Speaker 1: that's when he comes in and we see this profound
Speaker 1: sermon on the Mount that we read in Matthew, and
Speaker 1: when he starts, he starts talking to the Pharisees and
Speaker 1: the religious people, and what he's doing is he's saying,
Speaker 1: you think you're following the law, and you think you're
Speaker 1: doing good by following the law. For instance, you think
Speaker 1: you're doing good by not murdering somebody. But did you
Speaker 1: know that you hate your brother and your heart and
Speaker 1: you're murdering them. You think you're doing good bye, not
Speaker 1: committing adultery. But did you know that you just look
Speaker 1: at a woman with lust and you've committed adultery in
Speaker 1: the heart. So Jesus is always after the heart, and
Speaker 1: he's always saying, look, it's not what you do, it's
Speaker 1: your heart posture towards it. So the reason Jesus was
Speaker 1: doing this is to point out that we are a
Speaker 1: lot more sinful, that we are a lot worse off
Speaker 1: than we think we are on the outside just because
Speaker 1: we act a certain way. Look how good I am looking.
Speaker 1: I'm doing all the right things, I'm checking all the boxes.
Speaker 1: And Jesus goes, uh, it's a lot worse than you think.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the heart. So in relation to this,
Speaker 1: there's there's a sliver of truth in here that if I,
Speaker 1: for instance, if I go up to a guy in Russia, right,
Speaker 1: and I write out a four letter bad word in
Speaker 1: English and I say, read this, and he's like he
Speaker 1: doesn't know what it means, and he reads it. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's not like, oh that's that's horrible. You just said
Speaker 1: that word. Obviously he has no idea what the means.
Speaker 1: So his heart posture is completely clean in that instance.
Speaker 1: But but what this guy's saying, what George is saying,
Speaker 1: is a little different than at he's actually saying the
Speaker 1: words and saying there's a different context of saying the words.
Speaker 1: Let's keep going here.
Speaker 3: Saying is like, where's your intent with it? Like if like,
Speaker 3: for example, if I'm talking to.
Speaker 4: Some new Christians and they don't really get God, and
Speaker 4: I'm talking to them about being perfect, and now I'm
Speaker 4: watching them tune out. But then I go, but listen,
Speaker 4: it's locking hard. And then they go, wait, what You're
Speaker 4: like me, Oh, so you're not holier than that. You're
Speaker 4: not perfect obviously now because you're swearing. Sometimes I use
Speaker 4: it as a relatability, like I speak in their language.
Speaker 4: It's hard to talk to somebody if you can't understand them,
Speaker 4: and so I wasn't really too quick to fix my tongue.
Speaker 1: I don't think that that's necessary. And if he's truly
Speaker 1: saying like I'm doing whatever it takes to be relatable,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what he means. I think he's
Speaker 1: just trying to be cool and fit in. And he
Speaker 1: might have a good intention of why he wants to
Speaker 1: fit in. But I think the better argument is if
Speaker 1: you are. If you are so you're so zealous for
Speaker 1: your God, and you're so obedient and yet joyful and
Speaker 1: yet happy and yet understanding, and I think that's a
Speaker 1: better way to be relatable. Then Man, I'm just like
Speaker 1: a God, just like one of you guys, and I
Speaker 1: also got this god thing going on. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's as inspiring as he thinks it might be.
Speaker 4: Let's continue here, because I tell people all the time
Speaker 4: they look at me as a preacher.
Speaker 3: I ain't no preacher, did I'm a man who fears
Speaker 3: God and loves to talk.
Speaker 1: Yes, you are. If you're speaking on a platform, you're
Speaker 1: a preacher.
Speaker 3: If you have a massive platform, yeah, if it takes
Speaker 3: you in the direction of that, then that's great.
Speaker 4: But to me, it's like my heart was like, I
Speaker 4: like talking to people that don't know who God is
Speaker 4: at all and like bringing them. I'm trying to be
Speaker 4: a fisher of men, right, And I might talk like
Speaker 4: a sailorman.
Speaker 1: And that's don't do that. I wouldn't go there. That's
Speaker 1: like a silly cultural analogy. Fishermen and sailors. You know,
Speaker 1: they're both on water, and they should both be able
Speaker 1: to cuss, right, Like I wouldn't go there swear.
Speaker 3: Like if you listen to any sailor, they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: he cusses like a sailor. Like this, This is the
Speaker 3: men that Jesus chose. Like you think Peter was walking
Speaker 3: around with no filthy mouth like he was.
Speaker 4: It took him a bit. We don't know that to
Speaker 4: like rein it in and be disciplined. I'm thirty one
Speaker 4: years old and I just started. I guarantee you, when
Speaker 4: I'm like forty, I'm probably not gonna be talking the
Speaker 4: same way that I'm talking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an interesting argument. He realizes it's probably not helpful,
Speaker 1: it's probably not encouraging, it's probably not uplifting. But I
Speaker 1: still got to get it out of my system for
Speaker 1: the next ten years or so, and then it'll probably
Speaker 1: be totally out of my system. He knows the argument
Speaker 1: that he's making, so he's already kind of feeling a change.
Speaker 1: He's already kind of feeling a tug, and no one's
Speaker 1: even talked to him about it. He's convincing himself already.
Speaker 1: This is interesting. Let's keep going.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't.
Speaker 4: It doesn't make me toss and turn out night. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of things that make me toss and turn
Speaker 4: at night. That's just, honestly, just not one of them
Speaker 4: from your now.
Speaker 5: We used to make fun of the Christians.
Speaker 2: We did, we made fun of We didn't come to
Speaker 2: a whole.
Speaker 6: Year than now Christian This we truly can't even say it.
Speaker 2: It's been probably I don't know how long that I
Speaker 2: can't get an effort out of my mouth. It physically
Speaker 2: can't come out of my mouth.
Speaker 4: And you know what, like she said something that made
Speaker 4: it's gonna my wheels are going like crazy, let's go.
Speaker 4: When you said it made me cringe, I never really
Speaker 4: pictured making anybody cringe from my mouth. And if I'm
Speaker 4: talking about God and I make them cringe, that's a problem.
Speaker 2: I think of the scripture. Sorry, I just I think
Speaker 2: of the scripture that's set.
Speaker 1: So look at his face. Look at his face right
Speaker 1: here where I paused it. I love how he said
Speaker 1: the wheels are turning. And this is very interesting to
Speaker 1: watch as he is I kind of recognized that as
Speaker 1: he's kind of explaining his best way to justify while
Speaker 1: he why he does speak like a sailor, like you said,
Speaker 1: and then as that his own personal justification starts to
Speaker 1: kind of crumble a little bit. Look at his face,
Speaker 1: and I want to see where this goes.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, well, I just want to tell you one scripture.
Speaker 2: It's I think it's in James. It's like, can fresh
Speaker 2: water and salt water both flow out of the same spring?
Speaker 2: How can you love God and curse anybody with the
Speaker 2: same mouth.
Speaker 4: I saw that as cursing a man, though even my
Speaker 4: own enemies they don't even know, but I plant them
Speaker 4: flowers in their fields rights justifying here.
Speaker 2: So I was reading, so you know the moment where
Speaker 2: Peter denies Jesus three times? Right, yeah, and I can
Speaker 2: I can pull it up because I'm paraphrasing, but it
Speaker 2: says something so three times people come up to him,
Speaker 2: do you know Jesus, you were just with him? I
Speaker 2: saw you with him. You're you're a Jew, like you
Speaker 2: have to be with him? And he says three times, no,
Speaker 2: I don't know him, No, I don't know him. The
Speaker 2: third time he it says that he curses and says,
Speaker 2: I do not know this man. So in the moment
Speaker 2: where he was trying to separate himself from Jesus and
Speaker 2: no longer identify as a follower of Jesus. He cursed,
Speaker 2: he used some sort of foul language, and that's what
Speaker 2: really got me, and saying, when I do use foul language,
Speaker 2: as annoying as it is, when I do, I'm separating
Speaker 2: myself from the character of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how I I want to catch his face again,
Speaker 1: and I don't want.
Speaker 2: I didn't want this to happen to me. Or okay,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm singing along to songs and I
Speaker 2: am a loser. I'm skipping over the other.
Speaker 1: I will do that version now. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: But I was feeling this separation from God when I
Speaker 5: was living in sin, when I was, you know, sexually
Speaker 5: active before marriage.
Speaker 1: When I I want to notice too that what they're
Speaker 1: talking about is not just speaking curse words. They're also
Speaker 1: talking about listening to it or hearing it or watching
Speaker 1: it in a movie, listening to it in a song.
Speaker 1: But I'm very interested, probably more than the conversation it
Speaker 1: sol if. I'm more interested in George and how he
Speaker 1: is reacting to it. And I think we should all
Speaker 1: watch and see what is working inside of George right now,
Speaker 1: that's the guy with the beanie cap. What is happening
Speaker 1: to him? It's interesting. Let's keep watching, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to get past these girls talking here. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to here.
Speaker 4: Is did you guys talk about my swearing behind closed doors?
Speaker 4: Is that something that you guys wanted to fix on me?
Speaker 1: Not fix on you?
Speaker 3: But I did notice that. I didn't notice that. Is
Speaker 3: it something that challenged you guys when you guys heard
Speaker 3: my stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: We didn't talk about it as if we were going
Speaker 2: to bring it up at all, but we were watching
Speaker 2: like some clips together and we I noticed that, like
Speaker 2: you cuss on the podcast, and you know what's funny
Speaker 2: is our first episode. I'm pretty sure we set a
Speaker 2: couple of customers. We did. Actually, I know on the
Speaker 2: second one, I spelt out a cuss word as it
Speaker 2: because I just didn't We weren't living, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. We didn't know and honestly, we didn't really
Speaker 2: care yet.
Speaker 3: And no we didn't say, oh, let's bring this up.
Speaker 3: But I did notice that, and because I was like that,
Speaker 3: that's what we did. So I was just you know,
Speaker 3: I make a vow that today's the last day I swear. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I challenge I'm probably gonna mess up a lot.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna go get a band and write it
Speaker 4: on my hand every day until I fly master it.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay. So that that's what I thought. This was
Speaker 1: that this is where I thought this was leading, and
Speaker 1: I was hoping he was gonna do that. So what
Speaker 1: we've witnessed here and I'm gonna try to find a
Speaker 1: spot I could pause on his face because I like
Speaker 1: his face. There we go. So what we're seeing, And
Speaker 1: to be honest, I haven't followed this guy, George Jenko.
Speaker 1: I think it's his name. This is the first video
Speaker 1: I've seen from him. But but I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1: I know he's a brother and it's a beautiful thing
Speaker 1: because what's happening to him is repentance. And a lot
Speaker 1: of times we Christians talk about repentance. In the Bible
Speaker 1: commands repentance. It's necessary, it could repentance is necessary as
Speaker 1: a human response to the saving grace of God. And
Speaker 1: so what's happened with George is he's defending it and
Speaker 1: and he he's saying he's giving reasons while he why
Speaker 1: he thinks that cussing or using a foul mouth is
Speaker 1: beneficial in his quote unquote ministry because it's helping to
Speaker 1: relate and God, God's looking at the heart, not at
Speaker 1: the words. And but as these girls unpack a pretty
Speaker 1: good defense for keeping a clean mouth, we'll call it
Speaker 1: that term, he starts to break down, and it's actually
Speaker 1: visible on this video, and it's it's really neat to
Speaker 1: see because we're watching in real time on this video,
Speaker 1: repentance as it's happening. And then the way I know
Speaker 1: he's a brother, and the way you know Christ is
Speaker 1: in this man and the Holy Spirit is working in
Speaker 1: him as far as we can tell from one video.
Speaker 1: But but but humans don't do this. This is not
Speaker 1: normal for a human. And I believe this is his show.
Speaker 1: I believe this is his podcast. So it would be
Speaker 1: like someone coming on my podcast and challenging me was
Speaker 1: something that I had just made my own defense for
Speaker 1: so that I could keep up with what I'm defending
Speaker 1: that I think is right, and someone that's a guest
Speaker 1: challenging me, and humans don't do well in this kind
Speaker 1: of situation, especially on our own platforms. In front of
Speaker 1: our own people. We don't do well, we are pride
Speaker 1: kicks in and all the defenses go up and we go, man,
Speaker 1: this is something we're all. You got, your thing I got.
Speaker 1: Don't be holier than me, don't come judging me on
Speaker 1: my show. You know this is And even if you
Speaker 1: don't say it out loud, that's what you're thinking. And
Speaker 1: you could see that through body language. That's not what's
Speaker 1: happening to this guy, George. His body language goes into submission.
Speaker 1: He starts look at his face right here on the screenshot.
Speaker 1: His eyes are turned. He's thinking, he's in deep thought
Speaker 1: and he's backpedaling and he's turning away. He's changing his mind. Literally,
Speaker 1: you could see repentance in his face right here. He's
Speaker 1: changing his mind about sin and turning instead to God.
Speaker 1: And by the end of this video he says, I'm
Speaker 1: making a vow right now. Then I'm gonna stop gussing.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it gives me chills. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: And then he goes on to say, correctly, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: mess up, but I don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1: It's basically what he's saying. And so it's the direction.
Speaker 1: It's not the achievement, it's not the destination of where
Speaker 1: we're going to defeat sin. Instead, it's a change of course.
Speaker 1: It's a change of direction away from ourselves and our
Speaker 1: pride and our sin and changing course. As if you're
Speaker 1: in a boat and you're completely changing the boat and
Speaker 1: you're turning all the way, you're turning the stern all
Speaker 1: around and you're going the other way, and you're going Listen,
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to have a tendency to turn
Speaker 1: back to the old way again, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to go that way anymore. I want to go this way.
Speaker 1: I want to go God's way. And as he was
Speaker 1: rebuked by these other Christians, that's the decision he makes,
Speaker 1: and that is repentance and it is beautiful. And so
Speaker 1: even though we're not even talking about cussing at this point,
Speaker 1: I think that that that's a beautiful illustration of repentance.
Speaker 1: And I also think the idea the conclusion about cussing
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Speaker 1: this next video that ant Man found, this is going
Speaker 1: to that that first one was just kind of a
Speaker 1: general idea about cussing itself. Now this one is going
Speaker 1: to dive deeper into what is cussing. In fact that
Speaker 1: the title of this that Antman put is the hypocrisy
Speaker 1: of cussing. What does that even mean? We're talking about
Speaker 1: how this flow, this all flows from the heart. And
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Speaker 1: notes here on my phone. I'm going to read you
Speaker 1: my thoughts that I wrote down. Well, I just wrote
Speaker 1: down some verses, so we'll discuss after we check out
Speaker 1: this video.
Speaker 5: And I do think you can cuss somebody out without
Speaker 5: using cuss words. I do think you can curse somebody
Speaker 5: without using cuss words.
Speaker 6: Like I had this conversation with my mom a little
Speaker 6: while ago and I was like, Yo, if which one
Speaker 6: of these things?
Speaker 3: And as a matter of fact, this is a question,
Speaker 3: this is a question. What do you think about this?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 6: You have two different sentences. You have someone that goes
Speaker 6: if I were to if I were to look at
Speaker 6: my brother and say you're an idiot and you're never
Speaker 6: going to.
Speaker 5: Be anything in life, that's awful.
Speaker 6: That versus if I looked at my brother and said
Speaker 6: I love you so, and there's a two part there's
Speaker 6: a two part questions. Okay, so which one of those?
Speaker 3: Do you think?
Speaker 1: The video skipped just a little bit, But he said,
Speaker 1: what's the difference? What is better telling your brother you're
Speaker 1: an idiot and I don't like you basically, or I
Speaker 1: love you so effing much, but actually using the word
Speaker 1: that's his point here.
Speaker 3: God would be like, yeah, absolutely not.
Speaker 5: I don't think God would co sign either statement.
Speaker 6: Right right, watch if do you think your answer would
Speaker 6: be the same if I said it was you're an
Speaker 6: idiot and you're never going to be anything in life,
Speaker 6: or I love you so freaking much, dude? I think
Speaker 6: that The conversation then becomes, so does God have an
Speaker 6: issue with the heart or spelling?
Speaker 1: Okay, so now he's making the argument for instead of
Speaker 1: the actual F word, what about freaking? Like could you
Speaker 1: say I love you so freaking much and that way
Speaker 1: you're you're avoiding the actual F word and you've replaced
Speaker 1: it with something else. Is that? Okay?
Speaker 6: That's that's his question, because freaking means the same thing
Speaker 6: as the other word does, but it doesn't have the
Speaker 6: same impact. It doesn't have the same impact.
Speaker 5: And sometimes sometimes and this is hard. This is hard
Speaker 5: because it's not fair. Sometimes you are judged by your
Speaker 5: impact and not your intent.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the reason I'm the only reason I'm pushing back
Speaker 6: is because the Church, like Christians, we have these filler
Speaker 6: words that don't actually have any meaning except for to
Speaker 6: be the filler word for a cuss word. So that
Speaker 6: means maybe we should stop saying those words too, though
Speaker 6: that is my exact point. So my point is that, Yo,
Speaker 6: if we're either about to wipe the whole board, let's
Speaker 6: get rid of heck, dang, frick, let's get let's get
Speaker 6: rid of crap, let's get let's do let's take it
Speaker 6: all out or green light all of it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I still think some things are just gonna be felt different,
Speaker 5: like something.
Speaker 1: And like I said, okay, So he's making the argument
Speaker 1: that if we're going to have words that replace the
Speaker 1: actual cuss words, is it okay to say them because
Speaker 1: they have less of an impact. So that this is
Speaker 1: the discussion, is is it the actual word? Kind of
Speaker 1: like kind of like I said earlier, if if I
Speaker 1: wrote out a four letter word and gave it to
Speaker 1: a Russian guy and he spoke it, and he had
Speaker 1: no idea what it meant. That would what would that
Speaker 1: mean for him? Would it would he be sinning in that?
Speaker 1: Of course? Not like I said with Sermon on the Mountain,
Speaker 1: Jesus is getting to the heart. Jesus did this through
Speaker 1: his through his entire ministry. He wanted the heart. He
Speaker 1: was dealing with the heart. And from the overflow of
Speaker 1: the heart, the mouth speaks, Jesus says. And so as
Speaker 1: you speak, you're speaking the overflow of what's in your heart.
Speaker 1: If you want to get to know someone, listen to
Speaker 1: them speak. If you want to know the heart of
Speaker 1: a man or a woman, stay around long enough and
Speaker 1: listen to them speak, and you will hear the overflow
Speaker 1: of their heart. That's what Jesus means by that. And
Speaker 1: I think that's the argument that these guys are making
Speaker 1: in this video.
Speaker 6: Say, this is just a lot of it just for
Speaker 6: to go and think about and have you actually think
Speaker 6: about the way that you consider people, because I know
Speaker 6: people that would say things like, if you cuss, you're
Speaker 6: not a Christian.
Speaker 3: Period.
Speaker 6: That's a say statement, because that's the.
Speaker 1: Part we need to discuss as well. For someone to
Speaker 1: say if you cuss, you're not a Christian. Guess what
Speaker 1: it's Without me even getting into that, the previous video
Speaker 1: made a great point on that. The guy George Jenko,
Speaker 1: I think, I don't know, but I think that he
Speaker 1: is a brother, he is a Christian, and he was
Speaker 1: cussing at the beginning of the video and then by
Speaker 1: the end of it he was not. So it would
Speaker 1: not be a fair judgment at all to say because
Speaker 1: of what you say, I could judge you today and
Speaker 1: tell you whether you are or not a Christian. That's
Speaker 1: a different discussion, but I think the argument could be
Speaker 1: made already that that first video proved that wrong.
Speaker 6: You cuss by God's standards, You cuss all day long.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a tricky one, man, because it's deemed what's
Speaker 5: appropriate by a society. You know, what I'm saying is
Speaker 5: deemed what's appropriate in different times in space. Different words
Speaker 5: were more appropriate different times of space, and like, like
Speaker 5: here's an example, did you know that, like spaz is
Speaker 5: considered derogatory to specific people that have that's a rest.
Speaker 5: It's another one.
Speaker 1: But like in the UK, like you can't like spaz
Speaker 1: is not.
Speaker 5: Appropriate, and that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it's like there's it's just yeah, just a lot.
Speaker 6: That's another thing that that I think plays into it
Speaker 6: is like here certain words are cuss words, somewhere else
Speaker 6: they're not.
Speaker 1: And so then Okay, I don't know where this this
Speaker 1: video is necessarily going, and I don't know if I
Speaker 1: actually need more AMMO to make this argument because now
Speaker 1: they're getting into once again the heart of the matter.
Speaker 1: Where is your heart in the situation. That's what Jesus
Speaker 1: wants to know. So first we should address the idea
Speaker 1: of of people that the holier than now idea like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're just being holier than what is that? What does
Speaker 1: that phrase? Holier than hold it than thou? Holier than thou?
Speaker 1: That's what people say, Oh you're holier than thou. That's
Speaker 1: what the last video is said too. And so it's
Speaker 1: it's it's just critical. It's critical for us to know
Speaker 1: that we are saved by grace through faith. This is
Speaker 1: not our own doing. This is the gift of God,
Speaker 1: not a result of works, so that no man may
Speaker 1: boast Ephesians to eight to nine. And it's it's critical
Speaker 1: to understand that there is nothing we do or don't
Speaker 1: do that saves us. So uh, Stopping cussing will not
Speaker 1: make you a Christian. Stopping stop stealing that will not
Speaker 1: make you a Christian. Stop committing adultery that will not
Speaker 1: make you a Christian. We have to understand that this
Speaker 1: idea of being a good person makes you a Christian,
Speaker 1: or that being a good person gets you an invitation
Speaker 1: to heaven is absolute heresy, and it's completely wrong. It's
Speaker 1: never been taught that way, although it is, it's you know,
Speaker 1: continued to be some kind of heresy that makes its
Speaker 1: way into teaching, if not just subliminably, sublimably through our
Speaker 1: minds and through our teaching, and through our understanding and
Speaker 1: through our living. So if you were to ask the
Speaker 1: average person on the street, how do you get into heaven?
Speaker 1: A common answer is I don't know. You've got to
Speaker 1: be a good person. Well, the Bible is very clear.
Speaker 1: First of all, that no one is good, no not
Speaker 1: even one, Isaiah says, through the inspiration of God. And
Speaker 1: then Paul will say that all have sinned and fall
Speaker 1: short of the glory of God Romans three twenty three.
Speaker 1: So no one is good, and all have sinned and
Speaker 1: fall short of His glory, all have fallen short of
Speaker 1: our invitation to heaven, it's not happening. We've already messed
Speaker 1: that up. So whether or not you cuss or not,
Speaker 1: or you cuss a lot or a little, or a
Speaker 1: medium of mount or none, none of that has anything
Speaker 1: to do with your right standing with God. The only
Speaker 1: way you have right standing with God is through Jesus,
Speaker 1: through his final work, has finished work on the cross
Speaker 1: as a substitution for the crime punishment that you deserved
Speaker 1: right and in exchange you are seen righteous, in exchange
Speaker 1: for your faith in Him, your belief in Him and
Speaker 1: your repentance. Like we saw from George in the last video,
Speaker 1: is that you turn away from yourself. You go to
Speaker 1: God and you go God, I can't I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I'm turning away from myself and I'm changing my course
Speaker 1: to you, saying I trust you and what you have
Speaker 1: done because I have fallen short, have mercy on me
Speaker 1: a sinner. That's the only standing we have with him
Speaker 1: is what Jesus did for us, God the Sun incarnate
Speaker 1: in flesh, coming into this world for humanity to suffer
Speaker 1: in it, in the humanity that he created, which is
Speaker 1: just wild, to come and suffer in it, so that
Speaker 1: we could be reconciled back to God, who we broke
Speaker 1: our relationship with through our own sin. So all of
Speaker 1: that is the truth, and this cussing thing is irrelevant
Speaker 1: to that. So to be able to say, I know
Speaker 1: he's a Christian or not because of what he says
Speaker 1: is wrong, but it could be an indication of of
Speaker 1: a heart that is still corrupted, if that makes sense,
Speaker 1: because out of the abundance of the heart and the
Speaker 1: mouth speaks. So you can see indications of a healthy
Speaker 1: tree by its fruit. And if a tree has bad fruit,
Speaker 1: then you can go okay, this tree might need to
Speaker 1: be completely torn down, burned and replanted, right, which is
Speaker 1: what God does with us through conversion. We become a
Speaker 1: new creation, a new tree that now bears good fruit
Speaker 1: instead of bad fruit. So you can make an argument
Speaker 1: that you can get a lot of information from someone
Speaker 1: and how they speak, but that's not what we're talking
Speaker 1: about either. We're talking about is it okay for Christians
Speaker 1: to cuss? I think that's the topic at hand, And
Speaker 1: I want to go for an answer for answers to this.
Speaker 1: I want to go straight to the Bible itself, and
Speaker 1: I pulled up I made some notes here and so
Speaker 1: I just want to go through a couple of vers
Speaker 1: and do just some light commentary on them. And some
Speaker 1: of the stuff was already talked about in the in
Speaker 1: the previous video Ephesians four twenty nine. Do not let
Speaker 1: any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only
Speaker 1: what is helpful for building others up according to their needs,
Speaker 1: that it may be beneficial, that it may benefit those
Speaker 1: who listen. So that George was making the argument, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is building them up because I'm I'm relating to them. Okay,
Speaker 1: well then let's go to Colossans three eight. But now
Speaker 1: you must also rid yourself of all of these, of
Speaker 1: all such things as these anger, rage, malice, slander, and
Speaker 1: filthy language from your lips. So now George has already
Speaker 1: lost his argument to Colossians three eight. James three ten.
Speaker 1: I believe that was mentioned in this video out of
Speaker 1: the or the play previous video out of the same mouth,
Speaker 1: come and praise and cursing my brothers and sisters. This
Speaker 1: should not be Proverbs eighteen twenty one. The tongue has
Speaker 1: the power of death, the power of life and death,
Speaker 1: and those who love it will eat its fruit. Matthew twelve,
Speaker 1: thirty six and thirty seven. But I tell you that
Speaker 1: everyone will have to give an account on the day
Speaker 1: of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For
Speaker 1: by your words, you will be acquitted, and by your
Speaker 1: words you will be condemned. Well, that is very interesting,
Speaker 1: and we have to also remember that we're saved by
Speaker 1: grace through faith, So you will be judged by everything
Speaker 1: that you do, and the only way you'll be set
Speaker 1: free is if your righteousness is found in Jesus through
Speaker 1: your faith in Him, and not on your own. So
Speaker 1: you're in deep trouble if you're out on your own
Speaker 1: trying to hope you're going to get into heaven, because
Speaker 1: Jesus is saying you're already condemned. Five to four says
Speaker 1: nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or course talking
Speaker 1: which is out of place, but rather thanksgiving. So he's
Speaker 1: encouraging Christians already converted already have they already have the
Speaker 1: ability to repent like George did. And what happens is
Speaker 1: when you these verses are taking in somebody that's already
Speaker 1: a Christian and it's encouraging them to walk in the light. Basically,
Speaker 1: and you can't tell a non believer this because they
Speaker 1: don't have that ability to walk. Instead, they need the
Speaker 1: Gospel so that they could that tree, that that that
Speaker 1: they are could be torn down and thrown into the
Speaker 1: fire and reborn into a new tree that now is
Speaker 1: is capable of bearing good fruit through the work of Jesus,
Speaker 1: through the ability that they now have empowered by Jesus.
Speaker 1: So those Christians that we're talking about, that's why that
Speaker 1: is so important. So Christians now have the ability to
Speaker 1: hear this, to hear Ephesians five to four, and go, ah, man,
Speaker 1: my wheels are turned kind of like George said, Man,
Speaker 1: I feel that I've been I've been messing. I've been
Speaker 1: doing that course joking. I've been doing that fool whish
Speaker 1: talk thing. I gotta change Proverbs fifteen to one. A
Speaker 1: gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs
Speaker 1: up anger. Colossians four to six. Let your conversation always
Speaker 1: be full of grace, season with salt, so that you
Speaker 1: may know how to answer everyone. One Peter three ten.
Speaker 1: For whoever would love life and see good days must
Speaker 1: keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful
Speaker 1: speech Saw nineteen fourteen. May these words of my mouth
Speaker 1: and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord,
Speaker 1: my Rock and my Redeemer. Yeah, that's really good stuff.
Speaker 1: And once again these are when Christians hear these, it
Speaker 1: should It's I've said this before in a message. It's
Speaker 1: like it's like a when you you become a butterfly.
Speaker 1: If you're a caterpillar, right and you cut your you've
Speaker 1: become a brand new butterfly. And other butterflies more wise,
Speaker 1: mature butterflies come up to you and you go, they
Speaker 1: say to the to the young butterfly, the old ones say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you know you don't have to be walking around with
Speaker 1: these caterpillars eating these leaves anymore. There's something way better.
Speaker 1: It's called nectar, and it's over there on the other
Speaker 1: side of the garden. And then the butter the new
Speaker 1: butterflies like, well, how am I supposed to get to
Speaker 1: the other side, And the older butterfly says, you see
Speaker 1: those things you got on your on your sides, Now
Speaker 1: those legs, those are wings. You can fly, you know.
Speaker 1: So sometimes it takes for a new Christian or or
Speaker 1: a Christian that just hasn't been well discipled to hear
Speaker 1: these these words from a more wise Christian and words
Speaker 1: from the Bible like this that rebuke them. They go, oh,
Speaker 1: I can fly. It's a beautiful thing. So here's another
Speaker 1: thing we've been talking about. Should you say darn or
Speaker 1: heck or dang it? Here's another one. Listen to this,
Speaker 1: Dad gummet, and you've probably heard me say, Dad gummy,
Speaker 1: that's what my dad said all the time, Dad Gummet.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Where did that come from? Well?
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this today before the podcast. Take
Speaker 1: the D and the G and swap them, and now'll
Speaker 1: say it and see what that comes out to be.
Speaker 1: You could see what that replaced, Dad Gummet, Switch the
Speaker 1: D and the G and see what it replaced. So
Speaker 1: it's the same heart position. You're saying the same thing.
Speaker 1: Jesus says this in Matthew five thirty seven. Simply let
Speaker 1: your yes be yes and your no be no. Anything
Speaker 1: beyond this comes from the evil one. So like this
Speaker 1: guy on this video was making this argument, if you're
Speaker 1: going to tell your brother I love you so freaking much,
Speaker 1: let your yes be yes and your no be no.
Speaker 1: Let that be enough. You don't have to exaggerate anything, right,
Speaker 1: So the heart position matters, and I think the darns
Speaker 1: and the dang its and the dad gummants actually do matter.
Speaker 1: And this is this is personal sanctification. For anyone listening
Speaker 1: that says that and they're a Christian, don't think I'm
Speaker 1: telling you you're condemned or you're not a Christian, or
Speaker 1: you're in you're in sin. I'm saying that as a rebuke,
Speaker 1: and it's something to think about. From the overflow of
Speaker 1: the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. I think
Speaker 1: these are things that if you hear it a certain way,
Speaker 1: and you hear me saying this, you might like me say, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't say any of it for the tenth
Speaker 1: time on this podcast. Not because you're earning righteousness or
Speaker 1: because you're obtaining your own salvation from what you do
Speaker 1: or say that's already a gift from God as you
Speaker 1: turn from your sin and put your faith in Jesus
Speaker 1: in his work on the cross. I'll say that again,
Speaker 1: but because of the abundance of the heart, when Jesus
Speaker 1: is in your heart and you're filled with the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: and you just want. You want so badly just to
Speaker 1: just to show everyone your love for Jesus because of
Speaker 1: the way he loved you first, in the abundance of that,
Speaker 1: in the overflow of that, kind of like you take
Speaker 1: that mentos and you drop it in a coke and
Speaker 1: the coat just over it flows. It's like that from
Speaker 1: that overflow, you go, Lord, I want to do all
Speaker 1: these things. I don't want to say anything that might
Speaker 1: be hurtful or discouraging to someone. I only want to
Speaker 1: be someone that's uplifting to others. I only want to
Speaker 1: be loving to others. And so I want to I
Speaker 1: want to watch my tongue. I want to keep it
Speaker 1: from becoming evil. I want to I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that everything is clean coming out of my mouth.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So that's that might be when you hear this video
Speaker 1: where you end up and then I love I love
Speaker 1: that the girl and that one video brought up this
Speaker 1: Matthew twenty six seventy four talking about Peter as he's
Speaker 1: denying Jesus, it says then and he began to call
Speaker 1: down curses and swore to them. I don't know the man.
Speaker 1: Immediately the rooster crowed, I'm reading out of the n
Speaker 1: I V for that because I think it's an interesting
Speaker 1: it's an it's an interesting translation for that part. And
Speaker 1: and and I think those girls had a good point
Speaker 1: that in this instant, in this instance with Peter, as
Speaker 1: he's separating himself from Jesus, that's when he curses. It
Speaker 1: represents a separation. And so as you hear this, what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this is this term is called sanctification.
Speaker 1: That's a churchy word, but this is the process of
Speaker 1: becoming more and more like Jesus as his spirit and
Speaker 1: dwells us. It starts to convict us in certain things.
Speaker 1: And people get convicted in different ways. For instance, I've
Speaker 1: got I've gotten convicted with with college football as I'm
Speaker 1: watching it and my emotions rage and my spirit pours
Speaker 1: out onto this game. And I've realized over the years, man,
Speaker 1: i think this is idolatry for me. I think I'm
Speaker 1: worshiping college football. I think that's becoming a sin for me,
Speaker 1: and I should probably back down. That's the conviction the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. No, I don't think a normal man would
Speaker 1: say that, but because of the conviction within me, the
Speaker 1: spirit goes, hey, watch yourself, watch yourself. And so when
Speaker 1: I say dad gummet, and I've said that for so
Speaker 1: I mean, my character Donnie says that it's like his thing, right,
Speaker 1: So when I say that now and my spirit goes,
Speaker 1: watch yourself. Not because I'm falling out of the faith,
Speaker 1: but hey, you're becoming more and more like Jesus. And
Speaker 1: in that process you're going to be reminded and convicted
Speaker 1: of certain things. And So to answer this question for
Speaker 1: people that have emailed me a thousand times saying Granger,
Speaker 1: where do you stand on this? Because you have songs
Speaker 1: that have cussing in them. And my answer to all
Speaker 1: of those people is that I am sorry, and you're right.
Speaker 1: And if I was going to make a song today,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't dare do that. I wouldn't dare put those
Speaker 1: words in those songs. And if you, I don't know
Speaker 1: if y'll notice, but the people that have gone to
Speaker 1: my concerts and they watched this whole thing happening to me,
Speaker 1: the sanctification was happening in real time on the stage
Speaker 1: in front of everybody. You might have noticed that that
Speaker 1: words like like city Boy stuck. I believe it is
Speaker 1: one of the ones that there's a lot of those
Speaker 1: songs where the word was hell, oh yeah. The word
Speaker 1: in City Boy Stuck was hell no, not me, and
Speaker 1: that started bothering me, and so it became heck no,
Speaker 1: not me. That's the best I could do. Now, the
Speaker 1: more I'm sanctified, I'm like, I don't even think heck.
Speaker 1: Heck isn't even right, because that's just replacing the word,
Speaker 1: and it's coming out of the same heart. So you
Speaker 1: probably noticed that there were a lot of words that changed,
Speaker 1: and there were songs that I ever sang, like damn Guitar.
Speaker 1: Never sang that song. I was just too convicted. I
Speaker 1: wrote the song a long time ago, and it was
Speaker 1: in the movie moon Rise without the words. Though you
Speaker 1: notice that as in the movie moon Rise without the words,
Speaker 1: and I never sang that song live, and I always
Speaker 1: it always bothered me. The song damn straight always bothered me.
Speaker 1: Not when I recorded it, obviously, but as I was
Speaker 1: sanctified more and more, as I gotten deeper into the word,
Speaker 1: and as the Holy Spirit was tugging at me in
Speaker 1: a lot of different things, conforming me, molding me. It's
Speaker 1: like I was when I was put into the fire,
Speaker 1: really starting with losing riv and then what happened to
Speaker 1: me later. As I was in the fire of this,
Speaker 1: the metal that I was, as corrupted and corroded as
Speaker 1: I was, was beginning to melt and melt and melt
Speaker 1: until it was just molten liquid metal. That's how far
Speaker 1: down I was melted. And when I reached that point
Speaker 1: of complete melted metal, that's when the Lord was able
Speaker 1: to start working. That's when the maker's hand takes that
Speaker 1: molten metal and makes it new, makes it, turns it
Speaker 1: into the refinement that it was always intended to be.
Speaker 1: And as that's happening, and as that refinement happens, it's
Speaker 1: not always it's not always fun. Sometimes it hurts a
Speaker 1: little bit. You're like, wait, why do I feel bad
Speaker 1: about saying darn it? That's weird. You know, you start
Speaker 1: thinking that you feel so out of place, and you're like,
Speaker 1: hang on a second. Maybe maybe I have I've been
Speaker 1: given the power through the Holy Spirit to change the
Speaker 1: way I talk. Maybe this is not a big as
Speaker 1: big a deal as I think I need to fit
Speaker 1: into culture by saying cultural things. Maybe it's not a
Speaker 1: big deal at all. And just like that guy George said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mess up a lot, But it's not the destination,
Speaker 1: it's the shift. It's the change of direction towards a
Speaker 1: new destination. That is the evidence of a believer of
Speaker 1: a Christian. So do Christians cuss? That's irrelevant and the
Speaker 1: answer is probably yes. But should Christians cuss? I believe
Speaker 1: that answer is no. And although I wouldn't put judgment
Speaker 1: on current Christians and say you shouldn't cuss, and I
Speaker 1: absolutely would not put that judgment on a non Christian,
Speaker 1: and I would never say that word offends me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna listen to it and as someone's talking to me
Speaker 1: and they go, so sorry for the language, I'm gonna say, no,
Speaker 1: need to apologize. And in my mind, I'm thinking you
Speaker 1: don't have Jesus, so let me tell you the gospel.
Speaker 1: Don't apologize for your words. I understand. I'll give you
Speaker 1: grace for that. But for the Christian, if they ask me,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, brother, I don't think it is right,
Speaker 1: and I think you will be sanctified. And I think eventually,
Speaker 1: just like we saw in that video with George, I
Speaker 1: think true repentance is right around the corner.
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