WEBVTT - Should Christians Curse? 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.720 What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the podcast. On this podcast, 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.080 I answer your questions you email me podcast at grangersmith 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.599 dot com, and we walk through it like we're just 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:27.360 having a conversation, and the conversation could really be about anything, life, love, 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.840 the Bible. Ask me anything, and I'm going to answer 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.600 it like we're friends and we're trying to talk through something. 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.720 That's always what this podcast has been and what I'm 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.080 doing now for the second week in a row is 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.880 I'm taking a collection of the most popular questions that 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:51.000 gets asked on this podcast all of the time. Instead 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.600 of answering them individually over and over again, I'm gonna 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.000 for the second like last week was Eschatology, it was 0:00:58.040 --> 0:00:59.920 like the End of Times. I get that. I get 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.520 asked that all the time, so I thought I would 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.640 just react to a few videos and give you my 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.839 thoughts on the end of Times. This week, I'm gonna 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.640 do something similar. I'm going to answer a question that 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:15.720 comes in all the time, and that is should Christians cuss? 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.399 I get that quite a bit, and I think probably 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.480 that there's a good reason I get that quite a bit, 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.560 and probably because if you go back over the last 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.520 decade or more two decades of my music, you hear 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.119 curse words in there, and it's like, hey, Granger, now 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.479 here you are all into the Bible, is it okay 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.640 for Christians to cuss or to listen to songs with 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.000 curse words in them? So, you know what, I think 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.520 that's a great question, And because I get it all 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:50.120 the time, I'm probably not going to answer every individual 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.920 one because they're all pretty much just like I just said. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.360 So instead, let's use this episode and let's walk through 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:00.680 that question. And ant Man has now put together a 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.240 few videos. I think we have two videos here, so 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:08.120 I'll start with this. I'll watch these videos a little bit, pause, react, 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.000 and use that as kind of a platform to discuss 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.280 this topic with and then I'll give you my own 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.760 opinion after we walk through these videos. So this is 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.480 the first one. Let's hit play. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.919 I actually I have a question for you, and I'm 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:25.920 just really curious your opinion on it. What do you 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.680 think about cussing? Yeah, but it'll take on it. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:31.000 Yeah. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.520 So the reason why it doesn't affect my heart too 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:39.320 much is because I know my God doesn't judge like 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.000 swearing like that, and it minds you like yes, I do. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.360 I have to change now. Okay, let me rephrase this. 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.480 I have to change now because God put me in 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.400 a place for me to be speaking, and I'm realizing 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.280 that I have to be better and more diligent with 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.200 my tongue because if I'm not that, I'm showing that 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.640 I'm not disciplined. Therefore, it gives room for the devil 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.880 to come and just move my tongue in his direction. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:02.760 I'm gonna pause here and I'm just gonna say that 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:08.480 I will definitely address this idea of God judging or 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.800 other people judging. Well, we'll deal with that. But I'm 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.919 gonna I'm gonna wait a little bit longer. I'll keep 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.160 seeing what He's got to say here. 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.880 So, yes, I have to be obedient on the tongue. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.440 Now when I swear, if I say, I'll just say 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.440 if I say both like to me, I don't see 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.040 my God looking at me in the same way that 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.639 other people think my God is looking at me. Because 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.440 in the scripture says do not curse your neighbor. Now, 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.960 cursing isn't like like F this, f that, because an 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.800 effort here can mean something in a different language. Right, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.520 it's your intent on how you're using it. I think 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.840 there's a difference even with my own child. If I'm 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.360 looking at my child and he stubs his toe as 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.760 like a four year old, oh like that to me, 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.160 I'm laughing like, oh, like, you shouldn't say that, versus 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:53.960 my son out in the street being like I'm gonna 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:55.880 few up and I'm gonna blah blah blah somebody. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.200 I'm like, whoa, that's gonna come with some repercussions. My man, Like, 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:00.280 you can't talk like that. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.680 So I think, let me stop it right here. So 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.160 what we're going to deal with eventually on this on 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:11.880 this episode as well, is that there's like sliver, there's 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.160 a sliver of agreement I have with him here, and 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.360 that is that Jesus is looking on the heart. In fact, 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.040 that's when he comes in and we see this profound 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.560 sermon on the Mount that we read in Matthew, and 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.680 when he starts, he starts talking to the Pharisees and 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.400 the religious people, and what he's doing is he's saying, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.280 you think you're following the law, and you think you're 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:40.200 doing good by following the law. For instance, you think 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.280 you're doing good by not murdering somebody. But did you 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.920 know that you hate your brother and your heart and 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.040 you're murdering them. You think you're doing good bye, not 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.880 committing adultery. But did you know that you just look 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.040 at a woman with lust and you've committed adultery in 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.680 the heart. So Jesus is always after the heart, and 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.560 he's always saying, look, it's not what you do, it's 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.680 your heart posture towards it. So the reason Jesus was 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.280 doing this is to point out that we are a 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:12.240 lot more sinful, that we are a lot worse off 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.680 than we think we are on the outside just because 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.880 we act a certain way. Look how good I am looking. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.679 I'm doing all the right things, I'm checking all the boxes. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.080 And Jesus goes, uh, it's a lot worse than you think. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.400 I'm looking at the heart. So in relation to this, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.760 there's there's a sliver of truth in here that if I, 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.080 for instance, if I go up to a guy in Russia, right, 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.440 and I write out a four letter bad word in 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.880 English and I say, read this, and he's like he 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.160 doesn't know what it means, and he reads it. Oh, 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.040 it's not like, oh that's that's horrible. You just said 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.359 that word. Obviously he has no idea what the means. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.839 So his heart posture is completely clean in that instance. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.320 But but what this guy's saying, what George is saying, 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.880 is a little different than at he's actually saying the 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.760 words and saying there's a different context of saying the words. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:06.640 Let's keep going here. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.080 Saying is like, where's your intent with it? Like if like, 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:11.760 for example, if I'm talking to. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.280 Some new Christians and they don't really get God, and 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.720 I'm talking to them about being perfect, and now I'm 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.120 watching them tune out. But then I go, but listen, 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.320 it's locking hard. And then they go, wait, what You're 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.760 like me, Oh, so you're not holier than that. You're 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:35.240 not perfect obviously now because you're swearing. Sometimes I use 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.560 it as a relatability, like I speak in their language. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.640 It's hard to talk to somebody if you can't understand them, 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.520 and so I wasn't really too quick to fix my tongue. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.880 I don't think that that's necessary. And if he's truly 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.200 saying like I'm doing whatever it takes to be relatable, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.320 I don't think that's what he means. I think he's 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.920 just trying to be cool and fit in. And he 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.200 might have a good intention of why he wants to 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.680 fit in. But I think the better argument is if 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:10.360 you are. If you are so you're so zealous for 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:15.160 your God, and you're so obedient and yet joyful and 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.840 yet happy and yet understanding, and I think that's a 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.400 better way to be relatable. Then Man, I'm just like 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.560 a God, just like one of you guys, and I 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.680 also got this god thing going on. I don't think 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.040 that's as inspiring as he thinks it might be. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.200 Let's continue here, because I tell people all the time 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.600 they look at me as a preacher. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.239 I ain't no preacher, did I'm a man who fears 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:39.080 God and loves to talk. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.200 Yes, you are. If you're speaking on a platform, you're 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:41.600 a preacher. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.320 If you have a massive platform, yeah, if it takes 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.200 you in the direction of that, then that's great. 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.240 But to me, it's like my heart was like, I 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.160 like talking to people that don't know who God is 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.080 at all and like bringing them. I'm trying to be 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.520 a fisher of men, right, And I might talk like 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:56.640 a sailorman. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:02.560 And that's don't do that. I wouldn't go there. That's 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:07.080 like a silly cultural analogy. Fishermen and sailors. You know, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.480 they're both on water, and they should both be able 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.200 to cuss, right, Like I wouldn't go there swear. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.440 Like if you listen to any sailor, they're like, oh, 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.200 he cusses like a sailor. Like this, This is the 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.760 men that Jesus chose. Like you think Peter was walking 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.320 around with no filthy mouth like he was. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.880 It took him a bit. We don't know that to 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.680 like rein it in and be disciplined. I'm thirty one 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.080 years old and I just started. I guarantee you, when 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.720 I'm like forty, I'm probably not gonna be talking the 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:31.640 same way that I'm talking. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:36.439 Yeah, that's an interesting argument. He realizes it's probably not helpful, 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.079 it's probably not encouraging, it's probably not uplifting. But I 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:41.679 still got to get it out of my system for 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.120 the next ten years or so, and then it'll probably 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.280 be totally out of my system. He knows the argument 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.120 that he's making, so he's already kind of feeling a change. 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.200 He's already kind of feeling a tug, and no one's 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.880 even talked to him about it. He's convincing himself already. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:57.679 This is interesting. Let's keep going. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:58.680 But it doesn't. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.680 It doesn't make me toss and turn out night. There's 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.160 a lot of things that make me toss and turn 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.560 at night. That's just, honestly, just not one of them 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:07.000 from your now. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:08.760 We used to make fun of the Christians. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:10.959 We did, we made fun of We didn't come to 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:11.520 a whole. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.719 Year than now Christian This we truly can't even say it. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.400 It's been probably I don't know how long that I 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.120 can't get an effort out of my mouth. It physically 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:22.240 can't come out of my mouth. 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.520 And you know what, like she said something that made 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.880 it's gonna my wheels are going like crazy, let's go. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.760 When you said it made me cringe, I never really 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.880 pictured making anybody cringe from my mouth. And if I'm 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.440 talking about God and I make them cringe, that's a problem. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.560 I think of the scripture. Sorry, I just I think 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:45.840 of the scripture that's set. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.280 So look at his face. Look at his face right 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.800 here where I paused it. I love how he said 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.480 the wheels are turning. And this is very interesting to 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.160 watch as he is I kind of recognized that as 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:04.760 he's kind of explaining his best way to justify while 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.600 he why he does speak like a sailor, like you said, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.000 and then as that his own personal justification starts to 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.360 kind of crumble a little bit. Look at his face, 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:16.600 and I want to see where this goes. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.840 I'm sorry, well, I just want to tell you one scripture. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.760 It's I think it's in James. It's like, can fresh 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.480 water and salt water both flow out of the same spring? 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.520 How can you love God and curse anybody with the 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:30.160 same mouth. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.120 I saw that as cursing a man, though even my 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:34.880 own enemies they don't even know, but I plant them 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.280 flowers in their fields rights justifying here. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.880 So I was reading, so you know the moment where 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.800 Peter denies Jesus three times? Right, yeah, and I can 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.079 I can pull it up because I'm paraphrasing, but it 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.120 says something so three times people come up to him, 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:50.800 do you know Jesus, you were just with him? I 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.439 saw you with him. You're you're a Jew, like you 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.120 have to be with him? And he says three times, no, 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:57.760 I don't know him, No, I don't know him. The 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.400 third time he it says that he curses and says, 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.600 I do not know this man. So in the moment 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.679 where he was trying to separate himself from Jesus and 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.160 no longer identify as a follower of Jesus. He cursed, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.719 he used some sort of foul language, and that's what 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.800 really got me, and saying, when I do use foul language, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.800 as annoying as it is, when I do, I'm separating 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.440 myself from the character of Jesus. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.760 Yeah, that's how I I want to catch his face again, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:25.840 and I don't want. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.439 I didn't want this to happen to me. Or okay, 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.480 you know what, I'm singing along to songs and I 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.760 am a loser. I'm skipping over the other. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:38.079 I will do that version now. It's ridiculous. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.199 But I was feeling this separation from God when I 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.640 was living in sin, when I was, you know, sexually 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:45.680 active before marriage. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.960 When I I want to notice too that what they're 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.840 talking about is not just speaking curse words. They're also 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.280 talking about listening to it or hearing it or watching 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.680 it in a movie, listening to it in a song. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.040 But I'm very interested, probably more than the conversation it 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.800 sol if. I'm more interested in George and how he 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.800 is reacting to it. And I think we should all 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:10.480 watch and see what is working inside of George right now, 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.679 that's the guy with the beanie cap. What is happening 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.600 to him? It's interesting. Let's keep watching, and I'm gonna 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.640 try to get past these girls talking here. Let's go 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:20.480 back to here. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.520 Is did you guys talk about my swearing behind closed doors? 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.400 Is that something that you guys wanted to fix on me? 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:26.559 Not fix on you? 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.360 But I did notice that. I didn't notice that. Is 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.600 it something that challenged you guys when you guys heard 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:32.040 my stuff? 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.040 Yeah, it was. 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:36.760 We didn't talk about it as if we were going 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:38.439 to bring it up at all, but we were watching 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.760 like some clips together and we I noticed that, like 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.640 you cuss on the podcast, and you know what's funny 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.439 is our first episode. I'm pretty sure we set a 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.240 couple of customers. We did. Actually, I know on the 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.679 second one, I spelt out a cuss word as it 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.040 because I just didn't We weren't living, you know what 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.800 I mean. We didn't know and honestly, we didn't really 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:55.280 care yet. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.360 And no we didn't say, oh, let's bring this up. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:01.480 But I did notice that, and because I was like that, 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.520 that's what we did. So I was just you know, 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.840 I make a vow that today's the last day I swear. Yeah, 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.600 I challenge I'm probably gonna mess up a lot. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.160 Okay, I'm gonna go get a band and write it 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.520 on my hand every day until I fly master it. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.240 Wow. Okay. So that that's what I thought. This was 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:22.800 that this is where I thought this was leading, and 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.120 I was hoping he was gonna do that. So what 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.319 we've witnessed here and I'm gonna try to find a 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.640 spot I could pause on his face because I like 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:34.760 his face. There we go. So what we're seeing, And 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.720 to be honest, I haven't followed this guy, George Jenko. 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.440 I think it's his name. This is the first video 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.520 I've seen from him. But but I'll tell you why. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.199 I know he's a brother and it's a beautiful thing 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:50.000 because what's happening to him is repentance. And a lot 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.400 of times we Christians talk about repentance. In the Bible 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:59.559 commands repentance. It's necessary, it could repentance is necessary as 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.599 a human response to the saving grace of God. And 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.400 so what's happened with George is he's defending it and 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:13.480 and he he's saying he's giving reasons while he why 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.679 he thinks that cussing or using a foul mouth is 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:22.440 beneficial in his quote unquote ministry because it's helping to 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.000 relate and God, God's looking at the heart, not at 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:31.240 the words. And but as these girls unpack a pretty 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:35.520 good defense for keeping a clean mouth, we'll call it 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.280 that term, he starts to break down, and it's actually 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.240 visible on this video, and it's it's really neat to 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.840 see because we're watching in real time on this video, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.840 repentance as it's happening. And then the way I know 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:54.000 he's a brother, and the way you know Christ is 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.040 in this man and the Holy Spirit is working in 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.880 him as far as we can tell from one video. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.960 But but but humans don't do this. This is not 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.120 normal for a human. And I believe this is his show. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.800 I believe this is his podcast. So it would be 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:12.040 like someone coming on my podcast and challenging me was 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.400 something that I had just made my own defense for 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.360 so that I could keep up with what I'm defending 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.680 that I think is right, and someone that's a guest 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.600 challenging me, and humans don't do well in this kind 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.440 of situation, especially on our own platforms. In front of 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.840 our own people. We don't do well, we are pride 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.480 kicks in and all the defenses go up and we go, man, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.600 this is something we're all. You got, your thing I got. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:46.240 Don't be holier than me, don't come judging me on 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.920 my show. You know this is And even if you 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.720 don't say it out loud, that's what you're thinking. And 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.160 you could see that through body language. That's not what's 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:59.280 happening to this guy, George. His body language goes into submission. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.080 He starts look at his face right here on the screenshot. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.600 His eyes are turned. He's thinking, he's in deep thought 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:14.840 and he's backpedaling and he's turning away. He's changing his mind. Literally, 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.200 you could see repentance in his face right here. He's 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.560 changing his mind about sin and turning instead to God. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.840 And by the end of this video he says, I'm 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.160 making a vow right now. Then I'm gonna stop gussing. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.560 Oh man, it gives me chills. It's a beautiful thing. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.760 And then he goes on to say, correctly, I'm gonna 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.800 mess up, but I don't want to do this anymore. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.120 It's basically what he's saying. And so it's the direction. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.360 It's not the achievement, it's not the destination of where 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.680 we're going to defeat sin. Instead, it's a change of course. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.160 It's a change of direction away from ourselves and our 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.280 pride and our sin and changing course. As if you're 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.000 in a boat and you're completely changing the boat and 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:59.840 you're turning all the way, you're turning the stern all 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.960 around and you're going the other way, and you're going Listen, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.560 I know I'm going to have a tendency to turn 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.880 back to the old way again, but I don't want 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:10.960 to go that way anymore. I want to go this way. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.280 I want to go God's way. And as he was 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.520 rebuked by these other Christians, that's the decision he makes, 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:22.720 and that is repentance and it is beautiful. And so 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.200 even though we're not even talking about cussing at this point, 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.719 I think that that that's a beautiful illustration of repentance. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.040 And I also think the idea the conclusion about cussing 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.240 is correct. Let's jump into another video and then i'll 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:40.880 give you my thoughts about this. So a long time ago, 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.280 whenever I started grangersmith dot com, I think the furthest 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.080 thing from my mind was one day I would be 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:50.440 selling things online in an online store like YEEE apparel. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.159 That was the furthest thing from my mind. 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Well, I just wrote 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.360 down some verses, so we'll discuss after we check out 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:33.800 this video. 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:36.360 And I do think you can cuss somebody out without 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.440 using cuss words. I do think you can curse somebody 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:39.520 without using cuss words. 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:41.920 Like I had this conversation with my mom a little 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:46.040 while ago and I was like, Yo, if which one 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:46.760 of these things? 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:49.160