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Speaker 1: reason my mom is dead. What's up, everybody? Welcome back

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Speaker 1: I have switched that email and so if you, if

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Speaker 1: want to be for you in this in this podcast,

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Speaker 1: as a friend, someone you could sit in the truck

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Speaker 1: with and go, man, I've been kind of wrestling with

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Speaker 1: something and and I've listen, maybe I've listened to your

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Speaker 1: ask you this question. What would you do in this situation? Now,

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Speaker 1: But that's not really the point. The point is what's

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Speaker 1: my what's my gut reaction to a friend? That's what

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Speaker 1: I want to be to you once again. It is

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Speaker 1: podcast at grangersmith dot com. The first question says, Hey, Granger,

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Speaker 1: just wondering what you would say to a mom considering

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Speaker 1: I'm a firm believer in Christ, and I know that

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Speaker 1: kids are a gift from God. But with how scary

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Speaker 1: guessing it. Any words of advice and do you believe

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Speaker 1: of questions. Thanks Granger, and God bless you and your family.

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Speaker 1: This question comes from Katie. I sure appreciate it, Katie,

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Speaker 1: that those two things don't go well together. A firm

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Speaker 1: also equal zero fear, zero anxiety, total trust. Now you

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Speaker 1: It just so happens that I do want to recognize

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Speaker 1: that this kind of fear, it shouldn't be. It shouldn't

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Speaker 1: but this is something I'm not gonna let you get

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Speaker 1: of times? Is that what you said? You said? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And all these questions equal, Now God decides it. God

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Speaker 1: the situation and turning it and aiming it towards yourself,

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Speaker 1: and so then you're you're essentially decapitating yourself and you're

427
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Speaker 1: you're crushing yourself under your own weight. That's what this

428
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Speaker 1: depression is. Grieving and mourning is working out this this missing,

429
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Speaker 1: the the the the ability to look back on your

430
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Speaker 1: life that the way it was. You're working that out

431
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Speaker 1: of your system. Depression is not that. Depression is Depression

432
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 1: is taking that and applying it back into your system

433
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Speaker 1: and reliving it and living in it and living about

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Speaker 1: it and being it. That's what you're doing. I am.

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Speaker 1: I'm not for a second gonna pretend like I know

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Speaker 1: what you're going through. I'm not for a second going

437
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Speaker 1: to pretend like this is a light situation and going

438
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: to be easy to fix, not for a second. So

439
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: don't take anything that I say in that way. But

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Speaker 1: I do understand the guilt of a death because of you.

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Speaker 1: I understand that I've been through that. In fact, in

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Speaker 1: a couple of times, a couple times in my life

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Speaker 1: River and my dad. My mom was visiting me when

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Speaker 1: my dad died of a heart attack. So if she

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Speaker 1: hadn't been with me, she would have been with my dad,

446
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: probably would have been able to quickly diagnose the problem,

447
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: call nine to one one and they could have saved him,

448
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 1: maybe and probably. So I understand the idea that you're saying. Man,

449
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,120
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for me, then my mom would still

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Speaker 1: be here. So that's normal. I hear you, and I'll

451
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: sit with you in that and just recognize that that's

452
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Speaker 1: a real thing you're feeling, and it's it's valid and

453
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 1: you're not alone. Right, But then we got to get

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Speaker 1: to the meat of this. We got to get we

455
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Speaker 1: have to get to the heart of this, John. This

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Speaker 1: is if you hear anything I say, if you've ever

457
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Speaker 1: heard my podcast, if you ever hear anything I've ever said,

458
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Speaker 1: hear this, hear this. The world will tell you, John,

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Speaker 1: you need to forgive yourself. The world will tell you, John,

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Speaker 1: you're not guilty. It's not your fault. That's what the

461
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: world will tell you. And they mean it with good

462
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Speaker 1: intentions and sincerity. And you're gonna hear that, and you're

463
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: gonna go. First of all, you're gonna go, what does

464
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Speaker 1: forgiving myself mean mean? And how do I do that?

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Speaker 1: And then you're gonna go, how does the world tell

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Speaker 1: me I'm not guilty? How does that work? How do

467
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: the mechanics of that practically work? I'm not guilty. I

468
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 1: was literally in the car driving. I literally wrecked and

469
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Speaker 1: my mom died. Who else's fault isn't is it? You're

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Speaker 1: just gonna say it's an accident. Well, I was the

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Speaker 1: one driving, not accidentally intentionally, And then the world's gonna

472
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Speaker 1: say it's not your fault, and you're gonna go, yeah,

473
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know who else's fault it could be.

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Speaker 1: And if mom died just for a freak accident, I

475
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Speaker 1: think that's a little worse because then it means it's meaningless,

476
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: which the heart of what I'm gonna tell you, John,

477
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Speaker 1: is that I don't believe anything is meaningless, and I

478
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Speaker 1: don't believe in accidents or coincidences at all. There's always

479
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: a fault, there's always an action, and there's always a reason.

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Speaker 1: I want to clear that up first, and I want

481
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Speaker 1: to say that kind of lay the groundwork because as

482
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Speaker 1: the world begins to pour over you, and I'm sure

483
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: they already have saying it's not your fault and this

484
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: is not your and I'm so sorry you don't blame yourself,

485
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: I want to I want to warn you that to me,

486
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: that perpetuates the depression because it starts to confuse you

487
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: and to how in the world do you even do that?

488
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: And then all counseling and therapy could walk you through

489
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: this guilt, this guilt and shame. You're shameful and you

490
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: gotta literally live with this pain and this shame, literally

491
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Speaker 1: in the loss of your legs physically, you're you're you're

492
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Speaker 1: living out this shame and this guilt, right, And so

493
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Speaker 1: this is where the Gospel of Christ comes in, and

494
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: this is what saved me, literally saved my life. If

495
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Speaker 1: from this kind of depression, Jesus comes into the world,

496
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Speaker 1: the beautiful creation that God made perfect, flawless humans come

497
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Speaker 1: in and we ruin it. We reject him, We deny

498
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Speaker 1: our creator. We try to fix things on our own,

499
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Speaker 1: and we make our art. We make gods of ourselves,

500
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Speaker 1: we make idols of ourselves, and we go I'm in control.

501
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: I am in control of my own destiny. I make

502
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: I create things. I make my life successful or not.

503
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm the one that set my alarm. I'm the one

504
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: that goes out there and gets a job. I'm the

505
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,959
Speaker 1: one that's learning how to walk with prosthetic legs. And

506
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Speaker 1: we reject God at every turn. So God enters creation

507
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Speaker 1: knowing this, knowing that we have rejected him, that we

508
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Speaker 1: have abandoned him, that we have lied, cheated, stole, hated,

509
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: denied everything, and our own conscience. As I'm telling you this,

510
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: if you think you're a good person, and you think

511
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: you deserve heaven because you're a good person, your own

512
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 1: conscience right now is giving you away. Because as I

513
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: say this, you think, yeah, I do have some problems,

514
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: don't I. I might be I might think I'm better

515
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: than my neighbor. I might think I'm better than that guy,

516
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: but I know I've messed up my fair share. So

517
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: your conscience is ratting you out right now. Jesus comes

518
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Speaker 1: in to reconcile sinners to himself, knowing that we could

519
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: not do it on our own, knowing that God, to

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Speaker 1: be in the presence of God would require perfection, and

521
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: we don't have it. So he comes in to reconcile

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Speaker 1: sinners to himself to bring people to God his peace.

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Speaker 1: He goes to the cross, and what did we do?

524
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Speaker 1: We kill him. That's what humans do. God came to

525
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: reconcile sinners to back to God, and we kill him,

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00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: the son of God. That's what we do. That kind

527
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Speaker 1: of sums up humanity. Three days later, he resurrects from

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Speaker 1: the dead, proving that God's ultimate sacrifice was accepted through Christ.

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Speaker 1: Jesus says, whoever believes in Me will not perish, will

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Speaker 1: have eternal life. Guess what else? He says, John, He says,

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Speaker 1: whoever believes in me, I will forgive them of their sins.

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Speaker 1: I will cover their guilt, I will cleanse them, I

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Speaker 1: will make them new. I will give a new heart.

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Speaker 1: To them. I will put my perfection on them, so

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Speaker 1: that when God the Father looks and judgment on a

536
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Speaker 1: sinful humanity, he sees Christ's perfection covering that person. So

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Speaker 1: that's what that's the offer of the gospel to you, John.

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Speaker 1: The Gospel, unlike the world, says, Yes, you are guilty, John, Yeah,

539
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: you messed up. No, you can't fix it. But believe

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Speaker 1: in me. You trust in me and the work I

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Speaker 1: did on the cross. Jesus says what I did for

542
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Speaker 1: you on the cross, John, as I took your sins

543
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Speaker 1: upon my body, my perfect body, took your sins, your wretchedness,

544
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Speaker 1: upon myself, and I took that as a sacrifice. So

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Speaker 1: you believe in me, and your sins are paid for.

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Speaker 1: You are forgiven, your guilt gone overlooked clean. You can't

547
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Speaker 1: forgive yourself. You can't say that you're not guilty, but

548
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Speaker 1: Jesus can't. That's the gospel. I want you to think

549
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: about what I said and dive into. This is your

550
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,239
Speaker 1: only chance, John, I'm telling you, and I'm begging you,

551
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: this is your only chance. You will not heal from

552
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: something this tragic. There's no amount of therapy or secular

553
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: counseling that's gonna fix this for you. There is nobody

554
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: that's gonna do some kind of mind trick on you

555
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: to where you start thinking, I guess you know what.

556
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: I guess I am pretty good. Don't have my legs anymore,

557
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: don't have my mom, But I guess I'm good. That's

558
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. But Jesus can heal. Jesus can renew

559
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: your mind. He could renew your heart. He could give

560
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Speaker 1: you a new purpose. He can make you a new creation,

561
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 1: so that you have a new purpose and you know

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00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: that things are happening for a reason, for a purpose.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what that purpose is, John, I don't

564
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Speaker 1: know what it is. I don't know if you're gonna

565
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Speaker 1: speak to people that feel dislike you one day, if

566
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Speaker 1: you're gonna become someone that travels around in your wheelchair,

567
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Speaker 1: in your prosthetic legs, and you go, look, I was

568
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: where you are, and I could tell you how to

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Speaker 1: get out of this. I could tell you how your

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Speaker 1: guilt could be covered, how your sins can be forgiven.

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Speaker 1: I could tell you how to see your mom again.

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Speaker 1: Those are powerful things, John, And that's the offer of

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Speaker 1: the Gospel. You could choose to reject it. You could

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Speaker 1: choose right now to go and stay and wallow in

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Speaker 1: your depression and continue to perpetuate this evil, wickedness in

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Speaker 1: your heart, saying I hate myself, hate my life, hate everything.

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Speaker 1: Or you could turn from that and turn to Jesus

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Speaker 1: and go I want I want you, Jesus. I want

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Speaker 1: you cover me, clean me. Like Granger said, forgive me

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Speaker 1: and my guilt. Choose this day, John, when you hear

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00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: this podcast, choose this day whom you will serve, Jesus

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00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: or yourself. There is no other way. There is no

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Speaker 1: other way in this kind of situation. Hey, there's no way.

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Speaker 1: There's no other way for anyone listening. But it's just

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Speaker 1: clearer for John in this situation, he is out of options.

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Speaker 1: You everyone else listening, you have options. None of those

587
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: options are going to work. But John it's less. He

588
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: has less options, and so it's more clear that Jesus

589
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 1: is the way, the truth in the life. Caleb writes

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00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: in here saying, Hey, Granger, I have a question about

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Speaker 1: my future. I'm an eighteen year old boy living in

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Speaker 1: a small town in West Virginia. I was planning on

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Speaker 1: moving to Tampa Florida later this year to go to

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Speaker 1: Bible College, but I don't know exactly what to do

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Speaker 1: within ministry. I have a youth pastor job open to me,

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Speaker 1: but I want to do missionary work. Should I go

597
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Speaker 1: to Bible College or not? Hey, Caleb, appreciate the question. Man,

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Speaker 1: Let me kind of recap from my own thoughts. Here.

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Speaker 1: You are eighteen, small town West Virginia. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you're asking here, because to me

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00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: this seems so obvious. You plan on going to Bible College,

602
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: but it sounds like there's also a youth pastor job open,

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00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: but you also want to do missionary work, and I

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00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: want to know. I'm want to If I was with

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Speaker 1: you in the truck and you're asking me this question,

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Speaker 1: I would say, what does not going to Bible College

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00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: benefit any of this does? How does not going to

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Speaker 1: Bible College benefit any of these things for you? Not

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00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: everyone gets the opportunity to go to Bible college or seminary.

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00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: Not everyone gets that opportunity. I understand that, but it

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00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: sounds like you do have the opportunity and you're wondering

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Speaker 1: if you should skip it. And I would say this,

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Speaker 1: what if? What if you're saying this. You're saying, man,

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Speaker 1: I want to be a firefighter, and I want to

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Speaker 1: do well in firefighting. I want to move up the

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Speaker 1: ladder and one day I want to be a captain

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Speaker 1: of my unit. I have an opportunity right now to

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Speaker 1: go or go to a really good fire school and

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Speaker 1: it gives me a really good found foundation for firefighting.

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Speaker 1: Or I can go right into this station over here

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Speaker 1: that's hiring straight out of high school. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure because I have the job, I could just go

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Speaker 1: into the station and start working now. I would say, Caleb,

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Speaker 1: you need tools. If you have an opportunity to go

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00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,760
Speaker 1: to the fire school, that's going to be your ticket

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00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: to growing in the station. If you have an opportunity

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Speaker 1: now to go to this Bible college, that's going to

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00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: bring more fruit to your missionary work. It's going to

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Speaker 1: bring more fruit to your potential youth pastor job. Hands down,

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Speaker 1: you just going into it is is going to hurt

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Speaker 1: your future in this most likely. And that's just that's

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00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,280
Speaker 1: not like it's not like I'm giving you incredible wisdom

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00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 1: here that this is just playing the odds. You want more,

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Speaker 1: You want more on your side. You want to swing

635
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: that pendulum. You want as much weight on the scale

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Speaker 1: as you can to give you strength and a foundation

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Speaker 1: I'm in seminary right now and I'm still doing. I

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Speaker 1: And the youth pastor job. A lot of seminarians I'm

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Speaker 1: could certainly do both. You could do all three things.

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Speaker 1: You could be Bible College, you could be a youth

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Speaker 1: But the one thing I would recommend is doing the

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Speaker 1: Bible College. I don't know why you wouldn't do that,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's an easy one for me. Caleb. Thank

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Speaker 1: all you guys for emailing, and I have to say

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Speaker 1: real time. Thank you for listening for so long and

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Speaker 1: for so many episodes. If you're searching for something and

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Speaker 1: that's the reason you're listening to a podcast answering people's questions.

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Speaker 1: On December twenty sixth, if you're listening and you're searching

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Speaker 1: for something, remember that Jesus says, seeking, you will find. Knocking,

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Speaker 1: the door will be opened to you. So all you

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Speaker 1: searchers out there going, I wonder if there's something more

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Speaker 1: life that I don't know yet. I wonder if there's

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Speaker 1: something there's a greater meaning, a greater purpose than just

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Speaker 1: waking up and going to work and dating a girl

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Speaker 1: and having a baby. There's got to be more to

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Speaker 1: I want to say. Jesus said, seek and you will find.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being here and thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: And I hope that I did give you the gospel

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Speaker 1: in this episode, and I hope that that matters to you,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you keep coming back. This is a

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Speaker 1: Tuesday now, but we usually put these out on Monday.

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Speaker 1: If you want to email me once again, my email

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Speaker 1: is podcast at grangersmith dot com. The next time you

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Speaker 1: hear me next year, Lord Willing, I will not have

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Speaker 1: such a scratchy voice. So I apologize these last few episodes.

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Speaker 1: I have been I've been rolling, I've been going, blowing

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Speaker 1: And I love you guys. Thanks for being here, Thanks

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Speaker 1: of you. Guys. You could help me out by rating

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