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Speaker 1: It is easy to be a cultural Christian. It is

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Speaker 1: hard to realize that you have been stuck in it.

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the podcast. This is

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Speaker 1: episode two twelve. I'm by myself today answering your questions.

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Speaker 1: You email me Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com and

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Speaker 1: we'll walk through it just like we're sitting in the

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Speaker 1: on one. You can look at it like a campfire.

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Speaker 1: Talks could be about any subject and you'll see, as

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Speaker 1: we've gone through over two hundred episodes, the questions really

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Speaker 1: are all over the place, and we'll call it a

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Speaker 1: safe place. This is a safe place. Let me go

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Speaker 1: to the first one. And by the way, no notes

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Speaker 1: in front of me. I like to say that because

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Speaker 1: I have not prepared. I have not read these questions beforehand.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a bunch of CS. Lewis quotes on

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Speaker 1: my desk, or I don't have anything prepared. So I

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Speaker 1: do that so that you can get my first reaction.

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Speaker 1: It's that means it's not always right, but it's my

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Speaker 1: first reaction. Because if we were sitting in the truck

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Speaker 1: and later I might say I probably should have said

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Speaker 1: this or that, But in the form of this podcast

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Speaker 1: and for the sake of this show, I want to

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Speaker 1: keep it where. This is my first reaction. You may

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Speaker 1: or may not agree with it, but I promise you

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Speaker 1: it's from my heart, and I'm telling it as if

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Speaker 1: I was telling my own brother. Okay, So, first question

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Speaker 1: from Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com. The subject line says,

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Speaker 1: fear of the Second Coming. Hey, Granger, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be riding in the truck with you for this conversation.

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Speaker 1: I want to be us fishing for bass and cats.

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Speaker 1: I've grown up. First of all, Hey, good intro. I

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Speaker 1: like it. We're fishing me and you. He said, I've

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Speaker 1: grown up in the church. I'm sorry, it's a she

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Speaker 1: she said. I've grown up in the church for thirty

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Speaker 1: three years that I've been alive. And I know that

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Speaker 1: none of us could ever know the exact day or

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Speaker 1: time that Jesus will be coming back. However, I do

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Speaker 1: know that the Bible proves that there will be signs.

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Speaker 1: With everything going on in Israel, it makes you wonder

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Speaker 1: if he is coming soon. From growing up in church.

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Speaker 1: I know his second coming is something all Christians should

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Speaker 1: look forward to. Is it normal to also be a

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Speaker 1: little scared? I know I should feel comfort in knowing

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Speaker 1: that he is coming back, But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: I thought of forever as a tad bit scary to me.

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Speaker 1: The thought of forever that a tad bit scary to me.

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Speaker 1: Should I be questioning in my heart in this situation

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Speaker 1: or do you think it's a normal thing. I would

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Speaker 1: love to know your thoughts. Thank you for all you do.

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Speaker 1: Your podcast encourages the single mama daily and I want

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Speaker 1: and it makes me want to be a person for

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Speaker 1: my daughter to look up to. I live and do

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Speaker 1: things hard, and I'm having trouble on the first question

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Speaker 1: reading all it says. I live by the do hard

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Speaker 1: things motto. That's what she says. And your words have

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Speaker 1: helped me on this journey. Be content in my singleness

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Speaker 1: and wait on the Lord. Keep getting his word out there.

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Speaker 1: Natalie from Martin, Tennessee. Thank you, Natalie, and I thank

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Speaker 1: you for the kind words. Yeah, this is a good question.

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Speaker 1: It's not straight eschatology as far as the end of times.

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Speaker 1: You have a little twist to it. Should we be

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Speaker 1: good question, thirty three years in the church. I want

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Speaker 1: to point out to anyone listening that thirty three years

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Speaker 1: it also doesn't necessarily mean that you're a Christian. Not

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Speaker 1: speaking to you specifically, Natalie, I'm just saying for anybody,

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Speaker 1: it's not the amount of time in church that matters.

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Speaker 1: It's the heart, right, It's the full surrender of the heart.

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Speaker 1: And I can attest for someone who was myself in

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Speaker 1: And I hope that everybody hears me when I say

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Speaker 1: talking about the end times, the second coming of Co

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Speaker 1: belief in him and he his atonement would be transferred

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Speaker 1: faith by grace. Right, that's the first coming. Then he

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Speaker 1: into heaven. That was the first coming. The question here

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Speaker 1: know about eschatology, that's the study of him times. And

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Speaker 1: I have heard so many people lately saying things like, man,

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Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of good preaching on the internet

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Speaker 1: lately because a lot of pastors are putting together all

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Speaker 1: this eschatology. They're putting together all this end time stuff,

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Speaker 1: with the incarnate Son, the first Coming. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: almost like you could say it this way. We worry

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Speaker 1: Stop worrying about using revelation. The book of revelation, like

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Speaker 1: have surely thought this is it. He's coming. He's coming, Lord, Lord, Come, quick, Marinatha,

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna sa wait to your older. But let's

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Speaker 1: dive in as if you were going to do this.

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Speaker 1: What's crazy about a question like this is that what

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Speaker 1: we so often miss when we're in it and we're

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Speaker 1: not looking from the outside of it like I am

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Speaker 1: and all the listeners are listening to it right now,

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Speaker 1: you miss the key element to the whole thing. I

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Speaker 1: like her, I don't know if she likes me, and

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Speaker 1: I've been praying on clarity, but you're missing the one thing.

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Speaker 1: Just ask her. I know that that seems crazy to you,

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Speaker 1: but that's the obvious answer. That's what I would say

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Speaker 1: at any age, At any age, if you like a girl,

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Speaker 1: you don't know if she likes you. You need some

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Speaker 1: clarity on the situation. And you've been praying about it.

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Speaker 1: You don't know if she's gonna say yes on a date.

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Speaker 1: The obvious answer is ask her, right, I mean, it's like, Man,

441
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask the podcast, I'm gonna ask my friend's advice,

442
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna pray to God and hope that he

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Speaker 1: writes something in the cloud for me. And the obvious

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Speaker 1: answer to you, Ian is you walk up to her,

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Speaker 1: maybe a little bit awkward in the hallway at school,

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Speaker 1: and you go, hey, can I ask you something? She's

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Speaker 1: like yeah, you say sorry, I'm a little bit nervous

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Speaker 1: right now. But I'm nervous because I don't know the

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Speaker 1: answer to what you're about to say. And the question

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Speaker 1: is you think you'd ever be interested in going on

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Speaker 1: a date with me? I just you seem like a

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Speaker 1: really cool girl, and you're really pretty, and you seem

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Speaker 1: like someone I would I would love to get to

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Speaker 1: know a little bit better and maybe take on a date.

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Speaker 1: So at that point, Ian, it's going to be awkward,

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Speaker 1: and it's going to take some nerves and you're going

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Speaker 1: to be very nervous and awkward. But at that point,

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Speaker 1: from right there, right at the end of that sentence

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Speaker 1: I just said, from then on, you all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: will have perfect clarity on the situation. You'll have your

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Speaker 1: answered prayer. You'll have clarity on whether or not she

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Speaker 1: likes you right then and there, because the next thing

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Speaker 1: that comes out of her mouth or perhaps her body language,

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Speaker 1: is going to tell you. She could say, oh I

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Speaker 1: don't think so okay, good, okay good. It might be

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Speaker 1: a little hurtful, might be a little humiliating for you,

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Speaker 1: but bro, then you know, right. So then you walk

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Speaker 1: away and you go okay, okay, I'll sleep better tonight

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Speaker 1: knowing that this mysterious question I've been wanting to know,

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Speaker 1: will she like me? Will she go on a date

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Speaker 1: with me? The answer is over I have it. She

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Speaker 1: said no, okay, move on all right, or she says

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Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to date. Then you go okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: Then you wait, well, then you go, hey, I totally understand,

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Speaker 1: I don't really know if I could date either I'm young,

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Speaker 1: so at least now you know now you know? Wait,

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Speaker 1: or she says I think that would be really nice,

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Speaker 1: and you go good because if she says really nice,

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Speaker 1: then you've got a pretty good indication she likes you,

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Speaker 1: or at least she kind of likes you for sure.

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Speaker 1: Then you get to move on and schedule the date.

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Speaker 1: Clarity just like that magic. Thanks for the question, buddy.

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Speaker 1: All right, interesting subject line. Here will see what it says,

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Speaker 1: says punishment email says, hey, grangdear, my name is Caden,

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Speaker 1: I should say probably my name is Caden. I'm twenty

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Speaker 1: nine years old. I live in Texas, and my wife

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Speaker 1: and i've been married for a little over four years.

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Speaker 1: I'm reading ahead. No, I don't think I stopped. I

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Speaker 1: stopped myself because I thought, have I read this before?

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Speaker 1: I don't think I have. My wife and I have

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Speaker 1: been married a little over four years. Since we got married,

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Speaker 1: we've been trying for a baby. Now we both have

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Speaker 1: a child from previous relationships. In four years, we've had

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Speaker 1: four miscarriages and have seen the fertility specialist and gotten

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Speaker 1: no answers as to why this keeps happening. I can't

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Speaker 1: help but feel like I'm being punished by having to

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Speaker 1: watch the pain this has caused my wife because of

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Speaker 1: mistakes I made in my first marriage. I'm a believer

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Speaker 1: and understand that God doesn't operate like this, but it's

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Speaker 1: a constant thought. I have any advice on dealing with

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Speaker 1: these thoughts. Thanks in advance. All right, Kayden, I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: for the pause. I literally thought this sounded familiar, but

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Speaker 1: it's not. It's a brand new email. So twenty nine

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Speaker 1: years old, living in Texas, been married four years. You

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Speaker 1: each have a baby from a previous marriage. You're having

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Speaker 1: trouble conceiving now and you don't have let's see, you

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Speaker 1: don't have a baby together. Is that correct? That's correct?

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Speaker 1: So in four years you've had four miscarriages. Seen a

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Speaker 1: fertility specialist. I've got no answers to why it keeps happening.

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Speaker 1: Okay Man, thanks for the email. I know this is

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Speaker 1: a very sensitive subject and I hope you're listening, and

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Speaker 1: I appreciate, I prove really appreciate you trusting me in

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Speaker 1: this podcast for a question like this because I know

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Speaker 1: it's near and dear to your heart. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say a couple things here. I'm gonna say. First of all,

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Speaker 1: it's the lore. If you're a Christian, you'll know this.

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Speaker 1: It's the Lord that opens the womb. And man just

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Speaker 1: sit with that, to sit with that for a while.

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Speaker 1: It's the Lord who opens the womb. We see that

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Speaker 1: throughout the Bible. We see these stories and we see

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Speaker 1: that the Lord closes wombs, and we see the Lord

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Speaker 1: opens wombs. And so, first of all, know that we

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Speaker 1: have a providential God. We have a God that is

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Speaker 1: totally sovereign and he's complete. He has complete providence over

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Speaker 1: even your wife's womb. So know that. And then we

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Speaker 1: need to get into this guilt that you have from

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Speaker 1: your previous marriages, not plural for you, but hers and yours.

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Speaker 1: You have things that you have done in your past.

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Speaker 1: You've made mistakes. Right, well, when you're believer, when you

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Speaker 1: have put your faith in Christ, your trust is in Christ.

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Speaker 1: You are redeemed, you are restored and renewed by Jesus's

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Speaker 1: finished work on the cross right, And I gave the

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Speaker 1: full Gospel twice on the first break of this podcast.

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Speaker 1: When that is you, one of the benefits you get

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Speaker 1: as an adopted son of God is your sins are covered,

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Speaker 1: Your guilt is covered. Your sins are remembered no more.

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Speaker 1: Your sins are as far apart as the earth is

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Speaker 1: from the heavens. They are forgotten. You're covered and forgiven.

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Speaker 1: That's what forgiveness means. That's what Jesus says when he's

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Speaker 1: talking as you read the Gospel narrations, and he says

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Speaker 1: your sins are forgiven. That's what he means. He doesn't mean,

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Speaker 1: your sins are forgiven and I will still remember them

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Speaker 1: and punish youth for them. That's not what he says.

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00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: It's not what he's saying, and that's not what it means. However,

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Speaker 1: sins are sins. Every sin is a sin against God himself,

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Speaker 1: and they all are a rebellion to our creator. However,

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Speaker 1: some sins have different repercussions, different consequences that last longer

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Speaker 1: in our lives. Not supernaturally hurting a pregnancy of a

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Speaker 1: woman that you're with now, not that kind of not

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Speaker 1: that kind of hurt. Right. The sins that you're talking about,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they are, but I'm assuming they're great.

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Speaker 1: The sins of your past marriage, whatever happened, that is

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Speaker 1: not God is not punishing you in this new marriage

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Speaker 1: by making your new wife not be able to get pregnant.

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Speaker 1: But the consequences of those first sins are affecting your mind.

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Speaker 1: They are bringing you down because the consequences are great,

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Speaker 1: and you're carrying those burdens of the great sins with you,

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Speaker 1: and you're carrying it into this marriage so much so

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Speaker 1: that you have four miscarriages, and you go, this must

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Speaker 1: be divine punishment. Now, the Lord definitely disciplines, right, The

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Speaker 1: Lord definitely disciplines those that he loves for their own good.

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Speaker 1: But he's not going to take a sin that you

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Speaker 1: did and then make you make it hurt this new

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Speaker 1: wife of yours physically, where now her womb is closed,

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Speaker 1: even though remember what I said at the very beginning,

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Speaker 1: it's the Lord that opens wombs and close wombs. Right.

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Speaker 1: So the more biblical way to look at this is

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Speaker 1: why am I having? Why have we had four miscarriages?

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Speaker 1: So that God's glory will be known? That's what he

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Speaker 1: would say. It's like, why is this man blind that

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Speaker 1: would ask Jesus so that God's glory may be known

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Speaker 1: through him? So that so that you could see what's happening.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what that is for you, But whatever

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Speaker 1: is happening is for his glory. That's always what his

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Speaker 1: plan is. And so four miscarriages are significant, that that's

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Speaker 1: a significant number. That's like, Okay, something's going on here.

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Speaker 1: What is it? Maybe let me throw a few things

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Speaker 1: out here. Maybe it's so that we rely on him.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's so we could start saying, you two, Lord,

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Speaker 1: we come to you. You know our heart, you know

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Speaker 1: we want a baby. Please God open open her womb,

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Speaker 1: please hear our prayers. And then she gets pregnant, and

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Speaker 1: then what happens? What happens when she gets pregnant? Then

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Speaker 1: then you go, ah, it was you, God, It was

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Speaker 1: always you, but now we see we see you God.

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Speaker 1: It took four miscarriages for us to stop thinking about

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Speaker 1: ourselves and start thinking about You. Got to bring everything

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Speaker 1: to you. Maybe not for sure, but maybe that sounds

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Speaker 1: that sounds like my God right. Or maybe Lord has

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Speaker 1: adoption plans for you. Maybe adoption is in your plan.

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Speaker 1: But maybe you wouldn't have ever gotten to that point

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Speaker 1: if you had just kept creating biological babies with your wife.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the Lord goes, I have different plans for you

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Speaker 1: than you think My plans are better. My plans are greater.

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Speaker 1: It's not what you think. I've got better ones. And

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Speaker 1: you're gonna think that this is suffering. You're gonna think

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Speaker 1: that this particular suffering of these four miscarriages. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: think whatever you might think about it. You're gonna think

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Speaker 1: you're disciplined because of some past sins, which I told

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Speaker 1: you are forgiven child. But the truth is I have

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Speaker 1: greater plans for you, and these four miscarriages are making

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Speaker 1: you turn to me, look at me. Here's what I

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Speaker 1: have for you. Stop worrying about yourself. What follow me? Right?

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Speaker 1: That sounds that sounds like my God. I think that

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Speaker 1: being twenty nine years old and having this problem, you

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Speaker 1: have so much life ahead of you as well. I

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Speaker 1: would take all of this to the Lord, and I

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Speaker 1: would I would meditate through the Psalms. I would meditate,

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Speaker 1: meditate through the through some of the gospel narratives. I

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Speaker 1: would meditate through Isaiah and Ezekiel and Elijah and Elishah

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Speaker 1: and Jeremiah. I would just kind of go through some

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Speaker 1: of these these biblical stories and and feel God's presence

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Speaker 1: through his ever living word as it's being poured over you,

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Speaker 1: hear his promises, hear his promises of a chosen child

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Speaker 1: of God poured over you. Go Yes, I trust you God,

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Speaker 1: And even if this womb is closed forever, even if

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Speaker 1: I never have another baby again, I trust you that

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Speaker 1: your plan is better than what I think my plan

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Speaker 1: is for myself. When you start praying stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: you stop worrying about Oh man, is this my past

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Speaker 1: sins haunting me? You stop worrying about that, and you

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Speaker 1: start instead focusing on the promises of God. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the question, brother, Let's hit when we're here how to

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Speaker 1: grainde your My name is Matt. I'm twenty years old

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Speaker 1: from Pottstown, PA. Have always been a fan of your

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Speaker 1: music and a longtime listener of the podcast. I was

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Speaker 1: so excited to see you perform at the Clearfield County

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Speaker 1: Fair back in August. My question is what camera setup

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Speaker 1: do you use for vlogs? Recently I've been watching a

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Speaker 1: restoring Earl's Old Truck series and it's inspired me to

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Speaker 1: start a channel for my truck. I have a nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety four Silverado See thirty five hundred six point five

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Speaker 1: liter diesel with five speed manual. God bless everything you do, Matt.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Matt, And he actually put a picture on

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Speaker 1: here as well, so I appreciate you. Bro. There's the

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Speaker 1: there's the truck. Oh man, it's white and it's a Duley.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you said that. It's awesome, okay, buddy.

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Speaker 1: I use Sony cameras. In fact, I'm using Sony cameras

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Speaker 1: right now and I'm using two of them here. The

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Speaker 1: one I've logged with the Smiths is not with me,

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Speaker 1: but I use Sony DSLR and Sony lenses. So the

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Speaker 1: lens I use with the Smiths and with that restoring

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Speaker 1: Earl's truck was a sixteen to thirty five Sony camera

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Speaker 1: and it's got an f stop of two point eight.

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Speaker 1: It's a great lens. It's good, really expensive. It's very expensive.

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Speaker 1: It's like I want to say, probably used. A used

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Speaker 1: one's like fifteen hundred bucks and a brand new one

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Speaker 1: is about two thousand dollars. That's that's just the lens.

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Speaker 1: It's an awesome lens and I've started using it after

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Speaker 1: Rob Turklet from Lunkers TV told me about it, and

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Speaker 1: I've then used it for years. For five years now,

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Speaker 1: I've used that lens the camera body itself is expensive

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Speaker 1: as well. It's almost the same price for the camera

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Speaker 1: body for a for a good Sony DSLR. Okay, and

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Speaker 1: I've had different ones, but those are that's the look

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Speaker 1: and that's the that is the most trustworthy cameras. So

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Speaker 1: to get to that, I mean you're looking at dropping,

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Speaker 1: say you go used three to four grand. It's it's

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. It's quite a bit of cash. So

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Speaker 1: I guess I should say I should end with in

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Speaker 1: your question with this, don't do that. Don't do that yet.

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Speaker 1: Is always my advice to someone starting content creating is, hey,

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Speaker 1: use your phone first, and remember that the content you're

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Speaker 1: getting is more important than the media you're using to

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Speaker 1: capture the content itself. So if your content is good,

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Speaker 1: then you could be using a phone. Matt Chrricter demo.

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Speaker 1: Matt has for the longest time just used a little

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Speaker 1: point and shoot camera. His content is so good that

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Speaker 1: he doesn't need good cameras and good lenses because his

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Speaker 1: content he likes the camera just that fits on the

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Speaker 1: little side pocket. So if that's what you're going for,

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Speaker 1: I would start with just filming on your phone and

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Speaker 1: editing right there on your phone and throwing them up

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Speaker 1: on you. If you get traction, if people are like, man,

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Speaker 1: I love your channel, I love what you do, then

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Speaker 1: you can go Okay, I'm actually making a little bit

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Speaker 1: of money on YouTube, and I could start using that

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Speaker 1: to pour back into the actual stuff, the equipment I'm

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Speaker 1: using to film. I would wait a long time. I

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Speaker 1: would wait till you reach some landmarks on YouTube, like

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Speaker 1: five thousand subscribers. I would wait until you get to

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Speaker 1: five thousand subscribers before you get a decent camera, and

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Speaker 1: then I would wait till ten thousand subscribers before you

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Speaker 1: get a decent lens. Right I would. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a pretty good thing to think about. But I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you and your encouragement to me on my channels and

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Speaker 1: have fun with that truck. Man, it's a beautiful white

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Speaker 1: four door crew cab Duley. That's a that's a really,

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Speaker 1: really beautiful truck. So all you, thank you for listening,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see you next Monday. Thanks for joining me

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