1 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for being here. 2 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 1: I have a very special guest. We're doing something kind 3 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: of different in this morning. I got my daughter a London. 4 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: You're a guest on the podcast. Have you have you 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: been or have you listened to this podcast before? I 6 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: should say that. 7 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 2: Probably like one time, but other than that no. 8 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: Okay, so today will be the first time you listen 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: to the whole podcast. Hey, maybe that's why I'm having you. 10 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: So you actually listened to both. Okay, So what we 11 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: do here I'm telling you and I'm telling them. We 12 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: answer people's questions. I don't typically see these, I don't 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: have notes in front of me, but we answer them 14 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: like they're a friend coming to the house, or we're 15 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: in the truck together, we're on a road trip and 16 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: they're like, hey, guys, I got something going on. Can 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: I run something by you? And we just answer, yeah, I. 18 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 2: Watched the shorts though I watch your shorts. 19 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: So okay, you've wanted the shorts, but maybe not a 20 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: whole episode. Okay, So you know what I do here. 21 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: So to do this To get on this podcast, you 22 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: email me podcast at grangersmith dot com. Podcast at grangersmith 23 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: dot com that's the email, and you could ask it 24 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: any kind of question about any subject, it doesn't matter, 25 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: and today you will be answered by me and my 26 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: daughter London. Who you're I say, you're twelve, but you're 27 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: turning thirteen in just like a few weeks. 28 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh no. 29 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, just just slightly over a month. So you are 30 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: your twelve years eleven months? Yeah, okay, So hey, there's 31 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: some deep questions on here. I think I think you're 32 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: okay for it. But I'm just saying there's there's always 33 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: I haven't seen these yet, but there's always. There's always 34 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: deep stuff you want to get into. The first one, okay, 35 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: the first one comes from Daniel. It says, hey, Granger, 36 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: God bless you. My name is Daniel. I'm thirty six 37 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: years old, two kids and a wife. I'm a Christian. 38 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: I'm a Southern Baptist. I'm very much an introvert. I 39 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: would be completely okay with living in a mountain or 40 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: on a ranch in Texas and never see a single 41 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: soul other than my family. I know this is not 42 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: what God wants from us, and I struggle with it. 43 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: What advice can you give me to break free from 44 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: the crippling anxiety and step out of my comfort zone 45 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: and doing the works that God wants me to do. Okay, 46 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: thanks Daniel. It's a great question and I'd love to 47 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: dive into this, and I think a lot of people. 48 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to use this to answer in two ways, 49 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: one to the introvert and two to the extra because 50 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: we could speak to the person that loves crowds and 51 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: we could speak to the person that doesn't. First of all, 52 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: we need to know this. God doesn't want you and 53 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: inherently with that character trait, He doesn't want you to 54 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: be some somebody other than the character trait that He 55 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: made you to be. So he made you to be 56 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: an introvert. That's that's that's how he made you. That's 57 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: that's something that's that's not like a sin. A sin 58 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: would be you you're you're addicted to something or you 59 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: love this sinful lifestyle and to that we would want 60 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: to break away from it and turn away from it 61 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: and turn to God. That's repentance. But something that's a 62 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: character character trait, caricature character trait, character trait, like like 63 00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: you are and you're you're inherently an happy person, or 64 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: you're a melancholy person, or you're a you're a pretty 65 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: serious person, or you're an introvert like this, these are 66 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: traits that you're just born with. And so there's nothing, 67 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: there's nothing that that would say God is telling you 68 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: to not be an introvert. Okay, let's get that straight, 69 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: and we would say the same thing for an extrovert. 70 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: God is not telling you to not be an extrovert. 71 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 1: So what I think you're getting at is that is 72 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: it God. God wants you to to be able to 73 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: do things in community. In fact, it's not just a 74 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: wanting that the New Testament's going to speak in a 75 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: way that you have to. You're not going to make 76 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: it alone. You need community for prayer, for counsel, for 77 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: for encouragement, you need you need community so that you 78 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: could live out your spiritual gifts, like your spiritual gifts 79 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: are are only acted on in the church. If you 80 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 1: live in a mountain cave, you can't serve, you can't encourage, 81 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: you can't rebuke, you can't teach, you can't do all 82 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: the spiritual gifts you can't do in a mountain cave 83 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: or isolated on a ranch. So that's what the New 84 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: testament means when it's saying you need to do this 85 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: in community in a church. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian who 86 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: London knows I read all the time Bonheffer. I saw 87 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: him read. I saw him write one time in this 88 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: book called Life Together. It's fantastic. He said, attentional introverts, 89 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: you need to make sure that you are actively breaking 90 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: the mold and going out and being with people. You 91 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: need to make sure that although your normal setting is 92 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: to chill out by yourself, you need to fight that 93 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: and have times that you schedule. You go into the 94 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: people and you go, Okay, I'm gonna go I'm gonna 95 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: sit with I'm gonna eat lunch with seven or eight people. 96 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: That's something I would never do right. Your thinking, well, well, 97 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: Bonnheffer's making a point for Christians that are introverts to 98 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: schedule times where you get uncomfortable. And then he says 99 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,359 Speaker 1: the same thing for extroverts. And this is you, London, 100 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: You're an extrovert. He's saying, people that are extroverts, you 101 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: need to be scheduling time where you're intentionally going into 102 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 1: seclusion by yourself and you're going away from people you're 103 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: going away from media and screens and any influence, any 104 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: kind of input. You need to make sure you're retreating 105 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: into the wilderness just you and God. An introvert here's 106 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: that and goes, oh, yes, I love it. I love 107 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: retreating into the wilderness just me and God. And Bonheffer's saying, yes, 108 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: I know that. So be careful because you need you 109 00:06:57,880 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: need both. You need to balance both. You don't need 110 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: to be the other one, but you need to balance both. 111 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: So introverts, when you hear about seclusion and you get excited, 112 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: remember you need to be in community. For all you extroverts, 113 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: When you hear about community and you get excited, you 114 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: need to be in seclusion. It works both ways. Okay, 115 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: so you're probably somebody, Daniel that likes a smaller church. 116 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: We could start there. You're not gonna like a huge church. 117 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: You're gonna like a smaller setting, and there's nothing wrong 118 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: with that. I think that's the beauty of different kinds 119 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: of churches. But this is not a sin for you 120 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: to be an introvert. Remember that, it's not a sin 121 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: for you. But but the Bible is going to encourage 122 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: you to be in community. So you might once a 123 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,239 Speaker 1: week you might have to schedule something. You go and 124 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: you go and do something a little uncomfortable and then 125 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: go right back to your house and close the door 126 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: with your family. Do you have anything on that one London? 127 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, like, I'm I'm an extrated introvert. 128 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 2: Like even some people that I know, it takes me. 129 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 2: There's like that ten minute awkwardness when they write when 130 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 2: they get there or something, or like if I'm meeting 131 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 2: someone for the first time, I'll be super quiet until 132 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 2: like I actually get to know them. But I was 133 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 2: gonna say, like, you can't, like you were saying, you 134 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 2: need to have fellowship and community and you can't have 135 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:30,559 Speaker 2: church with like bears because they're not gonna like, yeah. 136 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: I get it. I've never I don't think I've ever 137 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: heard that you're an extroverted introvert. 138 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 2: That's what Mama calls me. 139 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: Oh okay, well there you go. Next question comes from 140 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: Ana or Anna. Do you think it's honor or Annah? 141 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: It goes either way, It goes either way. First off, 142 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: she says, I would like to thank you for being 143 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: a light for Jesus in this broken world. It's so 144 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: encouraging to hear your podcast each week. I appreciate all 145 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: that you and Amber do you have been. You have 146 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: helped me so much grow in my faith. Well, thank 147 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: thank you, Annah. The Lord did that, but thank you, 148 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: She says, I was wondering if and when you're going 149 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: to do a podcast tour. I know this has been 150 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 1: on your radar, but I think it would benefit so 151 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: many and help them grow closer to the Lord. If 152 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: you do, please come to Nebraska. Thanks again, Anna, Well, 153 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: I would love to do a podcast tour and go 154 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: and go to several different cities. The Midwest would be 155 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: definitely on the radar. I've been doing in my speaking events. 156 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all have seen me maybe leting 157 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,839 Speaker 1: you've seen me post I think I've only posted one, 158 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: but I'm going to post more. I've been doing these 159 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: on my speaking events, a Q and A afterwards, just answering 160 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: questions from people, and that's kind of like what I 161 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: do here. Do you would you go on the podcast 162 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: tour if I did it, probably okay? Yeah, and if 163 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: it didn't interfere with school, maybe oh yeah, I forgot, 164 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: We'll do it. We'll get you out there. Let's hit 165 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: another one next one comes from anonymous. The early days 166 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: of the podcast, I used to actually accidentally say their name, 167 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: but now people have just learned if you're anonymous, don't 168 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: put your name in here. Because I used to say 169 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: things like, hey Granger, my name is Brian and I 170 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: wish to be anonymous. And I would read it like that, 171 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,319 Speaker 1: all right, Brian says, hey Granger, my name is Brian 172 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: and I would like to be anonymous. I'd be like, oh, sorry, Brian, I. 173 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 2: Thought you were Actually I was like, why did you 174 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 2: say that? 175 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: Okay, so here we go, Hey Granger. I am a male. 176 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: I'm twenty two years old in a relationship with the 177 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: girl who I've known for most of my life. She 178 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 1: is twenty and currently in college. We we've been having 179 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 1: a series of arguments slash fights lately, and one of 180 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 1: our fights recently was about when we have a fight, 181 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: I tell my family what's going on to keep them 182 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: in the loop. My family is as a very open family. 183 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: She gets upset with me because I'm willing to talk 184 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: to my family about what's going on in our relationship. 185 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 1: She thinks that our relationship needs to be more private. 186 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: I was recently listening to one of your podcasts, and 187 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: you said that as we Christians are not called to 188 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 1: be private, but to be open. I know that in 189 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: that not context you're speaking specifically about divorce, but it 190 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: seemed like it could be taken even further. So my 191 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: question is, could you expand more on how Christians aren't 192 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: supposed to be private? We're in the Bible? Where in 193 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,199 Speaker 1: the Bible does it talk about so I could look 194 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: it up for myself? And finally, should I be more 195 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: willing to keep our arguments to us? Thanks for all 196 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: that you do. I love your podcast. Remember I remember 197 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: when episode one was a big deal. 198 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 2: Yee okay, these questions. We can't afford another quarantine. People 199 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 2: need to like get out there. 200 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: I know, so so Anonymous, A couple of things here. 201 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: Thanks for the question. First of all, I don't I 202 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: don't love the fact that you hear me say something 203 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: and you want to apply it to your situation. And 204 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: it's like you're saying, I want to win this argument, 205 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna use Granger as the foundation for me 206 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: winning the argument. That's kind of what it feels like here. 207 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: And that's where you're saying, Hey, can you show me 208 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: the Bible where it says that we shouldn't be private, 209 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: and really it goes back to that first question about 210 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 1: we should be in community. The New Testament speaks in 211 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: terms of us. We need counsel from each other, we 212 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: need encouragement, we need to be able to act on 213 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 1: those spiritual gifts, like I said in the first question, 214 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: and that would include something like divorce. When you're walking 215 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: through divorce, a Christian to never walk through that alone. 216 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: You should never just close the door and say I'm 217 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 1: going to decide something so impactful in our lives, and 218 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: I'm going to decide it by myself. Instead, it should 219 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: be done in the fellowship of a local church with 220 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: a meaningful membership in the church. That means not just 221 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 1: a church that you walk into and you attend sometimes, 222 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: but a church you're actually a members of a meaningful membership. 223 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: And I hope that your church when you're listening, I 224 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: hope that your church has a meaningful membership process, and 225 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: that means that you're fellowshipping in the community of the 226 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: church in a way that you're serving them and they're 227 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: serving you. And as a family, they know you and 228 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: you know them. You know the pastor you're bat or 229 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: you want to you know the pastor. The pastor knows you. 230 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: Some people think it's strange that you would be on 231 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: a text basis with your pastor, do you know. People 232 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: think that's crazy, and I think that should be very normal. 233 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: You should know your pastor and he should know you, 234 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: and you don't just decide divorce behind closed doors. Your 235 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: pastor should be walking through it with you and others 236 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 1: through at least just a lot of prayer. I don't 237 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: think this is your deal. I don't think this is 238 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: I don't think this applies to this. First of all, 239 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: you're not married, and so you shouldn't act like you are. 240 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: You're twenty two and she's twenty and you're dealing with 241 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: like these fights. 242 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 2: She's still in college. 243 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think it's healthy. I wouldn't 244 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: if this was your story, London, I'd be like, let's 245 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: break up. You know, if you're like going through all 246 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: these fights, then it's not right. 247 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 2: She's barely like out of being a teenager. 248 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: She's she's seven years older than you, and so in 249 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: a lot of ways I would say this is this 250 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: is too young. She's she is worried about you telling 251 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: your parents, which she shouldn't be worried about that. And 252 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: on this flip of the coin, it's weird that you're 253 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: talking to your parents about it because it doesn't sound 254 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: like you're really needing advice from them. Is more so 255 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: that you're just venting to them, and it comes across 256 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: a little bit like gossip. I think that's what she's seeing. 257 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: So those are the two sides of the coin. And furthermore, 258 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: it's it's hurting. It's hurting your relationship with her when 259 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: you tell your parents these things, because one day, if 260 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: you go, I'm gonna marry her, and they go, we 261 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: already know all this dirty laundry. All you do is 262 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: talk about all their problems, so we don't want you 263 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: to get married. So I think she sees that too. 264 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: So I just think there's a lot of like unhealthy 265 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: stuff in this mix. And I would say I don't 266 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: like this relationship as much as I know about it. 267 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that two people should never fight. That's 268 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: weird to say, but I am saying this sounds like 269 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: a lot of drama for a dating relationship. If you 270 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: were married, we could work through this. But dating, you 271 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: say you fight a lot. You say I've had a 272 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: series of arguments fights lately. Then you go tell your 273 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: parents and then she gets mad. That sounds like you're 274 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: playing house. I would run from that. I would run 275 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: to the Lord. I would seek the Lord with all 276 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: your heart and all your mind and all your strength, 277 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: and learn who he is and don't ask. Don't ask. 278 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: You don't have to ask me where it says in 279 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: the Bible something you are actively reading through it, and 280 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: you just know I would do that and then date 281 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: to Mary. 282 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like, I mean, I'm only twelve, 283 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 2: but I was gonna say, like she if she if 284 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 2: y'all just got in a fight over like her wanting 285 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 2: yawl's relation to be relationship to be more private. I 286 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 2: know you're anonymous, but like you're emailing the Granger Smith 287 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 2: podcast about it, and like that's good. He'll answer your questions. 288 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 2: But if she wants it, if it's about your girlfriend 289 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 2: wanting it to be more private, he's gonna know that 290 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 2: this is his question, this is your question, and so 291 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 2: she's probably gonna find out too, and then that's gonnaly 292 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 2: to another fight. 293 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: I always wonder about that on anonymous questions because usually 294 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: the anonymous questions are still really specific, like I'm twenty two, 295 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: she's twenty. Yeah, she's in college, she's twenty I'm twenty two. 296 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: We fight, I tell my problems to my parents and 297 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 1: she if she ever heard the podcast, it'd be really 298 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: hard to be like, Oh, that's so cool, that's such 299 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: a coincidence. That's someone that sounds just like us, but 300 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: that's definitely not me. 301 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. 302 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: Anyway, yeah, I get it, I get it. You might 303 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: as well just put your name then you know it's okay. 304 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: Let's work through the stuff together. If you want to 305 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: get a hold of me, go to cameo dot com 306 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: slash granger Smith and I could send you a video 307 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: message made right here on my phone whatever you want 308 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,400 Speaker 1: me to say, Happy Birthday, Happy anniversary. It's a great 309 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: way for you and I to stay in contact and 310 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: to get someone a gift that might seem to have everything. Hey, 311 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: get them a gift at cameo dot com slash granger Smith. 312 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: Is this the first podcast you've ever done? 313 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 2: No, I did one with Mama on Her on a Rise, 314 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 2: but this is the first one with you. 315 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 1: So this is the second podcast you've ever done, and 316 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: both of them have been in this House. 317 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 2: Well, we did the Christmas special. 318 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: Oh and after midnight, yeah. 319 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 2: After midnight a few times. 320 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: Not tech that's a radio show, not technically a podcast. 321 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: Would you like to do podcasting one day with other people? 322 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 1: What's your favorite podcast out there? 323 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 2: The loll podcast? 324 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: What's that about? 325 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 2: Harper'silmer, Kate Cash, Maverick, and now Kensy's on it, and 326 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 2: they're all like, well, Kenzie and mav are getting married, 327 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 2: and then Cash Case Kate and Cash are married, and 328 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 2: then Harper's like, I think she's fifteen, and yeah, this 329 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 2: is talk for a long time. Okay, I would move 330 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 2: to Dallas to be on that podcast. 331 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: You don't want to mess with Dallas. I used to 332 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: live there when I was your age. I lived in Dallas. 333 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 2: Actually really Oh yeah, yes. 334 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: Yes, all right. So if you guys want to ask 335 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: a question, you could email podcast at grangersmith dot com. 336 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: Ask about anything like we're sitting in the cab of 337 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 1: a truck rolling down the road and you say, I've 338 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: got something to run by you. Typically I don't have 339 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: London my daughter with me, but I do today for 340 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 1: the first time. If you want to see more of her, 341 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: maybe comment below, or maybe just email podcast at Gradersmith 342 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 1: dot com and say more London I want to. 343 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 2: Add my community postback SA y'all can comment on my channel, 344 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 2: can I? 345 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, she has a channel London Smith on YouTube. 346 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to add community posts. 347 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 1: We will discuss that. We'll discuss that and see there's 348 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: been a lot of really good people that have sat 349 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: in that seat Marshall. Oh yeah, Chad, Bernie, your mama, 350 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: Parker Tyler, many others. Yeah. Okay, So the next question 351 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: comes from Kendra. It says, Hey Granger, my name is Kendra. 352 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,719 Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of your music, your podcast. I 353 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,479 Speaker 1: love watching you preach. My question for you is what 354 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: is your thought on cremation. Some people think that cremation 355 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: is wrong and you won't go to heaven if you're cremated. 356 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: I would love to hear what you think and what 357 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 1: you believe. I'm gonna throw this to you. 358 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 2: You're not burning your soul. If you believe in Jesus, 359 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 2: you're going to heaven. And if you like trust in 360 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 2: Him and stuff, you're going to go to heaven like 361 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 2: you're not when you're getting cremated. You're not burning their 362 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 2: soul because their soul isn't going down into the ground 363 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 2: even if you bury them, so like, it's the same thing. 364 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,159 Speaker 2: You're just like, I guess burning their body is the 365 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 2: same as putting them into the ground. 366 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: So that's the concerning thing for me too, is some 367 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: people think you won't go to heaven if you're cremated. 368 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: You could take that sentence and take out the back 369 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: part of the sentence and say you won't go to 370 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: heaven if blank, and there's only one answer. There's a 371 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 1: million things you could try to fill in, but there's 372 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 1: only one right answer. You won't go to heaven. 373 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,920 Speaker 2: If you don't believe in Jesus. 374 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 1: That's right. If you don't trust in Jesus for your 375 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: forgiveness of sins that he accomplished at the cross, with 376 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: his satisfaction of God's wrath and his substitute for your 377 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: sins that you deserved. That's maybe a complicated way of 378 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: saying what you just said. If you don't trust and 379 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: if you don't have faith in Jesus, that's the only 380 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: reason that you would be kept out of heaven when 381 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: you meet our Lord at the at the gates of heaven, 382 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:37,959 Speaker 1: you could say you will have You'll have one argument 383 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: to make when they say why do you deserve to 384 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: come in here? Can you answer that for me? If 385 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: if the gatekeeper of heaven will say it that way, 386 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: we'll simplify it. The gatekeeper of heaven says, why should 387 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: you come in here? Wait? 388 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 2: Like what you would say? 389 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 1: Yeah? What would you say to that? There you are, 390 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: You're standing at heaven and they say, why should I 391 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: let you in? 392 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 2: I would say, because I trust Jesus and I believe 393 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 2: that he died on the cross for me, and that 394 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 2: God said his only son to die on the cross 395 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 2: for me to be the substitute so that he could 396 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 2: take he could take on my sin. And what was 397 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 2: I gonna say? Oh, and like take the punishment for me. 398 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 2: And then on the third day he rose, and now 399 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 2: he's going to come back. 400 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,679 Speaker 1: Do you know a simple way of saying that to 401 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 1: that person? 402 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 2: I believe in the gospel. 403 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: Yes, that's what. That's right, you said the gospel. And 404 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 1: an easy way. If they said why should you? Why 405 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: should you? Why should I let you in? Why do 406 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: you deserve to be here? A simple way of saying, 407 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: I don't deserve to be here. It is only by 408 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 1: the Son of God that I am made that it's 409 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: made possible for me to be here, but it's not 410 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: on my own merit, right, that's the only answer. And 411 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: so back to the question for people that might say 412 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: you won't go to heaven if you're cremated, I think 413 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: we just debunked that idea completely. You can't say you 414 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: won't go to heaven if anything outside of faith in Christ. 415 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: Will I go to heaven? If I get a tattoo? 416 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: Will I get to heaven? If I have done a 417 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 1: horrible sin? Will I go to heaven? If I have murdered? 418 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: Will I go to heaven if I have I don't know. 419 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: Fill in the blank with whatever you want to say. 420 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,400 Speaker 1: The question at hand is if you're cremated, So that 421 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: is absolutely false. People think cremation is wrong and you 422 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: won't go to heaven if cremated. Absolutely false. But but 423 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: traditionally Christians have highly valued traditional burials. As we look 424 00:23:55,800 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 1: back on history, it was it was a pagan ritual Tomate, 425 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 1: and so we would encourage his Christians burial for one reason, 426 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: for really for a respect for the body the vessel 427 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: God gave. God gives us a vessel two to live 428 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: on this earth to carry out the good works that 429 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: God prepared beforehand for us to walk in and to 430 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: preach the gospel in. And so God gave you your body London. 431 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: And and you're suppose you're supposed to treat your body 432 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: with respect because it is a temple, because it literally, 433 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: when you're a Christian, it literally is embodied by the 434 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes into you and your 435 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 1: fleshly body, which will be destroyed as you when you die, 436 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: and it will decay and will be it will be, 437 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 1: we'll go back to dust, and you will be resurrected. 438 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: If you're a Christian, if you have faith in Jesus, 439 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: you will be resurrected with a new body. But the 440 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: current body you have, that doesn't mean because you'll be 441 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: resurrected in a new body, doesn't mean that body is 442 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: not important. It is important. God wove it together in 443 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: your mama's womb, and I was there to watch it 444 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: on the little screen as we would go and get checkups. 445 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: And I saw your little bitty body inside mama's womb, 446 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: and it grew and grew and grew. And your body 447 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,120 Speaker 1: is very special. It's very special to me, and it's 448 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: even more special to you, and it's even more special 449 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: to God because he gave it to you for a purpose. 450 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 1: That is what Paul calls our our tent. We live 451 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: in these tents, and so we should we should try 452 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:56,719 Speaker 1: to respect our bodies. We should we should be healthy 453 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: with them, We should eat healthy things, and we should 454 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,440 Speaker 1: exercise to be responsible stewards of the vessel that God 455 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: gave us to carry out the good works that He 456 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: prepared beforehand. That we should walk in them right. And 457 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: that all goes with if you, at the very end 458 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: of it you just burn it. There is a there's 459 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,679 Speaker 1: an idea that there's a slight disrespect in that. And 460 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: so Christians have always thought that if you go back 461 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: in Church history, they thought you should bury the body 462 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: in respect. And in fact Christians were really one of 463 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,880 Speaker 1: the first people groups to really value a funeral, and 464 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: in many ways one of to understand our own mortality 465 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: and to understand where we are going. 466 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 2: But. 467 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: Also to show to pay respect to the vessel that 468 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: was given as we put it into the ground and 469 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: covered it. And it's not like the Egyptians used to 470 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: do this and think that it was actually going somewhere 471 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: like that body the Egyptians thought was going into Hades 472 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: like that was going to the afterlife. Christians have never 473 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: believed that. We understand the body turns to dirt to dirt, 474 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 1: but there's an idea to respect it. You know, my dad, 475 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: your grandpa, was cremated, and that's always what he wanted. 476 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: When when he was cremated. I remember the day that 477 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 1: it happened. They sent him, They sent his body to 478 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 1: Waco to a cremation place, and they said they were 479 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 1: going to do it about nude. And I remember that 480 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: day checking my watch and thinking, is he in there? 481 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 1: Is he in there right now? Is the dad that 482 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: I knew? That body? Is that turning into ashes right now? 483 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: It was a weird, weird feeling. And I kept watching 484 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: the time and as it got to be one o'clock 485 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 1: and two o'clock, and then I started feeling relief, like 486 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: in the afternoon, like, well, surely he's ashes by now, 487 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 1: surely it's done, it's over with. But and then you know, 488 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 1: a few days later, they sent the little box with 489 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,959 Speaker 1: all this thing and all his ashes, and inside the 490 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: ashes were his little screws that he had in his knees, 491 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 1: because he had really bad knees that had screws in him. 492 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: So I was like, there's his screws that were in 493 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 1: his knees and one that was in his ankle. That's 494 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: so weird. Like a metal plate that was at his ankle, 495 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: that's so weird. I wasn't where I am today. Theologically, 496 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: I would have talked Dad out of it, and I 497 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 1: think he would have believed me. And this discussion here 498 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,920 Speaker 1: for this podcast is not for anyone that hears it 499 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: and goes, oh, no, my mom was cremated. That's not 500 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I do think if you're listening to 501 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: this and you have your mom in an urn on 502 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 1: your fireplace, you should bury it and have a proper funeral. 503 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: I do believe that. But if it's already done, it's done. 504 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: For future ideas, I want to answer kindre and say 505 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: I would discourage cremation and in courage a traditional Christian burial. 506 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: Is that long? Is that a long answer? Sometimes I 507 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,239 Speaker 1: have a tendency of going long. That's why it's called 508 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: The Grangers Fifth Podcast. Okay, next question comes from anonymous. Hey, Grandeur, 509 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: I'm curious on your thoughts about washing the feet. Washing 510 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: of the feet as an ordinance or a sacrament in 511 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: your church? Why or why not. The reason for asking 512 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: is in John thirteen eight. It says Peter said to him, 513 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: you shall never wash my feet, and Jesus answered, if 514 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: I wash thee not, you have no part in me. 515 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 1: Thank you and Aman for your time. Do you know 516 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: what he's talking about here, anonymous? You know that Jesus 517 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: washed his disciples feet, and you know that Peter was like, whoa, 518 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: I wash your feet. You're you're the master, I'm the servant. 519 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: And Jesus said, no, I do this. So do you 520 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: know what a sacrament is like? 521 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 2: Coming in and baptism and stuff? 522 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: Man, you're so smart and you're only twelve, that's amazing. Yes, 523 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: there are there are two. There are two ordinances that 524 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: we practiced. That the that the local church and in 525 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: Protestant Protestant circles this is what they carry out. And 526 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: this is this is an absolute requirement in Orthodox Christianity, 527 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 1: and that is baptism and the Lord's Supper. We we 528 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: let me ask you do you know why this is? 529 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: This is hard? I don't I don't think you're gonna. 530 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: I don't think you'll know this. But that's okay. But 531 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: let me ask you, do you know why we at 532 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: church in a in a traditional service and an an 533 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: orthodox meaning an authentic Christian church. You know why we 534 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: do baptism and the Lord's Supper those two things just 535 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: an easy answer, not deep, but just kind of a 536 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: lighthearted Do you know why? 537 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 2: Because Jesus told us we should be baptized and because. 538 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: I don't know about the Lord's suffer So in your 539 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: argument Jesus told us we should be baptized, you would 540 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 1: then include John thirteen eight, because he said, if I 541 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: watch the not you have no pardon me. So he's 542 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: also saying, technically, from if we just take this verse 543 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: out of context, he's saying, you should also wash feet. 544 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: So why wouldn't we wash feet in the church? I 545 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: don't know. Let me tell you why. Yeah, because the 546 00:31:53,000 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: apostles taught it. So when when Jesus gives the essentially 547 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: the keys to the church at Peter's confession, he gives 548 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: he says, Peter, you have the keys to the church. Essentially, 549 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: what he's doing is he's giving the authority to the apostles, 550 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: to the disciples who then became apostles. In the Book 551 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: of Acts, we see them go out and the early 552 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: church starts, and these apostles. These disciples did judics yn 553 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: y the first guest to yawn at me. Okay, So 554 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: the apostles got in the Book of Acts and they 555 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: start the church, the church that we know today. And 556 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: we have plenty of writings from this early church and 557 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: from the centuries after that. So we know how to 558 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: do church. We know how to do church because of 559 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: the apostles, and we know from the apostles because most 560 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: of them either walked with Jesus and heard him and 561 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: had conversations with him, or they were the apostle was 562 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 1: with a disciple who is actually walking with Jesus. For instance, 563 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 1: we would consider Mark an apostle, but he was never 564 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: with Jesus. But Mark was walked with Peter, and Peter 565 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 1: was right. Paul is an apostle, and he had a 566 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 1: moment with Jesus on the road to Damascus. You remember 567 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: that moment he had. The Lord Jesus appeared to him 568 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 1: on the road, and Paul was taken up and saw 569 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: visions and saw glory and saw heaven, and so he 570 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: was given the apostleship because of that. Anyway, the apostles 571 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: have have the authority, and they have they they founded 572 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 1: the Church as we know it now. Jesus is Church, 573 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: and the apostles then in the early Church taught us 574 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: about baptism and the Lord's Supper. They did not teach 575 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: us to wash feet. So that's where we get that from. 576 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: If the apostles had said we're gonna do three things. 577 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 1: We're gonna baptize, we're gonna take the Lord's Supper, and 578 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,319 Speaker 1: we're gonna wash feet, we would do that today. And 579 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,440 Speaker 1: so there must be something. There must have been something 580 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:19,320 Speaker 1: ceremonial about Jesus washing the feet that was not something 581 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: that was needed to be done on a Sunday morning 582 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,799 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't 583 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 1: do it as a really nice remembrance of what Jesus 584 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 1: did that day with his disciples. It's a symbolic act 585 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 1: of I serve. It's I'm serving you in a way 586 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 1: that is almost repulsive. The feet is almost a repulsive thing. 587 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: But I'm serving you by washing your feet. That is 588 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:57,879 Speaker 1: a loving, giving, selfless act. And I think it's really neat. 589 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 1: You and your brother have done this before. You probably 590 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,439 Speaker 1: didn't love it when you did it, but it's part 591 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,239 Speaker 1: of the it's part of serving and with a selfless attitude. 592 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,720 Speaker 1: It's also we should also bring up as I'm thinking 593 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 1: more about this, and the problem with this podcast with 594 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: no notes is I might think of things later and 595 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 1: wish I had said it. But another thing is that 596 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: in the first century, during this time, washing your feet 597 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 1: was much different than it would be now, because back 598 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,920 Speaker 1: then they're wearing sandals, and they're hitting rocks and dirt 599 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 1: and mud and calluses and probably blood and scrapes and cuts, 600 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:39,120 Speaker 1: and so the washing of the feet was very it 601 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: was very tender, and it now would be like you 602 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: take off your tennis shoes and take off your socks, 603 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,799 Speaker 1: and your feet have been lotioned, you know, since last night. 604 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,759 Speaker 1: And so it's just not the same symbolic act as 605 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,319 Speaker 1: what it would have meant. But I think what we 606 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,800 Speaker 1: should take away is that Jesus was showing that as master, 607 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:04,200 Speaker 1: he served, and we should do the same if we 608 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 1: want to lead, if we want to teach, if we 609 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: want to show example, we serve, which is the opposite 610 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 1: of what the world always says. The world says you 611 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 1: need to dominate and manipulate and put people under you 612 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,720 Speaker 1: and use force, and Jesus said, you serve, and the 613 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,760 Speaker 1: God of the universe comes in the form of man, 614 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: and he comes to serve man in a way to 615 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,279 Speaker 1: lead them. It's the opposite of everything we have ever 616 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: thought as humans. That's what he meant. That was the 617 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,319 Speaker 1: symbolic act of washing the feet. But since the apostles 618 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: didn't push that and didn't say this is what we do, 619 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 1: they don't ever talk about it. After Jesus did this. 620 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:50,560 Speaker 1: It was no apostle ever says you shall wash feet 621 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 1: on the on the Lord's Day morning with your church. 622 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,080 Speaker 1: Jesus didn't tell John in Revelation that I have one 623 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:03,200 Speaker 1: rebuke against your churches. They're not washing feet like so 624 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,919 Speaker 1: Jesus looks back in the Book of Revelation and does 625 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 1: not rebuke that. He doesn't say that. And there is 626 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,400 Speaker 1: nowhere in any of the letters that Peter or John 627 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:19,360 Speaker 1: and his letters, or James or any of Paul's letters 628 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:24,840 Speaker 1: or Jude, no one says I see that, Hey, hello, brethren, 629 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,040 Speaker 1: I have noticed you're not washing feet. You need to 630 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: get on that. And you know, no one says that. 631 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 1: So because of that, that tells us that we shouldn't 632 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,399 Speaker 1: look back on John thirteen to eight and go did 633 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,600 Speaker 1: we miss something. The answer is no, you didn't miss something. 634 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:45,480 Speaker 1: You didn't miss it, and neither did you church another 635 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: long answer. You got anything else to say? 636 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:48,399 Speaker 2: I don't think so. 637 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,440 Speaker 1: Congratulations you made it through your first podcast with me, 638 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:54,880 Speaker 1: the first one you've listened to, and the first one 639 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,040 Speaker 1: you've sat through. If you want more of London, hey, 640 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,680 Speaker 1: comment below. Next time you see her, she'll probably be 641 00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 1: thirty crazy a teenager. 642 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 2: I have one more month of like being a kid. 643 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,280 Speaker 2: Yeah you do, that's crazy. 644 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:09,840 Speaker 1: If you want to follow her, she's not on social 645 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,359 Speaker 1: media anywhere, but she does have a YouTube channel that 646 00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:16,120 Speaker 1: the comments are turned off, so you can't technically comment. 647 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,399 Speaker 2: Unless we add community posts. 648 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,439 Speaker 1: It's a current discussion we're having. 649 00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I had them before and then I had to 650 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,920 Speaker 2: delete them all. 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