Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for being here.
Speaker 1: I have a very special guest. We're doing something kind
Speaker 1: of different in this morning. I got my daughter a London.
Speaker 1: You're a guest on the podcast. Have you have you
Speaker 1: been or have you listened to this podcast before? I
Speaker 1: should say that.
Speaker 2: Probably like one time, but other than that no.
Speaker 1: Okay, so today will be the first time you listen
Speaker 1: to the whole podcast. Hey, maybe that's why I'm having you.
Speaker 1: So you actually listened to both. Okay, So what we
Speaker 1: do here I'm telling you and I'm telling them. We
Speaker 1: answer people's questions. I don't typically see these, I don't
Speaker 1: have notes in front of me, but we answer them
Speaker 1: like they're a friend coming to the house, or we're
Speaker 1: in the truck together, we're on a road trip and
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, guys, I got something going on. Can
Speaker 1: I run something by you? And we just answer, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Watched the shorts though I watch your shorts.
Speaker 1: So okay, you've wanted the shorts, but maybe not a
Speaker 1: whole episode. Okay, So you know what I do here.
Speaker 1: So to do this To get on this podcast, you
Speaker 1: email me podcast at grangersmith dot com. Podcast at grangersmith
Speaker 1: dot com that's the email, and you could ask it
Speaker 1: any kind of question about any subject, it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: and today you will be answered by me and my
Speaker 1: daughter London. Who you're I say, you're twelve, but you're
Speaker 1: turning thirteen in just like a few weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh no.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just just slightly over a month. So you are
Speaker 1: your twelve years eleven months? Yeah, okay, So hey, there's
Speaker 1: some deep questions on here. I think I think you're
Speaker 1: okay for it. But I'm just saying there's there's always
Speaker 1: I haven't seen these yet, but there's always. There's always
Speaker 1: deep stuff you want to get into. The first one, okay,
Speaker 1: the first one comes from Daniel. It says, hey, Granger,
Speaker 1: God bless you. My name is Daniel. I'm thirty six
Speaker 1: years old, two kids and a wife. I'm a Christian.
Speaker 1: I'm a Southern Baptist. I'm very much an introvert. I
Speaker 1: would be completely okay with living in a mountain or
Speaker 1: on a ranch in Texas and never see a single
Speaker 1: soul other than my family. I know this is not
Speaker 1: what God wants from us, and I struggle with it.
Speaker 1: What advice can you give me to break free from
Speaker 1: the crippling anxiety and step out of my comfort zone
Speaker 1: and doing the works that God wants me to do. Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks Daniel. It's a great question and I'd love to
Speaker 1: dive into this, and I think a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I'm going to use this to answer in two ways,
Speaker 1: one to the introvert and two to the extra because
Speaker 1: we could speak to the person that loves crowds and
Speaker 1: we could speak to the person that doesn't. First of all,
Speaker 1: we need to know this. God doesn't want you and
Speaker 1: inherently with that character trait, He doesn't want you to
Speaker 1: be some somebody other than the character trait that He
Speaker 1: made you to be. So he made you to be
Speaker 1: an introvert. That's that's that's how he made you. That's
Speaker 1: that's something that's that's not like a sin. A sin
Speaker 1: would be you you're you're addicted to something or you
Speaker 1: love this sinful lifestyle and to that we would want
Speaker 1: to break away from it and turn away from it
Speaker 1: and turn to God. That's repentance. But something that's a
Speaker 1: character character trait, caricature character trait, character trait, like like
Speaker 1: you are and you're you're inherently an happy person, or
Speaker 1: you're a melancholy person, or you're a you're a pretty
Speaker 1: serious person, or you're an introvert like this, these are
Speaker 1: traits that you're just born with. And so there's nothing,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that that would say God is telling you
Speaker 1: to not be an introvert. Okay, let's get that straight,
Speaker 1: and we would say the same thing for an extrovert.
Speaker 1: God is not telling you to not be an extrovert.
Speaker 1: So what I think you're getting at is that is
Speaker 1: it God. God wants you to to be able to
Speaker 1: do things in community. In fact, it's not just a
Speaker 1: wanting that the New Testament's going to speak in a
Speaker 1: way that you have to. You're not going to make
Speaker 1: it alone. You need community for prayer, for counsel, for
Speaker 1: for encouragement, you need you need community so that you
Speaker 1: could live out your spiritual gifts, like your spiritual gifts
Speaker 1: are are only acted on in the church. If you
Speaker 1: live in a mountain cave, you can't serve, you can't encourage,
Speaker 1: you can't rebuke, you can't teach, you can't do all
Speaker 1: the spiritual gifts you can't do in a mountain cave
Speaker 1: or isolated on a ranch. So that's what the New
Speaker 1: testament means when it's saying you need to do this
Speaker 1: in community in a church. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian who
Speaker 1: London knows I read all the time Bonheffer. I saw
Speaker 1: him read. I saw him write one time in this
Speaker 1: book called Life Together. It's fantastic. He said, attentional introverts,
Speaker 1: you need to make sure that you are actively breaking
Speaker 1: the mold and going out and being with people. You
Speaker 1: need to make sure that although your normal setting is
Speaker 1: to chill out by yourself, you need to fight that
Speaker 1: and have times that you schedule. You go into the
Speaker 1: people and you go, Okay, I'm gonna go I'm gonna
Speaker 1: sit with I'm gonna eat lunch with seven or eight people.
Speaker 1: That's something I would never do right. Your thinking, well, well,
Speaker 1: Bonnheffer's making a point for Christians that are introverts to
Speaker 1: schedule times where you get uncomfortable. And then he says
Speaker 1: the same thing for extroverts. And this is you, London,
Speaker 1: You're an extrovert. He's saying, people that are extroverts, you
Speaker 1: need to be scheduling time where you're intentionally going into
Speaker 1: seclusion by yourself and you're going away from people you're
Speaker 1: going away from media and screens and any influence, any
Speaker 1: kind of input. You need to make sure you're retreating
Speaker 1: into the wilderness just you and God. An introvert here's
Speaker 1: that and goes, oh, yes, I love it. I love
Speaker 1: retreating into the wilderness just me and God. And Bonheffer's saying, yes,
Speaker 1: I know that. So be careful because you need you
Speaker 1: need both. You need to balance both. You don't need
Speaker 1: to be the other one, but you need to balance both.
Speaker 1: So introverts, when you hear about seclusion and you get excited,
Speaker 1: remember you need to be in community. For all you extroverts,
Speaker 1: When you hear about community and you get excited, you
Speaker 1: need to be in seclusion. It works both ways. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're probably somebody, Daniel that likes a smaller church.
Speaker 1: We could start there. You're not gonna like a huge church.
Speaker 1: You're gonna like a smaller setting, and there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that. I think that's the beauty of different kinds
Speaker 1: of churches. But this is not a sin for you
Speaker 1: to be an introvert. Remember that, it's not a sin
Speaker 1: for you. But but the Bible is going to encourage
Speaker 1: you to be in community. So you might once a
Speaker 1: week you might have to schedule something. You go and
Speaker 1: you go and do something a little uncomfortable and then
Speaker 1: go right back to your house and close the door
Speaker 1: with your family. Do you have anything on that one London?
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, like, I'm I'm an extrated introvert.
Speaker 2: Like even some people that I know, it takes me.
Speaker 2: There's like that ten minute awkwardness when they write when
Speaker 2: they get there or something, or like if I'm meeting
Speaker 2: someone for the first time, I'll be super quiet until
Speaker 2: like I actually get to know them. But I was
Speaker 2: gonna say, like, you can't, like you were saying, you
Speaker 2: need to have fellowship and community and you can't have
Speaker 2: church with like bears because they're not gonna like, yeah.
Speaker 1: I get it. I've never I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: heard that you're an extroverted introvert.
Speaker 2: That's what Mama calls me.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well there you go. Next question comes from
Speaker 1: Ana or Anna. Do you think it's honor or Annah?
Speaker 1: It goes either way, It goes either way. First off,
Speaker 1: she says, I would like to thank you for being
Speaker 1: a light for Jesus in this broken world. It's so
Speaker 1: encouraging to hear your podcast each week. I appreciate all
Speaker 1: that you and Amber do you have been. You have
Speaker 1: helped me so much grow in my faith. Well, thank
Speaker 1: thank you, Annah. The Lord did that, but thank you,
Speaker 1: She says, I was wondering if and when you're going
Speaker 1: to do a podcast tour. I know this has been
Speaker 1: on your radar, but I think it would benefit so
Speaker 1: many and help them grow closer to the Lord. If
Speaker 1: you do, please come to Nebraska. Thanks again, Anna, Well,
Speaker 1: I would love to do a podcast tour and go
Speaker 1: and go to several different cities. The Midwest would be
Speaker 1: definitely on the radar. I've been doing in my speaking events.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all have seen me maybe leting
Speaker 1: you've seen me post I think I've only posted one,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to post more. I've been doing these
Speaker 1: on my speaking events, a Q and A afterwards, just answering
Speaker 1: questions from people, and that's kind of like what I
Speaker 1: do here. Do you would you go on the podcast
Speaker 1: tour if I did it, probably okay? Yeah, and if
Speaker 1: it didn't interfere with school, maybe oh yeah, I forgot,
Speaker 1: We'll do it. We'll get you out there. Let's hit
Speaker 1: another one next one comes from anonymous. The early days
Speaker 1: of the podcast, I used to actually accidentally say their name,
Speaker 1: but now people have just learned if you're anonymous, don't
Speaker 1: put your name in here. Because I used to say
Speaker 1: things like, hey Granger, my name is Brian and I
Speaker 1: wish to be anonymous. And I would read it like that,
Speaker 1: all right, Brian says, hey Granger, my name is Brian
Speaker 1: and I would like to be anonymous. I'd be like, oh, sorry, Brian, I.
Speaker 2: Thought you were Actually I was like, why did you
Speaker 2: say that?
Speaker 1: Okay, so here we go, Hey Granger. I am a male.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty two years old in a relationship with the
Speaker 1: girl who I've known for most of my life. She
Speaker 1: is twenty and currently in college. We we've been having
Speaker 1: a series of arguments slash fights lately, and one of
Speaker 1: our fights recently was about when we have a fight,
Speaker 1: I tell my family what's going on to keep them
Speaker 1: in the loop. My family is as a very open family.
Speaker 1: She gets upset with me because I'm willing to talk
Speaker 1: to my family about what's going on in our relationship.
Speaker 1: She thinks that our relationship needs to be more private.
Speaker 1: I was recently listening to one of your podcasts, and
Speaker 1: you said that as we Christians are not called to
Speaker 1: be private, but to be open. I know that in
Speaker 1: that not context you're speaking specifically about divorce, but it
Speaker 1: seemed like it could be taken even further. So my
Speaker 1: question is, could you expand more on how Christians aren't
Speaker 1: supposed to be private? We're in the Bible? Where in
Speaker 1: the Bible does it talk about so I could look
Speaker 1: it up for myself? And finally, should I be more
Speaker 1: willing to keep our arguments to us? Thanks for all
Speaker 1: that you do. I love your podcast. Remember I remember
Speaker 1: when episode one was a big deal.
Speaker 2: Yee okay, these questions. We can't afford another quarantine. People
Speaker 2: need to like get out there.
Speaker 1: I know, so so Anonymous, A couple of things here.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the question. First of all, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't love the fact that you hear me say something
Speaker 1: and you want to apply it to your situation. And
Speaker 1: it's like you're saying, I want to win this argument,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna use Granger as the foundation for me
Speaker 1: winning the argument. That's kind of what it feels like here.
Speaker 1: And that's where you're saying, Hey, can you show me
Speaker 1: the Bible where it says that we shouldn't be private,
Speaker 1: and really it goes back to that first question about
Speaker 1: we should be in community. The New Testament speaks in
Speaker 1: terms of us. We need counsel from each other, we
Speaker 1: need encouragement, we need to be able to act on
Speaker 1: those spiritual gifts, like I said in the first question,
Speaker 1: and that would include something like divorce. When you're walking
Speaker 1: through divorce, a Christian to never walk through that alone.
Speaker 1: You should never just close the door and say I'm
Speaker 1: going to decide something so impactful in our lives, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to decide it by myself. Instead, it should
Speaker 1: be done in the fellowship of a local church with
Speaker 1: a meaningful membership in the church. That means not just
Speaker 1: a church that you walk into and you attend sometimes,
Speaker 1: but a church you're actually a members of a meaningful membership.
Speaker 1: And I hope that your church when you're listening, I
Speaker 1: hope that your church has a meaningful membership process, and
Speaker 1: that means that you're fellowshipping in the community of the
Speaker 1: church in a way that you're serving them and they're
Speaker 1: serving you. And as a family, they know you and
Speaker 1: you know them. You know the pastor you're bat or
Speaker 1: you want to you know the pastor. The pastor knows you.
Speaker 1: Some people think it's strange that you would be on
Speaker 1: a text basis with your pastor, do you know. People
Speaker 1: think that's crazy, and I think that should be very normal.
Speaker 1: You should know your pastor and he should know you,
Speaker 1: and you don't just decide divorce behind closed doors. Your
Speaker 1: pastor should be walking through it with you and others
Speaker 1: through at least just a lot of prayer. I don't
Speaker 1: think this is your deal. I don't think this is
Speaker 1: I don't think this applies to this. First of all,
Speaker 1: you're not married, and so you shouldn't act like you are.
Speaker 1: You're twenty two and she's twenty and you're dealing with
Speaker 1: like these fights.
Speaker 2: She's still in college.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think it's healthy. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: if this was your story, London, I'd be like, let's
Speaker 1: break up. You know, if you're like going through all
Speaker 1: these fights, then it's not right.
Speaker 2: She's barely like out of being a teenager.
Speaker 1: She's she's seven years older than you, and so in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways I would say this is this
Speaker 1: is too young. She's she is worried about you telling
Speaker 1: your parents, which she shouldn't be worried about that. And
Speaker 1: on this flip of the coin, it's weird that you're
Speaker 1: talking to your parents about it because it doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like you're really needing advice from them. Is more so
Speaker 1: that you're just venting to them, and it comes across
Speaker 1: a little bit like gossip. I think that's what she's seeing.
Speaker 1: So those are the two sides of the coin. And furthermore,
Speaker 1: it's it's hurting. It's hurting your relationship with her when
Speaker 1: you tell your parents these things, because one day, if
Speaker 1: you go, I'm gonna marry her, and they go, we
Speaker 1: already know all this dirty laundry. All you do is
Speaker 1: talk about all their problems, so we don't want you
Speaker 1: to get married. So I think she sees that too.
Speaker 1: So I just think there's a lot of like unhealthy
Speaker 1: stuff in this mix. And I would say I don't
Speaker 1: like this relationship as much as I know about it.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that two people should never fight. That's
Speaker 1: weird to say, but I am saying this sounds like
Speaker 1: a lot of drama for a dating relationship. If you
Speaker 1: were married, we could work through this. But dating, you
Speaker 1: say you fight a lot. You say I've had a
Speaker 1: series of arguments fights lately. Then you go tell your
Speaker 1: parents and then she gets mad. That sounds like you're
Speaker 1: playing house. I would run from that. I would run
Speaker 1: to the Lord. I would seek the Lord with all
Speaker 1: your heart and all your mind and all your strength,
Speaker 1: and learn who he is and don't ask. Don't ask.
Speaker 1: You don't have to ask me where it says in
Speaker 1: the Bible something you are actively reading through it, and
Speaker 1: you just know I would do that and then date
Speaker 1: to Mary.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like, I mean, I'm only twelve,
Speaker 2: but I was gonna say, like she if she if
Speaker 2: y'all just got in a fight over like her wanting
Speaker 2: yawl's relation to be relationship to be more private. I
Speaker 2: know you're anonymous, but like you're emailing the Granger Smith
Speaker 2: podcast about it, and like that's good. He'll answer your questions.
Speaker 2: But if she wants it, if it's about your girlfriend
Speaker 2: wanting it to be more private, he's gonna know that
Speaker 2: this is his question, this is your question, and so
Speaker 2: she's probably gonna find out too, and then that's gonnaly
Speaker 2: to another fight.
Speaker 1: I always wonder about that on anonymous questions because usually
Speaker 1: the anonymous questions are still really specific, like I'm twenty two,
Speaker 1: she's twenty. Yeah, she's in college, she's twenty I'm twenty two.
Speaker 1: We fight, I tell my problems to my parents and
Speaker 1: she if she ever heard the podcast, it'd be really
Speaker 1: hard to be like, Oh, that's so cool, that's such
Speaker 1: a coincidence. That's someone that sounds just like us, but
Speaker 1: that's definitely not me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, yeah, I get it, I get it. You might
Speaker 1: as well just put your name then you know it's okay.
Speaker 1: Let's work through the stuff together. If you want to
Speaker 1: get a hold of me, go to cameo dot com
Speaker 1: slash granger Smith and I could send you a video
Speaker 1: message made right here on my phone whatever you want
Speaker 1: me to say, Happy Birthday, Happy anniversary. It's a great
Speaker 1: way for you and I to stay in contact and
Speaker 1: to get someone a gift that might seem to have everything. Hey,
Speaker 1: get them a gift at cameo dot com slash granger Smith.
Speaker 1: Is this the first podcast you've ever done?
Speaker 2: No, I did one with Mama on Her on a Rise,
Speaker 2: but this is the first one with you.
Speaker 1: So this is the second podcast you've ever done, and
Speaker 1: both of them have been in this House.
Speaker 2: Well, we did the Christmas special.
Speaker 1: Oh and after midnight, yeah.
Speaker 2: After midnight a few times.
Speaker 1: Not tech that's a radio show, not technically a podcast.
Speaker 1: Would you like to do podcasting one day with other people?
Speaker 1: What's your favorite podcast out there?
Speaker 2: The loll podcast?
Speaker 1: What's that about?
Speaker 2: Harper'silmer, Kate Cash, Maverick, and now Kensy's on it, and
Speaker 2: they're all like, well, Kenzie and mav are getting married,
Speaker 2: and then Cash Case Kate and Cash are married, and
Speaker 2: then Harper's like, I think she's fifteen, and yeah, this
Speaker 2: is talk for a long time. Okay, I would move
Speaker 2: to Dallas to be on that podcast.
Speaker 1: You don't want to mess with Dallas. I used to
Speaker 1: live there when I was your age. I lived in Dallas.
Speaker 2: Actually really Oh yeah, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right. So if you guys want to ask
Speaker 1: a question, you could email podcast at grangersmith dot com.
Speaker 1: Ask about anything like we're sitting in the cab of
Speaker 1: a truck rolling down the road and you say, I've
Speaker 1: got something to run by you. Typically I don't have
Speaker 1: London my daughter with me, but I do today for
Speaker 1: the first time. If you want to see more of her,
Speaker 1: maybe comment below, or maybe just email podcast at Gradersmith
Speaker 1: dot com and say more London I want to.
Speaker 2: Add my community postback SA y'all can comment on my channel,
Speaker 2: can I?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she has a channel London Smith on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to add community posts.
Speaker 1: We will discuss that. We'll discuss that and see there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of really good people that have sat
Speaker 1: in that seat Marshall. Oh yeah, Chad, Bernie, your mama,
Speaker 1: Parker Tyler, many others. Yeah. Okay, So the next question
Speaker 1: comes from Kendra. It says, Hey Granger, my name is Kendra.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of your music, your podcast. I
Speaker 1: love watching you preach. My question for you is what
Speaker 1: is your thought on cremation. Some people think that cremation
Speaker 1: is wrong and you won't go to heaven if you're cremated.
Speaker 1: I would love to hear what you think and what
Speaker 1: you believe. I'm gonna throw this to you.
Speaker 2: You're not burning your soul. If you believe in Jesus,
Speaker 2: you're going to heaven. And if you like trust in
Speaker 2: Him and stuff, you're going to go to heaven like
Speaker 2: you're not when you're getting cremated. You're not burning their
Speaker 2: soul because their soul isn't going down into the ground
Speaker 2: even if you bury them, so like, it's the same thing.
Speaker 2: You're just like, I guess burning their body is the
Speaker 2: same as putting them into the ground.
Speaker 1: So that's the concerning thing for me too, is some
Speaker 1: people think you won't go to heaven if you're cremated.
Speaker 1: You could take that sentence and take out the back
Speaker 1: part of the sentence and say you won't go to
Speaker 1: heaven if blank, and there's only one answer. There's a
Speaker 1: million things you could try to fill in, but there's
Speaker 1: only one right answer. You won't go to heaven.
Speaker 2: If you don't believe in Jesus.
Speaker 1: That's right. If you don't trust in Jesus for your
Speaker 1: forgiveness of sins that he accomplished at the cross, with
Speaker 1: his satisfaction of God's wrath and his substitute for your
Speaker 1: sins that you deserved. That's maybe a complicated way of
Speaker 1: saying what you just said. If you don't trust and
Speaker 1: if you don't have faith in Jesus, that's the only
Speaker 1: reason that you would be kept out of heaven when
Speaker 1: you meet our Lord at the at the gates of heaven,
Speaker 1: you could say you will have You'll have one argument
Speaker 1: to make when they say why do you deserve to
Speaker 1: come in here? Can you answer that for me? If
Speaker 1: if the gatekeeper of heaven will say it that way,
Speaker 1: we'll simplify it. The gatekeeper of heaven says, why should
Speaker 1: you come in here? Wait?
Speaker 2: Like what you would say?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What would you say to that? There you are,
Speaker 1: You're standing at heaven and they say, why should I
Speaker 1: let you in?
Speaker 2: I would say, because I trust Jesus and I believe
Speaker 2: that he died on the cross for me, and that
Speaker 2: God said his only son to die on the cross
Speaker 2: for me to be the substitute so that he could
Speaker 2: take he could take on my sin. And what was
Speaker 2: I gonna say? Oh, and like take the punishment for me.
Speaker 2: And then on the third day he rose, and now
Speaker 2: he's going to come back.
Speaker 1: Do you know a simple way of saying that to
Speaker 1: that person?
Speaker 2: I believe in the gospel.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what. That's right, you said the gospel. And
Speaker 1: an easy way. If they said why should you? Why
Speaker 1: should you? Why should I let you in? Why do
Speaker 1: you deserve to be here? A simple way of saying,
Speaker 1: I don't deserve to be here. It is only by
Speaker 1: the Son of God that I am made that it's
Speaker 1: made possible for me to be here, but it's not
Speaker 1: on my own merit, right, that's the only answer. And
Speaker 1: so back to the question for people that might say
Speaker 1: you won't go to heaven if you're cremated, I think
Speaker 1: we just debunked that idea completely. You can't say you
Speaker 1: won't go to heaven if anything outside of faith in Christ.
Speaker 1: Will I go to heaven? If I get a tattoo?
Speaker 1: Will I get to heaven? If I have done a
Speaker 1: horrible sin? Will I go to heaven? If I have murdered?
Speaker 1: Will I go to heaven if I have I don't know.
Speaker 1: Fill in the blank with whatever you want to say.
Speaker 1: The question at hand is if you're cremated, So that
Speaker 1: is absolutely false. People think cremation is wrong and you
Speaker 1: won't go to heaven if cremated. Absolutely false. But but
Speaker 1: traditionally Christians have highly valued traditional burials. As we look
Speaker 1: back on history, it was it was a pagan ritual Tomate,
Speaker 1: and so we would encourage his Christians burial for one reason,
Speaker 1: for really for a respect for the body the vessel
Speaker 1: God gave. God gives us a vessel two to live
Speaker 1: on this earth to carry out the good works that
Speaker 1: God prepared beforehand for us to walk in and to
Speaker 1: preach the gospel in. And so God gave you your body London.
Speaker 1: And and you're suppose you're supposed to treat your body
Speaker 1: with respect because it is a temple, because it literally,
Speaker 1: when you're a Christian, it literally is embodied by the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes into you and your
Speaker 1: fleshly body, which will be destroyed as you when you die,
Speaker 1: and it will decay and will be it will be,
Speaker 1: we'll go back to dust, and you will be resurrected.
Speaker 1: If you're a Christian, if you have faith in Jesus,
Speaker 1: you will be resurrected with a new body. But the
Speaker 1: current body you have, that doesn't mean because you'll be
Speaker 1: resurrected in a new body, doesn't mean that body is
Speaker 1: not important. It is important. God wove it together in
Speaker 1: your mama's womb, and I was there to watch it
Speaker 1: on the little screen as we would go and get checkups.
Speaker 1: And I saw your little bitty body inside mama's womb,
Speaker 1: and it grew and grew and grew. And your body
Speaker 1: is very special. It's very special to me, and it's
Speaker 1: even more special to you, and it's even more special
Speaker 1: to God because he gave it to you for a purpose.
Speaker 1: That is what Paul calls our our tent. We live
Speaker 1: in these tents, and so we should we should try
Speaker 1: to respect our bodies. We should we should be healthy
Speaker 1: with them, We should eat healthy things, and we should
Speaker 1: exercise to be responsible stewards of the vessel that God
Speaker 1: gave us to carry out the good works that He
Speaker 1: prepared beforehand. That we should walk in them right. And
Speaker 1: that all goes with if you, at the very end
Speaker 1: of it you just burn it. There is a there's
Speaker 1: an idea that there's a slight disrespect in that. And
Speaker 1: so Christians have always thought that if you go back
Speaker 1: in Church history, they thought you should bury the body
Speaker 1: in respect. And in fact Christians were really one of
Speaker 1: the first people groups to really value a funeral, and
Speaker 1: in many ways one of to understand our own mortality
Speaker 1: and to understand where we are going.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 1: Also to show to pay respect to the vessel that
Speaker 1: was given as we put it into the ground and
Speaker 1: covered it. And it's not like the Egyptians used to
Speaker 1: do this and think that it was actually going somewhere
Speaker 1: like that body the Egyptians thought was going into Hades
Speaker 1: like that was going to the afterlife. Christians have never
Speaker 1: believed that. We understand the body turns to dirt to dirt,
Speaker 1: but there's an idea to respect it. You know, my dad,
Speaker 1: your grandpa, was cremated, and that's always what he wanted.
Speaker 1: When when he was cremated. I remember the day that
Speaker 1: it happened. They sent him, They sent his body to
Speaker 1: Waco to a cremation place, and they said they were
Speaker 1: going to do it about nude. And I remember that
Speaker 1: day checking my watch and thinking, is he in there?
Speaker 1: Is he in there right now? Is the dad that
Speaker 1: I knew? That body? Is that turning into ashes right now?
Speaker 1: It was a weird, weird feeling. And I kept watching
Speaker 1: the time and as it got to be one o'clock
Speaker 1: and two o'clock, and then I started feeling relief, like
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, like, well, surely he's ashes by now,
Speaker 1: surely it's done, it's over with. But and then you know,
Speaker 1: a few days later, they sent the little box with
Speaker 1: all this thing and all his ashes, and inside the
Speaker 1: ashes were his little screws that he had in his knees,
Speaker 1: because he had really bad knees that had screws in him.
Speaker 1: So I was like, there's his screws that were in
Speaker 1: his knees and one that was in his ankle. That's
Speaker 1: so weird. Like a metal plate that was at his ankle,
Speaker 1: that's so weird. I wasn't where I am today. Theologically,
Speaker 1: I would have talked Dad out of it, and I
Speaker 1: think he would have believed me. And this discussion here
Speaker 1: for this podcast is not for anyone that hears it
Speaker 1: and goes, oh, no, my mom was cremated. That's not
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I do think if you're listening to
Speaker 1: this and you have your mom in an urn on
Speaker 1: your fireplace, you should bury it and have a proper funeral.
Speaker 1: I do believe that. But if it's already done, it's done.
Speaker 1: For future ideas, I want to answer kindre and say
Speaker 1: I would discourage cremation and in courage a traditional Christian burial.
Speaker 1: Is that long? Is that a long answer? Sometimes I
Speaker 1: have a tendency of going long. That's why it's called
Speaker 1: The Grangers Fifth Podcast. Okay, next question comes from anonymous. Hey, Grandeur,
Speaker 1: I'm curious on your thoughts about washing the feet. Washing
Speaker 1: of the feet as an ordinance or a sacrament in
Speaker 1: your church? Why or why not. The reason for asking
Speaker 1: is in John thirteen eight. It says Peter said to him,
Speaker 1: you shall never wash my feet, and Jesus answered, if
Speaker 1: I wash thee not, you have no part in me.
Speaker 1: Thank you and Aman for your time. Do you know
Speaker 1: what he's talking about here, anonymous? You know that Jesus
Speaker 1: washed his disciples feet, and you know that Peter was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: I wash your feet. You're you're the master, I'm the servant.
Speaker 1: And Jesus said, no, I do this. So do you
Speaker 1: know what a sacrament is like?
Speaker 2: Coming in and baptism and stuff?
Speaker 1: Man, you're so smart and you're only twelve, that's amazing. Yes,
Speaker 1: there are there are two. There are two ordinances that
Speaker 1: we practiced. That the that the local church and in
Speaker 1: Protestant Protestant circles this is what they carry out. And
Speaker 1: this is this is an absolute requirement in Orthodox Christianity,
Speaker 1: and that is baptism and the Lord's Supper. We we
Speaker 1: let me ask you do you know why this is?
Speaker 1: This is hard? I don't I don't think you're gonna.
Speaker 1: I don't think you'll know this. But that's okay. But
Speaker 1: let me ask you, do you know why we at
Speaker 1: church in a in a traditional service and an an
Speaker 1: orthodox meaning an authentic Christian church. You know why we
Speaker 1: do baptism and the Lord's Supper those two things just
Speaker 1: an easy answer, not deep, but just kind of a
Speaker 1: lighthearted Do you know why?
Speaker 2: Because Jesus told us we should be baptized and because.
Speaker 1: I don't know about the Lord's suffer So in your
Speaker 1: argument Jesus told us we should be baptized, you would
Speaker 1: then include John thirteen eight, because he said, if I
Speaker 1: watch the not you have no pardon me. So he's
Speaker 1: also saying, technically, from if we just take this verse
Speaker 1: out of context, he's saying, you should also wash feet.
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't we wash feet in the church? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Let me tell you why. Yeah, because the
Speaker 1: apostles taught it. So when when Jesus gives the essentially
Speaker 1: the keys to the church at Peter's confession, he gives
Speaker 1: he says, Peter, you have the keys to the church. Essentially,
Speaker 1: what he's doing is he's giving the authority to the apostles,
Speaker 1: to the disciples who then became apostles. In the Book
Speaker 1: of Acts, we see them go out and the early
Speaker 1: church starts, and these apostles. These disciples did judics yn
Speaker 1: y the first guest to yawn at me. Okay, So
Speaker 1: the apostles got in the Book of Acts and they
Speaker 1: start the church, the church that we know today. And
Speaker 1: we have plenty of writings from this early church and
Speaker 1: from the centuries after that. So we know how to
Speaker 1: do church. We know how to do church because of
Speaker 1: the apostles, and we know from the apostles because most
Speaker 1: of them either walked with Jesus and heard him and
Speaker 1: had conversations with him, or they were the apostle was
Speaker 1: with a disciple who is actually walking with Jesus. For instance,
Speaker 1: we would consider Mark an apostle, but he was never
Speaker 1: with Jesus. But Mark was walked with Peter, and Peter
Speaker 1: was right. Paul is an apostle, and he had a
Speaker 1: moment with Jesus on the road to Damascus. You remember
Speaker 1: that moment he had. The Lord Jesus appeared to him
Speaker 1: on the road, and Paul was taken up and saw
Speaker 1: visions and saw glory and saw heaven, and so he
Speaker 1: was given the apostleship because of that. Anyway, the apostles
Speaker 1: have have the authority, and they have they they founded
Speaker 1: the Church as we know it now. Jesus is Church,
Speaker 1: and the apostles then in the early Church taught us
Speaker 1: about baptism and the Lord's Supper. They did not teach
Speaker 1: us to wash feet. So that's where we get that from.
Speaker 1: If the apostles had said we're gonna do three things.
Speaker 1: We're gonna baptize, we're gonna take the Lord's Supper, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna wash feet, we would do that today. And
Speaker 1: so there must be something. There must have been something
Speaker 1: ceremonial about Jesus washing the feet that was not something
Speaker 1: that was needed to be done on a Sunday morning
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't
Speaker 1: do it as a really nice remembrance of what Jesus
Speaker 1: did that day with his disciples. It's a symbolic act
Speaker 1: of I serve. It's I'm serving you in a way
Speaker 1: that is almost repulsive. The feet is almost a repulsive thing.
Speaker 1: But I'm serving you by washing your feet. That is
Speaker 1: a loving, giving, selfless act. And I think it's really neat.
Speaker 1: You and your brother have done this before. You probably
Speaker 1: didn't love it when you did it, but it's part
Speaker 1: of the it's part of serving and with a selfless attitude.
Speaker 1: It's also we should also bring up as I'm thinking
Speaker 1: more about this, and the problem with this podcast with
Speaker 1: no notes is I might think of things later and
Speaker 1: wish I had said it. But another thing is that
Speaker 1: in the first century, during this time, washing your feet
Speaker 1: was much different than it would be now, because back
Speaker 1: then they're wearing sandals, and they're hitting rocks and dirt
Speaker 1: and mud and calluses and probably blood and scrapes and cuts,
Speaker 1: and so the washing of the feet was very it
Speaker 1: was very tender, and it now would be like you
Speaker 1: take off your tennis shoes and take off your socks,
Speaker 1: and your feet have been lotioned, you know, since last night.
Speaker 1: And so it's just not the same symbolic act as
Speaker 1: what it would have meant. But I think what we
Speaker 1: should take away is that Jesus was showing that as master,
Speaker 1: he served, and we should do the same if we
Speaker 1: want to lead, if we want to teach, if we
Speaker 1: want to show example, we serve, which is the opposite
Speaker 1: of what the world always says. The world says you
Speaker 1: need to dominate and manipulate and put people under you
Speaker 1: and use force, and Jesus said, you serve, and the
Speaker 1: God of the universe comes in the form of man,
Speaker 1: and he comes to serve man in a way to
Speaker 1: lead them. It's the opposite of everything we have ever
Speaker 1: thought as humans. That's what he meant. That was the
Speaker 1: symbolic act of washing the feet. But since the apostles
Speaker 1: didn't push that and didn't say this is what we do,
Speaker 1: they don't ever talk about it. After Jesus did this.
Speaker 1: It was no apostle ever says you shall wash feet
Speaker 1: on the on the Lord's Day morning with your church.
Speaker 1: Jesus didn't tell John in Revelation that I have one
Speaker 1: rebuke against your churches. They're not washing feet like so
Speaker 1: Jesus looks back in the Book of Revelation and does
Speaker 1: not rebuke that. He doesn't say that. And there is
Speaker 1: nowhere in any of the letters that Peter or John
Speaker 1: and his letters, or James or any of Paul's letters
Speaker 1: or Jude, no one says I see that, Hey, hello, brethren,
Speaker 1: I have noticed you're not washing feet. You need to
Speaker 1: get on that. And you know, no one says that.
Speaker 1: So because of that, that tells us that we shouldn't
Speaker 1: look back on John thirteen to eight and go did
Speaker 1: we miss something. The answer is no, you didn't miss something.
Speaker 1: You didn't miss it, and neither did you church another
Speaker 1: long answer. You got anything else to say?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Congratulations you made it through your first podcast with me,
Speaker 1: the first one you've listened to, and the first one
Speaker 1: you've sat through. If you want more of London, hey,
Speaker 1: comment below. Next time you see her, she'll probably be
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Speaker 2: I have one more month of like being a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah you do, that's crazy.
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Speaker 2: Unless we add community posts.
Speaker 1: It's a current discussion we're having.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had them before and then I had to
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Speaker 1: Your page is, London Smith. That's your YouTube page.
Speaker 2: Well, my handle is Lendon Avismith on my pages just Lendon.
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