WEBVTT - Answering Some Tough Questions With My Daughter 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.640 All right, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for being here. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.600 I have a very special guest. We're doing something kind 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.279 of different in this morning. I got my daughter a London. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:24.200 You're a guest on the podcast. Have you have you 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.240 been or have you listened to this podcast before? I 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:28.040 should say that. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.920 Probably like one time, but other than that no. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.960 Okay, so today will be the first time you listen 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.120 to the whole podcast. Hey, maybe that's why I'm having you. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.040 So you actually listened to both. Okay, So what we 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:47.040 do here I'm telling you and I'm telling them. We 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:51.120 answer people's questions. I don't typically see these, I don't 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.560 have notes in front of me, but we answer them 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.960 like they're a friend coming to the house, or we're 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.160 in the truck together, we're on a road trip and 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.080 they're like, hey, guys, I got something going on. Can 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.759 I run something by you? And we just answer, yeah, I. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.520 Watched the shorts though I watch your shorts. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.120 So okay, you've wanted the shorts, but maybe not a 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.080 whole episode. Okay, So you know what I do here. 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.360 So to do this To get on this podcast, you 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:23.080 email me podcast at grangersmith dot com. Podcast at grangersmith 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.560 dot com that's the email, and you could ask it 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.720 any kind of question about any subject, it doesn't matter, 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.280 and today you will be answered by me and my 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.119 daughter London. Who you're I say, you're twelve, but you're 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.000 turning thirteen in just like a few weeks. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.120 Yeah, yeah, oh no. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:47.200 Yeah, just just slightly over a month. So you are 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:53.280 your twelve years eleven months? Yeah, okay, So hey, there's 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.800 some deep questions on here. I think I think you're 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.920 okay for it. But I'm just saying there's there's always 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.280 I haven't seen these yet, but there's always. There's always 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.360 deep stuff you want to get into. The first one, okay, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.600 the first one comes from Daniel. It says, hey, Granger, 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.680 God bless you. My name is Daniel. I'm thirty six 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.840 years old, two kids and a wife. I'm a Christian. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:22.320 I'm a Southern Baptist. I'm very much an introvert. I 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.920 would be completely okay with living in a mountain or 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.680 on a ranch in Texas and never see a single 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.160 soul other than my family. I know this is not 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.919 what God wants from us, and I struggle with it. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.440 What advice can you give me to break free from 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.280 the crippling anxiety and step out of my comfort zone 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:45.320 and doing the works that God wants me to do. Okay, 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:52.120 thanks Daniel. It's a great question and I'd love to 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.760 dive into this, and I think a lot of people. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.200 I'm going to use this to answer in two ways, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:01.000 one to the introvert and two to the extra because 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.480 we could speak to the person that loves crowds and 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.800 we could speak to the person that doesn't. First of all, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.960 we need to know this. God doesn't want you and 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.720 inherently with that character trait, He doesn't want you to 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.240 be some somebody other than the character trait that He 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.840 made you to be. So he made you to be 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:29.680 an introvert. That's that's that's how he made you. That's 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:34.359 that's something that's that's not like a sin. A sin 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.560 would be you you're you're addicted to something or you 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.160 love this sinful lifestyle and to that we would want 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.960 to break away from it and turn away from it 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.920 and turn to God. That's repentance. But something that's a 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:55.080 character character trait, caricature character trait, character trait, like like 0:03:55.200 --> 0:04:01.000 you are and you're you're inherently an happy person, or 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.480 you're a melancholy person, or you're a you're a pretty 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.880 serious person, or you're an introvert like this, these are 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.280 traits that you're just born with. And so there's nothing, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.560 there's nothing that that would say God is telling you 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.240 to not be an introvert. Okay, let's get that straight, 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.480 and we would say the same thing for an extrovert. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.240 God is not telling you to not be an extrovert. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:28.719 So what I think you're getting at is that is 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:34.279 it God. God wants you to to be able to 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.080 do things in community. In fact, it's not just a 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.599 wanting that the New Testament's going to speak in a 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.680 way that you have to. You're not going to make 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:49.760 it alone. You need community for prayer, for counsel, for 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.760 for encouragement, you need you need community so that you 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.800 could live out your spiritual gifts, like your spiritual gifts 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:02.120 are are only acted on in the church. If you 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:08.600 live in a mountain cave, you can't serve, you can't encourage, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:14.480 you can't rebuke, you can't teach, you can't do all 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.160 the spiritual gifts you can't do in a mountain cave 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.960 or isolated on a ranch. So that's what the New 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.279 testament means when it's saying you need to do this 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:30.120 in community in a church. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian who 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.640 London knows I read all the time Bonheffer. I saw 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.599 him read. I saw him write one time in this 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:41.880 book called Life Together. It's fantastic. He said, attentional introverts, 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.479 you need to make sure that you are actively breaking 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:51.000 the mold and going out and being with people. You 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.560 need to make sure that although your normal setting is 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.200 to chill out by yourself, you need to fight that 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.000 and have times that you schedule. You go into the 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.279 people and you go, Okay, I'm gonna go I'm gonna 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.839 sit with I'm gonna eat lunch with seven or eight people. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.440 That's something I would never do right. Your thinking, well, well, 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.440 Bonnheffer's making a point for Christians that are introverts to 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.080 schedule times where you get uncomfortable. And then he says 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.359 the same thing for extroverts. And this is you, London, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.440 You're an extrovert. He's saying, people that are extroverts, you 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.839 need to be scheduling time where you're intentionally going into 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.600 seclusion by yourself and you're going away from people you're 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:42.600 going away from media and screens and any influence, any 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.479 kind of input. You need to make sure you're retreating 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.800 into the wilderness just you and God. An introvert here's 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.880 that and goes, oh, yes, I love it. I love 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.400 retreating into the wilderness just me and God. And Bonheffer's saying, yes, 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.800 I know that. So be careful because you need you 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.880 need both. You need to balance both. You don't need 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.599 to be the other one, but you need to balance both. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:07.000 So introverts, when you hear about seclusion and you get excited, 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.480 remember you need to be in community. For all you extroverts, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.640 When you hear about community and you get excited, you 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.440 need to be in seclusion. It works both ways. Okay, 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.160 so you're probably somebody, Daniel that likes a smaller church. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.800 We could start there. You're not gonna like a huge church. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.320 You're gonna like a smaller setting, and there's nothing wrong 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.840 with that. I think that's the beauty of different kinds 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.200 of churches. But this is not a sin for you 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.280 to be an introvert. Remember that, it's not a sin 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.480 for you. But but the Bible is going to encourage 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.840 you to be in community. So you might once a 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.239 week you might have to schedule something. You go and 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.960 you go and do something a little uncomfortable and then 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:51.960 go right back to your house and close the door 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.920 with your family. Do you have anything on that one London? 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.920 I was just gonna say, like, I'm I'm an extrated introvert. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.720 Like even some people that I know, it takes me. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.640 There's like that ten minute awkwardness when they write when 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.600 they get there or something, or like if I'm meeting 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.160 someone for the first time, I'll be super quiet until 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:17.120 like I actually get to know them. But I was 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:22.800 gonna say, like, you can't, like you were saying, you 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.960 need to have fellowship and community and you can't have 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:30.559 church with like bears because they're not gonna like, yeah. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:31.640 I get it. I've never I don't think I've ever 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.600 heard that you're an extroverted introvert. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:34.600 That's what Mama calls me. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:39.080 Oh okay, well there you go. Next question comes from 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.400 Ana or Anna. Do you think it's honor or Annah? 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.880 It goes either way, It goes either way. First off, 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.200 she says, I would like to thank you for being 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.640 a light for Jesus in this broken world. It's so 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.520 encouraging to hear your podcast each week. I appreciate all 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.480 that you and Amber do you have been. You have 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.959 helped me so much grow in my faith. Well, thank 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.880 thank you, Annah. The Lord did that, but thank you, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.240 She says, I was wondering if and when you're going 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.320 to do a podcast tour. I know this has been 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.680 on your radar, but I think it would benefit so 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.880 many and help them grow closer to the Lord. If 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:17.240 you do, please come to Nebraska. Thanks again, Anna, Well, 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.720 I would love to do a podcast tour and go 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.360 and go to several different cities. The Midwest would be 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.600 definitely on the radar. I've been doing in my speaking events. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.520 I don't know if y'all have seen me maybe leting 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.839 you've seen me post I think I've only posted one, 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.080 but I'm going to post more. I've been doing these 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.040 on my speaking events, a Q and A afterwards, just answering 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.560 questions from people, and that's kind of like what I 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.520 do here. Do you would you go on the podcast 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.240 tour if I did it, probably okay? Yeah, and if 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.760 it didn't interfere with school, maybe oh yeah, I forgot, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.040 We'll do it. We'll get you out there. Let's hit 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:59.520 another one next one comes from anonymous. The early days 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.440 of the podcast, I used to actually accidentally say their name, 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.640 but now people have just learned if you're anonymous, don't 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.280 put your name in here. Because I used to say 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.360 things like, hey Granger, my name is Brian and I 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.520 wish to be anonymous. And I would read it like that, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.319 all right, Brian says, hey Granger, my name is Brian 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.400 and I would like to be anonymous. I'd be like, oh, sorry, Brian, I. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.000 Thought you were Actually I was like, why did you 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:22.480 say that? 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.120 Okay, so here we go, Hey Granger. I am a male. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.440 I'm twenty two years old in a relationship with the 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.680 girl who I've known for most of my life. She 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.439 is twenty and currently in college. We we've been having 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.680 a series of arguments slash fights lately, and one of 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:42.080 our fights recently was about when we have a fight, 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.000 I tell my family what's going on to keep them 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.200 in the loop. My family is as a very open family. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.920 She gets upset with me because I'm willing to talk 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.319 to my family about what's going on in our relationship. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.959 She thinks that our relationship needs to be more private. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.240 I was recently listening to one of your podcasts, and 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.160 you said that as we Christians are not called to 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.439 be private, but to be open. I know that in 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:11.120 that not context you're speaking specifically about divorce, but it 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.280 seemed like it could be taken even further. So my 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.440 question is, could you expand more on how Christians aren't 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.320 supposed to be private? We're in the Bible? Where in 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.199 the Bible does it talk about so I could look 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.320 it up for myself? And finally, should I be more 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.720 willing to keep our arguments to us? Thanks for all 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.600 that you do. I love your podcast. Remember I remember 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.240 when episode one was a big deal. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:39.800 Yee okay, these questions. We can't afford another quarantine. People 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.400 need to like get out there. 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:50.960 I know, so so Anonymous, A couple of things here. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:58.480 Thanks for the question. First of all, I don't I 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.840 don't love the fact that you hear me say something 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.920 and you want to apply it to your situation. And 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.240 it's like you're saying, I want to win this argument, 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.080 and I'm gonna use Granger as the foundation for me 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.400 winning the argument. That's kind of what it feels like here. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.280 And that's where you're saying, Hey, can you show me 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.400 the Bible where it says that we shouldn't be private, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.920 and really it goes back to that first question about 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.200 we should be in community. The New Testament speaks in 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.200 terms of us. We need counsel from each other, we 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.800 need encouragement, we need to be able to act on 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.080 those spiritual gifts, like I said in the first question, 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.640 and that would include something like divorce. When you're walking 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.800 through divorce, a Christian to never walk through that alone. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.840 You should never just close the door and say I'm 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.559 going to decide something so impactful in our lives, and 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.360 I'm going to decide it by myself. Instead, it should 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.640 be done in the fellowship of a local church with 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:01.080 a meaningful membership in the church. That means not just 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.960 a church that you walk into and you attend sometimes, 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.720 but a church you're actually a members of a meaningful membership. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.240 And I hope that your church when you're listening, I 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:15.640 hope that your church has a meaningful membership process, and 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:22.440 that means that you're fellowshipping in the community of the 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.600 church in a way that you're serving them and they're 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.880 serving you. And as a family, they know you and 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.360 you know them. You know the pastor you're bat or 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:36.280 you want to you know the pastor. The pastor knows you. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.079 Some people think it's strange that you would be on 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.240 a text basis with your pastor, do you know. People 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.520 think that's crazy, and I think that should be very normal. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.160 You should know your pastor and he should know you, 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:52.120 and you don't just decide divorce behind closed doors. Your 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.400 pastor should be walking through it with you and others 0:13:55.640 --> 0:14:00.439 through at least just a lot of prayer. I don't 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.360 think this is your deal. I don't think this is 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.280 I don't think this applies to this. First of all, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.320 you're not married, and so you shouldn't act like you are. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.000 You're twenty two and she's twenty and you're dealing with 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.480 like these fights. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:18.320 She's still in college. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.720 I don't think. I don't think it's healthy. I wouldn't 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.960 if this was your story, London, I'd be like, let's 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.400 break up. You know, if you're like going through all 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.280 these fights, then it's not right. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.960 She's barely like out of being a teenager. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.720 She's she's seven years older than you, and so in 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.600 a lot of ways I would say this is this 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:46.800 is too young. She's she is worried about you telling 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:51.080 your parents, which she shouldn't be worried about that. And 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.920 on this flip of the coin, it's weird that you're 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.080 talking to your parents about it because it doesn't sound 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.600 like you're really needing advice from them. Is more so 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.680 that you're just venting to them, and it comes across 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.160 a little bit like gossip. I think that's what she's seeing. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.320 So those are the two sides of the coin. And furthermore, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.920 it's it's hurting. It's hurting your relationship with her when 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.520 you tell your parents these things, because one day, if 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.240 you go, I'm gonna marry her, and they go, we 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.680 already know all this dirty laundry. All you do is 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.680 talk about all their problems, so we don't want you 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.880 to get married. So I think she sees that too. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.480 So I just think there's a lot of like unhealthy 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.640 stuff in this mix. And I would say I don't 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.080 like this relationship as much as I know about it. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.520 I'm not saying that two people should never fight. That's 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.880 weird to say, but I am saying this sounds like 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.960 a lot of drama for a dating relationship. If you 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.520 were married, we could work through this. But dating, you 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.800 say you fight a lot. You say I've had a 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.680 series of arguments fights lately. Then you go tell your 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.200 parents and then she gets mad. That sounds like you're 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.360 playing house. I would run from that. I would run 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.040 to the Lord. I would seek the Lord with all 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.320 your heart and all your mind and all your strength, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.600 and learn who he is and don't ask. Don't ask. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:13.440 You don't have to ask me where it says in 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.160 the Bible something you are actively reading through it, and 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.400 you just know I would do that and then date 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:20.960 to Mary. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.720 I was gonna say, like, I mean, I'm only twelve, 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.520 but I was gonna say, like she if she if 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.800 y'all just got in a fight over like her wanting 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.960 yawl's relation to be relationship to be more private. I 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:37.040 know you're anonymous, but like you're emailing the Granger Smith 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.480 podcast about it, and like that's good. He'll answer your questions. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.520 But if she wants it, if it's about your girlfriend 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.480 wanting it to be more private, he's gonna know that 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.640 this is his question, this is your question, and so 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.080 she's probably gonna find out too, and then that's gonnaly 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:52.840 to another fight. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.400 I always wonder about that on anonymous questions because usually 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.120 the anonymous questions are still really specific, like I'm twenty two, 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.280 she's twenty. Yeah, she's in college, she's twenty I'm twenty two. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.560 We fight, I tell my problems to my parents and 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.640 she if she ever heard the podcast, it'd be really 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.240 hard to be like, Oh, that's so cool, that's such 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.560 a coincidence. That's someone that sounds just like us, but 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:18.480 that's definitely not me. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:20.080 Yeah. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:21.879 Anyway, yeah, I get it, I get it. You might 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:23.760 as well just put your name then you know it's okay. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.080 Let's work through the stuff together. If you want to 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.440 get a hold of me, go to cameo dot com 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.240 slash granger Smith and I could send you a video 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.720 message made right here on my phone whatever you want 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.400 me to say, Happy Birthday, Happy anniversary. It's a great 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.240 way for you and I to stay in contact and 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.520 to get someone a gift that might seem to have everything. Hey, 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.560 get them a gift at cameo dot com slash granger Smith. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.040 Is this the first podcast you've ever done? 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.360 No, I did one with Mama on Her on a Rise, 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:51.439 but this is the first one with you. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.119 So this is the second podcast you've ever done, and 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:55.440 both of them have been in this House. 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.240 Well, we did the Christmas special. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.320 Oh and after midnight, yeah. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:01.840 After midnight a few times. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.720 Not tech that's a radio show, not technically a podcast. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.280 Would you like to do podcasting one day with other people? 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:11.720 What's your favorite podcast out there? 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:12.800 The loll podcast? 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:13.879 What's that about? 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:20.040 Harper'silmer, Kate Cash, Maverick, and now Kensy's on it, and 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:25.919 they're all like, well, Kenzie and mav are getting married, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:30.159 and then Cash Case Kate and Cash are married, and 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:34.720 then Harper's like, I think she's fifteen, and yeah, this 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.760 is talk for a long time. Okay, I would move 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:40.359 to Dallas to be on that podcast. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:42.480 You don't want to mess with Dallas. I used to 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.919 live there when I was your age. I lived in Dallas. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.760 Actually really Oh yeah, yes. 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.680 Yes, all right. So if you guys want to ask 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:56.280 a question, you could email podcast at grangersmith dot com. 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:58.840 Ask about anything like we're sitting in the cab of 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.400 a truck rolling down the road and you say, I've 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.480 got something to run by you. Typically I don't have 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.960 London my daughter with me, but I do today for 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.360 the first time. If you want to see more of her, 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.800 maybe comment below, or maybe just email podcast at Gradersmith 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.679 dot com and say more London I want to. 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.520 Add my community postback SA y'all can comment on my channel, 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:20.320 can I? 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.840 Yeah, she has a channel London Smith on YouTube. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.080 Yeah, I want to add community posts. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.160 We will discuss that. We'll discuss that and see there's 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.240 been a lot of really good people that have sat 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:37.760 in that seat Marshall. Oh yeah, Chad, Bernie, your mama, 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:45.520 Parker Tyler, many others. Yeah. Okay, So the next question 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.040 comes from Kendra. It says, Hey Granger, my name is Kendra. 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.719 I'm a big fan of your music, your podcast. I 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.479 love watching you preach. My question for you is what 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.680 is your thought on cremation. Some people think that cremation 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.960 is wrong and you won't go to heaven if you're cremated. 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.040 I would love to hear what you think and what 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:08.119 you believe. I'm gonna throw this to you. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.280 You're not burning your soul. If you believe in Jesus, 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.159 you're going to heaven. And if you like trust in 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:15.800 Him and stuff, you're going to go to heaven like 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.320 you're not when you're getting cremated. You're not burning their 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.680 soul because their soul isn't going down into the ground 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:25.680 even if you bury them, so like, it's the same thing. 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.159 You're just like, I guess burning their body is the 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:29.840 same as putting them into the ground. 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:36.000 So that's the concerning thing for me too, is some 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.359 people think you won't go to heaven if you're cremated. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.960 You could take that sentence and take out the back 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:44.800 part of the sentence and say you won't go to 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:49.320 heaven if blank, and there's only one answer. There's a 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.120 million things you could try to fill in, but there's 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.120 only one right answer. You won't go to heaven. 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:55.920 If you don't believe in Jesus. 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.680 That's right. If you don't trust in Jesus for your 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:06.040 forgiveness of sins that he accomplished at the cross, with 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:11.240 his satisfaction of God's wrath and his substitute for your 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:15.399 sins that you deserved. That's maybe a complicated way of 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:18.440 saying what you just said. If you don't trust and 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.520 if you don't have faith in Jesus, that's the only 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.480 reason that you would be kept out of heaven when 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:32.160 you meet our Lord at the at the gates of heaven, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:37.959 you could say you will have You'll have one argument 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.600 to make when they say why do you deserve to 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:42.639 come in here? Can you answer that for me? If 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.760 if the gatekeeper of heaven will say it that way, 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:51.840 we'll simplify it. The gatekeeper of heaven says, why should 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.320 you come in here? Wait? 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:56.320 Like what you would say? 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:58.439 Yeah? What would you say to that? There you are, 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.560 You're standing at heaven and they say, why should I 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:01.080 let you in? 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:06.040 I would say, because I trust Jesus and I believe 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.840 that he died on the cross for me, and that 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.080 God said his only son to die on the cross 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:16.520 for me to be the substitute so that he could 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:24.200 take he could take on my sin. And what was 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:26.919 I gonna say? Oh, and like take the punishment for me. 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.840 And then on the third day he rose, and now 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:31.920 he's going to come back. 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:34.679 Do you know a simple way of saying that to 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:35.359