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Speaker 1: Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. I put it in

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Speaker 1: This first question it says questions about marriage. Hey, granger,

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Speaker 1: Cameo app and search for me. Okay, let's get back

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Speaker 1: to some questions. Subject line here is called eternal marriage

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Speaker 1: from anonymous Hey Granger loved the Smith. I'm seventy and

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Speaker 1: I was married thirty six and a half years, was

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Speaker 1: sealed to my spouse. I've been single for fifteen plus years.

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Speaker 1: Haven't met anyone in my in my age group and

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Speaker 1: or anyone single in my age group. And I have

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Speaker 1: to say that I do spend ninety percent of my

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Speaker 1: time with my animals, work on a small ranch, and

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Speaker 1: leave ranch for groceries and Bible study, et cetera. Guess

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Speaker 1: my question is how to change an inner feeling that

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Speaker 1: if I was eternally sealed to my spouse? Is there

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Speaker 1: anything I would be challenging by being with someone else?

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Speaker 1: Let me say that without stuttering. How to change that

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Speaker 1: inner feeling that if if I was eternally sealed to

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Speaker 1: my spouse, is there anything I would be challenging by

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Speaker 1: being with someone else? Thanks for listening to the long

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Speaker 1: Get the Facts email. Okay, Anonymous, Thank you for watching

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Speaker 1: the Smiths and listen to the podcast. And I love

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Speaker 1: your question and it's amazing. Let me first say, it's

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Speaker 1: amazing to talk to someone that was married thirty six

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Speaker 1: and a half years. That's a beautiful thing. My mother, too,

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Speaker 1: is a widow with about the same statistics as you,

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Speaker 1: including the ranch and the animals and the groceries and

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Speaker 1: the Bible study. But let me say something, this is

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Speaker 1: very very important. There is no such thing as eternal marriage.

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Speaker 1: That's what they'll tell you in the Mormon Church. And

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Speaker 1: I will get a lot of emails from my friends

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Speaker 1: at the Church of Jesus Christ the Latter day Saints.

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Speaker 1: They email me all the time to try to correct me.

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Speaker 1: And I've read the Book of Mormon. I have talked

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Speaker 1: to many, many, many many of my Mormon friends, a

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Speaker 1: lot of them through this podcast and through emails that

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Speaker 1: I get, and they will challenge me every time on

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Speaker 1: eternal marriage. But that is not biblical. Jesus talks about it.

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Speaker 1: Eternal marriage is not true, Apostle Paul talks about it,

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Speaker 1: and so Anonymous. You'll find this many times as you

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Speaker 1: go through your Bible study. Marriage is not eternal. And

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Speaker 1: I know I know the arguments and they are out

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Speaker 1: of context. The scriptures that I will get will be

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Speaker 1: what is bound on earth is bound in heaven, and

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Speaker 1: that is not concerning marriage. So your question is how

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Speaker 1: do I change the inner feeling that if I was

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Speaker 1: eternally sealed to my spouse. Well, as we mentioned a

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Speaker 1: little bit earlier on the podcast, that's a feeling. That's

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Speaker 1: a feeling. So you could change feelings by using your brain.

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Speaker 1: And so many times we take the opposite approach. Like

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Speaker 1: I said said earlier on the earlier question, so many

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Speaker 1: times our feelings change our mind. But really, and this

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Speaker 1: is biblical too, our mind is what's going to change

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Speaker 1: our feeling. So by you reading and do a quick

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Speaker 1: search on it, do a quick do a quick search,

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Speaker 1: go to Google, so that you could quickly find these scriptures,

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Speaker 1: they're going to talk about marriage that once your spouse dies,

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Speaker 1: you were are you were then released from that covenant. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're released from that covenant. Now. The Bible does suggest

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Speaker 1: that at your age, maybe it's best to be single now.

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Speaker 1: And it also says that we need to look after

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Speaker 1: the widows and take care of our widows. That's biblical too,

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Speaker 1: and and so I and I could speak to this

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Speaker 1: because you're my mother's age and you have a very

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Speaker 1: similar story to my mother. So I would say absolutely, people,

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Speaker 1: people need to look after you and take care of

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Speaker 1: you your family, and you don't have to be getting

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Speaker 1: married again, but you can, absolutely, But that's not up

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Speaker 1: to you. That's up to God. And you know that,

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Speaker 1: and that you'll find that through reading your Bible as well.

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Speaker 1: But you you look around you and your life, and

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Speaker 1: I understand that you're spending so much time at your

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Speaker 1: ranch and doing your own thing, and so you have

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Speaker 1: ten percent of your time left over to find someone.

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Speaker 1: But what all you're gonna do is you're gonna look

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Speaker 1: around you, and you're going to look at someone that's

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Speaker 1: that's seeking God and studying their Bible and maybe working

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Speaker 1: on their ranch and they're single, and there they're they're

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Speaker 1: a widower just like you, and you take them out

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Speaker 1: to coffee and you get to know them, and there's

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Speaker 1: absolutely a chance that you'll find someone and you'll love again,

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Speaker 1: and you could have an equal love that you had

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Speaker 1: for your spouse. Not the same, and it's not replacing

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Speaker 1: it by any means, but you could have a strong,

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Speaker 1: strong love. It's amazing how humans could have extra space

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Speaker 1: in our he art to love again or to have

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Speaker 1: another child. Like, for instance, you have a child and

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Speaker 1: you you know, you hold up your child and you think,

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Speaker 1: I never thought I could love this much because I

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Speaker 1: loved my spouse, and now I have this extra love

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Speaker 1: for this kid, and I'm complete. Now I've loved this

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Speaker 1: kid so much. Until you have the second kid, and

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Speaker 1: you go, I had no idea that my heart had

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Speaker 1: space for another love, and now I'm holding this little,

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Speaker 1: precious baby. And you think that until you have the

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Speaker 1: third kid, and then you think, guys, I've got four kids,

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Speaker 1: and I've thought this four times, how could I love anymore?

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Speaker 1: How is it possible that my heart could open up

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Speaker 1: and love something all over again this much? And it's

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Speaker 1: the same thing with marriage, so you're gonna, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: you might find somebody, and you're not ever gonna replace

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Speaker 1: your husband, but you could love a lot wholeheartedly enough

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Speaker 1: to marry. Now, we'll say, after I said all that,

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Speaker 1: there is one eternal marriage and that's our relationship, our covenant. Well, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: that's eternal. That's the covenant that never goes away. Because

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Speaker 1: when we go to heaven, we're all gonna be brothers

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Speaker 1: and sisters in Christ. And it's hard to understand that.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to grasp that with our small brains, we're

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Speaker 1: not capable of truly understanding an eternal covenant like that.

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Speaker 1: But it is biblical that you and your spouse are

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Speaker 1: now that covenant is now released. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say broken or tarnished because you had a great thirty

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Speaker 1: six and a half year old relationship, right, that's incredible,

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Speaker 1: But you're now released from that covenant and it's totally

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Speaker 1: totally fine. Next question, subject line contentment. Hey Granger, I

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Speaker 1: love your podcast and your constant encouragement and advice. Thank

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Speaker 1: y'all so much. My name is Kayla. I'm twenty three

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Speaker 1: years old from California. I've dealt with a lot of

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Speaker 1: heartbreak in my life already, whether it was from a guy,

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Speaker 1: losing friendships or losing a loved one. More recently, I've

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Speaker 1: just been struggling on how to be content and joyful

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Speaker 1: in the present moment. What would be your advice on

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Speaker 1: being content and finding joy even in the midst of

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Speaker 1: hurt and frustration. I continue praying because I know that

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Speaker 1: I can only find true sidifaction in the Lord, but

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Speaker 1: it's just difficult sometimes. And adding to that, I went

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Speaker 1: to a Christian college and everyone is getting married and engaged,

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Speaker 1: and I know it's God's timing, but I just feel

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Speaker 1: behind because I'm not even dating anybody and feeling like

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Speaker 1: I can't be content when other people are basically living

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Speaker 1: the dream, if that makes sense. Thank you for all

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Speaker 1: you do, Kayla. Thanks for your email. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to California. You are not alone in what

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Speaker 1: you're feeling and what you're thinking. You're looking around and

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Speaker 1: you're going to Instagram. Gosh, Instagram is so bad for us, guys.

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Speaker 1: Social media is so bad for us because we look

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Speaker 1: around and we see everyone on their best day. We

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Speaker 1: look at these other people around us and they're all

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Speaker 1: getting married and they're so happy, and they're posting pictures

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Speaker 1: with the champagne glass and they're holding up their left

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Speaker 1: hand and they got this diamond ring on it and

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Speaker 1: they're so happy, and we're not. How could that be?

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Speaker 1: Why are they so lucky? Why are we not? What's

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Speaker 1: wrong with us when we go back and look in

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Speaker 1: the mirror and we say, there's something wrong, there's something

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Speaker 1: wrong with me. No, that's a lie. That is a lie.

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Speaker 1: It's a lie that you're seeing on Instagram because you're

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Speaker 1: seeing you're seeing that girl that posted that picture, and

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Speaker 1: she has fifteen pictures and she found the best angle

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Speaker 1: with the best smile and the best eyes that she has,

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Speaker 1: and then she colored it and put a filter on it,

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Speaker 1: and then she tossed it around and she zoomed in

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Speaker 1: the restaurant, and she cropped it just perfect. And then

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Speaker 1: she wrote a caption and then she deleted it and

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Speaker 1: then wrote another one, and then she showed it to

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Speaker 1: her friends, and then they told her to add a

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Speaker 1: few more words, and so she changed the caption again.

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Speaker 1: She's making a fake idea of what is happening to her.

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Speaker 1: I do it. Everyone does it. That's what we do.

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Speaker 1: That's the evil and social media. So you're not seeing

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Speaker 1: the truth. You're not seeing that she's in a relationship

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Speaker 1: that they it's very normal, and they have disagreements, and

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Speaker 1: he's another human and he's not the best human in

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Speaker 1: the world. None of us are. And then they're gonna

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Speaker 1: get married and they're gonna have problems. They're not seeing that,

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Speaker 1: so it's a false representation of what you're saying. So

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Speaker 1: let me just get that part of your question out.

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Speaker 1: The other part and I could use this for so

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Speaker 1: many questions that y'all send me, but your advice on

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Speaker 1: being content and finding joy even though you continue to

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Speaker 1: pray because you know that true satisfaction is in the Lord.

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Speaker 1: So here's my question. We know that this contentment and

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Speaker 1: this joy and this satisfaction comes from God right and

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Speaker 1: we know that because of faith. Faith is what activates this.

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Speaker 1: But my question to you is, Kayla, and I love you,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the email. I got to say that, but

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Speaker 1: I want to give you some tough love. Did you

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Speaker 1: know that faith is not a noun? You're you're sometimes

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Speaker 1: replacing the idea of faith with grace. Grace is the

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Speaker 1: unmerited gift to you from God. But faith is your part.

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Speaker 1: That is an action. Faith is a verb. So I

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Speaker 1: would say, you know what they talk of faith in

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Speaker 1: terms of a walk, a walk of faith? How is

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Speaker 1: your walk in faith? Meaning it's active, it's persistent, it's

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Speaker 1: step by step. So I would ask you, Kayla, what

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Speaker 1: are you doing in your walk of faith? Is what

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Speaker 1: you're talking about? Just saying, God, help me find somebody

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Speaker 1: I trust you? Hey, this, let me say it again.

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Speaker 1: What I'm telling y'all, this goes to so many questions

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Speaker 1: that you'll ask. So many people ask me something along

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Speaker 1: the lines of I'm losing my faith, or I'm struggling

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Speaker 1: with my faith, or I'm trying to find my faith.

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Speaker 1: Like it's gold in the ground and you're you got

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Speaker 1: to find this gold, right, and that's your gold and

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Speaker 1: you put in your pocket. It's a noun. This is

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Speaker 1: not a nounan we're talking about. We're talking about an

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Speaker 1: active verb. So I would say, what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Jesus says in Luke six, you say, Lord Lord, But

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Speaker 1: why don't you do anything that I say? Right? So

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Speaker 1: what are you doing? What are you? Are you listening

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Speaker 1: to him? Are you doing what he's saying. Are you

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Speaker 1: going to your Bible and reading those red letter words

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Speaker 1: and doing doing things? Are you studying your Bible? Are

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Speaker 1: you in a small group. Are you going to church

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Speaker 1: every Sunday because your life depends on it. Are you

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Speaker 1: praying circles around problems in your life? Are you giving

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Speaker 1: it to God? Are you trusting him? Are you glorifying him?

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Speaker 1: Are you actively representing him in the way that he

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Speaker 1: deserves to be represented as the creator of the universe.

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Speaker 1: What are you doing, Kayla? Are you just asking for

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Speaker 1: things and hoping that the genie in the bottle is

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Speaker 1: going to give it to you? Are you looking at

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Speaker 1: the man upstairs like some people say, like the big

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Speaker 1: old man with the white beard and the white cloak,

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Speaker 1: and just hoping that the genie in the bottle, the

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Speaker 1: Santa Claus, is going to give you some presents. What

641
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Speaker 1: are you doing? Are you waking up every morning with

642
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 1: a fire under you, making that coffee, getting your Bible,

643
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 1: open it up and saying, God, I'm about to open

644
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Speaker 1: the Word of God. I'm about to open this Bible. That,

645
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: first of all, is a miracle that's even here through

646
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: all the trials and the wars and the tribulations that

647
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: this word made it through the word of God. I'm

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00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: about to open it up. God opened my eyes to

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00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: this word so that I could learn more about you

650
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: and your glory, so I could see you for what

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Speaker 1: you are, the creator of everything, sovereign, God in control.

652
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Speaker 1: You're driving the ship, not me, So I'm gonna trust you.

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Speaker 1: Open my eyes to these words. It's life to me.

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Speaker 1: These words are life. It's going to satisfy every hunger,

655
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Speaker 1: every thirst with these words. Is that what you're doing?

656
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: Is that what your faith is? Are you looking for

657
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 1: the genie in the bottle to bring you a man

658
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: so that you could post on Instagram your ring with

659
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: a champagne glass and the waiter in the background at

660
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: the restaurant, which one are you? That's how you find contentment,

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Speaker 1: That's how you find joy and peace when you know

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00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: that you're not in control and that's okay. God is.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just an understanding, it's an active path,

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Speaker 1: a walk of faith that you are reading that word.

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Speaker 1: You're joining sisters like you in small groups. You're sharing

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00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: your testimony, You're going to church, you're taking notes on

667
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Speaker 1: Sunday morning, going God feed me feed me through the

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Speaker 1: words of this pastor as he's going to talk. I'm

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Speaker 1: and listen for what you have to say through his

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Speaker 1: mouth to me, and I'm gonna write it down because

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Speaker 1: my life depends on it. If you're doing those things,

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Speaker 1: and then you look to your right and you see

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Speaker 1: a guy sitting next to you at church down the

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Speaker 1: aisle a little bit and he's doing the same thing,

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Speaker 1: you might have just found somebody you need to start

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Speaker 1: talking to. There you go. Next question, ironically, subject line

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Speaker 1: is the Lord? By the way, I'm not prepping these

678
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: questions at all. Is or just what's in my inbox? Okay,

679
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: says Hey Granger. Been listening to the podcast for a

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00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 1: little while now while I'm mow and I love it. Hey,

681
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: I listened to podcasts while I'm mow too, buddy, Thank

682
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: you for that. That's a good time to listen to podcasts.

683
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Speaker 1: Is on a lawnmower, he says, I just have one question.

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Speaker 1: I just joined my youth team at church a couple

685
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and I love the people I teach with,

686
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Speaker 1: and I have such a good group of friends at church.

687
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Speaker 1: How do I get closer to the Lord? Fisher from

688
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Speaker 1: KYMP Texas Boom, back to back questions. There we go, Fisher,

689
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: go back, listen to what I just said. You're on

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Speaker 1: a good path right now. You want to get closer

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Speaker 1: to God. You want to get closer to the Lord.

692
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Speaker 1: You read his word. That's our instruction manual. It's like

693
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Speaker 1: saying this. It's like saying, I just bought a new lawnmower.

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Speaker 1: We'll go with your same analogy. I just bought a

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Speaker 1: new lawnmower and I ordered it online, and so it

696
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Speaker 1: came from hardware store. I'm not going to endorse anybody.

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00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: It came from the hardware store in a box. And

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00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: open up the box and it's all these pieces. And

699
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: it's like saying, looking at all those pieces out of

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Speaker 1: the box and going, how do I figure out this lawnmower?

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Speaker 1: And it only takes one person to go read the

702
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Speaker 1: instruction manual. Oh yeah, oh yeah, read the instruction manual.

703
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: It came with the box. So that's you. You're in

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Speaker 1: the box and you got an instruction manual. It's called

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Speaker 1: the Bible. So you want to get closer to the

706
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Speaker 1: creator of you. You want to know what he needs

707
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Speaker 1: from you. You want to know how to glorify him.

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00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: You want to know how to grow your faith, read

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Speaker 1: the instruction manual, Read the Bible. We want to make

710
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: it so hard. We want to make Santa Claus in

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Speaker 1: the sky, we want to make the genie in the

712
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: bottle so bad, and we forget that we got the

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Speaker 1: word of God right here in front of us. Think

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Speaker 1: about this, y'all. I'm a prac person. I'm just not

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Speaker 1: a person that goes. I just believe. I just believe

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Speaker 1: in a fairy tale. I don't. I can't. Some people can,

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Speaker 1: God bless them. My mother is one of these people.

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Speaker 1: I can't do that. I am a practical person. I

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Speaker 1: love history. I have to go backwards. I have to

720
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Speaker 1: calculate things. That's not all of my testimony, but I

721
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: got to look at things from a practical standpoint. And

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Speaker 1: I go back and I read these words, and I

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Speaker 1: go this is talking about things, people and places, specific

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Speaker 1: times that they happened in history with eyewitnesses, and all

725
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: these people wrote the same story about the same thing,

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Speaker 1: and they dispersed. And then we found fragments of those

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Speaker 1: people that wrote those things. We found fragments of them

728
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Speaker 1: all over the world, and we put these little fragments

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Speaker 1: together and astonishingly we find out that these fragments are

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Speaker 1: saying the same thing. Like you find this little piece

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Speaker 1: of John over here, right this little piece of the

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Speaker 1: Gospel of John. And you find a little piece of

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Speaker 1: John seventeen right down there in verse five, and you go, wow,

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Speaker 1: we found the same fragment way over here, two thousand

735
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Speaker 1: miles away, in the same time period. And guess what

736
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: it says the same thing. It's not possible that that

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Speaker 1: was recreated or some one person decided that this is

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Speaker 1: what the Bible is gonna say. It would be impossible

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Speaker 1: to stop that kind of movement from happening unless it

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Speaker 1: really happened, unless those people really saw what they said

741
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: they saw. And if they saw what they said they saw,

742
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: then we have to believe that it really happened. And

743
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: if we believe that it really happened, we got to believe.

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Speaker 1: It's important to us, and it matters to us that

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Speaker 1: this man, the son of God, claiming to be divine,

746
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: living a sinless, perfect life, saying I'll forgive you if

747
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: you believe in me, and he was killed in the

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Speaker 1: most gruesome death on the cross, a crucifixion, the most terrible,

749
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Speaker 1: horrific way to die in the history of evil. He

750
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Speaker 1: was killed on a cross, and just like he predicted,

751
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Speaker 1: and just like all the prophets thousands of years before

752
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Speaker 1: him predicted, he came back to life three days later,

753
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Speaker 1: proving that everything he did and said was true. And

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00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: people saw it. Over five hundred people saw this, and

755
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Speaker 1: then they wrote it down, and then they were killed

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Speaker 1: for it. Do you think they would have been killed

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Speaker 1: for it if it didn't happen, If it was a

758
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 1: lie and you're getting tortured and people are ripping your

759
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: limbs off and cutting your head off and dragging you

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Speaker 1: through the streets behind a horse until your skin falls off,

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00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: do you think one of them probably would have said, okay, okay,

762
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: stop please, it was made up. It's not true. But

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Speaker 1: they didn't. They went along with their own deaths because

764
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: they knew that something more important mattered than their own death.

765
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: They knew that death was already defeated and that their

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Speaker 1: life was just beginning after death. They died for this.

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00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: We have to think about this practically. We have to

768
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Speaker 1: look at all these martyrs. We have to look at

769
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Speaker 1: the story historically. This isn't one person under a tree

770
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: having a dream and writing a book. That's what other

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00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 1: religions will do. This isn't a talking head that just

772
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: says do this, do this, do that, follow these rules

773
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: to be closer to God. It's not what the Bible does,

774
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: it's not what it says. We have to look at

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00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: it practically, at least at least me. I'm speaking just

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Speaker 1: for me here. I'm not trying to preach to y'all.

777
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: I'm just speaking from my brain saying practically, I look

778
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: at this and I go, wow, that should matter. Those

779
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: people are either crazy or lying or telling the truth.

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Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure if they were crazy or lying,

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't have been killed for it. First of all,

782
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: all those people couldn't have been crazy. It's too many

783
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Speaker 1: of them. And if they were lying, I don't think

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Speaker 1: they would have gone along with their own beheading. I

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00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: think right there, when that act starts coming down on

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Speaker 1: their head, they would have said, well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

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Speaker 1: because all they had to do during these times, all

788
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: they had to do was tell them it was a lie.

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Speaker 1: But they didn't. They took it. They took the pain,

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Speaker 1: they took the death. Some of them were put on

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Speaker 1: crosses just like their lord so if all that happened,

792
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: then you got to think maybe it was true. And y'all,

793
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: if maybe it was true, that changes everything for me.

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00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: And you think about that, if maybe it would true,

795
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: If you hold that Bible and think maybe this is true,

796
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 1: that changes everything for you and me. So if you're

797
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: asking me, Fisher, how to get closer to the Lord,

798
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: I would read that instruction manual that came in the

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Speaker 1: box your box you, I would read it like my

800
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: life depends on it. Look at it this way. If

801
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: you're an atheist or an agnostic and you're not a Christian,

802
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,919
Speaker 1: wouldn't you let me suggest wouldn't you want to read

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00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: the whole Bible just for an experiment because it has

804
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: impacted humanity more than any other book ever ever, And

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00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: it starts the story in the beginning of the book,

806
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: all the way back at the beginning of man. And

807
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: these stories have been repeated and they've impact culture for

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00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: thousands of years. Don't you think as an atheist, hey,

809
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: it's a good experiment just to read this book just

810
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: because of the fact that it's impacted culture for so long,

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Speaker 1: I might as well read it. You read everything else,

812
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: and then at that point you read it. If you

813
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: don't believe it, that's on you. And I'm not going

814
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: to plead with you on that. I'm just saying for me,

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Speaker 1: my personal thought is practically speaking, I can't see us

816
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: coming from Amiba's and then becoming growing legs and walking

817
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: on land, and then thousands of years later we became monkeys,

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00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: and thousands or millions of years later we became humans,

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Speaker 1: different than every other species on this planet. When the

820
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: Bible says that we are image bearers of God, made

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Speaker 1: in His image, that's why we're different. That's why we

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00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: think like we do, That's why we're problem solved. That's

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Speaker 1: why we create like our creator created us. We constantly

824
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: want to create art and music and buildings and jobs

825
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 1: and new ideas, new technologies. A monkey doesn't come up

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Speaker 1: with new technologies or buildings or architecture music, but we

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00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: do because we're image of areas of God according to

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Speaker 1: our instruction manual. That was a long way of answering

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00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 1: your question, Fisher, But I hope that that helps you

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00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: get up in the morning, before you start anything in

831
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: your day, pull out that Bible and start reading it

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00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: and then look at it like it's your instruction manual

833
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: and then look at it like your life depends on it,

834
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: and you're going to see those words a little bit differently.

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Speaker 1: There's enough translations out there, good translations that came from

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00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: teams of scholars that put these together, that translated that

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00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 1: Greek and Hebrew, which, by the way, is not like

838
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: a game of telephone. It's not like someone said one

839
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: thing and one hundred years later they repeated it and

840
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: it changed a little bit, and one hundred years later

841
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 1: they said it again and changed a little bit. We

842
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: have access to the ancient Greek and Hebrew writings, so

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00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: we could take what we have now in the translation today,

844
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 1: and if you want, you could take your phone out

845
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: and put a translator on it on an app and

846
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: type in the words and you could translate it yourself.

847
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Speaker 1: So you don't have to rely on a translation. You

848
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: could translate it yourself today. It's a crazy time we

849
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: live in with these phones, but you can. I'm just

850
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Speaker 1: saying you can trust the translation, and you could find

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