WEBVTT - Why does God allow suffering? 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.600 If God watches over all of his children, then why 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:07.120 wasn't I watched over? I was subject to all forms 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:12.320 of abuse via my foster family for the last seventeen years. Still, 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:34.360 to this day, this question has never been answered. Chad Warren, father, husband, pastor, friend, 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.720 frequent guest on the podcast Welcome Back, Sir, it is 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.800 great to be here, man. I love it. I love 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.760 it when you're here. We have questions, and you are 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.080 the man with the answers. I have some answers and 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.680 I'm amen. So we've built this podcast. If you're new, 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.479 we make it as if we're all sitting around a 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.680 campfire or sitting in the truck and there's three of us, 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.320 me and Chad, and you're asking the questions, and we 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.360 could walk through some of these questions as if we've 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.000 known each other forever, then as if we're just giving 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.920 friend advice to each other. If you want to send 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:15.160 an email, shoot it over to Grangersmith podcast at gmail 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.200 dot com. Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Could be 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.600 any subject. As long as I've done this, now, I 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.959 see the subject matters get wider and wider, and we 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.440 welcome that. So we're going to dig in Chad and 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.320 are going to dig in. I love it when Chad's here. 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:36.560 You're a Montana boy, Texas replanted, right. And is there 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:41.839 a state in between Montana and Texas that you lived Colora, Colorado, Colorado? Yeah, yeah, 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:46.240 so you're cover. Some consider North Texas so not Colorado. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.600 People they hate that. No, they don't get the Texas 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.720 out of here. Yeah. And when we live there, my 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.880 wife being from Texas and that's where we met. I 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.560 was in South Texas or the southern part of the 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.760 hill Country, and when we live there, we reminded them that, look, 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.240 you get to have fun, and Colorado exists, probably because 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.040 Texans consider it North Texas and they vacation here. I 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.760 wouldn't say that to anybody in Colorado and myself, you 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.040 could say that, I wouldn't say that. I'll say this, 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.040 there are traffic jams between Denver and the mountains because 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:22.639 of Texans, is true? That is true? Absolutely. I want 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.440 to I'm gonna start this off with some some easy 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.400 questions and then I'm gonna start leaving it up to 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.720 you like we did last time. Read the subjects. You 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.680 see if you like it. I saw one on here 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:37.640 that I thought that here we go. It's it's titled 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.520 sports like, Oh, that's a great that's a great person, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:42.400 says hey grangdeer. I'm a big fan of your music 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.480 and your YouTube channel. Thank you, It says, just wondering 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.639 if you played any sports growing up. God bless you 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.639 and your family, sincerely, Michelle, Thank you, Michelle, thanks for listening. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.880 Can I guess? Can I guess? Yeah? Do it? You 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:01.600 strike me? Not a soccer player? Not a not a 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:07.280 soccer player? You probably I'm gonna say baseball. You look 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.680 like you could be a ballplayer. Yeah, yeah, maybe a 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:17.200 football player definitely, but maybe basketball. I don't. You weren't 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.560 a wrestler, that's right. Maybe track and field. I dabbled in, 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.160 if I said enough to maybe cover my base, I 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.560 dabbled enough, and and all of them as a kid, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.600 there's probably a lot of us did except basketball. I 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:35.800 was terrible, terrible at basketball. Still am. Yeah, I can't. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:40.880 I cannot shoot a basket or dribble. I was mainly 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.280 a football player, mainly a football player. It probably goes 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.280 with the culture of where I was living in North Texas, 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.200 and it's you know, there was in football there's no tryout. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.960 You just show up and if you if you could 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.160 take it, if you could take the practices, then you're 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.240 on the team, which is I think it's really cool 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.320 about Texas football. I don't even know if that that 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.520 probably is the same everywhere. But football is a sport 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.680 that you don't try out for. You just show up, 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.600 if you could, if you could hang, and if you 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.839 last what through two a days and you're still there, 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.680 and if you're still there, welcome to the team. Wow, 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.560 we could use you. So is it were you offense 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:21.080 or defense or played play defense. I played cornerback, which 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.360 is probably why you thought you might have thought it 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.120 was a baseball player because I don't have the size 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.680 of alignment or a linebacker or running back. But I 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.719 played cornerback and I loved it. It's an interesting question 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.800 because I learned so much from junior high and high 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.680 school football. We were so serious about football in my 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.080 high school that our coaches actually didn't let us play 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.320 anything else, or at least they really looked down on it. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.919 They would really look down on you playing another sport 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.080 that you could possibly get injured in or take away 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.719 from spring training or they except for track, track was 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.599 like the one sport they encouraged because that actually helped 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.480 your agility and your speed. And a lot of those 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.320 guys coach track too. But soccer don't even think about it. No, 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.839 I liked soccer as a little kid, but our football 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.599 coach is no way they called it. If I could 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:16.839 say that on this podcast, that's what they said, something 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.040 Texans would say. I loved the sport of soccer. I 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.920 really knew football is it's known everywhere else. How about you? 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.239 So like you, I I played a lot of stuff 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.960 as a little little kid. I think, you know, my 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.200 mom wanted to get me exposed, and I think mostly 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.279 just to keep me busy. I was put in camps 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.320 like throughout the whole summer just so that I was 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:43.160 using my energy up. I was. I enjoyed baseball the most, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.440 but I was the best at wrestling. I was a wrestler, 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:51.000 and and then I in as I started to get older, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.000 I was into cross country and track because that was 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.880 a better sport to facilitate wrestling, to build endurance and 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.880 to maintain way. And so I was. I was a 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.479 good wrestler, but I enjoyed baseball more. Good. Yeah, I 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.760 could see that gear because I liked the way that 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:11.640 my ears like the way God made them, and I 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.320 didn't want them to change. You didn't want those little 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:19.120 bubbles and all. Yeah, the cauliflower here, I man, that 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.800 was I encourage anyone listening that's maybe thinking about should 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.320 I get into something? I don't know. I think sports 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.040 were such a such a big part of my life, 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.680 and football because that's what I played, but the team 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:37.600 sport aspect about it I learned. To this day, I 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.680 will do things in my life that I know I 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.080 learned from high school football, whether that's some kind of 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:48.479 mental endurance or some kind of lesson I could get 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.360 from a loss, you know, like losing crush to me. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.440 When I was in high school, I was the kid 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.440 on the bus going back, just devastated and going over 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.800 everything I did in my mind and reliving mistakes and 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.640 to get better. And my parents could probably tell you 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.880 they loved it because I would go in early, you know, 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.880 and I would eat breakfast in the locker room, and 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.000 I would start studying film, and then I would go 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.000 through school, and then i'd go to practice after well, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.360 then i'd stay late make sure I had everything studied right. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.120 I didn't have time to go riff raff around in 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.400 town because football took a lot of my mental energy. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.960 So if my parents ever wondered where I was in 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.200 high school, I was in the locker room doing something. Well. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.600 You make a good point about the team work, the 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.680 team sports versus individual sports. I think that's a very 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.440 different experience because wrestling, I mean, we would train with 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.840 other people, but it was very internally competitive, like you're 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.680 competing for that top spot in that weight class, even 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:55.440 within your team, and so there is an intensity there 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.040 which I'm sure you see in other sports. But the 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.560 baseball there was much more of a hey, we're in 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.880 this together. There's a camaraderie in this. Everyone's got to 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.880 do their job for this to work out, and even 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:11.520 more so with football, everyone linemen to cornerback, everyone's got 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.560 to play their position, every play a certain way for 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.680 this thing to pan out. And it's pretty cool. And 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.720 I tell so, I get a coach little league. Now, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.600 I catch I coach my kiddos, and I love it 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.480 because I can see it now that sports, like a 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.120 game and a season, is like a microcosm of life. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.679 If you go through emotional ups and downs, you face adversity, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.560 and one minute everything is awesome, and it can just 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.360 change so quick, and you've got to emotionally how do 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.360 you handle those ups and downs? And it's a great 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.160 training ground, I think for all of us to deal 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.360 with the ups and downs. And how are we when 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.080 when everything's good? Are we a jerk when things are 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.560 going well? And are we a jerk when they aren't? 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.400 Do we blame others? Do we we own things that 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.240 are our mistake and that we need to do better. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.800 Do we have a short memory about mistakes and so 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.120 that we can move forward? Do we sacrifice for our teammates? 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.280 There's so many cool things. So yes, if you're not 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.000 in a sport, you should probably go find a sport. 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.800 I agree. I have to tell a quick story about that. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.800 And I know that this is not what this podcast is, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.360 not about football or sports, but but I'll never forget. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.400 It was in ninth grade, and ninth grade for me 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.920 was the end of junior high so that you know, 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.000 we fed into high school. We went into high school 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.640 in our sophomore year and there was two rival junior 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.000 highs and we were both undefeated. And these these two 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.280 junior highs both fed into our high school, so they 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.600 were they were about to be our brothers next year, 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.520 but not today. And we played the game at our 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.080 high school field, so you know, it was like a 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.160 big deal. We didn't play in the little junior high field. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.200 We played in the high school stadium first each other 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.360 last game of the season, both undefeated, and they had 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.240 this big old quarterback. His name is Sean Staley ended 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.880 up playing quarterback for TCU. Big, you know, six seven 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.960 legit dude. He could scramble, he could throw, and so 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.800 they built up He ended up being our high school quarterback, 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.880 which you know is a great friend. But they built 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.800 this play for me. Our coach has built this play. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.240 It was a cornerback blitz and I would come in 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:25.240 off the off the tackle and go backside and tack 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.400 and sack him when he was looking the other way. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.839 And we had to call this. This play was if 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.640 it triggered, if they brought out a certain formation that 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.760 we knew, or they're going to roll out and I'd 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.440 come in on the backside. And no one really expects 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.200 the cornerback to blitz. That's but the safety would always 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.720 protect the you know, if there was a tight end, 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.280 the safety would roll over the top. So it was 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.480 a trick play basically, So we called it, and I 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.719 remember my heart was pounding because I knew they came 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.320 out in this formation. The coaches gave the signal from 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.080 the sideline. I knew this is it. My heart was pounding, 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.719 like here we go. I've been practicing. So we got 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.200 off the ball and I ended up sacking him. He 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.400 didn't even see me coming because it was from the backside. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.560 So I was just on cloud nine. You know. The 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.800 crowd was excited, they were cheering, and I said, who 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.839 is great. There's a ninth grade kid, you know, a 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:17.600 pimple faced kid. And it was a big game. Was 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.040 one of the biggest days of my life at the time. 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.600 So second half comes out and it's a close game. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.920 I don't remember the score, and they come out in 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.840 that formation again, same call. Coach gives me the signal. 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.920 So this this formation only happens if they're tight, if 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.520 they have a tight end, right obviously, So that's what 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.520 they did. Here's what I didn't know, and they knew. 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.680 They knew this, and they talked about it at halftime. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:44.960 So they came out with a trick play on their own, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.920 and they rolled out ten men onto the field. And 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.240 the eleventh man was the wide receiver hidden on the 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.680 sideline with the coach just standing there looking like he's talking, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.840 looking like he's talking to the coach, but he's also 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.880 standing next to the ref who was in on it 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.360 at the time. So they got up to the line 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.360 and I'm only thinking about, oh, here we go, there's 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.600 another cornerback blitz. So I line up and just at 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.880 the right time, that receiver stepped off the sideline into 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.160 a wide receiver spot. They snapped the ball. The quarterback 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.079 knew what I was doing. I'm the only one that 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.400 didn't know what was going on. And he's wide open. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.440 Long bomb just sailed, just a nice little toss, just 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:28.160 an easy catch, touchdown. Crowd on their side goes nuts. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:33.640 I just fell. I was just so of course, my coaches, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:35.760 I don't know, I'd have to talk to him. They 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.800 acted like they saw it, like Granger Smith, come on, man, Smith, 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.000 keep your head on a swivel. Do you see what 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.000 they're doing? And evidently they were. Yet they saw it. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.600 Evidently you know, yeah, they're probably my age now, you know, 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.520 back then, So I then, but then what happens, to 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.679 my point, what happens you go to the huddle and 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.480 you gotta go back and play another play, you know, 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.080 because they it was. It was totally devastating to me, 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.680 and I learned, and then throughout high school, I always looked. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.760 I always looked to my left. I've played on left 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.960 cornerback side, I always looked to my left, check for 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.640 the receiver. Second, I always looked, or I would count 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.800 when you do eleven, they're all out here. I never 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.560 let that happen again. So thank you, Michelle. I know 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.640 there's a long answer, but I'm passionate about that stuff. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.720 So Chad, I'm gonna sart. I'm gonna start rolling you 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:34.160 with these. We have toughest God question never answered. We 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:39.840 have beliefs, food for thought, fifty five years young. We 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:44.680 have a four pastor, Chad. We have please help getting married, 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:50.640 cheating brother in law, trouble with girls, my wife and 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.880 I are thinking about moving. I should probably stop at 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:57.040 that point about you. There's like four or five solid 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.599 you have to answer those. I think I'm kind of 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.880 leaning towards pastor Chad, since okay, we'll start. You're here, 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.400 I don't want to skip that one and then we 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.800 get onto something else, and wish we had, so it says, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.920 how do you from Oklahoma? It says, I'm going to 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:18.080 make this as short as possible. Third commandment, shall not 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.480 take the Lord's name in vain. Giving that commandment, my 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.080 soul is lost forever. Right, That's what I've been told 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.080 in the past. Haven't been to church since Marine Corps 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.360 boot camp in two thousand and seven. I listened to 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.360 Amber's Arise every Sunday, the Chosen show first time I 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.720 bench watched it and send it to Amber because I 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.120 knew she could spread that farther than me. I just 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:46.080 feel completely lost as to the times I have cursed 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.680 God for so many many things. I don't know what 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.880 kind of help can be provided, but anything would be helpful. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:58.400 I suppose that comes from Jason. Okay, so you've got 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.000 a lot there. Yeah, Jason, thank you for your service 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:06.040 of serving the Marine Corps. Thank you for listening and 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.600 caring to email and this compelling your heart to email 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:15.080 us in and shout out to Oklahoma. This question is 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.880 is going to be. It's complex, but it's a lot 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:22.440 simpler than you think. It's a lot simpler than you think. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.120 You want to start this, Chad, Yeah, I mean, at 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.840 first I caught their the third commandment, taking the Lord's 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.720 name in vain. I caught in their question about does 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:40.760 that mean eternal damnation? Like is he sid duck there? 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.480 Given that commandment, my soul is lost forever. That's what 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.240 I've been told in the past. And then he goes 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.560 on to say, I have taken the Lord's name many 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:55.000 many times in vain. Yeah. So you can get caught 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.840 up in the mistakes that you make and the ways 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.400 that you failed. But one of the things that we 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.120 as we read through the New Testament we understand why 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:09.080 Christ came and who he is, is that he came 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.960 not to change the law, but to perfectly fulfill the law. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.520 We also learned that the law is there to show 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.560 us that we need a savior, that we do fall short. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:28.200 And the scripture says all have sinned and fall short 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.320 of the glory of God, and that the wages of 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.240 sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.200 life in Christ Jesus. So I'm walking through Romans right now, 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:43.120 Romans three, Romans six, and in Romans eight. There is 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.640 no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. James 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.960 says that no one can claim that they are without sin, 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.560 so that we're all in the same boat that you describe. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.800 We're all in a boat that man. We have done 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.760 way too much, thought too much that we could ever 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.280 nationalized before a perfect and holy God that he should 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:07.520 let us in. However, that's not where the story ends, 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.199 or not left in our brokenness. But Christ Jesus entered 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.199 the picture so that he could he could transfer his 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.479 perfect life and fulfillment of the law and take on 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.240 God's wrath on our behalf. And so even though yes, 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.399 all of us, no one can claim to be in 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.520 a place of perfection. No one has done it right perfectly, 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.840 or thought it right perfectly, or spoken it right perfectly. 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.760 And so that feeling, that tension that you feel is 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.440 a it's actually a good tension. Yeah. Yeah, it's a 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.280 place of humility and a place that you go, I 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.200 can't do this, and you're absolutely right, you can't exactly 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.199 where you need to be. So you've let me just 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.040 be straight up, Jason. You've been told wrong. You have 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:56.840 been told wrong, you have been told that you're there's 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.760 no turning back from what you've done. Basically, now, what 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.760 what you're right about it is you're completely lost, you 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.560 are completely lost. That's the right place you need to be, 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.280 because we all essentially are completely lost. If we're not lost, 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.199 we don't need to be found. There's no point in 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.760 the story of Jesus Christ, the gospel message, there's no 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.600 point if we're not lost we need. You can't be 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.600 saved unless you have a reason to be saved. You 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:28.879 don't need a savior unless you need saving. So Jason, 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.720 you're You're right where you need to be. And the 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.280 other thing I want to say is you can't take 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:38.040 one commandment and act like there's not nine others you know? 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.920 Have you not ever lied? Have you not ever stolen anything, 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.239 not even if it could be, not even physical? Have 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:50.399 you always obeyed your parents? Have you loved the Lord 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.919 your God with all your heart and soul, might and strength? 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.399 Have you done that? I think you probably have broken 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.520 them all. I think we've broken we've all broken all 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.840 of them. I mean even murder. Have you hated your brother? 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:08.119 You've committed murder? So we've broken them all. So you can't. 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.479 You can't take one. And honestly, shame on anyone that 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.200 pointed one out to you and said you've done that. 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.199 I've heard you say this. I've heard you say the 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:22.720 Lord's name in vain many times, and you are eternally damned. Brother, 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.800 you were already eternally damned before you said that. That's 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.560 why you needed a savior. And that's why Chad is 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.480 saying in the New Testament, when Jesus Christ comes to 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:35.280 the earth and fulfills the law and takes the place 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:39.440 of that that sin that we're full of, we're all 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.000 wretched sinners. He took the place of that for you 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.240 so that in return you believe in him and give 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.120 everything back to him and say, Jesus can't, I can't, 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:53.200 I can't do this. I am lost. Take me, let 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.200 me follow you. And that's the story of the Gospel. Amen. 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:03.919 So good word back. That's it we got. Let's do 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:10.200 one more in this in this session. I have alcoholic 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:14.119 veteran needs help. I have faith in friends, I have 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:18.800 What would you do if you're seventeen and your parents 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:24.240 are trying to destroy your relationship? Any of these pop 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.439 out to you? Do you? You mentioned one that I'm 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:32.320 sure other people heard, toughest question, toughest God question. That's intriguing, 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:38.199 right it is? Now? I read this before before we started, 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:42.880 I skimmed it, and it's a tough one. But let 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.960 me say that sometimes what I learned through reading y'all's 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.040 questions is there's a lot of people asking the same question, 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.040 just putting different words in it. But we're all living 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:57.240 something in here. And then you guys make it specific 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.680 to your life, but the answers you're probably going to 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:04.880 be very similar. That says Hey, Grangeer, I love watching you. 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:11.360 Blessings to all. The question that I asked I said here, 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.240 he says, I send it this email a few days ago. 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.160 If God watches over all of his children, then why 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.679 wasn't I watched over? I was subject to all forms 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:25.399 of abuse via my foster family for the last seventeen years. 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:30.320 Still to this day, this question has never been answered. Well, 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:32.640 before I go any further, DJ, we're about to answer 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:36.080 it for your brother, says, yes, I survived. My blood 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.040 brother couldn't handle it. So there it is, Grangeer, my 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:45.600 ultimate question. Thanks for your time in advance. So here's 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:49.000 the question, and you're saying it's never been answered, and 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.480 I love that you've said that, and I love that 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:56.800 you've you've given us the opportunity. But essentially, he's saying, 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.600 if God watches over all his children, why I wasn't 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:07.520 I watched over right? And And that's you know, you 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:09.720 could reward it and say, if there is a God, 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:12.000 and why is there pain in the world, why didn't 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:14.440 he stop it? And if you can't stop it, then 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:17.000 he's not God. And if he won't stop it, then 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.640 he's a mean God. And I don't want any part 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.120 of that, right. That's that's the theology of that, I think, 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:27.160 or the philosophy of that, thinking where would you start 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:31.040 with that? Chaed First of all, I want to say, 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:40.760 there's no theological answer is going to remove just the 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:44.960 the reality of probably how much pain you experienced and 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:52.680 the fact that your brother and and the emotional struggles 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:57.000 that you've had through that that's real, yeah, And and 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.960 that pain is lasting, and that that can that try 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:05.240 can linger and have huge effects. And so I want 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:09.879 to recognize that that is very, very real and not 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:15.920 try to minimize that where I tend to because there's 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:18.919 two parts to it. There's the idea that God sees 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:25.480 and does nothing, and so there's this this assumption that 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:28.840 he doesn't care. Right, So then people say, well, if 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:31.320 this is happening, and then he must not be there 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:34.760 or he must not care. And it's that kind of 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:38.680 philosophical problem of evil, right, How can evil exist when 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:42.040 there's an all loving, all powerful God, Because if he's 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:43.840 all loving, he would want to stop it. If he's 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:49.359 all powerful, he could stop it. But yet evil persists. 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:53.880