1 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: So we have a Muslim as a mayor of New 2 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: York City. 3 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 2: Now do yeah call to prayer? A lot of people 4 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 2: from New York City? 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: Now, Oh, is it really? 6 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,319 Speaker 2: I would assume isn't that right? He's the mayor of 7 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 2: New York City than we are. Didn't we start getting 8 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 2: the call to prayer? 9 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: Interesting? I do know that. Let me say a couple 10 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: of things, And I know that this is a third 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: podcast about Islam, and I'm not going to make a 12 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: fourth when I promise you, I promise not listeners, not 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 1: in a row. We'll have many other trials probably, but 14 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: not in a row. I promise you. We're gonna switch 15 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: directions next week. But but I think one more video 16 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: on this, because now we do have a Muslim mayor, 17 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: and I've just been hearing a lot of chatter about this. 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: I have a group of I was in E two 19 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: in the core of Cadets at Texas A and M 20 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: to the class of two thousand and two, and we 21 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: have a signal group. In fact, we have a listener 22 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: to this podcast. Andres Gomez listens to this podc Yeah, Oh, 23 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: I love Andres, And I don't know if he's listening 24 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: right now, but for years. I know he's at least 25 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: checked in and out occasionally. 26 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 2: And saying I heard the latest or yes. 27 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: And the guys, you know, the guys were freaking out 28 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: about this, about this Islamic invasion, which is the title 29 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: of last week's podcast, and Andre's actually comes in there 30 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: and posted like just a link to this podcast, like hey, 31 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: gout it. Granger addresses this quite a bit, but it 32 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: doesn't really matter whether I address it or not. People 33 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: are only going to hear what they're going to hear. 34 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: And the scary thing is that social media is really 35 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: dictating so much of how we think these days. I 36 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: don't remember you and I talked about this. I believe it. 37 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: It's been maybe a couple of years, but I remember 38 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: specifically speaking to a man from Africa. I don't I 39 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: can't off the top of the head, I don't remember 40 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: who it was, but it was a man in Africa, 41 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: and he was telling me that because of the algorithm 42 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: for Facebook, they the the all social media algorithms, what 43 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: they want I'm speaking of they in terms of AI algorithm. 44 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: What it wants is people to engage. It has no 45 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: other bias, it has, it doesn't care if it doesn't 46 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: care if it's good or bad. It doesn't care if 47 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: what political ideology, religion, doesn't care. Its goal is get 48 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: people to engage, get people to bring the app back up. 49 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 2: I would almost say that it actually encourage you, encourages 50 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 2: you to disagree, because when you disagree, then other people 51 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 2: have opinions. Sure, when people agree, they tend to just go, oh, 52 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 2: you agree with that, and move on and don't actually 53 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 2: write it. 54 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: Sure, so this has happened in Africa and I'm sure 55 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: other places that I'm not aware of, but wars have 56 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: broken out because of disputes about tribes in Africa that 57 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: have been elevated because of a disproportionate popularity of a 58 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: post on a Facebook no account. 59 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 2: Wigh. 60 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: You know, like, because algorithms will rev something up so 61 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: much that's not a big deal, but they'll rev it 62 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: way up to be a big deal, and then it 63 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: revs up the other side to be a big deal. 64 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: And for somebody that's focused on one thing, that algorithm 65 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: is going to sneak in the exact opposite of what 66 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: you think, so that you turn that direction and engage. 67 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: Once again. It's not it's it's morally neutral. It doesn't care. 68 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: It's not right or wrong, or good or bad. It 69 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: just wants you to look because that's what it's programmed 70 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: to do. It's so if you get really sensitized by something, 71 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: really offended by something, really into something, you're going to 72 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: see the opposite on your algorithm. Point being, when this 73 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: whole mayor thing came up in New York, everyone that's 74 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: like super against that started getting started seeing the people 75 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: that are super for that. And what we noticed on 76 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: our little chat group on Signal was there was a 77 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: fake AI videos of like Islamic riots in New York City. 78 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: Oh wow, And so guys were posting on there like 79 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: it's already begun here. It is our worst fear. It's 80 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: already begun. A few minutes go by, and one of 81 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: my other buddies was like, that was a video from 82 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: seven years ago in another city with Times Square put 83 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: in the back. Look that Times Square, that's that's not 84 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: the gap doesn't is not there anymore or whatever whatever 85 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: it was, And all of us are like, oh but 86 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 1: still we're like people are still like, but I'm still mad. 87 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 2: But I'm still mad. Yeah, it didn't make mad that way. Yeah, man, 88 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 2: all that to say, they didn't even readirect the mad, 89 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 2: did it? 90 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: It didn't. 91 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't. You didn't all of a sudden become 92 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 2: mad that it was AI. You're still mad about what 93 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 2: the AI actually showed you. Yeah, unreal, dude. 94 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: All that to say, Uh, judging by these last few 95 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: podcasts we've done, people are mad at me. People are 96 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: mad at me because I believe, and and I told 97 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: you this before we recorded. I've given out a lot 98 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: of opinions about this type thing. Sure, and and as 99 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: a believer, I must constantly be in check back with 100 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: a word and back in a group of accountability that 101 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: could speak into my life and say, brother, I think 102 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 1: you're off on this. I think you're wrong on this, 103 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: and let's go back to scripture. And here's why, you 104 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: know so, I need to always be in that available 105 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: to be corrected. I must have a heart that's constantly 106 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: willing and available to listen and be corrected. That's all 107 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: of us. That's not just me. 108 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:37,679 Speaker 2: That should be all of us. 109 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 1: And as far as Islam, I have yet to hear 110 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: an argument yet that says you're wrong, granger. We should 111 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: actually mount up arms and fight against this as as 112 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: they did in the Crusades. I can't find a biblical 113 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: argument that says Dad, that's right. I'm sorry I'm talking 114 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: too much a man, but no, no, I guess I'm 115 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: kind of setting this up and this idea that I've 116 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: been accused much over these last few weeks of being 117 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: weak and passive and compromising and soft. I mean, that's 118 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: what I've been accused of, and accusations just don't don't 119 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: mean anything unless you're in my circle. But I'm trying. 120 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: I'm hesitating because I don't want to say this in 121 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: a way that puff that sounds like I'm puffing myself up. 122 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: But I think it requires more courage, more boldness. I 123 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: think it requires a stronger man. Once again, I'm not 124 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: talking about me. I'm just in general. A stronger man says, 125 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: hold way, trust, don't react, don't attack, don't defend, don't 126 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: pick up arms. A stronger man says, I trust, I 127 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: trust my Lord, I trust my God. Often I think 128 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: about the meek horses in ancient Israel that Jesus was 129 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: referring to meek. Have I told you about this before 130 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: we talked about us? That word meek? Blessed are the meek? 131 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: Yep is often thought of, especially in America, as weak, 132 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 1: but the context of that word is incredible, an ancient 133 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: and an ancient near East. If you wanted, if you 134 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: wanted a mustang for battle, you would go get a 135 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: wild one. But you'd go to the mountains, and you'd 136 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: go up through the valley, past all the horses, and 137 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: you'd go high into the mountaintops looking for that one 138 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: wild mustang that was so strong and so strong willed, 139 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: and so so resilient and rebellious, that that one that 140 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: took days and days and days to track and finally capture. 141 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: If you got it, and you put your will onto 142 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: that horse, then that horse would trust you through anything, fearless, bold, 143 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: That horse you could take on as a warrior. If 144 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: you tamed that one wild mustang that no one else 145 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: could tame, if you could get it, if you could 146 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: capture it, and then you could run that horse right 147 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: into the enemy lines without stopping until you command it 148 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: to stop. Any other horse would be weak and fall 149 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: out and stop, But that one horse would run straight 150 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: towards the enemy lines, trusting not itself but in the 151 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: one who tamed it, the one who rules over it. 152 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: The idea is power under control, that's the meek horse. 153 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: Plus that are the meek power under control of a 154 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: greater power, the sovereign one, the almighty one over us. 155 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: Yeah that's good, And so now I've been accused of 156 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: so many things, But who who would be stronger? The 157 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: horse that just box and goes and tries to go fight, fight, fight, 158 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,719 Speaker 1: but gets on into the enemy lines and folds are 159 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: the one, the one that says, I trust you who 160 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: tamed me. 161 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 2: It isn't take any self control and any strength of 162 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 2: any kind to spout off and say the first thing 163 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 2: that comes to your mind. In fact, the Bible talks 164 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 2: a lot about your tongue and about how your tongue 165 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 2: is not tameable. But you know, the same thing that 166 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 2: comes out of the same mouths are blessing and cursings. Yeah. 167 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 2: And the difference between the two is the time, the thoughtfulness, 168 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 2: the listening to all all side and taking your time 169 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:03,839 Speaker 2: and waiting to hear from the Lord on something before 170 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 2: you spout off something a reply or a response to 171 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 2: a video or or to someone in a moment. You know, 172 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 2: I'd much whether you listen to everything I have to 173 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 2: say and have nothing to say, than to just immediately 174 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 2: go on the defense. Yeah, because that is that's easy 175 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 2: to do. Your flesh gets instantly offended, and gets offended 176 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 2: very easily. It takes restraint and control to go. That's 177 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 2: not how I'm going to respond right now. Let me 178 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 2: run this through the filter of God's word before I 179 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 2: before I actually throw down a response to this. 180 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. I only I only have this, Yeah, 181 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: I only have this book. Where else would I go? 182 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: What else? What else would I stand on? But the 183 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: word of God that testifies of itself in tewod Timothy 184 00:11:55,960 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: three sixteen, that all scripture, all sixty six books, all 185 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: scripture is breathed out by God, improfitable for teaching, for 186 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: a proof for correction, and for training and righteousness, that 187 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: the Man of God may be complete, equipped for every 188 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: good work. Where else would I go? 189 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 2: Yeah? 190 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: Than that? And that tells me that it must obey 191 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 1: his commandments. And his commandments are this love. Your neighbor 192 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: is yourself, That's right. Who's your neighbor? Well, Jesus his 193 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: disciples ask him that, and Jesus describes who your neighbor is, 194 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: and he gives it through a parable the one that 195 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: we've all heard. The good Samaritan, a man that's a 196 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: Samaritan that's not on the same page as the Jews, 197 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: that is not a friend of the Jews in the 198 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: term of friendship. 199 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 2: That we would think, Then what's a Samaritan in twenty 200 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 2: twenty five? To a believer, it's a good question. 201 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: Maybe a Muslim? Interesting, I mean, Jesus, it couldn't be 202 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: more clear. Who's your neighbor? A neighbor is like this 203 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: to you, a Samaritan? What a Samaritan. I wouldn't I 204 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: wouldn't eat, I wouldn't walk in the house of his 205 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: I wouldn't go through a village. I wouldn't make eye 206 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: contact with the Samaritan. Jesus says, that's your neighbor. Love him. 207 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: And if he couldn't be enough clear in that, he says, later, 208 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: love your enemies, right, love your enemies, and do good 209 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: to those who persecute. 210 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 2: You, which just undated the Bible. Yeah, if you if 211 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 2: Samaritan dates the Bible and says, oh, this is only 212 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 2: applicable to this time, enemy instantly enemy, absolutely, So who's 213 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 2: your enemy applicable to any time? 214 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: Somehow? When we think about these things, and we're we're 215 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 1: also we also hear those things, and we think that 216 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: it has no benefit to us. We're just like monkeys 217 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: like sheep that just do do do the will of 218 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: another entity and has no benefit to us at all. 219 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: And that would challenge anyone to test that. 220 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 2: Try it. 221 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: Wait till a guy cuts you off on the street 222 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: on and he's road raging. Try two options. One road 223 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: raid with him, Go try to you know you guys, 224 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: go battle it out on the interstate. See how you 225 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: feel that night. 226 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 2: Yep, number two, been there. 227 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: Number two, I'm so sorry, my friend, I I cut 228 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: you off. 229 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 2: You were right. 230 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: How will you sleep at night? One of those two options, 231 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: love your neighbor, love your enemy, do good to those 232 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: who persecute you. So that brings us to this debate 233 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: because then everyone says, yeah, granger, but that doesn't mean 234 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: it doesn't mean lay down and let the Muslim invasion 235 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: come and take over our neighborhood. Oh yeah, that had 236 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: never said that. I never said that. Don't go to 237 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: the voting polls or you know, like. 238 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 2: What he did say was exactly what the word says, 239 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 2: do not fear. Yeah, that's what you have said, and 240 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 2: those are God's words. Do not fear because you have 241 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 2: said that on the podcast, like people are feared and 242 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 2: scared of this. I tell you what Jesus tells us this, 243 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 2: do not fear. 244 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, in this world you have trouble, but take heart, 245 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: I've overcome the world. Look at this first. John four, 246 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: you you made me think of exactly verse eighteen. John 247 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: says there is no fear in love, but perfect love 248 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: cast out fear, for fear has to do with punishment. 249 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: Whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love 250 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: because He first loved us. If anyone says I love 251 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: God and hate his brother, he's a liar. For he 252 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: who does not love his brother whom he cannot see, 253 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: or whom he does see, cannot love God whom he 254 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: cannot see. In this commandment we get from him, whoever 255 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: loves God must also love his brother. This is this 256 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: is clear. And yet and yet we want to put 257 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: constraints on this idea and say, unless it unless it 258 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: takes away my comfort, unless it it unless I have 259 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: to see people that don't look like me all the time, 260 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: unless they're worshiping Allah, because that's bad. They're my enemy now, 261 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: or this is the most common, Unless they don't love 262 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: me back Romans five. Romans five says, and if we're 263 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: to imitate Christ, Romans five says, while we while we 264 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: were still week at the right time, Christ died for 265 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 1: the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person, 266 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: though perhaps for a good person one would even dare 267 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: to die. But God shows his love for us, and 268 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 269 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,199 Speaker 1: Roman's five is incredible, since therefore we've been justified by 270 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: his blood. Much more will we be saved by him 271 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: from the wrath of God. For if we were enemies, 272 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: we were reconciled to God by the death of his son. 273 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: Much more now that we are reconciled, shall we be 274 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: saved by his life. And more than that, we also 275 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom 276 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: we now have received reconciliation. We were once enemies of God. 277 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: God said, love your enemies, and He did that to 278 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: us by sending his son, and who died for us 279 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: while we were still enemies, while we were still sinners, 280 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,479 Speaker 1: not when we were good, when not when we be 281 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: decided to died first while we were going on the 282 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: the other direction. You want to play this video real quick. 283 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 2: Yes that this is a clip from last week. 284 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: It's a clip from last week's podcast. 285 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 2: And the vitriol that has happened yeah on social media 286 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 2: since this. 287 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, but I knew this was good. I knew it 288 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: was coming. But here's let me put. 289 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 2: Read what you wrote. Read the caption for the video. Okay. 290 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: The caption says, I feel pretty alone in this view. 291 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: If I wanted a million likes, I would say the 292 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,719 Speaker 1: exact opposite. I would say, let's fight Islam. Let's protect 293 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: our children from the invasion, Let's take our guns and resist. 294 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:48,199 Speaker 1: I would get so much applause from that. But what 295 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: if we saw foreign cultures moving into our neighborhoods as 296 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: an opportunity for evangelism. What if the mission field has 297 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: come to us? Would we fight for comfort and complacency 298 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: or would we fight for souls for the living God? 299 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: And what about our children? Do we desire comfort and 300 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: ease that breeds cultural Christians or opportunities to heighten the 301 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: urgency for a closeness to the Lord. What does loving 302 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: our neighbor really look like? Would I desire windless days 303 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: if my trees are full of dead branches? These are 304 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: questions I wrestle with. 305 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. 306 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: So the video says this thing, I recognize when I 307 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 1: hear I called a prayer in a mosque, I can 308 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 1: aloud speaker. I recognize my need, my proximity to evil, 309 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: my proximity to the Prince of the power of the air. 310 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: Here Satan, who's the king of the world right now, 311 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: I feel my proximity to that, therefore my closeness to 312 00:19:55,840 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: the Lord. And I'll pray every time those called it. Like, 313 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: for instance, I was asleep one time and this was 314 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: I think in Dubai, woke up. They would do the 315 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: call to prayer about four thirty in the morning, okay, 316 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: And I just made it a habit that every time 317 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: it woke me up. Because you're sleeping with the windows 318 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,360 Speaker 1: open and stuff, and it's just very loud. You can't 319 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: avoid it. So I would just make it, make it 320 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: a thing when that woke me up, which I looked 321 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: at it as a demonic voice, then I would start 322 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 1: praying to the Lord. That's cool, and and I just 323 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: feel I have I have a desire, maybe a strange one, 324 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: that my kids would feel that kind of urgency and 325 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: not be lulled to sleep, which is much more of 326 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: a demonic tactic on us that you could just be 327 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: load to sleep by just nice little suburban lives with 328 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 1: no pressure. Just you want to go to church, go 329 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: if not, if you're not, if you have a headache, 330 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 1: don't go to church. You're you read your Bible, but 331 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: don't be a Bible thumper. You know, it's more about 332 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: loving people to the truth. And you know we're living 333 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: a Christian nation that you just slow yourself to sleep, 334 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: the demonic battle that's waging around you just becomes less clear, 335 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 1: a little blurry, and we don't Maybe I should say me, 336 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't feel it. I don't feel the battle. 337 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:30,160 Speaker 1: I don't feel the urgency. And so when dearborn Michigan 338 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: is freaking out social media because a mosque is now there, sure, 339 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: I just think what an opportunity for those people to witness, 340 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: to reach out, to have them over for dinner, a 341 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: Muslim family, and on top of all that, to feel 342 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: the urgency in the air around them. Okay, could I 343 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: rack just a few things with that video? 344 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 2: Yeah? Please do. 345 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,959 Speaker 1: So once again, and the last time we'll get into this. 346 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 1: But people went wild against me on this on all 347 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: the different social media platforms, and Hamber had to tell me, like, 348 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: stop looking. 349 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 2: At that because of the responses. 350 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, She's like, stop looking at those comments. And usually 351 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,959 Speaker 1: I make a habit to not look at comments, but 352 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 1: for the sake of us recording today, I was like, yeah, 353 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,199 Speaker 1: you're right, I'm not going to look at anymore. But 354 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:35,160 Speaker 1: but so many personal attacks against me and some people 355 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 1: from Dearborn, you know, reaching out said you have no idea, 356 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: you shouldn't speak about things you don't know about, or 357 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: you know, you you need to be educated more on Islam, 358 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,719 Speaker 1: or you need to read the Koran, which we have 359 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: copyrighting here. You know, we've read. You have no idea 360 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,120 Speaker 1: the hatred that they're bringing, or what they're trying to do, 361 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: or the the mission that they're they're coming to convert. 362 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: You know, all these things we've taken into account. All 363 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 1: we've taken account all of these things. You know, you 364 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: and I have have been in the Near East with 365 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 1: around plenty of mosque and plenty of call to prayers, 366 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: just just you and I and not considering all the 367 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: other travel. So I do believe I don't think we're 368 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: missing something here. But here's here's an example. Well, this 369 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: one just came in, by the way, while we're talking. 370 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: While we're talking, this one just came in. I see 371 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: your point that there is the fact that they want 372 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: us dead written in their text. They want us dead. 373 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 1: Once again, that's not that's not that's not a stipulation. 374 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,880 Speaker 1: Love your neighbor, unless your neighbor wants you dead. Yeah, 375 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: love your enemies, do good of those who persecute you, 376 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: unless they want you dead. It doesn't say that. 377 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 2: How many times in Matthew, Mark, Luke or John have 378 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 2: you seen looking for an opportunity to arrest or kill Jesus? Yeah, 379 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 2: that was that's in there, multip I just I just 380 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 2: read through all four gospels again, Yeah, like detailed how 381 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 2: many I should counted those? 382 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: Or Paul or Peter? 383 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 2: Of course? 384 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, I said just those four now or did you 385 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 1: just just said at the beginning? Now, there are times 386 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: when they let Peter down in a back I excuse me, 387 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: Paul down in a basket outside so he could escape. 388 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: There were times when Jesus disappeared into the crowd so 389 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 1: they wouldn't get him. And there are other times when 390 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: they willingly offered themselves to be taken. And so there's 391 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: there's that. But but it's it was never a resisting never, 392 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: it was never a fighting. It was never a mount up. 393 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: Let's let's fight evil. You know, because I get so 394 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: many comments say, grangeur, we're commanded to fight evil, resist evil. 395 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 1: I guess I say, I've asked you before, how and 396 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: you always go on my knees and I go, I 397 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: don't think that's what people think. 398 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a mindset that I have. That that's 399 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 2: where I instantly go. But I mean, and and sometimes 400 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 2: we have a bias of thinking what we think is 401 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 2: what a lot of other people think. Yeah, look, just 402 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 2: because the language isn't Yeah, it doesn't mean that that 403 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 2: it means to go fight, but some do. We've seen 404 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 2: that language in detail on some of these comments as well. 405 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: I'm I'm starting to forget what I talked to you 406 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 1: about before we started recording. What recording. But but I 407 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: also want to say that I am a weak man, 408 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: I am a flawed sinner, and I constantly need to 409 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: be evaluating what I say. When I say things like 410 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 1: if a mosque moves in down the road, we need 411 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: to be do we see that as an opportunity or 412 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: as as a as a battle? And I need to go. 413 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: What do you think, Ranger? You know, what would you think? 414 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: Because people in Dear Dearborn Mission or Michigan are calling 415 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 1: me on this, and I think it comes down to 416 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,160 Speaker 1: two looking at looking Do we look at them as 417 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: souls potential souls to be one to the Living God. 418 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: Or do we look at them collectively as like a 419 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: that they're too far gone and they're already they want 420 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 1: to kill us in their enemies. Or do we look 421 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: at that, look at them as almost like being trapped 422 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: in a a a ideology that the Gospel could break 423 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: them out of. And as we've said many times on 424 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: this podcast, a person that could face we could face 425 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: in heaven that goes it was you against all odd 426 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: It was you. I heard the gospel. If you're trying 427 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 1: to get a gift for someone that you think has everything, 428 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: how about a special video message from me. It's easy 429 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: to do. Go to cameo dot com slash Granger Smith 430 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: and you put in the prompt what you want me 431 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: to say. I get that message on my phone. I'll 432 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 1: say happy birthday, happy anniversary, What what ever personalized message 433 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,679 Speaker 1: you want me to say to whoever you want me 434 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: to say it to I send it to you, and 435 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: you give it to them. It's pretty cool. Go to 436 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: cameo dot com slash granger Smith. 437 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 2: Well, you and I I've shared this with you a 438 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 2: couple of times. Is that some of my I've really 439 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 2: tried to change my morning routine a little bit, like 440 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 2: little things that the Lord reveals to me I try 441 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 2: to then incorporate to become part of my routine every morning. 442 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 2: One of those is repentance. Stop looking at the word 443 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 2: repentance as a negative and it being this thing of oh, 444 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 2: you send now you need to repent and turn back 445 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 2: to the Lord. Yeah, what if before you ever did anything, 446 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 2: you turn back to the Lord? 447 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:45,120 Speaker 1: Yeah? 448 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 2: What if before you ever started living in this world 449 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 2: each morning and letting the world influence your thoughts and 450 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 2: attitudes and actions, you turn from it. That's repentance, turn 451 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 2: to the Lord before that ever happens. And the kind 452 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 2: of reclaiming that word is being something joyful. But the 453 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 2: other aspect here is what I think that this can 454 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 2: help do is change a mindset of stop living in 455 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 2: this algorithm of fear and everyone is out to get you. 456 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 2: Everyone is out to take what is yours. Everyone, all 457 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 2: these people are out to take the freedom that you 458 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 2: your forefathers fought for and go What if this is 459 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 2: an opportunity instead of it being fear? Yes, of course. 460 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 2: If there's a vote on whether something should be built, 461 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 2: a moss should be built down the road, and you 462 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 2: have the opportunity to vote, of course, go vote, go vote. 463 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 2: You say no, I don't want that here, I don't 464 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 2: want that in my community. But not what if it happens, 465 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 2: something happens. What if the mayor gets elected that's a 466 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 2: Muslim mayor? Do you look at it as an opportunity 467 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 2: to go? Man, what if while he's a mayor he 468 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 2: gets saved? Did you ever think about that? Now? What 469 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 2: he would? Then you have a believer as a mayor 470 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 2: in New York who was what we view as complete opposite. 471 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 2: What are the opportunities that a true? Maybe that says 472 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 2: more about what you think about God. 473 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: It does, It does, and you said earlier, it's also 474 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 1: it's also recognizing that that if a Muslim gets elected 475 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: as mayor, it's somehow slipped past God. It was on us, 476 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: y'all screwed up, Like he's looking at a Yeah, didn't 477 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: didn't didn't know, didn't know or. 478 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 2: It didn't a point. See the Bible says that he 479 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 2: points those people to their positions. Your leaderships are it 480 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 2: ran through his decision making, his his will for them 481 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 2: to be in a seat that they are in. That's yes, 482 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 2: you get an opportunity to vote, but you think you 483 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 2: have the final decision. Absolutely not. 484 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: It also comes out of the this idea that we 485 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: protect and covet our comfort and our ease. 486 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 2: That's easy, guilty of day. 487 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: It sure feels nice to be comfortable. 488 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 2: Do you know why? I have another can of ice 489 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 2: cold waterloo. I like it. It's comfortable. 490 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: Sure is nice in this room right now. That's air conditioned. 491 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: You know, it's like weather resistant. If it rains, we're 492 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: gonna be sure is nice, you know. But but we 493 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: But in the long run, the more we try to 494 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: protect that and cultivate it becomes an idol for us. 495 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: And I use the analogy in my caption here because 496 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 1: it's actually a section I wrote in the book I'm 497 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: writing right now on cultural Christianity because comfort breeds cultural Christianity. 498 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:51,959 Speaker 1: Culture cultural Christianity exist when when Christianity is easy and 499 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: acceptable to society and it doesn't cost you anything, it's cheap, 500 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: it doesn't cost anything. True Christianity, true grace is costly. 501 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: It will cost you everything, but it's worth everything, and 502 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: the benefit is everything. But unless we realize it's going 503 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: to cost me that we live in a country now 504 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 1: where it's just cheap. It's cheap, and we want to 505 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 1: keep the cheap. Don't mess with me. My life is 506 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: comfortable right now, so don't mess with me. And that 507 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: was part of my argument in this video is that 508 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 1: I don't want my kids to just be in a 509 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: bubble of comfort. So we want to introduce difficulties for 510 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: them like we do with anything, Like when you're working out, 511 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: you introduce difficulties to your muscles so that they break. 512 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 1: And so I don't want a life of utopia for 513 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: my kids. They're not going to be good from that. 514 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: All of this that have grown, we've grown through struggles, 515 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 1: and so that's part of the argument is like what 516 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: are you fighting for comfort? It sounds like here's another 517 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: here's a comment right here that's that speaks to this, 518 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 1: says Granger. They're not coming here to love thy neighbor. 519 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 1: They're coming here to take away your suburban life. The 520 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: commenter says, they will make you worship Allah. That is 521 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,719 Speaker 1: not God. Have you been asleep all this time? You're 522 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 1: starting to sound like a feel good Christian. Just love 523 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: each other. There is nothing wrong with mission trips, but 524 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: when they try to come here and take away our 525 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: way of life, that's not right. You see, you hear that. 526 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: You hear what's happening in there. 527 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 2: You're you're stealing our way of life. 528 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: The suburban life is the idol is your God. You know, 529 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: during one of the the worst atrocities in human history, 530 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: Western American slavery, you know what they were doing. They 531 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: were going on mission trips around the world and coming 532 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 1: back home and beating their slaves waves because they're idol 533 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: of comfort and wealth and and and indulgence was fed 534 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 1: and grown by their slaves. So they would go to Africa, India, 535 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: the Amazon and evangelize the local tribes, come back and 536 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: beat their slaves that didn't even have scraps at their 537 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 1: own table. This is this is this is the same mentality. 538 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: Islam's coming to make you worship all. Well, they're not 539 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,600 Speaker 1: gonna make me worship Aula. Make you worship Aula? 540 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 2: Is that all it takes? Yeah, they told me I 541 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 2: need to worship alla. 542 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,479 Speaker 1: Now, and you're starting to sound like a good Christian 543 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 1: that says, just love, isn't that what? Who's that guy 544 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: in here starts with a j if somebody said. 545 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 2: That Joseph Jacob started with it was Jesus. 546 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: But here's that line. There's nothing wrong with mission trips, 547 00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,239 Speaker 1: but when they try to come here and take your 548 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 1: life away, that's it. Exactly what the slaveholders thought they 549 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 1: went to church on Sundays and worshiped. You know, the 550 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: stairway right here coming up to this room has Frederick 551 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 1: Douglass right here, and he would he has an excellent 552 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,799 Speaker 1: memoir about about his life as a slave, as a 553 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 1: runaway slave, and he would hear these people going to 554 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 1: church and worshiping and coming home and beating their beaten 555 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 1: their slaves. Well, it's the same mentality right here that goes, 556 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 1: I don't want these Muslims. They look different. They there, 557 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 1: you know their book. Granger says, they want to kill 558 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 1: you their evil. I don't think you've ever talked to 559 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: a Muslim, grangeer a lot of these comments, I don't 560 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: think you've ever talked to a Muslim docked at few 561 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: docked a few few anyway, Sorry, I've cut you off 562 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:51,040 Speaker 1: like three. 563 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 2: Times, not at all. I just it just reminds me 564 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 2: that that the the road to hell, the gatetail is 565 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:05,279 Speaker 2: wide and it's comfortable. It's easy, and narrow is the 566 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,879 Speaker 2: way to life that is uncomfortable. But the we had 567 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 2: we had an illustration at church the other day. There 568 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,720 Speaker 2: were cones. They were so to get in was really 569 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 2: easy on one end is really wide and open, and 570 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 2: it led to destruction at the end of it. But 571 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 2: the but but the other way around is getting low 572 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:30,560 Speaker 2: and small, and then when it opens up, it's to 573 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 2: everything that you ever dreamed of. 574 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: Wow, this guy says, We're no, it's Darlene. It's a woman. 575 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,839 Speaker 1: We're supposed to love our enemies and pray for them. 576 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 1: Are we up for that challenge? Somebody commented, wake up. 577 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 2: To her? Wake up? 578 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and she says, I am wide awake, and 579 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: I guess praying for you. Good for her, he says. 580 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: He says, I haven't. I'm just reading this out loud. 581 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 1: I haven't read it yet, so I'm reading and processing 582 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: at the same time, the guy said, but not wide 583 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,240 Speaker 1: awake about demonic Islam. I was born in a Muslim 584 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,839 Speaker 1: country to missionary parent parents. We were kicked out just 585 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 1: for telling people about Jesus. 586 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 2: Good, kind of Lord, kind of joy. Absolutely, yeah, you 587 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,880 Speaker 2: didn't live through it, man Granger. 588 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, it's just negative comment after negative comment. 589 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,040 Speaker 2: Amberg just text me and said, you need to stop reading. 590 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:50,360 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. 591 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,040 Speaker 1: Somebody said, I remember the darkness I felt the first 592 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 1: time I heard her call the prayer in the Middle East. 593 00:36:54,560 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 1: I am horrified this is happening in America. It's interesting. Yeah, 594 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: final thoughts about this before we close this chapter for 595 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,520 Speaker 1: a bit, pray, how do you fight evil? A man? 596 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,280 Speaker 2: Pray? 597 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:14,760 Speaker 1: Yeah? 598 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,800 Speaker 2: What with your sword? Your sword, not the physical sword, 599 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 2: the sword of the Bible. Go read the armor of God. 600 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:23,960 Speaker 2: That's how you can. 601 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,879 Speaker 1: I say, I want to return to that. I don't 602 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 1: want to say the slight little thing because I remember 603 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: that a lot of people commented about Neemyah. He was 604 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 1: in the Bible. Neamyle was rebuilding the wall outside of Jerusalem, 605 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 1: and he had as he was building with his tools 606 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 1: in one end he had a sword and the other 607 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,160 Speaker 1: ready to fight the enemy. 608 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,319 Speaker 2: And a lot of all the guys did yeah, And a. 609 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 1: Lot of people are like, yeah, that that that's what 610 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,359 Speaker 1: we need to be. Like literally, a guy said, one 611 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,600 Speaker 1: hand on the Bible, one hand on your glock. Stop putting, 612 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,440 Speaker 1: he said, Granger, stop putting both hands on the Bible, 613 00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,919 Speaker 1: and put one hand on your Bible and one hand 614 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 1: on the block, just like Namiyah. Way out of context. 615 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:08,560 Speaker 1: The Lord told Namiyah to go to Jerusalem, to leave 616 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:13,279 Speaker 1: Babylon and go to Jerusalem and rebuild the wall. The 617 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,719 Speaker 1: Lord commanded him to do this. The Lord's not commanding 618 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 1: us to keep our suburban cities. How many times have 619 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,759 Speaker 1: we put America in the context of Israel in a 620 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,880 Speaker 1: wrong way. We are not Israel, We are not the 621 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,200 Speaker 1: old the Israel. The purpose of Israel, the purpose of 622 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:40,919 Speaker 1: the Lord blessing that country monetarily and spiritually, and raising 623 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,600 Speaker 1: up kings and judges and prophets. All of that was 624 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 1: pointing towards the Messiahs that would bless the nations, all 625 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 1: the nations, including the purpose of that the purpose of 626 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:56,239 Speaker 1: the promise to Abraham that your offspring will be like 627 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,239 Speaker 1: sands on the seashore, and one day, through your offspring, 628 00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,799 Speaker 1: all the nations of the world will be blessed. And 629 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 1: the process of preparing for the Messiah all all of 630 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:10,040 Speaker 1: that was to bless the nation. So we can't take 631 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,000 Speaker 1: that out of context and go see that was happening 632 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,759 Speaker 1: to Israel. We should do it here anyway. Let's go 633 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:15,879 Speaker 1: back to how you would pray? 634 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, how would you? How I would fight? 635 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:19,520 Speaker 1: How would you would fight? 636 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:19,799 Speaker 2: Yeah? 637 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,200 Speaker 1: And you said I would pray. What are you praying? 638 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,759 Speaker 2: Well, one for Lord's will and to open up the 639 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:27,719 Speaker 2: hearts and the minds of those that you are come 640 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,440 Speaker 2: in contact with, Like if they're encountering you, are they 641 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:34,960 Speaker 2: encountering God or they encountering your flesh. That's just me, 642 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,520 Speaker 2: that's not I mean, if if that's God wants you 643 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,640 Speaker 2: to look at it, then then awesome. But that's I 644 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,200 Speaker 2: look at me first, Like, man, if I can't sit 645 00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,560 Speaker 2: here and live one way and tell you something else, 646 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 2: So that's what I would pray. Like you know, I 647 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,160 Speaker 2: have you know, Jovah's witness to come knock on the door, 648 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:57,280 Speaker 2: and I have you know, the missionaries. I haven't invited 649 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,799 Speaker 2: them in to eat yet. You have U from you're 650 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,960 Speaker 2: talking about like Mormons, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mormons. Yeah. 651 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:07,560 Speaker 1: There are people my my friends in the Church of 652 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:12,440 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ and Latter day saints we have. It's been 653 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:17,240 Speaker 1: years now that the missionaries here come over and they 654 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 1: and we'll spend hours together. But there they tell me 655 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:26,600 Speaker 1: stories of being yelled at, cussed at gas stations, people 656 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,960 Speaker 1: telling them to get out, people slamming doors in their faces. 657 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:33,560 Speaker 1: The same thing with Jehovah's witnesses, the same thing with Muslims. 658 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,520 Speaker 1: Where is the Lord? Where's the love of God in that? 659 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,520 Speaker 1: I know that's what you're saying. 660 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. And you're gonna and listen. 661 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:47,280 Speaker 2: They don't proselytize the same way those two do, being Muslims. 662 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:48,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to compare. 663 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:49,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird. 664 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,000 Speaker 1: The Karan and the Book of Mormon cannot be compared. 665 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,279 Speaker 2: But are you not talking to them because they moved 666 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,160 Speaker 2: in next door? Or are you side eyeing them? Or 667 00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,400 Speaker 2: you calling h O A on them? Are you calling you? What? 668 00:40:59,440 --> 00:40:59,600 Speaker 2: Are you? 669 00:40:59,760 --> 00:40:59,840 Speaker 1: Know? 670 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:00,959 Speaker 2: Are you? 671 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,319 Speaker 1: We have to get a little uncomfortable. We have to 672 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:08,919 Speaker 1: get uncomfortable, and and sometimes being uncomfortable means I don't 673 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,320 Speaker 1: know a lot about this topic. I don't know a 674 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,640 Speaker 1: lot about the Quran, I don't know a lot about 675 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:18,960 Speaker 1: your religion. But that doesn't equal. I fear you, but 676 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:23,920 Speaker 1: I think sometimes fear comes from the unknown of I think, Well, just. 677 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,760 Speaker 2: Like they're going to make you worship Allah. 678 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:27,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're gonna make you worship. 679 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,719 Speaker 2: Is it that easy to make you worship all? Are? 680 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,480 Speaker 1: They're coming in here with a bomb strapped to their chest. 681 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,080 Speaker 1: You know, like you see you see a Muslim family 682 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,200 Speaker 1: move down the street. This is happening everywhere. It's happening 683 00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,120 Speaker 1: here in Georgetown. Seem moved down the street. You know, 684 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,600 Speaker 1: a husband and wife and three little kids. Are we 685 00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:51,719 Speaker 1: to think, like, I better better have my glock in 686 00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,560 Speaker 1: my hand. This family moved down here. I'm gonna have 687 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,840 Speaker 1: my glock ready because they're coming. Man, They're coming to 688 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,719 Speaker 1: take my comfort and my life. You know, they're coming 689 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,520 Speaker 1: to influence my kids. They're making me start worshiping their God. 690 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,799 Speaker 1: They're not They're not a religion of peace. That's what 691 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,279 Speaker 1: every everyone's been saying. Forget about forget about what the 692 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:15,719 Speaker 1: Koran says. Forget about the religion. Let's look at the souls. Well, 693 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,640 Speaker 1: what if I could love them? What happens if I 694 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:23,359 Speaker 1: love them? Not not contingent on if they love me back, 695 00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,880 Speaker 1: not contingent on what they do. But what if I 696 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,640 Speaker 1: love them, what happens? What happens to me and what 697 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,360 Speaker 1: happens to them? That's a question we all need to 698 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:33,279 Speaker 1: wrestle with, including me. 699 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,879 Speaker 2: I agree. All right, it's good stuff. 700 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 1: Moving on, Yeah, I love you guys. We'll see you 701 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,319 Speaker 1: on the video reactions and the Q and a coming 702 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:44,879 Speaker 1: up right. 703 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,080 Speaker 2: Good one coming up on Wednesday Reactions Friday even Friday 704 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:49,560 Speaker 2: Q and a YEP with a jingle. 705 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,440 Speaker 1: Cool y'all, y, thank you so much for hanging out 706 00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,880 Speaker 1: with me on this episode of the Grangersmith Podcast. I 707 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,279 Speaker 1: appreciate you being here. If you're listing right now, go 708 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,200 Speaker 1: ahead and rate today's podcast. It helps more folks find 709 00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,480 Speaker 1: the show. 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