Speaker 1: Happy a Memorial Day, at least if you're watching real time.
Speaker 2: This is the.
Speaker 1: Friday before Memorial Day, and this is our live podcast version.
Speaker 1: What we do here is we answer your questions. You
Speaker 1: email me podcast at grangersmith dot com and I answer
Speaker 1: whatever you want on these live formats, which we've been
Speaker 1: doing about once a month. You could ask questions right
Speaker 1: here in the chat, so I will read some that
Speaker 1: you've emailed to me podcast at grangersmith dot com, and
Speaker 1: I will also read some right off of this chat,
Speaker 1: which works out great. Another cool thing that's going on
Speaker 1: today is the EEE Apparel military launch, first ever time
Speaker 1: we've ever done at gee we've done a military launch,
Speaker 1: and we thought it'd be appropriate right before Memorial Day
Speaker 1: to put out this new military gear from ye And
Speaker 1: in fact, we're gonna we're gonna go over there to
Speaker 1: the Yege farm right now and talk to Tyler Parker
Speaker 1: to brothers there they are. If you're watching what's up fellas'.
Speaker 2: So man, what's going on?
Speaker 1: So tell us about this military launch for the first time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like six months ago people were reaching out saying
Speaker 3: they wish we had more military stuff and realized that
Speaker 3: we'd never done a military launch before, and I figured
Speaker 3: May the more all day weekend could be a good
Speaker 3: time to do it. And so we were able to
Speaker 3: partner with Folds of Honor and give a portrait proceeds
Speaker 3: back to them. So we designed five new shirts through
Speaker 3: new Hats, a bracelet three pack, and I'm excited.
Speaker 2: This is this is one of those those cool.
Speaker 3: Launches that supporting a good cause and like aligns with
Speaker 3: with what our people wanted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me and Tyler are wearing a shirt from it
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 2: This is good.
Speaker 1: It's good stuff, man, it's cool stuff. Todd Parker, were
Speaker 1: you the one that designed these shirts? Because I wasn't
Speaker 1: part of it.
Speaker 3: Actually, Tyler and I both usually come up with a
Speaker 3: bunch of different concepts and then Tyler's usually win, so
Speaker 3: most of them were him. And then I think the
Speaker 3: red shirt, the red sh sure it was me, Okay,
Speaker 3: design the hat I have on Todgers in the design
Speaker 3: the hat he has on.
Speaker 2: Stranger.
Speaker 4: Why don't you tell people a little bit about your military,
Speaker 4: your love for the military, and what you've done in
Speaker 4: the past. It's kind of a long time coming that
Speaker 4: we finally did a launch. But as far as your
Speaker 4: tours in Iraq when you did in music, they were
Speaker 4: their documentary, The boot Walk, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: It's a little strange that we haven't done a military
Speaker 1: launch yet. I mean, we've given back Gee's given back
Speaker 1: to a bunch of different organizations that support our military.
Speaker 1: But it is strange because really it is the first,
Speaker 1: I guess you could say, the first philanthropy that we
Speaker 1: were involved with, not just at EEE, but before ee
Speaker 1: AS when it was just Granger Smith music we were
Speaker 1: going to we were taking tours in Iraq, and those
Speaker 1: are when people ask me so many times they say
Speaker 1: what is your either your favorite memory from being a
Speaker 1: musician or the best concert you ever played. It's very difficult,
Speaker 1: and we've played concerts all over the world, all fifty states.
Speaker 1: We've seen so many beautiful things, so many beautiful people,
Speaker 1: so many incredible venues. But it's really hard for me
Speaker 1: not to say, well, probably one of the fobs in Iraq.
Speaker 1: And that really set a tone for me, seeing the
Speaker 1: way that these men and women were serving. When the
Speaker 1: first time I went in seven, and then in eight
Speaker 1: I went for Christmas and New Year's and I went
Speaker 1: twice in two thousand and eight and nine and seven.
Speaker 1: So to see these men and women working, especially during
Speaker 1: Christmas when December to the twenty fifth was like a
Speaker 1: normal day.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: There was nothing different in Iraq and that fob, that
Speaker 1: little fob we went to and it wasn't like a
Speaker 1: Toby Keith tour where we had, you know, massive stages
Speaker 1: and massive groups of people. It was very small fobs
Speaker 1: with with the no bathrooms, no running water, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: It was an.
Speaker 1: Incredible experience just to see men and women that have
Speaker 1: served us so well.
Speaker 2: I wish you guys could have gone.
Speaker 4: Actually in Tynset, I remember that conversation we had at
Speaker 4: your old house and college station. It's either a conversation
Speaker 4: we had that you were going or it's the last
Speaker 4: time we saw you before we went. Mom and Dad
Speaker 4: were pretty worried because we were at war and you
Speaker 4: were going to all those bases right on the front lines.
Speaker 1: So I saw I saw Chad who Chad played with
Speaker 1: me in that first tour in Iraq in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven, and he now plays for Carrie Underwood. And
Speaker 1: I went recently to that church in Franklin, Tennessee, Carrie
Speaker 1: Underwood's church for Carrie's husband Mike, and Mike is known
Speaker 1: for a bunch of things, not just being carrious husband.
Speaker 1: So I hate to say it that way, but I
Speaker 1: saw Chad there and Chad, Chad was like, man, I'll
Speaker 1: never forget that first tour and I rack with you.
Speaker 2: In two thousand and seven, and I.
Speaker 1: Suddenly remembered, I thought, because he said there are things
Speaker 1: I still haven't told my mom about. And I was like, oh, Chad,
Speaker 1: I keep forgetting that.
Speaker 2: Me and you.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of people I still hang out
Speaker 1: with today that remember the stories of those.
Speaker 4: The Blackhawks were locked on like missiles locked on, and
Speaker 4: y'all had to like divert and there.
Speaker 1: Were crazy times that there. There was one specific time,
Speaker 1: I mean we many times we had to hit a
Speaker 1: bunker because we had to get into the bunker because
Speaker 1: mortar rounds were hitting the base of the concert we
Speaker 1: were playing. So we were playing a concert several times.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how many, but several times, and
Speaker 1: mortar hit the building we were playing in the middle
Speaker 1: of the concert where we had to stop playing the concert.
Speaker 1: The quick reaction force, uh jumped it all out of
Speaker 1: the concert hall or you know, the basketball court or
Speaker 1: wherever we were and went running out the door to
Speaker 1: go respond. Everyone else went into the bunker with us,
Speaker 1: these big concrete bunkers, and we would stay there until
Speaker 1: we get a call of all clear, and sometimes that
Speaker 1: would take an hour to get the call of all
Speaker 1: clear because they were you know, searching to see what
Speaker 1: damage was done or if anyone was lost, and if
Speaker 1: any more mortars were coming, if this was an attack
Speaker 1: or not. So there was those several concerts, and then
Speaker 1: one time in a black Hawk. The black Hawk flights
Speaker 1: were always crazy because we're going fob to FOB and
Speaker 1: that's the main form of transportation there. That's like the
Speaker 1: Greyhound bus in Iraq at the time. And one particular time,
Speaker 1: we were flying right at sunset and we're going over
Speaker 1: a pretty hostile area and an RPG locked onto our
Speaker 1: black Hawk, the one we were in, and the guy
Speaker 1: the pilot just did these maneuvers to get away from
Speaker 1: the RPG let out the flares and I never knew
Speaker 1: we probably you guys. We lived close to Fort Hood,
Speaker 1: the Fort Cavasos. The the black Hawks fly over quite
Speaker 1: a bit.
Speaker 2: We see them.
Speaker 1: They just look like these big black you know, transport helicopters,
Speaker 1: but those things can maneuver like never before. I mean
Speaker 1: we were completely vertical, we were completely sideways, we were
Speaker 1: completely in ninety degrees the other side, we were going
Speaker 1: straight up again. I was holding all of us were
Speaker 1: holding a backpack in our arms, and all the backpacks
Speaker 1: went to the roof and just stayed on the roof
Speaker 1: and we were just flying like upside down, sideways, back
Speaker 1: just full. I mean, like a throttle that I have
Speaker 1: never felt in any roller coaster or any race car, our,
Speaker 1: monster truck, mega truck I've ever sat in. I've never
Speaker 1: felt anything like it. And then when we finally leveled,
Speaker 1: all our backpacks fell down into our laps at the
Speaker 1: same time, and we were like what. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden we were way out in the middle
Speaker 1: of the desert. We were going over this little village
Speaker 1: in Iraq, and then all of a sudden, we're in
Speaker 1: the middle of the desert and it was all clear,
Speaker 1: and we're flying really close to the ground. These helicopters
Speaker 1: have no doors or windows, so I was on the edge,
Speaker 1: just buckled in. And so the times we would go
Speaker 1: sideways that it's just me and the desert and the
Speaker 1: and the you know, some white Toyota truck below me,
Speaker 1: and it was like no six flag dride I have
Speaker 1: ever been on. We get home or excuse me. We
Speaker 1: land at the landing zone and the place we were going,
Speaker 1: and that those helicopters, it was always two, one that
Speaker 1: the band rode in and then one that our our
Speaker 1: music equipment rode in. They landed, we jumped out. It
Speaker 1: was dark by now, and they just took off and
Speaker 1: went right back where we came from, like back to work,
Speaker 1: and we didn't even know where and were We told
Speaker 1: our the commanding officer with us, We said what happened?
Speaker 1: And he said, RBG locked on happens all the time,
Speaker 1: like no big deal. And they were going those two
Speaker 1: guys were flying right back into it again, just back
Speaker 1: to work.
Speaker 4: So why didn't they Why didn't the RPG locked on?
Speaker 4: Why didn't they shoot just because it got out of
Speaker 4: you got out of range in time or something or what.
Speaker 1: No, they were shooting at us. They were shooting small
Speaker 1: arms and sh they were shooting rockets at us.
Speaker 4: And the were you equipped with anything like any kind
Speaker 4: of gun or anything, or.
Speaker 1: There's two gunners, fifty cow guns, machine guns on either
Speaker 1: side like you see in that like a B twenty four.
Speaker 1: So there's two gunners with either a two forty Bravo
Speaker 1: or a fifty Cow depending on the aircraft and those
Speaker 1: So those guys were firing and on either side, and
Speaker 1: they have to fire every time we fly, at least
Speaker 1: in the desert, just to make sure they're not jammed.
Speaker 1: So there those two guys or girls are on either
Speaker 1: side of the black Hawk in the open doors, and
Speaker 1: but the flares drop out and intercept the heat seeking
Speaker 1: missiles of any kind. I mean, I can't, I can't
Speaker 1: even make these stories up. But I just I'll never
Speaker 1: forget when we got out looking back me not even
Speaker 1: knowing what just happened. I just rode the craziest ride
Speaker 1: of my life. And to them, their faces were normal.
Speaker 1: They weren't like, oh oh that was crazy. They were
Speaker 1: just like, flew back off, just back back the same
Speaker 1: direction we just came. So yeah, wild stuff, man, And
Speaker 1: that's just stories. We don't ever hear, No one talks
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: And so usually what happens was some there was some
Speaker 1: terrorist group. We won't say their name on live on YouTube,
Speaker 1: but they were most likely tracking the army would change
Speaker 1: their flight plans constantly to try to always fool the enemy,
Speaker 1: but sometimes the enemy would get a correct intelligence from
Speaker 1: some kind of inside source and they would know two
Speaker 1: black Hawks are flying over here at fifty fifty feet.
Speaker 1: They'll be coming over the east side at so and
Speaker 1: so coordinates, and they'd have a couple of guys.
Speaker 2: Up on a roof with RPG's ready to shoot.
Speaker 4: Did you ever see later some of those guys, like
Speaker 4: some of those pilots on stories like that, in situations
Speaker 4: like that, did you ever see them years later, like
Speaker 4: back home in the US at a show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, a lot a lot of times they still do,
Speaker 1: Like sometimes they'll come to a sermon, but they used
Speaker 1: to come to concerts all the time and say I
Speaker 1: saw you at five war Horse in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, ah, man, those crazy times. But those
Speaker 1: black Hawks would also get shot down a bunch. And
Speaker 1: I used to think that if a Blackhawk got shot down,
Speaker 1: then we would hear about it on the news, and
Speaker 1: the reality is we don't. They actually get shot down
Speaker 1: quite a bit. I don't know about now. I'm so
Speaker 1: out of the loop now, but that was back in
Speaker 1: the Iraqi days. So anyway, that's so, it's nat full
Speaker 1: circle military launch.
Speaker 2: Yet today you know, it just means more. It means more.
Speaker 2: Are we showing any at all? Or oh yeah, sure?
Speaker 2: So what you got?
Speaker 1: Have somebody in the back throw you some stuff? We
Speaker 1: might as well.
Speaker 4: This is one of the hats, which is really cool.
Speaker 4: We've never actually done a hat like this. If you're listening,
Speaker 4: just know it's cool.
Speaker 1: Susan from Alabama says, what's up? She's glad to be here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Singer Pete says, hey, Smith Brothers from Japan. I just
Speaker 1: ordered my military launch items.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: And I says good morning from Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1: Terry says, good morning from Myrtle Beach. Abigail Is. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful lunch. I bought some of the things. Can
Speaker 1: you guys see what I'm seeing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jacob said, Hey, Granger from Minnesota, and man's pulling
Speaker 1: them from all over right now, timing the buck, guy,
Speaker 1: I think that's how you say it. What's up, grangdeer,
Speaker 1: It's finally Friday. He's quoting after midnight and mackay, maybe
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 2: Great here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, click over to ant man. Let's see it man.
Speaker 1: We gotta get it. We gotta get a shot in
Speaker 1: all we got. We gotta can't forget. He is with
Speaker 1: us producing this show right now. Sandy says, in memory
Speaker 1: of the fallen soldiers, thank you for all of your service.
Speaker 1: God bless you. Yeah, God bless all of you service members.
Speaker 1: That's why we're doing this launch today. Lisa says, howdye
Speaker 1: from from Donnie at Georgetown, Texas. Yeah, awesome, guys, have
Speaker 1: somebody behind you throw us a shirt or something like,
Speaker 1: I got them. You got some let's see it freedom
Speaker 1: in free right there.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 3: We've got a bunch of different teas to the hats
Speaker 3: that we got are actually like you can bend the
Speaker 3: brim a little bit more. A lot of people request
Speaker 3: that us. I figured good time to have that would
Speaker 3: be military launch. So that's when I have on multi
Speaker 3: cam with the bendable bram and then removable patch.
Speaker 2: Where's that the flag? Do I? Is that removable? Is
Speaker 2: that like vulcrow? No it's not.
Speaker 1: It looks like you yeah, you guys. For people just
Speaker 1: listening there, we're actually in the waitouse right now. As
Speaker 1: you can you can see everybody's like live correspondence from
Speaker 1: Fox News right now as everyone's shuding out boxes, somebody's
Speaker 1: just ordered something and it's actually you're watching them packet
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: We got a lot of requests for this. I actually
Speaker 3: didn't know about red, but there's like a huge turner
Speaker 3: right now called Red Fridays, where people wear red on Fridays.
Speaker 3: And so it's a cool way for people to be
Speaker 3: able to Rocky E and then also just in their
Speaker 3: workplace to be able to wear red. Uh stands for
Speaker 3: remember everyone deployed. Didn't start that or I couldn't tell
Speaker 3: you the history.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and then a few other shirts start.
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So while while Parker's showing these shirts here on
Speaker 1: if you're watching on Instagram or x or YouTube, I
Speaker 1: will get to your questions here in a minute like
Speaker 1: we normally do. You could email me podcast at Granger
Speaker 1: Smith dot com or or just drop a question in
Speaker 1: the chat here. But right now we're just checking out
Speaker 1: this military launch.
Speaker 3: It's pretty much it. Man, It's a limited quantity. It's
Speaker 3: probably gonna sell out quick, but uh yeah, we're excited.
Speaker 1: You guys have to answer this from not Phelps, will
Speaker 1: ye yee appair ever have big and tall sizes.
Speaker 3: If we get enough requests for it. It's kind of
Speaker 3: like people who ask for left handed golf clubs and
Speaker 3: then you make them, and then one buys them, and
Speaker 3: then you're left with a lot of left handed golf clubs.
Speaker 3: I'd love to keep asking and then if we see
Speaker 3: it enough times, maybe we can do it. I don't
Speaker 3: know any manufacturers who do it right now, do you No?
Speaker 2: We can ask though, Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean so the answer is yeah, we're
Speaker 1: we're working on it. Well, cool, guys, I know you're
Speaker 1: probably busy. Thank you, guys for taking your seventeen minutes
Speaker 1: of really really a busy time at EE apparel.
Speaker 2: An you tell me launch something.
Speaker 1: You guys are all hands on deck, So thanks for
Speaker 1: spending a few minutes with us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, thanks for having us.
Speaker 2: Cool cool shit it.
Speaker 1: See you guys eeee so y'all see you guys. You know,
Speaker 1: when I first started this crazy music thing, having an
Speaker 1: online store was like the last thing on my mind.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to write songs and play concerts. The
Speaker 1: irony in me now is that I no longer play concerts,
Speaker 1: but I still have an online shop. That's what pays
Speaker 1: the bills, and thank goodness that so long ago it
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Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Grateful that we have some ads to help pay the
Speaker 1: bills and keep keep the utility around here. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna see some questions here on the screen
Speaker 1: and we're gonna answer them from you guys. If you
Speaker 1: have a question, email podcast at grangersmith dot com. Or
Speaker 1: if you're live with me right now and you happen
Speaker 1: to be lift listening live, just drop a comment here
Speaker 1: in the chat. Anna says, hey, and thank you for
Speaker 1: sharing this last sermon that you shared. Yeah, thank you,
Speaker 1: And I always try to if if the if the
Speaker 1: venue or the church records it, I'll put it up
Speaker 1: for you guys. Really says you need to do another
Speaker 1: boot walk. That was a fun week.
Speaker 2: You know what's crazy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I won't go there, but I was gonna
Speaker 1: say that the mission bug really scratches the boot.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll actually.
Speaker 1: Be doing a walk coming up here in just a
Speaker 1: few days in America in boots. Yeah, through the mountains.
Speaker 1: Stephanie says, love everything.
Speaker 2: You guys do.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Stephanie, appreciate that. Susan says, is Earl coming
Speaker 1: on the live. Hey, Earl, I'm too concious to be
Speaker 1: on y'all's life. Okay, he said he's too country to
Speaker 1: be on the line. Danny and Nadine SAIDs hey, Grangeer.
Speaker 1: She're enjoyed hearing you in Bismarck. That was a great time.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming to that. Donita says, I'll give
Speaker 1: some some gave all Happy Memorial Day and God bless
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. And if you want to
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Speaker 1: have appearances. What was that one from North Carolina? Yeah, Sherry,
Speaker 1: I just got back from North Carolina, was it? Yes,
Speaker 1: yesterday I got back from North Carolina, so yeah, you guys,
Speaker 1: I'm actually going back in July. The end of July,
Speaker 1: I'll be preaching in North Carolina in Raleigh, so maybe
Speaker 1: I'll see you there, Sherry, But any of you guys,
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Speaker 1: and almost everything I do now almost everything I do
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Speaker 1: There's no more days of expensive ticket concert price.
Speaker 2: Free ninety nine is good.
Speaker 1: Yes, free ninety ninety. Andrew says, like in these lives
Speaker 1: during the launches, Oh cool, Well, thank you. Andrea Tyler
Speaker 1: called me right before we did this and he's like,
Speaker 1: should we.
Speaker 2: Be doing this? Yeah? I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Krat said, I believe Red Fridays have been a
Speaker 1: thing for some years now. Glad you has jumped on board. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, Jimmy.
Speaker 2: Stuff.
Speaker 5: You want to hit an email, We've got several, and
Speaker 5: I've got a few for this show.
Speaker 1: Let's do it first one here, says Grainger. Podcast two
Speaker 1: thirty nine was great and so.
Speaker 2: Informative, which I don't know which one that was.
Speaker 1: He says, I think it would be great and helpful
Speaker 1: to others to see a dedicated podcast on how to
Speaker 1: serve others from a biblical perspective. I grew up on
Speaker 1: a farm helping and serving my family, and I still
Speaker 1: do to this day. But now being in my twenties
Speaker 1: and having other opportunities to serve, it can be difficult
Speaker 1: to decide where I am best needed. It's hard for
Speaker 1: me to say no to turn things down, so that
Speaker 1: often leads to relationships stressed with me and my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: I would like to thank you all for doing what
Speaker 1: you do through the name of the Lord. From a
Speaker 1: fellow brother in Christ.
Speaker 2: Chase. Yeah, Chase, I appreciate you. Man.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what your question is. Besides, you're
Speaker 1: just kind of commenting on sometimes it's difficult to serve
Speaker 1: from a biblical perspective because when you serve anything, I
Speaker 1: guess we could say it this way, when you serve
Speaker 1: anybody or anything, someone's getting left out, in this case
Speaker 1: maybe the girlfriend. And that's a problem. I would say
Speaker 1: if your girlfriend, if you are wholeheartedly serving someone or
Speaker 1: some organize or some cause or church, and your girlfriend
Speaker 1: is stressed or it's putting stress on your relationship because
Speaker 1: you are serving. That's interesting, and maybe we should check
Speaker 1: our hearts on that one and wonder if this is
Speaker 1: the right relationship to be in. That's kind of what
Speaker 1: that's kind of where I would start this. Maybe we
Speaker 1: should out of everything you said, maybe we should be
Speaker 1: thinking more. If you and I were riding in the
Speaker 1: cab of a truck and having this conversation, I would say,
Speaker 1: maybe we should be questioning this relationship a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Although it doesn't necessarily have to be bad, and I
Speaker 1: know that you could.
Speaker 2: You could. You could serve too much.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the the airplane theory I have
Speaker 1: when an oxygen masks drop out of the airplane, you
Speaker 1: got to put the mask on yourself first before you
Speaker 1: could then put the mask on the others. That's sometimes
Speaker 1: in the same way of serving that sometimes if we
Speaker 1: become over servers, then the things closest to us around
Speaker 1: us get neglected, in this case, this relationship. So we'll
Speaker 1: keep thinking through this, and I want you to think
Speaker 1: about Romans twelve two whenever you're thinking through this, really
Speaker 1: meditate on that verse.
Speaker 2: We had another one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, okay, it says my wife and I We're
Speaker 1: watching a sermon, and the pastor said, when we are
Speaker 1: born again, we are given a new spirit, but have
Speaker 1: the same mind. Interesting, I just said Romans twelve to two.
Speaker 1: Let's read that with this too as well. Philippians four
Speaker 1: to eight was his reference. We are to fix our minds.
Speaker 1: God doesn't fix it for us. It is our opportunity
Speaker 1: to take authority of captivity any thought that exalts itself.
Speaker 1: God doesn't change the past. We move forward. Jesus said,
Speaker 1: let the dead bury the dead and follow me. Past
Speaker 1: is unchanged, sees today our past thoughts and way can
Speaker 1: hinder our walk. These are just observations here. And then
Speaker 1: he says, is it possible to acknowledge Christ with your
Speaker 1: mind but never receive them in your heart? It appears
Speaker 1: to me they are separate. I love Jesus and I
Speaker 1: know He's in my heart, and I'm being too relaxed?
Speaker 1: Am I being too relaxed with my loved ones who
Speaker 1: may acknowledge in their mind but looks to have not
Speaker 1: surrendered their heart?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: I mean your first question is is it possible to
Speaker 1: acknowledge Christ with your mind but never receive them in
Speaker 1: your heart? Absolutely? Yeah, Jesus. Jesus talked about that all
Speaker 1: the time. That was the Pharisees, and so outward understanding,
Speaker 1: intellectual understanding of who God is and how we are
Speaker 1: reconciled through His son is. You know, Satan knows that
Speaker 1: Satan understands that right, and so you could absolutely acknowledge
Speaker 1: him with your mind, but never receive him in your heart.
Speaker 1: You need to understand that the very first thing you
Speaker 1: said talking about being born again, you'd have to you'd
Speaker 1: have to go to John three and listen to Jesus's
Speaker 1: conversation with Nicodemus, and Nicodemus is saying, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about born again?
Speaker 2: Could?
Speaker 1: How could be born again? Well, I've already I've already
Speaker 1: been born, And she just says that you're once from
Speaker 1: water and another time from the spirit, and the time
Speaker 1: you're born with the spirit, you don't know. You don't
Speaker 1: have any control over that, and you could look at
Speaker 1: this is way you're in control of your first birth
Speaker 1: and you're not in control of your second. The spirit
Speaker 1: comes like the wind. You don't know where it comes from,
Speaker 1: and you don't.
Speaker 2: Know where it's going.
Speaker 1: And so we have to be careful not to say
Speaker 1: that not to say I know I could capture I
Speaker 1: could take captive thoughts in my mind, but I also
Speaker 1: can captive emotions with my heart. We have to be
Speaker 1: careful with that, because if you're talking about being given
Speaker 1: a new heart, you can't give yourself a new heart.
Speaker 1: So these are things for.
Speaker 2: You to meditate.
Speaker 1: The Bible is very clear about this, and so I would.
Speaker 1: I would walk through stuff like Aphesians two.
Speaker 5: Ephesians Fourians four talks about the spirit of your mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll pull it up here, assuming that you.
Speaker 5: Have heard about him and we're taught, uh, we're taught
Speaker 5: in him as the truth in Jesus. To put off
Speaker 5: your old self, which belongs to your former manner of
Speaker 5: life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be
Speaker 5: renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put
Speaker 5: on the new self.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so put on the new self when you've received
Speaker 1: a new heart. And so John six, John ten, John seventeen.
Speaker 1: Thepheesians two Ephesians four, Romans eight and nine, go there,
Speaker 1: go there and just lap it up.
Speaker 2: Just lap it up. Man.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the email. Actually we hit another one.
Speaker 2: What do you want to do?
Speaker 5: I think we got time for one more and we
Speaker 5: uh maybe take a break, a quick break.
Speaker 1: Okay, hey Grangeer, I'm Wyatt, sixteen years old. I'm a Christian.
Speaker 1: There there's this girl. You know so many years my
Speaker 1: podcast has started with those those words. There's this girl
Speaker 1: at church in my youth group, and I'm good friends
Speaker 1: with her, and she loves the outdoors and I would
Speaker 1: love to get to know her more and maybe go
Speaker 1: out on a date, but go about it in a
Speaker 1: group setting, in a Christian way, He says, do you
Speaker 1: have any advice or suggestions on how to go about this? Oh,
Speaker 1: Wyatt to be sixteen.
Speaker 2: I read so many of these that come into you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know you, yeah, I mean, but it's.
Speaker 5: And it's funny how this is obviously why we also
Speaker 5: talked about going to doing the topics, because we can
Speaker 5: address a lot of people at one time. But pulling
Speaker 5: up Wyatt's was a thought incast. A lot of emails
Speaker 5: that came in before and after Wyatts that talked about,
Speaker 5: I mean, almost to the letter, the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these questions, this, this line of questioning is called
Speaker 1: there's this girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so.
Speaker 1: Why you're sixteen and there's this girl in your youth
Speaker 1: group and you're good friends with her. She loves the outdoors.
Speaker 1: I get it, and you want to get to know
Speaker 1: her more, and you maybe go out on a date
Speaker 1: with her, and you want to do it in a
Speaker 1: in a good, respectable way, which is in a group setting,
Speaker 1: which I agree with. It's dangerous to be alone with
Speaker 1: this with this girl. Why risk that kind of temptation?
Speaker 1: So so, man, I think you're doing all the right things,
Speaker 1: and I think I think so many times life just
Speaker 1: plays out with just vulnerable conversation. And so you go
Speaker 1: out in the group and there's no like right way
Speaker 1: to approach this, and there's no special pickup line. But
Speaker 1: I'm always a fan of being vulnerable. And you know,
Speaker 1: you go up to her and you're in this group setting,
Speaker 1: which I think is courageous and.
Speaker 2: Right, it's good, and you just say I'm Wyatt.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we've officially met or not, but
Speaker 1: I just think you're a really neat person. And I
Speaker 1: love that you like the outdoors like I do. And
Speaker 1: this is kind of embarrassing for me, but I just
Speaker 1: really like you, and I just really wanted to get
Speaker 1: to know you a little bit more, And I just
Speaker 1: think I just think being vulnerable like that with her
Speaker 1: is the best way to do it, because if you
Speaker 1: stumble and you go I just really wanted to get that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm stuttering right now. I just think when
Speaker 1: you stutter and when you mess up and when you
Speaker 1: trip over your words, all of it's okay in that setting.
Speaker 1: But if you're trying to be cool, you're trying to
Speaker 1: say the right thing, and then you stutter, then it's
Speaker 1: really stupid. So Wyatt, You've got a lot of life
Speaker 1: ahead of you, and this is the first, probably the
Speaker 1: first of many times you'll have this feeling until it's
Speaker 1: the last time and you get married and Lord willing
Speaker 1: you spend the rest of your life with a woman,
Speaker 1: and this is practice until that. But I say, be vulnerable,
Speaker 1: open up to her in a group setting.
Speaker 2: That's great.
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Speaker 1: want to tell everybody we will be doing a live
Speaker 1: podcast soon. Not in person, not just on the screen, Okay,
Speaker 1: in person.
Speaker 2: You want to do it in person.
Speaker 1: I've been talking to Tyler about because we're gonna be
Speaker 1: we are going to do this. We're gonna set up
Speaker 1: a tour. It's not going to be a heavy tour.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be super busy, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: do like two dates a week, do it at a
Speaker 1: reasonable hour in a reasonable city where I can get there,
Speaker 1: you know, like on Southwest Airlines or something, and a
Speaker 1: central location. So if you have an idea for me,
Speaker 1: maybe we can comment now. You can comment here if
Speaker 1: you're listening to this right now. What's a good city.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking like Kansas City for one.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. And just say everybody's going to
Speaker 2: say my city.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, so you know, we go to
Speaker 1: Kansas city that's kind of the bottom of the Midwest.
Speaker 1: And then we go up to maybe like Minnesota, you know,
Speaker 1: the Tri Cities, or maybe the Chicago area that gives
Speaker 1: the upper Midwest, Michigan, Michigan. Yeah, it kind of covers that.
Speaker 1: And then we go out west and we do something
Speaker 1: like I don't know, you guys help me here.
Speaker 2: We do either.
Speaker 1: Portland area somewhere, yeah, And then we go out east
Speaker 1: and we do or we would do too and each
Speaker 1: of these places. And so like one week we would
Speaker 1: do say Kansas City and Des Moines or our Lincoln
Speaker 1: or Omaha or something like that, and then the next
Speaker 1: week we would do Portland and Seattle or Portland and Sacramento,
Speaker 1: and then we would go do Chicago and Minneapolis, and
Speaker 1: then we would go do Boston and Charlotte you know, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, yeh. And then then we hit southeast and.
Speaker 1: Then we need to cover we need to do like
Speaker 1: Tampa and Atlanta, and then then we'd have to hit
Speaker 1: Texas and he just keeps going right. But but see
Speaker 1: if anyone wants to comment on this, if they would
Speaker 1: show up, and what we would do is we would
Speaker 1: sit there, we'd have some we'd set up like either
Speaker 1: in a church or a theater, and we would set
Speaker 1: up some couches and mics just like this, and you
Speaker 1: and I would do just what we're doing a different
Speaker 1: city as we could bring.
Speaker 2: Like Marshall yeah, Bernie, yeah, Parker.
Speaker 1: The guys that have done the podcast for a long time. Amber, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then we would announce it and like Marshall's going
Speaker 1: to this group of cities.
Speaker 5: And we can we just have mav in the background
Speaker 5: with the with the gator driving around on the stage.
Speaker 2: Just make it all put some money in there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In fact, maybe Amber could go to a lot of
Speaker 1: these cool So yeah, yeah, let's let's start brainstorming everybody
Speaker 1: on what where we would go, you know, say two
Speaker 1: cities a week for three or four weeks. I think
Speaker 1: that'd be cool. The other announcement I need to make
Speaker 1: is we're gonna do a live We're putting out a
Speaker 1: live album of the last tour.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, very cool.
Speaker 1: It's it's off at mastering now Grizz has been working
Speaker 1: on and I mean it's it captures that last show
Speaker 1: pretty well. You know it is what it is, you
Speaker 1: hear it all. It's it's the last show. You'll feel
Speaker 1: like you're there. Really, Grizz did just a great job
Speaker 1: of capturing that.
Speaker 5: So we could pour some beer on the ground and
Speaker 5: let it dry and then like so your feet to
Speaker 5: be sticky and just close your eyes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Billy Bob, Yeah, smell the stales exactly exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's it. Get a couple of comments here.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's let's see what we got here. Weird from
Speaker 1: Raley be posted on YouTube. Rachel, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: you were there, but I'm not sure. I did a
Speaker 1: Q and A in Raleigh a couple of days ago
Speaker 1: with a great friend of mine, Grant Castleberry's good. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Kroud says, fun question, what was your biggest takeaway highlight
Speaker 1: from ye e day twenty twenty four? I mean, my
Speaker 1: biggest highlight was run into that mud bog in Old
Speaker 1: Alice seventy seventy seven U D ten.
Speaker 2: That was That was a great, great time. I loved it.
Speaker 2: That's cool. Let's hit another email.
Speaker 1: Okay, This next one says, Hey Grandeur, my name is Andrew,
Speaker 1: and lately I've been feeling called to ministry, but not
Speaker 1: sure if I really am. I'm not sure if God
Speaker 1: is really calling me or just my feelings. My question is,
Speaker 1: how do you know it's really God calling me?
Speaker 2: Thanks?
Speaker 1: I love your music in your podcast. Thanks Andrew. Hey,
Speaker 1: great question, buddy. I'm so glad you asked this, And
Speaker 1: I'll answer this every week if I have to, because
Speaker 1: it's interesting I've been saying lately. You said, how do
Speaker 1: I know if it's really God or just my feelings?
Speaker 1: I would add or my indigestion. You know, when people
Speaker 1: say God called me, I'm like, are you sure it
Speaker 1: wasn't the beans you ate last night? Right, that's funny
Speaker 1: but actually a legitimate question.
Speaker 2: If it is, you'll be tested very very quickly, and
Speaker 2: you will know. Yeah. So well the.
Speaker 1: Answer, Andrew, I mean, it's really it's easy. The calling
Speaker 1: you feel in your feelings, that's important. That is a
Speaker 1: very important first step.
Speaker 2: That's what opens the door.
Speaker 1: That's like saying I want to be a country singer
Speaker 1: and I really like singing, and I really want to
Speaker 1: be a country singer. Great, that's the first qualification really
Speaker 1: for anything. You're in radio for many years at the
Speaker 1: first qualification to be in radio is to want to.
Speaker 2: Be in radio.
Speaker 1: Right, I think you can say that in every like
Speaker 1: in every hobby and every career, in every relationship, the
Speaker 1: first step in a relationship is you got a like her.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and two you, I don't think that. I don't
Speaker 5: think if you can't draw, you go I want to
Speaker 5: be an artist. It's something you kind of already have
Speaker 5: in innate ability to do. That's something that's borning you
Speaker 5: that God's given you. You asked me when we were
Speaker 5: in Israel. You know, we were there three days. I
Speaker 5: think he's like, has the bug bit you? And I
Speaker 5: ask what the missionary bug? I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 5: let's see maybe because I'm enjoying this. And then we're
Speaker 5: another three days went by and I'm like, maybe support
Speaker 5: is my thing?
Speaker 1: You said, Hey man, I don't think the missionary bug
Speaker 1: has bit me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So let me ask you questions. What would you do?
Speaker 5: Well, what does the person do that is not called
Speaker 5: to be a missionary? How does he help missionaries?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like, because I do think that.
Speaker 5: That kind of well, kind of like doing this, doing
Speaker 5: this as a podcast is not my strength, but supporting
Speaker 5: and producing you is okay, you know, and I love
Speaker 5: I enjoy this. Came over and we rewired the room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did. No, who has that idea and thinks
Speaker 2: that that's fun.
Speaker 1: We did so, Andrew, I want to get I want
Speaker 1: to get to what you're asking here because I think
Speaker 1: it's it's actually simpler than you think.
Speaker 2: So I love that you're you feel called.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to tell you that you're not
Speaker 1: feeling because feelings are real. You're experiencing that. And so
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna tell you is the next step is
Speaker 1: to get plugged in. If you're not already. If you're
Speaker 1: not already, that's that's a huge problem. But you should
Speaker 1: get plugged in with your local church, and you should
Speaker 1: tell you your leadership in the church this feeling. Say hey,
Speaker 1: i'm guys, I'm feeling called to ministry, and then they say, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Let's begin a discipleship program of some kind. Education very
Speaker 1: important is important here. Some kind of Bible college is
Speaker 1: a good beginning, or a seminary degree is a is
Speaker 1: a good It is a good step here. A one
Speaker 1: on one discipleship program that's that's intentional from your pastor
Speaker 1: is important here. Ways to get you to get some reps,
Speaker 1: and actually teaching is important here. And then what happens
Speaker 1: is you stop relying on your feelings. At that point
Speaker 1: you stop relying on is God calling or not?
Speaker 2: Is you or not?
Speaker 1: Then now you've handed it over to the leadership in
Speaker 1: your local church where they can then collectively affirm you
Speaker 1: together and say, you remember when we had this conversation
Speaker 1: several years ago about you feeling called. We all have
Speaker 1: been collectively talking and we want to affirm your calling.
Speaker 1: And that is that that there's so much assurance in
Speaker 1: that knowing I've been affirmed through my wise counsel and
Speaker 1: leadership around me to my ca It's the same thing
Speaker 1: in any other hobby, our sport, our radio, our country music,
Speaker 1: you know, essentially getting a record deal with a bunch
Speaker 1: of executives affirming you are now ready for major radio
Speaker 1: and we want to invest in you.
Speaker 2: We see something, we see.
Speaker 1: Something, we want to put your song on major radio
Speaker 1: that we are collectively affirming. You don't get to decide
Speaker 1: if you're on major radio by yourself. You get to
Speaker 1: decide if you want to be, but you don't get
Speaker 1: to decide if you're going to be on there. And
Speaker 1: why would ministry be any different? Ministry is so much
Speaker 1: more important than a song on the radio, where there's
Speaker 1: so much more at stake, and we have to be
Speaker 1: as ministers. We have to be judged for what we say,
Speaker 1: and if our teaching is right or not, we will
Speaker 1: be strictly judged.
Speaker 2: Why would we.
Speaker 1: Want to risk that? So, Andrew, I'd say, stay involved
Speaker 1: with this podcast, but most importantly, go and tell everyone
Speaker 1: at your local church this is where you want. This
Speaker 1: is the path you want to start on. It's like
Speaker 1: candy Land the game. This is your first square. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here you are good.
Speaker 2: Let's see if you can get to the end.
Speaker 5: Got a couple comments from what you proposed just moments ago.
Speaker 2: If you'd like to hit some.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's hit that. David says, the whole
Speaker 1: idea of live in person Q and A sounds great cool.
Speaker 1: Andrew said that'd be fun. Lindsay says, come to Delaware.
Speaker 2: Please. When was the last time you were in Delaware?
Speaker 1: We played the Delaware State Fair a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: three years ago. It's hard with COVID, I forget for years.
Speaker 1: And then we played quite a bit. We played Dewey
Speaker 1: Beach several times. We played Dewey Beach, which is a
Speaker 1: beautiful place in the summertime in Delaware. Yeah, Terry says,
Speaker 1: anywhere within two hours of Myrtle Beach would be great. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I think that's Charlotte. I said, Charlotte, right, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe that maybe three or four hours. Tasha says, Kansas City, please,
Speaker 1: pretty please. He's I'll cook for you like I do
Speaker 1: for butcher Bowl for great and God we nailed it
Speaker 1: with with Kansas City.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep that one started. There's there's some cooking
Speaker 2: in there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And that says come to Atlanta. So that was another
Speaker 1: city I thought it would be a good hub. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking like Charlotte, Columbia, Tampa, Atlanta, Austin, Phoenix, oh ye,
Speaker 1: Portland the winter in the winter, yeah, and Kansas City,
Speaker 1: Des Moines or Omaha, Chicago and Minnesota, Minneapolis. It's kind
Speaker 1: of shooting from the hip here.
Speaker 2: You may have just routed everything. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh and I forgot to say probably Boston. That would
Speaker 1: cover Dewey Beach, Delaware, and I don't know, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: d C or that might be too close to Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Maybe probably a Jersey area Boston. Yeah, we'll be thinking
Speaker 1: about this. Everybody be thinking about this. What you gonna
Speaker 1: do now?
Speaker 2: What we've I mean, we've we've been in this for
Speaker 2: forty five.
Speaker 1: We are just rocking. Let's do one more. Do we
Speaker 1: have any questions on here or do you want to
Speaker 1: go to the back to them?
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's che We've got a few, but it is
Speaker 5: a good thing. There's a lot coming in. There's either
Speaker 5: comments or and there's a couple of questions. Ah okay,
Speaker 5: well check this question out, see what you think.
Speaker 1: About it, Big Bobby, says Granger. Do you ever consider
Speaker 1: hosting a car show with ye Yee name in the Northeast?
Speaker 1: It would be so great to put the word of
Speaker 1: God into my streets here at home or even at
Speaker 1: a car show. Yeah, man, that's definitely consideration. We've considered
Speaker 1: doing a car show at the next Yee day actually,
Speaker 1: so that'd be good too.
Speaker 2: Very nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, more comments just just saying hi, and they want
Speaker 5: you to come to their towns.
Speaker 2: So's there's a lot of those.
Speaker 5: But we'll keep these and sort of them because one
Speaker 5: might ring a bell that you haven't thought.
Speaker 1: You waning to grab one real quick?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey friend Andy from Australia here, love listening to
Speaker 1: your words while I work away. I'm blessed to have
Speaker 1: a father of beautiful seven year old boy girl twins,
Speaker 1: seven year old boy girl twins. Their mother left me
Speaker 1: for a woman six years ago. I have an amazing relationship,
Speaker 1: and I think and I thank her for giving me
Speaker 1: the most amazing, beautiful, healthy children. I go to church
Speaker 1: with my children on the weeks that they are with me,
Speaker 1: But I'm scared about their mother's relationship and how that's
Speaker 1: going to impact their relationship with God and what the
Speaker 1: Bible speaks. Your opinion on how I could approach this
Speaker 1: and protect them from from our very judgmental Christian brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters. Jesus is King thanks to Andy. Okay, so two,
Speaker 1: it sounds like two parts to your question here, Andy.
Speaker 1: One is how to raise them. I'm scared of how
Speaker 1: they're No, that's not your question. Your question really, the
Speaker 1: only one you've asked is how to approach this and
Speaker 1: protect them from a very judgmental Christian from very judgmental
Speaker 1: Christian brothers and sisters. Well, this is such a tough
Speaker 1: nuance here, Andy, but you're gonna this. You're just gonna
Speaker 1: have to trust God in this because ultimately, back to
Speaker 1: that conversation we had earlier in the podcast about being
Speaker 1: reborn and being born of the spirit. The same is
Speaker 1: going to go for your kids.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: Although the environment that they're around will will significantly impact
Speaker 1: their understanding of who God is, their heart is in
Speaker 1: His hands. And this is going to require incredible amount
Speaker 1: of patience from you, incredible amount of prayer and some
Speaker 1: really really intimate converse stations that you have with them,
Speaker 1: specifically walking through Bible. And I would for anyone listening,
Speaker 1: I would highly recommend family worship time in your own families.
Speaker 1: And what that might look like, Andy is especially with
Speaker 1: with seven year old boy girl twins. You're looking at
Speaker 1: about ten minutes Max, and during this ten minutes and
Speaker 1: I want I want you to do this every day
Speaker 1: that they're with you, every single day. I want to
Speaker 1: see a portion of it reading through the Bible, not
Speaker 1: picking parts, but actually moving through. So my family and
Speaker 1: I write currently we're in the Book of Mark, and
Speaker 1: so we just we every night we pick up where
Speaker 1: we left off the night before.
Speaker 2: In Mark. It could be.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I read to them one paragraph. Sometimes I read
Speaker 1: to the end of a thought or a to the
Speaker 1: end of a scene in the Book of Mark, and
Speaker 1: that might be three, four, five paragraphs. It might be
Speaker 1: a whole page, but it just depends on where's the
Speaker 1: scene start and where's the scene end. And I want
Speaker 1: you to do that, estimating that this reading time is
Speaker 1: about three to four minutes long. And after you finish,
Speaker 1: have a brief discussion on what we just read. And
Speaker 1: then I would ask what I do is I ask
Speaker 1: my kids to pray specifically, not anything else, but just
Speaker 1: that passage. So let's pray based on what we just read.
Speaker 1: So Lincoln, what could you what could we pray for
Speaker 1: what we just read? And he goes, I'll thank Jesus
Speaker 1: that he opened the eyes of the blind man with
Speaker 1: the mud and that he works miracles. You know. He'll say,
Speaker 1: like the simplest idea from what we just read. And
Speaker 1: then London will usually go a little deeper and she'll say, Lord,
Speaker 1: will you give us the faith to be able to
Speaker 1: see even when when we're struggling and we and our
Speaker 1: minds don't have a sign in front of us, will
Speaker 1: you you make us believe? And then Amber will go
Speaker 1: even deeper, and then I'll finish the prayer and then
Speaker 1: with our time left, we'll sing a song together and boom,
Speaker 1: there's ten minutes and that's the family worship that Andy,
Speaker 1: that will impact these kids more than your judgmental Christian
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, more than what they learn in school.
Speaker 1: They'll remember what they do with Dad and what you
Speaker 1: want to do. The goal is to reveal to them
Speaker 1: who God is through how He has revealed himself in
Speaker 1: the living, breathing Word of God. And you will if
Speaker 1: you do this consistently, you'll find yourself walking.
Speaker 2: Through book after book after book.
Speaker 1: And the Bible, and after a few years you'll you'll
Speaker 1: you will have made it a significant way through the Bible.
Speaker 1: That is, that is where I would lean Andy all
Speaker 1: day long, and for anyone else that's listening in a
Speaker 1: different kind of situation, that's where I would go.
Speaker 5: Man, you reminded me of something when you were just
Speaker 5: talking about that, and that is because he's asking one question,
Speaker 5: how do you a one on one battle with this?
Speaker 5: Instead of filling up your time with that. We talk
Speaker 5: a lot about filling up our vessel. What will you
Speaker 5: fill up your time with? What do you fill up
Speaker 5: yourself with uh Word of God? Or is it you know,
Speaker 5: the word of the world. If you if you filled
Speaker 5: your your your kids up, there's no room for the
Speaker 5: battle between what you're concentrating on right now, if that
Speaker 5: makes sense. Yeah, there's not time or room for that,
Speaker 5: because you're already full of his word, of his worship,
Speaker 5: of the time together that you don't have to worry
Speaker 5: about actually facing those things that battles already won.
Speaker 2: And it's such good stuff. Amen.
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