WEBVTT - Do People Who Commit Suicide Go To Heaven? 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.760 Hey, everybody, Welcome back to the podcast. This is episode 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.800 two sixty two. And I'm just thinking as I was 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.759 setting up, that we should do something special for three hundred, right, 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:23.360 especially for the people that have listened for so long. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.720 Three hundred episodes. That's crazy, right, We're getting close to that. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.000 What we do here is we answer your questions. You 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:36.080 could email me podcast at grangersmith dot com how to 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.720 think about that for a second podcast at grangersmith dot com. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:44.320 You could ask me any question about any topic and 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.000 I just answer it. 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And so 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.479 ultimately The goal for me is not just to answer 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.040 your questions and move on and then that specific question 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.840 is answered, because I'm not always right on these, but 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:48.360 more so that we could all together learn to think 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.240 about them together, so that we could answer any question 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:57.080 that comes up. I think that's kind of the point here, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:02.919 because I have learned in two hundred and sixty one episodes. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.320 This is number two sixty two. I think I've learned 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:12.600 that there are only seven to ten real questions, and 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.960 everything else is a nuance of those seven to ten questions. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.160 So let's dive into this once again. The email is 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.000 podcast at grangersmith dot com. 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Go 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.400 to YouTube and comment below on this episode, and then 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.760 we'll scan through that and see if there's anything we 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.760 need to double down on. That's kind of how we 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.680 started this series, Marshall and I when we were doing 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.679 the Good Church series How to Find a Good Church 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.839 Part one, Part two, and I plan to have them 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.360 back for a part three and maybe even more to 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.720 continue this, but right now we're starting from scratchies or 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.320 brand new questions. The first one says, Hey, Granger, I 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.640 love what you're doing with the podcast. I was a 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.440 huge fan of your prior career as well. My name 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.320 is Justin and I'm married with two wonderful children. My 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.480 wife and I have been married for ten years now. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.560 We recently attended a worship night in our area. During 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.440 that night, I met a worship leader from another church. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.880 We began to small talk. I left my church to 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:56.160 begin attending her church. I have grown feelings for someone 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.720 I don't even really know. My wife has started talking 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.200 about divorce as she thinks I'm cheating on her with 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.400 this other lady. I'm lost, confused and worried. What should 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:11.120 I do? Comes from justin, justin, thank you brother, thank 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:19.760 you for emailing. And here's my reaction to this. You know, 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:24.600 it makes me think of there's a scene from this 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:29.200 Stephen King film, which I'm not recommending on this podcast, 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.800 but the movie is called it. Surely most people have 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.479 heard my kids. Obviously, my kids have not seen this movie, 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:41.800 but they know what it is. It's that crazy clown. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.640 You know. It's like I think it's I think it 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.080 ends up being an alien or something that eats humans. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:52.520 But here's the scenario. Here's the story. In the newer 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:58.960 version of this, this creature dressed as a clown hides 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:03.680 in a gutter I stuck a drain like a storm 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:10.560 train storm drain, and holds her little balloon that comes 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:15.640 out of the storm drain. And the clown is inside 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.479 the gutter and a kid, a boy, I think a 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.599 boy or a girl, sees the balloon and walks up 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.080 to the to the storm drain and wants to take 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:30.040 the balloon. And this this clown says, take the balloon. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.400 Take it. You know, I haven't seen it personally, but 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.240 I'm telling you the story. Take you know, take it. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:39.480 So pretty. It's a beautiful, innocent little balloon. You're gonna 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.240 love it. This is This is a beautiful toy. And 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:49.280 the child in the movie takes this innocent, little, sweet 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:55.000 little balloon from this clown, and the creature in the 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.080 clown grabs the child and rips the arm off of 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.400 the child, completely rips the arm right out of the 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.080 socket and takes it down into the storm drain and 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:10.800 eats it. Your story reminds me of that story, and 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.400 your story is actually worse than the movie it. Here's 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:21.560 another one. Whenever we go duck hunting in East Texas, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.960 we put out these nice pretty decoys on the water, 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.400 and we put those decoys out there because it looks 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:35.280 like a pretty little duck, peaceful and calm and relaxed 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:41.520 on a lake. Hey, look, all ducks, all mallards, look 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:46.160 right here. There's this pretty little little mallard sitting here 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.640 on this little pond. Nothing going on here. And then 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:54.960 here we are with our shotguns waiting to kill whatever 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.320 comes in for this decoy. That story also reminds me 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.960 of your story. And look, brother, I'm telling you this 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:08.000 right now out of love, because justin right now, you 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.920 are still that innocent child that hasn't taken the balloon 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:16.520 yet but you you're now attracted to it. And you said, 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.160 I've grown feelings, which which this is what makes it 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:24.040 very difficult. You've now grown your feelings for this woman. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.720 But I promise you there is only death on the 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.360 other side of the storm drain. There's only death. And 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.800 on the other side of this decoy on sitting on 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:39.760 the pond, it's it promises life, It promises beauty, it 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:47.400 promises prosperity, it promises happiness, it promises that. This is 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.000 a This is a good way to go. Your kids 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.760 are going to actually just adapt to the to the 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.920 new mom. There's going to be no problem. Your wife, 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.240 You'll tell yourself, probably wasn't happy anyway. Maybe she'll just 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.360 find somebody new. It's been ten years, you should know 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.720 by now. She could find somebody new. You could have 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:10.760 this wonderful new clown woman with the red balloon, and 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:15.200 she's so pretty, and you could just marry her, and 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.440 then maybe you could have kids with her and then 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:22.320 split time. This is death. This is going to rip 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.640 your arm off. This this is going to end. You're 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:30.160 gonna end up completely mutilated, and there's no other way 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.720 around it. The world makes this very normal. The world 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.240 makes this seem like this happens all the time. It's 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.520 no big deal. People fall out of love the brother. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.760 I would encourage you to see what the Bible has 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:48.360 to say about this. The Book of Proverbs Solomon writes 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:55.080 extensively about this because he knows from experience. I would 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.280 like you to read David's experience with this and Psal 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.400 I'm fifty one, and every other piece of the Bible 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.120 that says do not commit adultery, don't do it. There's 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:09.920 death on the other side of it. I feel like 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.040 there's not a better way for me to say it. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.360 So maybe now the question is, well, how do you 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.920 how do you do this? Justin you've gone, you're in, 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.520 you're attracted to the balloon. What do you do? You 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:28.360 immediately seek counsel from godly men, and you brought it 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.280 to this podcast. It's interesting that you brought it to 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.880 the podcast, not being anonymous and just given me straight facts, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.640 which is encouraging and interesting that it's not a secret, 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.920 almost as if your wife already knows about this. But 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.840 I would seek counsel immediately. I'm gonna go to your 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:51.880 wife and say, look, I've been wrong. If you thought. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.240 I've been talking to this woman and I had feelings 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.880 for her. I am reversing that now. I am turning 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.839 to you. I'm repenting, turning to God with my sin. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.520 I'm sinning against God himself, and I'm turning to God, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.720 and I'm gonna stop it right where it is, right now, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.720 kill it. Stop it right now. Turn away from the storm, drain, 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.439 turn away with your wings flapping, and get away from 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.840 this pond as fast as you can. You've gone this far, 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.000 so be it. Stop it, turn around, seek wise, counsel, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:26.199 get around, other men, go man. I was blinded by 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.640 this sin. Because what you need to realize justin I'll 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.840 say this last thing. I'll say this is a spiritual attack. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:36.679 You are under attack, the clown, the hunters. With the 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:42.160 guns they have, they have tracked you down. They have 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.520 pinned you into a corner. They have outnumbered you. They 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.760 have fooled you, have been a fool to them. They 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:53.960 have outwitted you, overpowered you, blinded you, and now they're 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.760 about to kill you. You have to know this is 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.920 not about this woman. She's just a pawn in this game. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.360 But you've been hunted by an enemy that you cannot 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.720 compete against seek wise counsel, seek the Lord, repent, turn 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.360 back to him, tell your wife you will never leave her, 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.680 and then come back to this podcast in email. But 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.920 I'm sorry if I'm being harsh, but I don't think 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.400 I think it requires that much severity in what I'm saying. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:31.240 Next question is anonymous, It says Granger. As you know, 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:36.320 the comment section can be quite divisive on videos, So 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.440 my question is based on what I've read on various videos. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.360 What would you say about those that say that Catholicism 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.400 is the only true Christianity, or that Protestants do things 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.360 the right way and Catholics involve too many traditions, etc. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.480 Would this be another case of the devil trying to 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.480 distract from the Gospel like the End Times debate. Could 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:03.880 the conflict over Baptism's role in salvation be included as well? Anonymous, Hey, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.000 this is somebody that's used to this podcast. I like that. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.840 So you're obviously referring to things that have happened on 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.800 this podcast over our previous episodes where I have brought 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.120 up the fact that when it comes to end Times, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.520 people talking about the mark of the Beast and six 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:25.199 sixty six and the anti Christ and the rapture, and 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.680 is it happening right now? Do we see it in 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:32.400 the world today? And I've said many times that the 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.120 point of all of that, really, or the point that 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.840 we're missing, is that Jesus says, be ready. And so 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:48.160 the point is secure yourself with scripture, learning to know 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:52.880 who God is and understand the Gospel and what Jesus 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:57.200 did for man to bring them to reconcile them. The 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.959 Bible says, back to God, because we've sinned, we've turned 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.760 away from Him, and Jesus comes to die for sin 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:08.920 and through his righteousness bring us to God from what 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.400 he did on the cross. He takes our sin upon 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:16.640 his body on the cross and credits us with his righteousness. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.040 We credit him with our sin. That's the Gospel, and 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.520 so anything other than that begins to distract like the 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.800 end of times. And yes, I agree with this synonymous 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:35.400 comment that the debate of Catholicism and Protestants tends to 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.400 break away and distract from the truth of the Gospel. 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:44.560 And yes, I believe the Baptism's rule and salvation and 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:51.280 all these other things our divisive tactics by the enemy, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.840 just like the clown with a red balloon in a 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:59.000 different way. This is a different kind of sin. And 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.600 we're under spiritual constantly. This is spiritual warfare. We do 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.240 not battle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:11.040 against authorities, against cosmic powers of this present darkness, against 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.000 the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places Ephesians 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:19.760 six twelve. We are in a war, and people are 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:24.520 getting taken out all the time. Justin is an example, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.040 and then anonymous here is bringing up another example. And 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:33.720 this is another tactic by the enemies. Just distraction, disunity, discrediting, 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.840 just argue about these things and forget about the Gospel. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:44.440 So what happened in the Reformation when when the Protestants 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.400 split from the Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic Church. What happened? 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:54.360 That's often misunderstood. And it's not that a new denomination 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.200 was formed or a new religion was formed. It's not 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:03.200 that it was a reformation, meaning it was a it 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:07.840 was reforming back to the basics. Really, you could say 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:12.720 it that way. It things had things began happening in 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.240 the church, in the Catholic Church that were leading it 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:22.720 away from the Gospel, and there were groups in France, 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:27.960 in Germany, in England, different pockets. Their Reformation wasn't all 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.080 Martin Luther in Germany, but there were different park pockets 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.760 that around the same time that started sparking up, speaking 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.720 out against the indulgences, against the Catholic Church, charging people 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:46.119 to to to bring their family members out of purgatory 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.520 to save them, things that were unbiblical, and people were like, hey, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:50.920 this isn't I don't think this is right. I don't 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.120 think this is right. But they were all Catholics saying this. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:59.680 They were all Catholics. And so what really made it 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:04.920 the spark flame was the printing press. And when the 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:11.440 printing press started, then these writings spread like wildfire and 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.520 everyone was able to consume and think to themselves, think 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.360 for themselves, and think to themselves, Oh, yeah, I've been 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.160 seeing this is a problem. I've been seeing this and 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.000 I thought this was a problem. And this guy's bringing 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.960 it to light and he's using the Bible is the 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:33.640 example of the truth. And so that's what took off. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.080 And it wasn't that it was a new idea. It 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.320 was a hey, I think we're on a wrong path. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.880 Let's go back to the basics. Let's go back to 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.840 what the apostles taught us. That's what the Reformation was, 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.680 and so that the idea was never to break off 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.960 from the Catholic Church. The idea was to reform the 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:55.080 Catholic Church back to the way it was. Hey, let's 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.360 get back to the basics, right, Let's get back to 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.600 the fundamentals of the faith, because we're starting to lead 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.200 people straight by doing these all these things that are 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:07.720 not biblical. But the reaction from the leadership of the 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:12.879 Catholic Church was this is heresy and were excommunicating you. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.960 We're pushing you out. So the people that were once 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.920 the once loved the church, that were part of the church, 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.919 were then excommunicated and pushed out, and then the Reformation 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:30.359 became its own thing. What's interesting is that when the 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.040 Reformation broke off, when the reformers broke off from the 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.840 Catholic Church once again, not because they were trying to, 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:41.320 but literally because they were pushed out threatened. When they 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:45.240 did break off, it didn't take but just a few 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:50.280 years before divisions within the Reformation started. The first one 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.679 was in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. People started 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.719 disagreeing on what this what the Lord's Supper meant. And 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.159 so there is the divisiveness of the devil, the enemy 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.240 coming in right at the beginning of the Reformation going 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.119 I'm gonna you guys divided. Now, I'm gonna divide you 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.360 over this, and it's just constantly a distraction from the Gospel. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.000 The Reformation started to reform back to the way of 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.479 what things were, to the fundamentals, and as soon as 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:23.000 it reformed, it was breaking apart again with things that 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.080 weren't fundamental. You could see the pattern. You could see 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.200 the red balloon right in the in the storm drain. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:35.200 You could start to see these tactics of disunity as 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:41.119 it as the enemy comes in and attacks with pride 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:50.439 and ignorance. The Reformation was based on the five Soul laws, 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:55.080 which is, we're saved by grace alone, through faith alone, 0:18:55.880 --> 0:19:00.359 and Christ alone, according to the Bible alone, to the 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.679 glory of God alone. That's five and all of that 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:08.320 is it's not a man made idea. It's what we 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.440 could trace through scripture that were saved by grace alone, 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:15.360 through faith alone, and Christ alone according to the scripture, 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.520 the Holy Scriptures alone, to the glory of God alone. 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.560 Anything else really is a distraction an argument. There could 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.960 be Catholics that believe that that believe the gospel. There 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.480 could be people that disagree over the role of baptism 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.439 and salvation, but still the Gospel has still taking root 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:39.520 in their heart and their Christians. And so while we 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.840 could disagree, and it's okay to disagree. You know, I 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.239 like blue, you like red, I like country music, you 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:51.120 like rap music. It's okay to have these nuances. But 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:59.680 when we start getting from the doctrine of salvation, of rebirth, 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.160 of regeneration, of justification, meaning how we're saved. We're saved 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:10.000 by grace. God does it. God does it. Salvation is 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.359 of the Lord, the Bible says. When we start getting 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:17.320 away from this, then it gets muddy. 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Currently, 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:27.280 I'm a youth pastor in a small town outside of Lubbock, Reckham. 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:31.240 I was called to ministry in high school and have 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:35.760 been pursuing that call ever since. Recently, my wife told 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:38.480 me that she feels a strong call to missions overseas. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:40.879 I've been praying and thinking about ways to help her 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:43.320 pursue her calling while also pursuing what God has called 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:46.680 me to do. When we talk through what pursuing her 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.600 calling looks like, sometimes it comes off like my job 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.800 and my calling is more important than hers. My question 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.800 is how would you handle a situation where husband and 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:02.199 wife have different callings in industry? Josh, Hey, thanks for 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:08.040 the email, buddy, appreciate you. Brother. I want to say 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:15.840 that oftentimes we think that we have different callings from 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:21.280 our wife, when in fact we are one flesh. The 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:25.520 Bible says when we become husband and wife, we become 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:29.880 one flesh. And so instead of thinking of she has 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:32.480 her calling and I have my calling, instead you should 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:36.960 think of it as your calling is always through her calling, 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.280 and her calling is always through your calling. They're intertwined. 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:46.400 They don't they don't split off and go into nothingness. 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:51.200 They are the same. They're nuanced, and you have different 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:56.720 giftings within it. But your calling, to say, youth ministry 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:02.520 may go through her overseas calling so that you do 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:08.080 overseas missions, you do youth ministry in overseas missions, or 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:12.720 her calling is through your calling where she host a 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:19.480 missions outreach in your church with your youth group so 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:25.320 that people how you house overseas missionaries that come through 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:28.639 Lubbock and they stay with you and get trained to 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:32.280 go out or something. But but you see, there's a 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:34.760 and I could say that ten different ways how your 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:43.240 two callings could could intertwine. First question I would have 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:45.880 if you're with me, as I would say, hey, where 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:49.600 is your senior pastor in this? This is this is 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:52.600 something that has to has to be talked through with 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:58.520 your elders, your overseers, your pastors, your fellow pastors have 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.359 to be part of this. They do. This is not 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:03.960 something you wouldn't make a decision like this or try 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:06.600 to think through this in a vacuum. Nothing in Christianity 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:09.959 happens in a vacuum. It's a brotherhood, it's a sisterhood, 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:13.840 it's a family. You are the church. The church is 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:17.080 not a building. It is a gathering of people. And 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:22.800 so when you think through this, don't think that God's 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:28.600 going to write something in the sky. You intensify your 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:33.840 prayer life about this. You focus on your daily scripture 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.960 reading for your own devotional time. You bring this to 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:42.120 your leadership and you start praying through it. Say hey, guys, 0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:43.880 I want to pray through something with you or can 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:47.680 you be praying something with us? Because my wife has 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:51.880 a strong calling for overseas missions. And as you bring 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:53.920 that up and you say, and then I have my calling. 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:56.800 I don't know honestly what you're calling is you say 0:24:56.800 --> 0:24:58.720 you're a youth pastor in a small town outside of Lubbock. 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:01.639 I don't know specifically what you want to do, because 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:04.320 a calling is not much more than a want. You 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:07.760 desire something, And if your your will is aligned with 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:11.400 the Lords, then then his desires are yours and he 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:15.120 gives you the desires of your heart if you're seeking him, 0:25:16.040 --> 0:25:18.879 if you're close to him, if you delight yourself in 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:21.080 the Lord, he will give you the desires of your heart. 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:23.919 And that's the calling. There's there's It doesn't have to 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:29.160 be mysterious. A calling is your desire as long as 0:25:29.160 --> 0:25:31.280 so long as you're close to the Lord. And so 0:25:31.320 --> 0:25:33.680 what do you desire to do? Is it youth ministry? 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:36.760 Do you want to be a senior pastor one day? 0:25:38.359 --> 0:25:40.240 And so I would say why is that? Why is 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:43.320 that different than what your wife wants to do? If 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:48.240 she she has a strong call to missions, overseas. Would 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:51.320 you not want to be a pastor overseas or a 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:54.400 youth pastor overseas? Would you not want to take that there? 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:57.880 So I want you to think of it in this way. 0:25:57.960 --> 0:26:01.040 I want you to think instead of hers, she has hers, 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:03.119 I have mine. I think that's dangerous and I think 0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:05.240 it's wrong. I don't think the Bible speaks of a 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:08.840 husband and wife having callings in different ways. You too, 0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:12.560 are called to each other for the Lord, to each 0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:17.960 other for the Lord, serving each other as one one flesh. 0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:20.720 I don't know. There aren't kids mentioned here, but that 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:23.000 would be another component to this. But I would be 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:26.040 I would be just with your your the pastors of 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:30.480