WEBVTT - #208 Answering the question: How do I get closer to God? 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.280 What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the podcast. This this 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:15.720 episode two hundred and eight, and I've got a first 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:21.000 time guest, longtime friend, first time guest, Marshall Canalis and 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.960 he's also my pastor at a Mais Church in Georgetown, Texas. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.280 And the reason the reason I bring anybody on, I don't. 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.280 I don't just like bring on celebrities or or friends 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:37.239 because I like them. I really don't. I really use 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.920 this podcast and I I am very sensitive to it 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:46.800 because these are my people that have asked questions sensitive 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:52.520 questions sometimes sometimes this podcast, unfortunately, it's the only outlet 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.920 that they have. And so I choose people for this 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.920 that I would trust with my stuff. And that's you, 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.400 and that's Bernie, and that's Parker, and that's Chad. And 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.360 that's why it's a small group because if I'm like, man, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.200 I'm going through something, let me and I've done this 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.600 before with you if I have something going on, what 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.760 would you do in my situation or how would you 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.600 give me advice in this situation? And you're one of 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.280 the wisest people I know in my life right now, 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.400 you are the one of the wisest people with the 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.559 best counsel. You are. You always have such a sound mind. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.360 And I mean it's evident the Lord puts you in 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.000 my life at the perfect time when I needed someone 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.240 like you. And and so now I would love if 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.760 you would do the same thing you do for me 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.080 to so many on this podcast. So dude, I just 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:48.040 appreciate you being here. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.680 I appreciate that intro. Man, that's a lot to live 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:51.960 up to. 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.640 No, you just have to be yourself. And and so 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.440 everyone knows we don't have notes in front of us, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.600 we don't have like famous Sea Lewis quotes on this table, 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.760 or we don't even have a Bible in front of us. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.800 We can pull out our phones and look stuff up, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.600 but we do that on purpose because we're not preparing 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.800 for these questions. Marshall doesn't know anything it's about to 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:17.160 come at him, and that way, it creates an atmosphere 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.440 like we're just sitting in the cab of a truck 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.440 and you say, hey, man, can I run something bias 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.560 something I've been going through And we'll say, yeah, let's 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.240 hear it. And we don't have to tell you the 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.120 exact right answer right now, but sometimes we could just 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.400 point you in the direction of where that answer might be. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.920 That's our goal, and to do that, you just email 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.880 Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com and then we're going 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.000 to get into this you ready, ready, all right? Randomly, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.000 I'm to pull out these questions. The first one says 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.040 subject line podcast question. The email says, Hey Grandeer, my 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.360 name is Chandler. I'm twenty one years old. I was 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.040 saved when I was fifteen at church camp. I was 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.680 on a high for God. But life happened and started 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.799 working and dating, et cetera. I started working in dating, 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.080 et cetera. Is what he meant. I went through a 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.480 rough patch with my faith and finally getting back into 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:15.360 church where I could where I can work with my schedule. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.440 I think that's what he meant. Any advice on how 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.400 to get closer to God and being a strong Christian 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.840 young man, Thank you, Chandler. So here's this dude, Chandler, 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.560 twenty one. He's been saved for six years at church camp. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.239 Which is the story that we hear a lot of 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:37.080 some kind of church camp something like that, And then 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.280 you're on a high for God. That's totally normal, and 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.960 then life happened and you settled back down a little 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.720 bit you started trusting yourself a little bit more. You 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.320 kind of forgot about that high that church camp brought you. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.360 When it was when the band was playing and all 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.240 your friends were there and the lights were on and 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.400 you all got down on your knees and you asked 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.880 Jesus into your heart with this prayer and then life 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.440 and as you say, you went through a rough patch 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.680 with your faith and finally getting back into church that 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.760 works with your schedule. So his advice, Marshall, is any 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.000 advice on getting closer to God and being a strong 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.520 Christian young man. And by the way, Chandler, it's a 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:20.160 very normal story, like you're not you're not saying something 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.960 that that we would be like, oh man, that's that's 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:27.240 a problem. We're saying yep, I hear you, man. And 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.919 you're asking the right question. The fact that you're emailing, 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.320 you're thinking about this, you're you're in a church now, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:35.920 this is this is good. So what do you tell 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.280 Chandler Marshall. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.440 Yeah, I mean, just one encouraging that you have this 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.119 desire to be closer to God and that you found 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:46.760 a way to get back into church. Because one of 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.200 the things I would tell you is to get closer 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:50.760 to God. You got to get closer to His people. 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.040 Not not just so that you would feel closer to Him, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.360 but you have all those people around you who can 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.440 support you, and when you hit those trials of life, 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.880 they can speak God's promises in your life, but also 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.120 speak his warnings in your life when you're going kind 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.479 of against what His word is saying. And so you 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.120 need the people of God around you to hold you 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.640 accountable to God. And so it also will prevent you 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.479 from trying to seek this constant high that you probably 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.480 felt at youth camp. I mean I've been there. Yeah, 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.919 you're just surrounding and I think that's actually a testament 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.720 to being around God's people, right, Like you're around all 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.520 these people who want to be on fire for God, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.440 and you kind of feed off of that a little bit. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:31.840 And so. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.880 Being around the people of God will constantly point you 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.120 in the right direction when life's telling you to go 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.480 in to a different direction when you know, I would 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.239 they say dating and works kind of got in the way. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.760 When you're in church, that's gonna constantly confront you with 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.000 this reality of your you're kind of distancing yourself from 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.720 the people of God. And if you're distancing yourself from 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.400 the people of God, in some sense, you're distancing yourself 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.760 from God himself because He's called us to be in community. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.120 And so when you're distancing yourself from that community, it 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.680 should feel weird, it should feel awkward, it should probably 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.359 get tough because you're trying to do something that you 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.760 weren't designed to do, and that's live life on your own. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.360 And so you surround yourself with people who are constantly 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:14.520 pointing you to Jesus. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.320 Yeah, that's so good. And to that same point of 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.839 being closer to God's people than Chandler, we could also say, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.440 what are you listening to? What are you watching? Like, 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.320 what movies are you watching? What what comedians are you 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.680 going to see? What people are you hanging around at 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.600 work that are telling those jokes that you're laughing at 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:38.880 because you're kind of assimilating into that culture and away 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.280 from God's culture. So if you want to be closer 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.760 to God, there's exactly the question you asked. You want 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.280 to get closer to God, then Marshall's going to say, 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.239 get closer to his people, And in that aspect, you're 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.360 going to kind of start dislocating you know that joint 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.240 of where you are with the world, which is in 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:01.640 the music, of the culture and the movies, because you're 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.040 gonna want to crave that less and crave his people 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.160 and his things and things that he loves more. And 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.280 that's how you get closer. This is not just God. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.600 You want to say, how to get closer to this girl, Well, 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.040 you're gonna start digging into the hobbies that she likes. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.679 You're gonna start hanging out with her dad. You're gonna 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.720 start going to church with them on a Sunday morning. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.920 That's how you're gonna get closer to her. So it 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.560 would be the same thing getting closer to God. It's 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.480 no different. It's a relationship. It's what Christianity is. Yeah. 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.480 Something else that he said in there, I'm able to 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.200 go to church that fits around my schedule. Yeah, just 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.560 probably thinking through is what is in your schedule absolutely 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.040 vital for your life. So if it's, well, I'm out 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:44.880 really late on Saturday night, so it doesn't really work 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.480 for my schedule to wake up in the morning and 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.880 go or you know, i'd rather I know y'all talked 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:51.920 about sports on the last episode. You know, I'd rather 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.440 be doing sports on Sunday morning, and so that doesn't 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.920 work with my schedule. It's what's on your schedule that 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.520 is absolutely vital to your life that would warrant you 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:06.600 missing church regularly, and so just getting not necessarily finding 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.320 a church that fits your schedule, but prioritizing gathering with 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.960 the people of God on Sunday morning may mean that 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.440 you need to reorient in your schedule. Yeah, and not 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:17.960 find a church that fits your schedule. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.600 Yeah, that's good, that's good. And know that when you 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.400 try to do that, like we talked about with Bernie, 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.680 when you tried to do that, it's going to be uncomfortable. Yeah. Yeah, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.840 you're going to the world's going to go you're crazy. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.240 You don't miss this baseball game, or you don't you 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.160 don't miss this barbecue that me and the boys do 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.960 every Sunday morning at eleven am. That's what we do. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.400 So we've always done Chandler, what are you talking about? 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.120 So it's not going to be easy, Yeah, but it's 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.439 that's how you get closer to God and that's where 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.920 your peace and your rest ultimately lie. So you're on 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.160 the right track. Man. I want to encourage you for 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:56.400 asking the right questions. Surprise, surprise, the next one says 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:02.679 Bible question. The email says, Hey, this is Elvin. I'm 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:06.760 twenty years old from Greenbrier County, West Virginia. What is 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:11.200 the difference when the Bible says Jesus Christ verse Christ Jesus. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.000 I love your book and I bought it one for 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:17.840 my dad. I hope you're having a wonderful day. Okay, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:26.960 So more or less a translation question here. So Christ 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:32.400 is Messiah, Savior. So that's the title. In fact, you 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.559 said this in a sermon last Sunday. That's one of 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:42.440 Jesus's titles, is the Christ, the Messiah, the Savior. And 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.880 the Jews would really appreciate that title because they understood 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:52.720 that through their prophecy. So what you're saying, you're asking us, 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.200 how where do you put the title? And so it's 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.920 not that big a deal. And do you have any 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.120 to say about that if there's any weight to that 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:02.439 at all. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:04.960 No, it doesn't matter the placement of it. It's just 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.800 signaling to the people, especially who knew the Old Testament, 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.480 that Jesus was the one that God had promised throughout 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.679 the entire Old Testament. So you could put in there 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.240 Jesus who is the Christ or the Christ who is Jesus. 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.280 So if you could move those at those in there 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.199 to kind of help with it, you're not changing who 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:24.640 he is or what's being said about him. 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.200 Yeah, certainly you'll see it in different translations. You could 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.199 see each one translated differently in the same passage as well. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.840 Jesus Christ and Christ Jesus. Some people, some churches will 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:41.160 only say Jesus Christ. They will never say Christ Jesus. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.760 I don't necessarily know the difference why people do that. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:48.640 LDS Church is one. It's always Jesus Christ. They will 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.439 never say just Jesus. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:53.440 I'm not really sure why they would do that either. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.880 But interesting call them it below if you know. The 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:03.560 next question, subject says, when is it enough? Eight years? 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.200 This is just going to start. This is how it starts. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.599 Eight years single, thirty two years old. It's hard to 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.679 date in twenty twenty three. I don't want to waste 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.680 my time dating as I have tried. I have spent 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.240 a lot of money paying for dinners. I have not 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.720 been the best in past relationships or talking ships. He says, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.360 as I shut down due to pass experiences, I fall 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.160 easily for women who actually give me attention. But I 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.920 have been burned so many times. I tend to think 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.240 more of the future. It's not worth talking to her 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.160 because of etc. Etc. I want a family and kids. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.960 I want to keep the family name alive. I have 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.640 a huge belief in marrying before children. I am getting 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.720 older and my tolerance gets lower by the day. Is 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.840 there a thing that is there a thing that there 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.880 are more fish in the sea? Colon? Wait, this is 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.160 how you wrote it, man, or do you think overthinking 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:05.240 is too much? I read that exactly how he wrote it. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:11.280 This guy's name is Taylor, and okay. Interesting. So thirty two, 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.679 first of all, is not old, but you think it is. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.280 And eight years single it's not necessarily a long time either. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.880 So that's a perspective that we're gonna have to change 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:28.560 with you here. Is that the culture maybe you're hearing 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.520 from your world that thirty two is now you're getting 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.240 really up there and you're late in your years and 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.920 almost too late to ever find a wife, and your 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.120 family name is gonna go away. That's these are things 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.080 that's happened that are happening in your head right now. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:48.720 But I hear a lot of cynicism. I hear a 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:53.000 lot of frustration from you that I got a feeling 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.080 is not just in this email. I got a feeling 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.160 this frustration is coming out in a lot of the 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.320 other aspects of your life. So when I hear stuff 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:05.520 like that, and in terms of you wanting to find somebody, 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:11.360 I always think you should try to be the person 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.439 that would attract the woman that you want. Because the 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.640 woman that you want that has this family with you, 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.920 and has your children and raises them as their mother, 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:28.839 and keeps the family name alive, and becomes that best 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:34.240 friend of yours, that first level of security of advice 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.600 in this relationship at home, that woman, whoever she is, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.360 would she be attracted to this guy that you are 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:46.320 right now? This cynical? I'm impatient. I shut down because 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.400 of past relationships. I don't really like paying for dinners 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.720 a lot. That guy is the woman you want, the 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.760 mother of your children. I know you have her in 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.840 your head. Is she attracted to you the way you 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.920 are right now? I don't think so. Man, What do 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:03.920 you say to this guy Marshall? 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.839 Yeah, I mean part of it when when you were 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:12.480 reading it, my word of caution to what he's saying 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:13.920 there were a lot of good things he said in there, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.520 like he's a strong believer that you know, get married 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.880 before you have kids. Yeah, amen, do that, But you 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.720 want to make sure you're not looking at these women 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.400 as a means to an end. So it's it's not 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.080 I need to get married so I can pass on 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:31.320 my name and have kids. 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.280 Like what if the Lord in his. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.640 Providence decides y'all can't have kids, You're not going to 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.440 have kids. The only thing that's going to get you 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.680 through that, apart from God's grace, is the fact that 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.840 you love the woman you're with and she wasn't just 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.720 a means to get the children or to pass on 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:47.120 the name. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:47.600 And so. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:50.920 While I think it's good to be thinking like can 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.440 I see myself marrying this woman and being the mother 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.200 of potential kids down the road, you don't want that 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:01.160 to be the sole reason you're with this woman. Do 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.600 you see yourself with her? Do you see yourself growing 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.280 with her? Can you see yourself leading her towards Jesus? 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.960 So just that would be the only word of caution 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.440 on top of what you said, is just sure don't 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.720 use her as as as a means to an end. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.000 So what Marsha's saying is, imagine you're a dinner and 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.360 you're on a date and you're telling this woman, You're saying, 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.240 are you paying her me? Because I'm not really into pain, 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.560 And I'm sorry, I got to admit that as I 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.400 get older, my tolerance gets lower and I'm really what 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.040 I'm wanting is a mother to some children to carry 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.080 on my name. Like that sounds horrible, you wouldn't say that, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.440 but that's that's what your thought is. And if that's 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.520 what you're thinking, and that's what you want, And Marshall's saying, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.200 I'm going to caution against that because you could get 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.560 none of that and that's not attracting anybody that's worth anything. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:59.880 And so yeah, to take all that digest a little 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.800 bit and then ultimately remember too that you're thirty two minutes. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.240 You got a lot of time. Things could change like that. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.000 You could meet someone tomorrow, be engaged in two months 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.920 and married in four months. Yea, this is not that's 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.840 not out of the ordinary for that to happen. Yeah, 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:23.040 doing good man. Let's get another one. Oh man, this 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:28.800 is one. See this subject life baptism of the Holy Spirit. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.320 Here we go Hey, grangeur great talk. A couple of 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.280 weeks ago at Liberty. I attend Virginia Tech, but drove 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.320 ninety miles to see you speak and I love the message. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.680 Thank you man. My question to you is about the 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.360 baptism of the Holy Spirit. I am part of a 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.680 campus ministry at Virginia Tech and have encountered spiritual gifts 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.840 such as prophecy, words of knowledge, and speaking in tongues. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.360 I want to hear if you believe in this too, 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.400 because you have mentioned that you came from a Baptist background, 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:00.560 which traditionally doesn't believe in these gifts. First scene and 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.920 acts too on the day of Pentecost, explain a lot 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.400 about the apostles being told by Jesus to wait until 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.640 he can send a helper, the Holy Spirit. Then on Pentecost, 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.120 a sound like a rushing wind came and they all 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.680 began speaking in o their tongues. Thanks for your time, brother, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.639 and super excited about your path. I will be praying 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.480 for you. Carson Carson, thank you man. Thanks for driving 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.760 ninety miles. That's amazing. And shout out to Virginia Tech. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.440 It's a really cool school. I've never visited, but every 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.560 time I see him on TV. They kind of remind 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.760 me of Texas A and M where I went. They're 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:40.240 kind of like minded in that way. So yeah, Baptism 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:46.360 and the Holy Spirit. Here's what I know, don't I'm 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.960 not a master on this at all, don't know a lot, 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.919 but let me tell you what I do know. In 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.560 the turn of the twentieth century in the United States, 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:01.040 there was a there had been a rise for about 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:05.280 one hundred years or so of liberal Christianity. Right. It's 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:12.240 where major doctrines, vital organ doctrines heard that today at 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:19.160 lunch were being compromised, and there was a like any 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.159 kind of rise of something like this liberalism, like in 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:26.600 the government or anything, there's always a conservative backlash. And 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.000 that's what happened in the twentieth century, the turn about 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:33.040 nineteen hundred or so, that was the rise of fundamentalism. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:39.399 It was the rise of the Orthodox Presbyterians, the Pentecostals, 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.879 the Evangelicals in some of the way that we know 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:48.879 them as to be today. And the rise of those 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.320 usually had something in common. And all of those different 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.880 sorts of denominations are cultures, they all together they had 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:03.119 in common. Let's let's stick with doctrine, let's go with 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.560 what the word says, you know. The fundamentalist it's like, 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.720 let's do exactly what the Bible says, word for word. 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.719 That's what we need to do, exactly that, right, And 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.560 so there's a good spirit about that, you know, And 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.159 I think we could all agree that there is a 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:23.719 there is a constructive spirit with that. But Pentecostalism, I 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.280 think I think it's the West Coast thing. I think 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.879 I think it grew in the West Coast and it 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.439 was like reading the Book of Acts literally, and so 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.359 this this rise comes and so kind of my point 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:41.080 is it's a it's fairly new, as as a lot 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:46.800 of these different denominations are fairly new. And the danger 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.160 of this, and in mind, this is just my opinion. 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:54.719 This could mean nothing to you, Carson. I'm not discounting you. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.760 I'm not saying you don't speak in tongues. You're wrong. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.880 I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that anyone can't 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:05.959 speak tongues. Now, what I am saying is, I always 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.400 think we should caution ourselves when we get too far 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:14.879 into a thing that's outside of the Gospel. I believe 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:19.320 that with eschatology when we're talking about in times and 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:23.800 we're talking about the rapture and people to get obsessed 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:25.960 with the mark of the Beast and six six six 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:30.199 and and and I feel the same way when we 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:34.280 start talking about baptism of the Holy Spirit. Because as 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.920 I as I had my rebirth and kind of went 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.360 out into the world, a lot of people came to 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:45.359 me with their with their their their mentality of Christianity, like, okay, greater, 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:47.119 now that you've done that, here's what you need to do. 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:49.399 And I heard a lot a lot of people say, 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.879 now that you've been reborn, your next goal is to 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.639 seek wisdom and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.719 I remember when I first heard that. I first heard that, 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.480 I was like, yeah, I love John three. I love 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.760 reading John three. Like Jesus says that the spirit's like 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:09.840 the wind, no one knows where it comes from or 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.960 where it's going. I love that. And everyone must be 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.120 reborn by the spirit to enter the Kingdom of God. 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:20.560 I love that. I love that whole conversation with Nicodemus. 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:22.040 And then I come to find out, no, that's not 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.760 at all what they're talking about, not talking about anything 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:31.440 Jesus said about the Holy Spirit. So we do know 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:33.480 a little bit about tongues. We do know that it's 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:37.080 made to edify the church. We could debate all day 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:42.719 about whether whether you need to speak tongues to be 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.080 a Christian or whether you need to have one of 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:48.760 these gifts to actually be a Christian. We could discuss that, 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:52.159 but I don't want to. I want to instead just 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:56.600 caution and just say, let's worry about the gospel more 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:59.919 than any of that other stuff. The gospel meaning what 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:04.960 who Jesus is and what he did. And if we 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:08.880 lose sight of that, I think I think Jesus would 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:10.960 be like, what are you talking about? What? Why are 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.600 you worrying about this stuff? Why are you working worrying 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:15.760 about the baptism of the Holy Spirit? When I told 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:19.200 you what baptism is. What do you got for this, Marshal? 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:21.040 And I want to You're a pastor, so I don't 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.399 want to stick you out on a limb here. 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:25.760 But yeah, no, you're good. I mean, one thing that 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:27.920 always comes to my mind when we actually talked about 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:30.720 this in Bible study last week that in Ephesians, Paul 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:34.399 talks about, you know, there's one Lord one Gospel, one baptism, 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:38.040 So there's not these two different baptisms according to what 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.639 Paul's saying there. And so, I mean, we believe that 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:44.960 you get the Holy Spirit when you're when you become 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:47.119