WEBVTT - Is the Deep State changing the Bible 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.440 We'll type everybody, welcome to the live podcast. This is 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.560 always interesting when we do it. I don't know, we've 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.600 done it four or five times live, and I think 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:22.800 it's cool this way. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:23.880 It's cool to do it this way. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.040 And I'm actually watching the feed from my iPad here 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.840 on the table, and I forget that we're lagging. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.960 We're lagging. We're lagging a bit. That's why I started 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:33.559 a little bit late. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.160 We got Parker with me, my brother, We've got aunt 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.199 Man with me. We're here to answer your questions. 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And 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.560 really what we could do is we could answer any 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.840 question you have about life or love or religion. In fact, 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.479 a lot of them tend to be trending towards religion. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.640 Over the last year or so, they do. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.200 But what we're going to do is what do you 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.440 remember the title I gave you for this podcast? 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.240 Yes, deep State. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.360 Is changing the Bible. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:02:00.400 The Deep State is changing the Bible. It's our title, Parker. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:02.800 That's what we're gonna be thinking about. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:08.639 So the discussion as we can move this chat towards that, 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:15.600 the thought is this has the Bible changed? Can we 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.880 trust it? Here's why I'm saying this. This came from 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:24.280 a message I got on my YouTube channel from a 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:29.079 podcast I did with Marshall, my pastor to Mais Marshall, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:33.160 and I did an episode about Trump. Did God Save Trump? 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:33.760 Now? 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:38.760 Someone messages to that to Marshall, and I says this quote. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.880 Just to be clear, I'm not looking for an argument. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.440 I believe in something, but I don't know what it is, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:46.040 you might say. 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:47.600 He says, the. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.160 Good Book has been changed so many times over the years. 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.120 Parentheses just cross reference a really old book with a 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:59.760 modern day book. So my question would be, is someone 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.280 manipulating a genuine book. I think he's talking about the 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.440 Bible here, obviously for potentially the wrong reasons. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.120 I don't know. And then he says, I. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.160 Hope there is because there's a few people I'd like 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.840 to see again. I think he means to say, I 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.880 hope there is a God, or I hope the Bible 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.440 is true because there's a few people I'd like to 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:19.839 see again. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:21.560 Okay, Okay. 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.799 So the reason I wanted to talk about this, and 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.720 the reason I said deep state, is because there's this 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.680 idea that there's an entity out there, there's a group 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.840 or a person that is beyond. It's bigger than the government, 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.480 because it wouldn't be Joe Biden doing this. It wouldn't 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.720 be the American government. It wouldn't be the King of England, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.480 it wouldn't be even Constantine, the Emperor of Rome. It 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.920 has to be bigger than that, because it's manipulating the world. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:53.400 Otherwise someone would catch on to it. This is all theoretical, 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.800 but there must be somebody changing the Bible, this guy says, 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.920 and I think it's a it's an argument that first 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.240 of all, will completely squash, But second of all, I 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.240 think it's it's a good first thought if you're thinking 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:06.960 about these things. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.480 There's a lot of conversations about deep state and what 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.560 the deep state is or who the deep state is, 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:19.039 especially around election time, there's always that conversation around this 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.520 nondescript deep state. Who are they? In fact, I just 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.680 saw in my feed on YouTube this morning something about 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.120 deep state, and I don't know if it's because I 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.720 had just entered all the information in for this live 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:38.560 so it caught keystrokes and started serving me deep state stuff. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:44.440 But for it to lead to this seems seems about 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.640 online it does changing everything else, Why not the Bible? 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.320 So Jan Conley says, the Bible doesn't change. People try 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:55.440 to change it. God is constant. Anna Mendoza says God 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.159 is the same God from the Bible because he's the 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:03.920 everlasting one. And then there's some discussions. Christy says the 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:09.080 word of God does not change what the fluff says. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:13.880 There are so many manipulators now, and so to that 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.880 to these people, and you know, we're kind of jumping 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:16.800 in on this discussion. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.400 We say, yes, but. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.839 How do we know that practically, Like Jan says, the 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.320 Bible doesn't change change. People try to change it, but 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.080 God is constant. And then Anna says, God's the same 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.760 God from the Bible. Okay, but how do we know that. 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.640 Let's get let's get some practical reasons how we could 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.320 know that. And let's use this episode of this podcast, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.000 at least the first half before we answer questions, so 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.520 that we could have a basic apologetic and that apologetic, 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.719 that word means defending, so we could defend the faith, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:53.800 not in a military way, but with gentleness and respect. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.200 Let's defend, like Peter said, the faith. And we could 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.320 do this in really easy ways. So let's talk practically. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:04.760 Let's see if anyone else has chimed in on this. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.480 Aslan Rising says, the devil has been twisting God's words 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.120 since the garden and since we were born. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:12.000 Of our father. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.200 The devil, those outside of Christ will seek to distort 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.400 God's word and this includes making false translations. Okay, so 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:24.960 let's talk about false translations. Twenty twenty four is a 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:29.719 wonderful time to live in any religion. It's a wonderful 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.400 time to live because we have the Internet. We could 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.600 research things, we could we could look to, we could 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:41.760 look at history, we could look to recent discoveries of 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.240 ancient things better with more knowledge and more efficiently than 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.160 any other generation before us. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:49.360 What a time to live. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.039 There's also a lot of responsibility on us because now 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:54.960 we've been given a lot of information. What are we 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:56.960 going to do with this? But here's the deal, y'all. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:04.039 It boils down to this. Translations. Modern translations, good scholarly 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:12.840 modern translations are derived from early ancient text. They're not 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.760 they're not. It's not a game of telephone. You don't 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:22.000 have the the KJV and then was revised into the whatever. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.320 Then then that was revised into the whatever, and then 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.920 they use that to revise it into the whatever. Now, 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:32.480 modern scholarly translations always will use a team of scholars, 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.080 and they go back to the oldest manuscripts that we have, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:41.320 which are the fourth century and the three hundreds are 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:45.040 our earliest manuscripts. And then we have fragments of manuscripts 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:50.040 all the way from the first century. So if a 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.920 in these fragments are from all over Eastern Europe, the 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:59.360 Middle East, Africa. So when we get these fragments, and 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.200 we could look at them today and we could match 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.120 them to the early manuscripts, the complete manuscripts we have 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.000 from the fourth century, the Alexandrian text, or the oldest 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.000 we have. They were discovered in the eighteen hundreds, so 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.840 it's a more recent discovery than even the King James Bible. Right, 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.560 so we and then we look at it, and what 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.320 a miracle to look at the Alexandrian text and then 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.800 look at the King James and go, oh wow, we 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:29.320 haven't lost any doctrine. These old manuscripts are still they're 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.120 still matching up to the oldest ones. We have the 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:36.400 text Us recept Us, which is where the King James 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.920 was derived from. And so when we look at these, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.240 no doctrine is lost. There are words here and there, 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.200 there are verses. So in a modern English translation sometimes 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.520 like the EESV, you'll see a verse that's not there 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.520 that is there in the KJV. And some people use 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.320 that and they go, Sae, look that people are trying 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.240 to deep state change change the Bible. But what's what's 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:03.280 actually happening there? 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.200 And if you have a good if. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.240 You have a good Bible, it should say earlier. It 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:14.600 says earlier manuscripts. Earliest manuscripts have left out and then 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.679 it says the word or the line that you might 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.360 see in for instance, the KJV, and so you could 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.440 take it or leave it. None of those times does 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.920 it ever say something that changes something about who God is. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.920 It's something, it's just something more trivial. But what they're 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.160 trying to do is they're trying to go I think 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.040 this was added later. I think this was added in 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:42.920 the tenth century. But for clarity, some monk, some scribe 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.560 added a line for clarity for the people of that village. 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:53.320 An earlier manuscript doesn't have that clarity. So let's trust 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.160 the earlier manuscript. That's my thinking. Let's trust the oldest 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.000 collection of manuscripts that that all test to each other. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.559 But then you could look at the added line from 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.760 the scribe and you don't have to just say it's 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:12.200 heresy or anything. But I'm trying to debunk the idea that, yes, 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.440 the Bible does change. But my argument is it changes 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:20.760 for the better. Sure, because they're making more recent archaeological discoveries, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.400 which we have twenty over twenty five thousand pieces of 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.440 the Bible that date all the way back to the 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.480 first century. So anyone that wants to say a deep 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.480 state's changing it, the Bible's changing. There's a conspiracy that people. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.760 All you gotta do is go, let's go to a 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:40.160 local museum and let's pull out the Greek translator on 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.600 our phone and as look at these ancient texts and 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.200 see if John ten is the same as the John 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.400 ten we see in her Bible. It's that easy in 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.200 twenty twenty four, Parker, you got anything. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.800 Yeah, I think it's something that's really important to consider. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.920 And I'm glad that people are even thinking about it 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.640 and talking about it, because it's really easy, especially us 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:08.280 being in the Bible Belt, to just affirm, to affirm 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:15.160 the Bible or God without looking into you know, what 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.480 am I reading and where did it come from? And 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.320 do I have an answer for people who like, there 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.679 are it's not just have blind faith. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:24.440 Don't worry about it. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.640 You know, there are his you know, reliable historical documents 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.640 that backscripture. And that's one of the things that early 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:35.160 in my in my becoming a Christian in twenty twenty one, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.440 that I couldn't I couldn't believe how many intelligent people, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:47.040 how many historians affirmed the Bible, the God of the Bible. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.440 I always thought it was anti science, anti history. And 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.760 I remember hearing Tim Keller one time and he said, 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.479 there's a million things you could argue about the reliability 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.480 of scripture, of things that you think may think contradict 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.920 of things that you may think don't work with our 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.160 practical world. But he said, I challenge you to just 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.160 do three things. To Number one, just look at the gospels. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:13.040 The Gospels are about the life of Jesus Christ, and 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.800 you need to ask yourself, can I trust these gospels? 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.000 Who wrote these and when? And can we just practically 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.960 trust who wrote these? And if the answer is yes, 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.199 then that means that what's in Matthew Mark, Luke John 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.560 is history. Is it reliable, who wrote it when? And 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.600 if you can affirm it yes, this is history, then 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.560 you need to make a decision about who is Jesus 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.040 claiming to be. When you read Jesus talking about himself, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.560 who is he claiming to be? Is he just a 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.720 prophet like every other good religion says, or is he 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.760 claiming to be the son of God on whom he 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.840 bore the sins of the world of those who had 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.720 trust in him and he's the only way? And then 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.280 number three, you have to decide. So number one, are 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.720 the Gospels historically reliable? Number two? Who is Jesus claiming 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:05.040 to be? And then number three, what's my decision going 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.200 to be about him? Am I going to follow him? 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:08.320 Or am I not? 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:09.800 Uh? 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.520 So that that's just like a really good practical way 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.360 to think about it, because it can be really overwhelming, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.160 but I think you described it really well. And then 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.400 and then lastly, I'll just say a really good resource 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.359 for that. It's a book called Can We Trust the Gospels? 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.640 It's just called Can We Trust the Gospels. It's a 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.280 really short read, and from my mind, I'm sure everybody's different. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:32.160 I love listening to like like you and like aunt 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.120 historians practically talk about these writings and where they came 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.640 from and if we can trust them, because if they're true, 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.400 just really practically, then Christianity is true and we should 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:43.920 we should make a decision about it. 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:50.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're so right. The I saw one 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:55.240 on here, Oh Joe, Joe, Mama says, my Bible says 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.320 a king it's King James version, but inside it says 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.520 translated by Prince James. That's don't know what that is, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.120 but you should throw that Bible out King James didn't 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.440 translate anything. He did commission a group of scholars to 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:14.800 work on translating from the Latin. And so if we should, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.040 we should live in twenty twenty four and rejoice that 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:21.239 we have access to all kinds of really really solid information. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:23.920 And like Parker said, it's just it shouldn't be a mystery. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.040 But yet you should question those things. I think it's 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.760 really good that it would be really weird to just go 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:34.200 I trust this, why because everyone says to trust it. No, 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.440 we could actually know some things that The History of 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.960 the Bible Museum in Washington, d C. Has some really good, 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:48.360 some really good fragments of text that's just fascinating to 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.720 stand there. It's from the Book of John. I think 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.440 it's I think it's John eight. I can't remember, but 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.680 the one that's currently on display in the History of 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.160 the Bible Museum, it's a fragment from John eight. And 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.840 there it is right there in the Greek and you 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.600 go and you could look at your phone and look 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.520 at a translator and go, that's the same. That's the 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:11.600 same as we have today. That's a miracle we have. 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.640 We have some missionaries at our church that are currently 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:22.520 translating the Bible into a language that it has never 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.760 been translated to. So they kind of spoke recently of 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.640 how they're doing it, and it is literally word for word, 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.360 line by line. A couple people will be assigned to 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.200 a certain section and they'll do that, but then that 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:41.280 section goes to several other people who double, triple, quadruple 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.840 check line by line, word by word, chapter by chapter, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.400 book by book, and it's I mean, it takes forever. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.600 And think of how how quickly it actually is in 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.160 twenty twenty four with all the resources that we do have. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.640 It makes me appreciate the ones who came before them, 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.600 and I obviously appreciate them doing this right now. To 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.080 know that there's a language right now that doesn't have 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.760 the Bible and there they've been called to do that, 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.160 I thought was fascinating to kind of hear how, even 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.120 in this day and age, how meticulous they are with 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.080 making sure that every single word is right. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:17.239 Yeah, it's incredible. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.120 Aslan Rising says, it's important to distinguish between changing of 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.600 translations and the changing of the original text, and yeah, 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.000 that's a great point because when you when you say 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.840 that the Bible is the Word of God. We say amen, 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.240 but what we mean is the inspired word of it 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:37.280 from the original authors, not whatever current translation you're holding, 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.560 because you could actually be holding a heresy translation. I 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:47.680 highly discouraged. The passion translation highly trand the message message, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:48.720 the message. 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:48.840 Is another one. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.840 I'm highly discouraged. And especially if it comes the translation 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.280 is coming from one person. That's that's a big it's 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.520 a big red flag right there. So you don't hold 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.600 the message and go, this is the word of God 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.280 the Bible. Only half of what you're saying is true. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.960 Asland makes a great point that we're talking about the 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.560 original inspired word of it. Now we also have great 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:14.000 evidence that that that word has been preserved. And besides 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.240 the fact that God says his word will be preserved, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.280 we actually, we actually have great history of showing how 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:21.119 this is working. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.080 And where are we on time? 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And no 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.600 matter what stage you're in shopify dot com slash granger, 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.760 We're going to answer some questions here and if you 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.439 want to get a hold of me, you could email 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.760 your question to podcasts at grangersmith dot com. If you 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:47.960 want me to send you a video message, I could 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:49.600 do that if you go to cameo dot com slash 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.239 granger Smith and I literally will have my phone and 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:56.040 send you a video message to whatever happy birthday, happy anniversary, 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.600 whatever you want that to be cameo dot com slash Grangersmith, 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:02.440 and yes, sir, I'm going to get to some questions. 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:04.960 In fact, I'm going to leave this run. I'm going 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.800 to leave the YouTube going so I could also see 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:09.800 what people are. 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:10.720 Saying in the chat here. 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:18.879 But ant Man has kind of fielded these questions from 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:24.000 the podcast at grangersmith dot com email. The first one 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:28.520 comes from Jacob and it says, Hey, granger I'm glad 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.800 to have the chance to send this to you. A 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.000 little overview of myself. I am twenty two years old, 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.440 a native of Texas, and I've been in the United 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:37.240 States Marine. 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:38.320 Corps for about three years. 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.360 I've always considered myself a Christian, but recently I've had 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.560 life situations that have challenged my faith, such as the depths, 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:50.080 the deaths of four of my marines and a buddy 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.639 from back home in a car accident, and less than 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.520 a year five friends have already passed away. Just a 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:00.000 few days ago, my mother received a breast cancer diagnosis. 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.480 I think everything going on has waken me up and 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.720 away and showed me how much of life as a 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.240 gift and that it really can be taken away in 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.200 an instant. I've been pushing myself to read the Gospel 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.720 and understand more. I finished the Gospel of John and 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.520 now reading into Matthew. I know God is there, but 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:20.800 I feel like my faith has been going up and down. 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:21.520 I'm struggling. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:27.159 How do I hear slash, feel the Lord more and 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:29.720 find the right direction. If you see this, thank you. 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:31.440 I've been a fan and I hope your family's doing well. 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:31.919 Jacob. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.560 All right, Jacob, So you emailed at an interesting time 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:43.160 because Park and I are reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer that addresses 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:47.440 this exact question, what do you do when your faith 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:53.120 seems to be going up and down? I have I'm 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:57.720 going to be bringing a message to Pensacola Sunday night. 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.560 It's like they're calling it like a fall kick off. 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:04.320 It's the first Baptist Pensacola, and I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:09.840 bring the message of Basically, it's I'm gonna tell my story, 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.359 and I have three points in my story, which is 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:17.199 gonna be a devastating day and the farious night in 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:21.639 Americle morning. And then from those three points in my story, 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:25.520 I'm gonna go into three calls to action for me 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:30.000 and everyone else every other Christian, and the three calls 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:36.840 to action are going to be surrender, equip, follow, surrender, 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.800 equip follow, And so basically the way I want to 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:43.000 unpack that is kind of like you're asking this question, Jacob, 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:46.639 what do you do when life's coming at you. You 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.920 realize the the how fragile it is. Your mom just 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:54.120 got this cancer diagnosis. You've got buddies that have died 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:58.080 in the Marine Corps. You recognize that life's a vapor. 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.400