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Speaker 1: Do not be afraid of society. We raised children up

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Speaker 1: in this society for times like this. Hey, everybody, welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast, episode one eighty seven. Glad you're here.

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Speaker 1: Happy Monday if you're listening in real time. And we

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Speaker 1: this platform for you guys coming on and watching and

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Speaker 1: he finished that was his goal. So I had some

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Speaker 1: so I'm here to report all good on the Bernie front.

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Speaker 1: And what I do here on this podcast is I

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Speaker 1: answer your questions and you email me Granger Smith Podcast

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Speaker 1: a friend. Now. The key is I don't have notes

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Speaker 1: this word lightly depressed. But I realized that my emotions

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Speaker 1: it was dictating happiness and sadness. And as I started

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Speaker 1: wrestling with that, I realized, I'm being sanctified in a

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Speaker 1: way that I need to drop this idol. I need

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Speaker 1: to get away from college football until I could until

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Speaker 1: I have learned to manage it in a in a

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Speaker 1: responsible way. And I remember my tour manager Chris was

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Speaker 1: like he was hearing me talk about that, and he

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Speaker 1: was like, wait, worry. So you tell me college football

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Speaker 1: is a sin. You tell me watching the Longhorns is

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Speaker 1: a sin. And I'm like, no, no, I'm not. And

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Speaker 1: that's what I mean that some things can become idols

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Speaker 1: for certain people, to become a sin and not for others.

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Speaker 1: So as you feel with your question, with your with

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Speaker 1: your finances and your giving, and you're reading the word,

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Speaker 1: and you're you're you're attending church and you're you're plugged

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Speaker 1: into your community, and you're you're living with your palms up,

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Speaker 1: hands open, no closed fist, and you say, God, it

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Speaker 1: is all yours. Everything I have is yours. Let me

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Speaker 1: be the steward of it. Let me be able to

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Speaker 1: pour into others with the gifts that you've given me

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Speaker 1: and anything I have, every penny, every every piece of

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Speaker 1: food on my plate is from you. So let me

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Speaker 1: steward that. Don't let me hold back anything, don't let

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Speaker 1: me be selfish, don't let anything be from self intentions. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: if you're living that way, then that's when you could

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Speaker 1: better see the sanctification. As things start coming off and

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Speaker 1: you go. You know what, I feel weird about getting

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Speaker 1: those shoes. I feel weird about getting a new car

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Speaker 1: like that doesn't feel right. I feel strange about taking

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Speaker 1: this family vacation this year. None of the things I

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Speaker 1: just said, getting shoes, getting a car, taking a vacation,

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Speaker 1: none of those are sin. But it could be for

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Speaker 1: you if you're living and breathing in the word and

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Speaker 1: you're feasting on it and you realize, oh, the Lord

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Speaker 1: is sanctifying me here. The Lord's sanctifying me on this

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Speaker 1: jewelry that I've been shopping for on Amazon that I

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Speaker 1: don't need. I'm not telling you not to get jewelry.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, listen, listen to how you specifically are being sanctified.

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Speaker 1: That's a general answer to begin the conversation that I

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Speaker 1: think it's a great question you're asking and that you're

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Speaker 1: asking it. But what I want to go to next

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Speaker 1: in your question is I want to make sure that

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Speaker 1: you are plugged in to a good local church, a

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Speaker 1: church that's not too big, a church, that there's enough

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Speaker 1: pastors in your church, even if it's just one, to

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Speaker 1: be able to shepherd the flock personally and appropriately and responsibly.

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Speaker 1: So if you have two thousand members in your church.

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Speaker 1: I hope you don't, but if you do, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: need about two hundred and fifty pastors or more right,

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Speaker 1: not really, not really, I'm exaggerating, but you need to

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Speaker 1: have enough pastors and elders or whatever your church is

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Speaker 1: run by that could responsibly lead the flock. These shepherds

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Speaker 1: need to be You don't. I'm just rambling all you

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Speaker 1: don't want too many sheep for the one shepherd that

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Speaker 1: he can't be able to tend to the flock in

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Speaker 1: the personal needs. So I want you to be plugged

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Speaker 1: into a church like that, Emily, so that you could

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Speaker 1: walk through this question with your elders or your pastor

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Speaker 1: or other church members. So you could say, Pastor, we

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Speaker 1: we just you know, my husband just got a bonus

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Speaker 1: at work and we are kind of deliberating on what

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Speaker 1: to do with this with this bonus, the pastor looks

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Speaker 1: at it from an outside perspective with a biblical foundation,

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Speaker 1: so that you aren't being self deceived with your own money,

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Speaker 1: so that you avoid this situation of hoarding our feeling

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Speaker 1: prideful or feeling greed as you hoard in money, and

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Speaker 1: at the same time that you're not irresponsible and giving

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Speaker 1: it all out, so then you have you have nothing

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Speaker 1: to pay the bills next month with. You could make

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Speaker 1: that same mistake and be homeless as well. Bible does

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Speaker 1: not call us to be homeless. So I think a

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Speaker 1: pastor leading you through this stuff helps you to stay

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Speaker 1: out of it is. You're not stuck in the vacuum.

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Speaker 1: So he could say, I would take twenty percent, put

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Speaker 1: it here, ten percent, put it here, take a couple

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars, and you guys go enjoy a nice steak

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Speaker 1: dinner so you could relax away from the kids a

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Speaker 1: little bit. He might say something like that. In a

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Speaker 1: situation that you might have felt guilty to take that

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Speaker 1: steak dinner, the pastor says, I feel like you'd be

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Speaker 1: good stewards to yourselves by going out and enjoying a

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Speaker 1: nice meal away from the kids. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: great idea to have someone else be able to pour

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Speaker 1: into you that way, and that's what a pastor is

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Speaker 1: supposed to do. So it's so important to be plugged

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Speaker 1: into a body of believers around you, and you could say, hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: we're trying to be the best stewards of the wealth

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Speaker 1: that God has blessed us with. How do we do this?

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Speaker 1: It's really interesting that someone at that very moment might say,

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Speaker 1: I've got a cousin that's going on a mission trip

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Speaker 1: in Uganda and they're needing some funding, and you go

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Speaker 1: there it is the Lord's now put that on my heart.

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Speaker 1: How much money do you need? He needs forty seven

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars, and you go, okay, I'm living open handed,

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Speaker 1: open palmed. Here's a check for forty seven hundred dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's really interesting how the Lord works through those that

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Speaker 1: that kind of faithfulness. It's a good question. Sorry for

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Speaker 1: the long answer, but thanks for asking it. Next question

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Speaker 1: subject cliente says hil excuse me, homeschool or public school.

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Speaker 1: Subdecline says homeschool or public school. My husband and I

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Speaker 1: are becoming increasingly more concerned with the state of our

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Speaker 1: public schools. We are God fearing people. The indoctrination of

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Speaker 1: our children is real and it's happening. I feel like

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Speaker 1: the Lord has placed homeschooling on my heart. The homeschooling

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Speaker 1: world is evolving and growing. My husband has asked God

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Speaker 1: to reveal his will to us in this regard what

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Speaker 1: are your thoughts? Colby from Alabama? Thanks Colby, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you listening and writing in shout out to beautiful Alabama.

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Speaker 1: And let's walk through your question here. What I want

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Speaker 1: to make sure Colby. I want to make sure that

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Speaker 1: in Kobe's a girl, I want to make sure you're

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Speaker 1: not living in fear of man or society. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: I want to make that distinction. I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: anything wrong with what you're saying, as long as when

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Speaker 1: you say we're God fearing people, the indoctrination of our

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Speaker 1: children is real, as long as you don't mean we

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Speaker 1: believe in God and we believe that we believe that

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Speaker 1: we are now fearful that man is going to change

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Speaker 1: our kids and turn them away from God. So there's

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Speaker 1: a there's a there that you have to live partly

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Speaker 1: by saying God is sovereign, God is providential. He has

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Speaker 1: put us in this community, he has he has the

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Speaker 1: whole world in his hands, like the song says, and

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Speaker 1: and the indoctrination doesn't happen to my kids because I'm

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Speaker 1: bringing them up in the Lord. And so instead of helicoptering,

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Speaker 1: instead of protecting them from the world, you are preparing

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Speaker 1: them for the world. How you deal with that is

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Speaker 1: up to you and your own household. You have to play.

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Speaker 1: You have to understand the dynamics of your family and

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Speaker 1: your kids. I don't know that. You have to understand

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Speaker 1: the dynamic of your your local public school. You have

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Speaker 1: to understand the dynamic of your wife and you and

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Speaker 1: your excuse me, your husband, and your ability to be

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Speaker 1: teachers in your own home and to be stewards of

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Speaker 1: the curriculum that you're that you need to teach. So

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Speaker 1: these are things that you have to wrestle with that.

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Speaker 1: There's too many questions that I don't know from one

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Speaker 1: message here. As long as you know that the end

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Speaker 1: goal is not protecting from the world, but preparing for it.

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Speaker 1: Whatever gets that done, how do you prepare them from

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Speaker 1: the world, That's really important because I just can't say broadly, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right, everyone should homeschool. Can't say that because I

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Speaker 1: think in a lot of situations public school is going

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Speaker 1: to be the best bet to prepare them for the world.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't have the means for homeschooling,

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Speaker 1: or they don't have the money or the space or

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Speaker 1: the ability because they also work full time jobs. So

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Speaker 1: that's just you can't. I can't say it to everyone. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that being said, the next part of your question is,

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Speaker 1: my husband has asked God to reveal his will to us. Well,

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Speaker 1: his will is revealed through the renewal of our minds.

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Speaker 1: We know that the Bible, it's very clear that to

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Speaker 1: understand God's will for us happens through the renewal of

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Speaker 1: our minds as we study God's word, as we fellowship

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Speaker 1: with other brothers and sisters, as we are under sound

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Speaker 1: teaching from our local pastor that has prepared a message

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Speaker 1: every week from us and then continues to walk as

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Speaker 1: the shepherd for us throughout the week. This is I

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Speaker 1: give you this advice, and I live this advice myself

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Speaker 1: as well. Okay, all everything I'm saying, I'm living myself.

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Speaker 1: So this is not something I'm putting on you. I

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Speaker 1: need to follow this myself as well. But we understand

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Speaker 1: that God and his will for us revealed doesn't happen,

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Speaker 1: can But it doesn't happen through a dream revelation or

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Speaker 1: a wild writing in the sky. Okay, it happens through long,

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Speaker 1: long games of slow, patient reading and studying and serving

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Speaker 1: and self denying, and as that happens every day, our

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Speaker 1: minds are renewed, and then we could we could have

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Speaker 1: a better sense for what He needs for us. Part

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Speaker 1: of it, you could say, right here through this podcast,

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Speaker 1: God uses human agency to enact his will and to

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Speaker 1: speak to us. So part of it could be what

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Speaker 1: you're hearing right now through this podcast. But I think

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Speaker 1: the most important thing to take away is there is

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Speaker 1: no right or wrong answer. Do not be afraid of society.

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Speaker 1: We raised children up in this society for times like this.

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Speaker 1: We need good kids to be raised in this society,

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Speaker 1: and we shouldn't shy away from it. We should build

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Speaker 1: them up up from our own homes and send them

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Speaker 1: out prepared with armor on. They go out into the world,

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Speaker 1: and we don't care what the world brings. Nothing in

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Speaker 1: the world surprises us, nothing catches us off off guard

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Speaker 1: because we have prepared them, we have armed them. So

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Speaker 1: go out because you're made for a time like this, right.

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Speaker 1: That's that's how we view our children going into the world,

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Speaker 1: instead of.

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Speaker 2: I'm scared of I'm scared of society because they are

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Speaker 2: indoctrinating us. They are forcing their ideas on our children,

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Speaker 2: and their whole plan is to make our children conformed

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Speaker 2: to their ideas, and so we want to shield them

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Speaker 2: from that and keep them in our own homes. Make

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Speaker 2: sure I'm not saying homeschooling is bad. I'm saying in

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Speaker 2: a lot of cases, it's actually really good. But make

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Speaker 2: sure that.

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Speaker 1: That's not your motivation, because that motivation is driven by

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Speaker 1: what fear. Stop being on defense and go on offense.

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Speaker 1: As a parent, we stay on offense. Don't go in this,

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Speaker 1: don't go in this cave where we're defending against the

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Speaker 1: crazy ideas of twenty twenty three. The indoctrination of our children.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, hold their ears, hold their eyes. No, we

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Speaker 1: prepare them and then we go out with their weapons

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Speaker 1: on offense. Does that make sense? Please don't take that

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Speaker 1: literal when I said weapons. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: It's a great question, and I hope I was faithful

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Speaker 1: in walking through that with you. Next question, here got

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Speaker 1: another one coming up. Oh man, that's so funny. Ironically,

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Speaker 1: the next question, subject client says, what is God's purpose

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Speaker 1: for me? A grand dr. I'm sixteen years old, I'm

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Speaker 1: finishing my junior year in high school. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what I want to do. After I graduate high school.

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Speaker 1: I don't really have interest in college at this point,

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Speaker 1: and I don't have something specifically that I would love

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Speaker 1: to do as a career. I want to fulfill God's

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Speaker 1: purpose for me in life. Do you have any advice

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Speaker 1: on how to find what God has for me to

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Speaker 1: do in this life? Is there anything wrong with working

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Speaker 1: at a non career business instead of getting a career

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Speaker 1: at college or going to further schooling. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: doing this podcast. It's so enjoyable and encouraging to listen to.

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Speaker 1: I love your music too. Yee Okay, And you don't

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Speaker 1: say Joel is your name? You don't say anonymous. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say Joel, thanks for emailing sixteen years old. I

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Speaker 1: love it when sixteen year old listens to this podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm extremely encouraged by that. So it feeling is mutual. Joel.

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Speaker 1: Let me talk about this a little bit. The first thing,

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Speaker 1: those of you all that have heard this a long time,

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Speaker 1: you'll know that I'm probably gonna lead with this. First things. First,

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Speaker 1: be sixteen. You're worrying about adult problems, and I don't

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Speaker 1: want you to worry. I want you to think about them,

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Speaker 1: but I don't want you to worry about them. I

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Speaker 1: don't want you to stress over them. Because you're sixteen.

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Speaker 1: It's cool to have a plan. It's cool to say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of thinking about this and this and this.

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Speaker 1: But as soon as you start saying I'm really worried

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Speaker 1: about this, there's a problem. Because you're sixteen, and really

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Speaker 1: the most important thing you could do right now is

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Speaker 1: get good grades. And that's so cliche to say, but

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Speaker 1: getting good grades prepares you for all of the above,

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Speaker 1: prepares you for all of the answers. Every scenario is

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Speaker 1: well equipped when you have good grades going through high school. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're finishing your junior year, so these are things that

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Speaker 1: you know. As you get to be a senior, it

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Speaker 1: becomes more and more important. So get good grades and

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Speaker 1: then I'm gonna kind of touch on the God's purpose

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Speaker 1: that don't get hung up on that. We get hung

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Speaker 1: up on this God's purpose thing, or as in the

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Speaker 1: last email, said God's will, trying to discern God's will

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Speaker 1: for me, trying to find out my purpose. You know

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Speaker 1: what you're purposes, Joel. Your purpose is at the end

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Speaker 1: of the Book of Matthew, go forth making disciples of

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Speaker 1: all nations. Teaching them to obey. That's your purpose. It's

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Speaker 1: all as believers. If you are a Christian, that's your purpose,

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Speaker 1: going into all nations preaching the Word, teaching them to

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Speaker 1: be disciples and to obey Jesus. That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: That's your purpose, and there's many ways of accomplishing that

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Speaker 1: through all kinds of different jobs and vocations. Next, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to say this so that you don't get hung

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Speaker 1: up on that God's purpose thing. Don't do that. Don't

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Speaker 1: get hung up on as if God is going to

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Speaker 1: speak to you through the clouds and giving you a

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Speaker 1: big announcement that you're doing this Now, it's a slow thing.

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Speaker 1: You're slowly churning that, butter buddy. I just said that,

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Speaker 1: didn't I. You're slowly churning that, butter buddy. So don't

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Speaker 1: be looking for big revelation, be looking for small steps.

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Speaker 1: They're in the right direction. The next thing I want

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Speaker 1: to say is the end of your email says should I.

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Speaker 1: Basically you're saying should I go to college or go

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Speaker 1: straight into a business, or should I pursue further schooling.

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Speaker 1: I want to say it this way. If you get

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Speaker 1: to that crossroads at the end of your senior year

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Speaker 1: and you still have the same question should I go

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Speaker 1: into work or should I go into school? If you

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Speaker 1: still are there and nothing's clear to you yet, which

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Speaker 1: it might not be, It's okay, I didn't have a

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Speaker 1: clear picture when I was your age at all. When

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Speaker 1: I was sixteen, I was an idiot. So if you

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Speaker 1: still have that question at that point, it's always better

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Speaker 1: to equip with as many tools as you possibly can

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Speaker 1: before you go out into the world. And a tool

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Speaker 1: comes from learning some kind of trade or further schooling

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Speaker 1: for a some kind of degree, So you're either padding

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Speaker 1: your resume with a degree or you're gaining another tool

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Speaker 1: for your belt through a tech, some kind of tech.

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Speaker 1: That's just the that's just the better way to do it. Always,

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Speaker 1: instead of going, okay, I'm at a crossroads, which way

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Speaker 1: should I go? The way that you should always go

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Speaker 1: if you're there and you still don't know, is equip

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Speaker 1: equip yourself with tools. Now, you could do that while

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Speaker 1: you're still working. You want to still work and either

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Speaker 1: go to night's school or work, or go to school

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Speaker 1: in the day and work nights. But equip yourself with

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Speaker 1: some kind of trade will just just matter so much

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Speaker 1: down the road, it will matter to you in ways

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Speaker 1: that you can't possibly understand. Personal example, I went to

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Speaker 1: I went to Texas A and M. And I left

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Speaker 1: after two years to go write songs for EMI Publishing

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Speaker 1: in Nashville. But then I was at a crossroads about

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Speaker 1: twenty two years old, thinking I want to go play music.

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Speaker 1: All I want to do is play music. That's all

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Speaker 1: I want to do. It's all I cared about. It's

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Speaker 1: all I thought about was playing music, touring with a band,

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Speaker 1: and I was romanticized about that. But I knew probably

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Speaker 1: the best move is to finish that degree that I

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Speaker 1: started at Texas A and M. So I went back

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Speaker 1: to college station, lived with my uncle, slept on his couch,

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Speaker 1: uncle Johnny, and worked at different places and worked for

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Speaker 1: him in construction, worked as a painter, worked as a

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Speaker 1: lawn guy, and hosted some open mic nights. As I

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Speaker 1: was playing music and was able to finish up school

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Speaker 1: and I got a history degree because I loved history.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't know how much that was going to

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Speaker 1: mean to me until literally twenty years later. I was

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Speaker 1: called out of music and into industry, and guess what

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Speaker 1: I was able to go into seminary and pursue a

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Speaker 1: graduate degree on top of the bachelor's degree. I got

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Speaker 1: to Texas A and M. And if I hadn't done

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Speaker 1: that when I was twenty two, if I hadn't thought

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Speaker 1: about going back, then I would be in a different

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Speaker 1: situation where I wouldn't be able to go seek that

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Speaker 1: master's degree in seminary. And so my point is it's

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Speaker 1: better now to equip when you don't have a lot

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Speaker 1: of responsibility and a bunch of kids running around and

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Speaker 1: a wife and bills to pay, it's better to go

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Speaker 1: grab as many things as you are interested in. And

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Speaker 1: that could just be a general studies degree at at

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Speaker 1: a junior college or some kind of tech school. If

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Speaker 1: you're into something that's techie, do that. I've heard Dave

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Speaker 1: Ramsey say, You're like a caveman in a cave, and

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Speaker 1: you want to gather as many tools in your cave

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Speaker 1: as you can sol when you go out of the

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Speaker 1: cave to make your kill, which is in business or

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Speaker 1: life or career, you want to have the right tools

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Speaker 1: to make the kill. And so your tools are something

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Speaker 1: you could get right now. Joel, don't forget the first

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Speaker 1: part of this question. Just be sixteen. Don't dig too deep,

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Speaker 1: just make plans responsibly, but also enjoy being sixteen. That's

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Speaker 1: all we got today, guys, love y'all so much, See

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Speaker 1: you next Monday. Thanks for joining me on the Granger

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Speaker 1: Smith Podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. You could

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Speaker 1: help me out by rating this podcast on iTunes. If

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Speaker 1: miss anytime I upload a video. If you have a

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Speaker 1: question for me that you would like me to answer,

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Speaker 1: email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Yi