WEBVTT - #187 Do Not Fear Society 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:04.400 Do not be afraid of society. We raised children up 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:19.000 in this society for times like this. Hey, everybody, welcome 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.720 to the podcast, episode one eighty seven. Glad you're here. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.040 Happy Monday if you're listening in real time. And we 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.600 do these every single Monday, and I'm so thankful for 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.520 this platform for you guys coming on and watching and 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.320 listening wherever you're coming from. And I want to tell 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.760 you a little update on Bernie, who was our guest 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.080 last episode, who was saying he was going to go 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:46.120 run this crazy thirty mile altering, crazy man running thing. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:50.680 He lived, He survived. Everything's good, He's doing great, and 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.720 he finished that was his goal. So I had some 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:55.520 people in a meet and greet say, hey, whatever happened 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.280 with Bernie? Is he okay? Yeah, he did great, And 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:03.520 so I'm here to report all good on the Bernie front. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.200 And what I do here on this podcast is I 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:10.399 answer your questions and you email me Granger Smith Podcast 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.800 at gmail dot com, and we walk through these like 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.959 we're just sitting in the cab of a truck and 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:16.440 you have a question. You say, hey, man, can I 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.319 run something by you? I got a question for you, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.560 and we talk it out in the podcast form allows 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:27.480 me to talk slowly and think through it and answer 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.400 like I would if you were sitting with me as 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.480 a friend. Now. The key is I don't have notes 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.440 in front of me, or books or quotes, and in fact, 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.120 I haven't even read these questions, so this is the 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.399 first time I hear the question as I react to 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:47.160 them as you hear them. Okay. Also been talking the 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:51.440 last few weeks about possibly taking this podcast on the road, 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.640 doing a live recording of the podcast in your city. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.880 So comment below. If this is a platform that you 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.800 can comment on like YouTube, comment or go to my 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.080 social media. If it's not a platform you comment on 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.160 and go to my latest post on any of the 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.120 social media and just say, hey, man, I would love 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.480 for you to take the podcast to my city, take 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.160 a tour, and then we could have a live audience 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.839 as we record. We could answer questions from the live 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.799 audience in real time, and then have a meet and 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.720 greet and talk to everyone afterward, and then maybe go 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:24.720 over some stuff in person with you live in your city. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.000 What I need to know from you, guys is what 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.480 city and what venue. I have no idea. I've been 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.519 doing music for twenty four years touring, and I don't 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.960 know what it looks like to do a podcast tour. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.760 So you got a venue idea, or at least just 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.520 a city that'll give us a good plan. Or we 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.160 could look at a map of the US and go, 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.880 all right, we need to hit these cities because they're 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.120 within driving distance of these towns, these regions. Okay, so 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.040 live podcast tour. I think that'd be really cool. And 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.760 then leading up to that will be the book, my 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.520 first book, Like a River, coming out August first. I'm 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:04.000 so excited for that. I'm starting to read the audiobook. 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.560 Actually today, I'm going to start recording that so you 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.120 can get that and the copy of the book, and 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.040 that'll be just a great conversation starter to a lot 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.720 of these questions that we have writer on this podcast. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.120 Enough about me, let's flip the mirror over to you, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.600 pull out the email here, and I'm going to go 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:28.760 randomly and see what we find you guys. Ready, first 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:33.680 question that pops up here says subdecline, how do I 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:38.680 communicate the want of attention? Hey, Grander, been a fan 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.520 of you and your podcast for a few months now. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.440 I've been listening to them every night before bed. I'd 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.320 like to stay anonymous. My question to you is this, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.200 how do I tell my girlfriend that the amount of 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.480 attention she gives me isn't what I'm used to compared 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.920 to the past and what I prefer. I feel like 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.760 I'm the one making the effort to ask her about 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.560 her and how she's feeling, and overall, I feel like 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:07.280 I'm committing seventy five percent of this relationship effort. Everything 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.440 is fine in person, but I just don't know how 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.720 to bring up this conversation without the fear of upsetting 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:18.479 her or killing the mood. You've helped me give my 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.599 life to Christ and to trust his process day by day, 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.640 and I am forever thankful. Thank you, God blessed. Okay Anonymous, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.680 thank you for the email, brother, and let's walk through this. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.240 You are feeling it. You're giving everything you have to 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.000 this relationship. Seventy five percent is what you say to 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.719 this relationship. You're getting hardly anything back. And what you 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.279 mean by that is you want someone to ask you 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.640 about your day and to pour into you and ask 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:55.120 you how you're feeling and talk. Oh buddy, oh buddy, 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:04.080 I'm hesitant to tell you that. Okay, let me reiterate 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.120 what this podcast is. Okay, this is not therapy, this 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:12.880 is not counseling. This is not a psychologist or a psychiatrist. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.160 I am telling you. I'm gonna tell you things to 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.720 all these questions, as a friend would say, Okay, so 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.640 there's the difference. I'm not a psychologist. I'm a friend 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:27.640 of yours. That's two different answers. Okay, a psychologist is 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.800 going to go deep into these feelings and the reason 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.960 she's not giving them, and maybe the underlying ways for 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.480 you to be able to and on and on. But 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:42.480 as a friend, I'm gonna say this, brother, I don't 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.440 think this is the right girl for you, and I 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.479 think it's the wrong girl. I think the problem is 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.799 this is the wrong girl for you. You could probably 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.520 force this to work. You could probably you know, do 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.800 the square peg in the round hole for a while. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:02.919 But some girls and some guys are just not talkers. 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:07.560 They're not people that ask about other people's feelings. And 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.240 they don't. It's just not something it's not in their wheelhouse, right, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.040 It's just not something they do. It's not something they 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.840 get home from work and they go to dinner and 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.360 they just cannot wait to hear all about your day. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.320 But the good news is some girls are and so 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.560 I believe, I know that there are girls out there 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.599 that would be compatible with you in this but it 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.760 feels like this one's not. Now Whise it's so difficult. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.000 Why do I say, I hesitate to say, because you 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.120 probably love her, and you probably have a connection, and 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.360 you're in deep on this relationship, and that makes it tough. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.000 It makes it tough, man. But when you're sitting here 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.760 saying I feel like I'm the one always making the 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.839 effort to ask her about her day and how she's feeling, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.760 and overall, I feel like I'm committing seven five percent 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:06.280 of this relationship's effort. I think when you say it 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:11.800 that way, you're saying, I wish this leopard didn't have spots. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.360 And my old drummer Mike used to always tell me 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.240 a leopard is always gonna have spots. You can't get 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.280 rid of them. And it's so true, and it's just 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.040 not a bad thing for her. I'm not saying she's 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.360 a bad girl. I'm just saying she's a leopard with 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.520 spots and you can't try to wipe them off. That's 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.800 just who she is, and you're you're asking for things 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.600 that it's very difficult. If you were married, listen to this, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.880 if you're married for ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.760 I would say, Okay, let's work through this. Let's work 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.800 through this. Let's try to find a way that you're 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.640 compatible with her personality in this way that you guys 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:55.520 stay together and you become close friends and lovers and spouses. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:08:00.000 But that's not your story. This is just your girlfriend. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.560 I don't mean to minimize it by saying just your girlfriend. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.600 I know you love her, or you wouldn't have emailed me, 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.920 But I'm saying there's a way out now, And I'm 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.720 saying you if you'd go down this path, which you 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.640 can and you might, You're you're you're looking at a 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.320 tough road. It's not gonna get easier. You might have 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.680 some seasons you go through where she's a little bit 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.200 better at asking you about your feelings, but then she's 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.760 going to go back to her leopard spots, because that's 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.600 just who she is, that's her DNA. She's she's gonna 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.000 end up great with a guy that doesn't need to 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.679 talk about his feelings or his day. She's going to 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.360 be more compatible with that guy. Okay, I know this 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.880 is not the advice she wanted. It's probably not what 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.720 you wanted to hear. But as a friend and not 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.320 a psychiatrist and not a marriage counselor because you're not married, 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.800 I say, I think it's I think this is the 0:08:54.840 --> 0:09:02.600 wrong girl for you. Next question, subject Cline says interesting 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:08.840 says dying while intoxicated. Hey, grangel, my question is if 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.680 you are born again, If you are a born again 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.000 Christian but happen to drink alcohol to the point that 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:19.000 you're intoxicated, and then something happens and you die, will 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.880 you go to heaven? By the way, love the podcast 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.880 and your music and your YouTube channels. Keep out the 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.559 good work. Evelyn from California. Evelyn, thank you for emailing 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.959 and the answer to your question simple. The answer is yes, 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:35.640 you will go to heaven. Next question, I'm just kidding. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.480 What if I did the next No, let me explain 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.400 the answers. Yes, but let me explain it's yes because 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.120 you qualified it with one thing. If you are a 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.959 born again Christian, regardless of the middle part that you write, 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.160 take it all out. Doesn't matter what you say after that. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.960 When you die will you go to heaven? The answers yes, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.120 no matter this is crazy, no, no matter what you 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.040 put in the middle. If you were born again, you 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.360 will go to heaven. You're regenerated, you're new creature, You're 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:16.880 alive in Christ. Here's the catch. When you're a new creature, 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.600 when your new creation, when you are reborn, born again, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.040 born anew, when you are alive, you're dead to your 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.400 old self. You're dead to your old self and now 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.960 alive a new creature in Christ. You are. You used 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:36.200 to be a caterpillar, now you're a butterfly. When that 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.760 happens to you, a lot of these things start falling off, 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.679 start shedding off. So the chance of you getting it's 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:50.520 so intoxicated to the point of death. Then you start saying, 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:56.480 were you born again? Maybe you weren't born again? Right, 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.400 because if you're a new creature, and it is possible, 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.240 because it's not about what you do. It's never about 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.440 what you do that gets you to heaven. It's not 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:09.800 about what you do right, it's about what has been 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:15.439 done for you through Christ. That's the story of Christianity. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.200 That's what separates it from every other religion. It's not 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.800 about how good you are, How clean your plate is, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.360 how washed, how whitewashed you are, perfect, and how clean 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.240 you how clean your hands are, how clean your conscious is, 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:34.000 how little you sin. It's never been. That's never been 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.920 the qualifier for heaven. It never has been. Has nothing 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.800 to do with what you do. It has to do 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:46.080 with what has been done for you. And when something's 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:50.960 been done, as in Christ dying on the cross as 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.080 a replacement of your sins, as a substitute for your sins, 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.720 so that you are forgiven, and you repent and you're 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.400 reborn through that, and you turn away from your old life. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.240 You turn away from your sins, and you believe, and 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.800 you accept Jesus as your lord and savior. Maybe I 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.640 shouldn't Eve say I don't even like that word accept. 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.719 You know I don't. That's just an old That's like 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.480 an old Billy Graham saying I don't even like that 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.680 word accept. When you believe and surrender, I like that 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.600 word a lot better. You surrender to Jesus as your lord, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:27.400 you're born again. And those two things are two parallel 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.840 lines that intersect only in Heaven. Those two things your 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:36.400 responsibility to respond and believe and Jesus ransoming you as 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.280 an adopted son. All that has nothing to do with 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:45.200 you getting intoxicated. But the thing is that as a reflection, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.160 as a response to the new creature that you are, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:53.079 you're gonna start hating this idea of being intoxicated. You're 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.160 gonna start hating the old sin. It's not gonna go 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:00.000 completely away, but you're gonna hate it and you're gonna 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.240 be wrestling with it and you're gonna be fighting against it. 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.360 That's what a new creature does in Christ. That's that's 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.280 a really good sign that you're reborn. Is if you 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.920 start hating the old things that you used to do, 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.760 and even when you still do them, and you will occasionally, 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.280 you still go back into that old life, that old sin, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.040 and you repeat some things that you used to do, 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.400 and when you do it, you hate it, and so 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.600 you wrestle and you fight against it in that constant battle. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.160 That that is a good sign. That is that's a 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.600 good sign that you're battling you're killing sin. Right. So 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.560 it's a very complicated way of saying, yes, you go 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:46.840 to heaven if you die intoxicated. Yeah, I was hit 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.559 another one. Oh I loved I love doing these guys, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:54.640 I really do sub decline In the next one says 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:59.120 demonic attacks in spiritual warfare and grand your My name 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.320 is James some twenty one from Michigan. Long time listening 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.720 to the podcast. It has helped me through so many 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.960 hard times. God bless you. I have recently gotten more 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.720 serious about my relationship with Christ and have been battling 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:16.280 against lust and alcohol. Along with this, I believe that 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.720 I have been under attack from the devil. I've had 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.000 nights where I wake up with figures at the foot 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:28.160 of my bed, nightmares, constant anxiety, and just recently I 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.480 picked up my phone to watch a video and I 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.600 received in the middle of the night. And when I 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.920 picked up my phone and I put it to my ear, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:43.280 and I heard sell your soul, followed by hissing and screaming, 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.280 and I felt dozens of hands grabbing me and pulling 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.560 me downward. I cried out to Jesus and I felt 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.240 him pull me back up. Praise Him for that. But 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:58.160 now I'm always scared to sleep, for I know that 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.680 I most likely will be attacked again. What can I do? 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:10.600 God Bless James? All right, my brother, let's discuss let's 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:15.640 talk about this, me and you driving down the truck, 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.440 you know, driving down the road in the truck, wind 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.080 is down, and this is what you bring up to me, 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.160 and I sad. I'm gonna Start's start with the basics. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:31.200 Let's say first, let's look at what happened, considering that 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.840 you're being sincere about all of this. Right there at 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.960 the end, it says you cried out to Jesus and 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:43.800 he pulled you back up. Good, right, okay, good. That's 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.520 a great acknowledgment, and that's a great understanding of what happened. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.560 You got your answer, right. You don't need me to 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.480 tell you that you got your answer. And here's the 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:56.320 bad part next line. But now I'm always scared to 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.000 go to sleep, for I know it may most likely 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.040 be I may likely be attacked again. What can I do? 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.760 You see how you just a circular argument? You just did. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.440 This is what you said. Let me repeat just so 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.480 everyone that listens to this podcast knows. When I read 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.760 these emails so many times, I see the answer to 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.080 your question in your own email, in your own words, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.120 And I don't have to do anything but take this 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.040 mirror and turn it back to you. So you see yourself. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:25.680 Let me repeat these lines. All this stuff happened to you, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.600 these hands pulling you downward. Right, you say this. I 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.520 cried out to Jesus and he pulled me back up. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.000 But now I'm scared and I don't know what can 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:41.160 I do. You just answered, what can you do? Cry 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.160 out to Jesus. That's what you did, and it worked. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.400 Here's a psychology behind it. I told you I'm not 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.800 a psychiatrist, but let me give you Let me change that. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:55.280 Let me give you the theology behind that. Jesus is victorious, 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:03.840 God Lord of host is victorious. He is victorious over 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:09.320 all satanic activity, all demonic activity. He wins in the end. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.040 We have the book and we could read the last 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.680 chapter and we know he wins. Stay on the winning side. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.479 When you know you're on the winning side, when you 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.720 trust in Christ, when you cry out to him like that, 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.600 then you don't have to worry about going to sleep, 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.280 because you're sleeping with the General of the army. He 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.359 has got you. He's not only the general of the army, 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.800 but he is the victor of the war. And you 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.280 already know it. He won the war. So you're sleeping 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.520 with him now. When you go to bed, you don't 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.040 worry about this. I wouldn't worry. I would not worry 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.520 after reading your story, I wouldn't worry. But what can 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:49.280 you do in the meantime? 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:50.480 What can you do? 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.760 What can you do in the daytime? I would feast 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.639 on the word of God. Did you know that the 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.080 word of God is very addicting. It's meant to be 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.119 that way. Read through the Psalms. Read through Psalm one 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.639 nineteen and you start seeing how the psalmist David is 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:10.800 addicted to the word of God. Oh, your word is 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:15.400 like honey to my lips. Honey too much, it's sweeter 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:20.160 the nectar, right, is addicting. And you need to read 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:26.280 this word. It is living and breathing and alive and abiding. Okay, 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.840 this word that I'm talking about is the Bible. You 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.360 take that word and you open it up and you go, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:37.080 I'm going to Matthew one victorious today. I'm victorious over 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:41.400 all demonic activity in my life. Why because I've got 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.920 I've got the general, I've got the victor. And here 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:48.119 it is, here's his word, living, breathing, alive. This word 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.480 is Christ John One. It says in the beginning was 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.639 the Word, and the word was with God, and the 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.560 word was God. When you read that word, when you 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.760 feast on it, you are literally feasting on the Lord. 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.360 So you take that book and you take Matthew one 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.520 one or any other place you want to start. Maybe John, 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.159 we just said that. Start there, Start John one. You 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.959 open that up and you go, Lord, I'm reading your 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.480 victorious word. Pour this word all over me. Let me 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.199 taste the sweetness of it, Let me feast on it. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.560 Let me eat it up, because it is my life 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.320 sweeter than honey. I love this word. And if you 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.320 don't totally believe that, make that your prayer. God. Let 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:32.080 me see. Let me hunger for this, Let me taste that. 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:36.080 The Lord is good. And when you start tasting and 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.199 you start feasting, and you get rid of all that 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.800 other fast food that's just filling you up with junk, 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.080 so that you're not as hungry for the Word, the living, breathing, 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.440 abiding word. When you feast on that in that way, 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.520 you ain't got to worry about going to sleep. Brother, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:57.720 you're sleeping with the general of the army. 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I check these and they 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:23.119 go to a special folder Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com, 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:25.440 and I go through these and you could talk about 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:27.760 any subject you want to. Okay, we're gonna read them 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:33.640 randomly without me haveing ever seen them before. Okay, first one, 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:40.119 let's see subject line is question for podcast about giving. Hey, grangerd, 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:42.800 thanks for all you do. Have a question about financial 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:46.359 giving and would love your perspective from someone who is 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.960 well off. My husband and I are very fortunate to 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:53.159 have good jobs. We are Christians who work very hard 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:56.520 and try to be generous with our money, with still 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.320 having enough left to save and provide for our family. 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:02.359 Hope this doesn't sound like boasting. I'm just trying to 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:05.480 give some context I've been reading in the Bible about 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:08.800 Jesus stating it is harder for the rich to make 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:12.000 it to Heaven than the poor because they give out 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:15.560 their extra So I am wondering what is your take 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:18.199 on this and recommendation to those who want to make 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:20.000 sure that they're on the right path with giving and 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:23.040 helping others financially. I love the direction of your life 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:26.320 and can't wait to see your farewell tour in Fowlerville, 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:30.119 Michigan this summer. Emily. Hey, Emily thank you for the email, 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:32.840 thoughtful email you have here. And you know, this is 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:37.679 one of these questions that I get sometimes when sometimes 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:40.720 I read it and I think, just the thought, just 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:44.880 the thought that just the fact that you're reading into this, 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:48.879 you're digging into the subject like this, gives me an 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:53.840 indication that you're going to be okay because you're processing 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:57.000 this kind of stuff. Because if you're not processing it, 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:00.000 if you're not thinking about it, if you're not always 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:02.719 listen here it is, if you're not always trying to 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:07.359 bounce your lifestyle off of the Bible and make sure 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:09.960