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Speaker 1: All right, we've got a very special guest on today's podcast.

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Speaker 1: When's the last time you were on December?

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Speaker 2: Because I think it was a year before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's right, Yeah, that was the show spell

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Speaker 3: It c.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, we're on because your mom. Your

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Speaker 1: mom was worried about COVID.

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Speaker 2: Uh vaccinations, things like that.

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Speaker 1: And what's the result of that.

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Speaker 2: She seems fine, she seems good. She has high blood pressure,

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Speaker 2: she has to take medication, but other than that, she's good.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Amber Smith, my wife, I should say that for

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Speaker 1: people listening.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I just agree.

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Speaker 3: That sounds familiar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, welcome back. Uh, we've we've been changing.

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Speaker 1: We had an episode that we released last week. We

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Speaker 1: had the brothers, Tyler and Parker, and we've been changing

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Speaker 1: We weren't quite happy with how that one looked, so

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Speaker 1: it was just very typical advancement and I so we

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Speaker 1: move things around again and here we are. Now you're

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Speaker 1: in this seat, which I think it's a good seat. Okay, good,

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Speaker 1: there's reason, there's a specific reason why you're there instead

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Speaker 1: of here. Okay, So we're going to be the main

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting because if you look at the how long

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Speaker 3: this this podcast is easily twice as much time went

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Speaker 3: into the setup of the podcast today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, easily. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I told her Andrew, I'm gonna get here. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: get there a little bit early, and I'll walked in

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Speaker 3: and he goes, wow, you you did mean early, like

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Speaker 3: two hours before the podcast. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If people knew how many times this room has been

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Speaker 2: rearranged with different tables and chairs and couches, and.

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Speaker 1: They do, oh geez, yeah, oh g's people that have

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Speaker 1: watched this podcast long enough.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, real ones know what it looked like in

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Speaker 3: the very beginning. Yeah, after you. Speaking of channels, brand

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Speaker 3: new channel launches July twenty first, I see launches. That's when.

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Speaker 3: That's the only place you'll be able to get the

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Speaker 3: video podcast. It's on the brand new Granger Smith podcas

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Speaker 3: Past YouTube channel. It's linked in the description right here.

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Speaker 3: To go there, click that and hit subscribe. Everything you

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Speaker 3: watch on the normal Granger Smith channel will be available there,

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Speaker 3: but after episode three oh one, which will come out

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Speaker 3: in July twenty first, that will only be on the

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Speaker 3: brand new channel. Yeah, if you're listening everything stays the

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Speaker 3: same for you. Everything stays the same exactly like it

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Speaker 3: is right now. But if you watch, that'll be the

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Speaker 3: place you need to go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, which is which is exciting. Did I tell

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Speaker 1: you we're doing that?

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Speaker 3: No news to you all the time? You learn them

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Speaker 3: on the podcast if you listen to the podcast, what's

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Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, so we're doing that. And then the big

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Speaker 1: news going on tour with the podcast, right.

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Speaker 3: Big big announcement last week taking the podcast on tour.

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Speaker 2: Did know that?

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Speaker 3: You did? You did tell you that.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it really it's kind of revolving around your

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Speaker 1: book release October What to me?

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Speaker 1: Fourteenth? Is that date even released?

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Speaker 2: after this email, my email, my editor.

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Speaker 3: I don't know any edits.

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Speaker 1: And then may we release things. That's what we do

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I knew a long time ago. I heard

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we we did that with ee Fest released on

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Speaker 1: the title of your book it is, No, you're not shot.

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Speaker 2: We can't. They won't let me say it until I

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Speaker 3: Really would mid July be the should we should be

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a great book. So I'm I'm

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Speaker 3: Take him to the mPire State Building and let him

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Speaker 2: No, I'm just excited because I feel like you asked

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Speaker 3: From day one, from the time you first started writing

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Speaker 2: I had four months to complete the manuscript, so I

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Speaker 1: I came the first time to Texas to Billy Bob's

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Speaker 1: Oh Wow, And he said, you you told me. He said,

439
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm not going anywhere. I'm just gonna be

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Speaker 1: on a different stage. My question is to you, ye

441
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Speaker 1: ye nation. Will you follow me to the next stage?

442
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Speaker 1: And he said. I thought to myself, yes, I will

443
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Speaker 1: follow you anywhere. Okay, And he said, but but now

444
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Speaker 1: I see where you're the stage that you're on, that

445
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Speaker 1: the ministry, this Christianity thing, and I'm interested and I

446
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Speaker 1: want to know, but I don't. I don't really know.

447
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. Yeah, And so I

448
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Speaker 1: took him into the Eye Farm, took him into the office. First.

449
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Speaker 1: I invited him. When he told me that, I invited

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Speaker 1: him to come shadow me and be with me all

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Speaker 1: day Thursday, which is the day we loaded in and

452
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Speaker 1: sound checked. I said, just come with me, just sit

453
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Speaker 1: with me. We'll have some good conversations. And I took

454
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Speaker 1: him into the office of the Ye Farm and I

455
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Speaker 1: shared the gospel with them, and I told him as

456
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Speaker 1: practically as I could, everything that I was doing and

457
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Speaker 1: what the Lord has done to me, and the most

458
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Speaker 1: practical way possible using the Bible. And you know, I

459
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Speaker 1: told him what Jesus had done and how we had

460
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Speaker 1: rebelled and we've been sinners, and we have we have

461
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Speaker 1: turned our back on God as rebels. And God came

462
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Speaker 1: into his own creation as the son, and Jesus lives

463
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Speaker 1: the perfect life, fulfills the law perfectly in a way

464
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Speaker 1: that we couldn't. Is obedient to the father, goes to

465
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Speaker 1: the cross, dies and becomes a substitute that we is.

466
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Speaker 1: He pays the penalty of our sin, like like someone

467
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Speaker 1: coming and paying paying all of our parking fines. He

468
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Speaker 1: pays it so that the judge says, you're fine, is paid,

469
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Speaker 1: You're free to go. You are free now. And Jesus

470
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Speaker 1: did that and then rose on the third day, saying

471
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Speaker 1: all who look to him turn from their sins will

472
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Speaker 1: be saved. It explained all this, and he goes, I

473
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Speaker 1: want this, That's what I want. I was like, okay,

474
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Speaker 1: there's a cost to this, you know, like it's going

475
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Speaker 1: to be very difficult. You can't I can't just tell

476
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Speaker 1: you that you're gonna go back to your country and

477
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Speaker 1: everything's going to be better. It actually might be worse now.

478
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Speaker 1: You're going back to a very dark country when it

479
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Speaker 1: comes to this. And and he said, that's okay, I

480
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Speaker 1: want this, And so in my mind I'm like, okay,

481
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Speaker 1: that's that's amazing. But that doesn't just tell me you

482
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Speaker 1: just made a decision for Christ and count your name

483
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Speaker 1: in the Lamb's Book of Life, like I don't know,

484
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Speaker 1: so it would. I don't want to give you a

485
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Speaker 1: false assurance. So I said, okay, prove it to me.

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Speaker 1: Let's start Matthew one tomorrow. We got on signaled together.

487
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Speaker 1: He said, I want you to read Matthew one and

488
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Speaker 1: then message me thoughts, comments, whatever he does.

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Speaker 3: Questions done, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Questions, comments, observations done. So we started that and I

491
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Speaker 1: said it every day, don't skip a day, do the

492
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Speaker 1: next chapter every day. Matthew two, Matthew three, at you four,

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Speaker 1: five six, he's he you know, he does his time

494
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Speaker 1: in Texas, goes back to his home country, still reading,

495
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Speaker 1: still on signal every day, doing this thing, doing this

496
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Speaker 1: talking every day. I'm wrestling through things with him, and

497
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Speaker 1: I just start watching him grow.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: It is crazy. So I've got the text thread up

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Speaker 1: here now. But then he gets to Matthew twenty six

501
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Speaker 1: and he starts and by the way, he came to

502
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Speaker 1: Amaus with us. He didn't even worshiped us two times,

503
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Speaker 1: he he So he says things like that Matthew twenty six,

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Speaker 1: twenty four, Betraying Jesus would be the biggest sin I

505
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Speaker 1: could imagine. So he's reading through and he says, this

506
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Speaker 1: is interesting. He says in Matthew twenty six thirty three,

507
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Speaker 1: he says, why Jesus said Peter would deny him three

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Speaker 1: times in his broken English? And then he says, Dash

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Speaker 1: just found out how after reading verse sixty nine to

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Speaker 1: seventy five. So he's like learning the story in real time.

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Speaker 1: But then listen to this Matthew twenty six forty one quote,

512
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Speaker 1: keep watching pray so that you do not give into temptation,

513
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Speaker 1: for the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.

514
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Speaker 1: And he says, that's what I need. All I need,

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Speaker 1: all I can do. I am emotional for hate on

516
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Speaker 1: my sin, and I'm eager to Jesus to save me,

517
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Speaker 1: save me from my sin. I don't want to do

518
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Speaker 1: anything else, especially things that might disappoint God, who gave

519
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Speaker 1: me great things. I think he's saved, he's saved.

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Speaker 2: He came in and Granger was getting ready to take

521
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Speaker 2: a shower, and he came in. He's like, babe, I

522
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Speaker 2: think he's converted.

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Speaker 1: I think he's converted. Amazing, and then he's one Matthew

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Speaker 1: twenty seven today. This was today, and he's just he's

525
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Speaker 1: he says, Matthew twenty seven, twenty one. So the governor

526
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Speaker 1: asked again, which one, which one of these two do

527
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Speaker 1: you want me to release to you? The crowd shouted

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Speaker 1: back Barabbas, and he says, where is everyone, those who

529
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Speaker 1: had sickness killed by Jesus? Where are they? He gets it,

530
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Speaker 1: are they betraying Jesus as well? Yeah, it's amazing.

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Speaker 2: It is amazing to see how he's reading it like

532
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Speaker 2: a story, like a book, and it is. It's the

533
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Speaker 2: greatest story that there ever has been that we are

534
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Speaker 2: a part of. But just seeing somebody read it like

535
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Speaker 2: that versus our western culture.

536
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Speaker 3: Of how we kind of we don't know many people

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Speaker 3: here who have never read that or no, that's right,

538
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Speaker 3: parts of that story, or have been in, you know,

539
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Speaker 3: a sermon. We're going through the Book of Matthew, and

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Speaker 3: you get five verses or six verses, right, and they

541
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Speaker 3: hear that one, they don't come for two more weeks,

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Speaker 3: three more weeks, and then they come back and they

543
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Speaker 3: get the next, you know, on down and they kind

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Speaker 3: of piece it together. He's reading it through.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, last night he said the story. He said, I

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Speaker 1: want to share something with you. I helped my coworker

547
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Speaker 1: who was mentally struggling at work. I brought him words

548
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Speaker 1: from the Bible and strength I equipped by Jesus Christ,

549
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Speaker 1: our savior. Jesus showed his strength not just enough to

550
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Speaker 1: help sinner like me, but also give strength to my neighbor.

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Speaker 1: Oh my God, I can't thank Jesus enough for his words.

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Speaker 1: And then he says, Granger, I believe God sent me

553
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Speaker 1: to Texas twice to see the truth. And the truth

554
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Speaker 1: is his love.

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Speaker 3: Dude, incredible.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just like, you know, I'm messaging him and

557
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Speaker 1: so around the world. And so then tomorrow, which is today,

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Speaker 1: we'll start He'll start Matthew twenty eight. Oh cool. And

559
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Speaker 1: then I said, tomorrow we start Mark and we'll keep going.

560
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Speaker 3: And I'm just like, you're going to tell him that

561
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Speaker 3: it starts over from a different person.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I love that, yeah, because we'll

563
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Speaker 1: get in from a different perspective. And this is just

564
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Speaker 1: so exciting to think, that's amazing of this man right

565
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Speaker 1: now in a dark culture that's religiously dead, and he's

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Speaker 1: in his apartment.

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Speaker 2: We were saying, it's like a never ending story where

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Speaker 2: the little boy runs in, he hides and puts the

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Speaker 2: cover over his head and opens it up and can't

570
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Speaker 2: wait to see what happens next.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so who knows what the Lord is going to do?

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Speaker 1: Full circle here because of River, because of the Lord's

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Speaker 1: work through River. On June fourth, twenty nineteen, who knows

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Speaker 1: what is now starting in this country of darkness? The

575
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Speaker 1: light has arrived.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome. That's so cool. Yeah, that's so cool.

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Speaker 1: I don't know you might maybe it was listening right now,

578
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Speaker 1: But I love your body. I love you man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my Betty is Yeah, I know he.

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Speaker 1: Is going to do some emails. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: First one's from anonymous, dear granger. I started watching a

582
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Speaker 3: Rise with Amber after my husband's alcoholism was confirmed, and

583
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Speaker 3: I was searching for healing through alanon a similar and

584
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Speaker 3: similar support. I'm grateful to share that my husband has

585
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Speaker 3: now been sober for three years, but the journey hasn't

586
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Speaker 3: been easy for either of us. I also struggled with

587
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Speaker 3: postpartum depression and a traumatic birth. In your book resonated

588
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Speaker 3: with me deeply. It was comforting to finally feel understood,

589
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Speaker 3: especially after a time when I felt abandoned by God

590
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Speaker 3: and even faced the thoughts of ending my life. Right now,

591
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Speaker 3: I'm struggling with how to balance loving and supporting my

592
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Speaker 3: husband without enabling him. I feel overwhelmed by household responsibilities,

593
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Speaker 3: and I get frustrated when he relaxes while I manage

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Speaker 3: everything else. Antimis, he has also been hard to rebuild,

595
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Speaker 3: as most of it before was when he was drunk,

596
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Speaker 3: and I still wrestle with a feeling like my emotional

597
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Speaker 3: needs aren't being met. We attend a wonderful church and

598
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Speaker 3: are both raised in the faith, but sometimes I'm unsure

599
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Speaker 3: of where my husband stands spiritually, especially since he's more

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Speaker 3: private about his faith and gets annoyed when I try

601
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Speaker 3: to have deeper, deeper conversations. I just want to know

602
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Speaker 3: that his heart is in a good place. If you

603
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Speaker 3: share this on the podcast, please keep my name in

604
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Speaker 3: church Anonymous. Thank you for the encouragement you and Amber provide.

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Speaker 3: Your willingness to share how God God brings good through

606
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Speaker 3: pain has meant so much to me. So really, the

607
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Speaker 3: question here was you know, how to.

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 3: I guess connect with her husband and find out where

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Speaker 3: he is spiritually. I guess with just without asking.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, and most likely he's not converted. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of what we talked about with the on the

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Speaker 1: Brother podcast last week. Yeah, we and and that's the

614
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Speaker 1: difference in talking to a guy from a foreign country

615
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Speaker 1: is it's so black and white that you it's easier

616
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Speaker 1: to see. But in America, we have we have hints

617
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Speaker 1: of godliness, we have hints of Christianity, you know, we

618
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Speaker 1: we wear crosses around our neck and we say biblical things.

619
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Speaker 1: And and then we start thinking, like she said, you're

620
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Speaker 1: raised in the Christian home, you just start thinking you

621
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Speaker 1: inherited it. And I'm I'm of the thinking that if

622
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Speaker 1: he's not converted, and let me see, let me say

623
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Speaker 1: it again, If he is, then he has been discipled

624
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Speaker 1: so poorly that nothing is there's no fruit from it,

625
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Speaker 1: and that's dangerous in itself. So I tend to think

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Speaker 1: that he's not converted. Otherwise, like Paul Washer says, if

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Speaker 1: you if I came in here and said, sorry, guys'm

628
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Speaker 1: a little bit late. A macchruck hit me out in

629
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Speaker 1: the in the road outside, but I made it, you'd

630
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Speaker 1: be like, I don't believe you. If you encountered a

631
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Speaker 1: big truck on the highway that hits you, you would

632
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: be impacted by that in a way that everyone around

633
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Speaker 1: you knows it. And if you come into contact with

634
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Speaker 1: a holy god that has given you a new heart

635
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: and changed your desires, then everyone around you knows something's

636
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Speaker 1: different with this guy. I don't think anybody would look

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Speaker 1: at me in twenty fifteen and then look at me

638
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Speaker 1: now and go it seems like the same. He's the same,

639
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Speaker 1: does the same thing, says the same things, likes the

640
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Speaker 1: same things. That's not true. So that's what I think

641
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Speaker 1: about this this He thoughts, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: She was just saying she's struggling with how to balance

643
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Speaker 2: loving and supporting him without enabling him. That she feels

644
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 2: overwhelmed by household responsibilities and gets frustrated when he relaxes

645
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Speaker 2: while she manages everything. And I think that's a very

646
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Speaker 2: natural feeling to feel overwhelmed. I don't know, does she

647
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Speaker 2: say they have kids as a mom or handling all

648
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Speaker 2: the all the the head.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's only only information about children.

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Speaker 2: I think for that A lot of that, at least

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Speaker 2: for me, is shifting my thoughts on that to where

652
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Speaker 2: I don't sit in frustration, which I do a lot

653
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 2: because I'm human and I sin, but shifting it to

654
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 2: where I get to do these things for my kids

655
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 2: and or my and my husband, and praying through those

656
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 2: things while I'm folding laundry or while I'm doing dishes

657
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 2: and the and realizing our role that God has given

658
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 2: us as women in the home is to be the helper,

659
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 2: is to submit and surrender and support and love and

660
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 2: care for and nurture and take care of the home.

661
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 2: And that's that's something I've had to learn and I'm

662
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 2: still I'm still growing through that and feeling conviction through that,

663
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 2: but praying through that as well, because that's a that's

664
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 2: an honor to be able to do for the Lord

665
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 2: into instead of just always seeing that I'm serving my husband,

666
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 2: I'm serving my children, but I'm ultimately serving God. And

667
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 2: so if I can shift my perspective that way, it

668
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 2: helps me to be frustrated. It helps me to do

669
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 2: things with joy. Not to say that we don't get overwhelmed,

670
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 2: because I do, and I get frustrated and askedin and

671
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 2: I ask for forgiveness, but also communication. I've learned with Grainger,

672
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 2: Granger doesn't know what I need if I don't ask him.

673
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 2: So if I'm just frustrated doing all the things and

674
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 2: rage cleaning, he doesn't know, So just maybe try to

675
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 2: have a conversation with your husband and say, Hey, I'm

676
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 2: feeling very overwhelmed. Can you please help me with this?

677
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 2: A simple conversation could help a lot of bitterness. And Yeah,

678
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 2: I think that would help a little bit.

679
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 3: It's great. Sarah is the next email. Hey Granger, I'm sixteen.

680
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 3: I'm looking for some advice. I've been dating my boyfriend

681
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,919
Speaker 3: for about eight months and he has a close He

682
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 3: has a close female friend who's also part of our

683
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 3: friend group. We're both Christians. He's newer to the faith

684
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 3: and I've been a Christian my whole life. I've known

685
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 3: his friend for about two years, though we're not super close.

686
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 3: She played a big part in helping him come to faith,

687
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 3: which I'm really thankful for. But now that we're dating,

688
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 3: I feel like their relationship ship needs to change. Sometimes

689
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 3: it feels like he crosses the line between friendship and

690
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 3: something more, even if he doesn't see it that way.

691
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 3: I don't want them to stop being friends, but also

692
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 3: think he needs to realize that while God used her

693
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 3: to help him, she's not the one who saved him.

694
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 3: I've talked to my best friend about it and receives

695
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,760
Speaker 3: and receive some helpful biblical advice. But I'd really appreciate

696
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 3: your perspective to thank you for what you do. Your

697
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 3: music and podcast have been a blessing and seeing you

698
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 3: preach live was amazing. God bless.

699
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: Because so if this was live and we're in the

700
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: theater somewhere, it's boyfriend, right, So yeah, i'd say, how

701
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 1: long does it say? Eight months?

702
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 2: And they're sixteen?

703
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: And they're sixteen, Yeah, I mean like this is this

704
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: is uh, it's very real to them. This is not

705
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: what is not what she wants to hear. But hey,

706
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: you got to, like, you gotta let go of this guy.

707
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: He is not your husband.

708
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, yep, I agree with that. And I

709
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 3: mean it sounds like that he's yeah, we're boyfriend and girlfriend,

710
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 3: but I like these other girls.

711
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's fringes of jealousy all through.

712
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 2: That for shure, And you've said all the time, men

713
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 2: and women, boys and girls can't just be friends. There's

714
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 2: always one of them probably has feelings for the other

715
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 2: in some sort of capacity.

716
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, sixteen, just be friends. All of you be friends.

717
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: Take the relationships out of it.

718
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 3: This is why. And see if you had This is

719
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 3: why as parents, especially dads, it's like, you're not dating

720
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 3: till you're twenty. No, you're just friends with people, yeah,

721
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 3: or thirty five friends. Thirty five will come down, you know.

722
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: With London, I've lately I've been saying I've been saying

723
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: eighteen because I'm kind of thinking about when you're out

724
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: of the house. You know. It's because she'll say things

725
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: like could I get another piercing? And I say absolutely,

726
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: when you're eighteen, when you're not here, when you don't

727
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: live here. And I took a walk with her the

728
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: other day. It's like, you know why I keep saying

729
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: when you're eighteen or when you don't live here, because

730
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: my job until until you're on your own is to

731
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 1: protect you from things that you might regret later because

732
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: your brain isn't fully developed. And I don't want to

733
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: stand in front of you when you're thirty and you go, Dad,

734
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: why in the world did you let me do this?

735
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: Why did you let me get this tattoo? Why did

736
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: you let me get this piercing? Why did you let

737
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: me date that guy? Why did you let me go

738
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: to this party? I don't want to meet that London yep,

739
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: And be a coward in front of her and go

740
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: because I was weak. I don't want to do that,

741
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: so I would rather be strong and say you cannot.

742
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: But when you are old, when you're old enough to

743
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: make your own decisions, if you want to get a

744
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: tattoo or a double piercing, whatever, if you want to

745
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: date a weirdo when you're twenty five, I cannot stop you.

746
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: I don't want you to. I wouldn't encourage you to,

747
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 1: and I would. I would give you all the best

748
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: I can to tell you not to. But I can't

749
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: make you. But I can now I say no, not yet.

750
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 1: And so so yeah, at sixteen, this dating thing, she's

751
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: got to let him go. She has to let him go.

752
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 3: Way too young to be that serious. That's for sure.

753
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 3: Time for one more, Yeah, serenity, says high Granger. Since

754
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 3: I was three, my mom's sister and I have gone

755
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 3: to church, but my dad never joined us. He struggled

756
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 3: with alcoholism and was more abusive toward me than anyone

757
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 3: else in our family, which caused me to hate myself

758
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 3: from a young age. When I was eleven, something happened

759
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 3: that made me decide to cut him out of my

760
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 3: life and When my parents divorced a year later, I

761
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 3: felt relief, but it also gave me space to think

762
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 3: about everything. I'm known for being forgiving and rarely hold grudges.

763
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 3: On a mission trip, we were encouraged to forgive those

764
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 3: who have hurt us, but I just can't seem to

765
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 3: forgive my dad no matter how much I pray or try.

766
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,359
Speaker 3: It makes me feel guilty and like I'm failing as

767
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 3: a Christian. Thank you for your podcast. It means a

768
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 3: lot to me, Sincerely, Simenity.

769
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 1: Oh, the old forgiveness question.

770
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 2: That's hard, especially being that young and not feeling like

771
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 2: you were protected or having this vision or expectation of

772
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 2: how you believe an earthly father should treat you, and

773
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 2: I kind of I know what that feels like, and

774
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 2: feeling that they let you down, but knowing that you

775
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 2: have a heavenly father who does not, even when we

776
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 2: fail as humans and forgiveness, I've learned that obviously we

777
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 2: are called to forgive because Jesus has forgiven us much,

778
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,479
Speaker 2: and so it doesn't make it easy. And that doesn't

779
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 2: mean that you have to reconcile with your father, but

780
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 2: you can release that burden and say I forgive him.

781
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 2: I'm still you know, it hurts and I wish it

782
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 2: would didn't happen this way, but I'm going to let

783
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 2: this go. I'm going to forgive him. But that doesn't

784
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 2: mean that you have to build that relationship back. Sometimes

785
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 2: you think people think if you say I forgive you,

786
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 2: it means you have to go right back to the

787
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: way it was and you're going to have this perfect

788
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: father daughter relationship. And that's yeah, and that's just not

789
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 2: always the case. You have to build that trust over time,

790
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 2: and sometimes that might not be reconciled ever, but you

791
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 2: can release that. You have to let go of that

792
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 2: so you don't have that bitterness. And there's that saying

793
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 2: about drinking poison something if it's like, if you don't forgive,

794
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 2: you're drinking poison expecting the other person to die. You

795
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 2: can forgive in your heart, but you don't have to

796
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 2: mend that relationship. And you might want to mend that

797
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 2: as you get older, but that takes two parties, repenting,

798
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 2: turning away, and reconciling together. That takes two open hearts

799
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 2: to do that.

800
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's good. The forgiveness is not equal trust,

801
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: you know, so you forgive and That doesn't mean you

802
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: have to agree or trust, but you do have to forgive.

803
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: And really, as far as the Bible goes, when it

804
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: comes to forgiveness, we're commanded to forgive because we have

805
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: a savior at the pinnacle of our faith that is

806
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: hanging on a cross saying, Father, forgive them. They know

807
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: not what they do to the very men that have

808
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: put him there. Yeah, that that is. That does not

809
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: make it easy. But when we look to that ass

810
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: as the pinnacle of why we are to forgive, then

811
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: we see that it's a heart position. It's a it's

812
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: a heart turn not and not an action that says,

813
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: now we continue on the path of trust. Now you

814
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: don't you don't have to trust someone to forgive them. Yeah,

815
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think Jesus would have said, now,

816
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: I trust you that you're not going to kill me. Right.

817
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 2: It's a daily choice, like you don't. You can't just

818
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 2: forgive your dad today and be like I'm great. It's

819
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: going to take every day for you to say, no,

820
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 2: I have to forgive him. I'm going to forgive him

821
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 2: every day. And it seems a little easier for me

822
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 2: now if I know that they if these people are

823
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 2: whoever we're going to forgive, aren't Christians and aren't converted

824
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 2: because they don't know how to be any other way.

825
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 2: They're they're just sinful and they haven't had they haven't

826
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 2: had a changed heart. So I feel like it's a

827
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 2: little easier to forgive in that sense because they know

828
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 2: not what they do.

829
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: Forgiveness. It's great if it if it turns into reconciliation,

830
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 1: and reconciliation is great if it turns into restoration. But

831
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 1: neither one of those steps are guaranteed. Forgiveness doesn't always

832
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 1: equal or doesn't always lead to reconciliation, and reconciliation doesn't

833
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: always lead to restoration.

834
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 3: So some people feel like it has to be a

835
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 3: package deal.

836
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 1: That's right. That's that's where people run into big time problems.

837
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,720
Speaker 1: I have people that say to me, there's a friend

838
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: of mine I grew up with, and he's like, I

839
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: struggle my wife and I struggle with forgiveness because I've

840
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: asked her, why can't you forgive me?

841
00:42:58,400 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 3: Yeah?

842
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: And she just ca it and and and I'm thinking

843
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 1: that's because you're you guys are confusing reconciliation and you

844
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: want restoration, and she's confusing forgiveness with reconciliation and all

845
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: of this, that none of those things are guaranteed.

846
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 3: Yeah. Three three very separate and to be dealt with

847
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 3: on their own. Forgiveness on its own by itself, and

848
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 3: a silo. Yeah, and and so forth.

849
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, it flows forward. Those three things flow into each other. Yeah,

850
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: but they're they're not guaranteed to no matter what you do. Yeah.

851
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 3: I think the the the reconcilient, would you say, reconciliation

852
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 3: and rest restoration. Yeah, they can't be touched until the forgiveness. Yes, like,

853
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 3: if you haven't done the forgiveness, those other two aren't

854
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 3: gonna matter because they're you're never going to get to them.

855
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 3: But just because you're forgiven doesn't mean that there's the

856
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 3: other two are automatically checked. Boxes are checked.

857
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so it's like a daughter looking at a

858
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: bad father, Yeah, saying the daughter says, I forgive you,

859
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: and the father says, then let's reconcile. No, no, no,

860
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: that's not that's that doesn't I don't want to go there.

861
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be right for me to go there. But

862
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: forgiveness is what is required. Jesus doesn't say you must

863
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: reconcile with your neighbor. You must reconcile with your evil neighbor, right,

864
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: I don't say that.

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Speaker 2: And I also don't think that we can truly forgive

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Speaker 2: somebody unless we truly know Jesus, unless we truly know

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Speaker 2: what we have been forgiven for, like truly know it.

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Speaker 2: It's really hard to forgive if you don't know the

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Speaker 2: forgiveness in Christ. It's not human and natural to be

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Speaker 2: able to do that.

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Speaker 3: You're not a right headspace for forgiveness without Christ. You

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Speaker 3: can't comprehend true forgiveness without him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you can't. You can forgive, just like

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Speaker 1: you can have joy. People without Christ can have joy.

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Speaker 1: But that's because we're made in the image of God,

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Speaker 1: and so we mimic life, because of our DNA, because

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Speaker 1: of our nature. We mimic life. But what's so kind

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Speaker 1: of corpse? You know?

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Speaker 2: One, it's not lasting, It goes until the next bad situation.

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Speaker 2: You don't have joy from the inside out, which is circumstantial.

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Speaker 3: That's right, that's it. That's all we emails.

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Speaker 1: We got to do great. Yeah, you guys are great.

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Speaker 1: See you next week. Thank you so much for hanging

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Speaker 1: out with me on this episode of the Grangersmith Podcast.

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