1 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: So interesting question came in today on the podcast, and 2 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: by the way, if you need to email me, email 3 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: podcast at grangersmith dot com and we'll walk through whatever 4 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: you got going on. Whatever your question is could be 5 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: about work or love or church or faith or struggle 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: or heartache or music. We haven't had a good music 7 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: question in a long time, but whatever it might be, 8 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 1: feel free. We just walked through this like people sitting 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: in the cab of a truck and walking through something. 10 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 1: And I wanted to read this one. I think it's 11 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: an interesting question. I think it's kind of worth digging 12 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: into here. And the question comes from Ali Ali from Georgia, 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: and Ali says, I know I should keep my focus 14 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: on Jesus, but should I still seek truth in my curiosities? 15 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 1: I know God doesn't want me to be ignorant. However, 16 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: the Internet is full of opinions and people claiming to 17 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: know something that I don't, such as the Earth is flat, 18 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: Antarctica is there's a wall around it, our government is 19 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: a deep state, so I shouldn't vote. I'm twenty eight 20 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: years old and I'm feeling very dumb. Is the answer 21 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: to not buy into any of it? Or does knowing 22 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: prepare me for the future. Thanks for all you do 23 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: and for others and for God. Ali, that's crazy. I 24 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 1: think it's a good question, and I don't think it's 25 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: It's ever been asked in that way, in that form, 26 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: and so that's why I think it's I think it's 27 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: an interesting question to kind of start this podcast with. Really, 28 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: you're saying it's interesting. Your second sentence is interesting where 29 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: you said, but should I seek? But should I still 30 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: seek truth in my curiosities? And you know, I think 31 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,119 Speaker 1: what you're also asking at the same time by saying 32 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: that is are there other truths out there? Granger? Is 33 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: there one truth? Or are there many truths? I know 34 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: I should keep my focus on Jesus, but I'm kind 35 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:30,399 Speaker 1: of wondering how many truths I should think about. And 36 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: that kind of leads me to a discussion I was 37 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: having on my radio show after midnight, and that the 38 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: question was is morality subjective or objective? And what I 39 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: meant by that is, how do you know what's right 40 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: or wrong? How do you know right from wrong? And 41 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: it's deeper than just saying well, you're raised that way. 42 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: You're raised as a kid to know right from wrong 43 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: by whoever raised you. But that's that's easy to rebuke 44 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: that because you could just say, well, who taught the 45 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: people that taught you? Well, you say their parents, who 46 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: taught them? Where does it come from? Like, where's the 47 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: source of morality? Right from wrong? And is it subjective 48 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: or objective? Like I said, and that means is it 49 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: your truth or my truth? Or is there does everyone 50 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: have an opinion about morality? Which is I think Ali, 51 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: you're mainly asking that. I don't think you're saying, how 52 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: can I know if the Earth is flat? I mean 53 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: you can get on an airplane. You know that, like 54 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: you can. There are some things you could know today. 55 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: Does Antarctica have a wall around it? Do you really 56 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: want to know that? Are you really interested in that question? 57 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think you could. You could 58 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: find that out if you dedicated your life to discovering 59 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: more about antarctica, you could. But I don't think that's 60 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: what you're asking. I think you're you're asking as you 61 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: look at social media and you see everyone's got an 62 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: opinion about something, You're you're kind of asking, who do 63 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: I know how to trust? Who do I know who 64 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: to trust? And how to trust? And where does trust 65 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: come from? And more importantly, I think your question is 66 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: what is truth? It's it's crazy, ponscious Pilot asked Jesus 67 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 1: that same question, what is truth? We don't know? And 68 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: the way that was written in the Gospel, we don't know. 69 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: Probably we probably think most people would interpret that is Pilots. 70 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: It's kind of saying that in a frivolous way, like 71 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: what is truth? I don't know? Could anyone know that? 72 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: That's kind of a tone that it seems Pilot had 73 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: what is truth? He's not really asking like what is truth? 74 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: Tell me? You know he's not. It's it's more of 75 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: just a retort of hey, here, I don't know what 76 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: you're talking about. No one could know that. So let's 77 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: dig into this. This is what I've been saying on 78 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 1: the radio show when it comes to morality. C. S. 79 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: Lewis had something pretty interesting about this, and he was 80 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: commissioned during World War Two. C. S. Lewis the author 81 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: Chronicles of Narnia and many many other books. He was 82 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: commissioned in World War Two in England to host a 83 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 1: radio show, and so they wanted him to write a monologue. 84 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: There would be multiple shows for multiple radio shows in 85 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: England during World War Two, during a time when people 86 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: needed to know truth, they needed to know about morality, 87 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: about right and wrong, where morality came from, is it 88 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: subjective or objective? And they got C. S. Lewis to 89 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 1: write about this, not saying it like I just said it, 90 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,679 Speaker 1: but instead going through the back door and just making 91 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: people think, exploring this. And the reason this this is 92 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: going down like this is because you gotta imagine, you 93 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: got mamas in England that could not understand the atrocities 94 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 1: that were happening in Germany in the Nazi regime. They 95 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: couldn't understand that kind of evil that their sons were 96 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: going in to fight against. And I'm not talking about 97 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: German boys. I'm talking about the Nazi regime, the idea 98 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: of the Nazi regime and what that was doing. People 99 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: could not reconcile. And I can't either because I didn't 100 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: live in that time, and no one listening can really either. 101 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: It's very difficult to reconcile, especially raising, raising a Christian 102 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: boy and sending him into that kind of evil and 103 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: he he leaves on the train with his uniform on, 104 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: and you're crying and you're saying goodbye as the train 105 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: rolls away, and he's going into the jaws of hell, 106 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: the unthinkable horrors of World War two. And they knew 107 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: a little bit about this because a lot of the 108 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: husbands and our grandfathers were in World War One fighting 109 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: a different kind of evil from the same enemy. And 110 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: so in order to reconcile, how do I how do 111 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: I sleep at night knowing my boy is over there. 112 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: I'm now I'm questioning morality. I'm questioning humanity. I'm questioning 113 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: evil and good, all of it together. They get C. S. 114 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: Lewis and he comes in, and he comes at it 115 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: a very different way. I promise, Ali, I promise, I'm 116 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: getting to your question. C. S. Lewis comes in and 117 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: he starts with human nature, and he calls it the 118 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: law of nature, and he says something interesting. Somebody called, 119 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: let me say it this way. Someone called my radio 120 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: show and said, Granger, I got an answer for you. 121 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: I got an answer to where does right and wrong 122 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: come from? How do you know what's right and what's wrong? 123 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: I got an answer to how you know that? And 124 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: it's because you'll react according to your fears. And that's 125 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: the way we've evolved. He says, you do what inherently 126 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: you go against, inherently what you fear. It's basically what 127 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: he's saying. So if you trace that back far enough 128 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: through human evolution, whatever we fear, whatever our ancestors feared, 129 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: we built a system in avoiding that. So murder, we 130 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: know murder is wrong, the caller says, because we've grown 131 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 1: and we've evolved to be afraid of death. Therefore, afraid 132 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: of someone that would lead someone to their death, Murder 133 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: is wrong morally because we've learned to fear it. Basically, 134 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: he said, everything that all morals could be taken from that, 135 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: and it's really an evolutionary standpoint. And so C. S 136 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: Lewis kind of tackles that idea, and it's isn't it 137 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: crazy that all the years, all these years have gone 138 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: by and we're still dealing with these same kind of questions. 139 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: So C. S Lewis says, okay, you have you have 140 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: a fire. Now I'm making this up. C. S. Lewis 141 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: had a different scenario. I'm gonna say the scenario that 142 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: I set on the radio. Say there's a fire in 143 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: an apartment complex and you're walking by and you see 144 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,599 Speaker 1: this fire, so you rush in to see if you 145 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: could help. And there are people, able bodied people and 146 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: you're helping them, and you're you're getting out. There's a 147 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: mother and she's got a child, a baby, and you 148 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 1: want to help them, get them out. All of us 149 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: would say that's morally right, you need to help. And 150 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: the evolutionist, the the guy that's very practical in this, says, yes, 151 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: there's something in you that driven by fear. Ultimately that says, 152 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: I got to get this woman out and this baby 153 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: out because this is how the human race survives. We 154 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: have to do this otherwise we all we all die 155 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: and the human race is no more so instinctively, through 156 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,559 Speaker 1: our evolution, we're going to we're gonna be we're gonna 157 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: desire to help someone, to pull him out of this fire. 158 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: So you're helping out these able body people. You got 159 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 1: this woman and you got the child, and you're you're 160 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: helping everyone out. Right. Now, there's a problem. This C. S. 161 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: Lewis recognized this problem. This is what he's saying on 162 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: the radio show. Essentially, what happens then when in that 163 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: fire you see the old man in the corner and 164 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,719 Speaker 1: he's in a wheelchair. This is the scenario built on 165 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: the radio and say, say this old man. Not only 166 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: is he old and he's in a wheelchair and he's paralyzed, 167 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: but he also has some kind of dementia. There's often 168 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: there's obviously something wrong with him. He can't think straight. 169 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: He to put it practically, he's just a drag on society. 170 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:12,359 Speaker 1: He ain't helping anybody. He's not helping the community. In fact, evolutionary, 171 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: evolutionarily speaking, if he dies in that fire, we're actually better. 172 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: We're better as a species because he's kind of a 173 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: drag on the healthcare system. He's just kind of a 174 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: waste of food that you know, he's a waste of resources. 175 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,839 Speaker 1: We're spending time and effort on this old man in 176 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: a wheelchair who's got dementia, and we're kind of wasting 177 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: when we need to be focused on the woman and 178 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: the child and the able buddied people to move on 179 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:44,079 Speaker 1: as a species. But that's not what happens, is it. 180 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: See as Lewis recognizes this, and the listener of this 181 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: podcast recognizes this, that when you see that old man, 182 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: something in you goes against that evolutionary spirit and says, 183 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: help this old man. I gotta get this old man 184 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: out of here. Hang on, sir, I'm gonna help. I'm 185 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna get this. I'm gonna get these boards 186 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: pulled out of here. I'm gonna hang on a second. Well, 187 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this wheelchair up over this thing. I 188 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: know you're stuck here, but i'm gonna get you out. 189 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: You hang on, sir, We're gonna we're gonna get this 190 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: figured out. And you start helping the old man out 191 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: of the burning fire, and that goes against it, that 192 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: goes against everything that's practical, that says we evolved and 193 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: we're driven by fear because you just went into the fire, 194 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: which is fear driven, and then you're doing something that's 195 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: against everything that helps the species evolve. Animals don't do this. 196 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: My chickens, when one of my chickens gets sick, they 197 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 1: they the other one's peck her till she dies, because 198 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: it's survival the fittest, and it's you know, only the 199 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: strong will survive, and they help their own little communities 200 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: by just getting rid of the week. It helps everything. 201 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: Humans don't do this. There's a nut there's something else 202 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: outside of us, outside of everything that's practical and outside 203 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: of everything that your brain says you should do, there's 204 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: something else. There's a consciousness that says, help the old man. 205 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: What is that? Where does that come from? That's what 206 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: we need to know. Why do we have that in 207 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: us to help that old man. Now we can do 208 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: a whole podcast about just that what is that? But 209 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: my point to Ali from Georgia is there that is 210 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: enough evidence that there is a truth out there outside 211 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: of ourselves, outside of our opinions, outside of our subjective 212 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 1: I like this, you like this. There's something else pulling 213 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 1: at us from our gut, from a guttural instinct, from 214 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: deep down in our heart. There's something else that says, 215 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: say that old man, Get that old man. Why that 216 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: defies all odds. So you say, Ali, I know I 217 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: should keep my focus on Jesus, but I'm going to 218 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,559 Speaker 1: stop you at the butt and said, to keep your 219 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: focus on Jesus, you have to go to his word, 220 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: as he's revealed himself in the Bible. Jesus has revealed 221 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 1: himself in one way, and that is through his revealed word. 222 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: The Book of John starts in the Gospel. The Book 223 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: of John starts in the beginning, was the Word and 224 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: the word was with God, and the word was God. 225 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: And then you see in John one fourteen it says, 226 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: and the word became flesh. Jesus is the Word. He's 227 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: revealed himself in the Word, and the word became flesh. 228 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: So to know him, to keep your focus on him, 229 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: would be to go back to his word, or to 230 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: be involved with the preaching of his word. To be 231 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: in a faithful church that declares and preaches his word 232 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: on Sundays, to be around other people who hear his 233 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: word and talk about his word, and wrestle with his 234 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: word and pray his word. To be close to Jesus. 235 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: To keep your focus on him, what be to keep 236 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: your focus on his word. When you do that, and 237 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: when you seek instead seek you seek the Kingdom. As 238 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount, all these 239 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: things will be added to you. So when you say 240 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: your second sentences, But should I still seek truth in 241 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: my curiosities? I think your curiosities are fine, your desires 242 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: are fine. Seek the Lord. First. Delight in the Lord, 243 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: and he will give you the desires of your heart. 244 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: You see, So, if you're seeking Jesus through his revealed word, 245 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: through his people, in a church revolving around his word. 246 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: That's really revolving around the preaching of his word that 247 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: if you're seeking that he will give you the desires 248 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: of your heart. In fact, he will give you the 249 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: delight in his word that then lead to the desires 250 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: of your heart, which I think is the same thing 251 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: you're asking when you say my curiosities. So I've kind 252 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: of established here is that there is a truth outside 253 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: of ourselves. There is something pulling us to save the 254 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: old man on the fire. And recognizing that there is 255 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: a truth outside of ourselves, we know that we need 256 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: to keep our focus on Jesus, knowing that he is 257 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: the source, a source of truth capital t and when 258 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: we keep our focus on him, everything else just seems 259 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: to work out. Either you're talking about our government is 260 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: a deep state and should you vote or not? It 261 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: leads right back to his word. How because you're you're 262 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: in a church, you're in a local church lowercase C. 263 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: You're with people that you trust that are focused on 264 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: his word just like you. You're doing it in community, 265 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: and you go, what do we think about this government? 266 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: Do you? What do we think about this voting thing? 267 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: And you wrestle with it. But you're wrestling with people 268 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 1: and you're you're having a discussion with people who are 269 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: first focused on the Kingdom of Heaven. They're eternally minded 270 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: people instead of temporarily minded people. People that go, yeah, yeah, 271 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 1: this could happen, and this could happen really bad. But 272 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: in the end, we know who the king is, we 273 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: know who wins in the end, and so yeah, maybe 274 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: we should vote depending on these policies, and I agree 275 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: with this policy, you agree with this policy. We disagree here, 276 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: assuming that morality is out of this, because morality should 277 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: be objective for a Christian. But you're wrestling with these 278 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: things in a community, with the church, and these other 279 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 1: things like the flat Earth, the Antarctic at the wall, 280 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 1: the government, the deep state, everything else you see on 281 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: social media just starts to fade away in the background. 282 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: It it just becomes white noise that you could slowly 283 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 1: turn that volume down to nothing. Understand, there is a 284 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: capital T truth. It is objective. Jesus is the way, 285 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 1: the truth and the life seek Him, seek the Kingdom 286 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: of Heaven, the reign of Jesus in your heart. Essentially 287 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: that means and all these other things will be added 288 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: to you all the other things you need will be 289 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: added to you. All your desires, your curiosities will bring 290 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: him glory because you won't worry about other worldly temporal things. Okay, 291 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: if you want to get a hold of me, go 292 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: to cameo dot com slash granger Smith and I could 293 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: send you a video message made right here on my 294 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: phone whatever you want me to say, Happy birthday, happy anniversary. 295 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: It's a great way for you and I to stay 296 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: in contact and to get someone a gift that might 297 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: seem to have everything. Hey, get him a gift at 298 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: cameo dot com slash Grangersmith. Next question, says Granger, Please 299 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: keep me anonymous. I'm not sure if they are listening 300 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: to your podcast, It says Hey, Grangeer recently lost her 301 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: relationship with someone I truly love. The old me was 302 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: the party type. I finally found a woman that I 303 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: wanted to share the rest of my life with. Our 304 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: relationship was great, but all this all of a sudden, 305 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 1: it ended, and it wasn't the best excuse me. I 306 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: wasn't the best boyfriend or step parent by any means, 307 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: but I tried the best I could. The person was 308 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: literally the best thing I knew I just couldn't figure 309 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 1: out how to tell them in their language that they 310 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: were Fast forward a couple months later. We now live 311 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: separately and rarely talk. I've done everything to get them back, 312 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: including quitting that dip in my lip and gotten so 313 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: close to God. I go to church a lot, found 314 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: a lot of brothers and sisters in Christ, made amends 315 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,959 Speaker 1: with my family, improved to myself that I don't have 316 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: to live that party mentality. I want to prove to 317 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 1: her so badly that the old me is out, but 318 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: she doesn't seem to believe me because in the past 319 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: I didn't change. What are some of the ways to 320 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: understand if this is God's will to let them go 321 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: or if he wants me to keep fighting for my 322 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,880 Speaker 1: family talking about God, I'm honestly scared of this going 323 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 1: on the podcast because of them hearing, and I'm scared 324 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 1: of losing my faith and going back to my old 325 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: sinful way. Is please help me get over this? Help 326 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: me please? Okay? Interesting, I wonder if if the person 327 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: is actually hearing this on the podcast, wouldn't that be something? Okay, 328 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: So let's get into this, Anonymous, Where to start? I'm 329 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: seeing four paragraphs here By the way, if you want to, 330 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: if you want to email me podcast at grangersmith dot com, 331 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: I'll answer this any any question you have, I'll put 332 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: it into the queue, just like I'm doing right now. 333 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,199 Speaker 1: First of all, I want to say, this sounds just 334 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: like a country song. You see, this kind of stuff 335 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:48,360 Speaker 1: happen all the time. Many country songs are written situations 336 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 1: just like this. You had someone, you lost to someone 337 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: and you wish you had them back. You wish you 338 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 1: could just have said the things that that person needed 339 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:02,199 Speaker 1: to hear and then everything would have been right. You know, 340 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: there's that old song by Steve Warner says it's not 341 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: what I did, It's what I didn't do, And that 342 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: sounds like a nineties country song wrapped around your situation. So, 343 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: first of all, I say that in a way to 344 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: just say, hey, you're not alone. This is a good 345 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: old fashioned heartbreak. But there are some things that worry 346 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 1: me in in it itself, and I don't know, I 347 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 1: don't know how old you are. It's it's always concerning 348 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: when there's when there is kids involved, and there's there's 349 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: kids involved in this scenario, because you're you're talking about 350 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: I wasn't the best boyfriend, I wasn't the best step dad. 351 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,439 Speaker 1: And then so I'll probably start there. Out of everything, 352 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: I'll probably start there and go, oh man, it's so 353 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 1: tough when you're you're not only making a mistake to 354 00:21:56,359 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: the the girlfriend, but you're also making a mistake to 355 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 1: the girlfriend's kid. And it's just it puts a whole 356 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: new wrinkle on it. It makes it that much more difficult. 357 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: And I say to everyone else that's listening, got you 358 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 1: gotta be so careful when when she has a child. 359 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 1: And I'll say this to the single mother as well. 360 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: You can't get serious like this in a way that 361 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: you can get hurt in front of the child, because 362 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: it's confusing for the kid. The kid's going the kid's 363 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 1: now going through the breakup as well. Right, I guess 364 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: you could say the same thing, especially that one line 365 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: that says I wasn't the best stepdad. I think I 366 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: would probably say too. I would. I don't even like 367 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,919 Speaker 1: that word stepdad. If you weren't you weren't a stepdad 368 00:22:54,560 --> 00:23:00,399 Speaker 1: to begin with. How you said stepparent, I wasn't the 369 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 1: best boyfriend or stepparent by any means, but but you 370 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 1: weren't you weren't a parent, you weren't a step parent. 371 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: You were just dating the mom carelessly, okay, And so 372 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna put that aside. We're gonna put that part 373 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: of it on the shelf. That's the first paragraph. The 374 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: second paragraph, you you live separately, and you know what 375 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: that implies, right, you say, fast forward a couple months later. 376 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: Now we live separately and rarely talk. The implication of 377 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: that is that you were you guys were living together. 378 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: You're dating her, and she had a kid with another man, 379 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:44,199 Speaker 1: and you moved in with her, and then you screwed 380 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: it up and she's gone. And it's one thing for 381 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: the mom. For the girl, it's bad for her, But 382 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: think of what you're doing for the kid. What what 383 00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: message is it sending for the kid? You say, I 384 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: go to church a lot, and I found a lot 385 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: of brothers and sisters in Christ lower case C. I 386 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: made amends with my family and proved to myself that 387 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 1: I don't want to live that party mentality. I want 388 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: to prove to her so badly that the old me 389 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: is out, but she doesn't seem to believe me, and 390 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: I don't either, Because, first of all, here's the reasons 391 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: and brother By the way, this is tough love. This 392 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: is not a knock on you. I'm doing my best 393 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 1: here to give you the information that I think you need. 394 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: And first of all, only a couple months you say 395 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: have gone by. If you say it's been seven years, 396 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 1: I'm a new man. Now I'm believing you. You say 397 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: a couple months have gone by and I've changed my 398 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: way as granger, I don't believe you, and that's okay. 399 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 1: Time will build trust. So consistency and time will build trust. 400 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 1: You're going to church a lot and being around brothers 401 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: and sisters in Christ. That's a good step, But that 402 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,439 Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're healed. That just means something you're doing. 403 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: You where do you say you gave what? You gave 404 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,880 Speaker 1: up some bad habits and you've gotten so close to God? 405 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 1: First go First of all, God didn't want you live 406 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 1: in with that woman. That's what you would call a 407 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 1: sexual sin, which is really bad in the Bible. Not 408 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: that not that Christianity is work based, but meaning let me, 409 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: let me explain that you don't do anything to earn 410 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 1: your relationship with God. You don't give up dip and 411 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: you don't you don't move out from your girlfriend's house 412 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: and quit sexual sin to get close to God. It 413 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: doesn't work. God goes, oh, you've already messed it up. 414 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: You're already guilty. That's like saying to the judge. Imagine 415 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,199 Speaker 1: you get convicted of murder and you go to the 416 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: trial and they're trying you for murder, and the jury 417 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 1: comes in with their verdict and it is guilty. All evidence. 418 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,880 Speaker 1: You're guilty. You're caught on video, it's just obvious. They 419 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: have the murder weapon. And the judge says, you're convicted, guilty. 420 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: What do you have to say? And you say, Judge, 421 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: that was a couple of months ago. I've been going 422 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: to church and i've been I've quit some things and 423 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: I don't do that murder stuff anymore. The judge goes, 424 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:30,360 Speaker 1: thanks for the story. You're still guilty, right, So that's 425 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: what God says. When you say, but God, I've gotten 426 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 1: a lot better. He goes, you're guilty. In fact, you've 427 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: always been guilty. And same with me, same with everyone listening. 428 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: We were born with this sin. We've inherited sin as humans, 429 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 1: and it is so bad. It has infested us so 430 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: bad that we have broken the law of God and 431 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 1: the worst sin we could do, the worst implication of 432 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: sin that we could do is break the commandments of 433 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 1: God God, and we've all done that, and the verdict 434 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: is guilty. So he says, you can't earn your way back. 435 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 1: It's already done. There is nothing you could do. In fact, 436 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 1: the Bible says that all your good works, all your 437 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: good deeds, are like garbage to me. It's like dung 438 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 1: to me. It means nothing. And so knowing this, God 439 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 1: sent forth his son Jesus one hundred percent God, one 440 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 1: hundred percent man to earth to live the life that 441 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,439 Speaker 1: you couldn't, the perfect life that didn't live with a girlfriend, 442 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 1: who had a kid, that didn't do all the bad 443 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: habits that you did, didn't have the party life that 444 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: you have. Instead, Jesus fulfilled all God's commands perfectly. And 445 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 1: then it was taken to the cross and murdered, becoming 446 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: But it was planned, purposed so that he could become 447 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 1: the final sacrifice, the ultimate sacrifice that took on that death, 448 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: that punishment of your guilty verdict. He was made guilty. 449 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: He who was innocent was made guilty for the sake 450 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: of the guilty. To be innocent, you you see what 451 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: it means. So Jesus became guilty for you. He was 452 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: the only innocent man that became guilty for you, so 453 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: that you, a guilty man, could be made innocent if 454 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: you trust in him. So those with trust in Jesus 455 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: are set free. They're released from the penalty that you've 456 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: been accused of. That's the gospel. But let me go 457 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: back full circle to what I was saying. I will 458 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: know and anyone will know that that gospel truth has 459 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: taken root in your heart because you will no longer 460 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 1: want to be part of anything that remotely smells or 461 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: looks like sin. That's not to say that you won't, 462 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: but you will hate it and you'll do everything you'll 463 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: scratch and claw to get away from it, because it's 464 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: an infestation of sin. And that's the sign of a believer, 465 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: is not that he's sinless. It's that he is doing 466 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: everything he can to eradicate the sin itself. So he's 467 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: doing everything you can't to get away from it. And 468 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: two months go by and you've moved out from your 469 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: girlfriend's house and you've quit putting dip in your lip 470 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: and you're not partying as much. That's not enough. Of 471 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: a track record for me to go, Oh yeah, that 472 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: gospel has taken root in your heart, you see what 473 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: I mean? And then lastly, your last your last question here, 474 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: what are some ways to understand that that is God's 475 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,719 Speaker 1: will for me to let this girl go or if 476 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: he wants me to keep fighting for my family? It's 477 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: not your family. Don't say it that way. You're not 478 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: a step parent and it's not your family. This is 479 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: a girl friend until it's time to get things together 480 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: and put a ring on her finger. It's a girlfriend. 481 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: And so that you've messed up by the way, And 482 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: so you say, I'm honestly scared. I don't know. I'm 483 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: scared of going back into my old sinful ways over this. 484 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: That sums it up right there. If you see Jesus 485 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: for the value that he is, the sacrifice that he 486 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: made to free you from hell. When you see that, 487 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: when you see that, you deserve hell and you have 488 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: a ticket punched for it, same as me, and you 489 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: realize what Jesus did to free you from that. If 490 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 1: you realize that, then you're saved and you don't want 491 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: to go back into those old ways again. Once again, 492 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: It's not like you were free and clear of it. 493 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: But you don't want to. You don't sit around and 494 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: go I'm so worried I'm going to get back into 495 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: my old sinful ways. You go, I'm not going back there. 496 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: I've seen the truth, I've seen the treasure. I don't 497 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 1: want any part of it. So what do you do? 498 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 1: You go back to hearing the truth again. Hopefully that's 499 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: preached in a good church. If you're in college station, 500 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: which I think you are, I would go to Mosaic Church. 501 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: My buddy Sam Chrites is the pastor there, and that 502 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 1: is a good gospel teaching church. Mosaic Church, Sam Christes, 503 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 1: he's a good friend of mine. Tell him I sent you. 504 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: And let's deal with this last question here. How do 505 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 1: you know God's will? How do you know if it's 506 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: God's will for you to get back with this girl 507 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 1: or not? Romans twelfth two. There's always a good good 508 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: go to It says, do not conform to this world, 509 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that 510 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: by testing you can discern the will of God what 511 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: is good and acceptable and perfect. So don't be transferred. 512 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: Don't look like this world, don't don't conform to this 513 00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: world instead be renewed by by the Word, by being 514 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: around other believers that keep you accountable to say, hey man, 515 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: don't go back into that sense. Hey man here, let 516 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 1: me save the gospel to you again, like Granger did 517 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 1: on the podcast, let me show you the treasure so 518 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 1: you could so show you what you've been saved from 519 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: if you are that person that has faith in Christ 520 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: and then all of those things when you realize that 521 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: your main issue right now is that is that you 522 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: have a one way ticket punched to hell. If you 523 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: realize that that's your main problem right now, you're not 524 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: gonna worry as much about the girlfriend. But the crazy 525 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: thing is, as you start considering what Jesus did for 526 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: sinners to redeem them to God, to make things right 527 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 1: in that court room, remember to make things right. After 528 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 1: you got declared guilty by the jury, Jesus comes and says, 529 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: I'll take the fine, put it on me, put it 530 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: on my body. I pay the penalty for him. He's mine. 531 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 1: That one's my child. I redeem him, I restore him, 532 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: I adopt him as a son. He's an heir, a 533 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: co heir to the kingdom. It's everything the Father has 534 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: given to me by my divine right. I give it 535 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 1: to him by implication of what it did on the cross. 536 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: That one's mine. Don't touch him when you realize that's you. 537 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: When you realize you are that child, everything changes. Everything 538 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: comes off of that. Everything is as far as the 539 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: way you treat this girl, the way you interact with 540 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: your friends, the way you want to want or not 541 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: want to party anymore with them, the way you treat 542 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: this step kid, the way you treat your boss and 543 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 1: your employees and your coworkers, and your mom and your dad, 544 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: the way you value church and your brothers and sisters there, 545 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: the way you value your own finances, the way you 546 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: value your free time. Everything changes when you realize you're 547 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,479 Speaker 1: that guy that Jesus says, that's mine. Don't touch him. 548 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,720 Speaker 1: Jesus says, my sheep hear my voice, and they follow me, 549 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,719 Speaker 1: and I know them. I give them eternal life, and 550 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: no one will snatch them out of my hand. That's mine. 551 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: No one snatches him out of my hand. When you 552 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 1: realize that's you, everything changes. So to you, Anonymous, I'm 553 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,279 Speaker 1: saying is that you are you realizing that? Are you 554 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,400 Speaker 1: still like? Yeah, I'm trying to get close to the 555 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 1: lowercase Gee God, I'm trying to understand my brother's in 556 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,600 Speaker 1: lower case see Christ. But what I really want, Granger, 557 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: is I really want to get all my stuff and 558 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,879 Speaker 1: bring my truck back in the driveway and move back 559 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: in with that girl who I really like, and I 560 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 1: want to make things good again, and I kind of 561 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:38,759 Speaker 1: want to party too. I think I've been really clear 562 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: on this answer. Next question comes from Bryn. Brnn says, Hey, Granger, 563 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,720 Speaker 1: I've been going to the same church my whole life, 564 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: and I've recently been baptized as a teenager, and I'm 565 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 1: not exactly sure on what my church thinks about women 566 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,280 Speaker 1: preaching the gospel. I'm not referring to leading the church. Instead, 567 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 1: I would like to know if I could speak at 568 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,520 Speaker 1: my school's FCA Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and would that 569 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,680 Speaker 1: be okay and not against what the Lord says about 570 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,040 Speaker 1: women preaching the gospel. I could just share my testimony, 571 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: and I feel like others would get more out of 572 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: this if I gave them a little bit of a 573 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,960 Speaker 1: short speech. I guess you could call it. She says. 574 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: It would just be a short sermon and I would 575 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 1: talk about my relationship with the Lord. I've attended FCAA 576 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 1: meetings where women either give testimonies or short sermons. I 577 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,800 Speaker 1: think it's okay for women to share the gospel, just 578 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 1: as long as they're not leading a church as a 579 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 1: preacher would. And I've asked my youth leader about it, 580 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 1: and he really couldn't give me an answer. I just 581 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:48,239 Speaker 1: need help on this, and I hope your answer could 582 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,239 Speaker 1: be helpful to me in some way. I hope you're 583 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:54,040 Speaker 1: able to help me. Thank you and God bless Okay, Brent, Yeah, 584 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 1: thanks for the question. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with you 585 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,320 Speaker 1: sharing your testimony and sharing the gospel. In fact, it 586 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 1: would be weird if you didn't. As Christians, all of 587 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,800 Speaker 1: us men women were called to be ministers in our lives, 588 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: and we are ambassadors for Christ and God makes his 589 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 1: appeal through us. Isn't that crazy? So yeah, share your testimony, 590 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,439 Speaker 1: share the gospel. This is not talking about the qualifications 591 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 1: for elders like a Titus one qualification for elder or 592 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 1: shepherd or pastor or church leader. This is not talking 593 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:39,719 Speaker 1: about anything that I think you're trying to confuse. You 594 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,359 Speaker 1: giving a Sunday morning sermon with sharing the gospel and 595 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: your testimony at an FCA meeting. Absolutely nothing wrong and 596 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:54,120 Speaker 1: absolutely there's no discrepancy there. Next question comes from Jared says, hey, grangdeer, 597 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: my name is Jared. I'm twenty years old. I am 598 00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 1: pursuing a Sorry. I'll keep putting on these glasses because 599 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,879 Speaker 1: it's just so much easier to see. I'm twenty years 600 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 1: old and I'm pursuing a career in electrical construction. I'm 601 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,319 Speaker 1: a Christian man pursuing a relationship. For a good couple 602 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 1: of years now. I couldn't help but notice that my 603 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,680 Speaker 1: church here in small town Cottonwood, Arizona, is dying. My 604 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,360 Speaker 1: church is fairly large and has around six hundred seats, 605 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,400 Speaker 1: but only about fifty people attend. The congregation consists of 606 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,359 Speaker 1: mainly older folk around sixty years and up, and there's 607 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,920 Speaker 1: no young people. I've got a good group of buddies 608 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 1: that I've grown up with that attend here, and that's 609 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 1: about it for young people. It's hard because this church, 610 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,440 Speaker 1: this is my home church and I grew up here, 611 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,640 Speaker 1: but I also want to branch out and meet new people. 612 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:45,920 Speaker 1: It's sad to see my home church that I believe 613 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: is dying. Any ideas for tackling a dying church. I 614 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,760 Speaker 1: was thinking about your second sentence, I'm a single Christian 615 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 1: man pursuing a relationship. I kind of threw me off 616 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,560 Speaker 1: a little bit because that's nothing to do with that. 617 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 1: I think that was just background information. Okay, yeah, so 618 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,879 Speaker 1: so Jared, I appreciate the question, and yes, you're right, 619 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,680 Speaker 1: it is sad to see a church dying, and we 620 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 1: see we see many churches dying, especially in towns like this, 621 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:24,759 Speaker 1: and there are many symptoms of a dying church. I 622 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,839 Speaker 1: think I could say here I should probably insert that 623 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,160 Speaker 1: the Lord will keep his church, the Lord will sustain 624 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 1: his church capital c. It doesn't always have to mean 625 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,800 Speaker 1: that a certain churches needs to be meeting in a certain location, 626 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,520 Speaker 1: and that door could be closing, a door could be 627 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,720 Speaker 1: opening towards a merger. Maybe there's another church that's doing 628 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,560 Speaker 1: that's doing well, and they woult e merge with your 629 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:56,279 Speaker 1: fifty people and they're three hundred people, and then you 630 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,640 Speaker 1: got a new church of three fifty. You emerge leadership 631 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,520 Speaker 1: if if you guys have really close on doctrine and 632 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:08,239 Speaker 1: you agree on leadership, a church merger is a good thing. 633 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,239 Speaker 1: I don't think you're into that. I don't think you're 634 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,600 Speaker 1: interested in that. I think you are more about leaving, 635 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:18,000 Speaker 1: because it seems to me that you're saying, I want 636 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:23,080 Speaker 1: to branch out and meet new people. So certainly it's 637 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,400 Speaker 1: you know, a merger could be cool, but it sounds 638 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:30,799 Speaker 1: like you're wanting to just move on the thing. To 639 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 1: prepare yourself against the best way to prepare your church 640 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:44,239 Speaker 1: against dying is having a good leader or leaders that 641 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:52,240 Speaker 1: preach the Gospel, that teach expositionally through the Bible, where 642 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 1: the point of the message is the point of the sermon, 643 00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,360 Speaker 1: the point of the passage or the Bible verse, that 644 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,359 Speaker 1: the pastor's reading is the point of the message, and 645 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,919 Speaker 1: not the other way around. If you want, you want 646 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 1: more messages that come expositionally, meaning the point of the 647 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,080 Speaker 1: message is the point of the sermon. Unless there's a 648 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: topic and this is a really cool lesson on finances 649 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,640 Speaker 1: or love or relationships or heartbreak or loss or careers 650 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,360 Speaker 1: or friendships, and we're going to use the Bible to 651 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,760 Speaker 1: support the topic at hand. It's a man centered gospel, 652 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 1: it's a man centered teaching, and it typically fails, whether 653 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,480 Speaker 1: sooner or later. That's a good way to kill a 654 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:42,840 Speaker 1: church a good way to sustain a church and to 655 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,319 Speaker 1: fuel it, and think of it as an engine and 656 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:52,680 Speaker 1: the church, the engine loses fuel without the gospel. The 657 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:57,080 Speaker 1: gospel is going to fuel the church and more people 658 00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:02,759 Speaker 1: will be sustained by it. Man man center teaching. Man 659 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,839 Speaker 1: centered preaching eventually is going to drive out everyone because 660 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,359 Speaker 1: they're gonna be they're gonna be left hungry and they're 661 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 1: gonna be starving, and they're gonna need real food and 662 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,440 Speaker 1: not fast food that they're getting or salad. They're gonna 663 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,799 Speaker 1: want steak and potatoes, and they're only gonna get steak 664 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 1: and potatoes with a church that teaches expositionally, I don't 665 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,279 Speaker 1: even say, if you've noticed on this podcast of the 666 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,239 Speaker 1: last several years, I don't even say things like a 667 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,279 Speaker 1: church that preaches that teaches from the Bible. I don't 668 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,200 Speaker 1: use that anymore because that seems to be what everyone says, 669 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,560 Speaker 1: Thank goodness, my church teaches from the Bible. Well, it'd 670 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,520 Speaker 1: be weird if you wouldn't even be a Christian church 671 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,160 Speaker 1: at all if you didn't teach from the Bible. So 672 00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 1: let's let's say there's a new level of course, you 673 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,319 Speaker 1: teach from the Bible. But I'm talking about teaching from 674 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:53,880 Speaker 1: a passage, and the passage is the point, the whole point. Like, welcome, 675 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,399 Speaker 1: open your bibles. Today, We're gonna be in First Corinthians, 676 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,760 Speaker 1: and I want you to turn to this page, this chapter, 677 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,200 Speaker 1: and we're going to read these eleven verses, and then 678 00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,280 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the point of those eleven verses, 679 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,200 Speaker 1: and then we're going to talk about how this applies 680 00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,760 Speaker 1: to our lives today. What can we learn from Paul 681 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,759 Speaker 1: in this message that he was speaking to the Corinthians 682 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,319 Speaker 1: that we could apply to our lives today. Here we'll 683 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:20,120 Speaker 1: here's some applications for us in light of what Paul 684 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,840 Speaker 1: was saying. Instead of saying, Hey, we've got these problems, 685 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,799 Speaker 1: let's go thumb through the Bible and see if we 686 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,239 Speaker 1: could find some solutions to it. You see what I mean. 687 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,400 Speaker 1: I don't I can go a thousand directions on answering 688 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,759 Speaker 1: how what to do with your dying church? And it's 689 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:44,920 Speaker 1: tragic either way. But having a pastor that is bold 690 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,279 Speaker 1: and courageous and loves the Word and loves people and 691 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:54,920 Speaker 1: loves the sheep, and has given his life to faithfully 692 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,960 Speaker 1: preaching a solid gospel that uses the Bible and teaching 693 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,719 Speaker 1: expositionally out of it. You're in good shape if you 694 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,440 Speaker 1: have that. Even if you have fifty people, there's nothing 695 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:09,080 Speaker 1: wrong with fifty people. Essentially. I've been in churches around 696 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,560 Speaker 1: the world that meet under a tree and there's seven people, 697 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,839 Speaker 1: and it's a healthy church. It's not based on it's 698 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,840 Speaker 1: never been based on numbers. And so you have a 699 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,279 Speaker 1: bunch of empty seats, that doesn't necessarily mean it's a 700 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,480 Speaker 1: bad church. I think the sign that is dying is 701 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,319 Speaker 1: there's less and less every week. I think that's what 702 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,359 Speaker 1: you're saying. And there's no young people. That's a good 703 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:34,080 Speaker 1: sign too. So I hope that answers and I don't 704 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:35,800 Speaker 1: think that I don't think any of that's your question. 705 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,000 Speaker 1: I think truly your question is grangeer. I think I'm leaving. 706 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:43,560 Speaker 1: Where should I go? And so I say, Okay, it's 707 00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,319 Speaker 1: not necessarily your job to save the church you grew 708 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,040 Speaker 1: up in. That's not your job. You are a you're 709 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,319 Speaker 1: pursuing a career in electrical construction. Okay, that's not you 710 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,479 Speaker 1: to save the church. But what you can do, being 711 00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:02,080 Speaker 1: twenty is plant yourself in a church that's teaching expositionally 712 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,000 Speaker 1: with a pastor who loves people and loves Jesus and 713 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,360 Speaker 1: cannot wait every Sunday to give you the message that 714 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:15,480 Speaker 1: you need to hear from the Bible. Rights. That's where 715 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,000 Speaker 1: I would go with this. I think that's what you 716 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,799 Speaker 1: want to do, and you'll know a healthy church when 717 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,680 Speaker 1: you see it. Let me say one more thing. There's 718 00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,520 Speaker 1: a great book. It's a nine marks book. It's called 719 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,399 Speaker 1: What is a Healthy Church? Everyone? Write that down? What 720 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,680 Speaker 1: is a healthy Church? It's a very short book. If 721 00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,680 Speaker 1: you're not a reader, grab it on audible or some 722 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,040 Speaker 1: kind of audio book format. What is a healthy church? 723 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,240 Speaker 1: What is a healthy church? Read it? Super short, super simple. 724 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,160 Speaker 1: A dear dear brother of mine wrote that book, and 725 00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,040 Speaker 1: I think it will give you. It would expound on 726 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:53,160 Speaker 1: all the ideas I said, plus some. Okay, I love 727 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,160 Speaker 1: you guys, See you next Monday. Thanks for joining me 728 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,440 Speaker 1: on the Granger Smith podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. 729 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,360 Speaker 1: You could help me out by writing this podcast on iTunes. 730 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,759 Speaker 1: If you're on YouTube, subscribe to this channel. Hit that 731 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,200 Speaker 1: little like button and notification spell so that you never 732 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,480 Speaker 1: miss anytime I upload a video. Yi