WEBVTT - The Unpopular Truth About God’s Love 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.399 All right, welcome to the podcast everybody, thanks for being here. 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.520 Got ant man with me. Yeah, always good to see you. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:16.880 Brother. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.680 We are answering questions from people, and you were actually 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.079 produced this show, and so you're the one fielding a 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.560 lot of these questions. If anyone wants to ask something, 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.880 you email podcast at grangersmith dot com and we'll get 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.080 to it and put it in the queue. And it 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.360 could be about anything. And I like to say that 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.280 we answer as though we're just riding down the road 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.360 on a road trip in the truck and you say, 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:44.920 you know, you know what I've been thinking about lately? 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.120 Can I run something by you? And that's how we answer, 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.000 And I say it in that way because usually we don't. 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.760 We're not thinking about this for days. These questions I 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.320 have here literally i've not even ever I've never seen 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.360 them in my life. I haven't even read them at all. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.960 I'm just trusting that you're not giving me something I 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:04.000 can't handle well. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:08.280 And I pick them to hear your answers to be honest, 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.800 and a lot of times and then now like oh 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:12.720 well now you have to you have to come up 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:14.080 with a little something too. Anthem. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.080 Okay, that's right, because you're in on this too, I 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.880 might just say I don't know, defaulting to you. Okay, So, 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.720 but what I want to talk about first, it's not 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:28.560 one of these questions. It was a It was a post. Now, 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:33.360 every morning I post a Bible verse from my morning 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:38.039 reading something that sticks out to me in some way, interesting, 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:44.240 catches my attention, thought provoking, encouraging for me, rebuking for me. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.280 Those are all the reasons I might post something. And 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.880 then most of the time I'll say a little caption 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.360 with it, and it's just a thought with the Bible verse, commentary, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:59.640 little commentary. So this week I did one that said 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.840 how does God show his love to you? And I 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.480 think maybe that'll be the title of this video. God 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.119 may not show his love to you in the way 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.919 that you think he does something like that, because then 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:20.560 I went on to say one specific way, and that 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.480 way is in first John for nine. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:26.840 This is fascinating. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.440 It says, hang on, I'm not even gonna say what 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.200 it says. I'm not gonna go to first round four 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.280 nine yet. Instead, I'm gonna tell you what. People replied with, 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.320 oh okay, as if they didn't read it, And that's 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.400 not a knock on them. It's just more of an 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:49.640 awareness that I don't think people are completely seeing what 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.280 I'm saying all the time, and that's okay. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:53.200 Maybe I'm not either. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.320 But once again, the question is how does God show 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.760 his love to you. That's a question that I'm putting 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.920 out to people listening right now, and you could kind 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.560 of be answering in your mind. How does Scott shows 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.400 left to you? The Bible says how he does. But 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.000 be thinking right now, because here's here's what one person 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:18.639 said instantly on my Instagram. They replied, quote so many 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.720 ways one special way, and showing his is showing us 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:27.840 his wonderful world. I've seen a large butterfly chasing a 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.320 hummingbird away from an and cathos bush, also a young 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.400 dove when trying to land do a somersault. The list 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:39.080 goes on and on and on. That was from Instagram. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:44.400 I got one today on X and it says I'm 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.200 working in an emergency school today doing HVACT work, and 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.160 while waiting to get a door unlocked, a line of 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.120 children were walking by with their teacher, and a child 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:57.120 that's a complete stranger just stepped out of line to 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.480 just to say hello to me and give me a hug. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.760 Smile once again. These are two I got many, many, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.880 many many on social media, people answering how does God 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:14.200 show his love to you? And they're all saying these 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:21.000 ways that are God's grace. But the Bible is going 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.000 to tell us that he specifically shows his love in 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:27.360 one way. And it's fascinating. If we don't catch this, 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.599 if we don't get this, we're in a lot of 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:36.000 trouble because before we're reconciled to God, we're enemies to him. Sure, 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.880 we cannot please him. In fact, the only we get 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.800 oxygen and we get a beat in our heart, and 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.040 we get rain on the crops, and we get sunshine 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:52.040 on our skin only by common grace. But he's withholding 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:56.159 his judgment. I mean, that's just a common graceful mercy 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.479 that he has on us now while he's withholding judgment 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.840 that he will unleash and judgment day because he is 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:08.760 not happy with the rejection of him. And so there 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.240 is only one way to be united with him, to 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.080 be reconciled to him, to be brought to him, meaning 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.479 there's only one way he could love you. First John 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:23.120 four nine, in this the love of God was made 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.680 manifest among us, that God sent his only son into 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:31.600 the world that we might live through him. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:32.680 And this is love. 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.799 Not that we have loved God, but that He loved 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.200 us and sent his son to be the propituation or 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:45.640 the substitute for our sins. This is fascinating and it's 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.280 the gospel. Let me read the whole little perkipe here, 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.880 which is the whole little paragraph. Beloved, let us love 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:57.000 one another, for love is from God. And whoever it 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.640 loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.840 who is does not love does not know God. Because 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.080 God is love. And this is the love of God 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.320 made manifest among us, that God sent his only son 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.040 into the world that we might live through him. God 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.200 loves us through his son Jesus. He sin his son. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.800 When we have rebelled against him, we have rejected him, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.159 we have turned our backs on him. We have seen 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:27.360 God in things of this earth, and things that are 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.240 made by human hands, and things that we have made idols, 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.640 including our children and our spouses, and our careers and 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.320 our dreams and our hopes and our jobs, and all 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.360 the things that we have around us. And the butterflies 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.520 in the air and the dove doing somersaults, and we say, look, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:48.640 there's God, and God goes. You are rejecting me unless 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:53.000 you receive my son, who I'm sending to replace your sins, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.839 to be the substitute or the words is propituation in 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.440 the Bible, to become a substitute for you. That he 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.600 died on the cross so that I could be just, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.039 and I could put my anger and my wrath onto 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.880 him so that he could take your place. And that's 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:14.960 how I show love to you through the sun that 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.080 went way over everybody's head. That's why I wanted to 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.600 do it on this podcast because even to me, I 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.440 read that, I read that in my morning reading, and 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.520 I go, oh, thank you God for your son and 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.880 because of the sun, because we're reconciled to God, because 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.280 we could have peace with God in that way, then 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.160 we could look at the dove doing somersaults. Then we 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:35.680 could look at the little kid that comes up and 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.400 hugs us, and then we could love outwardly toward the 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:43.520 world as an overflow that we were loved first. And 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.400 if we don't have the sun, then seeing the dove 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.960 do somersaults is only a temporary love that we'll have, 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:50.560 but it will go away. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:57.400 And there's only I mean, because we're only saved by him. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.720 He loved us while we were sinners. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:05.640 Yeah, yeah, Romans five eight. He loved us while we 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:11.160 were still sinners. Christ died for us. So that is 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.880 it is interesting that no one and once again I'm 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.640 not this is not a blame thing, but no one 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:24.240 replied and said, because of Jesus. That's how I know 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.520 I'm loved by God, because he sent his son to 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.559 die in my place, the death that I should have died. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.839 No one said that I should have replied. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.559 And technically I put the answer in the question. Here's 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.000 my whole post. I said, how does God show his 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:46.080 love to you one specific way? In this the love 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.960 of God has made manifest among us. That God sent 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.120 his only son into the world that we might live 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.679 through him verse John four to nine. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.960 It's fascinating stuff, yeah, it really is. And simple too, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.439 sometimes so simple that it's hard, like, oh, we got 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.680 to complicate this up a little bit, and it can't 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.720 be as simple as one man doing, you know, carrying 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.760 the burden of everybody's everybody include me. I don't know, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.439 maybe it needs to be a little bit more than that, 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.440 and we all to speak from me. I cloud that 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.240 up and have for so long. Oh, it's got to 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.079 be a little bit more. Maybe there's a little more 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.400 that I need to do. The more I read, the 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.600 more that that gets deduced. Okay, it's a little note. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.959 It's less. That's right again again, and you're like, oh, 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:31.679 it's one thing that's right. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.560 I would encourage anybody to go read first John chapter five. 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.240 It's pretty short, it's pretty simple. It's it's it is. 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.000 I'm sorry. Chapter four. It is. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.559 Known as being the love chapter. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.439 God is love, which is. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:52.640 Typically, typically and wrongly, the only way that he's known 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:53.440 to some people. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.280 What is God to you? They say love, which is. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.640 Amen and correct. But that's not all that he is. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.640 He's also just. He's also holy. He's also great and 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:09.559 good and merciful. He's also a God that will judge 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.680 according to his perfect standard, which we all fall short of. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.640 Boy, I'm reading through, you know, reading through the Bible 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.360 again this year, and right now I'm in He finished 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.720 up Exodus and Leviticus. Often, I don't I don't hear 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.720 a lot of preachers going, hey, we're gonna we're gonna 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:29.480 spend the month of May going through Leviticus. Yeah, because 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.000 it's a lot of repetition, it's a lot of rules, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.079 And if I give up on reading every single word, 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.200 I can't imagine, like how hard it would be to 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.080 have to keep up with every single thing that you 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.320 have to do. If you if you have a sore 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.640 on your arm, here's everything that you need to do 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.760 to make sure that you're clean. Yeah, can you do it? Yeah? No, yeah, okay. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.120 And for anyone listening right now, for anyone listening to go, 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.080 I don't. I just don't like when Granger talks like that. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.959 It starts to sound like that old fire and brimstone stuff. 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.520 I mean, why can't we just say first, John four 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.200 is about God is love. God is Love, And I say, okay, 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:08.040 listen to this. This is in the same chapter. By this, 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:15.000 it says, by this is Love perfected with us, so 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.000 that we may have confidence for the day of judgment 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.840 because as he is also, because as he is, so 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.920 also are we in this world. So basically he's saying, 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.360 you have confidence in the day of judgment because if 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.680 you're in Christ, he sees you as perfect because he 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.960 sees the sun and you're in the Sun, and you 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:41.360 and the Sun are united in that relationship. And how 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.520 do you say, how do you do that? Well, he 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.880 says verse thirteen, And this we know that we abide 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.000 in him, and he is in us, because he has 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.000 given us his spirit. And we have seen and testified 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.960 that the Father has sent the son to be to 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.600 be the savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.120 is the son of God, God abides in him, and 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.920 he and God. It's all right here. This is just 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.280 one chapter of many beautiful chapters in the Bible. But 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.880 first John chapter four. I'd invite anyone just to look 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.880 through that and see so that you could finally answer, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:16.720 how does God love you one specific way? 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.760 The understanding of judgment that he does do that, that 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:27.080 God does judge, God has this fury only amplifies the 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:27.800 love even more. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:32.359 It does because he certainly didn't have to no. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.480 No, and makes it for me also, it makes it 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:39.079 that much more important of Jesus sacrifice. Yeah, and picking 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:45.440 one way to make atonement, Yeah, this is the this 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.680 is I'm going to make it really easy for you. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.000 This is the one way. Yeah. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:55.200 There is another verse about one way that's very famous 0:12:55.320 --> 0:13:01.319 by the same apostle, and that is on three sixteen, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.160 for God so loved the world that he gave his 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.200 only son, that whoever believes in him shall not. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.040 Perish, but have eternal life. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.080 So it's interesting if you think about the implications of 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.680 what that verse, the very famous John three sixteen means. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.920 It also means that God loved the world so much 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.720 that he gave his only son, but he did not 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.720 love the world enough for you to reject him. And 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:26.559 that is controversial. People hear that and go, you're adding words, Granger, No, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.200 I'm not verse seventeen for God to not send his 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.160 son into the world to condemn the world, but in 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.800 order that the world might be saved through him. The 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.199 world was already condemned. You see the world. He didn't 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.360 send Jesus into the world to condemn it because it 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.440 was already condemned. So he sent Jesus into the world 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:48.160 for one purpose, to reconcile centers back to himself. It's 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.400 so important for us to see these things, and it's 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.360 so important for us to see John three thirty six, 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.960 who says whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.160 Whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.720 But the wrath of God Rema aims on him, remains 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.959 means it's already on you. It wasn't, it didn't, it 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.360 didn't just get there. The wrath of God remains on 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.760 you if you don't have the Sun to save you 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.880 from this world, because the world's already condemned. God so 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.600 loved the world he gave his only son. He did 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.600 not He did not love the world enough for you 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.000 to reject the sun. That's all right here, and all 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:26.240 the implications of John three and John first, John four, Ah, 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.320 it's just like reading to the Bible is like just 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.120 unlocking treasure after treasure after treasure, and it becomes clear 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.080 and clear, and then you start seeing the world has 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.280 distorted these ideas for so long so that we could 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:45.240 be just happy and content in our disobedience. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.240 Really, yeah, yeah, I'm fine where I am. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.400 I'm fine where I am. God loves me. I know God, 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.280 I know all this, I'm doing all these wrong things. 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.360 I know that I've rejected God. But I just saw 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.680 today a dove do a summersault, and that reminded me 0:14:59.040 --> 0:14:59.720 God loves me. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:07.240 That scary stuff that is scary, and maybe even I'll 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.800 be honest, maybe even more scary than the actual wrath itself. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.120 Not knowing, you know, being misled and that that is coming. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:21.360 Yeah, yeah, not knowing, not knowing that it's coming. Even 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.240 though you heard this. If you're listening to this podcast 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.680 right now, you're already you're already in trouble because now 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.400 you have been you know, you know you've heard it. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.720 You can't you can't face judgment and go I didn't know, 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:40.280 He'll say, Granger Smith podcast episode you Reward. You were 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.880 told man, and Granger told you that day. Yeah, this 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.760 is fascinating stuff. Once again, this is this is the 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.720 reason I didn't even say the names of the people 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.480 on this social media. It is just because I once 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.560 was that. I can't say that enough. This isn't something 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.280 I was born with. I just knew the gospel. I 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.560 went for a long time in the wilderness not knowing 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.800 these things. And most of you that listened to this podcasts, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.800 a lot of you knew me before then, So you 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.680 knew the Granger that rejected God, that said that he 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.800 knew him, that acted like I was a Christian on 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:17.000 the through my mouth, but it was it wasn't in 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.880 my heart. It was just lip service. Nothing in my 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.480 actions reflected that. So when I say, hey, you people 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.840 you're saying this, just just know the presupposition to that 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.880 is that I was once that person. That's how I 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.120 could recognize it even better. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:32.720 Seeing Yeah, when. 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.080 I first started podcasting, I didn't read a single ad 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.440 that wasn't part of my radar. When I first started music, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.360 I didn't think I was gonna have an online store either. 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.920 Now the music's gone, I gotta have something to pay 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.840 the bills. And so it's crazy that ee Apparel is 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.960 what does that And the way that that store is 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:54.040 powered is through Shopify. Shopify is the global commerce platform 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.200 that helps you sell at every stage of your business. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.040 That could launch with you at the very beginning and 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.240 you're really small, and they can grow with you until 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.680 you're really big, and it doesn't matter what you're selling. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.879 You can be selling whatever nick knack you want to sell, 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.040 like we sell ee Apparel, and you could do that 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.399 with Shopify. Shopify helps turn your browsers into buyers, with 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.560 the internet's best converting checkout thirty six percent better on 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.680 average compared to the other leading commerce platforms, and you 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.320 could sell more with less effort thanks to Shopify Magic, 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.639 your AI powered all Star Listen. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.119 I don't know about this technical stuff. I don't know 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.119 how to run an online store. I just know how 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.560 to put out a product and be creative and say 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.760 what do our people want? And during hunting season coming 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.600 up this fall, let's get them this kind of hat 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.280 and this kind of shirt. As far as how are 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:39.600 they going to use their how are they going to 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:40.840 check out and use their credit card. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:42.399 To get it? I don't know about that stuff. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.960 That's why we rely on Shopify. And it's not just US. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.639 Ten percent of all e commerce in the US uses Shopify, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.520 and they're also in one hundred and seventy five other countries. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.240 Plus Shopify's award winning help is there to support your 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.080 success every step of the way, because businesses that grow 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.480 grow with Shopify up for a one dollar per month 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.600 trial period at shopify dot com slash granger all lower case. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.960 Go to shopify dot com slash granger right now to 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.960 grow your business no matter what stage you're in shopify 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.119 dot com slash Granger. If you want to get a 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.600 hold of me, go to Cameo dot com slash Grangersmith 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.080 and I could send you a video message made right 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:20.920 here on my phone. Whatever you want me to say, 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.679 Happy Birthday, Happy anniversary. It's a great way for you 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.800 and I to stay in contact and to get someone 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.560 a gift that might seem to have everything. Hey, get 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.760 them a gift at cameo dot com slash Grangersmith. All right, 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:33.720 back to the questions here. If you have a question 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.479 for me, email podcast at grangersmith dot com. We'll put 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.359 it in the queue. Ant Man has some prepped and 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.280 ready to go right here. This first question comes from Tristan. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.280 It says, Hey, Grainger, my name is Tristan, and I 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.800 want your advice on what I should do. I'm in 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.080 high school right now, but the intentions we have is 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:54.440 to stay together for the long run. This is a relationship. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:55.679 It's not a girl. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.959 Okay, Okay, the girl. It's very beautiful and makes me happy, 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:03.360 but our religious belief don't align. She believes in Mormonism. Well, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.000 I am a Baptist Christian and I do not think 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.199 the teaching of Mormonism is true. I would like for 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.439 me and this girl to have a relationship based around God, 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.600 but that would be difficult considering we have different beliefs. 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.879 I'm planning on talking to this girl for a while. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:21.640 I plan on talking to this girl for a while, 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.720 but I think about what will happen if we have 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.080 a future together. Thanks for your advice. Okay, Tristan, great question, 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.320 and you're not alone. This is something I see quite 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.720 a bit. Actually, I have a good friend right now 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:40.240 who has a son in this situation. He went to 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:45.760 school in Salt Lake City and met a girl, fell 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:51.480 in love, and then sorted recognizing that they had a 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:56.240 different what LEDs Church calls it Christianity, So they have 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.439 this boy realized they had a different vers urson as 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:04.600 they had some conversations. So what do you do, Tristan. 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:09.919 I think we could do an entire podcast on this. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.680 We could do a five minute answer to this, which 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.040 one are you? We could dig deep on this. We 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.320 could focus on the LDS Church, or we can focus 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:23.880 on whatever your beliefs are, the Baptist Church. Tristan, I believe, 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.480 I believe we should probably take a light stroke to 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:32.120 this because, like I said, it could be an entire episode. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.080 It is now twenty twenty. We talked about this last 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:41.760 week on the podcast. The great thing about living in 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:45.840 twenty twenty is that things ideas could no longer be 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:47.560 hidden like they used to be. 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:54.280 Twenty twenty four, back to COVID. That's why I'm glad 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.920 you're on the podcast. It's twenty twenty four. I thought 0:20:57.920 --> 0:20:58.880 you were going back in time. 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:02.520 It's now twenty twenty for thank you. If you weren't here, 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.600 I would just keep going. The good thing about living 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.200 now in this modern age, I should just leave it 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.160 at that is that we have the ability to fact 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:16.760 check and to cross reference, and to look at things 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.440 that aren't protected. What you and I have talked about 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:29.120 this with Islam is that Islam is no longer protected by. 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:31.000 The walls of the mosque. That used to be. 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:37.040 Ideas and doctrine stayed within the walls of the mosque. 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.600 And now with modern technology and modern communication, is these 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:45.119 ideas get outside of the walls. People could then go 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.840 fact check, and then people could actually see for themselves. 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:52.879 Hang on a second, I don't think that's historical. And 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:57.359 so these questions arise, and it arises in Productism, it 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:03.080 rises in Catholicism, in the LDS Church, it arises in 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:07.640 every organized religion in a good way. So as as 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:11.320 a Protestant, I want to make clear that I say 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.959 bring on all your doubts, bring on all your conspiracies, 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:19.600 bring on all your skepticism. I love it. I love that. 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:23.240 I don't feel offended by it. If someone says anything 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.520 about my church. I'm from the Southern Baptist denomination. That's 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:31.440 where I'm That's where I align as far as Baptism 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:36.960 and church membership and and are are the Protestant ideals 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.399 that But that that doesn't mean. That doesn't mean that 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:41.720 I only believe in the Baptist idea. I think, I 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.720 think the Presbyterians have great ideas outside of Baptism. I 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:48.160 think I think there are many other schools of thought. 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.280