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Speaker 1: me Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com. We walk through

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Speaker 1: Everything was great for a year and a half until

424
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 1: I caught her texting with an X. It's been going

425
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: on for a month, and she questioned him, and she

426
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 1: questioned him if they would ever have a chance again. Wow,

427
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: it's caused us to split up, But three months later

428
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: we got back together. Wow again. We rebuilt and were

429
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: stronger than ever and well over a year we were

430
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 1: doing incredible. Seven months ago, I took a job out

431
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 1: on the road to double my income and hopefully make

432
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: a future for me and this girl. Me and her

433
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: both agreed it was amazing opportunity for us, so I

434
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: took the job and left. I flew halfway across the country,

435
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: working ninety hours a week. Two weeks later, I left

436
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 1: and found out my girlfriend's ex was at her house

437
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: for her birthday party and she stayed the night there.

438
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: That caused problems, you think? And one week later she

439
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 1: broke up with me after four years and then blocked me.

440
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: Her ex started staying the night and hanging out and

441
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: eventually he lost interest. Wow. And three weeks later she

442
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 1: contacted me again. Wow. Bro. For the past five or

443
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: so months, we've stayed in contact and she begs me

444
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: to give her another chance. Needless to say, I'm stumped.

445
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: I love her and we've been through so much together.

446
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: I'm unsure what to do, and I deeply respect your

447
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: opinions and values. Anything would be helpful. Appreciate you and

448
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 1: God blessed Anonymous. Wow how many times did I say

449
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: that in the email? Wow? Bro? Okay, let's dig into this.

450
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: The first thing that occurred to me as I was

451
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: reading it was she's texting the X and questioning if

452
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: they if they would ever have another chance. That is

453
00:26:54,960 --> 00:27:00,360
Speaker 1: like a massive red flag. It caused you to split

454
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: up for three months and you later got back together,

455
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: which it rightly should have caused this split. But then

456
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: you said, we rebuilt and we're stronger than ever. For

457
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: over a year we were doing incredible. That was just

458
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: smoking mirrors, man, That's the first thought that came to

459
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,959
Speaker 1: me that year, was smoking mirrors. You thought it was incredible.

460
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: It wasn't. She was just a good actress, right, because obviously,

461
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: look she went back again seven months ago. It took

462
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: a job, Okay, Then she goes and she gets a

463
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: little freedom back home, and then the dude comes to

464
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 1: her birthday party and then stays with her. Right there,

465
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: boom is done. Like, I don't even have to read

466
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: anything else in your email. She did this, she apologized.

467
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: You guys made up. It was good. She relapsed when

468
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 1: you're out working. He stayed the night on a relapse,

469
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: on a second chance. She's out on parole basically, right,

470
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: she's on parole for the same crime, and she commits

471
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: it again. She's done. But that's not where your email ends.

472
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: They got together this dude. The other dude realizes he's

473
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: not interested. So she comes back to you and you're

474
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: considering taking her in. And listen, I know when you're

475
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: in it, you're in that bubble. It seems like there's

476
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: a chance, and you love her and you want to

477
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: try again. But everyone that's listening to this podcast, including me,

478
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: is screaming at you, saying, no, don't do it. You're

479
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: going to give her a third chance. That doesn't happen

480
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: in any court of law, in any legal system. You're

481
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: not going to get a third chance with the same

482
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: crime without getting the death penalty. No, this relationship is dead.

483
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: It deserves the death penalty. Okay, you're done, Please email

484
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: me back, whatever it takes. Let's talk about this. But

485
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: I talked about what love is and two Corinthians thirteen earlier.

486
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: This is not love, dude. We so many times we

487
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: confuse what love is and we misdefine it. I don't

488
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: even know if that's a word misdefined, It just sounds right.

489
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: We mess it up. And guys that we confuse love

490
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: for two humans that have that connect and that have

491
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: history together and have us stuff in common. But love

492
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: is patient and kind and forgiving and selfless, and of

493
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: course we we mess up everyone messes up, but not

494
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: three times and not through this kind of situation. That's

495
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: not love. I'm sorry, I'm out on this one. I'm

496
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: not investing in your relationship. Next question, should we do

497
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,719
Speaker 1: it again? We get into these Bible kicks, and then

498
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: we get into these relationship kicks. The subject line of

499
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: the next one is trying to save the relationship. Hey,

500
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: me and my girlfriend had been together for almost a year.

501
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: We broke up November of twenty one, got back together

502
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: January of this year, and our relationship has been great.

503
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: We've had a few ups and downs and got past them.

504
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: Everything was great until now. She started acting distant and

505
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: I asked her what was going on. She says, she

506
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: doesn't feel happy, but she loves me and she just

507
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: needs some space. I told her, I'll stay with my

508
00:30:52,960 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: dad and give you some space. Man, this is I'm out.

509
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: I'm out, not investing in this. I'm not investing in

510
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: this one either. Yeah, this is this is just a classic.

511
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: This is an easy one. Thank you for the email.

512
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: She doesn't feel happy and that's code word for uh,

513
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: she's out. So you're done with this one. You're you're

514
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: gonna stay with your dad. You shouldn't be living with her.

515
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: That causes all kinds of new problems. So yeah, give

516
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: her some space. Let me go to subject line here

517
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: says no subject. Hey Granger, just found your podcast. Enjoyed

518
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: listening so far. I don't know if you've talked about

519
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: this already, but I'm a seventeen year old guy that's

520
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: been struggling with lust and pornography lately. I've been praying

521
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: and trying to read my Bible, but I keep relapsing,

522
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: and I'm just wondering if you can give me any

523
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: advice on this issue. If you can just keep me anonymous,

524
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: that would be great. Yeah. So I have talked about

525
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: this and get I'm overwhelmed by emails about this subject.

526
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: So the first thing you should know, anonymous, is you're

527
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: not alone. I get probably five or six emails per

528
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: day just about this subject. I would ask you this question.

529
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: I would say how how much? If I was with you,

530
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: I would say how bad do you want to stop this?

531
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: How committed are you to stop this? Because in life

532
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: we could always tell with other people and ourselves, with

533
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: all humans, we could tell how committed anyone is to

534
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: a certain thing by the current outcome of that right.

535
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: So it's like if I said, if I said, my

536
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: goal is to be a really good dad, but then

537
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: you looked at my life and I'm a terrible dad

538
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: and my kids are all over the place, you would say, well,

539
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: that's not really your goal. You're just saying that. If

540
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: I said if I said I I want to be

541
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: an incredible guitar player, I want to be an incredible

542
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: guitar player, and then I never picked up the guitar.

543
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: Maybe I occasionally went to YouTube and I practice a

544
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: little bit, you'd say you don't really want to be

545
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: a great guitar player, because if you did, that's all

546
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: you would do is play guitar and study and take

547
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: lessons and learn and practice. So I ask you this,

548
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: I say to you anonymous. You say you're struggling with

549
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: lust in pornography. You've been praying and trying to read

550
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: your Bible, but you keep relapsing. I would say, how

551
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: bad do you want to stop? And on a side note,

552
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: I would say you need to stop. You need to

553
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: Just like I said at the very beginning with the

554
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: strip club thing, this is something that the end of

555
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: the road here is not good. Like the path that

556
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: you're on is not good, is not leading to a

557
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: good place. I promise you. So you want to get

558
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:11,439
Speaker 1: off this road, you really need to get off this road.

559
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 1: But I'm not here to tell you that. I'm here

560
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: to ask you. I want you to hear this podcast

561
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: and ask yourself, how bad do I want to stop?

562
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: Because if you say really bad, then I go great.

563
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: Covenantiyes dot com. We've talked about that. I can't remember.

564
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: Somebody correct me if it's covenantiyes dot org or dot

565
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 1: com something like that. I think it's dot com covenantiyes

566
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: dot com. This is for the people that say I

567
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: really want to stop, I really want to You go

568
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: to this website. And this came from pastor Chad who

569
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: was a guest on this podcast one time and he

570
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: talked about this. So I'm not sure exactly how it works,

571
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 1: but you it has to do with you sign up

572
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: and you get your IP address to this covenantiyes dot com.

573
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: Then you share it, You share your information with a trustee.

574
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: It could be your best buddy, it could be if

575
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: you're really or your brother, if you're really brave, your mother,

576
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: your mother in law, your wife, if that's if you're

577
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: really brave, you give it to your mother in law. Wow,

578
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: So it gets it. It gets on an email and

579
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: they log in and then whats So what happens is

580
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: when you hit one of these sites, one of these

581
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: porn sites, it it recognizes that the Covenant Eyes algorithm

582
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 1: and it sends a message to your trustee that says,

583
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: Anonymous here, whatever your name is, just visited this website

584
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 1: at this time and he stayed on here for this long.

585
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: Don't trust me. You don't want that to happen because

586
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: of that, because of that weight on your shoulders. As

587
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: soon as you get on your phone and you're about

588
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: to type in that website, you're like, oh, I can't,

589
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 1: I can't. I want to see this website right now,

590
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: but I can't because the punishment is far greater than

591
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: the reward. And that's how we should live a life.

592
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: We should live a life knowing that. You know, if

593
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: you're reading your Bible, you understand the punishment is severe.

594
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: Why is there a hell? For instance, we talked about

595
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: this in the question about the fool Gospel. Why is

596
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: there a hell? Well, there's only one answer to that,

597
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 1: because our sin is so severe, the punishment always equals

598
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 1: the crime. So it's like the crime for stealing candy.

599
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: The punishment for stealing candy is like a you know,

600
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: a slap on the wrist. But what's the fine or

601
00:36:54,640 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: what's the punishment for capital murder? Well, that's much more severe.

602
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: You know, we're talking life in prison, we're talking maybe death,

603
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:12,399
Speaker 1: penalty whatever. That's a different subject these days. But that's why,

604
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: that's why there's a hell, because sin is that bad

605
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: and we don't realize it. We're we're guilty of it,

606
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: and we're we are a prisoner of it until we're freed,

607
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: until we're made new, until we're accredited righteousness with Christ.

608
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: We're made new, we're whitewashed at that point clean. But

609
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: until then, the wages of sin is death. Because because

610
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 1: sin is so bad, and so I want you to

611
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:50,240
Speaker 1: look at this. It's so bad that you the wages

612
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: of what you're doing is so bad that the penalty

613
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: deserves to be sending this message out to your mother

614
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: in law or your wife, or your sister or your mom.

615
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,919
Speaker 1: That's where I would go with this. But this all

616
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: boils down to my very first question, Anonymous, how bad

617
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: do you want to stop this? You want me to

618
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: give you some stupid answer, like make your phone black

619
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 1: and white because it's not as exciting if it's color.

620
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: I've heard people say that I don't know. I don't

621
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: know that I can give you a bunch of stupid things.

622
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: But that's like if you kind of want to stop,

623
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: but if you really want to stop. Covidanives dot com.

624
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: Oh boy, this podcast has got me worked up, y'all. Wow?

625
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: All right? Next question, subject line committing to Christ. Hey, grandeer,

626
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: my name is Jared. I'm a freshman in college. I've

627
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: been a Christian my whole life, and if I'm being

628
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: honest with myself, I've never really committed myself to a

629
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 1: strong relationship with Jesus. I talk to God every day,

630
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 1: but I know I need to do more. My excuse

631
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: has always been, well, I just don't have time to

632
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 1: commit myself yet. I'll wait until college so I have

633
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: so I have time and freedom to do it. Wait what,

634
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: let me read that again. Well, I just don't have

635
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Speaker 1: time to commit myself just yet. I'll wait until college

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Speaker 1: so I have the time and freedom to do it.

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Speaker 1: But now being in college, I've just been making the

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Speaker 1: same excuses. Any advice, Thank you? Sorry for the long email.

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Speaker 1: That's not a long email. This is a great, great

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Speaker 1: length to email, Jared. Okay, thanks for the question, Bro.

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Speaker 1: This is the greatest question anyone could ask me, and

642
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 1: you just asked it. And I'd love you for that, Jared.

643
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much. Bro. Thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. And I want to ask him to

645
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Speaker 1: ask you. This is where it would be great if

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Speaker 1: we're actually together. I want to ask you. You don't

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Speaker 1: have time to commit. And I know you're probably hearing

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00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: me say it right now and you're probably thinking I

649
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: shouldn't have written it that way. That's embarrassing. I shouldn't

650
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Speaker 1: have said that. I'm glad you did. I'm seriously glad

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00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 1: you did because it allows me to go a certain

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Speaker 1: direction with it. But what you don't understand, or what

653
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 1: it appears that you don't understand in the email, is

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Speaker 1: the severity of this relationship with christ And we kind

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Speaker 1: of talked about it already earlier in the email. We're

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Speaker 1: talking about life and death, right, So if I said,

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Speaker 1: if I said, hey, Jared, let me think of a

658
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: quick analogy here. I said, Hey, Jared, I'm gonna send

659
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Speaker 1: you up in this airplane and the airplane is going

660
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Speaker 1: to run out of fuel and you're gonna have to jump. Okay,

661
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. You're gonna have to jump.

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00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: This is a terrible analogy, but it's just what I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking of on the top of my head, and I say,

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Speaker 1: I'm passing out passing out parachutes. You want one? Now?

665
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Speaker 1: What kind of stupid question is that for me to

666
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Speaker 1: ask you? I'm putting it on airplane and the airplane's

667
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 1: going to run out of fuel and you got to

668
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: jump out of it. Now I'm asking, do you want

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Speaker 1: a parachute? What kind of stupid question is that? You're like, Granger,

670
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: don't be an idiot, Yes, I want the parachute. Give

671
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: me the parachute. Right. So you get up on the

672
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: plane and then it runs out of fuel, just like

673
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: we knew it was going to, and you jump out

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Speaker 1: and you got a good parachute. But what you're saying

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00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: is in that same analogy, what you're saying is I'll

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Speaker 1: get on the plane and then maybe I'll think if

677
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: I need a parachute, maybe there's an extra one up there,

678
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: or But I'm just as I'm getting Granger, as I'm

679
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Speaker 1: getting on this plane. I'm a little busy right now.

680
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 1: I'm a little distracted, So I'll go ahead and get

681
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: on this plane that's about to crash. But I'll think

682
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Speaker 1: about the parachute thing later. If that's cool. Can I

683
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: make a decision later. That sounds crazy, It sounds out there,

684
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: but it is. But what I'm telling you is more

685
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: accurate than the airplane scenario. This is life and death.

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Speaker 1: You your day, the day of your death is already

687
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: appointed to you. My day is already appointed to me.

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00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:15,240
Speaker 1: Everyone listening, we all have an appointed day of death.

689
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: We had an appointed day of birth, and we know

690
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: that happened. We have an appointed day of death. It's fixed,

691
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: it's already done. It's on the calendar somewhere. I don't

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00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: know what mine is. I might not wake up in

693
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: the morning. I might getting a car at tomorrow. I

694
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Speaker 1: might have ten years. What if I only had ten years?

695
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: God will and I have thirty thirty five, thirty seven, forty.

696
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't either. So your plan with

697
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: an airplane that's crashing eventually, and you're worried about when

698
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: getting on this airplane, and you you don't have a

699
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 1: parachute right now, and you're wondering if you should get

700
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Speaker 1: a parachute or not. That's crazy, bro, that is that

701
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: is insane. And this is the kind of death that

702
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: you're playing with right now. Okay, now I'm making it.

703
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: I'm making a big deal out of this because it

704
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: is a big deal. So what you need to do

705
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 1: is you need to at all costs right now because

706
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Speaker 1: you asked the question, because I got your cornered. Right now,

707
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,240
Speaker 1: at all costs, it's time to put on the parachute.

708
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 1: So I need you to pick up your Bible. I

709
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: need you to get in there. I need you to

710
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: start digging into Matthew or here we go, Mark, or

711
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: Luke or here we go John. I need to pull

712
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: that out. And I need you to get into the Gospel.

713
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: I need you to read that and soak in these

714
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 1: words because the power the Gospel is the power of

715
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Speaker 1: God for salvation, so the salvation lies within that. I

716
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: need you to watch YouTube videos. I need you to

717
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: dive into books. I need you to find a way,

718
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: and I need you most importantly to get on your

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Speaker 1: knees tonight and be like Jesus, it's me, Jared, I

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Speaker 1: heard this crazy thing today parachute, and I want I

721
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: want that parachute. I want life. I choose you, I

722
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: need you, I want to serve you. I'm yours. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna turn away from my life. I'm gonna turn away

724
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: from this sin. I'm gonna turn to you because your

725
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: way is better than mine. I want to follow you,

726
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: and I wanna take I want to go you, take

727
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: me wherever it is. I'm dropping everything. I'm gonna die

728
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 1: to myself. I'm gonna die in my flesh. I'm gonna

729
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: follow you, and it's not an easy path, but the

730
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 1: reward is everything. It'll cost me everything, but what I'll

731
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: get out of it is even greater than that. I

732
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Speaker 1: want to follow you. I wanna do everything. I'm gonna

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00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: put everything on hold, college, work, career, relationships, everything until

734
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 1: I tie this main thing up in my life. I'm

735
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: not getting on that plane until I have the parachute

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Speaker 1: on my back. I will not get on this plane

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Speaker 1: until I have this parachute of my back. That's what

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Speaker 1: I want you to say. Jesus, save me, take me.

739
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Speaker 1: Go to John. Go to the Book of John and

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Speaker 1: start in chapter three. Read it slowly. Then go to

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00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,800
Speaker 1: the Book of Romans read chapter ten. Read it slowly.

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Speaker 1: Then there's so many good stuff. I wish I could, bro, Jared,

743
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: I wish you'd come over to my house right now.

744
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: We just sit here, we just go, we just start

745
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: walking through this stuff. I'd say, look at this, look

746
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: at this. Look who Jesus is. And John one Colossians one,

747
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: look who he is? Look okay, look look what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: John three, we're talking about the spirit. We're talking about

749
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Speaker 1: reburse here. Look at this, and John there, look at this.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I wish I could walk through this with you. Jared.

751
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: I got the parachute right here. I can't put it

752
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: on you, but I can hand it to you like

753
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: this the best I can. I could plant this seed.

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00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: Email me back, bro, let's talk about this. You all

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00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: got me all worked up today. That's all I got.

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00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Well, see you next Monday. Yee. Thanks

757
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,399
Speaker 1: for joining me on the Granger Smith podcast. I appreciate

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00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: all of you guys. You could help me out by

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Speaker 1: rating this podcast on iTunes. If you're on YouTube, subscribe

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Speaker 1: like me to answer. Email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: Yie