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Speaker 1: Okay, welcome to Friday Q and A. We've got some

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Speaker 1: questions queued up here. If you want to ask a question,

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Speaker 1: you could ask anything, any topic, anything at all. Email

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Speaker 1: podcast at grangersmith dot com. We'll put you in the queue.

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Speaker 1: And ant Man's got some right now.

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Speaker 2: Colby dropped an email and said, Granger, I have a

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Speaker 2: close friend that I gratefully respect and love. However, I

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Speaker 2: know that, unfortunately, if it was his time, he would

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Speaker 2: not spend eternity in the presence of the Lord. My

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Speaker 2: wife and I have prayed and continue to pray for

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Speaker 2: this salve for his salvation. Quick backstory. We're both firefighter

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Speaker 2: and paramedics. He lost all faith shortly after entering this

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Speaker 2: career field due to experiencing one of the most evil

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Speaker 2: situations involving a child. Recently, I took a ride with

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Speaker 2: him to his hunting spot. Long story short. Heading back home,

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Speaker 2: he told me that he's not opposed to believing in God,

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Speaker 2: but until someone gave him a logical explanation without using

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Speaker 2: the term free will or how how he uses bad

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Speaker 2: for the greater good to justify why a man so

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Speaker 2: powerful would allow a child to be hurt in such

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Speaker 2: a way. Then he could have when he could have

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Speaker 2: stopped it, then he could not follow or trust a

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Speaker 2: man as such. I continue to pray, and I'm also

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Speaker 2: searching and seeking for the logical reason that he needs

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Speaker 2: so that he will give his heart and life to Jesus.

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Speaker 2: May the Lord continue to bless you your beautiful family

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Speaker 2: and team respectfully, Colby.

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Speaker 3: I need two things. I need.

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Speaker 1: What was the guy's explanation about giving me something besides

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Speaker 1: free will?

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Speaker 3: What was that he said?

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Speaker 2: I see he's not opposed to believing in God, but

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Speaker 2: until someone gave me gave him a logical explanation without

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Speaker 2: using the term free will, or he uses bad for

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Speaker 2: the greater good.

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Speaker 3: What does free will have to do with that argument?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, And my second thing is what's

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Speaker 1: Colby's question, because this is just every day evangelism.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he says, I'm seeking continue to pray, and I'm

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Speaker 2: also searching and seeking for the logical reason that he needs.

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Speaker 3: Oh, is that that's what he's asking me? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Well, there is no logical reason besides the fact that

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Speaker 1: faith comes from hearing and hearing through the Word of Christ.

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Speaker 1: So the power Romans one says that the power of

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Speaker 1: God is the gospel. The gospel is the power of

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Speaker 1: God for salvation to all who believe. So there is

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Speaker 1: a there is power in the speaking of the word.

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Speaker 1: And we would say, what's what's the gospel. The gospel

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Speaker 1: redeem sinners, to bring them to God, to save them

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Speaker 1: from the wrath of God, and was resurrected to live

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Speaker 1: and now calls all men and women to turn to

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Speaker 1: Him and believe. Now that sounds now Now Paul says

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Speaker 1: that the word of the Cross is foolish to those

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Speaker 1: is folly. In fact, because of a video we reacted

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Speaker 1: to earlier, I had it open up to First Corinthians,

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Speaker 1: and so it's sitting right here in front of me,

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Speaker 1: First Corinthians one eighteen. For the word of the Cross

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Speaker 1: is folly to those who are perishing, but to us

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Speaker 1: who are being saved, it is the power of God.

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Speaker 1: For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of

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Speaker 1: the wise and the discernment of the discerning. I will

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Speaker 1: thwart Where's the one who is wise, Where's the scribe?

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Speaker 1: Where's the debater of this age? Has God not made

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Speaker 1: foolish the wisdom of the world so this is every

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Speaker 1: day evangelism. When you're outside of Christ, it sounds foolish.

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Speaker 1: So that's why he says, somebody give me a logical explanation.

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Speaker 1: But what he's missing, is he The logic that he's

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Speaker 1: missing is that his the default is we shouldn't believe

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Speaker 1: It's kind of the agnostic idea is that, well, there

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Speaker 1: is something we didn't come from nothing. I agree, there's

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Speaker 2: It feels like that he's like, I'm not opposed to

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Speaker 2: he says this. I'm he's not opposed to believing in God.

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Speaker 2: But he has a hard time wrestling with this catastrophe

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Speaker 1: That's just that that's just such the age old question.

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Speaker 1: You know, how could there be a good God that

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Speaker 3: Right? But that's just a silly argument.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's so thin because it's that idea is

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Speaker 1: in every book There is no good book unless it

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Speaker 1: has evil that's overcome. There's no good movie without a

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Speaker 1: antagonist to to to highlight the there there has to

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Speaker 1: everything we do, you don't you know you don't helicopter

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Speaker 1: slowly they can they learn to overcome it and grow.

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Speaker 1: When you work out in a gym, you break down

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Speaker 1: the muscles, You tear the muscles so that they can grow.

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Speaker 1: This is this is like the most logical thing to say,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe there would be a God that would

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Speaker 1: to think that somehow God would want for you absolute

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Speaker 1: utopia and that you would come out of the other

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Speaker 1: side of that utopia needing and worshiping him. Not because

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Speaker 1: he needs you to worship him, because there's joy for

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Speaker 1: you in store with worshiping him, because you were made

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Speaker 1: to worship him. But part of this is I can

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Speaker 1: give this what's his name, Colby Colby. I can give

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Speaker 1: Colby apologetic stuff all day. Yeah, and we could always

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Speaker 1: counteract what this guy's saying, but it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: In the end.

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Speaker 1: The gospel is the power of God for salvation. So

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Speaker 1: you don't have to have an answer or a logical explanation.

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Speaker 1: Because that was when I hear that. The first thing

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Speaker 1: I think is the Bible this trace it back to

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Speaker 1: the original sources. Run this out to the most logical conclusion,

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Speaker 1: and find how the Bible could possibly have come to

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Speaker 1: us in the accuracy that it we have. It's impossible

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Speaker 1: to not be as accurate as it is. And they

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Speaker 1: continue to find manuscripts all over the world, fragments of

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Speaker 3: That's impossible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's another logical that he could just run

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Speaker 1: that out and have another argument for that. The gospel

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Speaker 1: tell him the gospel and live it out for him

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Speaker 2: David drops some email says, hey Granger, my name is David.

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Speaker 2: I have been a longtime fan and I have loved

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Speaker 2: watching your career grow. On July twenty seventh, of my friend,

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Speaker 2: an Air Force veteran, took his own life right in

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Speaker 2: front of me. That morning was normal, but after I

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Speaker 2: what I say, but a sorry. That morning was normal,

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Speaker 2: but later I saw a disturbing Facebook post from him,

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Speaker 2: I knew something was wrong and rushed to his house

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Speaker 2: on my motorcycle just a few minutes away. When I arrived,

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Speaker 2: he looked at me that he ended his life before

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Speaker 2: my eyes. I've never experienced anything like that and have

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Speaker 2: been struggling ever since, mostly wondering why God put me

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Speaker 2: there at that exact moment. Was there a reason did

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Speaker 2: he want me to see that? I'd really appreciate your

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Speaker 2: thoughts on this. Thank you for taking the time to

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Speaker 2: read my message, David Man.

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Speaker 3: David, that is so heavy, so heavy. I'm so sorry, brother.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't wish that on anyone, what you have seen,

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Speaker 1: and so part of this is just understanding that what

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Speaker 1: you've gone through is extraordinary and requires extraordinary care. With this,

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Speaker 1: I would make sure that you have brothers around you.

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Speaker 1: They could keep you grounded. Your question about did God

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Speaker 2: Yeah, wondering why God put me there at the zech moment?

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Speaker 2: Was there a reason? Did he want me to see this?

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Speaker 1: So, first of all, there's always a reason there's a

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Speaker 1: reason behind everything. Because God is sovereign, he's providential, he's almighty,

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Speaker 1: So there's always a reason. We don't always know the reason,

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Speaker 1: and more so, we don't always need to know the reason.

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Speaker 1: I think Amber was on the podcast a few weeks

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Speaker 1: ago and we talked about God is doing ten thousand

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Speaker 3: Aware of about four of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the end, the easy answer is yes, there

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Speaker 1: was a reason. Did he want you to see that? Well,

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Speaker 1: you did, and so regardless of if he desired you

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Speaker 1: to you know that that's a different question. But he

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Speaker 3: Seek that.

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Speaker 1: Through knowing him, and you will find your answer. It's

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Speaker 1: as easy as that. Seek him for who he has

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Speaker 1: You would operate in isolation good times or bad times.

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Speaker 1: Walk alongside other brothers and sisters of the faith, clinging

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Speaker 2: He's going to use you the helps after you have

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Speaker 2: walked this walk. He's going to use your tragedy to

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Speaker 3: Similar, very similar. Yeah, and you're going to help them

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Speaker 3: walk through theirs. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. That's it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's it great. Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Email podcast at granger smith dot com will answer anything

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