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Speaker 1: in their rough demo and then they would all listen

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Speaker 1: to each other's. It's like accountability and like you said,

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Speaker 1: some of them are just total crap. But that wasn't

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Speaker 1: the point. The quality was not the point. It was

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Speaker 1: training that muscle, because it is a muscle. And if I,

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Speaker 1: like I haven't written in several months now, if I

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Speaker 1: have a writing trip coming up or I need to write,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do exercises leading up to it that

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Speaker 1: week to get my brain into rhyming mode and the

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Speaker 1: thinking mode. And a lot of that has to do

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Speaker 1: with cutting out devices a certain amount, because devices will

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Speaker 1: kill my creativity. I could do like, for instance, if

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Speaker 1: I'm mowing, mowing is a great lyric creation moment for

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Speaker 1: me because I can do nothing when I'm mowing but think.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of like Earl Dibbles songs were written

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Speaker 1: while I'm mowing, because I could just think of rhymes

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Speaker 1: and funny things and the way it flows. So I

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Speaker 1: have to You're so right, you have to get that

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Speaker 1: that part of your brain has to exercise. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know, Brianna, if that's your the reason you're maybe

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Speaker 1: you're a writer and that's why you're asking, or you're

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Speaker 1: just curious as a listener, But either way, it's it's

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Speaker 1: really interesting to think of how to write a song.

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Speaker 1: And it's also interesting to think how how easy it

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Speaker 1: actually is to write a song. It seems impossible, like

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Speaker 1: even for me right now to think I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: the guitar to think about writing a song today seems impossible.

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Speaker 1: But if I actually picked it up and started messing

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Speaker 1: with it, one would start coming out. And then there's

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Speaker 1: always times when I think, well, that was it. I

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Speaker 1: think I wrote my last song. I think that was

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Speaker 1: the last one in me. I think that all the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: do you ever think like I'm never going to write

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Speaker 1: anything as great as all the time? Everyone? Every album

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Speaker 1: I put out, I go, I cannot top this for

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Speaker 1: another album. I've said all the ideas in my brain. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's everything I know. Well, I want this to go

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Speaker 1: on record right now. That Grange hasn't you know. He

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Speaker 1: said he hasn't been writing in a while. He's going

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Speaker 1: to start fairly soon. And I promise you the stuff

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Speaker 1: that is going to come out next is going to

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Speaker 1: be the best stuff that you've heard. No, there's no pressure.

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Speaker 1: It ain't on you, man. I'm just telling you I

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Speaker 1: believe the best your best stuff is yet to come. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: ready for this one? Yep? This is a question here,

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Speaker 1: content and your music and listen to your podcast all

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Speaker 1: the time, but there's always a butt this guy, Bernie's

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Speaker 1: come on and no just kidding, Sorry, go ahead. But

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Speaker 1: when you said God has complete control, does that mean

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Speaker 1: your decisions? So yeah, we just went to the deep end. Guys,

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Speaker 1: let me read that again. When you said God has

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Speaker 1: choices and God makes all your decisions? That's from Sawyer.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Sawyer. Yeah, thanks for listening and drawing those

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Speaker 1: word called sovereignty, which means sovereignty basically means all controlling,

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Speaker 1: all knowing, all being. And I want to say before

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Speaker 1: don't let this topic be a breaking point for you

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Speaker 1: because it's not as important as other questions. Sure in

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Speaker 1: get me wrong, it's important as a fundamental backbone of

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Speaker 1: knowing that God is in control. But it's if it

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Speaker 1: becomes a breaking point in your mind, I just cannot

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Speaker 1: understand that therefore I no longer believe then stop, just

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Speaker 1: fast forward through this this part. But I didn't. I

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Speaker 1: usually I was in the mood this morning when I

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Speaker 1: knew you're coming. I was in the mood to answer this,

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Speaker 1: and this question came in November last November twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes I'm just not in the mood to answer

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Speaker 1: complicated for humans. And the reason I say that is

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Speaker 1: because like we can't comprehend the methods of God, we

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Speaker 1: can't begin to understand that. And the Bible says thousands

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Speaker 1: of times that God's in control. He's sovereign, he is,

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Speaker 1: he is the creator, he is in control. So then

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Speaker 1: human beings, and there is a beginning and there is

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Speaker 1: an end on Earth of that plan. So everything in

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Speaker 1: between leads to that. So then you think, well, what's

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Speaker 1: the point. Who cares? I'm in the matrix, This doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter anymore. I'm a puppet. I might as well do nothing.

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Speaker 1: Those are like natural reactions to a lot of people

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Speaker 1: So I like to think of it this way. To

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Speaker 1: answer your question. You said God has complete control. Does

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Speaker 1: that mean you yourself make no choices. I like to

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Speaker 1: think of it this way. No, absolutely not. We make choices.

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Speaker 1: I make choices every day, going to pick up this cup,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna drink it. If God didn't want me to.

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Speaker 1: Does he have the power to stop me from doing it? Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: But I have the choice to do it. I'm doing

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Speaker 1: it right now. I'm picking up this cup. Here's the

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Speaker 1: crazy thing is God already knew I was gonna do that.

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Speaker 1: He already knew I was gonna pick it up, and

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Speaker 1: then nothing surprises him. If you think of it this way,

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Speaker 1: power of almighty creator of the universe, you think you're

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Speaker 1: tonight that catches him off guard and he has to

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Speaker 1: redirect something because if an accident caught him off guard,

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Speaker 1: or it's something you did or said changed now. We

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Speaker 1: reference is Joseph and Neil Testament when he's talking to

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Speaker 1: his brothers and this is coming years and years after

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Speaker 1: his brothers sold him off, abandoned him, got rid of him.

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Speaker 1: We thought we got rid of him. He actually came

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Speaker 1: into power. Now he's in charge of us. And he said, say, birds,

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Speaker 1: Oh what you Oh yeah, okay, you what you meant

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Speaker 1: for evil? Yes? God intended for good. Yeah. So they

640
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Speaker 1: made a choice. They made a choice to exile their brother.

641
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: And these kind of stories, there's a lot of them,

642
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Speaker 1: there's hundreds of They made a choice, that was their decision.

643
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Speaker 1: They exiled their brother, they kicked him out of the family.

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Speaker 1: They meant it for evil. So many times our heart,

645
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Speaker 1: our intentions are evil based. So it doesn't matter how

646
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Speaker 1: bad or twisted or weird, it is everything God ends

647
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Speaker 1: up framing for good, and it might take, it might

648
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Speaker 1: take in many cases generations past you. We don't even

649
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Speaker 1: see it. But you can either look at it for

650
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Speaker 1: you listeners look at it in one or two ways.

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Speaker 1: Either there is a God that created this universe and

652
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Speaker 1: he's in control of everything. Are there just not? I

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Speaker 1: prefer to think there's just not if there's Instead of

654
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Speaker 1: thinking that there's a weak God up there that's just

655
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Speaker 1: just not in control, not knowing, not understanding, not in communication,

656
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Speaker 1: I prefer to think there's just not one. Yeah. Yeah,

657
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Speaker 1: this is a lot to unpack, and my mind's kind

658
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Speaker 1: of going a lot of different places. But let's you

659
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Speaker 1: could always bring something like this. Let's start with the

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Speaker 1: verse you just quoted about God works all things together

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Speaker 1: for good, for the good of those who love Him

662
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Speaker 1: and are called according to his purpose. Okay, we could

663
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Speaker 1: spend like all day there, which we won't, but you

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Speaker 1: know that that verse who love Him and are called

665
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Speaker 1: according to His purpose. We could divert there, but we're

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Speaker 1: not going to. I think the point I wanted to

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Speaker 1: make is if you're out there and you're listening to

668
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Speaker 1: this and you're maybe like, faith is not my thing,

669
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Speaker 1: I just I'm going to fast forward past this. I

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Speaker 1: don't really I'm not really interested. Let me just tell

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Speaker 1: you have faith. You have faith in something, so stay

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Speaker 1: with us. It takes a leap of faith to not

673
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Speaker 1: believe what we're saying. That's that's right, and so I

674
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Speaker 1: would I would push you to dive deeper into what

675
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Speaker 1: your faith is in. It could be just in I

676
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Speaker 1: have faith in myself and that I'm the captain of

677
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Speaker 1: my universe and this is the way my world and

678
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Speaker 1: understanding of life and power and love works. And that

679
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Speaker 1: is where you are right now, and that is That's okay.

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Speaker 1: But don't dismiss the conversation. Don't disengage from the conversation.

681
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: Because the faith may look a little different and ask

682
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: different questions and have a different package or context than

683
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: what you're comfortable with or what you're used to. It's

684
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: because there's something here for you if you're willing, So

685
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Speaker 1: please just join us. The next part of this is

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Speaker 1: to understand and that my brother used to always remind

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Speaker 1: me that God is you know, you think of sovereign,

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Speaker 1: it's like his sovereignty, his power. You know, it's like

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Speaker 1: we think of his He's powerful, He's all powerful, like

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Speaker 1: you said, and he's all knowing, but he is also

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Speaker 1: all loving. And so think about, like, you know, the

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Speaker 1: question that you're asking about, like is there a choice?

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Speaker 1: Do we have a choice in a loving relationship? There's

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Speaker 1: it really is. God is inviting. He's pursuing us, even

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Speaker 1: when we're not pursuing him, He's pursuing us. And so

696
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Speaker 1: through these the through his plan, through this like you know,

697
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Speaker 1: canvas that he's drawing this. He's an artist. He's creating

698
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Speaker 1: this thing of the world and life and your life

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Speaker 1: and our lives, and it's saying something and a lot

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Speaker 1: of that is not just formed in his all powerfulness,

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Speaker 1: his all knowingness, but also his all lovingness, Like he

702
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Speaker 1: is love. It's the essence. So we cannot lose that

703
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Speaker 1: in these discussions of sovereignty and control and calling, because

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00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: it's very much you know, tied into that. You can

705
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Speaker 1: you know, think similarly to just any relationship you know,

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Speaker 1: with your son or with you know somebody, like how

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Speaker 1: what are the dynamics of those you know relationships. It's

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Speaker 1: not you know, like I'm gonna dictate what you do now,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, there's that's a different kind of

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Speaker 1: control yeah, he he knows that all joy, all satisfaction,

711
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Speaker 1: all pleasure is found in him, in him a loan,

712
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: and so what he's inviting us into is like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I am sovereign over all of this stuff. Okay, I

714
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Speaker 1: have this plan. I wrote the works that you're supposed

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Speaker 1: to walk into before the foundation of the world, and

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Speaker 1: I just want to walk with you in them because

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Speaker 1: I want to be near you. I want to love

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Speaker 1: you and be loved by you, and for you to

719
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Speaker 1: experience joy the best that you possibly can. And the

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Speaker 1: way that you do that is walking with me and

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Speaker 1: trusting in my sovereignty. So we were plagued with this

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Speaker 1: this thing of sin, and sin can look a few

723
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Speaker 1: different ways. There's habitual sin, but then there's like this

724
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: intrinsic natural sin that we're born with. That is people

725
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Speaker 1: say like, oh, the devil, you know, is like tempting me,

726
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Speaker 1: and it's like, the devil's not tempting you. Like our

727
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Speaker 1: sinful nature that's in us is constantly going to try

728
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Speaker 1: to get us to question the sovereignty of God, which

729
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Speaker 1: is back to the garden. What did they do? They

730
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Speaker 1: questioned the sovereignty of God? Does he really love us?

731
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Speaker 1: Is he really giving everything to us, should we really

732
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Speaker 1: trust him? Those are thoughts that we all still have now,

733
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Speaker 1: even in light of his sovereignty. It's nothing new for him.

734
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Speaker 1: But he wants to walk with us. He wants he

735
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Speaker 1: sent the sacrifice for that so that we could be

736
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Speaker 1: restored to that relationship. And I know that there's, like

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Speaker 1: I said, there's a lot to unpack with a question

738
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Speaker 1: like this, So I want to make sure that we're

739
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Speaker 1: staying close to the question of sovereignty and control and choices.

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Speaker 1: But what was this person's name, Sawyer? If you are

741
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: listening to Granger's podcast and you're listening so intently to

742
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: draw questions out like this, I think that you probably

743
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Speaker 1: could be someone that would want to continue to just

744
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Speaker 1: dig into that word and research that word and hear

745
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Speaker 1: commentary on that word. I think that there's a lot

746
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Speaker 1: that is to be learned. Like Chris said, I think

747
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Speaker 1: that we always have to approach these things with there

748
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Speaker 1: is a sense of mystery to God and to life,

749
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Speaker 1: and we can't We're just not going to know everything.

750
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Speaker 1: And so like take with what's in front of you

751
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: in this moment, and don't you know, throw the baby

752
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: out with the bathwater, as they say, just like start

753
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: to like dig into these questions. He says, does God

754
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: make all your decisions? No, he doesn't, but he knows

755
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: what you're gonna choose. I can't explain it says in

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00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,919
Speaker 1: the Bible. How could the Clay question the Potter? We're

757
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Speaker 1: just the Clay. I don't know why that is it is,

758
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Speaker 1: but I'm sure glad it is. You know, I'm really

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Speaker 1: glad it is now. I wanted to say. I've been

760
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: wanting to say this. I've been wanting to use this

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Speaker 1: little line for a long time on this podcast, and

762
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Speaker 1: I finally get to say it. But if there's any

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Speaker 1: of you that are going but why why even believe

764
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: that stuff? Like, why even believe the Bible? I'm not

765
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: gonna tell you because I just believe I have faith

766
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: or host brought up this way, or because I have

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00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: an interchange with him. I'm not gonna tell you that

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Speaker 1: this is what this is my answer to that skeptic.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say because the Bible is a collection of

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Speaker 1: reliable historical documents written by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of

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Speaker 1: other eyewitnesses that claim supernatural events that fulfilled thick prophecies

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Speaker 1: that were claimed to be divine in nature and not

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00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: by human origin. Written by over forty authors over the

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Speaker 1: span of seventeen hundred years into sixty six different volumes,

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00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 1: it is the most reliable collection of ancient documents in

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Speaker 1: human history, way above Aristotle or Homer's Iliad or any

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00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: of This is history. So if you want to ask

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Speaker 1: me first why I believe, I'm going to go there

779
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: because I'm a history major. So I'm just talking. I'm

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00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: talking straight facts if you want to. If you're a skeptic,

781
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 1: and I love this. If you're a skeptic, don't take

782
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,320
Speaker 1: anybody's word for it just because they say they believe

783
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: in their heart, don't accept that. You do research on

784
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: the historical aspects, especially of Jesus and the Crucifixion and

785
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: the resurrection, and then come back and tell me what

786
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: you find. Try your hardest to prove historically that the

787
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: Crucifixion and the resurrection did not happen, and then come back.

788
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Speaker 1: Because here's a side note, it's never no one has

789
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Speaker 1: ever been able to historically prove that it didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: And most of the people that have tried what's happened,

791
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: they started believing that's right because they're like, man, I

792
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: can't it's never been proven. And this goes back to

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00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: what Bernie said. So if so, if you don't believe,

794
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: that is a massive leap of faith to not believe,

795
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: because the evidence and over five hundred eyewitnesses are there

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Speaker 1: and written for us to read from two thousand year

797
00:49:52,920 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: old documents and Roman government records. So take that word

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Speaker 1: for it, not mine or not Bernie. It's just because

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Speaker 1: we say I'm so. Then once you believe at that point,

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Speaker 1: then you go into the word and you go it

801
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,879
Speaker 1: says God is sovereign, God is in control. So then

802
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: you you keep going backwards until you go, Okay, here

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Speaker 1: we are. This is why I believe. I love that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's great, man. I think you need to add that

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Speaker 1: paragraph that you just quoted like you had it like

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00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 1: right ready, go man, you need to put that in

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Speaker 1: the comment section of this or texted to him or

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Speaker 1: something that was amazing it came from voting, Okay, voting boom, amazing, amazing.

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Speaker 1: I need to read that a few times. Send you

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Speaker 1: the video. There's a video by vote bacam and it's

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Speaker 1: a v O D D I E B a C. H. A. M.

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Speaker 1: I think. So he's an amazing evangelist from south central

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Speaker 1: l A. And he is. He's got this video on

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Speaker 1: YouTube and it's called I think it's called why I

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00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: Believe the Bible. And the first thing he does is

816
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Speaker 1: throw out the myths that when you say I just

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Speaker 1: I believe because that's how I was raised, or I

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Speaker 1: believe because there's been an interchange in me, that doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean anything to anyone else. Congratulations, you have an interchange,

820
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean anything to the person you're talking to,

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Speaker 1: and it's not going to convince them anymore that you've

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00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: had a change a spiritual you know. But in contrast

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Speaker 1: to other religions, the other religions of a dude, I

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Speaker 1: fell asleep by a tree and had a dream and

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Speaker 1: then wrote, you know, or it's like, this is very different.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about forty different authors over seventeen hundred years,

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Speaker 1: and historical reliable documents collected together, unchanged because you hear

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Speaker 1: King James and you hear these translations. That's not because

829
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Speaker 1: the King James was translated, and then the ESV was

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Speaker 1: taken from the King James, and then the NIV came

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Speaker 1: from that and one dude decided to write this. No, guys,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about people, massive groups of one hundred scholars

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Speaker 1: getting together and going back to the original Greek, which

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Speaker 1: the oldest Greek New Testament we have. We have six

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Speaker 1: thousand of them, the originals from within only a few

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Speaker 1: decades of when John and these guys wrote them with

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Speaker 1: their own hands. Six thousand documents of these. So when

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Speaker 1: you hear of a translation, they're going back to the

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Speaker 1: Greek and they're taking that with one hundred different scholars,

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Speaker 1: and they're taking word for word and translating it to

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Speaker 1: whatever language. So anyway, there's this misconception of wasn't that

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Speaker 1: just like some old monks, that they got the word

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Speaker 1: and they just made it the way they wanted it

844
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Speaker 1: to sound because they wanted coroll of the government or whatever.

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Speaker 1: So continue to uh, to challenge yourself, to try to

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00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: debudt these yourself. Yeah, it's a crazy rabbit hole. So

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Speaker 1: I just thought of something. Those you were talking to.

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Speaker 1: Ask me that question one more time, and then we'll

849
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Speaker 1: move on to the next question. Ask me Sawyer's question

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Speaker 1: one more time. I just darchieved it. Let me go

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Speaker 1: back to that. I think his question was it was, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it could be her her. It says, do you when

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Speaker 1: you said God has complete control? Does that mean that

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Speaker 1: you yourself make no choices and God makes all of

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Speaker 1: your decisions? Okay? So here here's what I start to

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Speaker 1: think of whenever you have a choice to make that's

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Speaker 1: really important or how your day's going to go. I know,

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Speaker 1: for both of us, there, with the majority of our lives,

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Speaker 1: we have found a place that we find the most.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we just talked about the word right, about

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Speaker 1: the Bible, the reliability, the faithfulness of it, the God's

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Speaker 1: spoken nature of it. When I have to make a choice,

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Speaker 1: that's where I'm going to help me make the choice. Yep.

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Speaker 1: So I think the answer, Sawyer is actually both. I

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Speaker 1: think that I am making the decision, but I want

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Speaker 1: God to make the decision through his word through me,

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Speaker 1: because that's where I find the most joy and the

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Speaker 1: most contentment and most happiness. Is this is not my life.

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Speaker 1: If I was making the choice, I would have probably

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Speaker 1: sold this business and taken all this money and like

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Speaker 1: done this and this. It's like, this is not my life,

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Speaker 1: And there's so much freedom and joy in Him making

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Speaker 1: the decisions for me through his words. So it's like,

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Speaker 1: that's where we go. Is he making the choices? Is

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Speaker 1: he making the decisions? I damn sure, hope, so thank god?

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, because I don't want to do it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know, just a final word on that.

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Speaker 1: That's a great man. I think that it's it's it's both.

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Speaker 1: It's a great point. His yoke is light. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's easy. So that's yeah, that's great way to look

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Speaker 1: at it. I cannot believe we literally burned up this

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Speaker 1: whole section on this question, and understandably, yeah, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a deal. There's a lot to unpack. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm interested in Sawyer's response, and I'm probably a

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Speaker 1: little bit more interested in the in the people that

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Speaker 1: are like, I don't believe any of this, because I

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Speaker 1: know that there's a lot of people they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: like amen, brother, Amen, yes, yes, yes, And maybe we

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Speaker 1: didn't even say it right, and maybe there's some screaming

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Speaker 1: you know that we should have given that. We'll think

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Speaker 1: of later as soon as we turn off the podcast.

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Speaker 1: But I'm more interested in the people that are like,

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Speaker 1: I don't believe any of that. I'm in control of

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Speaker 1: my life. I'm running the ship whatever I do. My

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Speaker 1: fate lives with me and me alone. And it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: It's an interesting thought, and there's a lot of people

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Speaker 1: that have always believed that and still believe it today.

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Speaker 1: And I love how you said it takes faith. It

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Speaker 1: takes faith either way. Yeah. Absolutely, it takes a massive

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Speaker 1: leaf of faith to think you're in control. It takes

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Speaker 1: a massive leaf of faith to think God's in control. Yep.

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Speaker 1: I'd love for you guys to engage and send comments

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Speaker 1: on this topic, especially the folks that Granger's talking about

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Speaker 1: that may not believe the same because believe it or not,

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Speaker 1: I feel like we have things to learn about our

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Speaker 1: faith by your experience and your response and the way

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Speaker 1: that you're seeing things as as well as the others.

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Speaker 1: I think that this stuff can be real heavy, and

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Speaker 1: it's like hard mentally we just want to say, oh,

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Speaker 1: I just believe, but not actually take the time to

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Speaker 1: be able to quote out of memory out the holster

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Speaker 1: what Granger just quoted and like no and actually no,

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Speaker 1: things like I don't think the faith that God is

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Speaker 1: calling us to is not founded in information and in

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Speaker 1: historical events. And you know, I think that there's a

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Speaker 1: lot there, and I try, and I follow. I probably

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Speaker 1: need to push myself more to like, Okay, you believe that,

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Speaker 1: but why do you believe that? And where did you

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Speaker 1: where'd you hear that? And where'd you find that? And

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Speaker 1: so now you could say because I believe the Bible,

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Speaker 1: because it's a reliable source of historical documents written by

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Speaker 1: eyewitnesses during the course of other eyewitnesses that claim supernatural

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Speaker 1: events that fulfilled specific thick prophecies that claim to be

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Speaker 1: divine in nature and not by human origin. What's hand

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Speaker 1: with that? Yep? See you guys, Love you, yege. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate all

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