WEBVTT - Worried for our children 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.120 What caught my attention in this email was one sentence 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.360 that Darby said out of all that this is what 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:10.480 caught my attention. Such a sad world to raise my 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:26.800 children in. Pastor Chad Warren Montana Man, mountain Man back 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.840 on the podcast, back one of the all time favorite guests, 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.239 and we're just talking before we started the camera. You 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.840 are starting a podcast called Take and Read, the Taken 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.479 Read Podcast. Yeah. For those that have followed this podcast 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.760 long enough, you've heard Chad talk about this with me. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:46.800 It is what we're kind of calling it is the 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:51.680 next level to this podcast, the deeper level. So if 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:56.960 you hear something, if you hear something that we reference 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.280 from the Bible, and you want to hear it a 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:05.440 deeper analysis of it. I say that kind of lightly 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.240 because it's also going to be for anyone yet to 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.880 hear exactly, I think, similar to what we get to 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.759 enjoy here and then other people watch it. We have questions, 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.320 they're deep questions. Some of them are not deep questions. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:24.839 But it's two guys just off the cuff, no preparation, 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:30.080 and there are so many times in our interactions where 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.080 whether we're getting tacos or grabbing a cup of coffee, 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.440 we bring up a passage of scripture and that leads 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.560 to something else and we just are all of a 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.959 sudden off to the races and we're chewing on the 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.520 word and we're getting into life and what does it mean? 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.240 How does it affect the way that I'm a dad? 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.960 How does it affect I'm a husband or a brother 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.920 or a friend. And so it'll be a lot of 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.960 that where we'll just start with a passage scripture and 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.360 no preparation in fact, you're going to be on it, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.440 and then we'll just switch chairs. I'll be over all right, 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.360 you good, and we'll just read a passage and then 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.600 just talk about it and see where it goes. How 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.960 do we kind of unpack that as menagata? For those listening, 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.040 this is a normal thing for Chad and I will go, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.640 like you mentioned, we'll go get lunch, we'll get tacos. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.480 And this podcast that you're listening to now is really 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.720 just an extension of these kind of conversations. The way 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.200 that we have this setup is if you have a 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.359 question anything in the world, and you would like it answered, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.359 you email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. And then 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.040 here's Chad and I and we're eating tacos together with you, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.000 and you ask it in a way that you just say, hey, Maniel, 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:42.799 I've got something in my heart I want to share 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.160 with you. Guys. It's about my career, or about my girlfriend, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.960 or about my grandmother, or about my dog, or could 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.840 be anything. Could be about fishing, could be about hunting. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.160 We've talked about all these things and could I get 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.400 y'all's opinion on it. And then you get to kind 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.679 of sit at the table with us as we're having tacos, 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.000 and like Chad and I do with our lives with 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.760 each other, and Chad is so great. That's why I 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.880 have them as a guest, that we get to just 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:10.640 talk about it together. So and you get the advantage 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.280 of maybe you hear a question that somebody else asked 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.239 and it's not yeah, maybe you never knew you had 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.640 that question, or you're too afraid or you didn't know 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.919 who or where to go with it. And now you're 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:26.320 going to benefit from at least Granger and I. We're 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.720 gonna be candid. Benefit might be a loose word in 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.679 some situations. We'll see, we'll see. I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.320 jump right into this, so you're going to hit you 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.520 with something right off the bat, Chad, This subject line 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.520 is government mandate. Oh there we go, going to be 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.920 talking about masks. Here we go. We'll find out it says, 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.040 Hey Granger, I'm just wondering how you feel about the 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:52.560 government and all the mandates. How are they pressuring everyone 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.840 to get the jab and wear a mask? Again? Do 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.280 you see the light at the end of the tunnel 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.360 with all of this? Such a sad world to raise 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.880 my children in? Frowny face. I'm definitely not planning on 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.520 getting the jab. What are your thoughts? Thank you for 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.160 your amazing podcast. God bless you and the Smith family. Darby. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.440 I don't know where Darby's from, but thanks for riding Garby. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:18.560 What caught my attention in this email was one sentence 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.840 that Darby said out of all that this is what 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.919 caught my attention. Such a sad world to raise my 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.400 children in. And I rebuke that thought. I hear people 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.640 say that, and I rebuke that thought for so many reasons. 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:40.920 And I'll just start by saying, all human beings are 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.120 brought into the world for a time such as this, 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.719 This is their time. I was just thinking, yes, yes, 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:53.080 it's it fires me up. And when people say such 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.920 a tough time to raise children, and Darby, I'm not 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.159 using that. I'm not saying that in that way to 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.440 belittle your concern, because it's a true concern for you 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.440 and probably for a lot of people. But what I'm 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.560 saying is I'm trying to fire you up to say 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.599 this is a good time. This is a good time 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.400 to raise good children, this is a good time to 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:17.760 raise little warriors. And I love that. And you know 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.720 the old the old adage that says that good times 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.719 make weak people. Weak people make bad times, bad times 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.960 make strong people. And it's just this is how this 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.279 little this cycle goes. And so we've had good times 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.800 in the past. My generation was great kids born in 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.559 the seventies, eighties, and nineties. We had it really good. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.440 And I think we're starting to We're going to see 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.400 a trend where it's going to get tough, and then 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.480 the kids that are being raised right now that are 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.000 raising a tough time are going to be strong, and 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.720 then those strong kids are going to grow up and 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:58.360 create good times. What do you think about all this stuff, Chad? Yeah, 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.440 I mean I think, like you said, your generation, we 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.640 had certain things that were good and bad. And I remember, 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.640 even when I was a kid, my grandparents and parents, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.440 uncles aunts saying, man, you guys have it so easy 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.320 back in my day. And so you just like each 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:21.160 generation sees its own challenges and ease and compares it 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.359 to the next. And so I think, yeah, it's it's 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.440 our kids are born for such a time as this. Yes, 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:33.039 they they won't know a world where you could just 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.640 wait at the gate for your loved ones to come 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.720 off the plane. That world's gone. That changed twenty years ago. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:45.080 So it's things are changing, but they are this is 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.440 the time. This is the time they were brought in 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:52.240 the world intentionally, sovereignly, supposed to be born and supposed 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.400 to be raised in this time, Darby. And so I 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.320 think for Darby and for any of us who lament 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.640 some of the challenges that we're experiencing, and we just 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.640 we reflect on our own upbringing and maybe the freedoms 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:10.600 we had that you know, like like I can't my 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.200 mom would send me outside on a Saturday, and I 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.160 wouldn't be home till like and she'd send me out 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:17.600 in the morning and I wouldn't be home till like 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.200 after dark and she had no worries. And we don't 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.840 live in a world where my kids can't do that. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.760 But there are other opportunities that have that I didn't have, 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:32.760 and so trying to embrace them. But yeah, I think 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.520 I'm asking myself, what are the principles that are important 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.960 for my kids to gain, not necessarily just the experience 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:44.760 that they're supposed to have, and helping to infuse them 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.680 and their their experience with those principles as key. So 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.000 I wonder what Darby, what principles he thinks, you know, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.960 we had the benefit of, or he had when he 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.000 was a kid, and what experience is brought about those 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.560 learning those principles, and then how can he create those 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.480 opportunities for his own kiddos. But yeah, the whole mask thing, 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.840 I mean, did he ask if you're going to get 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.000 the poke? He didn't. He just said what do we 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.480 think about it? He said, I'm definitely not. And then 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.720 he said, how are they pressuring everyone? Well, we know 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.920 how they are, they're taking, they're taking the liberties that 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.360 they want to take. How are they pressuring everyone to 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.920 get the jab and wear the mask? Again? Uh? Yeah, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.520 I asked myself about the mask thing. I asked myself 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.360 the same thing. I think, what, this's just common sense 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.000 that when you sit down at the table and you 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.640 take it off and you put it back on and 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.400 you take you touch your face, that's just common sense. Yeah. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.360 But here's here's what I think. Here's what I know, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.000 and I'm not going to act like I know anything 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:49.240 more than anybody else. But the virus is very contagious. 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.880 It's affecting a lot of people. I think at some 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.840 point it will directly affect every human being on the earth, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.439 probably at some point, I think, I think we all 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.360 need to be bold enough to live with it, to 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.760 live our lives safely. However, you want to be safe, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.360 if you're if you're at high risk, do what you 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.480 have to do. But we're going to have to live 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.280 our lives. Yeah, And I think one of the things 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.560 that we have to wrestle with is what doesn't mean 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:25.600 to honor or submit to or be a citizen when 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.400 we feel like our rights are being violated and you 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.199 know what, what does that look like? Those are things 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.080 that we have to wrestle with and they're not hard. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.760 And what what what frustrates me is the the way 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.120 that it is becoming so divisive. If you you know, 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.160 if you were wearing a mask or not wearing a mask, 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.600 you were making a statement and you were put into 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:56.439 a camp or a category. And that's rough. Yeah. So yeah, 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:01.880 we gotta we gotta move forward with wisdom, winsomely and 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.800 representing truth, but with a lot of humility, a lot 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.120 of grace, a lot of patience. Yeah, totally agree. This 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.280 subject is so beaten down that we don't need to 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.760 talk any more of this podcast. Usually you start out with, hey, 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.439 have you ever driven a track? I know, Sorry, I'm 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:23.280 at you when when I set up this I wasn't 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.920 really putting it in any kind of order. Off, just like, okay, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.680 this is truly non rehearsed. Yeah, this is non rehearsal. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.280 I'm gonna hit you next. I'm gonna hit you with 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.439 one called for you and Pastor Chad, oh cool man, 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:44.360 is the same question there? It is? It says, hey, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.880 mister Smith and Pastor Chad, what are your views on predestination? 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.040 I respect you and your faith and your willingness to 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.760 speak freely about it, and predestination is a pretty complex idea, 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.040 so I'm curious what you both think. Thanks, this is 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:04.720 Joe from Iowa. Good another softball question, another just another 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.040 easy one out of the gates. So we should we 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.960 should kind of build this for listeners in a simple 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.200 way to kind of say what, first of all, what 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.320 Joe's even talking about? And then we could say what 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:26.760 we think about it. Simply put, predestination is the idea, 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:37.840 a biblical idea that God knew from the beginning, who 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:43.560 has chosen people are. That's as simple as I could 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:50.080 put it. Yeah, that God actively predestined some to salvation. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.800 And the rub that people have is that immediately means 0:11:55.440 --> 0:12:01.040 or by implication, that God then predestined some to help. Yeah. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.080 So some people might be thinking, well, that's a terrible thought, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.800 why would you even discuss it. We discuss it because 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:11.240 it's actually written that way in the Bible with actually 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:21.320 that word predestined. So the way that I know Chad's heart, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.680 and we've talked about this subject many times together, so 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.319 I know I know how he feels about it, and 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.480 it could be it could be treated delicately. It doesn't 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.200 have to be, because it's not my word. I'm just 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.439 a mess. I'm just the deliverer of the male. I'm 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:41.760 not the I'm not the composer deliver it, so I 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:46.360 don't have to feel weird about it. But there there 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:51.640 are two There are two components to a Christian or 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:58.080 a human being saved, Grace and faith. And Amber put this, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.160 and then I'm gonna let you tell your story up 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.840 to basketball. But Amber told me this, and I thought 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.120 it was so interesting. But grace and faith are like 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.400 two parallel lines. And I've heard this many times. They 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.240 are like two parallel lines that only intersect in heaven. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.600 But she she put it, like, what do you call 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.520 the people in the circus that are on the rings 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.120 the trapeze? The trapeze? Yeah, like the people that hold 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.120 the rings. I guess they have it. And gymnastics too, 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.079 like they swing on the rings. So it's like grace 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.160 and faith are like the two rings, and they're on 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:36.000 a pulley, so they are they coexist. You have to 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.760 have both to stabilize yourself, but you can't let go 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.360 of one or you'll you'll completely lose balance. And so 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:49.480 how that balance exists is a mystery, and it's no 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:54.440 human knows the the impact of faith. Belief, believe and 0:13:54.480 --> 0:14:01.960 you'll be saved or grace because it's it's they co exist. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:07.760 There there are parallel lines, and that's why. And so 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.600 that's why Joe's saying this is this is complex, This 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:16.080 idea is complex. Before before you go and just blow 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:20.760 our minds, I have to say that this idea, and 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.360 I've said, I've said kind of alluded at this before 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.440 in this podcast, don't ever let this kind of stuff 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:33.080 stump you or trigger you or make you doubt. If 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.040 any way that you start thinking this, this is not fair, 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.840 this is not doubting, then just stop. It's not necessary 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.480 for everyone to go through this in their mind and 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.440 completely dissect how they feel about it. But but I 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.880 would encourage you, as you read your Bible too, to 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.960 see it. Circle that stuff and you'll see it a lot. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.680 You'll see you'll see Paul and Peter and John and 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.360 Jesus talk about this a lot. And so it's interesting 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:09.400 to circle it and go, oh, he chosen, chosen, chosen, predestined, elected. Okay, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.920 go ahead, Chad. Yeah, I think I remember struggling with 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.520 this as a new believer, whether or not I was 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.720 okay with a God that would pick some and not others. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.600 I mean, that's really what it came down to for me. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.360 And so, like Joe says, it is complex because there's 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:36.000 it just it seems unfair. It seems like, well, how 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.200 come some people get picked and not others, especially if 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.720 it's not anything that they've done. How could he do that? 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.640 And then they start to question the character of God 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:49.400 or he's got loving if he's like that, and you know, 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:53.440 if if people just have no say in the matter. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.880 And I think what you're saying is there is this 0:15:56.040 --> 0:16:00.920 mystery in our activity and our role in extizing faith 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:07.080 and obedience to Christ. And there's also God's sovereignty just 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:11.240 showing up and arriving and him opening our eyes to 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.440 see things. And I can tell from my own story 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.480 that I was not looking for him. It's not because 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.240 I'm somehow clever or I found the secret sauce like 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.360 I was running away from him and he completely disrupted me. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:30.360 And so I can't take credit for this awareness or 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.160 understanding of who God is. He did that and revealed 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.640 that to me. But some of the ways that I 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.240 think it's important to understand is that we all in 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.480 this human condition, we would identify as Christians. We would 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.480 say that all have sinned, all fall short. So there 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.560 It isn't as though God is taking this group and 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.520 saying I'm going to make you sinners and you're going 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:55.840 to go to Hell, and I'm going to make you 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.200 nonsinners and you're going to go to heaven. But the 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.800 reality is the whole human race is falling, broken and sinful. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.840 And so then why is it that a God that 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.120 we would say is loving and good and perfect and righteous, 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:16.080 why would he choose some to then escape that fate. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:20.679 That's the big question. And what we see throughout the Bible, 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.840 whether it's the Old Testament of the New Testament. God 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.800 is a God that picks, he chooses, he selects, he predestines, 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.240 And it starts with Abram, and he calls Abram, who 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.080 is not a godly man, he just was in obscurity, 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.200 but he calls him and makes and he says, I'm 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.840 going to make a people out of you, and yes, yeah, 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:47.840 total pagan. And he tells Abram, which he later names Abraham, 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.160 that I'm through you. I'm going to make you a name. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.400 I'm going to make a name for you. I'm going 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.600 to give you descendants as numerous as the stars, and 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:03.119 through you, all nations will be blessed. So all of 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.560 a sudden, he selects this one guy, and it's through 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.280 him that all nations are going to come to be 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.800 blessed by Abraham. So he's picking one to bless the rest. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.000 We see that again with the people of Israel. There 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.400 are time and time again where through Israel he's going 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.680 to interact with the people so that the watching world 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.520 sees what kind of God he is, and the way 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.560 that he blesses these people as they walk in obedience, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.360 well they don't over and over again, but again he 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.640 allows them to come back when they repent of their sin. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.600 They come back and the watching world gets to see 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.520 a God of power, a God of grace. And then 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.720 we enter the New Testament, and it's made very clear 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.959 that what God is doing through his son Jesus Christ 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.520 is drawing people to himself, and all of a sudden, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.080 and now it's not just the Jews the chosen people, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.000 but now it's what the Bible calls gentiles. All those 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:59.479 non Jews, that's you and me are now included. And 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.880 so what God is saying is that the boundaries are 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.679 moving out and all these different kinds of people are 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.880 being brought in. And so the reason why he chooses 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:12.879 some is to draw the rest. And there's a board 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.760 picture that a friend of mine always tells he's a 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.879 pastor out in New York, and he says, imagine it 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.600 this way that you have. You're in this high school 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.960 basketball gym, and you've got this this phenomenal basketball team. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.280 They're the visitors, and they've come to play, and they 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:33.119 are clearly high caliber, talented team, best of the best. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.240 And what God does is he looks around it and 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.280 he instead of choosing like the varsity squad for your 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:45.119 home team, he goes out of the basketball court area 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.440 through the double doors that exit the gym around the corner, 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.760 and he finds the group of smokers and emo kids 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.879 and the people that are just angry and you know, 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.480 just hate sports and have a chip on their shoulder 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:00.879 and you know, eyeline or all that kind of stuff. 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.880 And he picks those kids and he says, you're my team, 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.120 and he brings them in and coaches them in such 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.800 a way that they excel beyond all of the best 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:14.000 basketball players in the gym, to the extent that now 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.159 all of the jocks that he overlooked they want to 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.640 play on that team. Like that that's what God's doing 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.120 when he picks, he's picking for the purpose of mission. Yeah, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.640 he's trying to draw others to himself. You, Joe, you 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.720 asked pastor Chad and you got it. You know, when 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.760 it comes to this kind of stuff, it's interesting to 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:40.600 think about. If you think I believe that something you 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:44.080 could ask, but why do you did? Was that belief 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.800 given to you or did you create it on your own? 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:50.160 Because the Bible says we should have nothing to boast 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:55.280 about in our salvation, nothing, and to an extent, you 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.600 could boast that you believed and others didn't, So that 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:07.640 can't be real. If you if you are not saved, 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.040 you are an active rebellion. You are someone that says 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.840 absolutely not, I want nothing to do with it. If 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:20.000 you're questioning and you're like, but am I, that's the 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.760 person I want to talk to. Yeah, if you're questioning that, 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:27.640 if you're thinking maybe you are, then maybe you are right. 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:31.359 And so then there's those parallel lines, you know, then 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.280 so like what are you balancing on? You balancing on 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:35.880 God's grace? Are you bouncing on your own belief? And 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:38.880 I love that. It's a mystery and I think if 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.760 it was, if it was perfectly clear cut, we could 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.680 just say check that box, we're done, see in heaven. 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.600 But because it's not clear cut, it's complicated. We want 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:50.080 to read more and we want to underline. I want 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:51.639 to circle those words and we go what does that 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.199 word mean? Why? But why do I need to be? 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.040 How do I need to be getting closer? And it 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:01.520 becomes a lifetime of this and I think that was 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:06.800 by design. Yeah, it was by design. Thank you, appreciate you. Joe. 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:11.160 Shout out to Iowa Stu. We got another question coming up. 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:13.679 It can it be like what my favorite color is? 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.000 How about this one? This one says my career. Surely 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:23.040 this is going to go east my career. Hey Grangeer, 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:25.959 my name is Landon. I'm from Boise, Idaho. I love 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:30.399 your show. I was and it was wonderful. If you 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.080 could please sorry, I'm going to read this right, it 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:35.720 would be wonderful. I'm just correcting a little bit of 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:37.840 your writing. Landon, it'd be wonderful if you could answer 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:41.760 this question on your podcast. I'm fourteen and for all 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:44.399 fourteen years of my life, I've wanted to pursue my 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:47.200 dream of being a police officer. Do you have any 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:50.120 tips on how to stay productive in ways to reach 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:53.880 my dream job without giving up or blindly choosing to 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:57.359 pursue something different? Thank you, I hope you have an 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:02.639 amazing day. Appreciate you and Boise Idaho, I love Boise 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:10.840 fourteen good age. And he says, blindly choosing to pursue 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:16.800 he's predestining himself too, blindly that he's choosing this is 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:18.720 a good one. Chap this. We don't have to get 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:25.119 in trouble with this. It doesn't apply to just whether 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:27.320 you want to be a police officer. No, right, it's 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:31.199 no if if you've if you've got a dream and 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:33.480 there's a there's something you want to do with your life, 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:35.760 what what are the best steps? Like? How did you 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:39.880 when did you want to become a musician? We were 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:48.960 just talking about actually right here, fourteen So you can't 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:53.320 go to academy at fourteen. You can't train really in 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:56.760 any way. I mean, yeah, I don't I don't know 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:00.600 what is required to become a police officer. You know obviously, 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:02.720 and you know the law, studying the law, but that's 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:06.000 all stuff they'll teach you. There's I don't know if 0:24:06.040 --> 0:24:08.439 watching law and orders is a good thing or a 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:10.880 bad thing, because I'm sure it's not like it's portrayed 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:13.200 in the TV show. There's probably a lot of law 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:16.760 enforcement officers listening. Comment below if you're watching on YouTube, 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:19.680 a comment below if you could help Landing out. I mean, 0:24:20.480 --> 0:24:24.159 I think it starts with get good grades. You know, 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:27.280 work hard. If you don't get your high school diploma. 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:29.399 If you fail out, you're not going to go to 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:32.960 the academy, right I'm assuming you're not going to get 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:35.280