1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: The Bible does not say that drinking is a bad thing. 2 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the podcast. Thank you 3 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: for being here with me. I am going through these 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: questions and I'm just I'm continually blown away by how 5 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: many people reach out to ask a question for this podcast, 6 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: and it's encouraging for me the wide variety of questions 7 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: that we get, and that allows me to pivot around. 8 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: As you can see on this table if you're watching, 9 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: I don't have any notes, I don't have any books. 10 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: I'm just walking through whatever comes to my mind, which 11 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: sometimes means that I might look back on some of 12 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: these episodes a year down the road, several months down 13 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: the road and go I would have answered that differently. Now, 14 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: if I had thought about it a little bit more, 15 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: I might have answered it differently. So take that with 16 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: a grain of salt. As I answered these questions, which 17 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: you could email me, by the way, podcast at grangersmith 18 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,839 Speaker 1: dot com. Podcast at grangersmith dot com. That's the email, 19 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: And as you email me, just keep in mind that 20 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 1: you're asking me as if you're just asking a friend. Hey, 21 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: I got a question for you. Could you could you 22 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: give me some advice? Can you tell me what you 23 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: would do in this situation. Maybe in all those instances 24 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about it. Like you and I 25 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 1: are just sitting in the cab of a truck, or 26 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: sitting around the campfire or hanging out on a porch 27 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: swing and it's like, hey, Granger, I got something going on. 28 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: Let me let me run it by you. And I'm 29 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: going to answer top of my head first thing that 30 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: comes to mind, walk it through as I would on 31 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: the fly with a friend. That's the basis of this podcast. 32 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: The first question I have says this, It's from Jamie 33 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: and it's a hello, Granger. If I may start up 34 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: by saying, how your YouTube videos and podcasts have been 35 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: such a blessing in my life. I've watched you evolve 36 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: and grow in this new season of life, and all 37 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: I could say is, Wow, look what the Lord has done. 38 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: Amen to that. In an episode of The Smiths, I 39 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: watched you prepare for a message and you chose not 40 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: to lead the Sinner's prayer. You said it's not biblical. 41 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: I think I understand your belief regarding this, but would 42 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: you mind elaborating on this. I would love to hear 43 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: your biblical perspective. Thank you, Jamie Wow. Was not expecting 44 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: that first question. So what she's talking about is, there 45 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: was an episode of The Smiths and that's our YouTube channel, 46 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: that's our family of log and sometimes a lot of 47 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: times it's completely off the cuff, and I'm going to 48 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,799 Speaker 1: take you on the adventures that my family go on. 49 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: And in this particular adventure, I was on a televangelist 50 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: show in Dallas. It's like the heart of televangelism, and 51 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: the guy says, and I actually had the camera sitting 52 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: on the table recording the whole converse, and he caught 53 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: me off guard by saying, after you finish your your 54 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: conversation with us, we're just going to interview you. After 55 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: we finished the conversation, I'd like you to lead everyone 56 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: in the Sinner's prayer. And I said, no, sir, I 57 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: don't want to do that, and he and this has 58 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: happened a couple of times to me where the person 59 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: will then say, oh, it's not that big a deal. 60 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: We could tell you what to say, and I'm like, 61 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: I know what you want me to say. It's not 62 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: that it's not a lack of me knowing what you 63 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: want me to say. Uh. And then this one guy 64 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: followed up by saying, well, brother, let me help increase 65 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: your faith. And it's like, Okay, that's not that either. 66 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: It's not me not knowing what to say. I know, 67 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: you know, I've heard Joel Olstein say it a thousand times. 68 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: And it's also not a lack of faith. It's not 69 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: like I need more faith or confidence or boldness to 70 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: be able to step out and say it's not It's 71 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: not either one of those. The reason I hesitate with 72 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: what we have called, now in modern evangelism, in the 73 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: last hundred years, what we have labeled as the Sinner's prayer, 74 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: which says something along the lines of repeat after me, 75 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, I am a sinner. I am 76 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: a sinner. I want you as my lord and savior. 77 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: I want you as my lord Savior. I want to 78 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: turn to you and give you my give you my everything. 79 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: I'm want to turn to you and do you my everything. 80 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: Come into my life and take my take my soul, 81 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,559 Speaker 1: take my life as yours taken what comes in Jesus name. Amen. 82 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: And then, like some people will say, if you just 83 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: repeated that prayer with me, then you are now a Christian, 84 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: you are reborn and so welcome to the family. And 85 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: so it's it's fascinating that we have gotten away with 86 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: this in modern evangelism in a way that we have 87 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: now created. Did this turnkey system where you just say this, 88 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: you set you repeat these words, these magical words like 89 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: genie in a bottle, and then suddenly you are granted 90 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: access to the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven because 91 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: you literally repeated a prayer which is not in the Bible. 92 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: There is not a time in the Bible or anybody 93 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: a prophet or an apostle or Jesus or a disciple 94 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: or an apprentice of an apostle. There is not a 95 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: time when someone says, repeat after me, say this, and 96 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: you'll be saved. That doesn't happen. And so it's scary 97 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 1: to me to put that kind of responsibility on me. 98 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: So why why why, Granger? Why does it matter? Like, 99 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: why do you if it's not in the Bible, but 100 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: it's still something that is helpful? Possibly, why would you 101 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: be against this? Granger? Maybe your question is because I 102 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,559 Speaker 1: don't want to be responsible. Is someone who who loves 103 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: the Lord and loves the lost and wants to speak 104 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: to those who were lost, and desperately wants people to 105 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: hear the gospel, and desperately wants people to realize their 106 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: own depravity and to be saved. Is someone who desperately 107 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: wants that and also knows that it's the Lord that 108 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: does it. It is the Lord that opens their hearts. 109 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: In fact, I'm preparing for a message right now. And 110 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 1: if you remember Lydia from Acts sixteen, when Paul and 111 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: Silas and Timothy and Luke go into Philippi and they 112 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: go to this they go next to this river. It's 113 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: just top of mind because I'm about to preach this. 114 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: They go to the next to this river, and it 115 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: says they they preached the gospel to the women there 116 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: at the riverside where they went to pray, and one 117 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: heard them, and the Lord opened her ears. To what 118 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: Paul was saying, the Lord did it. The Lord turned her, 119 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: The Lord opened her ears, the Lord opened her heart. 120 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: Salvation belongs to the Lord, the Bible says. So I 121 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: don't want to manipulate that the Lord's power in salvation 122 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: and snipulate it and say you are congratulations, welcome to 123 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: the family, You're saved. Here's the keys of the Kingdom 124 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: of Heaven, have fun, enjoy yourself. I hear there's good 125 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: bass fishing here. I don't want to do that and 126 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: then give them a false sense of assurance so that 127 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: then they could just go live their lives and go. Yeah, 128 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: I checked the box. I remember one time with Granger, 129 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: I checked the box. He asked me to repeat a prayer, 130 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: and I repeated it. So I'm good on the religious thing. 131 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: What else does life have to offer? Because I got that? 132 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: What else could I do? That is scary to me? 133 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: And I don't want that responsibility. So Jesus, in his 134 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: great commission, told the disciples to go forth to all 135 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: nations preaching the gospel, teaching them to obey everything that 136 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:49,559 Speaker 1: he said, making disciples, which really means walking through life 137 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: with them. So it's not just one prayer done, Maam, 138 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: we're good. It's a walk. It's a lifelong walk to 139 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 1: make disciples, to show them, to reveal to them the Gospel. 140 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: And that's that's why I don't. I don't. That's why 141 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: I don't agree with the sinner's prayer. I don't. I 142 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: don't judge or look down on people that do it. 143 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't I just don't want to be 144 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: the one responsible going, yeah, I gave that person a 145 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: false sense of assurance. So instead, I want to preach 146 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: the gospel and let the word, the gospel itself, do 147 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: its work through people through hearing, and then I want 148 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: to walk through that. I want to say, let me 149 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: just let me walk through life with you. Let me 150 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: continue to answer questions like on this podcast. Let's continue 151 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: this journey together so that I could learn with you. 152 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: We could learn together as we walk down this road. 153 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: And that's why I don't look down on people that 154 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: ask for people to repeat the sinner's prayer. But I 155 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: just don't want to do it. Look look at it 156 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: this way. If someone if a man committed adultry on 157 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: his wife and you came to him and said, look, 158 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: we could make this right with your wife. Follow me, 159 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: we'll go. We're gonna go talk to her. And you 160 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: go to her house and she answers the door and 161 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: you say, hey, we're here to tell you something. Ma'am. 162 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: Repeat after me, wife, wife, I am I have messed up. 163 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 1: I have messed up. I am so sorry that I 164 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: have done this to you. I'm so sorry I've done 165 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: this to you. Forgive me for what I've done, and 166 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: come into my life as my wife, forgive me for 167 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: what I've done, come to my life. Okay, great, congratulations, 168 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: you guys are good. You see that. That's that's what 169 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: it feels like to me to say the sinner's prayer 170 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: to Jesus. It's like, no, that wasn't that. There was 171 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: no heart to that. There could be Okay, let me 172 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 1: say that to let me let me just drag this 173 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: question out a little bit longer. There could be hard 174 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: to and people could genuinely be saved through that at 175 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: an alter, at some service that someone might have done this. 176 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: In fact, I know people listening were saved through something 177 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 1: like that, so absolutely it could happen. It could, but 178 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to be responsible for those that it 179 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 1: tricked them into thinking that it was and it wasn't, 180 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. For instance, if I take 181 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: the guy to the house, so to the guy to 182 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: the wife's house and we say it, he could mean 183 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: it and she could take him back, but it also 184 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: just as likely could be not sincere at all and 185 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: she doesn't take him back and he doesn't even mean it. 186 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: That's why it's a good question. I appreciate you asking, 187 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: and I'm sorry that I drug it out just a 188 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: little bit. 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Also, I have friends that enjoy casual drinking 232 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 1: and I can't help but getting internally upset or uncomfortable 233 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: with it. Any thoughts or advice would be great. Thank you. 234 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: This comes from John, twenty years old from Illinois. Yeah, man, 235 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: thanks thanks for the email. John. So, first of all, 236 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 1: underage drinking twenty and below is illegal in most places 237 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: in Illinois at least, so there's that we could start 238 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: with that, but that's not what you were asking. And 239 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: that's surely not to say that I didn't do it 240 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: when I was twenty sure, Okay, so let's get that 241 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: out of the way. What are your thoughts on alcohol 242 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: and the culture of getting tipsy drunk being a good thing? 243 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: That's an interesting question that the way that you worded it, 244 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on getting drunk as being a 245 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 1: good thing? The Bible says that's not a good thing, right, 246 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: so we'll just we can go right to it there. 247 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 1: The Bible does not say that drinking is a bad thing. 248 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:17,439 Speaker 1: It says that getting drunk is getting tipsy is numbing 249 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: yourself is by any means, not just alcohol. Could we 250 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: could use this with anything, any substance at all, and 251 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: including caffeine if you're using it in that way, if 252 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: you're using caffeine in a way to forget or to 253 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: numb a feeling, or to dull your senses in a way. 254 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: I'm just using that as an extreme example. But anything 255 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,479 Speaker 1: used in that kind of addictive manner to to habitually 256 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: forget or numb, or dull or or soften the realities 257 00:14:53,080 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: of the world is a sin. That we could go 258 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: deep into that, but we probably shouldn't. I think that's 259 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: pretty clear. I think it's clear if you followed me 260 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: in my life. A lot of you have followed me 261 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: for many years, it's clear that it took me a 262 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: long time to see that. But not in a legalistic way, 263 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: not an moralistic way, like, hey, you do that, you're 264 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: going to hell. It's not what I'm saying at all. 265 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: I'm saying, when you become a Christian, when you have 266 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: new eyes to see, you should start hating things that 267 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: God hates. Does that make sense? So instead of just 268 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: saying alcohol is bad, forget it, You're going to hell 269 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: of you. I'm not saying that. I'm saying a good fruit, 270 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: a good outcropping overflow of an evidence of a saving 271 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: faith should be that you start to see things that 272 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: the Bible says is defeating to you, is corrupting to you. 273 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: You should start seeing those things more and more, maybe gradually, 274 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: sometimes all at once, sometimes you wake up all at once, 275 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: but you start. You should start seeing them as things 276 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: that you want to rid yourself from. And you don't 277 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: necessarily because none of us are perfect, so you don't 278 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: necessarily rid all of it at once. But you the 279 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: desire that I believe is God breathed into you starts 280 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: begins to cultivate, a rejection of things that the Bible hates. You. Go, man, 281 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: I just I used to like drinking. I used to 282 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: hang out with my buddies, And this is a this 283 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: is real for me. I used to hang out, used 284 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: to used to enjoy it. And slowly, as I became sanctified, 285 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: which that's what that word means, we start to be 286 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: made new. We start to be made clean and renewed 287 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: in the image of Christ, our King, our creator. Once 288 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: we're a slave to sin, and then we become a 289 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: slave to Christ. And so as we once we're like sin, 290 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: we looked like sin, we smelled like sin, we tasted 291 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: like sin, and then we were reborn from Christ through Christ. 292 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,719 Speaker 1: By Christ, through the Spirit, we become more like Him. 293 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: We start looking and smelling and tasting more like Him. 294 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: And as that happens, that process that's shedding away, it's 295 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 1: called sanctification, and we start to look at the old self, 296 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: the old slave that we were to sin, and we 297 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: go I don't like the taste of that anymore, metaphorically 298 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 1: or physically. With alcohol, I don't like the taste anymore. 299 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: Not that it's bad to have a drink, a glass 300 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: of wine, a mixed drink with your wife on her birthday, 301 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: things like that, not that that's wrong, but it is 302 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: wrong to get drunk. And so when you start having 303 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,719 Speaker 1: two or three or four more, you start getting close 304 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 1: to this danger zone. Why risk it? Because I'm in 305 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: seminary right now and Amber is as well, have any 306 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 1: So there's that, And if I continue on this path, 307 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: it's been over a year now since I've had just 308 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: even a drop of alcohol. Once again, not legalistic, not moralistic. 309 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: I'm not pushing any kind of moralism on anybody. I'm 310 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: just saying that's where I am, that's where I stand, 311 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: and you've probably have noticed that over the course of 312 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 1: years as my conversion to Christianity has been very public. 313 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: Let me get to the second part of your question here. 314 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: I have friends that enjoy casual drinking and I can't 315 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: help getting internally upset or uncomfortable with it. Stop that. 316 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 1: Stop that. That's when you're getting legalistic and you're pushing 317 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 1: moralism on them. If you are truly reborn, if you 318 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: are a Christian, if you are a believer, if you 319 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: are saved by the blood of Christ, then that's you. 320 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: You are now what the Bible would metaphorically call a sheep, 321 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 1: and if you're not, you're metaphorically called a goat. So 322 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: don't try to tell goats how to be a sheep. 323 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: Don't force sheepism on a goat because it doesn't make 324 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: sense to them. It just comes across as judgy, right, 325 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: So don't do that. Instead, we tell him the Gospel. 326 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: We tell him, we tell him how we were saved, 327 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: We tell him what God did for us, what we 328 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,239 Speaker 1: tell him the beauty of the Gospel. We tell him 329 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: that we were covered, that our that our guilt is covered, 330 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 1: our our shame, our sin is forgotten by God, remembered 331 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: no more. But not because of anything we did, not 332 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: because we stopped drinking alcohol, but because what He did 333 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,879 Speaker 1: for us. And in gratitude for that kind of that 334 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: kind of saving grace, that saving faith that is gifted 335 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: to us from gratitude, we then look back and go, 336 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: I am so thankful for what he did. I don't 337 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 1: want to touch that alcohol. I don't want to I 338 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: don't want to do that. I used to do it, 339 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: I don't want to do it anymore. So you see, 340 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 1: there's a difference between that what I just said, I 341 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: keep hitting this microphone what I just said, and then 342 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 1: a difference between telling your friends, Hey, y'all shouldn't be 343 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: drinking that alcohol. Many y'all shouldn't be getting drunk. The 344 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: Bible says, don't get drunk. Play very safe with that. 345 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: Don't try to tell goats how to be sheep. Instead, 346 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 1: tell the goats about God, tell them about the Gospel, 347 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: tell them what Jesus did on the cross, and let 348 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: him drink while you're doing it. Let them drink while 349 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: you're doing it. Now, if they're saved, if they are 350 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: believers and they're getting drunk and they're in your church. 351 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: Now you have a right at this point to say, brothers, brothers, listen, 352 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: you're in sin. Right now, bring other people from the 353 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: church with you. Brothers, you're in sin. Let us help you, 354 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: let us encourage you, let us walk you out of this. Right. 355 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: Hopefully I painted that picture in a way that sounds 356 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: biblical and sounds not humanly universally. Judgee right, Thanks for 357 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 1: the question, John. Next question here is from Lindsey, and 358 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: she says, Hey, Graandar. My name is Lindsay from Oklahoma City. 359 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: Love listening to your podcast every week and keeping up 360 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: with the Smiths on YouTube. I'm a follower of Jesus 361 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 1: and truly believe he is our sole provider and everything 362 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: happens within our lives according to his plan. I'm curious 363 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: what your thoughts are on manifestation. I feel like a 364 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: common idea I hear on other podcasts and social media 365 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: recently is that the idea of manifesting it into existence. 366 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: If you want something bad enough, or desire something to 367 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: happen in your life, all you have to do is 368 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,479 Speaker 1: manifest it or speak it into existence. This has been 369 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: on my mind recently, and I would love to know 370 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: your thoughts on this idea. Do you believe it's possible 371 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 1: to manifest something into existence? Thank you for reading this, 372 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: look forward to hearing your response. Lindsay, Hey Lindsay, thanks 373 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: for the great question. I appreciate you and I too, 374 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: hear a lot about this and I absolutely believe in 375 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: speaking something into existence. I absolutely believe in manifesting one 376 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 1: hundred percent because Genesis one says it happens. God spoke 377 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 1: it into existence. He spoke his word, and he spoke 378 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: creation from nothing x neilio is what it's in Latin. 379 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: X neilio means it came from nothing. He created from 380 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: nothing with his word. He spoke and it happened. There 381 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: was there was chaos, then there was order. There was nothing, 382 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: then there was something. He spoke it. He manifested it 383 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: just from a word. It's amazing. Can we do it? No, 384 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: we cannot do that. No, that's a joke, Absolutely not. 385 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: There is a that is a joke. To think that 386 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: anyone says I want to manifest it into existence like 387 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: it it didn't happen, and then you speak it and 388 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: it does is horrible philosophy. And and I think you 389 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: could just better. It's better just to sum up that 390 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: idea with work, hard work, ethic, work for it. Go 391 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: get it. Don't don't say you're gonna manifest it. You're 392 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: gonna like you're like you're a little god, lowercase G. 393 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: You're just gonna create something by speaking into existence. No, 394 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna look at a You're gonna look 395 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: at a piece of property that you want little farm 396 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: and you go, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna work. I'm 397 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 1: gonna work for this piece of property and I'm gonna 398 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: build a farmhouse on this property. Not because I'm speaking 399 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,360 Speaker 1: it into existence or manifesting it. But I'm gonna start 400 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: slowly saving some money. I'm gonna work a second job, 401 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: i might pick up a third job. I'm gonna make 402 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: some smart investments. I'm gonna stay smart with my funding. 403 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna sell that expensive pickup truck and get a 404 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: cheaper one, and I'm gonna slowly save and slowly put away, 405 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: and then when the time comes, I'll be able to 406 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 1: buy that property. And then i'm gonna start talking to 407 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: some builders and we're gonna create a budget, and I'm 408 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 1: gonna work hard, and then we're gonna start building a house. 409 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: Not because I'm manifesting or speaking into existence, but because 410 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: I'm made a plan. And I talked to an advisor 411 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: and a banker and a CPA, and I covered it 412 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: all in prayer, and I said, Lord, if this is 413 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: your will for me to be on this property and 414 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: build a home here, give me the desire for that. 415 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,119 Speaker 1: Open the doors that we need to walk through, and 416 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: close the ones that we don't. Right, So you put 417 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 1: all the trust in him and then you work your 418 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: butt off, and that's how you get it, or that's 419 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: how you don't get it. Either way, it's in the 420 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: Lord's hands. We prepare the horse for battle, but victory 421 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: belongs to the Lord. The Bible says, trust in Him 422 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: and work hard and forget about manifesting all right. Next 423 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: question is from anonymous. It says, Hey, Grangeer. First off, 424 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: I just wanted to say I enjoy listening to your podcast, 425 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: as you've answered some questions I've always wondered about. I 426 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: feel closer to the Lord now because of it. Praise 427 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: God for that. My question involves raising my kids. I 428 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: have friends who don't allow their kids to watch Disney 429 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 1: movies such as Princess Ones because they involve witches and magic. I, however, 430 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,479 Speaker 1: let my kids watch them, but still teach them that 431 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 1: magic is not real or that witches are real, and 432 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: I tell them that God doesn't like those things. So 433 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: to me, I feel like my friends are my friends 434 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: not letting them watch those movies, are sheltering their children 435 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: from learning what is right and wrong. It's just a 436 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: little kid's movie. You could teach them that it's okay 437 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,880 Speaker 1: to watch it, but remember that it's not real life. 438 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 1: I get annoyed when I see people letting their kids 439 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: wear the dress up clothes for the movie, yet can't 440 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: watch the movie itself. Am I wrong in feeling this way? Okay? 441 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: Thanks Anonymous, Thanks for the email. Brother, Yeah, this is 442 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 1: It's kind of kind of okay that you're worried. It's 443 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 1: bothering you that other others and sisters in Christ are 444 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: being are raising their kids in a certain way apart 445 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: from you, and you have to understand, and I don't 446 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 1: want to go too deep into this, but you have 447 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: to understand that everyone is going to raise their kids 448 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: the way that they feel is right, the way they're convicted, 449 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: but that also shouldn't let it bother you. So, for instance, 450 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: take the question about alcohol a few questions ago on 451 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: this podcast. That's like saying, Look, I've got a brother 452 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: from church and he doesn't drink at all, alcohol at all, 453 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: and I like to have a glass of wine on 454 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: the porch swing with my wife on Friday nights, and 455 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: he doesn't. And I'm sick and tired of him living 456 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,679 Speaker 1: this life of not drinking and now can acting like 457 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 1: he's better than me. Right, that's kind of what you're 458 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: saying about this. Hey, I'm sick and tired of these 459 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: families not allowing them to watch Disney movies like they're 460 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: all up, and he taking the moral high ground and 461 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: looking down on me down here because I let my 462 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 1: kids watch princess movies and I tell them that magic 463 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 1: is not real and witches are not real and God 464 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: doesn't like those things. Brother, if that's what you want 465 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: to do, that's how you want to raise your kids, 466 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: then go with it. But don't worry about what the 467 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 1: guy down the street's doing. He's raising his kids the 468 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 1: best way he knows. How. You're raising your kids, Lord Willen, 469 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: the best way you know how. I don't see a 470 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 1: problem either way. I don't know on this podcast. If 471 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: you want me to say I agree with them Disney 472 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: is bad, or I agree with you forget all those 473 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: people Disney's good. I'm not going to take either one 474 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: of those positions. I'm just gonna say, let people be 475 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: convicted on their in their own sanctification that word we 476 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: talked about earlier. Let people be convicted on their own 477 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 1: and live a life that makes Jesus look fantastic. That's 478 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: our purpose. Live a life glorifying God, meaning live a 479 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: life that makes Jesus look as magnificent as he is. 480 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: And the result of doing that. One of the results, 481 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: I should say, not the result. One of the outcroppings 482 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: of that is you feel joy, You don't worry, you're 483 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: not anxious about how your neighbor is raising a kid. 484 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 1: Not that you are, but I want to kind of 485 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: put that barrier up before it gets to that point, 486 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: because those kind of things could start kind of kind 487 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: of disintegrating the friendship that you might have built up. Okay, 488 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: next question comes from Stephanie, and she says, I have 489 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: a question about the new Heaven and New Earth. My 490 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: understanding that is, once Jesus returns, we will be welcome 491 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: into our heavenly home to live with our Father. I'm 492 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: assuming at that point we will be made perfect without 493 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: any evil desires, jealousy, etc. But can we be assured 494 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: that there will never be another fallen angel that turns 495 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: out to be evil like Satan did? Was the first 496 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 1: heaven imperfect to allow such a being to come into existence? 497 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,479 Speaker 1: Where in the Bible does it assure us that this 498 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: will never happen again? Thanks for all you do, Stephanie. Stephanie, 499 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: good question. Thank you for it. And I don't have 500 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 1: any notes in front of me or a Bible in 501 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: front of me for stuff like this, but I could 502 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: still answer the question without that. What we have to 503 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: understand is that God's plan did not fail. Let's start there. 504 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: God's plan when he breathed and spoke existence right, spoke 505 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: the universe into existence, the heavens and the earth in 506 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 1: Genesis one. There was not a problem with that. There 507 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: was not a Oh No, I accidentally made it imperfect, 508 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: and then Satan and his hooligans wrecked it and went 509 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: down there to the garden and then screwed up Adam 510 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: and even oh Man. So hopefully the next one I 511 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: build the new one will be perfect and won't have 512 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,959 Speaker 1: that problem. That's an incorrect idea of who God is. 513 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: What we know is revealed in the Bible, and I 514 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: don't have to have it in front of me to 515 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: give you specific examples. I could tell you through sixty 516 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: six books, through the whole Council of God, that what's 517 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: revealed to us is He is providential, he is sovereign, 518 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: he is all planning, and from the beginning of time, 519 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: this was part of the plan. Even the fall, Jesus 520 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:51,959 Speaker 1: going to the cross as a substitute for sin, that 521 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: was part of a plan. So the fall leading up 522 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 1: to the sacrifice on the cross at Calvin by the 523 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: sacrificial lamb, the son of God, Jesus, the fall and 524 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: everything leading to that was all part of the plan, 525 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 1: and redemption was all part of the solution to the 526 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 1: original plan and the redemption that Jesus accomplished for us. 527 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: When he says it is finished Teedleste, it is finished. 528 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: When he says that, it means done, accomplished. Plan was made, 529 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: it was carried out, and it was finished accomplished. There 530 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: will not be another fall. There will not be any 531 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: kind of fallen angel or corruption ever again. In the 532 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: new heavens, the new Earth, all of that is finished. 533 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: So take it as what Jesus says from the cross, 534 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: it is finished. Take that as your assurance that what 535 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: has happened before that, and the fallen angels and all 536 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: this stuff you're talking about was supposed to be. Think 537 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: about that. Dwell on that, but not too long, and 538 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: then go back to the Gospel and look at what 539 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: that blood from Jesus accomplished for you in your belief 540 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: for him, so that he could reconcile you a sinner, 541 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: a rebel, just like the fallen angels, reconciled back to himself, 542 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: so you could be with God, the creator, the one 543 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: that breathed everything, everything into existence. Dwell on that. Think 544 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: about that. That'll fill you with so much excitement and 545 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: so much joy and so much gratitude as you'll start 546 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: thinking about, Oh, I wonder if God's gonna let us 547 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 1: down in heaven and angels might fall again. Don't worry 548 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: about that. It's a good question, though, please don't think 549 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: of don't think of my answer as being is making 550 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 1: yours sound like a not a good question. Next one's 551 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: anonymous and says, I am twenty years old and I 552 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: live in Canada, and in the next week I will 553 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: be asking my girlfriend of almost two years to marry me. 554 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: This is a huge step and I'm so excited, But 555 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 1: I have a problem. Ever since I've made the official 556 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: decision to ask her, I seem to notice other women 557 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: around me more like I see a random girl and 558 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: instantly I'm attracted to the way she looks. I try 559 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 1: to keep reminding myself that the girl I have is 560 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: so much more than I even deserve, but that doesn't 561 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,239 Speaker 1: get rid of the thoughts. There's nothing wrong in my 562 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: current relationship that should make me want something different. My 563 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 1: girlfriend is beautiful and God honoring. Do you think this 564 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 1: is temptations from Satan to sidetrack our goal of having 565 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: a biblical covenantal marriage? And do you have any suggestions 566 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 1: on what to do? Is prayer the way out? Just 567 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: looking for your thoughts. Thanks, that's so interesting, Anonymous. It's 568 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,160 Speaker 1: a good question, brother. I appreciate you asking, and I'm 569 00:33:55,160 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: not laughing at you. I'm joining you in all of it, 570 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 1: listing going yep, that sounds that sounds right on track. 571 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: First of all, you say, do you think this temptation 572 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: is from Satan to sidetrack our goal of having a 573 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: biblical covenantal marriage. Well, I'll say absolutely, that's not that's 574 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 1: not a far off assumption at all. Because Satan hates marriage. 575 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,879 Speaker 1: He hates the love of a man and a woman 576 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: in a in a biblical marriage. He hates that. So 577 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: of course he's gonna do everything he can to sidetrack it, 578 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,839 Speaker 1: to destroy it. I think there's also so there is that, 579 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 1: and I think through that you're also just feeling a 580 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:43,239 Speaker 1: bit of human panic that now you're gonna all of 581 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,839 Speaker 1: a sudden be with one woman the rest of your life, 582 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 1: and you it is now a problem for you to 583 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 1: be attracted to others in that kind of way, because 584 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 1: you're gonna have a wondering eye and there is no 585 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: way out of it forever. So I think there's just 586 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 1: a natural feeling you're going through. And if you asked 587 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: her to marry you, I believe a couple of things. One, 588 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: I believe this is a natural feeling that you're now 589 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:13,479 Speaker 1: looking at other girls and going, oh, she's cute. Look, 590 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,760 Speaker 1: It's kind of like when you go buy a truck 591 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:22,839 Speaker 1: at a dealership and hypothetically you drive off of the lot, 592 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: and as soon as you sign that contract at the 593 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: dealership to drive off with that truck, there is a 594 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: buyer's remorse that comes along with it, and part of 595 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: the buyer's remorse is, oh, man, I'm stuck with this truck. 596 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, I love this truck and 597 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 1: it drives great, and I worked hard to earn money 598 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: for this truck, and this is the truck I researched 599 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,800 Speaker 1: over and over, and this is the one I wanted, 600 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 1: but it's the only one I get. And you look around, 601 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 1: you go as you're driving out of the dealership, and 602 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: you see other trucks, and then you go to the 603 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,319 Speaker 1: first stop light, and right right across from you and 604 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 1: the other stop another truck pulls up. It's a different color. 605 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 1: The one you're driving's blue, and you see a red one. 606 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,839 Speaker 1: And you haven't quite seen that red color. In fact, 607 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: in all of your research and everything you did to 608 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,880 Speaker 1: buy that truck, you hadn't really thought about red like 609 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: that because that dealership didn't have red ones. It only 610 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 1: had blue and gray, silver and black and white. But 611 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: you haven't quite seen red. And there's a red one. 612 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 1: And then your heart starts beating and you go, Man, 613 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: did I do that? It make a wrong decision? It 614 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I'm stuck. I already signed the paper. The 615 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,480 Speaker 1: contract is done. I have this blue truck and that 616 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,240 Speaker 1: red truck is beautiful, and I'll never get it. Okay. 617 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 1: So that's all analogies break down eventually. So that's not 618 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,759 Speaker 1: a great analogy, but it's a little bit of the 619 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,920 Speaker 1: human feeling that you have when you get engaged. So 620 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,120 Speaker 1: I'm qualifying that. I'm saying, Okay, your feeling is normal. 621 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 1: But then I'm gonna say this. Here's the second thing. 622 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:57,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, kill it. You have, through the Gospel 623 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,680 Speaker 1: as a Christian, a god and able ability to kill it, 624 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 1: to kill sin, to destroy it, to pull it out 625 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,840 Speaker 1: from its root and throw it away into the fire. 626 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,960 Speaker 1: You have that ability. Don't deny the idea that the 627 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,880 Speaker 1: Bible tells you. You have the ability to pluck that 628 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: sin out from the root and throw it out before 629 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:21,400 Speaker 1: it grows any further. And here's my assurance to you 630 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 1: that as you do pluck that sin out and you 631 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,200 Speaker 1: realize that it's natural, there's a human tendency, there's nothing 632 00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 1: wrong with you besides your sinner. Like we all are, 633 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: but there's nothing different about you. So you pluck the 634 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: root out that the weed, and you throw it away 635 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,400 Speaker 1: from the root, and you throw it in the fire, 636 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,400 Speaker 1: and you continue to move in. My assurance to you 637 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,799 Speaker 1: is that as you walk down the road with your 638 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 1: new wife, with your blue truck, as you continue down 639 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,960 Speaker 1: this road, and then she has your first child, Lord willing, 640 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,000 Speaker 1: and you go through some problems and you make your 641 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 1: way out on the other side. And then Lord Willing, 642 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 1: yet you have another child, and then you work through 643 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 1: some other problems. Maybe somebody in the family gets sick, 644 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,960 Speaker 1: maybe your dad, And then you work through that side 645 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,600 Speaker 1: by side, way through wife, and you come out on 646 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,919 Speaker 1: the other side, and you continue every time. You walk 647 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 1: through these trials, and you walk through these joyful moments, 648 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,279 Speaker 1: and you build these memories and you have you have 649 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 1: Christmas mornings together, and you you stand side by side 650 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,719 Speaker 1: at funerals, and you hold hands at someone else's wedding, 651 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: and you remember your own as that happens, and you 652 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 1: walk through life like this, your love grows and grows 653 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 1: and grows, and in a way that a bond that 654 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,080 Speaker 1: grows so much in a way that you don't even 655 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 1: think about that red truck anymore. It's like that's somebody 656 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,360 Speaker 1: else's truck, and they might enjoy that truck, But I 657 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,839 Speaker 1: have gone through the fire with this blue one, right 658 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 1: That's what happens. That's my assurance to you is that 659 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,920 Speaker 1: the love you have right now is great, but it 660 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:59,759 Speaker 1: will grow and deepen and thicken and strengthen through life 661 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,080 Speaker 1: as you walk it together with her. So pluck it 662 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,400 Speaker 1: at the route, get rid of it. Know that it's normal, 663 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,200 Speaker 1: and also know that you have an assurance that as 664 00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,040 Speaker 1: you walk with her, it's going to be it's going 665 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:15,200 Speaker 1: to be better and better and better. I appreciate the question, ch'all, 666 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:19,760 Speaker 1: and this has been a fun adventure because you email 667 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,080 Speaker 1: me podcast at grangersmith dot com at Man my producer 668 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,799 Speaker 1: who also produces After Midnight with granger Smith, my radio show. 669 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,040 Speaker 1: He sources these questions and throws them into a file 670 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,480 Speaker 1: so I do not see them as I sit here 671 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: and read these. This is the first time that I've 672 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,440 Speaker 1: seen any of these questions today. Because I want you 673 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,400 Speaker 1: to get I want you to hear and feel and 674 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,880 Speaker 1: see and listen to my instant reaction to the question 675 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,040 Speaker 1: the same as you as you're taking it in for 676 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,160 Speaker 1: the very first time as well. So that's what this 677 00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,879 Speaker 1: podcast is. I hope you enjoy it. We have new 678 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,799 Speaker 1: things that we're going to kind of spin into this 679 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 1: into the future, so hang with us and share it 680 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,919 Speaker 1: with a friend if you can. I love you, guys, 681 00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,640 Speaker 1: and thanks for being here. See you next Monday. E 682 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,239 Speaker 1: thanks for joining me on the Grangersmith podcast. 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