1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: Does it make me selfish for wanting him back down 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: here with us. What's up, guys, Welcome back to the podcast, 3 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: episode two hundred and one, and thank you for being here. 4 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: I've got a I'm actually sitting almost exactly in the 5 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: same spot that I have been sitting for about one 6 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 1: hundred episodes or more, but I'm turned a little bit. 7 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: So if you're watching this on YouTube or other apps 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: that allows you to watch the podcast, I've been messing 9 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 1: around today with a different setup. I'm like, ah, you 10 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: know what, two hundred plus episodes, Maybe I'll change the 11 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: setting around a little bit. Maybe I'll change the scenery 12 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: around just a little bit. So comment below, especially if 13 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: you're on YouTube. Comment below, say I like the new setup, 14 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: or come on, man, I missed the old setup, which 15 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: is literally just turning everything this direction. The wall on 16 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: my left is usually straight behind me. Awesome. Yeah, yeah, 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: So trying some new things, trying to change it up 18 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: a little bit, and I like it. I'm actually comfortable. 19 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: I'm in a more comfortable chair, So that's good. What 20 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: I do on this podcast. If you're new here is 21 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:26,919 Speaker 1: I answer your questions. You email me Granger Smith Podcast 22 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. And I answered them. Now, lately, 23 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: I've been talking about my book Like a River, which 24 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: came out on August first, and just been so encouraged 25 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: by so many people getting that book and either listening 26 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: to the audiobook or are reading on Kendle or the 27 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: hardcover itself, and so much so that we've had a 28 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: supply chain issue for a second. We're back doing great again. 29 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: Amazon's like on a two day delivery like normal. But 30 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: for a while there was like a four day period 31 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: where Amazon was out of books. So the publishers getting 32 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: them books because they just they went out faster than 33 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: people thought. Yeah, praise God for that, and praise God 34 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: for so many listeners that are that are hungry for 35 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: a book like that, a book that helps navigate grief 36 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:21,239 Speaker 1: and loss and suffering in a way where you know 37 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: that there is there's hope, and there's joy, and there's 38 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: peace and there's rest and there's purpose on the other 39 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: side of that kind of pain. So I say that 40 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: to introduce a different kind of questioning. We're still the 41 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: same old podcast, but I'm almost encouraging questions from the 42 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: book itself because I think it's it's only appropriate that 43 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: if anyone reads the book and they think, oh, I've 44 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: got I've got a question about that, Or there's something 45 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: he said in there, there's a certain line he said, 46 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: or or how does he know that's biblical? Like he 47 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: said that, but how does he know that's right? Or 48 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: is that just his opinion. If you want to ask 49 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: those kind of questions, certainly that's great. Grangersmith Podcast at 50 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,399 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Or if you just want to ask 51 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: a question about something else, like you know, a relationship 52 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: or a work issue, I'm gonna answer it like I'm 53 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: sitting in a comfy chair, sitting with you in the 54 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: living room and we're just walking through something, you know, 55 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 1: two buddies in the cab of a truck, two people 56 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: sitting around a campfire, and you say, hey, may can 57 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: I run something by you? Well, that's how we're gonna 58 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: that's how we're gonna talk about it. So let's jump in. 59 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: And the first question comes from Josh and the subject 60 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: line says advice. The email says, Hello Granger. I'm Josh. 61 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: Life has been rough this year. I lost my grandpa 62 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: back in March, and the night of this funeral, I 63 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: lost my uncle. Life hasn't been the same since I 64 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: lost my grandpa. He was my rock, my go to 65 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: person for everything, rather it be advice or just to talk. 66 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: We talked about everything day. We talked every day about everything. 67 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: Visited often. It seems like no matter what I do, 68 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: I can't seem to get over the bump in the 69 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: road to heal my losing him. I visit his gravesite often, 70 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: as often as I can. I know he's up in 71 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: heaven with my Grandma and my dad. Does it make 72 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: me selfish for wanting him back down here with us? 73 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 1: Any advice for me to help with this pain? Thanks 74 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: in advance. PS. I went to your show in Clearfield. 75 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: Was hands down the best concert I've ever been to. 76 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: Been following you for ten years. Josh, thank you, buddy, 77 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: and I'm so sorry about your grandpa. I didn't know 78 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: your grandpa, but you did, and you loved him, so 79 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: I say, I wish I could have known him. He 80 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: sounds like a great man. And it's not lost on 81 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: me that you also mentioned the fact that you've also 82 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: lost your dad, so I'm imagining that this is the 83 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 1: loss of your grandpa is also in a way stacked 84 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: on top of the loss of your dad, probably leaving 85 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: you as the head mail of your family, and if 86 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: you're anything like me. When that happened to me, at 87 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 1: being the oldest child and losing my dad in twenty fourteen, 88 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: already had lost my grandpa, I felt like an overwhelming 89 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 1: feeling of man, I didn't sign up for this, like 90 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: I didn't. I wasn't ready to be the head man 91 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: of the house, you know, I wasn't ready to beat 92 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 1: the patriarch, if you want to use that term. That's Dad. 93 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: He's still had a lot of time left in him. 94 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: And sometimes these these positions, these roles in our life, 95 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: are put on us when we don't feel qualified, and 96 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: we don't certainly don't feel ready, but nonetheless, here it is. 97 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: So what are you gonna do with it? This is 98 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: the hand that you were dealt. You have said here 99 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: that it's been within a year. I don't know the 100 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: time frame. No, you said, yeah, there is a time frame. 101 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: I lost my grandpa in March, then you lost your uncle, 102 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: so that it's been this is a recent email. So 103 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: this you know, it's been within the last four or 104 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: five six months that you have realized I am I'm 105 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: the head guy. Now. I want to tell you a 106 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: couple of things. The first thing I'm gonna tell you 107 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: first and foremost is whatever you're feeling right now, in 108 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: this time, you're still in the ground zero period, as 109 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: I call it. Whatever you're feeling right now is totally 110 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: norm what's okay? So you're like, man, I feel guilty, 111 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: I feel selfish, I feel sad, I feel I feel 112 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: like indifferent about everything. Whatever you're feeling is okay. You 113 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: have permission to feel whatever you want to feel because 114 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: you're in ground zero right now. If this was six, seven, 115 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: eight years down the road, I'd say, bro, we got 116 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: to talk about some things. You talk about these feelings 117 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: you're having right But that's not the case. This is 118 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: still recent. What is that March, April, May, June, July, August. 119 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: You're six months in Okay, you haven't gone through the 120 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: round of all the first yet. Like you're going to 121 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: have your first Thanksgiving coming up, that's a tough one. 122 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: First Christmas, your grandpa's birthday, your dad's birthday, the day 123 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: you lost him. That's a tough anniversary. So until you 124 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: get through, really through all of those, then it's still 125 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: not time to discuss the appropriate emotions that you're having 126 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: in response to this kind of grief. Okay. So first 127 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: I want to give you permission to say whatever you're 128 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: feeling is okay, and that includes let's get specific here, 129 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: that includes this feeling down here where you say, does 130 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: it make me selfish for wanting him back down here 131 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: with us? Okay? So you have permission to have a feeling, 132 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna include selfishness in that. But let's unpack that. 133 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: Let's unpack that I'm trying to see in here. If 134 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: there's a reference to God, if there's a reference to 135 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:48,439 Speaker 1: your faith, there's not, I don't think besides heaven. You 136 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: mentioned heaven. That doesn't do anything for me. No, you're 137 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: just curious. That doesn't mean anything. I'm just trying to 138 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: get a baseline here. What I want to do is 139 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: I want to talk about many times death in this situation, 140 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: specifically death, It opens up a longing within us that 141 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 1: we might not have recognized before. It gives us a 142 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: certain kind of home sickness. Right, and you've kind of 143 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: mentioned that with he's up there with Grandpa and grandma 144 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: and Dad. Well, that gives you a sense that, well, 145 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: I I'm not with my family anymore like Grandma, Uncle, Dad, Grandpa, 146 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: They're all in another place and I'm here, So I 147 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: feel disconnected from my family. And that, in a sense 148 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 1: gives you a feeling of homesickness, right, And it gives 149 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 1: you a yearning and a longing in a way that 150 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: you might not have felt before. And I'm going to 151 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 1: argue with with you that that's a good thing. It's 152 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: a good thing that you have this, this longing for home. 153 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: What does that do for you? Though? Like? Where does that? 154 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: Where does that drive you to? Does that drive you 155 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: to a feeling of resentment and stress and anxiety and 156 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: you're gonna going to go off the deep end and 157 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: get stuff out of your system and rebel against society? 158 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: Is that where you're going? Or are you saying I 159 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: have a longing for home, I have a longing for 160 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: this in your case, here in this email heaven where 161 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: I no longer feel at home. Here, I feel a 162 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: longing like I don't. This isn't my forever home. It's 163 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: what I would say in like a river of the book. 164 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: And so would that drive you to be a rebel? No, 165 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,559 Speaker 1: it would drive you to learn more about your creator, 166 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: to want to know who God is, as revealed in 167 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: the Bible and the scriptures, because the more you get 168 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: to know him, the more you get to know your Creator, 169 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: the more comfortable you are with your forever home, and 170 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 1: the more hope you have of being there with him, 171 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:19,559 Speaker 1: not with Grandpa and Dad, but with your Creator, the 172 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: giver of the gift. Like your dad and your grandpa 173 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: and your grandma and your uncle were gifts. Imagine being 174 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: with eternally, spending time with in the presence of the 175 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 1: giver of the gift. What I want this feeling, this 176 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: selfish feeling to do. What I want this selfish feeling 177 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: to eventually do is manifest itself into a hunger for 178 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: forever home, a hunger to drive yourself in a way 179 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: to appreciate what you have here in one sense, and 180 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 1: learn who your Creator is in another, so that you 181 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: can be connected with that feeling of this place, the 182 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: place that you know you do finally belong, and death 183 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: has the way of just uncovering that for us, and 184 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: it's amazing. So, Josh, you're in ground zero. Use this. 185 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: This is like this wind beneath your wings right, use 186 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: this wind to drive you to towards God, as revealed 187 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: in the Scriptures, As revealed in your local church and 188 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: not against him, because if you go against him and 189 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: you choose a different path of rebelling, you will feel 190 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: further and further from Grandpa and Dad and uncle. I 191 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: promise you, I promise you. Next question, subjectline says your 192 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: dad's old truck. Hey Granger, I'm a huge fan and 193 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: loving the book so far. Or I had a couple 194 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: of cries today. I started reading this morning and I 195 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: just can't put it down. Anyway, you talked about how 196 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: you rolled your dad's truck over. Then you mentioned that 197 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: the driver's door is missing. How did you do that? 198 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 1: Love the show and all your wisdom. God bless Justin 199 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: from Big Rapids Michigan. Never heard of Big Rapids. I've 200 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: heard a Grand Rapids Michigan, but never heard a Big 201 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: Rapids Michigan. That's interesting. Yeah, So for those of you 202 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: that might know Earl Dibbles, this is in all the 203 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: original Earl Dibbles music videos and the original Country Boy 204 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: Part one, Earl Dibbles is driving this pickup truck that's 205 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: missing a door and earle. You would think that Earl 206 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: made it famous, but actually it was my dad. As 207 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: I talked about in the book, like a river. It 208 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: was my dad that would drive this one door truck 209 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: with a rolled up you know, looked like a smash 210 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: coke can roof on this truck. And he would drive 211 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: it through town with no shame. That's just what he did, 212 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: and so people recognized him like there's the one door 213 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: truck guy, you know. And the truck itself wasn't pretty itself. Anyway, 214 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: I'll explain what happened. I rolled it over when I 215 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: was probably eighteen seventeen something like that, maybe sixteen, somewhere 216 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: around those three years. And I was ironically, I was 217 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: at Earl Devil's house, the house that we filmed in 218 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: front of, and we were cleaning that out. Tyler Parker 219 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: and I and I went down there with the truck. 220 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: We drove down there and it's a little bit on 221 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: a little bit of an incline and the truck is 222 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: a standard three in the tree and I put it 223 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: in neutral, didn't put the emergency brake on because it 224 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: wasn't moving, you know. I rolled up the house at 225 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: the bray, got out of the truck. It wasn't moving. 226 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: About thirty minutes later, a stiff breeze rolled in right 227 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: and kicks in the back of that truck a little bit, 228 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: just enough, just enough of an edge, and it starts 229 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: moving that truck. By the time I looked out of 230 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: the window of that old house, I saw the truck 231 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: just inching along, just barely moving down this dirt road. 232 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: I thought, whoops, ran out there. But by the time 233 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: I ran out to the porch, it had picked up 234 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: speed and it was going too fast for me to 235 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: catch it. And it went right into the fence, the 236 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: cattle fence, and that front left tire rolled up on 237 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: that cattle panel and it was like a little ramp 238 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: for it, and it just flipped it right on its top, 239 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: like slow motion. To me, because I'm running behind it, 240 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: I just see this truck flip and I thought, oh no, 241 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: what My first thought is, I gotta call Dad. I 242 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: don't want to call Dad, but I got to call him, 243 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: you know, that's the first thought. And I remember walking out. 244 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: You know. The first thing I did, of course, is 245 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: Tyler and Parker and I put our hands on the 246 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: side and try to try to possibly push it over. 247 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: That didn't work. I saw oil coming out of the 248 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: front grill, just dripping down. You know, trucks upside down, well, 249 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: we see these these linemen driving by these they're going 250 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: to fix it some kind of telephone pole. And they 251 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: had a truck with a big winch on it. Right 252 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: around this time. I go running out of there out 253 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: to the county road and to flag them down. And 254 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: then they stopped and they came over and and I 255 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: was like, hey, man, I flipped this truck. And they're 256 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: like you okay? Are you okay? Man? I was like, 257 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: I wasn't in it. Long story, I wasn't in it. 258 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: And they were like, yeah, we'll help you. So they 259 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: pulled that truck over there and hooked up the cable 260 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: to the bottom of it, and they said, man, this 261 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: winch will turn it over, but we can't guarantee that 262 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: by the time these wheels hit the ground it doesn't 263 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: just break the axles. And we're like, yeah, well, it's 264 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: too late for worrying about that now. So they hooked 265 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 1: it up and just as slow as they could, they 266 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: tilted that truck and just once it got to straight 267 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: up ninety degrees, it just started falling and went bam, 268 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: landed on all four tires, balanced a little bit blew 269 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: out of shock, but I didn't care, and it actually Uh, 270 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,719 Speaker 1: it started right up. The engine started right up. So 271 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: that was that. And then your question was you mentioned 272 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: the doors driver's door is missing, So that around that 273 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: same time, I had a little puppy in the back 274 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: of my truck, a little dog, and that dog was 275 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 1: in the bed of the truck when I was in 276 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: the barn and I was pulling out of the barn, 277 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: and I had the door open, the driver's side door open, 278 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: and that dog was jumping up and down, and I thought, Dad, 279 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: gumm it, I don't want this dog to jump out 280 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,239 Speaker 1: of the truck, and I'm gonna run over it, you know. 281 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: So I've got my head turned around and I'm looking 282 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: behind me as I'm backing out of the barn. Totally 283 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: forgot that the door was open, and that door just 284 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: just slowly bent into the barn, and I stopped real quick, 285 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 1: realized what I did, pulled forward. But then after that 286 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: the door the hinges were bent, and it was Anybody 287 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: that's ever seen anything like that knows that once you 288 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 1: bend those hinges it's near impossible to ever get it 289 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 1: back to the original shape again. So the door never 290 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: closed right. It always had a gap in it always 291 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,959 Speaker 1: had an air gap and water gap. So Dad just 292 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,360 Speaker 1: you know, he was mad at me, but he ended 293 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,640 Speaker 1: up just said, let's just take the door off. It'd 294 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: be much better. Instead of having this rattley door, we 295 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: might as well just take it off. So that's what 296 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 1: we did, and that's why the truck had the beat 297 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: up roof and the door missing. Take a break and 298 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: be right back podcast is brought to you guys by 299 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 1: d CX Conference. Let me tell you about it. It's 300 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: an intimate, in person, two day leadership conference held in Austin, Texas, 301 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: on October eleventh and twelfth. 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Email email me if you 338 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: want me to answer a question for you. Grangersmith Podcast 339 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. We've been talking a lot lately 340 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: about my book Like a River, and if you haven't 341 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: gotten a copy yet, you can find it wherever you 342 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: love to buy books, including Amazon, Barnes Andnoble dot com, 343 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 1: Barnes and Nobles physically in the store Walmart Walmart dot com. 344 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: I typically say, and I don't get any kickbacks or anything, 345 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: but I think Amazon is super easy because you could 346 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: order it and then it arrives in two days. A 347 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,919 Speaker 1: lot of people are listening to the audiobook, which is 348 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: cool to me. I'm the one that read it. Yes, 349 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: and a lot of people can get that knocked out 350 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: while they're driving to work and commutes. A couple commutes 351 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: and it's done. If you're a book person, you like 352 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 1: the paper pages, you could do that too. Let's get 353 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: to these emails Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com. First 354 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: question here on the second break subject, Cline says broken, 355 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: hurt people period Like a River. Email says, Wow, Granger, 356 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 1: your book was an amazing testimony. I binge read that 357 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: book in just two short sittings. I could relate so 358 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: much to the book. I've purchased five copies and I'm 359 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: passing them out to people I know that are struggling 360 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,679 Speaker 1: and hungry for purpose. Honestly, I feel like I'm going 361 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 1: to be buying more sooner than later. People are broken 362 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 1: and looking for an answer. Just want to say thank you, 363 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: thank you for your podcast, social media and yeeee ambassadors. 364 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: One person in particular, Lake Fulture shout out to her. 365 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: Between your platform and hers, something has flipped a switch 366 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: in my life. I want to help people give them 367 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: hope through God's word. My question is this is the 368 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: book you mentioned reading the Bible and researching everything you read. 369 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: What software or apps did you use for that? Oh? 370 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,719 Speaker 1: Hang on? In the book in Like a River, you 371 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: mentioned reading the Bible and researching everything you read. What 372 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: software or apps did you use for that? Looking forward 373 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: to seeing you preach in Columbus, Ohio. Okay, great, thank you, Drew. 374 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 1: They came from Drew, and he's talking about in my 375 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,919 Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in reading a Bible plan so 376 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 1: that so that you could read the Bible in context 377 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: and not necessarily in small quips from devotionals. I think 378 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: devotionals are fine as a supplementary spiritual pick me up, right, 379 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: but not to learn who God is, and not to 380 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: nourish you and fill your soul for what you need 381 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 1: in the scripture. Devotionals are not good for that. Okay, 382 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: let me say that one more time. Devotionals are great. 383 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 1: They're fantastic, and I would recommend you have one or 384 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: two or three. I'd recommend you still give one to 385 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: someone for Christmas that you like, Okay, but they are 386 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,679 Speaker 1: not for your They are if in terms of a meal, 387 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 1: they are more like an appetizer or a dessert. But 388 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 1: they should never be looked at as the main course 389 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: of the meal. They are not where you get your nourishment, 390 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Your nourishment's going to come from 391 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: reading the Bible, the Scripture in context. And so that's 392 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: why I advocate towards some kind of reading plan that 393 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: gets you working in context. What does that mean That 394 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 1: means you're not searching the Bible for one little line 395 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 1: or for one section about one subject. Instead, you're reading 396 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: the Bible as a whole so that you could learn 397 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 1: who God is. And you're like Granger, you always say 398 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:27,160 Speaker 1: stuff like that, Well, it's fundamental, the scriptures, the Holy Bible. 399 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: The reason we have that is not so that we 400 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: could we could learn what job to take next. It 401 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: is not so that we could learn which girl out 402 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: of the three we should marry. Okay, that the Bible 403 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 1: is in our possession so that we can instead learn 404 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: who God is. Why is that important? Because when you 405 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: learn who God is and you learn to love your career, 406 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 1: then you desire to imitate him and instead of needing 407 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: specific direction on specific things in life, instead, as you 408 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 1: learn to imitate him, you learn what choices he would like, 409 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: the choices he would make, the things he would love, 410 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: and the things he would hate. You learn that through 411 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: time with him, as you learn who He is in 412 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: the Bible itself. So take, for instance, a few questions ago, 413 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 1: we got a question about somebody that had lost their grandpa. Now, 414 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: somebody that loves their grandpa that much like they do. 415 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: In that question, I would assume that they know him 416 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: very well because they have spent so much time with him, right, 417 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: They have watched him, they've seen him interact with other people, 418 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,919 Speaker 1: they have had endless conversations with him, and they have 419 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 1: soaked that in so much, so much so that when 420 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 1: he's gone, when Grandpa's gone, you could then go to 421 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: a restaurant look to mean you and go, I know 422 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: what Grandpa would order. You could see a stranger on 423 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: the street doing something and you go, I know what 424 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: Grandpa would say to that stranger. You could be flipping 425 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 1: through selections of things to watch on YouTube and you go, 426 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: I know what Grandpa would think about this show. You 427 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 1: can see a comedian and go, I know Grandpa would 428 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 1: laugh at that or not. I know Grandpa wouldn't like 429 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: that joke at all. That's what happens when you spend 430 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: time with somebody. So that's the purpose of the Bible 431 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: is you learn who God is, as revealed in sixty 432 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: six books, in the entire narrative of the full cannon 433 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 1: of the Bible itself. You learn who God is in 434 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 1: the same way that a boy would learn as grandpa. 435 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,679 Speaker 1: So then you walk through life and you go, what 436 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 1: job should I take, well, I know I know what 437 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: God would think about this. What girl should I marry? 438 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: I know what God would think about this relationship? I 439 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 1: know what God would think about this. I know what 440 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,880 Speaker 1: God would want for me because I know oh him, 441 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: and I want to imitate him. I want to make 442 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: decisions like He would make. Right. So that's why I 443 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 1: advocate for reading it in context. If you read little 444 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: pieces and you cut them out and you take this example, 445 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: this life thing here, in this life example here, then 446 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: you're just you're you're taking specific instances and you're missing 447 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: out on the point. Okay, So that was not your question. 448 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: But your question is what do I use to read 449 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,880 Speaker 1: the Bible and to get my understanding of it through 450 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: the translations? Right? So I use an app called Lagos 451 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: l O g os and it is a fantastic app 452 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: for you could read the Bible if you're if you're 453 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: like you like the physical pages, great, absolutely, that's great. 454 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 1: I read something called the McShane plan and that gets 455 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 1: me through the New Testament twice, the Psalms twice in 456 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: the Old Testament once through a year. In fact, London 457 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: is doing it with me right now, and she's crushing it. 458 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: And Amber's doing it with me, and my pastor Marshall 459 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 1: at a Mais Church is doing it with me, and 460 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: my mom is doing it with me. I believe Parker 461 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: and Amy are doing it, and Tyler just started. So 462 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: there's a lot of people in my immediate circle that 463 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: are reading the McShane plan. You could switch translations. I'm 464 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: an ESV reader, but I do my devotional reading, which 465 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: means my reading plans. I change the translations every year. 466 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 1: So I've done n IV ESV. Right now I'm doing 467 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: the CSB, which is cool because on lagos you could 468 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: just switch the translation and you might see things that 469 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: you didn't see before. Certain things might stand out. Now 470 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: with logos, you could This is not sponsored by the way. 471 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: You could touch a word on the screen and it 472 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: pulls up the Greek or Hebrew, and it pulls up 473 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: the other translations. So I can go to translation comparison. 474 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 1: That's a page. I swiped to that, and I could 475 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: see the King James, I could see the NIV. I 476 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: could see all of the other translations. Boom, right there, 477 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: there's that verse and here's what the King James says. 478 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: And I can compare that and go, oh, I actually 479 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: understand it better now that now that I see the 480 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: King James for instance. That's that's an example. There's endless 481 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: commentaries and resources on the Logos app, so I love it. 482 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: I love that, and I've been doing that for about 483 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: three years now. So I hope that answers your question 484 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: and let me know if you you want to go 485 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: further on that next question. Subject CLIENTE says like a 486 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: River and struggling to surrender. Hi. I'm Randy from Red Bluff, California. 487 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 1: I'm thirty three and I have two little girls. One 488 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: will be five at the end of August and the 489 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: other two in November. My littlest always says cute baby 490 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: when Maverick is on the screen. I love watching the 491 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: Smiths and listening to your music. They love watching the 492 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: Smiths and listening to your music with me. I read 493 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 1: Like a River as soon as I finished, I went 494 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 1: back and listened to the audiobook while ordering four more 495 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 1: hard copies to share with family and friends. And I 496 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 1: need them to hear your messages. I cannot even begin 497 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: to describe how badly I needed to hear your messages myself. 498 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: While I haven't suffered from losing a child, I have 499 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: lost several close people in my life, some that went 500 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: too soon and two that were sick for too long, 501 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 1: So thank you for this book. My question for you 502 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: is about surrender. I've had the sobbing, choke choked, whisper 503 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: in a ball on the floor moments crying to Jesus 504 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 1: asking what to do and to help me figure out 505 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 1: what his purpose is for me. I've always felt so 506 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 1: lost and like I've been meant for greater things by 507 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: helping people in some way. But I have no idea how. 508 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: I've told no one about these moments or that I 509 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: feel this way because I have no plan to back 510 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: those thoughts up. I have felt incredibly pulled this year 511 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: to search for him and learn his word, But when 512 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: I read the Bible, I walk away with so many 513 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: questions and have trouble with surrendering to the certainty of 514 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 1: it all. I am new to this. I wasn't raised religious, 515 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: and my own husband and his family gave me grief 516 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: for even buying a Bible, calling me a Bible thumper. 517 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: I fell alone with whom I'm supposed to be supported 518 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 1: most by in my search for his love. That's a 519 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 1: capital age his love. How do you surrender when you've 520 00:32:54,720 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: had those not rock bottom but current. Let me read it, 521 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: how do you surrender when you've had those not rock 522 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: bottom but current take you under moments only to surface 523 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: for air filling, hungry to learn his love, yet confused 524 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: and a lot more lost than before. Sorry for the 525 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: link the email. Thanks so much for all you do 526 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 1: in your family. Much love, God blessed Randy. All Right, Randy, 527 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: A lot to unpack here. I want to start by saying, 528 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: thank you so much for the for reading like a 529 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 1: River and getting the four other copies. And let's try 530 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 1: to walk through your question, just super casual. Let's walk 531 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 1: through what it means to surrender, what it means to 532 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: be in these rock bottom moments that you say that 533 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,719 Speaker 1: you've been on. And you say, I've told no one 534 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: about these moments you have now, so thank you for that. 535 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 1: Thank you for being vulnerable enough to do that. And 536 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: then you say, when I read my Bible, I walk 537 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: away with so many questions and have trouble with surrendering 538 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: to the certainty of it all. That's that would be 539 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 1: an apologetics issue. And you say I'm new to this. 540 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 1: That's understandable. You weren't raised religious and you have a 541 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: husband that's now given you grief for any of this. Okay, 542 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 1: So that is a lot to unpack. But the answer, 543 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,799 Speaker 1: I think it's more simple than you might think, and 544 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: it's very underrated and not talked about too often in 545 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 1: our society today. It's probably the most obvious answer I 546 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: can give you, and it's probably the least talked about 547 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:42,880 Speaker 1: these days, right, and that is the local church. What's 548 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: missing from your email and what's missing from a lot 549 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,839 Speaker 1: of these questions from different people on this podcast is 550 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:55,399 Speaker 1: the purpose. The purpose of a local church, the way 551 00:34:55,400 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: that it's supposed to function, which is absolutely biblical. Gathering 552 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,720 Speaker 1: together on the Lord's Day on Sunday mornings with fellow 553 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 1: believers is absolutely a command by Jesus. It's absolutely a 554 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 1: New Testament, Old Testament. It's this is a complete canon 555 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: Bible command. Okay. So avoiding the local church, not being 556 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:29,520 Speaker 1: plugged into a local church, or casually attending occasionally a 557 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:35,280 Speaker 1: church that's not as healthy. Maybe it's just a massive seeker, 558 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 1: sensitive lights going crazy, big band playing. No one really 559 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 1: knows anybody personally. You certainly don't know the pastor because 560 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,440 Speaker 1: there's so many people, there's no way you could ever 561 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 1: get close enough to have a conversation with him. If 562 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,960 Speaker 1: any of those reasons are you, then you are missing 563 00:35:54,840 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 1: probably your biggest tool, your biggest asset, your biggest support 564 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:07,880 Speaker 1: system within your new walk as a Christian. And I 565 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:13,239 Speaker 1: am not underestimating what I just said. It is that 566 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:22,320 Speaker 1: important finding a local church with a appropriate amount of elders. 567 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:28,720 Speaker 1: That's another word for pastors to match the appropriate amount 568 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 1: of people that show up on a Sunday so that 569 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,719 Speaker 1: the sheep, which is what we are as a congregation, 570 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:41,239 Speaker 1: can be shepherded appropriately. You can't have too many sheep 571 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,319 Speaker 1: for one shepherd, otherwise he can't possibly know where they 572 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,759 Speaker 1: all are and how they're all doing. There is no 573 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,360 Speaker 1: fence big enough for that, So you need some more shepherds. 574 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,520 Speaker 1: The bigger your church gets, the more shepherds you're going 575 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:59,840 Speaker 1: to need to make sure that you have an adequate 576 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 1: over the flock in a way that you could answer questions, 577 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: you could walk through life struggles. The church should function 578 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,280 Speaker 1: in a way where you say, man, I'm having trouble 579 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 1: with my husband right now. He is an unbeliever. He's 580 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: actually calling me a Bible thumper, and I really just 581 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,279 Speaker 1: want to know more about the Bible in fact, and 582 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,279 Speaker 1: what you ask me. I read the Bible and then 583 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:29,319 Speaker 1: I walk away from it with more questions. Well, it's 584 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: great that you email this podcast for that, and I 585 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,360 Speaker 1: certainly could give you my best advice. But I'm only 586 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,960 Speaker 1: here on random times that I find your email in 587 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:44,440 Speaker 1: my random inbox out of many emails. That is not 588 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 1: an adequate source for you to be fed and nourished 589 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:57,279 Speaker 1: and shepherded and taught and rebuked occasionally and encouraged. I'm 590 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:02,520 Speaker 1: not that for you. But a local church is that. 591 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,320 Speaker 1: That is the reason they function. So you getting plugged 592 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:11,320 Speaker 1: into a local church where you you find like minded 593 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:15,160 Speaker 1: people with you, and you could express your concerns. You 594 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,720 Speaker 1: could express your problems. You could be vulnerable. You could say, look, 595 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 1: I'm having trouble understanding this, and someone goes, can you 596 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,400 Speaker 1: meet for coffee? And we could what are you talk? 597 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 1: We have in trouble with Isaiah the Book of Isaiah? 598 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,760 Speaker 1: You don't understand it? Are you cool for coffee on Wednesday? 599 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,600 Speaker 1: And we could walk through whatever you're talking about. Well, 600 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: maybe we could talk about it together. And you're like, well, yeah, 601 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:45,040 Speaker 1: here's another thing. This is what's crazy. You said, I 602 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:49,840 Speaker 1: have trouble with surrendering to the certainty of it all. 603 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,280 Speaker 1: Totally understandable. I mean, that's that's doubt. I mean, doubt 604 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,480 Speaker 1: is biblical. Thomas had doubt, Peter had doubt, that the 605 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 1: disciples themselves had doubt. So it's not surprising for you 606 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,640 Speaker 1: to say it. And it does not mean that you're, 607 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:10,239 Speaker 1: you know, in some way in trouble, okay, because the 608 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:14,080 Speaker 1: more you the more you mature the Lord willing, the 609 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,640 Speaker 1: less that doubt becomes. But here's what I'm trying to say, 610 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:25,279 Speaker 1: a church itself is maybe the greatest apologetic. Apologetic is 611 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,720 Speaker 1: a defense of the faith. It's how we Christians defend 612 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,960 Speaker 1: our faith. And there's all kinds of methods and ways 613 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:40,759 Speaker 1: to practice apologetics, but maybe the greatest apologetic is called 614 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:49,200 Speaker 1: ecclesial apologetics. Ecclesial apologetics, and that means apologetics of the church. 615 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 1: The church itself becomes a unified apologetic in what way 616 00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,279 Speaker 1: when you notice that there are believers gather on a 617 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:04,840 Speaker 1: Sunday morning and there is something special about them, not 618 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,239 Speaker 1: that they're perfect. In fact, in many ways they are not, 619 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:14,480 Speaker 1: but they operate almost as an organic unit. They operate together, 620 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,480 Speaker 1: they help each other. They lift each other up. They 621 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: care for people that are underprivileged, or or the poor, 622 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,160 Speaker 1: or people that are disabled, or people that are disadvantaged 623 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:30,200 Speaker 1: in any way. They actually care. A hurricane comes through 624 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,320 Speaker 1: some town and they're going off with their chainsaws together 625 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,080 Speaker 1: to help these people they don't even know, to clear 626 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,439 Speaker 1: the wood from out of the trees that have fallen 627 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,000 Speaker 1: in front of their house. They're they're going to hospitals 628 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:49,520 Speaker 1: to raise money for kids that have terminal diseases. They're 629 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,600 Speaker 1: they're helping each other move from one apartment to the 630 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,960 Speaker 1: next because there's there's a woman that's that's a widow 631 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,080 Speaker 1: and she needs she needs to move a dresser and 632 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,160 Speaker 1: a mattress. And people come over from the church and 633 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,720 Speaker 1: they help, and then they gather and they cry together, 634 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: and they do life together. And so many times you 635 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,239 Speaker 1: could see that in a society that seems like it's 636 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,400 Speaker 1: falling apart, right in a society that feels so ununified, 637 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,719 Speaker 1: a society that becomes obsessed with politics and race and 638 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,480 Speaker 1: all different viewpoints right and left and everything in between. 639 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,839 Speaker 1: And then you go to a local church, a healthy church, 640 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:34,600 Speaker 1: and you see all different kinds of races, all different ethnicities, 641 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:41,759 Speaker 1: all different ages, all different economic groups, coming together, unified, 642 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:47,880 Speaker 1: living together, making life together, sharing joy together, sharing and 643 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:53,600 Speaker 1: sorrow together. And you go, who are these people? I mean, 644 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:59,000 Speaker 1: surely there's something strange about it, there's something supernatural about 645 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,480 Speaker 1: this group. That's what a healthy church should look like, 646 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,280 Speaker 1: and that's what it should put off. It should literally 647 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,040 Speaker 1: put off a defense of the faith in itself. E. 648 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:14,040 Speaker 1: Colesial apologetics is what a healthy church puts off. If 649 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,040 Speaker 1: you are plugged in there and you have made a 650 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,759 Speaker 1: commitment and to become a member of a church like this, 651 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,640 Speaker 1: where you're plugged in and you have questions, It doesn't 652 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:27,160 Speaker 1: matter the level of knowledge that you have. You come 653 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,920 Speaker 1: in as a brand new believer, you come in as 654 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,400 Speaker 1: a twenty year plus believer. You plug in where you 655 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,600 Speaker 1: are and you say, I want to help serve. How 656 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,319 Speaker 1: could I help serve this congregation? What are we doing 657 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,520 Speaker 1: for the community, what are we doing for each other? 658 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,840 Speaker 1: And you live in that for a while. These doubts 659 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,239 Speaker 1: that you have, the questions you have about the certainty 660 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,719 Speaker 1: of it all, as you say, the need to surrender 661 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,759 Speaker 1: and the how to starts to become more focused and 662 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 1: more clear. As you're plugged into this local body, not 663 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,359 Speaker 1: just listening to a like this, not just reading a 664 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:09,040 Speaker 1: daily devotional, not just watching some sermon on YouTube, but 665 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:15,240 Speaker 1: physically gathering with the body, which is called the bride 666 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,080 Speaker 1: of Christ. The bride of Christ is what the church 667 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:24,880 Speaker 1: body is considered. When you do that, you are thereby 668 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:29,240 Speaker 1: gaining one of your biggest, biggest earthly assets as a believer. 669 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,560 Speaker 1: And if you're not doing that, you're missing out on 670 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:37,319 Speaker 1: the biggest, apologetic, the biggest, greatest benefit you could have 671 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:43,880 Speaker 1: the local church. So don't neglect to gather with the 672 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:49,040 Speaker 1: local body on the Sunday morning and other times that 673 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,640 Speaker 1: they might meet. I think that's so important, and I 674 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,719 Speaker 1: think you're in a great place for this because you're 675 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,200 Speaker 1: not going to be the only one that has a 676 00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,320 Speaker 1: husband that's a non believer. You're not going to be 677 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,880 Speaker 1: the only one that's new to the faith. You're not 678 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,839 Speaker 1: going to be the only one that has doubts on 679 00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:07,480 Speaker 1: how to surrender to a certainty of it all. And 680 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,520 Speaker 1: that's a beautiful thing. We all need community, and to 681 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:17,640 Speaker 1: know that you're not alone helps tremendously. We love you, guys, 682 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,000 Speaker 1: See you next Monday. Thanks for joining me on the 683 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,200 Speaker 1: granger Smith Podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. You 684 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,040 Speaker 1: could help me out by rating this podcast on iTunes. 685 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,400 Speaker 1: If you're on YouTube, subscribe to this channel. Hit that 686 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,879 Speaker 1: little like button and notification spell so that you never 687 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,360 Speaker 1: miss anytime I upload a video. If you have a 688 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,360 Speaker 1: question for me that you would like me to answer, 689 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:44,760 Speaker 1: email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Yi