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#181 I Am Addicted To This. Help.

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Granger Smith Podcast Episode 181: You have an addiction that you can not shake. You know you have a problem so why do we feel so convicted? It happens with all kinds of things but it doesn’t have to be written as a sin. I’ll explain why on today’s episode.


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You said, I have struggled with quitting and I have not been able to yet. That's the problem. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the podcast. This is episode one and eighty one, and I'm just glad you're here. I'm glad you're listening and watching wherever you're coming from. The format of this podcast, what we do is just sit around and talk answering your questions could be about any subject,

anything in the world. Just just email Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com, and we walk through it like we're just two people sitting in the cab of a truck driving on a long road trip, got the windows down, your elbow out. Hey man, I ask you a question, something that's been on my mind lately. And then we walked through it like we got all the time in the world. And I don't have notes in front of me, I don't have famous quotes, I don't have books. I

haven't even read the questions at all. I'm going completely blind off of the email Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com. Let's get to the first one subject line here says Mistakes says, Hey Granger, my name is Duke. I'm from southern California. I'm just wondering if you ever make mistakes while singing at a concert. I have never been to any concert, so I don't even know if that's a thing to sometimes mess up. I assume you play a ton,

so maybe it's hard to mess up. I don't know. Yeah, I don't think I've ever gotten a question like that, Duke. I appreciate you shout out to Southern Cali and the answer. I mean, yeah, I'll mess up a lot, mess up all the time. I've played thousands of shows in my life. It's crazy to think about, but if you think about one hundred and fifty shows a year for decades, you

do that enough. You mess up enough. The thing about it is the time no one even knows that I mess up, except for maybe the hardcore fans and the band. The band will always know. We always know when one of us messes up, and so we usually will look like Toddle do a note he's never done before on guitar, and I'll look out of the corner of my eye and he's looking back at me because he knows that I'm looking at him. We're like brothers, you know, like

brotherly love. It's like, man, you knew I did that, didn't you. Of course, we speak the same language on the stage, me and the band. We know each other without saying words. We know everything we do. We know what the looks, we know the notes, we know the drum beats. Everything. We know if someone is doing something different because we've done it so many times. Most of the time the fans don't know. Sometimes one mistake from one band member leads to another mistake from another band

member because a muscle memory gets messed up. You're used to hearing this pattern of events that happen, and it triggers something in your brain. You play this because of all these things, and when those things don't happen, you stumble. It's very strange how that happens if you do it so many times in a row. Sometimes the fans do know, and sometimes you know. Some mistakes are worse than others. Most of the time it revolves around me for getting lyrics.

Every once in a while, you could start the song and the wrong key. That's like a once every ten year mistake. But there are a lot of things. There's a lot of technical problems. Microphones run out of batteries, cables go bad, stages break lights, turn off generators, blow power goes out, there's all those kind of things. The thing about me is We've played so many shows for so many years that I've seen every kind of mistake.

And that's a great thing because I could say to myself, well, I've played bigger shows than this and messed it up. You know, I've played bigger shows than this on less sleep. I've played bigger shows than this and been sicker than

I am now, you know. So I've kind of done all the all the combinations of bad things I've seen it happen, and that that gives me a sense of calm, really, and that that could be applied to anyone that's listening that has done something enough times you can calm yourself by saying I've I've messed up in bigger situations than this. I've had my foot in my mouth and bigger conversations

than this. And there's something very freeing about that. And so the best thing to do when I make a mistake is just own it instead of trying to act like I'm better than a mistake. Man, I'm I make mistakes all the time, and I just own it. It's a good question, though, dude, next question, septic line says Bible question says, Hey Grander. In a previous email, you said that you believed all people that are alive on the Earth right now will have a human death before

Jesus returns. Could you make a clarification on why you believe this and why you're certain of that. Secondly, could you clarify what clarify why you believe most of what John the Revelator describes in the Book of Revelation has already happened, as well as what could have, as well as what could have the animal symbolism that John uses

could have occurred in recent history. I read that exactly like you wrote it, as well of what could have the animal animal symbolism that John uses could have occurred in reason Answery regards Anonymous. Okay, Anonymous, Yeah, let's dive into this. I'm gonna say one thing off the bat. I didn't. I didn't say what I'm uh what I'm accused of saying here you said. I heard in a previous previous podcast you said that all people that are alive on Earth right now will have a human death

before where Jesus returns. I did not say that because it's impossible, and I wouldn't have said something that is impossible to know. It's like Napoleon, dynamite Napoleon. How could anyone even know that? No one can know that. So what I said was probably knowing me. I probably said something like most likely ninety nine percent chance or something like that, most likely all people that are alive on Earth right now will not see Jesus return in the

way that John describes it in the Book of Revelation. Okay, is that so wrong to say that? Is that so wrong to say, here's the deal, Jesus. What we're talking about here is eschatology. Eschatology is one of the most debated, one of the most confusing things in the entire Bible. It's the study of end times. And the thing about it is is when Jesus came to Earth, right, God had the Abrahamic Covenant, then he had the Mosaic Covenant. When Jesus came, when when the word became flesh in

John won right, the Abrahamic Covenant was fulfilled. Jesus fulfilled the covenant. He became the new Covenant. The Mosaic covenant was to show people who God is and to give them the rules on what was expected of them. When Jesus came, he fulfilled the law and fulfilled all the law, the prophets, including the Abrahamic Covenant. He became. Then he became what people needed to turn to instead of themselves. Abraham's covenant was based on faith. That's what Jesus fulfilled.

So here's the deal. The people before that, the people of God, were based on genealogy, on the bloodline. When Jesus came, the definition of God's people changed. It became new. God didn't change. The definition of the people became new. And the new definition of the people was how do you respond to the sun? It was based on your response to the Son of God. Okay, so we're moving

through this. What happened in that time, here's my point, Anonymous, What happened in that time when the Word became flesh, the end times dawned, the birth of Christ. When the Word became flesh, the end of times dawned. That was the beginning of the end of times. We're still living in it. It's been two thousand years. So from that day everyone thought, at some point, hey, maybe Jesus is coming back today. Maybe he's coming back tomorrow. Maybe He's

coming back in my lifetime. For two thousand years, people have said that and thought that there's technically nothing wrong with a hopeful eschatology in that way, reading revelation specifically looking to the sky for yourself. It's kind of fun, okay, But it can become an obsession, and that's a problem. That's a big problem. And I got a feeling, brother, got to feeling through your email, the tone of your email,

that this is a problem for you. And that's why I speak up about this in this podcast because I used to fall in like in high school. I used to study this stuff and get really into it and look at the signs and be really into the signs and thinking Jesus is gonna come back. And I did it in a way that's not healthy. You see how

I said that. It's not that it's unhealthy for you or anyone else, but I was doing it in a way that becomes unhealthy because you start thinking about all that stuff, and you start adding up these signs and these prophecies, and you start putting it aligning it with like world events and global leaders and things that are going on in the culture, and you start trying to add it up and like decipher it. When Jesus says, no one knows, no one knows, no one will know,

that's what he says. He didn't say no one will know except for the smart people that put all the puzzle together. He said, no one's gonna know. It doesn't matter if you get the Book of Revelation and the Book of Daniel and you put all the prophecies together and then line them up with the United States and then China and then the new state of Israel in nineteen forty six, and you add all this stuff up. Jesus said, no one's gonna know. Why does he say

get ready? Why does he say be ready? Not so that you could add up to the date, and so you could get you yourself ready, you could be aware, right, And so I think you could get lost in eschatology and the science of it. If that's a thing, You can get lost in that and forget that the whole purpose is your response to Jesus through faith in him. Because brother, there's a ninety nine point nine percent chance you will die on this earth before that happens. How

do I know that? I don't. But that's just math. It's just probability because people have been saying it for two thousand years. Oh you say, now's different. Now's different. We got COVID, we got AI, we got wars, we got earthquakes, we got brother, this has always happened. This has been happening for a long time. Don't get caught up in it. It can mess you up. It starts, it starts deviating you from the truth. Jesus is the truth. Trust him. Don't worry about the signs. That's a wicked

generation that looks after the signs. You'll know in your heart because of the fruits that you produce in your life. You'll know if you're in right standing then only God can do that. Focus on that, focus on loving others, serving others, spreading the Great Commission to all the nations. Worry about that and not Fox News and seeing in and what's happening in Russia. Don't dive into that. It becomes unhealthy. I've talked way too much about it. That's

my point. Appreciate you, brother. Next question here published songwriting. Hey Granger, my name is Travis. I'm twenty eight years old, single with zero dependence. I live in Georgia. Outside of work, I have a passion for creating, writing storytelling that I believe God has instilled in me. As of a few years ago. I've taken a deep interest in writing traditional country songs after they started randomly coming up in my mind.

I am not a performer, but I've enjoyed fleshing out the lyrics and practicing singing with them and with my acoustic I soon plan on demoing them to blank disc. It's not much, but it's what I could do for now. Forgive my ignorance and loaded questions, but there's much about the Nashville grind and music grow publishing companies that I just don't understand as an outsider, and I'm really ashamed

to ask, but here goes. Is it possible for writers to submit demos that they've made to publishing companies like novelists do, or reach out to them in any way without being summoned via recommendation? Or all songwriters under contract session writers as well, or do the sum work alone and continuously submit their finished work whilst under contract. I don't intend to sound wishful or disrespectful in any way by asking. The waters are rough and chances are minuscule

to quote everything that glitters is not gold. There's certain things a man just doesn't know. If you decide to read this, thank you so much for allowing the unique opportunity with your personal time. You're the man, christ Is King. Thanks for everything. Sorry about the link, all right, brother, I appreciate you. Man. Travis twenty eight years old. Travis, you speak like an older man, like you've got a wise soul. To your brother, shout out to Georgia. Love

that state, and let's dive in here. First thing I'm gonna recommend to you is talking with a performance rights organization. It's a pro BMI, ASCAP, seasack. You probably heard of those, or maybe you've seen the little stickers on a restaurant or a music venue. Little sticker says BMI or ASCAP or sea sack. Talk to them. What they do is they represent the songwriters and they get the songwriters paid based on how many times that song has performed worldwide

in all media. That could be at a music venue or a restaurant like we just mentioned, could be on the radio, could be in a jukebox. It used to be a really big thing, and every other way that a song can perform and pay the songwriters. So that's their whole job. And they're there for the writers and so they they are staffed up to handle people like you, to answer your questions. They can be the go between between a publisher and the writer. They were for me

a long, long, long time ago. When I first did this, I'd signed with BMI and doesn't There's no requirement, there's no test or audition. Anyone could sign with BMI, ASCAP or CEASAC and you're then you're a BMI writer and you could use the privileges that you get from being with that specific pro So I'll start there. And and aside from that, you're twenty eight years old. You love songwriting, man, just write a lot and put it on YouTube. It's an amazing time to be a songwriter because this is

something I didn't have when I was twenty eight. You could just throw it up on the internet on TikTok or Twitter or YouTube whatever, Spotify. You can get every song up right now through different different platforms. It's super easy. It's amazing. You could start getting traction on YouTube right away. That's something that you have an advantage on every other songwriter that lived in the decades past. So I wouldn't

worry so much about publishing companies and songwriting contracts. There's not much money in that anyway, so I wouldn't think about it. What's gonna happen is you get a song that goes viral on YouTube because it's just a great song. You're gonna have any publishing company in Nashville wanting to sign you because of that. So focus on that. Don't get the cart in front of the horse. You know

what I mean. If you go sign with random publishing company, which is near impossible to do, Jesus will I'm back before you go out and just get randomly get a publishing contract. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. That's an extreme. I've tying the two questions together here, but it's it's just the way it is. It's very, very difficult to get a publishing contract if no one knows it and you don't know anyone, and you don't even know how to get your music on a disc, which, by the way,

doesn't happen anymore. Don't you don't get music on disc anymore? Brother, it didn't happen. They go they go digital on YouTube sots. Let's get to let's get to recording. Let's get that guitar out. Let's learn a simple recording software like pro Tools, like I'm literally using right now staring at the screen off camera, looking at pro Tools. I've been using this since two thousand and two. I got my first pro Tools set up in two thousand and two. That's a

long time ago. It's like twenty one years ago, right, So learn something like that recording software on your computer. Get a couple of microphones. You don't have to spend a lot of money. Put one on your guitar, one on your vocal and record you some songs and get them up on social media if one goes viral. Now you've got something to talk about. Let's take a break and you're at back. Podcast is brought to you all today.

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lowest price guarantee. Back to the podcast. Back to the podcast. If you've got a question from me, email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. I'm happy to add it to the queue here and pull up an email. I don't study these questions beforehand. I don't read them. I don't have any notes. We're just going blind. That's what we do. Okay, So next question. The subject line here on the next queue says Christianity and tobacco. Hey, mister Smith, my name

is Jeremy Moss. I wanted to email in regard to tobacco use. So I've been dipping for about eight years and I'm twenty five years old. Now. I have struggled quitting and I still have not been able to yet. However, I wanted to pick your brain on the topic. Can you still serve God and follow God wholeheartedly even if using tobacco or alcohol? I don't drink anymore, only dip. Side note, love your music, especially the album you did for your movie. Greatest Hits by you and Matthew West

is a great song. I've been listening here lately. Please keep up the good work you and Amberdoo. Brother Jeremy, thank you so much, and thanks for the question. It's a good question. It's a solid question. Let's dive in here. Your question is can you still serve God and follow God wholeheartedly even if using tobacco or alcohol? Well, the short answer is yes, because we are saved by grace through faith. This is not our own doing. It is the work of God, so that no man may boast.

That comes out of Ephesians too. And we are not saved by anything that we do or don't do, it is the work of God through grace and our faith. Right essentially, that's it. You can't add anything or subtract anything from that. But you're talking about serving Him. So if you are in faith and you're believing, and you're trusting, and you see the fruits of the spirit, the fruits of serving God, what are those fruits? Jesus says it

many times. You know, you know it's almost lost these days in twenty twenty three, that there are many commandments in the New Testament. There are commandments, rules, guidelines in the New Testament. Can you believe that? We thought that

was just in the Old Testament, But it's not. And we could see the fruits, the greatest of which is love, loving others, serving others, the desire to love others, the desire to feed the sheep, and the desire to shepherd the flock, the desire to take God's people and bring the word to them, and hurt for the lost, and need need to be able to serve and help, to be able to wash someone else's feet. That's what Jesus did and we're supposed to model that. That is serving him.

And you could do that wholeheartedly and also have an addiction, but that is not something you want to stay in. So this is sanctification now we're talking about as you become a believer and things start to shed away, as sin starts to peel off of you, you continue to grow. You could serve wholeheartedly at the beginning while you still

are in different scenarios of problems around you. But as those things peel off, which they need to, that is a sign that you're being sanctified and you're growing in your faith. So, for instance, I wouldn't look back on you when you first became a Christian, when you were let's see, because now you say, I don't drink anymore, right, I wouldn't look back on you when you became born again and you became alive to Christ and you had a beer. I wouldn't say you're not serving him wholeheartedly.

Yet I would say, in your current state of sanctification, you're serving him wholeheartedly. But there's so much more to come for you. You just don't know it yet. You're a baby. You are drinking milk, right this little Paul says, we start with milk, but we need to start eating solid foods soon. What Granger, what are you talking about? Okay, here's what I'm talking about. I'm diving into your question specifically. At the beginning, you said, I have struggled with quitting

and I have not been able to yet. That's the problem. You have an addiction that you cannot shake. That is the contradiction you're having right now. That is the stirring you're having. That's why you emailed me why. That's why you are being sanctified in a way that you might not even be able to understand or explain right now. But the reason you emailed me is because you know there's a problem. You're like, Man, I got something going on and I can't shake it. It doesn't mean you're

not serving God. It just means the spirit is sanctifying you. Going time to shed it. I want you to rely on me. I want all of you. I don't want part of you. I don't want a little sliver of you. I want all of you, and I don't have all of you while you're addicted to this, so shake it. And then you go, oh, why do I feel so convicted? That word right? Why do I feel so guilty? We could feel that guilt and conviction, and it hurts sometimes. And this happens with all kinds of things, and it

doesn't necessarily have to be written as a sin. Let me give you an example. Last fall, I was sitting there watching Texas A and M football. I was like, man, I get so nervous before a game. I get all stirred up and anxious, and then the game starts and I get angry. And then as the game's going on, I get joyful and then angry again. And the game's over and they lose, and I have a bad night and I'm affected by it. And it started hitting me. This is last fall, guys started hitting me, you got

a problem. You love college football too much. You're addicted to college football in a way that it is affecting your emotions. I'm like, really, I recognize that old sanctification feeling. And I told my tour manager Chris. I was like, man,

I think I gotta quit college football. He goes, what, like, yeah, I think I'm feeling convicted to quit college football, to quit watching it until I could rein it in where I could just watch it casually and not be emotionally affected, Like where it doesn't just start affecting my daily life. And Chris is like, oh you think so, you think that I watch college football. So I'm sinning. I'm like, no, it's not there's nothing to do with you sinning. This

sanctification is different. Okay, So you see how I'm wrapping this all up. So, buddy, you're addicted to anything, I don't care if it's caffeine or, in this case, tobacco. This kind of sanctification is up to you. If you're addicted to caffeine, that's not against the law. But if it's if it's controlling you in a way that you you need it you have to function, that's a problem. Then you gotta quit it. Tobacco, it's not illegal. You're old enough to have it. You're twenty five years old,

you're old enough to buy it. It's not illegal. It's not a problem unless it becomes a problem. I know this problem personally, and I had to quit. I no longer touch it. I could speak to this personally. I had the same conviction you're having now, and I had to kick it. You got me. Let's move on. Next question. Subject line says talking with girls, Hey Grangeard like to stay anonymous. I'm a sophomore in high school. I got a girl that I've been talking to for a little

while now. She's extreme. She likes me, and she wants to date me, but it seems like she's rushing into it. All my friends think that she's cool, and she thinks they are cool, and all trying to get me to do stuff with her and ask her out. My main problem is I have no idea what to talk about with her right now. I don't know if I'm ready to date her or not. I'm assuming very young here. I'm assuming assuming you're talking. We're talking to a teenager here,

and you're talking. Oh you said it. You said I'm a sophomore in high school. Okay, So what is that sophomore in high school? You're sixteen, maybe seventeen. Let me hand it to you, straight, sixteen year old. Straight. There's a girl you've been talking to. She likes you, she wants to date you, she's rushing into it. All your friends think you should do it because she's cool. Your main problem is you don't know if you're ready or not. Answer is you're not ready. That's it. It doesn't matter

what your friends think is cool. It doesn't matter if she likes you a lot. You're not ready. How do you know? Because you said it, I don't know if I'm ready or not. That is the answer that you're not ready. If there's a shadow of a doubt in there, then you're not ready. Because the essence of being ready is there's no doubt you're ready. There is no reason to wonder if you're ready or not. You just are. You just know it. You go, man, I like her, no red flags. I'm in I want to ask her out.

I want to talk to her. It doesn't matter if I don't know what to talk to her about. I'm just gonna go up and say I like you, and I don't exactly know how to say it. I don't really know how to talk. I'm a little embarrassed because you're so pretty. But all I do know is that I like you. I'd like to maybe go on a date with you. But if you're not ready, you don't do that. Brother, You don't say that at all. You tell your friends I ain't ready. Come on, man, she's cool.

I'm not ready. Okay, okay, okay, fine, man, we'll lay off. You see her in the hallway. She's talking to you. You say, I just want to be up front. If you're thinking this is going somewhere like dating, I'm not ready for that. It's not It's not something that you're doing or not necessarily. I'm just I'm a little young, and I'm not ready. Maybe one day I will be. This is a different story, you know, if you're like thirty years old, twenty five years old, but fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,

this is different. Okay, you're not ready. Let's grab another question. Subject line on this next one straight into the queue says tough decision. Hey, Grangel, my name is Ethan. I'm twenty two from Colorado. Moved to Colorado a few years ago because I felt like it was the right place to be at the right time. My time here has taught me a whole lot about myself, and I've grown on my own these last few years. I'm currently trying to decide if I should move back to Tennessee or not.

I don't have as much family here and not a lot of opportunities to go back home and see them. Okay, and I don't have a lot of opportunities to go back home and see them. Talking about the family like I thought I was going to be able to I'm really struggling right now, and I don't know if this is just a season of life or if I'm really starting to dislike it here. I've been praying about it

and still confused on what to do. Ethan, Ethan, thank you brother, appreciate the question, and shout out to Colorado and Tennessee, two beautiful places. Listen. The first thing you got to establish here, Ethan, is that you make sure this isn't just a wondering heart, because twenty two year olds have it. It's contagious. At twenty two, I remember having it. And what I'm talking about is just being in a place where you're just not really content where

you are. You're searching, and it doesn't matter if it's Colorado or Tennessee or Hong Kong, it doesn't matter. You are not finding your contentment in the place that you're living. I don't know from your email exactly why you moved to Colorado. You just says your email just says it felt like it was the right place to be at the time. I don't know what that means. I don't know if that means you had a bad breakup in Tennessee. If there was a girl in Colorado you're chasing. I

don't know. If have you had a buddy that go to Colorado and you followed him and now he's not there anymore. I don't know. But it doesn't I'm not getting a clear picture by you just saying I lived in Tennessee and I just moved to Colorado a few years ago because it felt like it was the right place to be at the time. If we're riding in the truck together, I need to know a little bit

more information, so we'll go by what we have. You thought you were going to move to Colorado and be able to go back and see your family a lot. That's what you said. You haven't had those opportunities. You're trying to decide if you should just pack up and move back to Tennessee. Now, we make these things, these situations into huge problems when it's really not. As I'm reading it on the podcast, I'm thinking, this is not a huge problem. It is to you because you're in it.

You're in the middle of it. For me on the outside, I'm like, dude, get out of your lease when it ends, go stay on a couch in Tennessee or at your family's house, whatever, and you don't have to do it for ten years. Just go live on a couch for a month in Tennessee, get out of your lease in Colorado, and you're gonna know you're gonna be back in Tennessee, going, yeah, this is right. It feels right to be back here. I think through your email, you're leaving it doesn't feel

like Colorado has anything to offer you anymore. And you are saying, I'm struggling right now. I don't know if it's just a season of life or if I'm really starting to dislike it. I'm praying, but I still feel very confused. What are you praying for? I always like to ask that question. I always like to just at least prick you a little bit and ask you what you're praying for. God, help me to make a decision, help me to follow my dreams. Like what are you saying?

Because I would recommend it sounds something like God. You are sovereign, you are present, you are aware, you are purposing, you're planning. You know every hair on my head, you know every star in the sky. I will never question you. Got it? I feel lost. I feel like I'm searching, and I need to put that focus back on you. Draw me to you, let me see you for who you are. I don't know why I get so confused and I get so caught up in this world, and God, I don't want to do that anymore. I want to

look to you. Guide me. Let me open my eyes to see what is out that the doors that are opened that I could walk through, and the doors that are closed I need to turn away from. But wherever I go, let it be your will, not mine. If there's someone here in Colorado for me to see and talk to, let me find them. It's someone back home at Tennessee I need to be with, let me go to them. But either way, wherever I go, let me

find contentment in you. Just wondering, Eathan, if it's anything, if I am even in the ballpark of the prayers that you're praying when you're talking about moving, I don't know. I was once your age and I was living in Tennessee. I'd moved there from Texas, and after four years I felt a little wild heart and I felt like I needed to go back to Texas. I like, you didn't get to visit my family that much. I thought I was gonna get gonna get to see them more, and

I didn't. I know what you're going through. I feel this. Go back to your home state, that's where you belong. But pray a prayer of wisdom to God that it's not your will, it's his surrender. Give it over to him. Things get better, all right, Love you guys, See you next Monday. Thanks for joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. You could help me

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