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at grangersmith dot com. You ask me a question and we walk through whatever you want to talk about, whatever, whatever is ailing you, whatever, whatever, whatever you want advice in that you would ask a friend. That's what I want to be for you in this in this podcast, as a friend, someone you could sit in the truck with and go, man, I've been kind of wrestling with something and and I've listen, maybe I've listened to your podcast for a bunch of times, and I've never asked anything.

And now I'm finally I finally have the nerve to ask you this question. What would you do in this situation? Now, sometimes I look back on these episodes and I go, yeah, you know, I don't think I was right about that. But that's not really the point. The point is what's my what's my gut reaction to a friend? That's what I want to be to you once again. It is

podcast at grangersmith dot com. The first question says, Hey, Granger, just wondering what you would say to a mom considering adding another baby to the family with how scary the world is nowadays. It's me, she says, I'm the mom. Lol. I'm a firm believer in Christ, and I know that kids are a gift from God. But with how scary the world is nowadays and everyone talking about the end of times, it definitely has me on edge and second guessing it. Any words of advice and do you believe

all kids are saved in the rapture? That's a lot of questions. Thanks Granger, and God bless you and your family. This question comes from Katie. I sure appreciate it, Katie, I want to I want to dive in a little bit because the question like this. The first thing that the first thing that occurs to me is when you say you're a firm believer in Christ, right, and yet you're living fearfully. I want to recognize first of all

that those two things don't go well together. A firm believer in Christ would not be fearful of anything that's happening in this world. You shouldn't be. And in fact, if you had the maximum amount of faith that you could have the faith that could move mountains, that would also equal zero fear, zero anxiety, total trust. Now you don't have that, and I don't either. But that's the goal as we're sanctified as Christians, as we move forward, as we grow our faith, as we work it out

with fear and trembling. The Bible says, the more we have faith, the more we know who God is as he's represented in Christ, then the last fear we have. It just so happens that I do want to recognize that this kind of fear, it shouldn't be. It shouldn't be a thing for you. There are certain things that you could fear and I would let you get away with, but this is something I'm not gonna let you get away with. First of all, fearing the end of times

as a as a believer is an exciting thing. If you're going, man, all these people talking about the end of times? Is that what you said? You said? Yeah, everyone talking about the end of times. It definitely has me on edge and second guessing whether or not to have a child. And then but the sentences before that, you said, you're a firm believer in Christ. If you're a firm believer in Christ and you're going, bring it on,

Come Lord Jesus. That's what the apostles did. That's what they said in the Book of Acts and all their letters. They were like, I hope he comes back. I hope he comes back tomorrow. That would be what you're talking about at the end of times. So why don't you say that, Katie. It sounds like you don't trust in what he said, what Jesus said. I'm not criticizing. I'm just helping push you along, Like you're on the plank

here and I'm pushing you along going. Look, the idea of having a baby in a scary world is it's not strange for a mother to think that. I don't blame you, but I do want to encourage you and go, man, this is the time we need babies. This is the time we need babies born in good faith with faithful mothers. What's a world without without babies with faithful mothers, That's

a horrible world. Do you let me ask you a question, do you just want to have a baby if the world is all nice and pretty and rainbows, is that what you want? Or do you want to raise a child and go or raising child a child at a time such as this. Do you not think that God is providential and when you have a baby or not? Do you think you get to decide this? That's another question.

I have a lot of questions for you. If we're riding in the truck together, I go, first of all, Oh, do you think you get to decide when a baby comes or when it doesn't? Or is it God that does that? Do you get to decide when if a baby comes during good times or bad times? Or is it God that does that? Do you get to decide if it is good times or bad times? Or does God decide that? Do you get to decide if it's the end of times or not? Or does God decide that?

And all these questions equal, Now God decides it. God is God is. This is the most powerful two words you could possibly say. God is and you trust and you go, yeah, yeahna have a baby if it is, if it is the end of times, that's amazing. That's my thought for you. It gets way deep I'll leave it at that for the time being. Lindsey has the next question here. It says, Hey, Granger, my mom has

drank for as long as I could remember. I'm twenty seven and I've lost two grandparents to sirrhosis of the liver due to their drinking, which were her dad and her stepfather. My husband and I have a seven year old son, and I'd love to have for her to have a relationship with him. But the times that I let her watch him overnight having me a bit have bit me in the behind, she says, because I would get a mother's intuition feeling and showing up at the

house and then she'd be passed out drunk. I haven't let him stay there since, and this has been going on for about four years. She begs me to let him stay the night all the time, but when she asks, I could tell that she's been drinking just by her voice over the phone. My husband says that I need to cut ties completely due to how she treated me because I won't let him stay over there. How would

you handle this situation. I've explained this to her more time than I can count, and I met my wits end. I love your music and your family. I keep bringing God to the people. Okay, Lindsey, I'm sorry you're in this situation. This is a tough one. It's a tough situation, but an easy answer. I'll say that if this is me, you said, how would I handle this situation? If I went over there, said, say, put myself in this scenario, and this is my mom and she I go over

there and she's passed out drunk and she's watching Lincoln. Okay, that's the last time Lincoln's going over there until she proves and builds trust with me that she doesn't drink when she's supervising my kids. Period into story. I don't care if she's my mom, my sister, my wife, my babysitter. I don't care who she is. If she's drinking, she's not responsible enough to watch my child, and she's been passed out drunk while babysitting, she's eliminated from the question.

There is no more question anymore. Hey Mom, you're not watching my kid. You passed out drunk. I love you. I forgive you, but forgiving you doesn't mean I trust you. Trust is earned, and you have not earned my trust. Mom. You want to watch my kid, and I hope you do. I hope one day you build a relationship because I desperately desire my kid to have a relationship with his grandma. I desire that, mom, But as his mother, as his protector, I cannot trust you because I have found you passed

out drunk. If you stop drinking, you go to rehab, you go to some kind of treatment facility, and I will support you and love you all the way through that. And now I will not stop loving you because you're my mom. But until you do that and come out sober and collect many many months of sobriety, then maybe I'll consider my son going to your house under someone else's supervision. After that happens many many times and probably years put together, I trust you alone with my child

after years of earning a trust. Nothing to do with forgiveness. Mom, I forgive you, and I love you. It doesn't change my love for you. I'm just saying, as a responsible parent, I cannot leave my child here. Done. That's done. Lindsay you don't need to because your husband said you want, he wants you to cut ties. You don't have to cut ties completely. That's not what this is about. This

is about being responsible parent. You could still talk on the phone, you can still FaceTime, but your parent, your mom, she doesn't get an opportunity to watch your kid. That's it. That's it. Thanks for the email, and thanks for trust to me with something that's a pretty serious situation. I'm pretty sure that anyone that listens to this would answer that in that same way. One has the next question. It says, Hey, Granger, I love this podcast in your Wisdom.

I have a quick question. I'm a junior in college and I recently met a super cool girl at work who is a senior in high school. I'd love to get to know her more and potentially take her out, depending on how things go. I want to hear your thoughts on age maturity gap. Is this unwise? Does the Bible say anything on it? Reviewing your question, one, you're a junior in high school. She's a senior in high school. So let's say she is eighteen at the max and

you are, so you're twenty one. Well, that sounds about right. You'd be a senior in college to be twenty two, so you're three years older. Twenty one and eighteen is not an issue to me. If she's seventeen. That is an issue. Let's wait a few more months. I love that you're asking the question. If you're not asking the question, it sounds like this, Hey Granger, I'm twenty one. I'm dating a seventeen year old and she is she's the love of my life. She has a baby on the way.

These are sometimes these questions go and then it's like, buddy, what do you want me to do for you? This is already happened. This is already happening. So I love one. I love that you're asking the question before this is happening. You're saying, listen, look, I would love to get to know her more and potentially take her out, depending on how things go. And by the way, she's eighteen and I'm twenty one, she's in high st going I'm in college.

Hey man, I like that. I like you're asking the question. And I don't mind the age the age gap. No, the Bible doesn't say anything about this. This is this is uh where you're gonna have to use your own discernment, in your own wisdom, and you're gonna have to realize that high school and college these you're in a different season than she is. You're you're you're in a season of independence, and she's in a season of dependence. Most likely she's living at home. She doesn't know what it's

like to have an apartment and pay bills. You do, You're, you're in a completely different season. So my question is, could you start to get her note to get to know her more now? Taking things slowly, recognizing that she has maybe what five months of high school left, and then she's going to graduate, and then she's going to be college age, and she's in. Now, she's in your playbook right now, she's in. She understands things that you under stand a lot more. So let's wait a little bit.

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going to raise your child or children. How should I overcome this fear of feeling like I'm failing my child and not listening to everyone. As a Christian, I always try to have a listening ear, she says, and I wear my heart on my sleeve, but sometimes those opinions that people have to say about me way very heavy on my heart. I talked to God about it a lot, and I would love to see an outsider's perspective. Thank

you so much for reading my email. You are truly inspiring to me, and I couldn't think of a more godly and truly humble man than name my son after God. Bless happy holidays, Jordan. All Right, Jordan, thank you so much for the email and for trusting me with a good question. Let's see, you had a baby back in September. That means you're kind of pulling up on five six months old September, October, November. So yeah, you're sitting about five months old, and as you're pregnant, you know you're

probably doing a lot of reading. And everyone has something to say about this. Everyone's got oh, you need to do this and make sure you disciplined this way, and do you have a bass in that or a sleepsack or you are are they going to the crib or they sleep it in your bed? And everyone are you gonna vaccinate? Are you gonna do this? And that? You know,

everyone has got this opinion. And what's beautiful about having a baby and raising a baby is that God God takes the time and spaces it out and the growth

of a child and the pregnancy itself. So for instance, you get pregnant, you have nine months ish to get things together, to start maybe planning financially, and then after about what six months in you find out the gender and so then you start picking out colors and you know, getting the nursery ready, and then about you know, in seven months, you find out more things about specifically about the child, maybe the size, the weight, the mental development.

So you get a couple months then to make adjustments on what you have, and then the baby comes right and then the baby's immobile, it's nursing. It's just completely dependent on you. It's not moving anywhere so you have at that point, you know, six or seven months to start getting the floor ready for when they're scooting, and then as they start scooting, you have a few more months to start preparing the house for a walker and a baby that's pulling up on different furniture and putting

their finger in electrical sockets. But you it's always spaced out in a way that you could just stay a little bit ahead. You don't have to learn when you get pregnant, for instance, you don't have to learn how to handle a toddler, and when you have a toddler, you don't have to immediately learn how to deal with a teenager. You just got to stay a little bit ahead. And it's spaced out in a beautiful way, and everyone's going to have advice, and like, this is how you discipline.

You make sure you discipline your child this way, and then slowly but surely, you recognize the personality of your child and you recognize that, well, that was a good idea to discipline that way, or that wasn't. My child doesn't respond in that way, and you're getting reps. You try it this way, it didn't work. You try it another way. Now that works. They're sleeping this certain way. Like some people go, hey, this this new bassinette that moves around and like sings to your child or whatever.

Save your marriage. People will say like that, and you could buy it or rent it or borrow it and go it didn't even work at all. Thanks for your advice, and I'm sure it worked great with you, but all babies are different, and it didn't work with me. So the beautiful thing is you're the mother, your hands on, you're watching every day. You take advice with the grain of salt. People that know and they've been there and done that. Great, thank you so much for the advice.

But I don't have to hear it all because the most important thing I could do is be watching and observing my child and how they interact with the world around them. So don't worry about trying to listen to everything because you just can't possibly apply it all to

your own child. Just doesn't work that way, So just relax and the fact that, hey, in a few more months, your little granger is going to be crawling, and then a few more months after that, Lord willing, he'll be walking, and you'll just be observing literally baby steps as it's happening in real time and making adjustments, staying one step ahead. Next question comes from John, says, Dear mister Smith, my

name is John. I'm seven teen from Salem, Oregon. A friend of mine suggested your podcast to me and said that I should email you. So here it is. In the summer of twenty twenty two, I was sixteen. I was in the process of getting my license and my mom was teaching me. During one of our practice drives, we were on a back road and I took a sharp turn too fast. This caused the car to go

through the guard rail and off an embankment. I woke up in the er three days later and was told I had suffered a severe spinal cord injury, which left me paralyzed from the waist down. I am now in a wheelchair. My mom was killed from the impact. My mom was the most loving, kind and joyful person in the world, and she didn't deserve to die. I would trade our spots in an instant if it meant that she could have lived, but it isn't that way, and now I have to wake up every day knowing I'm

the reason my mom is dead. I'm the reason my little sister won't get to grow up with her mommy. I'm the reason my dad has to work sixty hours a week to cover medical bills, support our family, and raise a kid on his own. My life is a wreck. It's hard to find a reason to get out of bed in the morning, and depression is constant. How do I even start to live again? John? Thank you for emailing brother, heavy heavy stuff here, heavy stuff, and put

a timeline together in my head. You're seventeen. This happened a little over a year ago, summer of twenty twenty two, when you were sixteen. So I build the timeline in my head because I want to know how much time has gone by, how much time you've had to First of all, grieve, And this is a multiple grieving process. Most grieving processes are multi layered, right, And so you're grieving your mother, You're grieving your legs, the use of your legs. You're grieving the the idea that your sister

doesn't have a mother. You're grieving the idea that your father doesn't have his wife, and that he's working to pay for medical bills for you. So you're grieving your life. You used to have that's a real thing, and that's not a problem. It's not a wrong thing to grieve. We wouldn't think there that here that you only grieved your mother and that's the only thing you're sad about. There's a lot of things that you can rightly be sad about and rightly grieve about. Mourning is good, weeping

is good, Grieving is normal. What I don't like in this email is depression, which you say is constant, because depression is different than mourning and grieving and weeping and sadness. Depression is self deprivation. Depression is turning the problem past the situation and turning it and aiming it towards yourself, and so then you're you're essentially decapitating yourself and you're you're crushing yourself under your own weight. That's what this

depression is. Grieving and mourning is working out this this missing, the the the the ability to look back on your life that the way it was. You're working that out of your system. Depression is not that. Depression is Depression is taking that and applying it back into your system and reliving it and living in it and living about it and being it. That's what you're doing. I am. I'm not for a second gonna pretend like I know

what you're going through. I'm not for a second going to pretend like this is a light situation and going to be easy to fix, not for a second. So don't take anything that I say in that way. But I do understand the guilt of a death because of you. I understand that I've been through that. In fact, in a couple of times, a couple times in my life River and my dad. My mom was visiting me when

my dad died of a heart attack. So if she hadn't been with me, she would have been with my dad, probably would have been able to quickly diagnose the problem, call nine to one one and they could have saved him, maybe and probably. So I understand the idea that you're saying. Man, if it wasn't for me, then my mom would still be here. So that's normal. I hear you, and I'll sit with you in that and just recognize that that's a real thing you're feeling, and it's it's valid and

you're not alone. Right, But then we got to get to the meat of this. We got to get we have to get to the heart of this, John. This is if you hear anything I say, if you've ever heard my podcast, if you ever hear anything I've ever said, hear this, hear this. The world will tell you, John, you need to forgive yourself. The world will tell you, John, you're not guilty. It's not your fault. That's what the world will tell you. And they mean it with good

intentions and sincerity. And you're gonna hear that, and you're gonna go. First of all, you're gonna go, what does forgiving myself mean mean? And how do I do that? And then you're gonna go, how does the world tell me I'm not guilty? How does that work? How do the mechanics of that practically work? I'm not guilty. I was literally in the car driving. I literally wrecked and my mom died. Who else's fault isn't is it? You're

just gonna say it's an accident. Well, I was the one driving, not accidentally intentionally, And then the world's gonna say it's not your fault, and you're gonna go, yeah, I don't. I don't know who else's fault it could be. And if mom died just for a freak accident, I think that's a little worse because then it means it's meaningless, which the heart of what I'm gonna tell you, John, is that I don't believe anything is meaningless, and I

don't believe in accidents or coincidences at all. There's always a fault, there's always an action, and there's always a reason.

I want to clear that up first, and I want to say that kind of lay the groundwork because as the world begins to pour over you, and I'm sure they already have saying it's not your fault and this is not your and I'm so sorry you don't blame yourself, I want to I want to warn you that to me, that perpetuates the depression because it starts to confuse you and to how in the world do you even do that? And then all counseling and therapy could walk you through

this guilt, this guilt and shame. You're shameful and you gotta literally live with this pain and this shame, literally in the loss of your legs physically, you're you're you're living out this shame and this guilt, right, And so this is where the Gospel of Christ comes in, and this is what saved me, literally saved my life. If from this kind of depression, Jesus comes into the world, the beautiful creation that God made perfect, flawless humans come in and we ruin it. We reject him, We deny

our creator. We try to fix things on our own, and we make our art. We make gods of ourselves, we make idols of ourselves, and we go I'm in control. I am in control of my own destiny. I make I create things. I make my life successful or not. I'm the one that set my alarm. I'm the one that goes out there and gets a job. I'm the one that's learning how to walk with prosthetic legs. And

we reject God at every turn. So God enters creation knowing this, knowing that we have rejected him, that we have abandoned him, that we have lied, cheated, stole, hated, denied everything, and our own conscience. As I'm telling you this, if you think you're a good person, and you think you deserve heaven because you're a good person, your own conscience right now is giving you away. Because as I say this, you think, yeah, I do have some problems, don't I. I might be I might think I'm better

than my neighbor. I might think I'm better than that guy, but I know I've messed up my fair share. So your conscience is ratting you out right now. Jesus comes in to reconcile sinners to himself, knowing that we could not do it on our own, knowing that God, to be in the presence of God would require perfection, and we don't have it. So he comes in to reconcile sinners to himself to bring people to God his peace. He goes to the cross, and what did we do?

We kill him. That's what humans do. God came to reconcile sinners to back to God, and we kill him, the son of God. That's what we do. That kind of sums up humanity. Three days later, he resurrects from the dead, proving that God's ultimate sacrifice was accepted through Christ. Jesus says, whoever believes in Me will not perish, will have eternal life. Guess what else? He says, John, He says, whoever believes in me, I will forgive them of their sins.

I will cover their guilt, I will cleanse them, I will make them new. I will give a new heart. To them. I will put my perfection on them, so that when God the Father looks and judgment on a sinful humanity, he sees Christ's perfection covering that person. So that's what that's the offer of the gospel to you, John. The Gospel, unlike the world, says, Yes, you are guilty, John, Yeah, you messed up. No, you can't fix it. But believe in me. You trust in me and the work I

did on the cross. Jesus says what I did for you on the cross, John, as I took your sins upon my body, my perfect body, took your sins, your wretchedness, upon myself, and I took that as a sacrifice. So you believe in me, and your sins are paid for. You are forgiven, your guilt gone overlooked clean. You can't forgive yourself. You can't say that you're not guilty, but Jesus can't. That's the gospel. I want you to think

about what I said and dive into. This is your only chance, John, I'm telling you, and I'm begging you, this is your only chance. You will not heal from something this tragic. There's no amount of therapy or secular counseling that's gonna fix this for you. There is nobody that's gonna do some kind of mind trick on you to where you start thinking, I guess you know what. I guess I am pretty good. Don't have my legs anymore, don't have my mom, But I guess I'm good. That's

not gonna happen. But Jesus can heal. Jesus can renew your mind. He could renew your heart. He could give you a new purpose. He can make you a new creation, so that you have a new purpose and you know that things are happening for a reason, for a purpose. I don't know what that purpose is, John, I don't

know what it is. I don't know if you're gonna speak to people that feel dislike you one day, if you're gonna become someone that travels around in your wheelchair, in your prosthetic legs, and you go, look, I was where you are, and I could tell you how to get out of this. I could tell you how your guilt could be covered, how your sins can be forgiven. I could tell you how to see your mom again. Those are powerful things, John, And that's the offer of

the Gospel. You could choose to reject it. You could choose right now to go and stay and wallow in your depression and continue to perpetuate this evil, wickedness in your heart, saying I hate myself, hate my life, hate everything. Or you could turn from that and turn to Jesus and go I want I want you, Jesus. I want you cover me, clean me. Like Granger said, forgive me and my guilt. Choose this day, John, when you hear this podcast, choose this day whom you will serve, Jesus

or yourself. There is no other way. There is no other way in this kind of situation. Hey, there's no way. There's no other way for anyone listening. But it's just clearer for John in this situation, he is out of options. You everyone else listening, you have options. None of those options are going to work. But John it's less. He has less options, and so it's more clear that Jesus is the way, the truth in the life. Caleb writes in here saying, Hey, Granger, I have a question about

my future. I'm an eighteen year old boy living in a small town in West Virginia. I was planning on moving to Tampa Florida later this year to go to Bible College, but I don't know exactly what to do within ministry. I have a youth pastor job open to me, but I want to do missionary work. Should I go to Bible College or not? Hey, Caleb, appreciate the question. Man, Let me kind of recap from my own thoughts. Here. You are eighteen, small town West Virginia. I don't know.

I don't know what you're asking here, because to me this seems so obvious. You plan on going to Bible College, but it sounds like there's also a youth pastor job open, but you also want to do missionary work, and I want to know. I'm want to If I was with you in the truck and you're asking me this question, I would say, what does not going to Bible College benefit any of this does? How does not going to

Bible College benefit any of these things for you? Not everyone gets the opportunity to go to Bible college or seminary. Not everyone gets that opportunity. I understand that, but it sounds like you do have the opportunity and you're wondering if you should skip it. And I would say this, what if? What if you're saying this. You're saying, man, I want to be a firefighter, and I want to do well in firefighting. I want to move up the ladder and one day I want to be a captain

of my unit. I have an opportunity right now to go or go to a really good fire school and it gives me a really good found foundation for firefighting. Or I can go right into this station over here that's hiring straight out of high school. But I'm not sure because I have the job, I could just go into the station and start working now. I would say, Caleb, you need tools. If you have an opportunity to go to the fire school, that's going to be your ticket

to growing in the station. If you have an opportunity now to go to this Bible college, that's going to bring more fruit to your missionary work. It's going to bring more fruit to your potential youth pastor job. Hands down, you just going into it is is going to hurt your future in this most likely. And that's just that's not like it's not like I'm giving you incredible wisdom here that this is just playing the odds. You want more, You want more on your side. You want to swing

that pendulum. You want as much weight on the scale as you can to give you strength and a foundation and knowledge as you go into whatever field you want to go into when it comes to ministry, so absolutely take the opportunity to go to Bible College. You could do missionary work while you're in a Bible college. I'm doing.

I'm in seminary right now and I'm still doing. I did three missionary trips this year while enrolled in seminary, literally while doing seminary, doing seminary on the mission field, and that's what I did three different times this year. And the youth pastor job. A lot of seminarians I'm working with right now already have pastoral jobs. So you could certainly do both. You could do all three things.

You could be Bible College, you could be a youth pastor and be a missionary, do missionary work short term mission stuff all at the same time. You don't have to. But the one thing I would recommend is doing the Bible College. I don't know why you wouldn't do that, So yeah, that's an easy one for me. Caleb. Thank all you guys for emailing, and I have to say as we are wrapping up this year. I believe this is the last podcast of twenty twenty three for listening

real time. Thank you for listening for so long and for so many episodes. If you're searching for something and that's the reason you're listening to a podcast answering people's questions. On December twenty sixth, if you're listening and you're searching for something, remember that Jesus says, seeking, you will find. Knocking, the door will be opened to you. So all you searchers out there going, I wonder if there's something more for me. I wonder if they're something more about this

life that I don't know yet. I wonder if there's something there's a greater meaning, a greater purpose than just waking up and going to work and dating a girl and having a baby. There's got to be more to it than this. I know there's something out there more. I want to say. Jesus said, seek and you will find. Thank you for being here and thank you for listening. And I hope that I did give you the gospel in this episode, and I hope that that matters to you,

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