What To Do With My Unbelieving Spouse?

podcast and I absolutely love them. I'm a Christian and love the Lord, and married and have a few children. I'm a stay at home mom raising our children, and my husband has a job to provide. He is a really hard worker, and we just don't see much of him. He's always so busy, with no weekend or regular days off work. Sometimes he has one weekend off in two months. It's just so hard to raise our children without having

him around very much. What would you suggest, she goes on, We have argued about it too much already, and I'm just so tired of it. I didn't get married to live life alone. She says. I like the fact that I could be with the children and raise them instead of bringing them to daycare or having other people raise and influence them. While I have a job to help provide, but I also think they need their dad around to

guide them in life and to teach them things. I can't imagine our lives ten years ago going on like it is right now, the children will be adults and not have a father figure to look up to other than knowing that he makes money. He is not a church goer, and neither does he have a relationship with Christ. I got saved after we got married, and although we both grew up going to church, it was more about practicing religion than gathering with believers to worship our Savior.

After we got married, we stopped being regular church goers until I got saved and found a Christian based church. She says, I have invited him to come with us, and he's gone a few times here and there when the children had a Christmas show, but he says he doesn't want to go otherwise, nor does he want to talk about God. He says if something changes, he will let me know. Then here's a question, how can I

support him or stand by him the right way? I don't know how much impact I will have on our children being the only one teaching them about God and taking them to church and raising them basically alone. It's just so hard. I don't know what to do. She says. All right, thank you, Anonymous. It's a good way to start the podcast. And first of all, I want to say, I'm so sorry. It's unfortunate that I do see these

kind of questions quite a bit. You've listened to the podcast, you probably know this is just something we deal with these days, and so let's dive into it, focusing on your main question. Keep in mind, your main question is how could I support him right away or the right way? You say, And I understand you're frustrated. I understand that you are born again. You say you're you're your believer,

but there there's a couple issues here. It feels like you're pretty angry at the situation and you're taking it out on him. And I have to tell you that although it's unfortunate that we see this a lot, it is it is common, and it's always been common that

a man goes away. In fact, I've been I've been an example of this myself for many years, going on tour and often leaving on a Wednesday and coming back on a Sunday afternoon and then kind of catching up with stuff around the house on Monday and Tuesday, and then heading out on another Wednesday. I did that a lot, a lot of times, especially during the summertimes as a touring musician. And then I'm not alone in that. I mean, so many people have gone with careers that have taken

them away, so many men. And since you know from millennia, I remember that movie Old Yeller. Do you remember that movie? But such a good movie. You got to see it if you haven't, about the yellow dog that the stray dog that then becomes the best friend of the family. Well, the very beginning of that movie, the dad is leaving. In fact, I don't remember where he was going. He was going with the other men and they were going out to do some trading. And he was gone for months.

And that's back before phones, and you're just gone, and it's like, hey, I'll see you when the season changes, son, you know, I'll come riding back over the horizon. I'm a horse. And those very common men would go away to hunt or to trade, or to do work on a cattle drive, or to do work on a railroad,

or to go off and do trade ships. Before that, you know, the big trading ships would go out and they would leave their wives and their kids for months and come back after the ship had sold everything in the West Indies. They would come back to England. Very very very common, and in fact, you even see this in the Bible. You see it in the New Testament. You see the disciples going out and occasionally you have to ask, like with Peter for instance, you have to go,

where was your wife during this? And so there's nothing I have to say, there's nothing inherently wrong with a man going out and working. I'm also not encouraging that

in twenty twenty four. In fact, I'm someone who kind of rebounded and came back from that to make sure that not just that I was spending more time with my kids and my wife, but actually more so to make sure that I was serving my church correctly and responsibly and faithfully, and being with my kids at our local church every single Sunday or as many as as that I could around my work schedule. So it's interesting

to think of this. First of all, is that the man your husband is not absolutely wrong, He's not in sin for doing this. I know there's a lot of other issues we need to unpack, but I think we could probably start there that you're not alone, and women have done it for a long time and they've been okay. So you know, the Bible talks about this, and maybe we should start there first. Let me look it up. First Peter three, I believe, is where we're going to go. Yeah,

so first Peter three. The whole chapter starts with this. It says Peter's talking. It says, likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that if some do not obey the word, they may be one without a word by the conduct of their wives when they see you're respectful and pure conduct. And he goes on about the clothing you wear, and then down to verse five, for this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves. By no verse past that. Look,

it continues on. So I would encourage you to go to first Peter three and start at the beginning. Go down and keep on reading down. It's that's pretty crazy to think that Peter saying, be subject to your husband, serve him, love him, and he maybe won over by your conduct, your respectful, pure conduct. According to the ESV translation, and so your question, your last question was how could I support him or stand by him the right way?

It starts with let's obey first Peter three and just serve him and love him, be there for him so much so that he goes she is amazing, because I got to tell you right now, and this is always all These podcasts are always tough love. And I want to respect you, and I want to love you as sister, and I want to respect your email and your situation. So don't don't ever think that I'm coming across at this table in front of this microphone and it's kind

of judgmental or telling you what you need to be doing. Instead, I honestly wouldn't say it. I wouldn't even have a podcast. I don't care that much to have a podcast to just to be right about something. I only say it so that maybe you could hear this from the Bible and go oh okay, and you could have peace or rest from that. So right now, what you're doing is you're making Christianity look horrible. Your husband is thinking, man, my wife is nagging me about this church thing, and

she's lost her mind. She's crazy. Why would I want any part of whatever it is that she's learning and whatever she's doing at that church, and it's coming home angry at me. Please, she could have it. I don't want any of it. That's kind of what's happening right now. Let's see there's another one here, First Corinthians seven, I believe. Yeah, let me look this up another verse. Now this is Paul now instead of Peter. Paul says First Corinthians seven thirteen.

If anyone has a husband who is an unbeliever, that's you, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him, it says, for the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband, so it works both ways. Otherwise this is interesting. Otherwise your children would be unclean as it is, but they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so in some In such cases, the brother or sister is not enslaved. God

has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? So you the Lord may save your husband through you, if you stay with them and love him and serve him instead of nagging him and criticizing him and saying, you know what, I don't know if I could do this anymore. This is not my dream life. What did you say I? This is not what I want to do. This is not what I wanted to be. This is it's so far and once again tough love here, it's just all about you.

It's just really all about you, and it's hard not to blame you. But instead I'm saying, let your love for Christ. If you do love Christ like you say, if you love him, then love your husband as you were commanded to do it. Don't Jesus doesn't say love your husband, or serve your husband if he is serving you equally back, or if he's loving you back. The obedient thing to do in faith is to love your husband and serve him. And as difficult as that may be,

that is your answer. That's my answer, because that's what the Bible says, and so we do that. And if he decides to leave you, if he decide, if he says I can't do this anymore, I need a divorce, then then you've moved to the next level. But now this is not on you, right this is that would put it on him. So right now, you love him with the intention of saving him, with the intention of making him holy. That's what That's what the Bible says.

I think it's a great question, and I hope, I hope that you are also working through this with your local church and with the sisters in your church. I hope that the elders of this church. I hope it's an elder led church, and I hope that the elders of this church know about this and are praying with you about this about your husband, so that you're not alone in all of this, and you don't ever have

to feel like you're alone in it. Okay, next question comes from Cam says, Hey, mister Smith, and I am putting on my glasses because I could see a love matter. Hey, mister Smith, I have a co worker who is a very vocal atheist. I do not work in the same office complex, but when he's in my office, he's wanting to debate people on religion and politics. He often refers to Christianity as a fairy tale and as the christ myth.

He's heard the Gospel over and over and even stated that if even if God was real, I would acknowledge that but not live my life any different or obey his teachings as a follower of Christ, is it wrong of me to take the stance of not entertaining his remarks slash telling him what I believe when his heart is completely turned off to the Lord and wants to live his life separate from God. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this as it continues to happen. God

bless Cam. All right, Cam, thanks for the question. Yeah, everyone has everyone's at the atheist at the office, right if you if you have an office, you've probably got an atheist there at the office or in your friend group. And so it's always a good it's always a good question to think through. And it's really at first we should start by saying it's not totally different than the

last email we just had. And insomuch as the first response to this guy is to love him, and that's what we're called to do his Christians, is just to love him and to be kind and serve him, to be patient with him. Uh, it's it's it's also for us to to be able to declare boldly the whole counsel of God to him. Now, that doesn't mean telling the gospel to somebody first let's start with that, right you said, uh, reiter, did you say that? You said you he's heard the gospel over and over. Let's make

sure that he's hearing the full gospel. And let's make sure that he's not just hearing you know, Jesus loves you. You know, Jesus loves you right, you know, Jesus loves you. Right. That's not telling the gospel over and over. The gospel would need to he would need to understand what Paul calls the whole counsel of God. God created, and it was good man rebelled out of sin. Adam was the first man who fell, and we have inherited that original sin in us. All of us have sinned and fallen short,

separated ourselves from God. Because we've separated ourselves, and because we've rejected him and his law and his mercy, we are deserving of punishment of that. And the Bible says that the wages of sin is death, so we literally deserve death from breaking the law. This is the same in a normal human law, and it's the same in God's law. A criminal must be punished to the degree that he that he committed the crime. And when you commit a crime against God himself. It requires a life.

So we're on death row. And while we're on death row, God, knowing our situation, comes in in the person of Jesus, literally into the cell and says to the judge, take my life, not his, save his life, Take mine. And because Christ is lived the perfect life, fulfilling the law perfectly, his giving his life, the blood of the Son of God is worthy of all sin. It is the ultimate sacrifice. And our response to that Jesus does this, does this on the cross three days later, resurrects and defeats death,

proving the sacrifice worthy. And our response is repent, turn from our ways and turned to Him, turned by faith to God, changing our mind. Really, you could say that for repent, changing our mind about sin, and turning to God. And so that's the full counsel of God. It's more than Jesus loves you. It is Jesus loves you. Because Jesus loves you enough to go to the cross for

your sin. But without understanding that, we have to respond to that, and without understanding what he did and why he did it to reconcile us or to bring us back to God, to fill in that separation. You have to understand the full council. And so just a little bit of it. If I just told you that we're all sinners going to hell, that's not the gospel either. That's part of it. But just as Jesus loves you is not all of it. Neither as you're all going

to hell. We need to bring it all together with what Jesus is and who are who Jesus is and what he did. Right, So let's make sure that he's hearing that, and he doesn't have to hear it over and over. He needs to hear it one time. He needs to understand what you're saying. One time. There's what Jesus did. Repent and believe the good news and you'll be saved after that. There's no need to cram it out his throat and tell him over and over and over again. At that point, you love him. You live

a life that makes Christ look awesome. You live a life that makes him say, what is it about you that you have this hope about you? You have this peace about you that I can't explain. And then you say, remember I told you what Jesus did on the cross for sins to bring us to God. In every other religion you have to climb the mountain to God, which is always too tall. And in Christianity, it's the story of God coming to man to bring him to himself

because man wasn't good enough to do it. You remember that story. That's why I live with so much hope. That's why I live with so much peace, because my work is done. Christ did it for me, and by faith, I believe in him. That's why I have hope. And he goes, Okay, I don't believe that stuff, but that's the life you live, and that's what you want him

to know. And so it's so tempting to go down these rabbit holes of apologetics, meaning that the defense of the faith and going up against especially an atheist that is probably well versed in his own theology, which it is. It is religion. Being an atheist is a religion in itself, with its own doctrine and its own apostles and its own belief system. Because because you because there is he

doesn't have the evidence to tell you about evolution. He has to have faith in it, right, So he has to An atheist has to have a lot of faith. A lot of people would say more than a Christian. To have faith in that there is no God requires a lot of belief. So because of that, it's attempting to follow these rabbit holes that he might these traps that he might give you. I will tell you of probably gone down most of these rabbit holes and traps.

And Uh, there there is no way to trap a Christian and and and pin him into a corner and just say I got you. And likewise he's always gonna find he's gonna weasel his way out of what you give him. So these are just endless rabbit holes that just go forever, and they they never find an end. Uh. You could go down YouTube and watch debates and you could see this over and over. They don't. They don't

have an end. So love him, tell him, make sure he knows the full gospel, love him, and live a life that makes Jesus look awesome so that he comes to you and ask for a reason for the hope that's in you. Podcast is brought to you by Shopify.

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hoping to get a worship album from you soon. I think that could change some lives. I have a question about the Mark of the Beast. I know that when I know that if we get it, we'd be giving our lives to Satan. However, people have been talking about the government using vaccines to chip us. Essentially, I understand that if we do believe that, we could just not get the vaccines, But what about the people who don't know.

If they are in fact doing that and someone gets it unknowingly, would they still be giving their lives to the devil? Thanks so much, Anita. Yet, that's a good question. And this is eschatology, which there's certain things on this podcast and I don't mind, but there's certain things that we just end up kind of going back into, and that is the study of in times markt the Beast is one of them Anti Christ's rapture, all those kinds

of things they come up. I have mentioned I should say it because I say it every time that I think for the most part, these types of discussions can become a distraction away from the Gospel itself, which I mentioned in the last question. The whole Council of God gets hidden in this worrying about the end times and the market, the beast and the anti Christ. And this question is a great example of that. What if people don't know and what if they unknowingly give their lives

to the devil or they doomed well to that? What the Bible says very clearly because the sesschatology stuff that the mark of the beast, for instance, is very vague and not a lot is known about it. But what we do know. So whenever we read the Bible, let me say this, whenever we read the Bible, the verses that we don't know, are that we're not sure about or that are vague, should be informed by all the mountains of verses that we do know instead of the opposite.

You shouldn't take all the mountain of verses that we do know and then make them cloudy and ambiguous because of one verse that we don't know. Right, So let's inform our reading with all the truth that we do know, and we do know this. Whoever believes in the Sun has eternal life. Whoever does not obey the Son of God shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him. So, if you believe in Jesus and turn from your sins, you're saved. You're saved by faith.

And by no means would we say you're saved by faith unless you accidentally take a vaccine with the chip in it that happened to be the mark of the beast, and the devil to that says, gotcha, surprise, Ah, you know, I beat the system. I got you with this secret mark of the beast that you didn't know about. That's that would be informing all the scriptures that we do know with the stuff that we don't know, right, that would be making everything else that we do know cloudy.

That's what I mean by that. And so we evangelize. We tell people about Jesus, who he did, what he did on the cross, who he is, Like we talked about with the full counsel of God, that he went to the cross, that he died for sins, that that he reconciles his people back to God. And through faith we are saved. It's not by works, and that's we could just stop right there and say everything else that's outside of that inner circle is something that we shouldn't

worry about. And so what this question is really asking is can people unknowingly take the mark of the beast and fall outside of this whole thing you said about you're saved by grace through faith And the answer is no, that that's impossible. So I do think people will unknowingly get the mark of the beast. That's I think that's

okay to say that. It's fine. But those who are not people that would have had a chance to be saved by faith, right, God knows his people, God draws his people, and the people that would get it hypothetically, you know, they either would have heard the gospel, they would have had their chance, or it wasn't It wasn't in the cards for them. I mean, that's a bad way to say it, but you no one, no, let me just make this a broad statement. No one will end up in hell accidentally, no one, okay, and no

one will end up in Heaven accidentally. So these are let me wrap a bow around this. This is a distraction to get you anita away from the fact that you were called to tell people the good news about Jesus. So go tell them and love them and serve them, and live a life that makes Jesus look awesome. And don't worry about the mark of the Beast, because if you're focused on Jesus and you're being faithful in your evangelism, and you're telling people the whole counsel of God, then

it will work itself out. The Lord will do it. Let me go to Peter here. That's the next question. By the way, if you want to email me, It's podcast at grangersmith dot com. This one says, Hey, Grangder been listening to the podcast for a while now and it's my daily listen to and from work. That's awesome. My question is in regards to the First Church and the Protestant Reformation, and you guys are working me into a sweat today, says I was raised in a Catholic

home and a family of eight. No surprise there. My parents have always been very devout Catholics and have always put God at the center of our family. I started going to a Protestant church about four months ago and experienced a rebirth of my desire to live for Jesus and devote my life to him because of my new church, because of the Lord, you mean. But then he says problem.

Me and my fiance have been attending this church together ever since I started going there, and when my parents found out that I was not attending Mass or practicing Catholic doctrine, they essentially shunned me in a way. I planned to have my wedding at my new church and not in the Catholic Church, and they refused to participate or be seen at a non Catholic wedding slash wedding reception.

They gave me a homily on why the Catholic Church was the one all capital church jesusblished with Peter as its head, and why I was following a Christian doctrine that did not have the full faith. They also included how there are many Protestant denominations but only one Catholic Church as the first and oldest Christian church. I don't know what to do. I feel so alive for God and I want to devote my life to Him with this new church. But I faced the scrutiny and backlash

of my Catholic relatives. My question is what is your take on the Catholic Church and the split that occurred with Martin Luther. I desire to live for God in obey his commandments, but I want to attend a church other than the one I was raised in. I've been told that I don't have the true full faith Jesus gave us if I attend a Protestant church. Any input or feedback would help. God bless you in Thanks. Okay, you guys are making me work. Peter, so funny. It's

so funny. Your name's Peter. Okay, let's dive into this. This is another one of these questions that comes up. It seems like almost every week now that the Protestant Catholic debate. And this is something we should start here, you know, you know, this is something wars have been fought over for centuries, blood shed in war. So this is something that none of us are going to work out with a intellectual conversation, so especially quickly on a

podcast or an Instagram post. So let me say too, Peter, what you're experiencing is unfortunately just very common. It's very common. And on a side note, as you're reading through the Gospels, you'll notice, and you'll feel more than me and my Protestant upbringing. You will notice more the the times when Jesus talks about you must leave mother and father, and all the the the different ways that Jesus is saying

that he is your family. Uh, and even even himself, even his own even in his own mother when they said, you know, Jesus, your mom's out there, and he's like, this is my mom, you know. So that's going to affect you more. It just like it affects Muslims when they when they convert to Christianity and their family shuns them, and on and on all the different religions. You see this,

and so I'm sorry, and and you're not alone. There are a lot of there's a lot of different circles that you could jump in with people that would say, brother, come in here, let's talk about it. We've been doing this for seventeen years and this is what we've learned from this situation. Okay, So I don't it's probably not helpful again to go down the road of the Reformation. Maybe just we could just touch on a few things.

You know. The Martin Luther's ninety five thesis came in the thesis came in fifteen seventeen, so that was probably the flagship of the Reformation, but it was also happening all across Europe at the time. It's happening in France and England and Scotland, of course, Germany and Switzerland. So it's interesting to study the Reformation thinking of it in terms of this was a revival, This was a total upheaval.

God was moving in a radical way through Europe through a revival, and revivals are that's another subject we should talk about. When everyone says there's a revival going on at whatever university, it's important to remember that God causes revivals. If man, if man is planning it, then that's that's not a revival, that's just a that's a Christian event stirred up with sometimes a lot of emotionalism. But clearly, in the sixteenth century God caused a revival through through

Europe and it went like wildfire. And Martin Luther was no doubt at the center of this, but there were there were a lot of others that that we could we go back and we read their writings and we see what was happening, and it's important to remember that they were all Catholics. And it's important to remember that Martin Luther wasn't trying to split the Catholic Church. That was never his intention. He instead, he wanted to be

faithful to the Church. And he discovered something in his own reading of the Bible, which no one was doing at the time. No one was doing first of all, because it was in Latin, and so none of the German people, if we're speaking of just about Luther, nobody in Germany was reading the Bible. They couldn't read Latin, and so they were going to Mass and they couldn't understand anything that was being said. And the Catholic Church

was holding the keys to scripture itself. And Martin Luther, as he was studying through it was just blown away by what he was reading and he started to see that that wasn't being what was taught. And this was before the idea that really the Reformation started of sola scriptura meaning scripture is the authority that we need to go by, passed down from the apostles to us. And so this was a new idea. This was a new thing because before then it was scripture and the Church

created authority. But the reality is and even Catholics could agree to this. The authority was corrupt, it was rotten to the core. And at this time these indulgences. If you read about what the indulgence is, the Catholic Church was charging people to basically free their dead relatives out

of purgatory. And they were walking around charging people money so that you could pay, and usually it was going to some kind of church rebuild or a new church cathedral being built, and they were charging you, and they said, the more money you give, the more dead relatives are going to pop out of purgatory and into heaven. So go ahead and save them the thousands of years that they're stuck in purgatory by ching, ching, ching, you know,

throwing some coins in the jar here. And that was just a drop in the bucket of the problems and the corruption that going on through the church. It's also interesting to think about go back a thousand years before that, and it was in the fifth century when Pope Leo.

Pope Leo was the first one that decided that he was going to read Matthew sixteen and interpret that as Peter was the first pope and that the church was given to Peter and all authority was given to Peter, and that kind of understanding of scripture started with Leo because he needed power. You could read about this is all you know, this is none of this is private stuff.

It's all public history. But Leo wanted power and he decided to read Matthew sixteen and go, oh, this is Peter is the first pope, and so that means the secession of pope's comes all the way to me. So that means I'm the leader of the world right now, you know, essentially. And so it was Leo that started this whole idea that the Catholic churches the first church,

and it was Jesus' church. You know, this argument that your parents are giving you, which is very very common argument and all Catholics say it, but that started with Leo in the fifth century. That's interesting, right, And throughout throughout the Catholic Church in those five hundred years before Leo, from the Apostles to Leo, and then from the thousand years from Leo to Martin Luther, throughout the Catholic Church,

there were faithful people in there. And there's still faithful people in the Catholic Church today, and they're still corrupt people in the Protestant Church today. So just because you're in one building doesn't mean anything for your salvation. You go to the Catholic Church, that doesn't mean you're going to be saved. You go to a Protestant church, that doesn't mean you're going to be saved. We already went through on this podcast like three times what it means

to be saved. Your pitn't believe in Jesus, you know Theesians two eighty nine. For by grace, you've been saved through faith. This is not your own doing. It is the gift of God, not a result the works. So that no man may boast right that we're saved by grace and so not by not by the denomination. We're going in now that the argument about all the denominations

from the Protestants. The Catholic Church loved this, and they were able to attack militarily attack the Protestants as soon as there was a break, as soon as they saw a split in unity, and that split happened with the

Lord's Supper. Martin Luther believed that that Jesus was in the bread that was his body, and his blood was the wine in the sacraments and then there was a split when when Zwingli and another group of of reformers believed that it was it was a a metaphor basically it was it was an example, and so is that is that? That was the first major split in the Reformation. And the Catholics were like, oh, this is great, there's a division. Let's attack them. They literally came in with

military and attack them. So this is like here I go again, you know, get rolling down these little, these little Reformation rabbit holes. But I think let's just look at it practically. Martin Luther says, hey, let's read the Bible, and so he translates it to German, and a lot of the Reformers were really significant in the first translations in the different languages, going from not from Latin sometimes,

but they were going to the Greek. They'd go back to the Greek and translate it into it's into the language of the people, to make the Bible the Book of the people, which is exactly why it was written in Greek. The New Testament was written in Greek instead of Hebrew, why so that it could be the book of the people because Greek was the common language. So it was always the Lord always intended the Bible to be read by the people in their native tongue. So

that's why it was in Greek. And that's why Martin Luther and these other guys decided it needed to be in German, it needed to be in French, it needed to be to be in English, and on and on and on, and translation work still happens to this day as people go back to the Greek and back to the Hebrew and translate. So let's think about it practically.

If you're in a church, do you want to sit there and hear the scripture, the transforming Scripture as it's read to you, with illustrations and applications for your life, so that you could hear the Word of God and learn how you could apply that to your own life.

Do you want that? Or do you want to sit in a service where you can't understand anything that's going on, because it's a tradition to do that, like practically, which one makes sense if you're an alien coming to this planet and I just explain that to you practically, which one makes sense. None of this is an argument that you should use with your parents. Instead, let's go back to the wife with the unbelieving husband, and say, in the same way you love your parents, you tell them

the full Council of God. You tell them the Gospel. They may be saved or they may not be saved, but has nothing to do with the Catholic Church and has nothing to do with your Protestant church. You could definitely be saved in the Catholic trich. I know people that are. But is what is more practical for you and your wife and your family to learn and grow in the knowledge of God. And we grow in the knowledge of God by hearing Him through his word. And so which one do you get to hear his word

and grow and learn who He is? So tell your parents the Gospel and love them and live a life that makes Christ look awesome. Just like the question earlier, Man, I go down these rabbit holes, don't I. I'm like, I don't think I'm gonna talk about the Reformation today. I don't think I'm going to talk about Protestant and Catholics. And then here I go ten minutes later. It's fine. I love these questions, Joel, last one here, and I'm gonna try to get to this. It's from Jason, says Granger.

I'm not sure you need to answer this on your podcast, but I didn't know how else to get to question to you for your thoughts. You were sponsored in the past by a local dealership that gave you, that gave you new trucks to drive. You made the decision to stop, or they dropped the contract. Either way, you're now driving an older twenty five hundred GMC, which is awesome. You could have opted for a newer vehicle, and I probably know your answer, but I'm curious. I am going through

this dilemma right now. I'm in Kansas, and i am blessed with a great wife and family. I joined a company thirteen years ago, and I'm fortunate to earn income higher than I ever thought would be possible. I say that only to share my thoughts. What was once a time of buying new vehicles. We just bought our new home three years ago on sixty acres, and I have pushed to opt for an older truck to not show

that I'm driven by money. I'm sure none of this makes sense, but hopefully you could see where I'm going. Was there something inside of you that changed that said driving an older truck is exactly where you wanted to be and that you didn't need a newer truck to prove anything. Thank you and appreciate your videos that you put on YouTube. Blessings Jason. Yeah, Jason, thanks for the message man, And yeah, that's true about me. I was for many years working with a dealership that was giving

me trucks. Sometimes every five thousand miles that would give me a brand new truck, and that was a demo so that I could help them sell it. Essentially, I would post it on my social media as I got it and had new tires on it or something, and I would post about it and say how awesome it looked, and then and then taged the dealership and that was

worth it to them. And then right before five thousand miles they would come to my house and trade out a new truck and grab the five thousand mile truck, and that way they could put it on the lot and still sell it as quote unquote new if it's under five thousand miles. That's what they were doing, and it was great for me because I was getting a free truck and they were always really nice to drive, and so yeah, I really enjoyed that. But then whenever

I left my record label and then left music. It was no longer in the best interests of the dealership. You know, I don't know. I mean, I don't I don't really blame them. It's just business. It's not like I was trying to maintain a specific friendship. So it was it was just business, and they probably made a

pretty good business decision to drop me. And but what happened was they they called and said or Tyler and I went in for the meeting, and we knew that this was going to be a meeting where they were going to say we're going to end our partnership, and so we went in and sure enough, they politely said that they're ending the partnership. And as it ended, I'm like, I started to think, what am I going to drive? You know, like not that it's that big a deal,

but maybe I'm going to uber home. And they said, no, it's okay. You could take your truck and take the same truck, drive it home and do what you need to do. But what they wanted they wanted me to buy it. And so I was like, okay, well, how much do you want to sell it for? And it was like eighty thousand dollars. So I said, I rode up the vat. I was like, I'm not I can't pay eighty thousand dollars for a truck or whatever that monthly payment is, you know, sixteen hundred bucks or whatever

that is. And they said okay, and I said, I'd rather drive a used One's that's the more responsible thing to do. So they said, okay, totally understand. So let's go get your a used one. So I went to their used lot and the oldest thing they had at the time was a twenty nineteen and it was like fifty thousand bucks. And so that, you know, fifty thousand bucks, I don't know what is that's like nine hundred dollars

a month or a thousand bucks a month. And I was just like, I just had a weird pe and I was like, that's just I doesn't feel responsible, and Jason, it wasn't. It wasn't necessarily that I was trying to make a statement to the world, like you said, to prove that a new truck doesn't prove anything. I wasn't really, honestly, I wasn't trying to prove anything or disprove anything. I just thought it was not responsible to pay a thousand bucks a month for a truck. Then I didn't need

that nice of a truck. So I told them this. They said, okay, how long till you find a truck because I said, I want something older than twenty nineteen and they're like, we don't have anything older. And I said, I'm going to go look if that's okay on Facebook Marketplace and they said, yeah, we'll keep that truck for a few more days and let us know when you get a new one. So then I found my truck

I have. Now it's a oh four. I found it on Facebook Marketplace and then I saw the price of it oh four Chevy, and I was like, oh, much better. So I went and bought that one. It was in Conro, Texas, a couple hours from me. Bought it, turned in the truck to the dealership and we were good. I honestly, I wasn't trying to prove anything. I wasn't trying to make a statement. In my heart, I just felt I felt like I needed to do the responsible thing for

my family. And if I don't need all the bells and whistles of a twenty twenty truck and four with a Cassette deck is just fine with me. I think that's I don't think there's anymore really to it. Love you guys, That's all I got. We'll see you next Monday. Thanks for joining me on the Grangersmith podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. You could help me out by

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