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The Lion Within Us - Leadership for Christian Men - 752. 2 Timothy 1:5 - Spiritual Kick Off · CLA+

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Chris Grainger: Welcome to the Lion Within Us, a podcast serving Christian men who are hungry to be the leaders God intends you to be.
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Chris Grainger: I'm your host, Chris Granger.
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Chris Grainger: Let's jump in.
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Chris Grainger: All right, fellas, this is your spiritual kickoff episode.
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Chris Grainger: Let's get into it.
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Chris Grainger: Okay.
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Chris Grainger: So the scripture of the week this week is in the book of 2 Timothy, chapter 1, fifth verse.
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Chris Grainger: It says, For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelled in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice.
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Chris Grainger: And I am sure that it is in you as well.
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Chris Grainger: So, fellas, love that verse.
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Chris Grainger: So we're now, let's get to this first.
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Chris Grainger: This is in 2 Timothy.
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Chris Grainger: So we need to first understand where is 2 Timothy.
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Chris Grainger: That's in the New Testament.
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Chris Grainger: The Apostle Paul wrote this one.
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Chris Grainger: Obviously, it's after 1 Timothy.
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Chris Grainger: It's before Titus, but after that, more importantly, it's toward the back of your Bible.
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Chris Grainger: Okay, just go to Revelation.
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Chris Grainger: Just start working back.
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Chris Grainger: You'll get there.
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Chris Grainger: Okay.
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Chris Grainger: So that's where it's going to be at.
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Chris Grainger: And this week we're going to be talking a lot about parenting, being a father.
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Chris Grainger: And I love this verse because it shows us this directly, because ultimately, fellas, faith, it starts at home.
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Chris Grainger: It starts at the table.
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Chris Grainger: It really does.
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Chris Grainger: And some verses, when we read in scripture, they whisper, but if they if you sit with them long enough the way I do, with the way I did rather with this verse, it just gets louder and louder and louder.
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Chris Grainger: This verse right here, Paul, again, he's kind of reaching the end of his life.
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Chris Grainger: He's in prison.
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Chris Grainger: He's facing death.
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Chris Grainger: And he's writing to Timothy, his beloved son in the faith.
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Chris Grainger: He loved this guy.
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Chris Grainger: And this is not just some casual encouragement.
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Chris Grainger: He's offering him here.
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Chris Grainger: These are some weighty words from an older man of God to a younger man who's going to be basically carrying the torch.
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Chris Grainger: Like he's passing it on to Timothy right here.
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Chris Grainger: And when he talks about Timothy's faith, it's beautiful.
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Chris Grainger: He doesn't mention a church program or some ministry strategy or a youth event or a sermon.
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Chris Grainger: No, he doesn't mention any of that.
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Chris Grainger: He remembers Timothy's home.
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Chris Grainger: Man, there's just something cool about that.
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Chris Grainger: He remembers Lois, his grandmother.
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Chris Grainger: He remembers Eunice, his mother.
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Chris Grainger: And Paul says that the sincere faith that is living inside of Timothy at that moment first lived in them.
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Chris Grainger: And that matters so much, fellas.
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Chris Grainger: Because before Timothy became Paul's co-worker in the work that God was calling to do, before he was a pastor or sent on any ministry assignments, he was a young boy that was being shaped inside a home.
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Chris Grainger: Somebody had to teach him.
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Chris Grainger: Somebody had to pray with him, show him how to pray.
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Chris Grainger: Somebody had to read scriptures to him and model sincere faith in front of him.
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Chris Grainger: And Paul just reminds us right here, and Timothy, from childhood, that you've known the sacred writings.
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Chris Grainger: He tells us that in 315.
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Chris Grainger: So from childhood, that means that Timothy's faith didn't begin when he ran into Paul.
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Chris Grainger: No, that's not when it started.
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Chris Grainger: Timothy had already been formed by faithful instruction in the home.
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Chris Grainger: And what Paul was doing right here, he's just fanning the flame, baby.
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Chris Grainger: He's just fanning the flame that his grandmother and his mother had started, and they initially laid the wood for it.
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Chris Grainger: And as Christian dudes, we please, we need to hear this.
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Chris Grainger: Your home is not a side ministry.
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Chris Grainger: It's not.
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Chris Grainger: It's your first ministry.
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Chris Grainger: It just is.
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Chris Grainger: The church matters.
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Chris Grainger: Yeah, pastors matter, youth leaders matter, Sunday school teachers matter.
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Chris Grainger: Absolutely.
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Chris Grainger: I'm not anti that.
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Chris Grainger: I am anti when you're in the wrong church.
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Chris Grainger: Sometimes you got a course correct.
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Chris Grainger: Our family had to do that, and it's been the best thing for us, period.
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Chris Grainger: Hands down.
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Chris Grainger: Cannot say, well, if you're not in a life-giving church, get out, okay, and find one that is.
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Chris Grainger: But when you get in one, they do matter.
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Chris Grainger: But they are not replacements.
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Chris Grainger: I don't know how I care how great your church is, it is not a replacement for you as a parent.
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Chris Grainger: And one of the great errors that so many Christian families make today is that we outsource the spiritual formation of our children.
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Chris Grainger: We do.
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Chris Grainger: We expect the church in one way or another, just for a couple hours a week, to plan in them what God has commanded.
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Chris Grainger: And it's like, man, are you kidding me?
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Chris Grainger: Like that's not biblical, bro.
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Chris Grainger: I mean, go back and look in Deuteronomy 6, the Shema, where God's words are, He tells us to being taught diligently to our children.
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Chris Grainger: When you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, when you rise up, it's right there.
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Chris Grainger: That's ordinary life.
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Chris Grainger: That's Monday through Friday, Saturday.
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Chris Grainger: That's every day.
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Chris Grainger: It's at the table.
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Chris Grainger: It's inside the car.
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Chris Grainger: It's before bed.
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Chris Grainger: It's in the morning before school.
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Chris Grainger: Or when you're having to discipline them.
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Chris Grainger: It's the hard conversations we have.
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Chris Grainger: And it's also in the moments of joy and sorrow.
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Chris Grainger: Because Ephesians reminds us, fellas, that fathers bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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Chris Grainger: That command is not first given to the children's pastor.
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Chris Grainger: It doesn't say that.
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Chris Grainger: So it'd say children's pastor, please bring.
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Chris Grainger: No, it says fathers.
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Chris Grainger: Fathers.
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Chris Grainger: And we can't just gotta stop running from that.
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Chris Grainger: Because providing for your children is good.
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Chris Grainger: And I want you guys to do that.
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Chris Grainger: And protecting them is good.
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Chris Grainger: I want you guys to do that.
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Chris Grainger: But I think those two things just come naturally to us, right?
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Chris Grainger: Just like coaching them and encouraging them or helping them succeed.
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Chris Grainger: All good stuff.
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Chris Grainger: But if we help our kids succeed everywhere, except spiritually, and we failed.
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Chris Grainger: We failed them in what matters most.
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Chris Grainger: What good is it if our kids can can can crush a ball or make a great grade or get a job and build a career, a wonderful career, but they don't know Christ.
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Chris Grainger: I don't know.
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Chris Grainger: To me, we we've misplaced the priority.
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Chris Grainger: And Paul calls Timothy's faith sincere.
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Chris Grainger: That means he recognizes this genuine his faith to be genuine.
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Chris Grainger: It's real, it's unhypocritical.
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Chris Grainger: And our kids, fellas, they need to see that type of faith in us.
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Chris Grainger: Look, and look, I'm not saying you gotta see you be perfect.
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Chris Grainger: No, that's that's no such thing there.
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Chris Grainger: There are no perfect fathers, but they need to see honest fathers, present dads, repentant dads, dads who love Jesus when nobody's watching.
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Chris Grainger: Not just on a Sunday morning when everybody, all the eyeballs.
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Chris Grainger: No, they need to see us, guys, open up the doggone Bible every day.
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Chris Grainger: They need to hear us pray.
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Chris Grainger: They need to watch us repent when we fall off and we sin.
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Chris Grainger: They need to see us, how about this one?
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Chris Grainger: Love their mama.
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Chris Grainger: Just absolutely love the heck out their mama.
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Chris Grainger: Kiss her and make them uncomfortable in front of her.
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Chris Grainger: They need to see ultimately that Christianity is not just something we do at church, but something that rules over every aspect of our life.
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Chris Grainger: Because the reality is our kids are always being disciplined and taught by someone.
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Chris Grainger: It's really the question comes down to whether we are intentionally leading them towards Christ or letting the world lead them towards somewhere else.
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Chris Grainger: Because I'm gonna tell you what, buddy, the screens that are out there these days, they are disciplining our kids.
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Chris Grainger: They are.
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Chris Grainger: Like friends are, and entertainment is, culture is.
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Chris Grainger: The world is not waking, is not just sitting idly by and waiting for us to wake up as dad.
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Chris Grainger: Paul does not say, Timothy, I thank God for the religious professionals who shaped you.
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Chris Grainger: No, bro.
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Chris Grainger: He's remembering the parents and the grandparents.
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Chris Grainger: And that's sobering.
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Chris Grainger: It should be.
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Chris Grainger: Because some of the most important spiritual formation does it's never gonna happen on a stage.
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Chris Grainger: It happens at the table.
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Chris Grainger: At the bedtime when you're when you're praying over your little ones.
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Chris Grainger: When you're reading scripture in the living room, even if you're tired, right?
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Chris Grainger: But you're showing them that you believe God's word is life.
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Chris Grainger: And leadership is not always dramatic.
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Chris Grainger: It's the some of the most important leadership things we can do as men is just be quiet, consistent, and unseen by everybody except their family, the ones underneath our roof.
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Chris Grainger: And you preach something to your children every day.
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Chris Grainger: We just do.
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Chris Grainger: And you preach by what you prioritize, by how you speak, by what you laugh at, right?
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Chris Grainger: How you handle stress.
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Chris Grainger: Uh that's all those things they're learning by watching you and what matters to you.
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Chris Grainger: And Timothy became deeply useful to the kingdom.
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Chris Grainger: Think about what Timothy did in his life.
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Chris Grainger: Paul trusted him.
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Chris Grainger: Churches benefited from him, believers were strengthened by him.
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Chris Grainger: But imagine this for a second.
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Chris Grainger: I was really wrestling with this.
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Chris Grainger: Imagine if Timothy had never been formed in the faith.
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Chris Grainger: And yeah, I get it.
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Chris Grainger: God is sovereign.
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Chris Grainger: He could have used someone else.
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Chris Grainger: But scripture shows us that God used the faithful instruction of Timothy.
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Chris Grainger: He received it home.
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Chris Grainger: That's what he used.
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Chris Grainger: And his grandma and his mama had no idea how far their influence would reach.
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Chris Grainger: Sure they didn't.
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Chris Grainger: They were simply being faithful.
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Chris Grainger: They were teaching them what they knew to be true.
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Chris Grainger: They were modeling the faith and planting the seeds, and God used it.
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Chris Grainger: And that should encourage every dad out there who's listening.
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Chris Grainger: If you feel like the little things don't matter, you're wrong.
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Chris Grainger: Your prayer matters.
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Chris Grainger: Reading with them matters, correcting them matters, and taking time to let them be seen matters.
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Chris Grainger: It just does.
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Chris Grainger: And we have to recover the responsibility here, fellas.
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Chris Grainger: Not being harsh, not control, but being biblically the biblical leaders of our home.
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Chris Grainger: And it starts by first obeying, right?
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Chris Grainger: Being the first one to repent, the first one to serve, the first one to sacrifice, the first one to uh to to lead the home towards Christ.
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Chris Grainger: Remember when it says in Joshua, as for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord.
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Chris Grainger: That's the type of resolve that we have to have as men.
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Chris Grainger: Okay?
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Chris Grainger: It doesn't say at me and my house we will attend when convenient.
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Chris Grainger: Okay.
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unknown: No.
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Chris Grainger: No.
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Chris Grainger: Well, we will let the church handle it.
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Chris Grainger: No, that ain't what it's all about.
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Chris Grainger: It's like we will serve the Lord.
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Chris Grainger: Period.
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Chris Grainger: So we have to start outsourcing what God has assigned to us.
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Chris Grainger: And I know I'm beating this drum over and over and over, but I feel like this is an important one to beat.
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Chris Grainger: And the church can help, but the church cannot be dad.
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Chris Grainger: You just can't.
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Chris Grainger: There's pastors, they can support you for sure, but they're never going to replace you.
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Chris Grainger: Ever.
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Chris Grainger: And sermons are important.
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Chris Grainger: We want to hear God's word.
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Chris Grainger: I love, love when God's word is unpacked appropriately, but it can't replace daily example.
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Chris Grainger: It just cannot.
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Chris Grainger: And it cannot replace your presence.
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Chris Grainger: So guys, open the Bible.
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Chris Grainger: Pray at the table.
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Chris Grainger: Talk about Jesus naturally.
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Chris Grainger: You don't have to make it some weird thing.
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Chris Grainger: Bring your kids to church for sure.
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Chris Grainger: And then afterwards do like I do with my young'uns.
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Chris Grainger: Hey, what'd y'all, what'd you, what was your takeaway?
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Chris Grainger: What did you hear?
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Chris Grainger: Or from my younger ones who are in like children's church.
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Chris Grainger: What'd you guys learn today?
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Chris Grainger: Oh, cool.
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Chris Grainger: What stood out to you the most?
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Chris Grainger: Man, you start having conversations like that, bro.
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Chris Grainger: It just changes everything.
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Chris Grainger: Because they see that you're genuinely interested.
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Chris Grainger: And they also see that you see them.
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Chris Grainger: Okay?
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Chris Grainger: And then also just love the mama, man.
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Chris Grainger: I'm telling you, this is one of the big ones, fellas.
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Chris Grainger: I think that we downplay or overlook.
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Chris Grainger: But just love their mama like there ain't no tomorrow, bro.
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Chris Grainger: Just love her like crazy.
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Chris Grainger: And let them see that.
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Chris Grainger: My four-year-old, bro.
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Chris Grainger: And whenever I like when I kiss my my wife, she she just gets this glow on her face.
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Chris Grainger: She just loves it.
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Chris Grainger: She thinks it's so cool.
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Chris Grainger: She always asks, she says, Mom, you gonna marry dad?
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Chris Grainger: Like we're already married, but I mean, she in her mind, she just that that's a level of intimacy that is healthy for her to see.
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Chris Grainger: Not to mention I get to kiss my beautiful bride.
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Chris Grainger: So fellas, I'm telling you, lean into these things.
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Chris Grainger: Show them what sincere faith looks like.
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Chris Grainger: Teach them the truth.
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Chris Grainger: Because think about this one for a second as we wrap this up.
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Chris Grainger: The next Timothy may be sitting at your table right now.
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Chris Grainger: You don't never know.
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Chris Grainger: By God's grace, your faithfulness at home right now may echo farther than you'll ever be able to see this side of heaven.
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Chris Grainger: It's just really cool, really, really cool when you think about it, fellas.
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Chris Grainger: So hopefully you're encouraged by that.
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Chris Grainger: And look, question a week is how are you discipling your family beyond Sunday morning?
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Chris Grainger: Okay, we have to disciple them, but not just on Sundays.
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Chris Grainger: And look, at the end of the day, if we're trying to lead our family into the ways of Christ and bring them to know him better, then we first have to really have that relationship with him ourselves.
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Chris Grainger: And that's my prayer for you.
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Chris Grainger: If you're listening to the Lion within us, thank you first and foremost for listening to the podcast.
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Chris Grainger: But if you don't have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you're gonna have a hard time leading your family spiritually.
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Chris Grainger: So I just implore you, I would encourage you to ask yourself the question: who is Jesus to you?
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Chris Grainger: Who is he to you?
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Chris Grainger: If you have any questions about that, we'd love to talk to you.
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Chris Grainger: We'd love to share the good news of the gospel with you, that you are a sinner.
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Chris Grainger: Yeah, but look, the penalty of sin is death, and we can't overcome the sin in our life with good works.
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Chris Grainger: This is where most guys think that this is what we what we try to do, man.
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Chris Grainger: Because guys are fixers.
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Chris Grainger: I mean, I don't know a guy out there that doesn't try to fix stuff.
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Chris Grainger: We don't we like fixing stuff, right?
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Chris Grainger: Problem is we can't fix the sin in our life.
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Chris Grainger: Because we we we I think I have come to this realization lately.
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Chris Grainger: I think we under in our in our finite minds, we can't wrap our heads around the holiness and sovereignty of God.
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Chris Grainger: And because of that, we tr we downplay, we we bring him down to a level that we can understand, and that's a mistake.
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Chris Grainger: And when we bring him down to a level that we that we think we can understand, then all of a sudden, sin becomes not such a big deal in our eyes because we can't understand the holiness of who he is and the standard is that he set from that that that is him.
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Chris Grainger: And well, and that's where we get crossed up.
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Chris Grainger: So all of a sudden we start playing a comparison game.
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Chris Grainger: Like when my sin compared to your sin, or my sin compared to someone on death row or like a career criminal.
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Chris Grainger: Like when we do that, we start feeling relatively good about ourselves, don't we?
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Chris Grainger: Because my sin compared to someone who's sitting on death row, from a worldly standpoint, I'm not that bad.
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Chris Grainger: But the reality is the standard's wrong.
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Chris Grainger: Because me comparing myself to someone who's on death row is the wrong, it's it's the wrong standard to look at, first and foremost.
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Chris Grainger: Because the ultimate standard in comparison is God.
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Chris Grainger: And when I look at my life and the things I've done in my life, and I compare that to a holy and righteous guy, bro, 10 out of 10, I fall short every time.
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Chris Grainger: I just do.
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Chris Grainger: And so do you.
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Chris Grainger: So do you.
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Chris Grainger: And don't beat yourself up.
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Chris Grainger: That's just a reality of the sin nature that we live in.
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Chris Grainger: But at the end of the day, so if we fall short of the glory of God, like, and then we try to overcome it with the good good works in our life, and look, I'm pro-good works, bro.
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Chris Grainger: I'm pro I want you to do some good stuff.
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Chris Grainger: I want you to help some folks out there.
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Chris Grainger: I just don't want you to think that that's earning any type of right standing with our Heavenly Father, because it's not.
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Chris Grainger: It's just, it just isn't.
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Chris Grainger: So what do you do?
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Chris Grainger: Well, you need a Savior to do for you what you can't do for yourself.
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Chris Grainger: And this is why we make such a big deal about Jesus.
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Chris Grainger: Because he is the Messiah.
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Chris Grainger: He is a Savior who came to take away the sin of the world, who was born of a virgin, performed all the different miracles and signs and teachings, fulfilled all the prophecies, and then went to the cross and willingly gave up his life for you, for me, for the entire world.
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Chris Grainger: Because he loves us so much.
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Chris Grainger: That's Jesus.
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Chris Grainger: Then he died on the cross, he paid the penalty for our sin right there on the cross, and he died.
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Chris Grainger: And everything is covered by his perfect blood.
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Chris Grainger: So your sins paid for.
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Chris Grainger: This is who we serve, this is who we honor, this is our Lord.
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Chris Grainger: He defeated death.
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Chris Grainger: Jesus Christ.
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Chris Grainger: So that right now, he's at the right hand of the Father.
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Chris Grainger: There's no other name under heaven that's been given among men by which we must be saved.
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Chris Grainger: He is the way, the truth, and the life.
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Chris Grainger: No one gets to the Father except through him.
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Chris Grainger: Period.
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Chris Grainger: That's Jesus.
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Chris Grainger: So we have to make it, it's like decision-making time now.
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Chris Grainger: All right, what are we going to do with this information?
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Chris Grainger: If we believe this to be true, if we recognize this to be true, what are we going to do with it?
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Chris Grainger: Well, it really starts as very simple, just understanding the sin that you have in your life and just calling it out.
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Chris Grainger: I'm a sinner.
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Chris Grainger: I just am.
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Chris Grainger: There's a world we don't use a lot these days, but we wouldn't that's and that's permanent evil one.
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Chris Grainger: But just call it out.
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Chris Grainger: I'm a sinner.
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Chris Grainger: Period.
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Chris Grainger: First, you know, full stop right there.
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Chris Grainger: And I need a savior.
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Chris Grainger: And I recognize I can't save myself.
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Chris Grainger: So I'm a sinner and need of a savior.
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Chris Grainger: And I believe that Jesus is who he says he is.
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Chris Grainger: And I believe that what he did when he left heaven on the rescue mission for me, that somehow it counts for me.
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Chris Grainger: I believe that.
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Chris Grainger: And then once you once you kind of get those two initial items covered, it comes down to confessing him as Lord and Savior of your life.
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Chris Grainger: Saying, Jesus, I don't know why you did it.
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Chris Grainger: Because I definitely don't feel like I'm worth it.
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Chris Grainger: But I'm so thankful that you did it.
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Chris Grainger: And I'm on I'm confessing to you, I'm bowing my to you.
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Chris Grainger: You are Lord over my life.
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Chris Grainger: Not Lord over some Sunday morning for an hour or Wednesday night for an hour, but Lord over my life.
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Chris Grainger: So every day of the week, every waking moment you give me until my time is up here on earth, you're Lord.
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Chris Grainger: In the bedroom, in the boardroom, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, wherever you find yourself.
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Chris Grainger: And traffic, can I get amen on that one?
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Chris Grainger: You're Lord of my life.
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Chris Grainger: And when you do that and confess him as Lord and truly put him at the center, the peace that passes all understanding will flood your mind and your hearts because you're in him.
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Chris Grainger: He's in you.
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Chris Grainger: And that's my prayer for you.
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Chris Grainger: So if you're listening to this and you're a dad and you listen to this to this SKO podcast, and you're encouraged, and you recognize you've never truly surrendered your life to a lordship of Jesus Christ.
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Chris Grainger: Let's just do it right now.
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Chris Grainger: You may be in the truck, you may be on a trip, I don't know where you're at.
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Chris Grainger: But now could be the moment that changes your life forever.
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Chris Grainger: So let's just pray and invite him in, the Prince of Peace, into your life.
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Chris Grainger: So, Father, I don't know who's listening right now.
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Chris Grainger: But there was there's I have a feeling there's one man who's at the end of his rope.
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Chris Grainger: And he's recognizing his ways just have not been working.
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Chris Grainger: And he's finally to the point of surrender.
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Chris Grainger: And Lord, that point of surrender looks different for a lot for every one of us.
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Chris Grainger: He's recognizing his need for a savior.
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Chris Grainger: So as he's calling out to you, Lord, and confessing you as Lord of his life, I'm just praying for this brother.
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Chris Grainger: I'm just praying you put a hedge protection around him.
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Chris Grainger: Because I know the evil one's not happy right now.
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Chris Grainger: I just pray you keep this man safe.
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Chris Grainger: Encourage him.
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Chris Grainger: Put some people in his life that will just that will disciple him, that will help him on the journey that he is starting right here, to now, today.
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Chris Grainger: And God, we love you so much.
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Chris Grainger: We know that uh outside of you, we're nothing.
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Chris Grainger: So I just pray for this man right now.
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Chris Grainger: I'm so thankful for this opportunity to point him to you, the author and perfecter of life.
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Chris Grainger: We love you, God.
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Chris Grainger: We praise you in Jesus' name.
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unknown: Amen.
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Chris Grainger: All right.
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Chris Grainger: So look, if you just accepted Christ, touchdown first and foremost.
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Chris Grainger: And I know some of you who listen to the SKO podcast, you know I'm going to do a little bit of a gospel presentation every week.
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Chris Grainger: And I'm not going to apologize because each and every week, I never know who's going to be listening.
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Chris Grainger: And we don't put we we want to make the main thing the main thing, and the main thing around the line within us is Jesus Christ.
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Chris Grainger: Period.
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Chris Grainger: So we just so thankful.
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Chris Grainger: If you just accepted Christ, I'd love to hear from you.
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Chris Grainger: You can send me an email, Chris, at the linewithin.us.
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Chris Grainger: I'd love to see that email.
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Chris Grainger: Love to send you some encouragement, some resources, pray for you.
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Chris Grainger: Just be a just be a um uh part of your cheering, cheering lead, uh a cheerleader for you as you start your discipleship journey.
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Chris Grainger: So let us know, fellas.
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Chris Grainger: Love love to hear from you.
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Chris Grainger: And I will say this as we wrap up.
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Chris Grainger: Me and my wife have agreed to how many events I can do each month.
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Chris Grainger: So look, fellas, at this point, let's let's let's fill the calendar up.
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Chris Grainger: Right now, we're booked out through October.
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Chris Grainger: We're booked out through October.
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Chris Grainger: So we're looking November on.
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Chris Grainger: November and then to 2027.
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Chris Grainger: So love to connect with you, love to hear how I can serve.
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Chris Grainger: If you think you'd be interested in that, send me an email, Chris at thelinewithin.us, or support at thelinewithin.us.
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Chris Grainger: And I'd love to talk to you about that and see how I can come along to serve.
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Chris Grainger: All right, guys.
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Chris Grainger: I hope you have a great day.
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Chris Grainger: Thanks so much for listening.
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