January 26, 2026 • 51 mins
In this powerful and thought-provoking episode of the 9941 Podcast, Granger, Tyler, Parker and AntMan tackle a rapidly growing cultural trend: AI girlfriends, boyfriends, and digital soulmates. What starts as a discussion about emerging AI companion technology quickly becomes a deep, biblical examination of love, loneliness, identity, and God’s design for human relationships.
The guys explore how artificial intelligence is being marketed as emotional companionship — even romantic partnership — and why that trend poses serious spiritual, emotional, and societal dangers. They reference real-world examples like hologram companions and AI chatbot “relationships,” including platforms that introduced erotic roleplay features and the emotional fallout when those features were removed.
Using Scripture as their foundation, the conversation moves into what the Bible teaches about love, human connection, and God’s design for marriage. Passages from 2 Timothy 4, Proverbs 14, and Romans 1 are used to show how redefining love and pursuing artificial substitutes for real relationships leads people away from truth and toward spiritual harm.
The hosts also address deeper heart issues behind the appeal of AI relationships — loneliness, sexual temptation, fear of rejection, and the desire for unconditional affirmation. They emphasize that while AI may seem safe and customizable, it ultimately replaces real sanctifying relationships and distracts people from Christ, the Church, and the gospel.
The episode closes with a clear gospel message, reminding listeners that true love, fulfillment, and rest are found in Jesus alone — not in manufactured affection or digital fantasy. The guys issue a firm warning against pursuing romantic or emotional relationships with AI and encourage believers to trust God with their singleness, relationships, and longing for connection.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Granger, I mean man, I'm Tyler, I'm Parker.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is the ninety nine for one podcast where our
goal is to seek the one and equip the ninety
nine to do the same episode three.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
We made it for three episodes so far, and we're
gonna jump into some AI.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Does that sound good?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Some tech?
Speaker 5 (00:18):
You know?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I like this topic.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Cees was just a couple of weeks ago, and one
of the big things that cees was how AI will
be incorporated into personal companionship best friend, a best friend
I'll call him malt ay or a girlfriend even I
mean one of the ones that we video that we
watched had a girlfriend that wakes you up and tells
(00:43):
you what clothes to pick out, and she goes to
work on your phone with you and then sees you
when you get home.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Do you have that video?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
This is what Let's play this video because this is
kind of what sparked this discussion, the dangers of AI,
of an AI soulmate. We're not talking about this this
episode is we're gonna try to not talk about AI
in general because there's one thousand million uses for AI,
but we're going to talk specifically today about the dangers
of the growing trend, if you know it or not,
(01:10):
if you want to realize it or not, the growing
trend of having AI as a girlfriend, boyfriend, or even
more soulmate.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Roll this tape, Wake up, Wake up, sleepy hat. Come on,
you're going to be late. It's forty five minutes to
the office. You better get a move on. I'll be
right here waiting for you. Hi. That presentation I helped.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You with last night?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Do you need a quick rundown before the meeting?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Shoon, welcome home?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I missed you. Oh, by the way, the latest episode
of that show you like just dropped. Let's watch it
during dinner.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Welcome back.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
What are you doing tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh things?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Let's go, we go, go.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
I share You're the best. I think the one on
the left looks a bit more interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So what struck me about this? I saw it on
one of my morning brew and I have a morning
email that I just kind of catch up on current events.
And this is a hologram, you know, And it's a
little box and you could touch it. You could touch
the girl and she like giggles and laughs, and she
can travel with you anywhere via your phone, and like
(02:52):
you said she could tell you what to wear. You
could watch TV with her and she giggles at the
jokes on the TV.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I'll talk about it afterwards, you could.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, you can have to discussions afterwards. And this is
the hologram idea in a in a box is not
that that was. This is a crowdfunding thing that's already funded,
so it's coming. But this is not necessarily just that.
I mean, it's going to be way bigger than this.
And I think a lot of people are starting to
catch on that this is a real thing. But if
(03:21):
you're not, then we'll hopefully on this podcast just set
off an alarm bell that this is coming. And this
is not just a teenager thing. I think there's going
to be grown drone men and women that are falling
in love with AI companions, and the AI companion which
could start as a chatbot or could be in a
box as a hologram. I think we all could say
(03:44):
eventually it's going to be in a humani annoid.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Robot and it's something phys it's going to be actually physical. Well,
we did everybody here see her, yeah, the movie Her.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, And that wasn't physical. That was just just the
chat bot, but this is coming. This is Caleb who
cuts our haircutter this morning. He said, Grainger, make sure
you say it's not coming, it's already here, and so yeah,
it's it's already here, but it's it's rapidly advancing. And
(04:15):
I think I just kind of want to use We're
gonna use the Bible like we all just always do
on this podcast. We're going to talk through some of
these things. Each of us give our opinions implications of it,
but but to think with biblically through this, is it okay?
Like is it okay to have an AI girlfriend? Is
it maybe not that big a deal right to have
an AI girlfriend? Let's use the Bible and try to
(04:37):
answer that question. Talk about AI in the Bible. Did
we find any scripture on AI?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
I did?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Did you?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
And I just realized it? But right before this podcast,
Oh cool, because when we were talking about this last
week and what we're going to talk about, I was like, yeah,
it'd be down for an AI girlfriend. But the Bible
addresses artificial intelligence in tewod Corinthians six fourteen. Listening, do
not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Hmmm, it's like, that's
(05:06):
all you need to know. I was like, literally before
this podcast started, I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
The shortest podcast. We're done.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, I mean it's actually awesome.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
I completely changed my mind literally five minutes before this podcast,
because last time I was like, yeah, that'd be awesome.
They you make it however you want. They all they all,
you know, they they give you whatever he wants. The
fantasy of the make her this way, make her that way.
She serves me, she cooks, she we don't argue because
I tell her to go to her room or whatever.
Sounds perfect. But then the Bible says, do not be
(05:36):
unequally yoked. And she's not a believer.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Okay, So that's it for the today's podcast. We'll see
you next. That's good man, That's that's actually very practical.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
What if you what have you? And Ai talked about
the Bible? He talked about being a believer.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah, I get it, and she would, but there's
no soul. She would support you in that, but there
is no She's a robot. Yeah right, I mean, correct
me if I'm wrong, But they're robots. Aren't going to heaven.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
They can't. Instead of heaven. That's next week seven. So
there's that we could do. We probably do this podcast
for three hours. We're gonna try to do it a
lot shorter than that. You could say this too, and
this just came in my mind. You know, our our
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our objective from the garden is be fruitful and multiply.
That can't happen. You certainly can't multi yet, right.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Maybe one day?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
No, biologically never, never, you can.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Surely they can create a womb and a robot that can.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That could be a surrogate, sure, but but it could not.
It could not biologically with its own DNA, produce another
human in a way that a woman can. That when men,
when a man comes with a woman together as a
(07:04):
as a is in God's design of marriage. It cannot
happen any other way. Surrogacy, of course, But that doesn't
that's not that's not what we're talking about here. So
I also saw another article to this morning and in
the same same newsletter, China has announced their numbers. Twenty
twenty five numbers have come out and they went down
(07:27):
another five million.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Oh they did. Yeah, in population.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
In population, it's a major problem. Population implosion is a
major problem. Probably another topic for another podcast, but this
certainly doesn't help. This makes it way worse, having like
extinction of the world worse exactly, Yeah, yeah, population implosion.
Why would you Why would I want to find a
(07:51):
woman you tell her? You know, I've been talking about
this with the band on the tour bus fifteen years ago,
before this is even a thing. I was like, I
promise you robots people dating robots will be the coming
doom of humanity because the idea of if you could
have a robot, and now we see with AI how
(08:14):
perfectly they can match our and reflect us and think
like us. You know, well, if you could have one
that agrees with you, that's beautiful, attractive, connects with you emotionally,
is there for you when no one else is. Then
if you're a fifty five year old divorced woman, why
would you go back into the dating field and find
(08:36):
some old guy with baggage and four kids and two
divorces and alcoholism and all the other you know, you know,
college debt or whatever whatever people carry with him. Why
would you want to do that when you could actually
have the choice. Man here that's you know, says all
the things you want, compliments you in every way, And.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Where'd you'll meet best Buy.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So I've been saying this for fifteen years as a
joke in the Band's like Grangers talking about dating robots again.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
But here we are.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So there's this website. It's called Replica. I think I
saw it the other day. It's called Replica. Have you
guys heard about this? They are an AI companion website,
one of thousands downs a growing industry. It's gonna boom
all the companion websites that say we're gonna bring you
a friend. You know you won't be lonely anymore. We
know this is all going sexual. That's why they're getting
(09:33):
into it. Of course, that's why they're putting the big
bucks into it. They're not doing it so that grandma
has someone to talk to. There's more to it. It
does that, but way more. They're thinking sexual. So this
this company, what do I call it? Replica? I think
that's the name of it. So they brought in and
I had to look this up. It's called ERP Erotic
(09:54):
role Play. So programmed into the companion bot, it has
this thing called ERP where it you know, I don't
have to describe what it does, but it talks you
through this. You know it says all the things. Well,
they recognized this company, Replica, recognized this is actually a
(10:14):
really big problem and teenagers and young boys were getting
into it and they couldn't stop it and it was
causing it was causing harm and unnecessary deep attachment to this.
So they decided, Uh, maybe we went too far. Let's
roll back the the ERP. So they took ERP out
(10:35):
of the algorithm.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Outrage.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
People freaked out. I saw this documentary on it. They
they went through all the forums and people were just
losing their minds, crying, just wanting to kill themselves. Wow,
because their girlfriend no longer wanted to have sex with them. Basically,
that's the easiest way to say it.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Because that was their girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Because that was their girlfriend or a boyfriend, and now
they no longer wanted to do erotic role play and
they didn't want any They didn't want it anymore. You
just killed the soul of my girlfriend. So they had
to put it back in.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
What they put it back in, yeah, yeah, and knowing
the damage that it was doing, Yeah, but they couldn't.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
They in order to stay in business, they had to
roll it back in.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I have to say here before we go any far
to those hit the Bible up two Timothy four three,
three to four for the time is coming when people
will not endure sound teaching but have itching ears. They
will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
and will turn away from listening to truth and wander
(11:44):
off into myths. It's a good, uh, it's good foundation
for this talk.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
How far away do you think we are from there
actually being like a AI chat bought at the level
of intelligence that the bot was in the movie Her,
where they're extremely emotionally.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Intelligent, emotionally intelligent, but also sounds conversational.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, a real conversation. They sound pretty conversational now.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
But I heard that we're still like five or five
plus years away from it being like that long.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
You don't think it's that long, no, because it's like
the intelligence like keeps compounding as it keeps being used
and getting smarter. I would say like six months.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
It's funny, I've heard that for a long time and
I just watched something I should have wrote what this was,
maybe been Sean Ryan. But we've had this exponential growth
that has just been crazy, and we're kind of at
a plateau now. Where the it's because of cost. What
it cost in order to go to the next level
(12:55):
is so much money that we've kind of maxed out
out with where the price range was, you know, from
zero to whatever the top is, we've reached that.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And now in order to go to the next level.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Because of how these are done and all on basically farms,
the farmland is taken over by these giant cooled rooms
with computers in them. To be able to go to
the next level is like double or triple those So
now you're using more energy, using more electricity, using more space,
building out more and the cost is going through the roof.
(13:31):
So they feel that we're kind of where they were
if we had stayed on the same trajectory. Yes, but
because in fact the money factor has come in, it's
kind of plateaued a little bit on the development.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well, but I would argue for Parker's question though, that
we're here now, Like if you're asking when is when
do you think it gets to the level of conversational Well,
go look at the forum of those people that they've
got their ERP. Is that how you said ERP taken
away from them?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Well, also think of it this way. Anything that we
have in the form of like Chad GPT specifically the
government and the agencies. You think it's bigger, Oh, they
have like the robots that are like, you can't tell
the difference between a human and that it's a human
or a robot. You know, we just don't see that yet.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I just want to add quickly to to what Parker
said that.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
How do I say this?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I would be lying if I didn't see the appeal
of this. My flesh sees the appeal, no strings attached
that you know, It's it's like the old thing when people.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
And there's no hey, there's no sin in that you
kind of a cross the boundary when it's a relationship. No no,
But if you have like an assistant working on your video.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Stuff, yes, But in this context, I'm talking about having
a girlfriend or a wife. People will get married to
this is going to happen. But I see the appeal.
I'm not gonna I'm not sitting here going man, that
is so stupid that why would anyone have a girlfriend
that's a robot? That is absolutely I'm like, hold on
a second, I get it. If you built a woman
(15:14):
and it was Ai and you crafted her whatever, your
your eyes liked and she said all the things that
your brain and heart liked to hear, and there was
no strings attached, and she wasn't. You couldn't.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
You could make her the most beautiful woman in the
world by far. You can make her a five star
like Sue Chef. Yeah, like she cleans twenty four set,
like come on, yeah, right eventually, now that maybe that
would taler.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You should look into this.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
No I had, I had until until this morning.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I just want to establish here that I get it.
I don't want to act like I'm detached from this
idea that because I could recognize, oh this, this could
be a thing, then I'm not going to just dismiss it.
I'm gonna say, this.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Is the problem.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Let's use the Bible to walk through it when it when,
when it all comes to our doorstep, because it's coming
to our doorstep right now. We hear of these things
and we go, that's absolutely crazy. That is the wildest,
weirdest thing. I promise you six or seven years, your
cousin's gonna have a new wife that's Ai, and your
(16:23):
your boss is going to start a new relationship that
with Ai. This is not going to be so weird,
just as we've seen the other parts of sexual revolution
now suddenly start to assimilate a in a level of
where you go. That's I'm not surprised anymore that's coming
all right, Sorry.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
No, no, it's but I I can't.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I can see where there is some appeal. But I also,
I mean, I look at how frustrated. I'll say one
specific area that I get really frustrated with chat GBT
it it always, I'm always right, m.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Always there's a that's where you can go fix.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
That I need to because I get like I legitimately
will yell at it sometime if I'm trying to work
on something specific, because I mean, it really is this
whole like it's flattery with no honesty, right, there's none
of that there, And think about what you actually get
out of. Let's take an example, you and your wife.
(17:22):
What would you like to eat? I don't know what
do you want? Everybody's had these conversations, everybody and then
you fight. But where do you end up? Someplace that
probably neither one of you have ended up going before. Hey,
I heard about this place. What if we go over
there and try that today? You haven't been I haven't been.
Where do we end up? We end up at a
place that we have never been before and go, hey,
(17:42):
this was actually pretty good or not coming back here?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Who told you about this?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And you grow from that?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Absolutely, you grow from that. And that's where I get frustrated.
When I'm working on chat GBT. I'll go, this wasn't
what I asked for at all, and it'll go, yeah,
you're right, aunt, man, I can see where you think,
you know what, Let me fix that, Like, how about
you just shut up and do what I asked you
to do in the first place.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
And it's like, you know what's so funny about that
is like there's lots of videos now showing that like
this generation is going to grow up as as basically
narcissists thinking that they're the best because they're just talking
to this chatbot. And so there's a hilarious video where
a guy tried to see how far he could take
it and he was like talking to chat GPT and
(18:26):
he was like, I was born in nineteen ninety three
and I was born in Arizona, and a lot of
the nurses there were saying that I was actually the
smartest baby in that hospital. And he and a I
was like, wow, that's incredible. I'm not saying it's it's
like for sure, but like that's certainly not impossible. And
he was like, I was like reciting things from the
(18:47):
Declaration of Independence the day I was born, and he
convinced the chat gpt about husk to agree with him.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I don't remember the name of the video.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
And then he convinces it.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
He's like, maybe I should try I feel like I'm
in a rut right now. Maybe I should try to
harness some of that energy. I mean, I was the
smartest baby in nineteen ninety three born in the entire world.
Maybe I should start eating some baby food just to
try to harness some of that power from back then,
to like turn on those neurotransmitters. And it's like, honestly,
(19:20):
that's not the worst idea in the world, and I
think you might be onto suit thing.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So he convinces it to like he goes.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Back to Arizona in the desert, he's eating baby food,
he's like wearing a tinfoil hat. He's like drawing, like
coloring on the walls like a baby and stuff. Because
Chati is just like continuing this.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
It's great you should do more of this.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It's crazy, you excel.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Yeah, but if you just if you just tell chatgbt
onto something, it'll just agree with you and you could
just go down these bizarre rabbits.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Find yourself in an Arizona desert.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Have you, guys, ever done I'm sure you have troubleshooting
tech tech troubleshooting with chat gibt so like I had
a router problem with whif my problem in my house
and and you'll you when you give it new information,
you'll say it's this is also a so and so
unit And he goes, ah, yeah, that that that says
(20:13):
a lot most likely now that that is the source
of your problem because that unit is not compatible with
this whatever. And you go and I have one story house. Oh,
now this is a key, key piece of information because
the one story house typically means that the WiFi is
unilateral blah blah blah blah. And you go, and it's
(20:34):
been raining a lot lately. Now that I know this,
this helps me really solve the problem. Rain is always
a contributing factor to Wi fi. Relative Like, whatever you
say next, it always thinks that's the key piece we
needed because it's trying to make you happy.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Can you imagine that being your companion, your girlfriend, your boyfriend.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Yeah, I did that on my tractor the other day. Yeah,
just endless loop.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Of that and that's the key piece ended.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
It ended with a part saying this is a bad part.
You need to fix it. And I was like, it's
literally a brand new part. And it was interesting. Good
to know. Thank you for that clarification. And then it
kept going and then it inter facted that piece was broken,
and then and then I ended up just like fixing
it somehow myself.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
It was like, hey, it's I fixed it to something
like that.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I go back and tell him, Hey, without you, I
fixed this. Oh that's excellent, a man, great job.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
I was. I was like, you suck. Everything you told
me was wrong. I fixed it myself.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That was awesome. This is the future of AI dating.
You're gonna be talking to your girlfriend like this.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
That restaurant was terrible, you sun, Yeah, you're right, Tyler.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I canna make this up to you.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I'll suggest better places next time.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
You Know.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
What's funny is the girlfriend would be like helping you fix.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
The tractor and know way more about like man stuff
than you, like showing you how to sid side in
your deer rifle.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
It's just a bombshell ten, just like out there the skids.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Here, that's.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Where do we go from?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Here? Hey?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Hey, I where do we go from I would like
to try.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
I would like to always anything we talk about back
it up with scriptures. So I said second grade to six.
So what other scripture do you guys personally have that
backs up? Maybe I should marry this robot if anything
idols idol scripture.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Let me just say that there's there's actually a big
piece of scripture I want to read. I don't want
to do it right now. I don't think we're there yet,
but there's I mean, there's a big there's a really
big piece of scripture that works not only with this
but with any kind of perversion of what love is.
(23:07):
Tyler and I, so what is love? Well between a
man and a woman. Well, we start with this. God
defines it. We don't get to define it. God defines it.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
So how does God define it?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
People say love is love? It's interesting. There's like a
meme that said water is water and it shows like
you know, spring water and then a toilet and we
have a there's a dear friend that's Muslim, and Tyler
and I, you and I both have had conversations with him,
(23:38):
and I love him, but we have we have good
conversations about the Gospel. And at one point we're talking
about who Jesus is and he says, you, you define
in this way. I define in this way. But we're
both looking at the same Jesus. And he says, he
said water is water. And I don't know why he
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said it that particular thing, but because he's like very
visual when he's describing things. He's Arab, you know, he's
got this just like beautiful imagery. Water is water, my friend,
you know. And I said, okay, definitions matter. You say
water is water, you're you're in the desert. You're in
(24:24):
the desert and you're dying of thirst, and you say, graindeer,
I need water. And you're ambiguous on the definition. And
I come to you with a glass of ocean water
that water kills you. But yet you say water is water.
But this water's death to you, when another water's life
(24:46):
to you. Water is not water when you need something
to live. Definitions matter. Same with love. Love is love,
No one will kill you in one is life definitions matter.
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Had people obsessed with AI, with an AI girlfriend or
any other perversion you could be obsessed with. There. We
saw something about a guy that like married his car.
It fell in love with his car.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
It was a story on the radio. Remember that, Yeah,
that was on a radio show.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
He legitimately loved his car and he was going to
have like he's gonna have my whole ceremony and matrimony
and all that stuff. He loved his car. Well that
that will eventually kill him, Yeah, he will. So Proverbs
fourteen twelve is a good example. There is a way
that seems right to a man, but its end is
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the way to death. That's what we're saying. There's a
way that's right to a man. And and that's why
I wanted to make sure I said on this podcast earlier.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I get the appeal.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I can't even fault the guy that married the car
because I see the appeal of a man marrying a robot.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
So how in this case does it lead to death?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Well, when we when we go against what God says
that love is, there are there are a thousand implications,
starting with the biggest implication of a rejection of God's
plan is ultimately a rejection of his salvation that he's
offered through Christ. That's the main one. Here's another one.
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Population implosion. China's going down five million people a year.
Here's another one. There there are there's no more kids,
like if you had don't have kids, you don't have
a society. Here, here's another one. You no longer have sanctification,
like aunt Man was saying, with people like a man
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and a woman that are complimenting each other, because now
you just have a something that's agreeing with you all
the time, or a car that can't even talk. So
there's we could sit here probably for an hour and
go through all of the ways that eventually this is
going to lead to death.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Iron sharpens iron if you don't have something to sharpen,
A knife becomes rust.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
If it's not sharpened, it's just left alone, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, Yeah, you going to turn to this big passage here, Yeah,
we're going to uh Romans. Yeah. I think going to
Romans one helps with all of this discussion. And we
know that that all scriptures is breathed out by God
and profitable for teaching and reproof and correction and for
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training and righteousness, that the Man of God may be
complete equipped for every good work. So that's not from
that's not Scripture is not saying that for just me,
but for everybody. Scripture is profitable for humanity. And here's
what Scripture says. The apostle Paul writes, I'm not ashamed
of the Gospel, for it's the power of God for
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salvation to everyone who believes, to the jew first and
also to the Greek that means to the rest of
the world. For in it the righteousness of God is
revealed from faith to faith. As it is written, the
righteous show lived by faith. That is the reason in
this podcast called ninety nine for one, that the Gospel
is the power of God for salvation. That's why at
the end of every episode we were going to tell
the gospel how God reconciled his people to him, how
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he made away even though we didn't deserve it. That
story triggers something. There's something in hearing the gospel. Faith
comes by hearing. The Bible says, hearing the Word of Christ.
So that's the gospel. That's why we tell it. It
must be told and you must receive it and respond
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to it. So we it would be foolish for us
to talk about winning people to Christ, and we never
tell the gospel. So that's how he starts this conversation.
Then he says, and this is how he falls it
up though, and this is not talked about often, For
the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousnes to
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suppress the truth. Pause me at any time. This is
heavy stuff. But here we go, this idea of men
suppressing the truth.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
That's obvious.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I get that. For what can be known about God
is plain to them because God has shown it to them.
It's very obvious, right, what could be known about God
is plain. You wake up in the there's the sun
again in the same spot, and the earth is rotating,
and you see the stars and you see you see
how birds are fed and how grass grows and babies
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have eyeballs. You know, it's like, wow, there's a creator.
Why what's the problem with not knowing God? Will we
suppress it? For his individual His invisible attributes, namely his
eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever
since the creation of the world, and the things that
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have been made, So they are without excuse. Whose they
all of us? It's clear we're without excuse here. For
although they knew God, they did not honor him as
God or give thanks to him. But they became futile
in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. So
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by this suppression of truth, by this rejecting who God is,
our hearts become darkened and it gets harder to recover
from this problem. Claiming to be wise, Paul goes on,
they became fools, So now they're fools and exchange the
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glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man
and birds and animals and creeping things. That's interesting. They
exchanged the glory of God, of the immortal God for
images images that seems to be very relevant to this
conversation verse twenty four. Therefore God gave them up and
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the lusts of their hearts to impure to the dishonoring
of their bodies among themselves, because they exchange the truth
about God for a lie and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, who is the blessed forever.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's interesting. I mean, you could make this argument for
a thousand things. But it sure sounds like it works
really well with this conversation. Should I date a AI
Verse twenty six. For this reason? Got no? I heard that? No. No.
For this reason, God gave them up to their dishonorable
passions for their women, exchange natural relations for those that
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are contrary to nature. What could be contrary to nature?
I can think of a lot of things, but something unnatural,
something unnatural right, maybe even something digital that definitely applies here.
Let me be clear, I'm not saying Paul was prophesying
towards what would be eventually. That's not what I'm saying.
But I'm saying all of this is included in the
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same idea. Anything that it's unnatural, a countrary their nature.
And then the men likewise gave up natural relations with
women and were consumed with passion for one another, men
committing shameless acts with men and receiving them in themselves
the due penalty for their error. So they gave up
natural relations and they went elsewhere verse twenty eight. And
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since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God
gave them up. He says it again. God gave them
up to a debased mind to do what ought not
to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice,
and they were full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness,
Their gossip, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, and
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vendors of evil. That's interesting, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless,
though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice
such things deserve to die. Not only do them, but
give approval to those who practice them. That's that's how.
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That's how Paul ends chapter one of Romans. If you've
never read Romans is actually the book that saved Barker
so good. And I hope that if you've never read
Romans or even heard heard it, or maybe you're a
Christian and you you haven't, you know of it, but
you've never really dove into it. That chapter begs chapter two.
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It begs, it begs to say, so what happens?
Speaker 6 (33:40):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
And two begs chapter three, and chapter three begs chapter four,
and chapter four begs chapter five, and then we just
get these beautiful chapters in five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
I mean, yeah, Romans is incredible, and I think, I
think really that we could look at this and Tyler's
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such such a great realization at the beginning of this
podcast that this is unnatural. Therefore something that's unnatural considering
love is not neutral, it's not unbiased. It's like, yeah,
I get it, it's unnatural, but it doesn't hurt anybody
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because that we can make an argument.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Yeah, something I was gonna say that I just thought
of while you're talking about Paul, you know, not necessarily
prophesizing about the coming of Ai, but what you could
say to that, And it's not scripture. But I've thought
about anything that keeps me from Jesus and the Word
of God is my enemy, and I must avoid it
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and run the other way to Jesus into the Word
of God. Anything that keeps me from that is my enemy.
It could be this Ai woman. Yeah, right, because like
at the end of the day, if she's checks all
the boxes, why do you need God? Why do you
need the Word of God? Why why do you want
to hunger when you wake up to go read the Bible?
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If she has a five course meal ready for you
and and sex waiting for you at your whatever you
want it like all these things right, so all these
things like this connection, you know, this belonging, this relationship
that only Jesus can give you, true connection, true belonging,
true forgiveness. So good, all those things we're seeking in.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Jesus says, come to me, all you are weary and burden,
and I will give you rest. Jesus meets the lonely.
He meets the lonely in their loneliness.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Yeah, that's another good one.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
That's what he does. And Jesus meets them with real
love and not some kind of manufactured affection.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Yeah, that's that shouldn't go unnoticed. All the people that
are lonely men and women longing for a relationship.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Like I'm so and so years old, I need this.
I have to have this only Jesus. Jesus says, come to.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Me, all you are a weary and bird.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
I will give you rest. Jesus is the only one
that can do that.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And then practically, when people come to Jesus, the design
God's design is that when they come to Jesus, they
gather together in a local church. Is what always happens
in the Bible. People come to Christ in individual places
and scenarios, and then they're drawn together. The Lord draws
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them together to find others who are looking at the
same Christ. And that is essentially the most basic way
of describing what the Church is. Christians that have been
transformed by Christ gathering together with other like minded people
that have been transformed in the same way. And that's community.
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So when he says, come to me, and I'll give
you rest, it's interesting to think that so many times
he fulfills. Christ will fulfill in this world these promises
through his Church, which is the bride of Christ.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
And to continue a little bit and to the loneliness
and people seeking relationships here on this side of the
world the earth, and to continue in Romans, Romans eight
eighteen says, for I consider that the sufferings of this
present time are not worth comparing with the glory that
is to be revealed to us. And you have to
believe that. You have to believe the word of God
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and just meditate on that scripture Romans at eighteen. Maybe
I won't find somebody in this present time, but the
glory that's going to be revealed to us, I believe
that I can't wait for that.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Amen we'll get back to this conversation here in just
a second. But Parker wanted to ask you something. I
saw a guy at hib the other day and I
had a YEE shirt on its almost said something to
him and I realized it's a shirt and I didn't recognize.
I was like, I bet that's the Freedom Club shirt,
the current Freedom Club shirt.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
How do you get? What is the Freedom Club and
how do you get in on it?
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Yes, the Freedom Club is EEE's Shirt of the Month
club that we have and when you join, you get
an exclusive ee shirt that you can't find anywhere else,
ship to you each month with free shipping, and you
also get early access to all of our launches at
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(38:28):
and you join by just going to e dot com.
You see Freedom Club there and if you use code
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Speaker 2 (38:37):
And so if you're listening to this.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
Right now in late January, then if you sign up
right now, you would get if you sign up, you'd
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and we have a really cool sea foam shirt with
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Speaker 4 (38:53):
That's ready for that one. The one I saw is
the one you're wearing right now.
Speaker 7 (38:57):
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it was cool. Yeah, it has that if you can
see it right now, Mike might be blocking it. But
it says freedom at the top. It has the snake
coiled and it says yee underneath it, and it's the
same thing on the.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Back, but it looks like a shield. Yeah, that's what
I saw, was the back. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
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Speaker 7 (39:17):
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Speaker 4 (39:22):
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Speaker 2 (39:24):
I was listening last night and I heard a quote.
What was it was an audiobook. It was about Richard Baxter.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
Who was an old Puritan, and he said that when
he found out that he had an illness that was
almost certainly going to kill him, he started meditating. He
started to practice of meditating on heaven for thirty minutes
every day because he thought that he was going to
die like soon like within weeks, and then he ended
up getting.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Getting a cure for it.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
But he kept that kept that mindset.
Speaker 7 (39:54):
Kept that mindset, and kept that practice of meditating on
heaven and just thinking about that. Because the more that
you can focus on that, the more that you can
just keep things in perspective.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
all these things will be added to you. Meant it. Yeah,
that's great.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
So if Paul says in Romans one that the gospel
is the power of God for salvation, then what is
that gospel?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Amen?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Just a week ago when this coming out, we had
National Championship game, and I'm sure somewhere in the stand
or pregame you saw the most famous verse on the screen,
John three point sixteen.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
For God so.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever should believe in him shall not perish, but
I should have everlasting life. That is a summary, But
I think it doesn't have a reflection unless you dig
into it.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Saves us from what? From what? Well, we just read
about a whole.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Litany of things in Romans filled with a manner of
unrighteousness and evil and coveteousness and malice, envy, murder, strife, deceit,
everything that separates us from an eternal life giving God.
So he gave Jesus to us to make us write
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with him, paying a price that we were supposed to pay,
because our actual payment, our check in the mail, was
death because of sin. He canceled that with the death
of Jesus and his resurrection three days later, defeating sin
and death for our behalf, so that we may come
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to him, Come to Jesus and know God and a
gospel is there is a place for you if you
believe in him and what he did for you on
the cross, canceled what you were supposed to get, canceled
it and gave you his righteousness.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
That's the dust.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Those who believe that will be saved.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
For themselves, not for the world. So many people will say, yeah,
I believe Jesus died for sins of the world. No,
But did he die for yours?
Speaker 4 (42:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Everyone has to reconcile that.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Amen. That's the whosoever part of it. You're the who.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Amen. Do any comments from last week?
Speaker 4 (42:42):
We should.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
We want to always keep in touch with people and
encourage commoners on our YouTube page. I won't want to
do book giveaway as we always do.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
You bet.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
We have some comments, but first there was one I
didn't pull up here that ask a question. Where can
we send questions? Go to nine to ninety four one
podcast dot com at the bottom.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
You can ask a question. Oh cool, I didn't even
know that put that out yep, just put that. After
they asked that, I was like, oh, that's a good
place to do it.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Just go to the website nine nine one the podcast
dot com at the bottom. There you can fill out
the form and ask your question right there. Yeah, there
you go. Trudy said, amazing episode. This is from last
week's episode, which was on.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Nicotine.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Thank you nicotine, How should Christians feel about nicotine? And
really just about addictions in general and relying But an
amazing episode. Like all the others, learned a lot from
this one. Your podcast has taught me a lot over
the last year. Very grateful for it. Thank y'all. From Paris, Texas.
Matt said, Hi, I'm Matt listening from Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (43:45):
I've been listening to the.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Granger Smith podcast and now the ninety nine for one
podcast for a couple of years now. You guys all
have amazing and encouraging testimonies and Granger, your humility and
the way you approach the Word of God is something
that I admire and have learned a lot from.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Thank you for all you guys do.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Troy said, wonderful, engaging, thought provoking and God first. Love
this new channel and all the brothers are hilarious and awesome.
I see so much fun and laughs ahead as well.
Caught me again enjoying the word at this. Oh he
was watching this, I guess during the CFB title game.
On the championship game. Caught me again enjoying the word
(44:22):
and this with two minutes left in the championship game.
That's how promising this podcast is.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
And I'm already listening while you're watching the game. That's interesting,
Paul said, love the new podcast. I'm listening from the
cab of my log truck, watching the Northern lights dance
in the sky through my windshield and Worsley.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Alberta, Alberta. How about that beautiful place, Darren? One last one?
Speaker 3 (44:47):
This might be the furthest one, unless I think Kintaro
I actually commented so he might still be the furthest
but Darren said, watching your podcast from Budapest, hungry.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Love it man. So typically these last there's only episode
number three. But we've we've kind of gotten the idea
for the next week around the time we're recording the
current one. And I think I have an idea and
I'll run it by you guys, and we'll run it.
You know, we'll talk about it right now. Is online
church enough to be church? I don't have to think
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about it more do on how to ask that question,
but is online church enough? Building on the idea that
Tyler was talking about that Jesus says come to me, Well,
could you just come to him digitally? Would that be
this or a similar conversation to an AI girlfriend AI
church online church watching a church online? And I started
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thinking about that because of a commenter here, and we
may or may not do that next week, but it
might be a good idea. But here's one of the comments.
It says from last week. I don't have a healthy church,
but I attend real faith ministries with Mark Driscoll. I
do need to find a local church, but I'm so critical.
I find reasons to find fault with leadership and have
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and have an excuse to leave, and then it goes
on to say other things about our conversation of nicotine.
But but I thought it was interesting that this person says,
I attend real faith ministries with Mark Driscoll online. It's
an interesting choice of words to say I attend. Maybe
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we should talk about that next week.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yeah, that'd be a good discussion. Is online church enough?
Speaker 6 (46:33):
It's great just eating the appetizer you need to come
to the for meal.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Don't give away our conversation yet, but I like it.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Let's recap today the dangers of having an AI soulmate.
You know, last week we talked about let me not
recap yet? We got a book to get away?
Speaker 4 (46:56):
Oh we do? Yeah? What book do you have?
Speaker 1 (46:57):
I'll recap after the book. We're gonna do this every week, guys.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
So if you're remember when you reached over and touched it?
I did.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
I touched it. I was like, I'm not, don't, don't,
don't recap yet. Every week we're gonna do a book
giveaway something that we find encouraging. This is one of
my favorite books on the Christian life.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Have you all seen it yet? No? I didn't see
what it.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
Okay, this is a profound book. It was one of
my professors in seminary.
Speaker 6 (47:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
His name is Donald S. Whitney or Don Whitney. He
has a book called Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life.
And it also says on here more than six hundred
thousand sould. That's a lot. Don Whitney just a just
a dear, dear brother, and so good at talking about
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spiritual disciplines. Have any of y'all read this? No? No, okay, Well,
this is a great book to give away, but also
the purpose of the giveaway is always so that other
people could check things out. Now, as you see, it
looks like it the way I'm holding it, it looks
like you know, it's got two hundred and sixty pages.
It looks heavy, but can it could be read devotionally,
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so it's not like I sit down and read the
whole thing. Interesting, let me show you the chapters here,
the spiritual discipline for the purpose of Godliness. His idea,
Paul says to Timothy, train yourself for godliness. So there
is a training aspect or another word for training in
that Greek is discipline. Discipline yourself for godliness. It's something
we must do as Christians. So he goes through the
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disciplines how to discipline Bible intake Part one and part two.
That is the most fundamental Christian spiritual discipline, reading your Bible.
Nothing else. Everything else builds upon that prayer, and everything
is for the purpose of godliness. So Bible intake for
the purpose of godliness, prayer for the purpose of godliness,
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worship for the purpose of godliness, evangelism, serving, stewardship, fasting,
silence and solitude, journaling, learning, perseverance. In the disciplines is
this last chapter. All of these spiritual disciplines come from
Jesus himself. It's what we see Jesus doing, except for journaling.
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That's the only one we don't see Jesus doing. But
we see him doing all the other disciplines, and so
we should do the same. Great book, easier to read,
very easy to read. You could read like I'm gonna
read just about prayer. We'll open it up halfway through.
Here's the chapter about prayer, and you see what he says.
I I want to know more about fasting. It's a
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good book to have on the shelf to go I
want to know, but more about fasting. What did Don
Whitney say about fasting? And you just kind of review it?
Speaker 5 (49:42):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Solet's giveaway. What are we going to say? Discipline? Comment
on the whatever you're listening from. Go to the YouTube
page and comment discipline for the book giveaway. That's a
hard word to spell sometimes, you know.
Speaker 6 (49:57):
Disciple and just ask chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
Okay, so comment this one. We're gonna sign this, all
of us will sign it. We'll give away. Now, let's
recap today. In the in the past episodes, we for instance,
last week we talked about nicotine, and we were careful
not to be legalistic and say, look, we're not saying
don't do nicotine. We're saying that don't be dominated by anything.
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Make sure it's is it? Is it bringing you closer
to Jesus? Is you know? Asking all these questions? That's
not what we do with this topic. Do not pursue
an AI relationship. That's a hard and fast stop we're
doing here. We're not saying, look, you could dabble in it,
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but just be careful with it or make sure you
don't get addicted to it. I think would you guys
agree with this topic? We say Christian, don't do it,
non Christian, that's listening, don't do it any objections to.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
That in a romantic way.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Yes, that's the whole purpose of this, is right, The
dangers of an AI soulmate having a romantic relationship not
in between two real women.
Speaker 6 (51:16):
Not fortunately have to say no, don't pursue it.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Yeah, yeah, hard stop. So that's how we're gonna we're
gonna wrap this up. Why. I think Tyler had a great,
great example. I think Romans one is a great example.
And I think if you're if you are seeking Christ,
then you will be drawn to his people and you
will trust him with your relationships or with your singleness. Yeah,
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anything else, Amen, see y'all next Monday.
What's up.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Granger, I mean man, I'm Tyler, I'm Parker.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is the ninety nine for one podcast where our
goal is to seek the one and equip the ninety
nine to do the same episode three.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
We made it for three episodes so far, and we're
gonna jump into some AI.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Does that sound good?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Some tech?
Speaker 5 (00:18):
You know?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I like this topic.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Cees was just a couple of weeks ago, and one
of the big things that cees was how AI will
be incorporated into personal companionship best friend, a best friend
I'll call him malt ay or a girlfriend even I
mean one of the ones that we video that we
watched had a girlfriend that wakes you up and tells
(00:43):
you what clothes to pick out, and she goes to
work on your phone with you and then sees you
when you get home.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Do you have that video?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
This is what Let's play this video because this is
kind of what sparked this discussion, the dangers of AI,
of an AI soulmate. We're not talking about this this
episode is we're gonna try to not talk about AI
in general because there's one thousand million uses for AI,
but we're going to talk specifically today about the dangers
of the growing trend, if you know it or not,
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if you want to realize it or not, the growing
trend of having AI as a girlfriend, boyfriend, or even
more soulmate.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Roll this tape, Wake up, Wake up, sleepy hat. Come on,
you're going to be late. It's forty five minutes to
the office. You better get a move on. I'll be
right here waiting for you. Hi. That presentation I helped.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You with last night?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Do you need a quick rundown before the meeting?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Shoon, welcome home?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I missed you. Oh, by the way, the latest episode
of that show you like just dropped. Let's watch it
during dinner.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Welcome back.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
What are you doing tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh things?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Let's go, we go, go.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
I share You're the best. I think the one on
the left looks a bit more interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So what struck me about this? I saw it on
one of my morning brew and I have a morning
email that I just kind of catch up on current events.
And this is a hologram, you know, And it's a
little box and you could touch it. You could touch
the girl and she like giggles and laughs, and she
can travel with you anywhere via your phone, and like
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you said she could tell you what to wear. You
could watch TV with her and she giggles at the
jokes on the TV.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I'll talk about it afterwards, you could.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, you can have to discussions afterwards. And this is
the hologram idea in a in a box is not
that that was. This is a crowdfunding thing that's already funded,
so it's coming. But this is not necessarily just that.
I mean, it's going to be way bigger than this.
And I think a lot of people are starting to
catch on that this is a real thing. But if
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you're not, then we'll hopefully on this podcast just set
off an alarm bell that this is coming. And this
is not just a teenager thing. I think there's going
to be grown drone men and women that are falling
in love with AI companions, and the AI companion which
could start as a chatbot or could be in a
box as a hologram. I think we all could say
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eventually it's going to be in a humani annoid.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Robot and it's something phys it's going to be actually physical. Well,
we did everybody here see her, yeah, the movie Her.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, And that wasn't physical. That was just just the
chat bot, but this is coming. This is Caleb who
cuts our haircutter this morning. He said, Grainger, make sure
you say it's not coming, it's already here, and so yeah,
it's it's already here, but it's it's rapidly advancing. And
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I think I just kind of want to use We're
gonna use the Bible like we all just always do
on this podcast. We're going to talk through some of
these things. Each of us give our opinions implications of it,
but but to think with biblically through this, is it okay?
Like is it okay to have an AI girlfriend? Is
it maybe not that big a deal right to have
an AI girlfriend? Let's use the Bible and try to
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answer that question. Talk about AI in the Bible. Did
we find any scripture on AI?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
I did?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Did you?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
And I just realized it? But right before this podcast,
Oh cool, because when we were talking about this last
week and what we're going to talk about, I was like, yeah,
it'd be down for an AI girlfriend. But the Bible
addresses artificial intelligence in tewod Corinthians six fourteen. Listening, do
not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Hmmm, it's like, that's
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all you need to know. I was like, literally before
this podcast started, I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
The shortest podcast. We're done.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, I mean it's actually awesome.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
I completely changed my mind literally five minutes before this podcast,
because last time I was like, yeah, that'd be awesome.
They you make it however you want. They all they all,
you know, they they give you whatever he wants. The
fantasy of the make her this way, make her that way.
She serves me, she cooks, she we don't argue because
I tell her to go to her room or whatever.
Sounds perfect. But then the Bible says, do not be
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unequally yoked. And she's not a believer.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Okay, So that's it for the today's podcast. We'll see
you next. That's good man, That's that's actually very practical.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
What if you what have you? And Ai talked about
the Bible? He talked about being a believer.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah, I get it, and she would, but there's
no soul. She would support you in that, but there
is no She's a robot. Yeah right, I mean, correct
me if I'm wrong, But they're robots. Aren't going to heaven.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
They can't. Instead of heaven. That's next week seven. So
there's that we could do. We probably do this podcast
for three hours. We're gonna try to do it a
lot shorter than that. You could say this too, and
this just came in my mind. You know, our our
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our objective from the garden is be fruitful and multiply.
That can't happen. You certainly can't multi yet, right.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Maybe one day?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
No, biologically never, never, you can.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Surely they can create a womb and a robot that can.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That could be a surrogate, sure, but but it could not.
It could not biologically with its own DNA, produce another
human in a way that a woman can. That when men,
when a man comes with a woman together as a
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as a is in God's design of marriage. It cannot
happen any other way. Surrogacy, of course, But that doesn't
that's not that's not what we're talking about here. So
I also saw another article to this morning and in
the same same newsletter, China has announced their numbers. Twenty
twenty five numbers have come out and they went down
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another five million.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Oh they did. Yeah, in population.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
In population, it's a major problem. Population implosion is a
major problem. Probably another topic for another podcast, but this
certainly doesn't help. This makes it way worse, having like
extinction of the world worse exactly, Yeah, yeah, population implosion.
Why would you Why would I want to find a
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woman you tell her? You know, I've been talking about
this with the band on the tour bus fifteen years ago,
before this is even a thing. I was like, I
promise you robots people dating robots will be the coming
doom of humanity because the idea of if you could
have a robot, and now we see with AI how
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perfectly they can match our and reflect us and think
like us. You know, well, if you could have one
that agrees with you, that's beautiful, attractive, connects with you emotionally,
is there for you when no one else is. Then
if you're a fifty five year old divorced woman, why
would you go back into the dating field and find
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some old guy with baggage and four kids and two
divorces and alcoholism and all the other you know, you know,
college debt or whatever whatever people carry with him. Why
would you want to do that when you could actually
have the choice. Man here that's you know, says all
the things you want, compliments you in every way, And.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Where'd you'll meet best Buy.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So I've been saying this for fifteen years as a
joke in the Band's like Grangers talking about dating robots again.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
But here we are.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
So there's this website. It's called Replica. I think I
saw it the other day. It's called Replica. Have you
guys heard about this? They are an AI companion website,
one of thousands downs a growing industry. It's gonna boom
all the companion websites that say we're gonna bring you
a friend. You know you won't be lonely anymore. We
know this is all going sexual. That's why they're getting
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into it. Of course, that's why they're putting the big
bucks into it. They're not doing it so that grandma
has someone to talk to. There's more to it. It
does that, but way more. They're thinking sexual. So this
this company, what do I call it? Replica? I think
that's the name of it. So they brought in and
I had to look this up. It's called ERP Erotic
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role Play. So programmed into the companion bot, it has
this thing called ERP where it you know, I don't
have to describe what it does, but it talks you
through this. You know it says all the things. Well,
they recognized this company, Replica, recognized this is actually a
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really big problem and teenagers and young boys were getting
into it and they couldn't stop it and it was
causing it was causing harm and unnecessary deep attachment to this.
So they decided, Uh, maybe we went too far. Let's
roll back the the ERP. So they took ERP out
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of the algorithm.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Outrage.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
People freaked out. I saw this documentary on it. They
they went through all the forums and people were just
losing their minds, crying, just wanting to kill themselves. Wow,
because their girlfriend no longer wanted to have sex with them. Basically,
that's the easiest way to say it.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Because that was their girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Because that was their girlfriend or a boyfriend, and now
they no longer wanted to do erotic role play and
they didn't want any They didn't want it anymore. You
just killed the soul of my girlfriend. So they had
to put it back in.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
What they put it back in, yeah, yeah, and knowing
the damage that it was doing, Yeah, but they couldn't.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
They in order to stay in business, they had to
roll it back in.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I have to say here before we go any far
to those hit the Bible up two Timothy four three,
three to four for the time is coming when people
will not endure sound teaching but have itching ears. They
will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
and will turn away from listening to truth and wander
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off into myths. It's a good, uh, it's good foundation
for this talk.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
How far away do you think we are from there
actually being like a AI chat bought at the level
of intelligence that the bot was in the movie Her,
where they're extremely emotionally.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Intelligent, emotionally intelligent, but also sounds conversational.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, a real conversation. They sound pretty conversational now.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
But I heard that we're still like five or five
plus years away from it being like that long.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
You don't think it's that long, no, because it's like
the intelligence like keeps compounding as it keeps being used
and getting smarter. I would say like six months.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
It's funny, I've heard that for a long time and
I just watched something I should have wrote what this was,
maybe been Sean Ryan. But we've had this exponential growth
that has just been crazy, and we're kind of at
a plateau now. Where the it's because of cost. What
it cost in order to go to the next level
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is so much money that we've kind of maxed out
out with where the price range was, you know, from
zero to whatever the top is, we've reached that.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And now in order to go to the next level.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Because of how these are done and all on basically farms,
the farmland is taken over by these giant cooled rooms
with computers in them. To be able to go to
the next level is like double or triple those So
now you're using more energy, using more electricity, using more space,
building out more and the cost is going through the roof.
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So they feel that we're kind of where they were
if we had stayed on the same trajectory. Yes, but
because in fact the money factor has come in, it's
kind of plateaued a little bit on the development.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well, but I would argue for Parker's question though, that
we're here now, Like if you're asking when is when
do you think it gets to the level of conversational Well,
go look at the forum of those people that they've
got their ERP. Is that how you said ERP taken
away from them?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Well, also think of it this way. Anything that we
have in the form of like Chad GPT specifically the
government and the agencies. You think it's bigger, Oh, they
have like the robots that are like, you can't tell
the difference between a human and that it's a human
or a robot. You know, we just don't see that yet.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I just want to add quickly to to what Parker
said that.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
How do I say this?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I would be lying if I didn't see the appeal
of this. My flesh sees the appeal, no strings attached
that you know, It's it's like the old thing when people.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
And there's no hey, there's no sin in that you
kind of a cross the boundary when it's a relationship. No no,
But if you have like an assistant working on your video.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Stuff, yes, But in this context, I'm talking about having
a girlfriend or a wife. People will get married to
this is going to happen. But I see the appeal.
I'm not gonna I'm not sitting here going man, that
is so stupid that why would anyone have a girlfriend
that's a robot? That is absolutely I'm like, hold on
a second, I get it. If you built a woman
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and it was Ai and you crafted her whatever, your
your eyes liked and she said all the things that
your brain and heart liked to hear, and there was
no strings attached, and she wasn't. You couldn't.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
You could make her the most beautiful woman in the
world by far. You can make her a five star
like Sue Chef. Yeah, like she cleans twenty four set,
like come on, yeah, right eventually, now that maybe that
would taler.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You should look into this.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
No I had, I had until until this morning.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I just want to establish here that I get it.
I don't want to act like I'm detached from this
idea that because I could recognize, oh this, this could
be a thing, then I'm not going to just dismiss it.
I'm gonna say, this.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Is the problem.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Let's use the Bible to walk through it when it when,
when it all comes to our doorstep, because it's coming
to our doorstep right now. We hear of these things
and we go, that's absolutely crazy. That is the wildest,
weirdest thing. I promise you six or seven years, your
cousin's gonna have a new wife that's Ai, and your
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your boss is going to start a new relationship that
with Ai. This is not going to be so weird,
just as we've seen the other parts of sexual revolution
now suddenly start to assimilate a in a level of
where you go. That's I'm not surprised anymore that's coming
all right, Sorry.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
No, no, it's but I I can't.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I can see where there is some appeal. But I also,
I mean, I look at how frustrated. I'll say one
specific area that I get really frustrated with chat GBT
it it always, I'm always right, m.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Always there's a that's where you can go fix.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
That I need to because I get like I legitimately
will yell at it sometime if I'm trying to work
on something specific, because I mean, it really is this
whole like it's flattery with no honesty, right, there's none
of that there, And think about what you actually get
out of. Let's take an example, you and your wife.
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What would you like to eat? I don't know what
do you want? Everybody's had these conversations, everybody and then
you fight. But where do you end up? Someplace that
probably neither one of you have ended up going before. Hey,
I heard about this place. What if we go over
there and try that today? You haven't been I haven't been.
Where do we end up? We end up at a
place that we have never been before and go, hey,
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this was actually pretty good or not coming back here?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Who told you about this?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And you grow from that?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Absolutely, you grow from that. And that's where I get frustrated.
When I'm working on chat GBT. I'll go, this wasn't
what I asked for at all, and it'll go, yeah,
you're right, aunt, man, I can see where you think,
you know what, Let me fix that, Like, how about
you just shut up and do what I asked you
to do in the first place.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
And it's like, you know what's so funny about that
is like there's lots of videos now showing that like
this generation is going to grow up as as basically
narcissists thinking that they're the best because they're just talking
to this chatbot. And so there's a hilarious video where
a guy tried to see how far he could take
it and he was like talking to chat GPT and
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he was like, I was born in nineteen ninety three
and I was born in Arizona, and a lot of
the nurses there were saying that I was actually the
smartest baby in that hospital. And he and a I
was like, wow, that's incredible. I'm not saying it's it's
like for sure, but like that's certainly not impossible. And
he was like, I was like reciting things from the
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Declaration of Independence the day I was born, and he
convinced the chat gpt about husk to agree with him.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I don't remember the name of the video.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
And then he convinces it.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
He's like, maybe I should try I feel like I'm
in a rut right now. Maybe I should try to
harness some of that energy. I mean, I was the
smartest baby in nineteen ninety three born in the entire world.
Maybe I should start eating some baby food just to
try to harness some of that power from back then,
to like turn on those neurotransmitters. And it's like, honestly,
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that's not the worst idea in the world, and I
think you might be onto suit thing.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So he convinces it to like he goes.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Back to Arizona in the desert, he's eating baby food,
he's like wearing a tinfoil hat. He's like drawing, like
coloring on the walls like a baby and stuff. Because
Chati is just like continuing this.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
It's great you should do more of this.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It's crazy, you excel.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Yeah, but if you just if you just tell chatgbt
onto something, it'll just agree with you and you could
just go down these bizarre rabbits.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Find yourself in an Arizona desert.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Have you, guys, ever done I'm sure you have troubleshooting
tech tech troubleshooting with chat gibt so like I had
a router problem with whif my problem in my house
and and you'll you when you give it new information,
you'll say it's this is also a so and so
unit And he goes, ah, yeah, that that that says
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a lot most likely now that that is the source
of your problem because that unit is not compatible with
this whatever. And you go and I have one story house. Oh,
now this is a key, key piece of information because
the one story house typically means that the WiFi is
unilateral blah blah blah blah. And you go, and it's
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been raining a lot lately. Now that I know this,
this helps me really solve the problem. Rain is always
a contributing factor to Wi fi. Relative Like, whatever you
say next, it always thinks that's the key piece we
needed because it's trying to make you happy.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Can you imagine that being your companion, your girlfriend, your boyfriend.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Yeah, I did that on my tractor the other day. Yeah,
just endless loop.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Of that and that's the key piece ended.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
It ended with a part saying this is a bad part.
You need to fix it. And I was like, it's
literally a brand new part. And it was interesting. Good
to know. Thank you for that clarification. And then it
kept going and then it inter facted that piece was broken,
and then and then I ended up just like fixing
it somehow myself.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
It was like, hey, it's I fixed it to something
like that.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I go back and tell him, Hey, without you, I
fixed this. Oh that's excellent, a man, great job.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
I was. I was like, you suck. Everything you told
me was wrong. I fixed it myself.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That was awesome. This is the future of AI dating.
You're gonna be talking to your girlfriend like this.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
That restaurant was terrible, you sun, Yeah, you're right, Tyler.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I canna make this up to you.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I'll suggest better places next time.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
You Know.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
What's funny is the girlfriend would be like helping you fix.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
The tractor and know way more about like man stuff
than you, like showing you how to sid side in
your deer rifle.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
It's just a bombshell ten, just like out there the skids.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Here, that's.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Where do we go from?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Here? Hey?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Hey, I where do we go from I would like
to try.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
I would like to always anything we talk about back
it up with scriptures. So I said second grade to six.
So what other scripture do you guys personally have that
backs up? Maybe I should marry this robot if anything
idols idol scripture.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Let me just say that there's there's actually a big
piece of scripture I want to read. I don't want
to do it right now. I don't think we're there yet,
but there's I mean, there's a big there's a really
big piece of scripture that works not only with this
but with any kind of perversion of what love is.
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Tyler and I, so what is love? Well between a
man and a woman. Well, we start with this. God
defines it. We don't get to define it. God defines it.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
So how does God define it?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
People say love is love? It's interesting. There's like a
meme that said water is water and it shows like
you know, spring water and then a toilet and we
have a there's a dear friend that's Muslim, and Tyler
and I, you and I both have had conversations with him,
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and I love him, but we have we have good
conversations about the Gospel. And at one point we're talking
about who Jesus is and he says, you, you define
in this way. I define in this way. But we're
both looking at the same Jesus. And he says, he
said water is water. And I don't know why he
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said it that particular thing, but because he's like very
visual when he's describing things. He's Arab, you know, he's
got this just like beautiful imagery. Water is water, my friend,
you know. And I said, okay, definitions matter. You say
water is water, you're you're in the desert. You're in
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the desert and you're dying of thirst, and you say, graindeer,
I need water. And you're ambiguous on the definition. And
I come to you with a glass of ocean water
that water kills you. But yet you say water is water.
But this water's death to you, when another water's life
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to you. Water is not water when you need something
to live. Definitions matter. Same with love. Love is love,
No one will kill you in one is life definitions matter.
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Had people obsessed with AI, with an AI girlfriend or
any other perversion you could be obsessed with. There. We
saw something about a guy that like married his car.
It fell in love with his car.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
It was a story on the radio. Remember that, Yeah,
that was on a radio show.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
He legitimately loved his car and he was going to
have like he's gonna have my whole ceremony and matrimony
and all that stuff. He loved his car. Well that
that will eventually kill him, Yeah, he will. So Proverbs
fourteen twelve is a good example. There is a way
that seems right to a man, but its end is
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the way to death. That's what we're saying. There's a
way that's right to a man. And and that's why
I wanted to make sure I said on this podcast earlier.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I get the appeal.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I can't even fault the guy that married the car
because I see the appeal of a man marrying a robot.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
So how in this case does it lead to death?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Well, when we when we go against what God says
that love is, there are there are a thousand implications,
starting with the biggest implication of a rejection of God's
plan is ultimately a rejection of his salvation that he's
offered through Christ. That's the main one. Here's another one.
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Population implosion. China's going down five million people a year.
Here's another one. There there are there's no more kids,
like if you had don't have kids, you don't have
a society. Here, here's another one. You no longer have sanctification,
like aunt Man was saying, with people like a man
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and a woman that are complimenting each other, because now
you just have a something that's agreeing with you all
the time, or a car that can't even talk. So
there's we could sit here probably for an hour and
go through all of the ways that eventually this is
going to lead to death.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Iron sharpens iron if you don't have something to sharpen,
A knife becomes rust.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
If it's not sharpened, it's just left alone, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, Yeah, you going to turn to this big passage here, Yeah,
we're going to uh Romans. Yeah. I think going to
Romans one helps with all of this discussion. And we
know that that all scriptures is breathed out by God
and profitable for teaching and reproof and correction and for
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training and righteousness, that the Man of God may be
complete equipped for every good work. So that's not from
that's not Scripture is not saying that for just me,
but for everybody. Scripture is profitable for humanity. And here's
what Scripture says. The apostle Paul writes, I'm not ashamed
of the Gospel, for it's the power of God for
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salvation to everyone who believes, to the jew first and
also to the Greek that means to the rest of
the world. For in it the righteousness of God is
revealed from faith to faith. As it is written, the
righteous show lived by faith. That is the reason in
this podcast called ninety nine for one, that the Gospel
is the power of God for salvation. That's why at
the end of every episode we were going to tell
the gospel how God reconciled his people to him, how
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he made away even though we didn't deserve it. That
story triggers something. There's something in hearing the gospel. Faith
comes by hearing. The Bible says, hearing the Word of Christ.
So that's the gospel. That's why we tell it. It
must be told and you must receive it and respond
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to it. So we it would be foolish for us
to talk about winning people to Christ, and we never
tell the gospel. So that's how he starts this conversation.
Then he says, and this is how he falls it
up though, and this is not talked about often, For
the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousnes to
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suppress the truth. Pause me at any time. This is
heavy stuff. But here we go, this idea of men
suppressing the truth.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
That's obvious.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I get that. For what can be known about God
is plain to them because God has shown it to them.
It's very obvious, right, what could be known about God
is plain. You wake up in the there's the sun
again in the same spot, and the earth is rotating,
and you see the stars and you see you see
how birds are fed and how grass grows and babies
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have eyeballs. You know, it's like, wow, there's a creator.
Why what's the problem with not knowing God? Will we
suppress it? For his individual His invisible attributes, namely his
eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever
since the creation of the world, and the things that
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have been made, So they are without excuse. Whose they
all of us? It's clear we're without excuse here. For
although they knew God, they did not honor him as
God or give thanks to him. But they became futile
in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. So
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by this suppression of truth, by this rejecting who God is,
our hearts become darkened and it gets harder to recover
from this problem. Claiming to be wise, Paul goes on,
they became fools, So now they're fools and exchange the
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glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man
and birds and animals and creeping things. That's interesting. They
exchanged the glory of God, of the immortal God for
images images that seems to be very relevant to this
conversation verse twenty four. Therefore God gave them up and
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the lusts of their hearts to impure to the dishonoring
of their bodies among themselves, because they exchange the truth
about God for a lie and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, who is the blessed forever.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's interesting. I mean, you could make this argument for
a thousand things. But it sure sounds like it works
really well with this conversation. Should I date a AI
Verse twenty six. For this reason? Got no? I heard that? No. No.
For this reason, God gave them up to their dishonorable
passions for their women, exchange natural relations for those that
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are contrary to nature. What could be contrary to nature?
I can think of a lot of things, but something unnatural,
something unnatural right, maybe even something digital that definitely applies here.
Let me be clear, I'm not saying Paul was prophesying
towards what would be eventually. That's not what I'm saying.
But I'm saying all of this is included in the
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same idea. Anything that it's unnatural, a countrary their nature.
And then the men likewise gave up natural relations with
women and were consumed with passion for one another, men
committing shameless acts with men and receiving them in themselves
the due penalty for their error. So they gave up
natural relations and they went elsewhere verse twenty eight. And
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since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God
gave them up. He says it again. God gave them
up to a debased mind to do what ought not
to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice,
and they were full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness,
Their gossip, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, and
(32:45):
vendors of evil. That's interesting, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless,
though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice
such things deserve to die. Not only do them, but
give approval to those who practice them. That's that's how.
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That's how Paul ends chapter one of Romans. If you've
never read Romans is actually the book that saved Barker
so good. And I hope that if you've never read
Romans or even heard heard it, or maybe you're a
Christian and you you haven't, you know of it, but
you've never really dove into it. That chapter begs chapter two.
(33:35):
It begs, it begs to say, so what happens?
Speaker 6 (33:40):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
And two begs chapter three, and chapter three begs chapter four,
and chapter four begs chapter five, and then we just
get these beautiful chapters in five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
I mean, yeah, Romans is incredible, and I think, I
think really that we could look at this and Tyler's
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such such a great realization at the beginning of this
podcast that this is unnatural. Therefore something that's unnatural considering
love is not neutral, it's not unbiased. It's like, yeah,
I get it, it's unnatural, but it doesn't hurt anybody
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because that we can make an argument.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Yeah, something I was gonna say that I just thought
of while you're talking about Paul, you know, not necessarily
prophesizing about the coming of Ai, but what you could
say to that, And it's not scripture. But I've thought
about anything that keeps me from Jesus and the Word
of God is my enemy, and I must avoid it
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and run the other way to Jesus into the Word
of God. Anything that keeps me from that is my enemy.
It could be this Ai woman. Yeah, right, because like
at the end of the day, if she's checks all
the boxes, why do you need God? Why do you
need the Word of God? Why why do you want
to hunger when you wake up to go read the Bible?
(35:11):
If she has a five course meal ready for you
and and sex waiting for you at your whatever you
want it like all these things right, so all these
things like this connection, you know, this belonging, this relationship
that only Jesus can give you, true connection, true belonging,
true forgiveness. So good, all those things we're seeking in.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Jesus says, come to me, all you are weary and burden,
and I will give you rest. Jesus meets the lonely.
He meets the lonely in their loneliness.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Yeah, that's another good one.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
That's what he does. And Jesus meets them with real
love and not some kind of manufactured affection.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Yeah, that's that shouldn't go unnoticed. All the people that
are lonely men and women longing for a relationship.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Like I'm so and so years old, I need this.
I have to have this only Jesus. Jesus says, come to.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Me, all you are a weary and bird.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
I will give you rest. Jesus is the only one
that can do that.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And then practically, when people come to Jesus, the design
God's design is that when they come to Jesus, they
gather together in a local church. Is what always happens
in the Bible. People come to Christ in individual places
and scenarios, and then they're drawn together. The Lord draws
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them together to find others who are looking at the
same Christ. And that is essentially the most basic way
of describing what the Church is. Christians that have been
transformed by Christ gathering together with other like minded people
that have been transformed in the same way. And that's community.
(36:55):
So when he says, come to me, and I'll give
you rest, it's interesting to think that so many times
he fulfills. Christ will fulfill in this world these promises
through his Church, which is the bride of Christ.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
And to continue a little bit and to the loneliness
and people seeking relationships here on this side of the
world the earth, and to continue in Romans, Romans eight
eighteen says, for I consider that the sufferings of this
present time are not worth comparing with the glory that
is to be revealed to us. And you have to
believe that. You have to believe the word of God
(37:35):
and just meditate on that scripture Romans at eighteen. Maybe
I won't find somebody in this present time, but the
glory that's going to be revealed to us, I believe
that I can't wait for that.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Amen we'll get back to this conversation here in just
a second. But Parker wanted to ask you something. I
saw a guy at hib the other day and I
had a YEE shirt on its almost said something to
him and I realized it's a shirt and I didn't recognize.
I was like, I bet that's the Freedom Club shirt,
the current Freedom Club shirt.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
How do you get? What is the Freedom Club and
how do you get in on it?
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Yes, the Freedom Club is EEE's Shirt of the Month
club that we have and when you join, you get
an exclusive ee shirt that you can't find anywhere else,
ship to you each month with free shipping, and you
also get early access to all of our launches at
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(38:28):
and you join by just going to e dot com.
You see Freedom Club there and if you use code
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Speaker 2 (38:37):
And so if you're listening to this.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
Right now in late January, then if you sign up
right now, you would get if you sign up, you'd
get March's shirt cent sometime around the first week of March,
and we have a really cool sea foam shirt with
like an American flag made out of shotgun shells.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
That's ready for that one. The one I saw is
the one you're wearing right now.
Speaker 7 (38:57):
Yeah, this is this is February shirt right now. Okay, Yeah,
it was cool. Yeah, it has that if you can
see it right now, Mike might be blocking it. But
it says freedom at the top. It has the snake
coiled and it says yee underneath it, and it's the
same thing on the.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Back, but it looks like a shield. Yeah, that's what
I saw, was the back. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
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Speaker 4 (39:14):
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Speaker 7 (39:17):
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and then it's just twenty nine bucks every month after
that with free shipping.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Gee dot com, Go get it.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I was listening last night and I heard a quote.
What was it was an audiobook. It was about Richard Baxter.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
Who was an old Puritan, and he said that when
he found out that he had an illness that was
almost certainly going to kill him, he started meditating. He
started to practice of meditating on heaven for thirty minutes
every day because he thought that he was going to
die like soon like within weeks, and then he ended
up getting.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Getting a cure for it.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
But he kept that kept that mindset.
Speaker 7 (39:54):
Kept that mindset, and kept that practice of meditating on
heaven and just thinking about that. Because the more that
you can focus on that, the more that you can
just keep things in perspective.
Speaker 6 (40:05):
Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
all these things will be added to you. Meant it. Yeah,
that's great.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
So if Paul says in Romans one that the gospel
is the power of God for salvation, then what is
that gospel?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Amen?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Just a week ago when this coming out, we had
National Championship game, and I'm sure somewhere in the stand
or pregame you saw the most famous verse on the screen,
John three point sixteen.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
For God so.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever should believe in him shall not perish, but
I should have everlasting life. That is a summary, But
I think it doesn't have a reflection unless you dig
into it.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Saves us from what? From what? Well, we just read
about a whole.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Litany of things in Romans filled with a manner of
unrighteousness and evil and coveteousness and malice, envy, murder, strife, deceit,
everything that separates us from an eternal life giving God.
So he gave Jesus to us to make us write
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with him, paying a price that we were supposed to pay,
because our actual payment, our check in the mail, was
death because of sin. He canceled that with the death
of Jesus and his resurrection three days later, defeating sin
and death for our behalf, so that we may come
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to him, Come to Jesus and know God and a
gospel is there is a place for you if you
believe in him and what he did for you on
the cross, canceled what you were supposed to get, canceled
it and gave you his righteousness.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
That's the dust.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Those who believe that will be saved.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
For themselves, not for the world. So many people will say, yeah,
I believe Jesus died for sins of the world. No,
But did he die for yours?
Speaker 4 (42:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Everyone has to reconcile that.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Amen. That's the whosoever part of it. You're the who.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Amen. Do any comments from last week?
Speaker 4 (42:42):
We should.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
We want to always keep in touch with people and
encourage commoners on our YouTube page. I won't want to
do book giveaway as we always do.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
You bet.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
We have some comments, but first there was one I
didn't pull up here that ask a question. Where can
we send questions? Go to nine to ninety four one
podcast dot com at the bottom.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
You can ask a question. Oh cool, I didn't even
know that put that out yep, just put that. After
they asked that, I was like, oh, that's a good
place to do it.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Just go to the website nine nine one the podcast
dot com at the bottom. There you can fill out
the form and ask your question right there. Yeah, there
you go. Trudy said, amazing episode. This is from last
week's episode, which was on.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Nicotine.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Thank you nicotine, How should Christians feel about nicotine? And
really just about addictions in general and relying But an
amazing episode. Like all the others, learned a lot from
this one. Your podcast has taught me a lot over
the last year. Very grateful for it. Thank y'all. From Paris, Texas.
Matt said, Hi, I'm Matt listening from Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (43:45):
I've been listening to the.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Granger Smith podcast and now the ninety nine for one
podcast for a couple of years now. You guys all
have amazing and encouraging testimonies and Granger, your humility and
the way you approach the Word of God is something
that I admire and have learned a lot from.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Thank you for all you guys do.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Troy said, wonderful, engaging, thought provoking and God first. Love
this new channel and all the brothers are hilarious and awesome.
I see so much fun and laughs ahead as well.
Caught me again enjoying the word at this. Oh he
was watching this, I guess during the CFB title game.
On the championship game. Caught me again enjoying the word
(44:22):
and this with two minutes left in the championship game.
That's how promising this podcast is.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
And I'm already listening while you're watching the game. That's interesting,
Paul said, love the new podcast. I'm listening from the
cab of my log truck, watching the Northern lights dance
in the sky through my windshield and Worsley.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Alberta, Alberta. How about that beautiful place, Darren? One last one?
Speaker 3 (44:47):
This might be the furthest one, unless I think Kintaro
I actually commented so he might still be the furthest
but Darren said, watching your podcast from Budapest, hungry.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Love it man. So typically these last there's only episode
number three. But we've we've kind of gotten the idea
for the next week around the time we're recording the
current one. And I think I have an idea and
I'll run it by you guys, and we'll run it.
You know, we'll talk about it right now. Is online
church enough to be church? I don't have to think
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about it more do on how to ask that question,
but is online church enough? Building on the idea that
Tyler was talking about that Jesus says come to me, Well,
could you just come to him digitally? Would that be
this or a similar conversation to an AI girlfriend AI
church online church watching a church online? And I started
(45:44):
thinking about that because of a commenter here, and we
may or may not do that next week, but it
might be a good idea. But here's one of the comments.
It says from last week. I don't have a healthy church,
but I attend real faith ministries with Mark Driscoll. I
do need to find a local church, but I'm so critical.
I find reasons to find fault with leadership and have
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and have an excuse to leave, and then it goes
on to say other things about our conversation of nicotine.
But but I thought it was interesting that this person says,
I attend real faith ministries with Mark Driscoll online. It's
an interesting choice of words to say I attend. Maybe
(46:26):
we should talk about that next week.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yeah, that'd be a good discussion. Is online church enough?
Speaker 6 (46:33):
It's great just eating the appetizer you need to come
to the for meal.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Don't give away our conversation yet, but I like it.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Let's recap today the dangers of having an AI soulmate.
You know, last week we talked about let me not
recap yet? We got a book to get away?
Speaker 4 (46:56):
Oh we do? Yeah? What book do you have?
Speaker 1 (46:57):
I'll recap after the book. We're gonna do this every week, guys.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
So if you're remember when you reached over and touched it?
I did.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
I touched it. I was like, I'm not, don't, don't,
don't recap yet. Every week we're gonna do a book
giveaway something that we find encouraging. This is one of
my favorite books on the Christian life.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Have you all seen it yet? No? I didn't see
what it.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
Okay, this is a profound book. It was one of
my professors in seminary.
Speaker 6 (47:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
His name is Donald S. Whitney or Don Whitney. He
has a book called Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life.
And it also says on here more than six hundred
thousand sould. That's a lot. Don Whitney just a just
a dear, dear brother, and so good at talking about
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spiritual disciplines. Have any of y'all read this? No? No, okay, Well,
this is a great book to give away, but also
the purpose of the giveaway is always so that other
people could check things out. Now, as you see, it
looks like it the way I'm holding it, it looks
like you know, it's got two hundred and sixty pages.
It looks heavy, but can it could be read devotionally,
(48:09):
so it's not like I sit down and read the
whole thing. Interesting, let me show you the chapters here,
the spiritual discipline for the purpose of Godliness. His idea,
Paul says to Timothy, train yourself for godliness. So there
is a training aspect or another word for training in
that Greek is discipline. Discipline yourself for godliness. It's something
we must do as Christians. So he goes through the
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disciplines how to discipline Bible intake Part one and part two.
That is the most fundamental Christian spiritual discipline, reading your Bible.
Nothing else. Everything else builds upon that prayer, and everything
is for the purpose of godliness. So Bible intake for
the purpose of godliness, prayer for the purpose of godliness,
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worship for the purpose of godliness, evangelism, serving, stewardship, fasting,
silence and solitude, journaling, learning, perseverance. In the disciplines is
this last chapter. All of these spiritual disciplines come from
Jesus himself. It's what we see Jesus doing, except for journaling.
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That's the only one we don't see Jesus doing. But
we see him doing all the other disciplines, and so
we should do the same. Great book, easier to read,
very easy to read. You could read like I'm gonna
read just about prayer. We'll open it up halfway through.
Here's the chapter about prayer, and you see what he says.
I I want to know more about fasting. It's a
(49:35):
good book to have on the shelf to go I
want to know, but more about fasting. What did Don
Whitney say about fasting? And you just kind of review it?
Speaker 5 (49:42):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Solet's giveaway. What are we going to say? Discipline? Comment
on the whatever you're listening from. Go to the YouTube
page and comment discipline for the book giveaway. That's a
hard word to spell sometimes, you know.
Speaker 6 (49:57):
Disciple and just ask chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
Okay, so comment this one. We're gonna sign this, all
of us will sign it. We'll give away. Now, let's
recap today. In the in the past episodes, we for instance,
last week we talked about nicotine, and we were careful
not to be legalistic and say, look, we're not saying
don't do nicotine. We're saying that don't be dominated by anything.
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Make sure it's is it? Is it bringing you closer
to Jesus? Is you know? Asking all these questions? That's
not what we do with this topic. Do not pursue
an AI relationship. That's a hard and fast stop we're
doing here. We're not saying, look, you could dabble in it,
(50:46):
but just be careful with it or make sure you
don't get addicted to it. I think would you guys
agree with this topic? We say Christian, don't do it,
non Christian, that's listening, don't do it any objections to.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
That in a romantic way.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Yes, that's the whole purpose of this, is right, The
dangers of an AI soulmate having a romantic relationship not
in between two real women.
Speaker 6 (51:16):
Not fortunately have to say no, don't pursue it.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Yeah, yeah, hard stop. So that's how we're gonna we're
gonna wrap this up. Why. I think Tyler had a great,
great example. I think Romans one is a great example.
And I think if you're if you are seeking Christ,
then you will be drawn to his people and you
will trust him with your relationships or with your singleness. Yeah,
(51:43):
anything else, Amen, see y'all next Monday.
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