August 4, 2025 • 45 mins
Questions are powerful because they bring focus. The questions you ask determine the answers you get. So when God asks us a question, it's not because He doesn't know the answer. It's because He is trying to show us something.
In this episode, we look at the questions God asks throughout scripture that were not just for the people He asked, but for all of us. We go into some consistent life lessons that repeat themseleves until you learn them.
10 questions God Asks
Genesis 3:9 - Where are you? (To Adam/eve)
Are we hiding from God or walking with God?
Genesis 3:13 - What is this you have done? (To eve)
Responsibility for our actions
Genesis 16:6-10 - Where have you come from and where are you going? (To Hagar/angel of the Lord)
Meant in the literal context in both the eternal and in the physical. God is the opposite of random.
Genesis 32:24-29 What is your name??(to Jacob)
“We are who God says"
Exodus 4:2 - What is in your hand? (To Moses)
“God can use whatever tools or people he chooses to conduct his miracles”
Availability over Ability
1 Kings 19:1-10 What are you doing here?
( To Elijah) We have to be as honest with ourselves as we are with God about how we got where we are today.
Job 38:1-4 Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? (To job)
“The God formed the world is also the master over my current situation.” God allowed
Isaiah 6:1-8 Whom shall I send? (To Isaiah)
“God uses the willing"
Ezekiel 37:1-4 Son of man, can these bones live? (To Ezekiel)
“Do you believe I am the God of the impossible?” “God can deliver me from anything"
Jonah 4:1-4 Do you have reason to be angry? (To Jonah)
“God’s ways are higher than my ways"
The lessons and questions in this podcast are useful for difficulty, adversity, purpose, understanding your way, and keeping your focus where it should be. It is a powerful episode packed full of wisdom for navigating your walk with God in your life.
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In this episode, we look at the questions God asks throughout scripture that were not just for the people He asked, but for all of us. We go into some consistent life lessons that repeat themseleves until you learn them.
10 questions God Asks
Genesis 3:9 - Where are you? (To Adam/eve)
Are we hiding from God or walking with God?
Genesis 3:13 - What is this you have done? (To eve)
Responsibility for our actions
Genesis 16:6-10 - Where have you come from and where are you going? (To Hagar/angel of the Lord)
Meant in the literal context in both the eternal and in the physical. God is the opposite of random.
Genesis 32:24-29 What is your name??(to Jacob)
“We are who God says"
Exodus 4:2 - What is in your hand? (To Moses)
“God can use whatever tools or people he chooses to conduct his miracles”
Availability over Ability
1 Kings 19:1-10 What are you doing here?
( To Elijah) We have to be as honest with ourselves as we are with God about how we got where we are today.
Job 38:1-4 Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? (To job)
“The God formed the world is also the master over my current situation.” God allowed
Isaiah 6:1-8 Whom shall I send? (To Isaiah)
“God uses the willing"
Ezekiel 37:1-4 Son of man, can these bones live? (To Ezekiel)
“Do you believe I am the God of the impossible?” “God can deliver me from anything"
Jonah 4:1-4 Do you have reason to be angry? (To Jonah)
“God’s ways are higher than my ways"
The lessons and questions in this podcast are useful for difficulty, adversity, purpose, understanding your way, and keeping your focus where it should be. It is a powerful episode packed full of wisdom for navigating your walk with God in your life.
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Level up your greatest asset with us in Mindset Mastery. How you think will change everything in your life. Click here to learn more.
Level up your life with IDLife nutrition by clicking here.
Apply to join Giant Killers here if you're a man that wants real accountability and training to become a leader.
Level up your greatest asset with us in Mindset Mastery. How you think will change everything in your life. Click here to learn more.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
That's the keda problem solving that's tikeda bringing value. It's
the key to so many issues in your life. If
your marriage isn't working right, there's a problem, but you're
probably just asking the wrong question.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
That's impossible.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Let me tell you what I believe. It's your weakness, it's.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Not your technique.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Don't think you know.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The Impossible Life podcast and you're sitting on a winning lottery.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Second, an idea that is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.
This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick and I
are attempting to live impossible lives. What we know is
that nothing is impossible. So instead of using impossible as
an excuse to not try, we'll use the pursuit of
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impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's never been
done before, that just means it's unexplored. If they tell
you it's too hard, it's just waiting to be simplified.
Impossible as a default label used by uncourageous people unwilling
to take a risk. The real truth is this. The
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solution to any impossible task starts with this question, If
I had to what would it take? What would it take?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host, Nick Surfers, and I'm looking across at a
man who doesn't just ask questions. He scans your soul
like a TSA scan machine. That's right, friends the photow.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Garrett Unclebuck, a man who can say five words and
have you confessing things you haven't even told your therapist.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Nick is confessing right now. He's speaking from experience. I've
done this to.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I don't know that you've ever got me to confess anything,
because I don't really walk around harboring secrets. Just for
the record, but I just think about you have a
good way with people, and.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I know you has questions open doors.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Questions are keys, yes, and I'm glad that you brought
that up. Garrett.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, I led perfectly into this because that's what we're
covering todays. Ten questions that God asks in scripture and
what it reveals about Him and I.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Questions are a very.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Interesting thing because we asked them all the time. We
actually did a whole podcast on questions and like you know,
deep cut for all the Easter Egg fans of the podcast.
If Garrett ever had his own podcast, he said he
would call it Better Questions Yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Was like before God sent Nick into my life and
we formed the impossible life. I said, yeah, I could,
I could do a podcast on better questions, because I think,
really the that's tekeda problem solving, the tekeda bringing value.
It's the key to so many issues in your life.
If your marriage isn't working right, there's a problem, but
you're probably.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Just asking the wrong question. Yeah, well that's exactly right. Well,
and so where do we see famous questions? Well, one
of the most famous examples that jumped right into my head,
she was in twenty twenty two Matt Walshe If you
don't know who Matt Walsh is, he's a conservative filmmaker
and commentary political commentator, and he made a movie called
What Is a Woman? Which sounds very very basic, right, gee, Like,
(03:00):
I can't believe you can make a movie on that,
because surely it's so simple, except for he made it
in twenty twenty two when gender confusion and all sorts
of stuff was going on, and he basically just walked
around and asked all sorts of people what is a woman?
And like, you would think that'd be a really simple question,
and he got like blank, looks complication. He talked to
(03:21):
you know, gender experts and all sorts of people in
positions of authority, shall we say. And it was a
widely debated movie. I'll say that certain people said that
it was transphobic and it was like, you know, they
labeled it as like hateful.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Other people thought it was just yeah, it was. It
was a hot take movie.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But it actually catapulted Matt Walsh to fame because at
that point, I don't think any people had heard about him.
So just a simple question, ge, what is a woman?
And there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's a powerful question. It's like the question, you know,
the question I asked men all the time, why wouldn't
your wife listen to everything that you say? Right? That's
really that's the right when when men are telling me
they're struggling in their leadership with their marriage, that's cutting
to a question that really answers the actual problem. I
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(04:11):
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So there you go. All right, So gee, let's let's.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Get back to this. So we talked about the what
is what is a woman? Which is a great question.
You know, here's another question based off what we just said,
what do you put it into your body? But the
questions that that we've had on this this podcast that
I thought were so apt was when we had doctor
Robbie on and we talked about raising kids. He said
the three questions that everyone is answering all the time
is who am I?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What am I worth?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And what's my purpose? And I just thought that that
was so concisely said. And he said those were the
foundations of mental well being and it's it's identity, purpose
and value. It's I mean, we talk about those things
all the time. It's nice when a psychiatrist who's helped
millions of people across the world comes on and goes, hey,
every thing you guys said is actually backed up by psychology.
It's like great because the wisdom of God has been
shown to us and just backed up by science as
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it always is. So, as we said, the purpose of
questions and the reason we're going into this, questions bring
focus here's a great example, and I do this every day.
I have three kids and they'll go to school, and
you ask your kid when they come home from school, Hey,
how is your day?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
How's school today? Good? What'd you do?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And I remember, like the first few days, whenever I
got this, I'm like, man, I actually want to know
what's going with my kids. So I reframed the question
to hey, what's the best thing about your day at
school today? And guess what, Suddenly they're giving me very
specific details about classes they're in and projects that they've
not talked about ever before because they're a kid and
they only care about what they're doing in the moment.
So like I switched the question. Now I get a
better answer because then I can like, oh, what's the project?
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And I get to find out for my kids what's
going on. And that's a very simple example.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I feel like with with kids, it's the right way
to ask them questions is like through what they're frame
is oh, And like with Grace, I'm like, hey, what
did you what did you do? You know today it's
like I don't know. But then if I say, like,
what did you do? That made Dolly laugh? That's what
she calls Lindsay's mom, Like, what did you do that
made Dolly laugh? Because she likes to be funny like
(09:15):
her mom. So like Grace will start telling me all
the things she did that's funny.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I love that The Lord bless you with not just
one funny woman in your life, but a second little
one that's coming up. And I would dare I say,
Trinity is also running down that vein he gave God
is telling you something, gee for sure? All right, So
I gotta give credit to my man Tony Robins, who said,
you want better answers, ask better questions.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So we're gonna give all these tad questions.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And it's even the asking the right question will get
you looking at the right things, right. You know, I'm
around a bunch of smart people all the time, and
some of the guys that I work with I was
talking about you, but some of the guys that I
work with. One of them specifically used to be a
(10:01):
direct report to Elon Musk for years at the Fremont Factory,
and he's talked a lot about some of the things
that he learned from Elon. And it's commonly known that
Elon has like his own process for engineering, and we
won't I won't go into all of it, but step
one on his engineering process is question every requirement because
(10:23):
the way that he sees it is many engineers solve
the wrong problems. They over optimize something that doesn't need
to exist, and so it's question. Like he starts with
question everything, right, like all the all the parts, all
the pieces on this you say it has to be
this tall, blah blah blah. Is I question all of
that because I think you guys have solved some of
(10:43):
the wrong problems. And so he starts, but he starts
with the questioning and making sure that they're asking the
right question.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You know who ls did that is a little guy
named Steve Jobs. That was because like Josh pastor Josh
Kraft just he put out that thing the other day
about how Steve Jobs is how to design insanely great products.
The second thing on there was question everything about the
current design, and it's like it's so simple, but it's
not right because it's like we take so many things
for granted, and underneath things you take for granted or
what we call pressuppositions, which means you've presupposed something like, oh, well,
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this must be true. Well, if what you presuppose isn't true,
all your conclusions that follow after it are also false.
And this is what we call life. We all walk.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Around with press positions that aren't based on facts, and.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yep, it's Sherlock Holmes. Step one is put every possible
conclusion on the table, don't you know that's the presuppositions.
Don't eliminate any of the potential conclusions. Start with everything
on the table.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And philosophers have always asked great questions. I think about
one of the great philosophers, Dwight shrut who says, before
he does anything, he asks would an idiot do that?
And if good answer is yes, I do not do
that thing thing, there's some advice for life, all right.
So we're going to ask much more important questions than
what Dwight shrewd asked.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But that just came to me. So we're gonna look
at these questions.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Gene.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I love that you kind of mind these, So I
got to give you credit where credits do. But one
of the things I want to remind when we're looking
at these questions and when we're reading the Bible, always
always always come with the heart of not that you
want to discover something more about yourself or you want
to just get a nugget for the day or whatever
problem you're facing, but that you should come and actively
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seek to discover more Who of God is? I always
talk about if you want to read the Bible, if
you want to understand it more, and you're struggling, get
Tara Lee cobbles a Bible recap. It's super simple, it's free.
It's on the U version app on your phone. Once again,
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And she does this thing every day. What you do
is you read the Bible and then she does an
(12:38):
overview video that if you watch it on one and
a half speed like I do, it takes four to
five minutes. And she always she runs you through what happened,
explains things that you might be confused on, reminds you
of who's who and all that sort of stuff. And
at the end she says, what's your godshot? And the
whole point of that is like your godshot is what
did you see revealed about God? And I love that
because that's the heart of how we have to approach.
At the very core of all of our faith is
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just a God that said, Hey, I'm going to make you,
and I want to be with you, and I want
us to know each other. And if we lose that heart,
we make things so much more complicated. So I want
to remind everybody that's why we're diving into these questions.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yes, that's the whole point of his word is He's
revealing himself to us. Let me show you who I am.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, so good, all right?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Gee?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So hy us man? Why does God ask us questions? Then?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
So where this started? For me? We'll jump We're going
to go through the questions chronologically in the Old Testament.
Jesus asked questions in the New Testament, and that's very different.
There's great lessons to be learned there. But all of
these questions we're going to look at today, right this
ten questions God asks in the Old Testament. These are
We're going to go out start it chronologically in Genesis. Sorry,
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not chronologically, but biblical book order chronologically would would change
actually some of the order on these questions. But we're
going to go through through the order of the books,
and where this started is there's a question that if
you've been with us in Mindset Mastery, which if you're
not in there and you've been listening to this podcast
for over a year and you haven't joined us in
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mindset Mastery, honestly, I'm not sure what's holding you back.
In Mindset Mastery is really where we jump in and
go deep on a lot of the mindsets that we
teach here and make this like, it's great to listen here.
You can learn so many valuable tools, but if you
want to sharpen those tools and make sure that you're
applying all of them correctly, you need to spend a
year with us in mindset Mastery. And one of the
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topics that we cover in Mindset Mastery purpose we go
really we I use this scripture a lot, and I've
studied a bunch because it is the question I have
asked so many times in my life, and it's the
question I know about every single human that has walked
the earth is why am I here? What's the purpose
of my life? And the Bible tell actually like we
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all have that question, and that's Ecclesiastic three eleven. God
places eternity in the human heart. There's a searching and
a longing within every person for what, Like, we know
that we're more than just flesh, so what else is there?
And why? And so out of that we seek to
answer this question what's my purpose? And the Bible talks
about what our purpose is Ephesians three twenty By God,
credit you for good workmanship. There's many scriptures on purpose,
(15:09):
but nowhere in scripture does it say, here's what Garrett's
purpose is. Right, you can read the whole thing. You're
not gonna find your name in there where it says
here's what your purpose is. However, God does want us
to know what our purpose is, and he wants us
to discover it. Right, and there is a path for
that which should go into all of that path in mindset, mastery.
But one of the one of the things that leads
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you to your purpose is what's in your hand. And
this is the scripture Exodus four two where Moses gets
what most people would want. What most people want is like, God,
can you just tell me, just tell me what my
purpose is? Right? Send me, yeah, send me an email
or a certificate or whatever that just says, here's what
you're supposed to do. You know, ninety nine point nine
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nine nine nine nine percent of the people that walk
this earth will never get that from God. God gives
this to Moses and Moses. Moses is like, hey, I'm
I think you got the wrong guy. You want me
to be the leader of Israel and lead them out
of Egypt, But I murdered a guy. I have a
speech impediment, Like why, I don't know why anybody would
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listen to me. The Pharaoh's not going to listen to me.
You're choosing the wrong person. So God comes to Moses
tells him exactly what his purpose is, and Moses is unsure,
and this is the end of Exodus three. Exodus chapter four,
Verse two. God asks Moses a question. So instead of Moses,
God just slapping Moses upside the head and saying, hey, dummy,
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right like, I don't know if you forgot, but I'm God,
I obviously know what your purpose is. He doesn't do that,
he said, he asks him a question that re points
him in the right direction, because this is a question
that's part of the picture. It's not the whole picture.
Listen to what we do in mind set master is
a question that's part of the picture. That points you
to your purpose. So when Moses doesn't catch it the
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way that God repoints Moses, he asks him this question, Moses,
what's in your hand? Right? Because Moses is saying that
he's not good enough, and what God says, he says,
what's in your hand? And with that question, what he's
saying is I don't need you to tell me what
you don't have. I need you to be faithful with
what I've given you.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
We'll come back to this question in a minute, but
I'm saying I'm starting us here because this is the
question that I first dug into and I was like, Man, God,
if God's asking a question, he's not asking for information.
Most of the time we ask questions in that way,
like I ask a question because I want to know
the answer to it. When God's asking us a question,
there's no answers that he doesn't know. So if God
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is asking us a question, it's a very different type
of question. And that's a question that's going to repoint
us to get us. God's trying to help us think
about the right things. So every and so the reason
I wanted to study this is like, man, that's the
Exodus for two God was speaking to most this is
a question for me as well. Right, this is what's
going to point me to My purpose is I got
to look at what's in my hand and be faithful
with that. And so I say this to say, it's
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kind of like an intro. We're going to look at
all of these questions. All of these questions have context
for our life.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Of course God, God was speaking to certain people for
a certain reason. We'll cover some of the context. But
the reason I think it is particular is with God's
asking a question, there's a lesson to be learned. At
the very least, like Nick talked about, it reveals some
of the character of God. But all of these questions
reflect moments that we'll find ourselves and in life. Exodus
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four two one that pertains to all of us. All
of these questions are lessons to be learned, questions that
we need to answer. So, with that being said, here's
ten questions from the Old Testament, Ten questions that God asked.
So starting in the beginning Genesis, chapter three, verse nine,
God says this to Adam and Eve, where are you? Hey?
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God's not asking Adam and Eve where they are because
he doesn't know where they are, right, Really, the question
is why are you hiding from me? And this is
if if you know the story, they have sinned and
they're you know, they feel naked, They've they've covered themselves.
So God's saying, Adam and Eve, where are you? And
this is a question that all of us have to
(19:01):
This is kind of like I could flash these to
some New Testament questions, But this is kind of like
the question when in the New Testament the last time
Jesus is in the temple, that the Pharisees say, you know,
are you the Messiah? And he says, I'll answer your
question if you answer mine right, And that's when he says,
is John the Baptist the prophet? And the reason I
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won't go along into all of this, the reason that
Jesus asked that question is because he's tricking the Pharisees.
John the Baptist has declared that Jesus is the Messiah,
and so if they say that John the Baptist is
the prophet, they have to believe what he said. If
they say he's not a prophet, then they are they'll
be rejected by all of the people. And so in
all of this, the way that Jesus dealt with it,
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and well, the way that the Pharisees responded to jesus
question was they said, we don't know. They didn't want
to answer the question. And this is when something makes
you uncomfortable, you're afraid to confront it. And Genesis three
nine is this is something that we all face. Not
necessarily God, you know, speaking to you and saying where
are you? But all of us have this understanding of
like there's right and wrong, there is sin, and many
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people who live with sin, they want to hide from
God because it's it's just the same way that like
you don't want to just like be naked in public.
It kind of makes you feel uncomfortable to do that
in the same way that Adam and he said, like, man,
where something's wrong with us? And I'm scared to stand
before God. And this is where we have to have,
like we have to have a heart change and one
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be willing to turn from our sin, but more importantly
be willing to turn towards God.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, that's so good.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
You you made me think about you know, you talk
about seeing some of the character of God and talking
about how Jesus obviously perfectly revealed the Father I love
whenever he challenges the commonly held belief in the Hebrew
faith and says, if the Messiah is David's son, then
why does he call him the Lord? And he references
that song where he says the Lord said to my Lord,
sit in my right hand until I make your enemies
your footstool. And he just leaves it there. He doesn't like,
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he doesn't keep going. It's just like he allows the
question to start the work, which is such a good
thing of God. And for this question, I mean, are
we hiding from God?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Like where are you? Are you hiding from God? Or
are you walking with him?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I think where this comes into place so often, Look, man,
we're all going to fall short of the glory of God.
And it's that question of when something goes wrong, when
something's troubling you, when something's causing you whatever it is, anxiety,
or if you've actually sinned and no like wilfully sinned,
what's your first thought process? Is it like, man, I
got to cover this up, like oh Gods so distant
from me? Or is it a thought process? Man, I'm
gonna take it to my dad, because you know, when
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you know who your Father is you don't you know
that it's the best thing you could do is to
take it to him, because he's going to have the
best solution, not not to try and hide or figure
it out on your own, whether it's a problem or
whether it's sin. And so that is a very apt
one for us to all answer, I think on a
regular place.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
So, yeah, very very good. Next question, we won't go
as along on this one. Genesis chapter three, verse thirteen.
God says to Eve, what is this you have done? Okay,
God knows what she's done. He's not saying, like, tell
me what happened. What this question is about is consequences.
It's understanding that we all have to take responsibility for
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our actions. God, God's sovereign, man's responsible. Adam and Eve
are responsible for what happened there. And so this is
a remind like this question is again like you started
us with naked, reveals some of the nature and character
of God. That God's saying, Look, what did you do?
I told you not to? You did it? Now? What's
because after this God tells him what the consequences are.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah, and if you want to know what the responsibility
for our actions, if you want to make your life harder,
just sin, because look at where like, look at their
primary responsibility. He gave Adam work to do. And what
got harder after the sins? The work The ground's going
to grow up thistles and thorns. And by the sweat
of your brow, you're gonna you're gonna provide for yourself,
he said, be fruitful, MULTIPLI so he gave man a helper.
And what was Eve's work that got more complicated in
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great pain? You're gonna now give child bearing. And so
it's like that's the responsibility for our actions to understand,
like sin has consequences that are far more than what
we realize, and it literally makes everything harder. I mean,
that's an amazing one to just say, what have you done?
Oh by the way, here's the punishment. So right, so good.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So next one, and I will say for all of
these questions, right, we're going to cover these quickly. It
is in my heart at some point to write an
entire Bible study on these ten questions, because that like
you need to study all of the context. So we're
giving the reference. I would encourage you to go, especially
on some of these next ones that we're going to
get into. You kind of need the whole story. We'll
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cover some of it quickly, but you do need more context.
And these are things just like what most of my
messages were when God first gave me the opportunity to preach.
The end of my message was, hey, go read it
for yourself, right because what you need. But this is
not you know, Garrett and Nick digest the Bible for you,
so you don't have to. This is us to set
you up and point you in the right direction so
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you can go see for yourself. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Well, Genesis is that point.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I'll put all these questions with the references in the
show notes, so make it easy on you.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Great. So question number three, Genesis, chapter sixteen, verses six
through ten. God says, where have you come from? And
where are you going? And this is to Hagar when
she's running from her situation, running from Abraham in the desert.
God had a plan for Hagar. Abraham and Hagar's relationship
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was probably not exactly what God wanted in the beginning
for Abraham. However, God still had a plan for Hagar
and God. And God uses Hagar, and God uses Ishmael
in the ways that he does. Now they're not God's
chosen people, but God still does something with their lives,
and you see them all throughout the Old Testament, and
she's running away. And so this is a question for
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any of us when we're in a struggle, when we're
running from difficulty, and there's another question like this similar
and so's there's kind of a comparative context between this
question the other one. But when we're in a difficult
situation that we don't just run from it. This isn't
this is spiritual and this is physical. God has a
great plan for our life, and so when things don't
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go exactly the way that you want them to go,
you don't just run from that situation. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I think it's so interesting when you think about the
the you know, that sounds like a very not meaningful question.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's very factual. Where have you come from? Where you're going?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I came from my bedroom and I'm going to my office,
you know what I mean? Like very simple, that's how
we would see this. But it was so much more
revealing than that, right, like you said, it's it's it's
both literal and uh the actual like external.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I think, what's what what stands out to me? And
not not. I don't want to go super long on
this one, but what stands out to me is that
it is like that God took time to ask a
question to Hagar, who's not his chosen people? Right her
hagar son Ishmael was like this is like Isaac was
God's chosen son for Abraham. Ishmael is Abraham's son with
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Hagar who was you know, Sarah's servant, right, yeah, Abraham.
It was out of a lack of faith and not
trusting in God that that this relationship happens and that
Ishmael exists. Yet God still speaks to her, and like
we can sometimes feel like, man, I'm just rejected by it,
Like I'm not the I'm not the one that God's using.
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I'm not the one that God wants to work with.
Like you can feel like this, but like you know,
you can feel like a Hagar, so to speak. But
God says, why are you running? Like where did you
come from? And basically, hey, go back and deal with
this situation, like I still have a plan for you.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Very good. What's next?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
G Genesis chapter thirty two verse like the It's verse
twenty four through twenty nine is kind of this piece
of the passage, but you really need to read all
of Jacob's story. This is when Jacob wrestles with Esau,
I mean with Jake, when Jacob wrestles with the with
with God, wrestles with the Angel of the Lord before
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he's on his way to go back and face Esau.
And while he's wrestling with God, God asked him this question.
He says, what is your name? And again is does
God not know Jacob's name? Of course he does. God's
asking him his name because Jacob is wrestling with the
meaning of his name. This is also where God, you know,
in Jacob's story, God renames Jacob to Israel, Israel meaning
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wrestled with God and have overcome. And really the whole
point of this question is we are who God says, right,
because Jacob was leaning on his own identity and God
changed his like God changed his name. You know, for
many of us, God doesn't change our name, but God
does change all of our identities. And that's what God
does in Jacob's life, and he gets a name change
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along with it. And so Jacob was leaning on his
you know, the name Jacob means subplanter or deceiver or
heal grabber quite literally, because he was rabbing onto Esau's
heel as he came out of the womb. And so
his no, that's what his name means, deceiver or subplanter.
And that's where and in this God changes his name
to basically say you're more than that. You are who
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I say you are, I have a plan for your life.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, and I mean, once again, when we're talking about
the nature of God, where I would encourage everybody. This
is to Garrett's point, like God may not have literally
changed your name, but when he met Abram, he changed
it to Abraham. He changed Simon to Peter, he changed
Jacob to Israel. And it's a picture of God's transformative,
redemptive work that he literally changes because like names, some
people just name their kids stuff that they think sounds cool,
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but that God.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Like, no, don't do that.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
That's a little side note, but names in Hebrew have
a lot of significance and because of the meaning of
the names, and it's very much almost like a prophetic
statement towards the person's life. And so it's not an
accident that like Yeshuah for Jesus is the same as
what Joshua was in the Old Testament, like God's working
in symmetry. He's like giving us clues into like people's lives,
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obviously being the ones that deliver. And so I just
encourage you, like understand, God's not here to just take
your identity and make it a little better, or to
just clean up your past. It's to give you an
entirely new identity. And to the point Garrett made, we
are who God says we are. I think it even
says in Revolution the Revelation that he has names written
on rocks that he gives to them, which are names
He's given to him. AKA, God's completely transformed you and
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sees you the way he made you. So just know,
you're not what you've done. You're not what other people
have said about you. You're not even what you say
about you. You are who God says you are.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
And this was What's just one more piece of context
is that this is like the lowest moment of Jacob's life.
It's a kind of a cowardly moment. He's on the run,
he's afraid. I forget the biblical name for it, but
the river that he's camped next to, the meaning of
that river, like the word means despair, right, so like
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the lowest moment of his life, camp next to the
river called despair. And in this he wrestles with God.
And this is where God changes his name.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Right, so good, So argie, what's next?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Moving on? This is now we're at my favorite question
in the Old Testament Exodus four two. God says, what's
in your hand? And this is the question that every
single one of us has to ask. Many of us,
you know, wish for more, wish we were something that
we're not, Wish we had something that we don't have.
And that's what God said to Moses, is what's in
your hand? And what was in Moses's hand? It's not
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that God doesn't actually know, right right again, it's not
God's not asking a little question. It's a reminder. What
was in Moses's hand was a shepherd's staff. And God says,
the third staff on the ground, it turns into a snake.
Pick up the snake, it turns back into a staff.
And what God's saying to Moses, and I'm paraphrasing this
chapter of the Bible, what God's saying to Moses, I
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don't need you to tell me what you don't have
I need you to be faithful with what I've given you.
Right that staff, like a staff is used for protecting
and leading animals, right for shepherding them. And God says,
I'm going to use you to do the same. And
by the way, I'm God, so I can do whatever
I want to do with your staff. You just need
to know that I've given you. I've made you who
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you are, and I've given you the staff that you have,
and I'm the one who's made this mission and calling
you to do it. I will be with you. Just
trust me and follow me right and use what's in
your hand. Don't many people come to this place and like, well,
you know, I could just be a leader. If God
would do this, well, I could just lead a Bible study.
If you know, men would just appear out of nowhere
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and start coming to my house. I could I could
just whatever. People you know, tell me what they could
do if they had certain resources. And God says, be
faithful with what I've given you.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, And I think where you'll see this a lot,
And I'm just going to share a quick story from
my own life that's very relevant to the podcast is
you'll you'll look at somebody else, and you'll think, well, man,
if I had his dad then I could do that,
or if I had their money, then I could have
done this, or if I had their whatever insert whatever.
And early on in the podcast, obviously for those of
you who are new to the podcast, we know we're
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getting a lot of new listeners. This started because Garrett
coached me, and one day I was running I really felt,
what was a word from God just say like, Garrett
needs to other podcast. So I text him fully with
the heart to just serve him. I never even planned
on being on the podcast. I was just going to
produce it. And here we are four years later. Well,
so we launched this podcast. And if you listen to
the early episodes, and I know a lot of people
go back because I see the stats shout outs episode
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four when I get the ice bathl out live on there.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Not my proudest moment anyways, But if you listen to
you don't. I don't really want you to do that.
It's just fuel for your dark soul. Anyways.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
But the first ten to twenty episodes, I would say,
is very much me still in a coaching mode. Like
you'll hear on the podcast, how are a lot of
our coaching sessions went where Garrett would say something, I
would like question him and we would just go back
and forth. And I was very much almost you know,
I didn't plan for it, but it's almost like I
was getting free coaching.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
So I start listening to these things and it wasn't free.
It was very painful. But I start listening to these
episodes and I'm like, dude, I sound like an idiot.
I'm like the jester who's just like cracking jokes and
Garrett's dropping like absolute wisdom bombs. And so I was like,
I'm gonna start preparing better for these I'm gonna come
on like I was gonna bring one liners and just
like deep stuff. And I remember I felt such a
like not in my chest my spirit of just like
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God being like, no, I've already made a Garret uncle Black.
I've got one role and it's already filled, like I
need you to be the best knick surface. I've made
you to be a very unique expression. You need to
be the best you. And it was just it's real
kind of like aha moment for me of what's in
my hand, because I had to stop and go like okay,
what am I actually like really good at what's unique
at me? What are the skills that I have that
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I need to sharpen better? So for me, it's like
I've always been very good at speaking and it comes
easily to me, but like, I don't want to be
the god that's going uh and stuttering a lot, so
I need to start listening and sharpening up. I needed
to start speaking slower. I needed to start thinking a
lot more before I spoke, Like that was how I
could take what was in my hand and be better.
And there were so many other examples, but I'm saying
that to encourage people out there. What's in your hand
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is your gifts, your abilities, your unique experience, is the
story of your life, your reputation on top of all
the stuff that you would think of, like your money
and your kids and the people and whatever else you
may think of. But like, you have things that God
has given you. That is your responsibility to take that
and develop it. And that's what's in your hand. So like,
really think about that question, because honestly, it's half of
purpose and it is a it is a big, big,
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big question. So sorry, I know we went a little
bit longer on that one.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, it's great, it's great. What's next. Next question, First
King King chapter nineteen, verse one through ten. And I
would say, go read all of these stories, but this
is such a good story to go read, and you'll
need to back up a couple chapters. Read all, read,
read all the way through Elijah's story. Yes, First Kings
chapter nineteen, verse one through ten. This is right after
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Elijah has like one of the most epic powerful moments
in the Bible. And Elijah is one of the figures
that God brent you know that should we see again
in the New Testament, I could go on, and Elijah's
very special figure, okay, And one of the most epic
moments in the Bible. Elijah calls down fire from heaven
and get like, you know, obviously that's God, but Elijah's
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the prophet who does it. And then right after that
kills over six hundred men, all of the prophets of Bail,
Like that's just like a line in scripture, like one
man kills six hunderd guys. Okay, yeah, he slaughtered them right, Okay.
And then after this it says that Elijah was afraid
running from a woman hiding in the desert, Like how
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do you go from like Pinnacle Mo moment? Who is
Tom Brady wins his seventh or whatever Super Bowl? And
then the next week he's like, I shouldn't even play football,
like I'm I'm no good, Like that's literally it's like,
how do you go from this to this? And God
asks him this question. He says, Elijah's hiding in the
desert and he said, like, Elijah says, God, just kill me, right,
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like yeah, no one, no one, Like don't I'm just done,
Like no one's following you. Yeah, no one's even following you.
Like what I do doesn't even matter. He's just feeling
real sorry for himself. And God says, Elijah, what are
you doing here? And obviously again God knows how Elijah
got there, But what God's saying to Elijah like this
is actually like a great zoom out question because I
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love what happens after this. The Angel of the Lord
says like, hey, here's some food, right, you need to eat?
Like Elijah's actually just angry in this moment, and and
and he's probably honestly tired, hungry, and been through like
some of the most exhausting things in his life. And
maybe we need to like do a little reset and
refresh and maybe don't just like quit on your entire
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destiny because you're tired and hungry.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yeah, there was no whoops back there for Elijah, but
if there was, he was realized.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
He was at one percent. Yeah, he was hitting the
one percent that day. And there's there's a lot more
to this question. But God saying, what are you doing here?
And really this is like I'm making light of it
a little bit. Then I shouldn't have, you know, just
the tired and the hungry, But really God saying like
how did you come to this place? And that's like
when we go through a little we will go through
the desert moments like Elijah has there and you need
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to zoom out and say how did I get here?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yes, that that is an awareness question, man, and I
feel we've done podcasts on awareness to go look those up,
because otherwise we could spend another forty minutes on this one.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
What's next to you? We got what more?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Job thirty eight, Chapter one, verse four. This is powerful question.
Job is lamenting a little bit to God, and this
is God's longest monologue in the entire Bible. God said
in the midst. This is in the midst of it
because Job has complained a little bit to God and
God says to Moses, where were you when I laid
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the Earth's foundation. Basically, what he's saying to Job is,
you don't know nothing right like I have. I'm God,
I'm sovereign, I have a plan, and you're don't do
don't don't question me. Yeah, that's and uh, and I
love if you go read this story. I think this
is like most people want to see this. I think
this is hilarious. God's like halfway through his monologue and
Job's like, you're right, I'm sorry, and God literally says, no,
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I'm not done.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
And yeah, don't don't interrupt me. I've got a few
more questions for you to answer it. Yeah, he asked
some big flex questions, and that that monologue is incredible,
that that.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Question really is a it's a foundational and leveling statement,
and it's a humbling reminder for us. If this is
a fear of God question, like you don't know anything right,
like you need to just trust God and understand that
he's the God of the universe that created it all
and he's the one that has the plan and this, Uh,
so you have no reason to question God.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yeah, and man, if you if you are going through
difficult things, and look, we're all going to go through
difficult things. This is probably not a question that's comforting
to you, but if you allow it to be, it
will be because it's a humbling of like, hey, God's
still writing your story. Because most people would say, man,
I mean actually, Job's friends were telling them, hey, you've
sinned against God. If you had, if you lost all
your property, all your kids, and your wife and then
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you got like a skin disease, people would be like
you made God mad, and you'd probably be like, yeah,
you're right, and and so then this is Job gives
a little bit of like, hey, you know, what have
I done wrong? Which seems like a reasonable thing, like
I haven't sinned, I haven't done this, and God steps
and says, hang on here, son, and so like, whatever
you're going through, I guarantee you it wasn't as bad
as what Joe went through. And if you'll have the
wherewithal to ask that question, where was I when God
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laid the foundation? She's like, He's still in charge of
your story. Trust is nature.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
And the New Testament reference to this is Romans chapter nine,
verse twenty. Paul says, who are you to question God? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:51):
One hundred percent, talking about being the clay on the
on the wheel and saying like does he look at
the potter and say, why do you make me this way?
Speaker 1 (38:57):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (38:58):
All right, Ge, you are on question eight.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Isaiah Isaiah chapter six, verse one through eight. This is fame.
Many people know this scripture. And this is where God
says to Isaiah, whom shall I send? God?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Is?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
God is saying I need someone who's gonna go. Whom
shall I send? Who will go for us? God? And
this is the New Testament. Many are called, few are chosen.
The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few and
got the lesson in this like God's not saying like
who is the actual person? God knows who He's going
to use. But this question is is a call out.
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It's a cry from our creator saying, who wants to
work for me? Right? I have? I have great plans
and great purposes for some of you. Unfortunately, some of
you won't follow me. Unfortunately, some of you want to
do your own thing. But for those who are willing,
I have a great plan for you who will go
for us? It is an enlistment call.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Man, I pray we all answer that you. You'd put
in our notes that availability trumps ability every single time,
and this just highlights that again, Man, I love that
so much?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
So good?
Speaker 5 (40:03):
All right?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Gie?
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Question Ezekiel thirty seven Ezekiel, Chapter thirty seven, verse one
through four. God says to Ezekiel, son of man, can
these bones live? And God's not again, understand the question.
God's not asking like, hey you is this possible? That's
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not what God's saying. He's saying, do you believe? Right? God?
This is a revealing of God's character right the way
that you answer this question. God's really asking like do
you believe I'm the God of the impossible? God can right?
And he's not Santa Claus. He doesn't need us to
believe in him for us for him to be able
to have power. That's not the way that it works.
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But this is a question. Right. When God saying, son
a man, to these bones live, He's saying, do you
really believe that I'm the God of the impossible? Or
you just think I'm your buddy that's going to show
up for you once in a while yeah, that is
a core question, man, to just hit hit home because
faith is the gift of God and say it's not
something to be strained out that we can, like you said,
he's not Genie God that if you have enough faith,
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he'll do whatever you want. But it's that absolute trust
when you know that God's guiding you, that you're part
of his story and that He's using you to fulfill
his plans and purpose on the earth. That it's a
different sort of certainty and confidence because it comes from
the mouth of the Lord and that man, like I
just feel stirred as we're saying this, even though we
planned the podcast just to be reminded, like it's called
the Impossible Life because Luke one thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
With God, nothing is impossible. So man, just if there's
any takeaway from this episode, I hope it's that you
press more into God, that you have a deeper longing
to know Him, and that you just you know, you
truly give of your heart to be closer to Him,
because that is that is like the essence of all
that we do, which we have one more question.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Gee, last question here. This is Jonah chapter four. First one.
If you know Jonah's story. God was using Jonah, and
God said, Jonah, I want you to go to this
place and go tell these people that if they don't
that I'm then and destroy them. Okay, and and God
sends and there's there's a lot of story here, but
Jonah tells them and then God doesn't do it. And
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Jonah's like, God, you maybe look like an idiot. And
this is where God says to Jonah, do you have
real do you have reason to be angry with me?
Or why do you have reason to be angry with you? Don't? Right,
Like Jonahs saying like, hey man, you're hurting my credibility here,
right Like you told me to go tell these guys
what you're gonna do, and then you didn't do it,
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and and and this isn't under the Really the context
of this question is that God's wores are higher than
our ways and like God had a purpose in doing that,
and like in our own lives, we're gonna think like God, Okay, okay,
I got it. God, you you wanted me to come
here to do this. You wanted me to come here.
I see it now now, okay. Because Jonah wrestles with
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the willingness to even do this in the first place, right,
And we're gonna wrestle with stuff like Okay, God, I'll
do it, and then we go do it and God's like, well,
you know that was for a lesson for you, but
I'm not actually gonna do that. I wanted you to
go to learn the lesson. I'm not going to do
what you think I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do what
I know is the right plan. And if we're like,
if we're arguing with God, like, Man, you didn't tell
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me like you should have told me, Like, no, we don't.
We don't have that position to say God, you should
have told me. The only right response is to trust
the commander. I didn't say, God, I'm going to follow you.
And so this is an understanding His ways are higher
than my ways. And we have to ask the right
questions back of God. Right because Romans and I'll wrap
this up here Romans nine twenty says Paul says, who
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are you to question God? And this is where like
it does matter the nature of the question, right because
I have I have asked the question God, why did
you make me this way? But not questioning God in
a seek like God. I know you. I'm asking that
question with the heart of God. I know you made
me this way for a reason. I just don't know
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what it is. And I'm not mad that you made
me this way. I'm just trying to understand it. It's
really I'm not saying God, why did you put this
in my hand? I'm saying, God, why is this in
my hand? Show me what I'm supposed to do with this?
And if you'll have that heart, that's Jeremiah. I believe
it's twenty two. When you seek me, and you seek
me with all your heart, you'll find me. When you
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seek to do God's will and God's plan for your life,
he will reveal his purpose to you. It just matters then,
just like God's questions have an intended purpose. Every question
that he's asking is to reveal his character to us.
Every question that he's asking is to show us who
he is and get us pointed in the right direction.
If you are going to ask God a question, make
sure you're asking it out of the right heart.
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Garrett Unclebuck, a man who can say five words and
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Nick is confessing right now. He's speaking from experience. I've
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I don't know that you've ever got me to confess anything,
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good way with people, and.
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I know you has questions open doors.
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Questions are keys, yes, and I'm glad that you brought
that up. Garrett.
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Yeah, I led perfectly into this because that's what we're
covering todays. Ten questions that God asks in scripture and
what it reveals about Him and I.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Questions are a very.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Interesting thing because we asked them all the time. We
actually did a whole podcast on questions and like you know,
deep cut for all the Easter Egg fans of the podcast.
If Garrett ever had his own podcast, he said he
would call it Better Questions Yeah, that.
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Was like before God sent Nick into my life and
we formed the impossible life. I said, yeah, I could,
I could do a podcast on better questions, because I think,
really the that's tekeda problem solving, the tekeda bringing value.
It's the key to so many issues in your life.
If your marriage isn't working right, there's a problem, but
you're probably.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Just asking the wrong question. Yeah, well that's exactly right. Well,
and so where do we see famous questions? Well, one
of the most famous examples that jumped right into my head,
she was in twenty twenty two Matt Walshe If you
don't know who Matt Walsh is, he's a conservative filmmaker
and commentary political commentator, and he made a movie called
What Is a Woman? Which sounds very very basic, right, gee, Like,
(03:00):
I can't believe you can make a movie on that,
because surely it's so simple, except for he made it
in twenty twenty two when gender confusion and all sorts
of stuff was going on, and he basically just walked
around and asked all sorts of people what is a woman?
And like, you would think that'd be a really simple question,
and he got like blank, looks complication. He talked to
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you know, gender experts and all sorts of people in
positions of authority, shall we say. And it was a
widely debated movie. I'll say that certain people said that
it was transphobic and it was like, you know, they
labeled it as like hateful.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Other people thought it was just yeah, it was. It
was a hot take movie.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But it actually catapulted Matt Walsh to fame because at
that point, I don't think any people had heard about him.
So just a simple question, ge, what is a woman?
And there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's a powerful question. It's like the question, you know,
the question I asked men all the time, why wouldn't
your wife listen to everything that you say? Right? That's
really that's the right when when men are telling me
they're struggling in their leadership with their marriage, that's cutting
to a question that really answers the actual problem. I
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So there you go. All right, So gee, let's let's.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Get back to this. So we talked about the what
is what is a woman? Which is a great question.
You know, here's another question based off what we just said,
what do you put it into your body? But the
questions that that we've had on this this podcast that
I thought were so apt was when we had doctor
Robbie on and we talked about raising kids. He said
the three questions that everyone is answering all the time
is who am I?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What am I worth?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And what's my purpose? And I just thought that that
was so concisely said. And he said those were the
foundations of mental well being and it's it's identity, purpose
and value. It's I mean, we talk about those things
all the time. It's nice when a psychiatrist who's helped
millions of people across the world comes on and goes, hey,
every thing you guys said is actually backed up by psychology.
It's like great because the wisdom of God has been
shown to us and just backed up by science as
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it always is. So, as we said, the purpose of
questions and the reason we're going into this, questions bring
focus here's a great example, and I do this every day.
I have three kids and they'll go to school, and
you ask your kid when they come home from school, Hey,
how is your day?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
How's school today? Good? What'd you do?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And I remember, like the first few days, whenever I
got this, I'm like, man, I actually want to know
what's going with my kids. So I reframed the question
to hey, what's the best thing about your day at
school today? And guess what, Suddenly they're giving me very
specific details about classes they're in and projects that they've
not talked about ever before because they're a kid and
they only care about what they're doing in the moment.
So like I switched the question. Now I get a
better answer because then I can like, oh, what's the project?
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And I get to find out for my kids what's
going on. And that's a very simple example.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I feel like with with kids, it's the right way
to ask them questions is like through what they're frame
is oh, And like with Grace, I'm like, hey, what
did you what did you do? You know today it's
like I don't know. But then if I say, like,
what did you do? That made Dolly laugh? That's what
she calls Lindsay's mom, Like, what did you do that
made Dolly laugh? Because she likes to be funny like
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her mom. So like Grace will start telling me all
the things she did that's funny.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I love that The Lord bless you with not just
one funny woman in your life, but a second little
one that's coming up. And I would dare I say,
Trinity is also running down that vein he gave God
is telling you something, gee for sure? All right, So
I gotta give credit to my man Tony Robins, who said,
you want better answers, ask better questions.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So we're gonna give all these tad questions.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And it's even the asking the right question will get
you looking at the right things, right. You know, I'm
around a bunch of smart people all the time, and
some of the guys that I work with I was
talking about you, but some of the guys that I
work with. One of them specifically used to be a
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direct report to Elon Musk for years at the Fremont Factory,
and he's talked a lot about some of the things
that he learned from Elon. And it's commonly known that
Elon has like his own process for engineering, and we
won't I won't go into all of it, but step
one on his engineering process is question every requirement because
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the way that he sees it is many engineers solve
the wrong problems. They over optimize something that doesn't need
to exist, and so it's question. Like he starts with
question everything, right, like all the all the parts, all
the pieces on this you say it has to be
this tall, blah blah blah. Is I question all of
that because I think you guys have solved some of
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the wrong problems. And so he starts, but he starts
with the questioning and making sure that they're asking the
right question.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You know who ls did that is a little guy
named Steve Jobs. That was because like Josh pastor Josh
Kraft just he put out that thing the other day
about how Steve Jobs is how to design insanely great products.
The second thing on there was question everything about the
current design, and it's like it's so simple, but it's
not right because it's like we take so many things
for granted, and underneath things you take for granted or
what we call pressuppositions, which means you've presupposed something like, oh, well,
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this must be true. Well, if what you presuppose isn't true,
all your conclusions that follow after it are also false.
And this is what we call life. We all walk.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Around with press positions that aren't based on facts, and.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yep, it's Sherlock Holmes. Step one is put every possible
conclusion on the table, don't you know that's the presuppositions.
Don't eliminate any of the potential conclusions. Start with everything
on the table.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And philosophers have always asked great questions. I think about
one of the great philosophers, Dwight shrut who says, before
he does anything, he asks would an idiot do that?
And if good answer is yes, I do not do
that thing thing, there's some advice for life, all right.
So we're going to ask much more important questions than
what Dwight shrewd asked.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But that just came to me. So we're gonna look
at these questions.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Gene.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I love that you kind of mind these, So I
got to give you credit where credits do. But one
of the things I want to remind when we're looking
at these questions and when we're reading the Bible, always
always always come with the heart of not that you
want to discover something more about yourself or you want
to just get a nugget for the day or whatever
problem you're facing, but that you should come and actively
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seek to discover more Who of God is? I always
talk about if you want to read the Bible, if
you want to understand it more, and you're struggling, get
Tara Lee cobbles a Bible recap. It's super simple, it's free.
It's on the U version app on your phone. Once again,
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And she does this thing every day. What you do
is you read the Bible and then she does an
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overview video that if you watch it on one and
a half speed like I do, it takes four to
five minutes. And she always she runs you through what happened,
explains things that you might be confused on, reminds you
of who's who and all that sort of stuff. And
at the end she says, what's your godshot? And the
whole point of that is like your godshot is what
did you see revealed about God? And I love that
because that's the heart of how we have to approach.
At the very core of all of our faith is
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just a God that said, Hey, I'm going to make you,
and I want to be with you, and I want
us to know each other. And if we lose that heart,
we make things so much more complicated. So I want
to remind everybody that's why we're diving into these questions.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yes, that's the whole point of his word is He's
revealing himself to us. Let me show you who I am.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, so good, all right?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Gee?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So hy us man? Why does God ask us questions? Then?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
So where this started? For me? We'll jump We're going
to go through the questions chronologically in the Old Testament.
Jesus asked questions in the New Testament, and that's very different.
There's great lessons to be learned there. But all of
these questions we're going to look at today, right this
ten questions God asks in the Old Testament. These are
We're going to go out start it chronologically in Genesis. Sorry,
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not chronologically, but biblical book order chronologically would would change
actually some of the order on these questions. But we're
going to go through through the order of the books,
and where this started is there's a question that if
you've been with us in Mindset Mastery, which if you're
not in there and you've been listening to this podcast
for over a year and you haven't joined us in
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mindset Mastery, honestly, I'm not sure what's holding you back.
In Mindset Mastery is really where we jump in and
go deep on a lot of the mindsets that we
teach here and make this like, it's great to listen here.
You can learn so many valuable tools, but if you
want to sharpen those tools and make sure that you're
applying all of them correctly, you need to spend a
year with us in mindset Mastery. And one of the
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topics that we cover in Mindset Mastery purpose we go
really we I use this scripture a lot, and I've
studied a bunch because it is the question I have
asked so many times in my life, and it's the
question I know about every single human that has walked
the earth is why am I here? What's the purpose
of my life? And the Bible tell actually like we
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all have that question, and that's Ecclesiastic three eleven. God
places eternity in the human heart. There's a searching and
a longing within every person for what, Like, we know
that we're more than just flesh, so what else is there?
And why? And so out of that we seek to
answer this question what's my purpose? And the Bible talks
about what our purpose is Ephesians three twenty By God,
credit you for good workmanship. There's many scriptures on purpose,
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but nowhere in scripture does it say, here's what Garrett's
purpose is. Right, you can read the whole thing. You're
not gonna find your name in there where it says
here's what your purpose is. However, God does want us
to know what our purpose is, and he wants us
to discover it. Right, and there is a path for
that which should go into all of that path in mindset, mastery.
But one of the one of the things that leads
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you to your purpose is what's in your hand. And
this is the scripture Exodus four two where Moses gets
what most people would want. What most people want is like, God,
can you just tell me, just tell me what my
purpose is? Right? Send me, yeah, send me an email
or a certificate or whatever that just says, here's what
you're supposed to do. You know, ninety nine point nine
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nine nine nine nine percent of the people that walk
this earth will never get that from God. God gives
this to Moses and Moses. Moses is like, hey, I'm
I think you got the wrong guy. You want me
to be the leader of Israel and lead them out
of Egypt, But I murdered a guy. I have a
speech impediment, Like why, I don't know why anybody would
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listen to me. The Pharaoh's not going to listen to me.
You're choosing the wrong person. So God comes to Moses
tells him exactly what his purpose is, and Moses is unsure,
and this is the end of Exodus three. Exodus chapter four,
Verse two. God asks Moses a question. So instead of Moses,
God just slapping Moses upside the head and saying, hey, dummy,
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right like, I don't know if you forgot, but I'm God,
I obviously know what your purpose is. He doesn't do that,
he said, he asks him a question that re points
him in the right direction, because this is a question
that's part of the picture. It's not the whole picture.
Listen to what we do in mind set master is
a question that's part of the picture. That points you
to your purpose. So when Moses doesn't catch it the
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way that God repoints Moses, he asks him this question, Moses,
what's in your hand? Right? Because Moses is saying that
he's not good enough, and what God says, he says,
what's in your hand? And with that question, what he's
saying is I don't need you to tell me what
you don't have. I need you to be faithful with
what I've given you.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
We'll come back to this question in a minute, but
I'm saying I'm starting us here because this is the
question that I first dug into and I was like, Man, God,
if God's asking a question, he's not asking for information.
Most of the time we ask questions in that way,
like I ask a question because I want to know
the answer to it. When God's asking us a question,
there's no answers that he doesn't know. So if God
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is asking us a question, it's a very different type
of question. And that's a question that's going to repoint
us to get us. God's trying to help us think
about the right things. So every and so the reason
I wanted to study this is like, man, that's the
Exodus for two God was speaking to most this is
a question for me as well. Right, this is what's
going to point me to My purpose is I got
to look at what's in my hand and be faithful
with that. And so I say this to say, it's
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kind of like an intro. We're going to look at
all of these questions. All of these questions have context
for our life.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Of course God, God was speaking to certain people for
a certain reason. We'll cover some of the context. But
the reason I think it is particular is with God's
asking a question, there's a lesson to be learned. At
the very least, like Nick talked about, it reveals some
of the character of God. But all of these questions
reflect moments that we'll find ourselves and in life. Exodus
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four two one that pertains to all of us. All
of these questions are lessons to be learned, questions that
we need to answer. So, with that being said, here's
ten questions from the Old Testament, Ten questions that God asked.
So starting in the beginning Genesis, chapter three, verse nine,
God says this to Adam and Eve, where are you? Hey?
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God's not asking Adam and Eve where they are because
he doesn't know where they are, right, Really, the question
is why are you hiding from me? And this is
if if you know the story, they have sinned and
they're you know, they feel naked, They've they've covered themselves.
So God's saying, Adam and Eve, where are you? And
this is a question that all of us have to
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This is kind of like I could flash these to
some New Testament questions, But this is kind of like
the question when in the New Testament the last time
Jesus is in the temple, that the Pharisees say, you know,
are you the Messiah? And he says, I'll answer your
question if you answer mine right, And that's when he says,
is John the Baptist the prophet? And the reason I
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won't go along into all of this, the reason that
Jesus asked that question is because he's tricking the Pharisees.
John the Baptist has declared that Jesus is the Messiah,
and so if they say that John the Baptist is
the prophet, they have to believe what he said. If
they say he's not a prophet, then they are they'll
be rejected by all of the people. And so in
all of this, the way that Jesus dealt with it,
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and well, the way that the Pharisees responded to jesus
question was they said, we don't know. They didn't want
to answer the question. And this is when something makes
you uncomfortable, you're afraid to confront it. And Genesis three
nine is this is something that we all face. Not
necessarily God, you know, speaking to you and saying where
are you? But all of us have this understanding of
like there's right and wrong, there is sin, and many
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people who live with sin, they want to hide from
God because it's it's just the same way that like
you don't want to just like be naked in public.
It kind of makes you feel uncomfortable to do that
in the same way that Adam and he said, like, man,
where something's wrong with us? And I'm scared to stand
before God. And this is where we have to have,
like we have to have a heart change and one
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be willing to turn from our sin, but more importantly
be willing to turn towards God.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, that's so good.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
You you made me think about you know, you talk
about seeing some of the character of God and talking
about how Jesus obviously perfectly revealed the Father I love
whenever he challenges the commonly held belief in the Hebrew
faith and says, if the Messiah is David's son, then
why does he call him the Lord? And he references
that song where he says the Lord said to my Lord,
sit in my right hand until I make your enemies
your footstool. And he just leaves it there. He doesn't like,
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he doesn't keep going. It's just like he allows the
question to start the work, which is such a good
thing of God. And for this question, I mean, are
we hiding from God?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Like where are you? Are you hiding from God? Or
are you walking with him?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I think where this comes into place so often, Look, man,
we're all going to fall short of the glory of God.
And it's that question of when something goes wrong, when
something's troubling you, when something's causing you whatever it is, anxiety,
or if you've actually sinned and no like wilfully sinned,
what's your first thought process? Is it like, man, I
got to cover this up, like oh Gods so distant
from me? Or is it a thought process? Man, I'm
gonna take it to my dad, because you know, when
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you know who your Father is you don't you know
that it's the best thing you could do is to
take it to him, because he's going to have the
best solution, not not to try and hide or figure
it out on your own, whether it's a problem or
whether it's sin. And so that is a very apt
one for us to all answer, I think on a
regular place.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
So, yeah, very very good. Next question, we won't go
as along on this one. Genesis chapter three, verse thirteen.
God says to Eve, what is this you have done? Okay,
God knows what she's done. He's not saying, like, tell
me what happened. What this question is about is consequences.
It's understanding that we all have to take responsibility for
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our actions. God, God's sovereign, man's responsible. Adam and Eve
are responsible for what happened there. And so this is
a remind like this question is again like you started
us with naked, reveals some of the nature and character
of God. That God's saying, Look, what did you do?
I told you not to? You did it? Now? What's
because after this God tells him what the consequences are.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah, and if you want to know what the responsibility
for our actions, if you want to make your life harder,
just sin, because look at where like, look at their
primary responsibility. He gave Adam work to do. And what
got harder after the sins? The work The ground's going
to grow up thistles and thorns. And by the sweat
of your brow, you're gonna you're gonna provide for yourself,
he said, be fruitful, MULTIPLI so he gave man a helper.
And what was Eve's work that got more complicated in
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great pain? You're gonna now give child bearing. And so
it's like that's the responsibility for our actions to understand,
like sin has consequences that are far more than what
we realize, and it literally makes everything harder. I mean,
that's an amazing one to just say, what have you done?
Oh by the way, here's the punishment. So right, so good.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So next one, and I will say for all of
these questions, right, we're going to cover these quickly. It
is in my heart at some point to write an
entire Bible study on these ten questions, because that like
you need to study all of the context. So we're
giving the reference. I would encourage you to go, especially
on some of these next ones that we're going to
get into. You kind of need the whole story. We'll
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cover some of it quickly, but you do need more context.
And these are things just like what most of my
messages were when God first gave me the opportunity to preach.
The end of my message was, hey, go read it
for yourself, right because what you need. But this is
not you know, Garrett and Nick digest the Bible for you,
so you don't have to. This is us to set
you up and point you in the right direction so
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you can go see for yourself. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Well, Genesis is that point.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I'll put all these questions with the references in the
show notes, so make it easy on you.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Great. So question number three, Genesis, chapter sixteen, verses six
through ten. God says, where have you come from? And
where are you going? And this is to Hagar when
she's running from her situation, running from Abraham in the desert.
God had a plan for Hagar. Abraham and Hagar's relationship
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was probably not exactly what God wanted in the beginning
for Abraham. However, God still had a plan for Hagar
and God. And God uses Hagar, and God uses Ishmael
in the ways that he does. Now they're not God's
chosen people, but God still does something with their lives,
and you see them all throughout the Old Testament, and
she's running away. And so this is a question for
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any of us when we're in a struggle, when we're
running from difficulty, and there's another question like this similar
and so's there's kind of a comparative context between this
question the other one. But when we're in a difficult
situation that we don't just run from it. This isn't
this is spiritual and this is physical. God has a
great plan for our life, and so when things don't
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go exactly the way that you want them to go,
you don't just run from that situation. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I think it's so interesting when you think about the
the you know, that sounds like a very not meaningful question.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's very factual. Where have you come from? Where you're going?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I came from my bedroom and I'm going to my office,
you know what I mean? Like very simple, that's how
we would see this. But it was so much more
revealing than that, right, like you said, it's it's it's
both literal and uh the actual like external.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I think, what's what what stands out to me? And
not not. I don't want to go super long on
this one, but what stands out to me is that
it is like that God took time to ask a
question to Hagar, who's not his chosen people? Right her
hagar son Ishmael was like this is like Isaac was
God's chosen son for Abraham. Ishmael is Abraham's son with
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Hagar who was you know, Sarah's servant, right, yeah, Abraham.
It was out of a lack of faith and not
trusting in God that that this relationship happens and that
Ishmael exists. Yet God still speaks to her, and like
we can sometimes feel like, man, I'm just rejected by it,
Like I'm not the I'm not the one that God's using.
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I'm not the one that God wants to work with.
Like you can feel like this, but like you know,
you can feel like a Hagar, so to speak. But
God says, why are you running? Like where did you
come from? And basically, hey, go back and deal with
this situation, like I still have a plan for you.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Very good. What's next?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
G Genesis chapter thirty two verse like the It's verse
twenty four through twenty nine is kind of this piece
of the passage, but you really need to read all
of Jacob's story. This is when Jacob wrestles with Esau,
I mean with Jake, when Jacob wrestles with the with
with God, wrestles with the Angel of the Lord before
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he's on his way to go back and face Esau.
And while he's wrestling with God, God asked him this question.
He says, what is your name? And again is does
God not know Jacob's name? Of course he does. God's
asking him his name because Jacob is wrestling with the
meaning of his name. This is also where God, you know,
in Jacob's story, God renames Jacob to Israel, Israel meaning
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wrestled with God and have overcome. And really the whole
point of this question is we are who God says, right,
because Jacob was leaning on his own identity and God
changed his like God changed his name. You know, for
many of us, God doesn't change our name, but God
does change all of our identities. And that's what God
does in Jacob's life, and he gets a name change
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along with it. And so Jacob was leaning on his
you know, the name Jacob means subplanter or deceiver or
heal grabber quite literally, because he was rabbing onto Esau's
heel as he came out of the womb. And so
his no, that's what his name means, deceiver or subplanter.
And that's where and in this God changes his name
to basically say you're more than that. You are who
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I say you are, I have a plan for your life.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, and I mean, once again, when we're talking about
the nature of God, where I would encourage everybody. This
is to Garrett's point, like God may not have literally
changed your name, but when he met Abram, he changed
it to Abraham. He changed Simon to Peter, he changed
Jacob to Israel. And it's a picture of God's transformative,
redemptive work that he literally changes because like names, some
people just name their kids stuff that they think sounds cool,
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but that God.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Like, no, don't do that.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
That's a little side note, but names in Hebrew have
a lot of significance and because of the meaning of
the names, and it's very much almost like a prophetic
statement towards the person's life. And so it's not an
accident that like Yeshuah for Jesus is the same as
what Joshua was in the Old Testament, like God's working
in symmetry. He's like giving us clues into like people's lives,
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obviously being the ones that deliver. And so I just
encourage you, like understand, God's not here to just take
your identity and make it a little better, or to
just clean up your past. It's to give you an
entirely new identity. And to the point Garrett made, we
are who God says we are. I think it even
says in Revolution the Revelation that he has names written
on rocks that he gives to them, which are names
He's given to him. AKA, God's completely transformed you and
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sees you the way he made you. So just know,
you're not what you've done. You're not what other people
have said about you. You're not even what you say
about you. You are who God says you are.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
And this was What's just one more piece of context
is that this is like the lowest moment of Jacob's life.
It's a kind of a cowardly moment. He's on the run,
he's afraid. I forget the biblical name for it, but
the river that he's camped next to, the meaning of
that river, like the word means despair, right, so like
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the lowest moment of his life, camp next to the
river called despair. And in this he wrestles with God.
And this is where God changes his name.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Right, so good, So argie, what's next?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Moving on? This is now we're at my favorite question
in the Old Testament Exodus four two. God says, what's
in your hand? And this is the question that every
single one of us has to ask. Many of us,
you know, wish for more, wish we were something that
we're not, Wish we had something that we don't have.
And that's what God said to Moses, is what's in
your hand? And what was in Moses's hand? It's not
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that God doesn't actually know, right right again, it's not
God's not asking a little question. It's a reminder. What
was in Moses's hand was a shepherd's staff. And God says,
the third staff on the ground, it turns into a snake.
Pick up the snake, it turns back into a staff.
And what God's saying to Moses, and I'm paraphrasing this
chapter of the Bible, what God's saying to Moses, I
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don't need you to tell me what you don't have
I need you to be faithful with what I've given you.
Right that staff, like a staff is used for protecting
and leading animals, right for shepherding them. And God says,
I'm going to use you to do the same. And
by the way, I'm God, so I can do whatever
I want to do with your staff. You just need
to know that I've given you. I've made you who
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you are, and I've given you the staff that you have,
and I'm the one who's made this mission and calling
you to do it. I will be with you. Just
trust me and follow me right and use what's in
your hand. Don't many people come to this place and like, well,
you know, I could just be a leader. If God
would do this, well, I could just lead a Bible study.
If you know, men would just appear out of nowhere
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and start coming to my house. I could I could
just whatever. People you know, tell me what they could
do if they had certain resources. And God says, be
faithful with what I've given you.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, And I think where you'll see this a lot,
And I'm just going to share a quick story from
my own life that's very relevant to the podcast is
you'll you'll look at somebody else, and you'll think, well, man,
if I had his dad then I could do that,
or if I had their money, then I could have
done this, or if I had their whatever insert whatever.
And early on in the podcast, obviously for those of
you who are new to the podcast, we know we're
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getting a lot of new listeners. This started because Garrett
coached me, and one day I was running I really felt,
what was a word from God just say like, Garrett
needs to other podcast. So I text him fully with
the heart to just serve him. I never even planned
on being on the podcast. I was just going to
produce it. And here we are four years later. Well,
so we launched this podcast. And if you listen to
the early episodes, and I know a lot of people
go back because I see the stats shout outs episode
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four when I get the ice bathl out live on there.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Not my proudest moment anyways, But if you listen to
you don't. I don't really want you to do that.
It's just fuel for your dark soul. Anyways.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
But the first ten to twenty episodes, I would say,
is very much me still in a coaching mode. Like
you'll hear on the podcast, how are a lot of
our coaching sessions went where Garrett would say something, I
would like question him and we would just go back
and forth. And I was very much almost you know,
I didn't plan for it, but it's almost like I
was getting free coaching.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
So I start listening to these things and it wasn't free.
It was very painful. But I start listening to these
episodes and I'm like, dude, I sound like an idiot.
I'm like the jester who's just like cracking jokes and
Garrett's dropping like absolute wisdom bombs. And so I was like,
I'm gonna start preparing better for these I'm gonna come
on like I was gonna bring one liners and just
like deep stuff. And I remember I felt such a
like not in my chest my spirit of just like
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God being like, no, I've already made a Garret uncle Black.
I've got one role and it's already filled, like I
need you to be the best knick surface. I've made
you to be a very unique expression. You need to
be the best you. And it was just it's real
kind of like aha moment for me of what's in
my hand, because I had to stop and go like okay,
what am I actually like really good at what's unique
at me? What are the skills that I have that
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I need to sharpen better? So for me, it's like
I've always been very good at speaking and it comes
easily to me, but like, I don't want to be
the god that's going uh and stuttering a lot, so
I need to start listening and sharpening up. I needed
to start speaking slower. I needed to start thinking a
lot more before I spoke, Like that was how I
could take what was in my hand and be better.
And there were so many other examples, but I'm saying
that to encourage people out there. What's in your hand
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is your gifts, your abilities, your unique experience, is the
story of your life, your reputation on top of all
the stuff that you would think of, like your money
and your kids and the people and whatever else you
may think of. But like, you have things that God
has given you. That is your responsibility to take that
and develop it. And that's what's in your hand. So like,
really think about that question, because honestly, it's half of
purpose and it is a it is a big, big,
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big question. So sorry, I know we went a little
bit longer on that one.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, it's great, it's great. What's next. Next question, First
King King chapter nineteen, verse one through ten. And I
would say, go read all of these stories, but this
is such a good story to go read, and you'll
need to back up a couple chapters. Read all, read,
read all the way through Elijah's story. Yes, First Kings
chapter nineteen, verse one through ten. This is right after
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Elijah has like one of the most epic powerful moments
in the Bible. And Elijah is one of the figures
that God brent you know that should we see again
in the New Testament, I could go on, and Elijah's
very special figure, okay, And one of the most epic
moments in the Bible. Elijah calls down fire from heaven
and get like, you know, obviously that's God, but Elijah's
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the prophet who does it. And then right after that
kills over six hundred men, all of the prophets of Bail,
Like that's just like a line in scripture, like one
man kills six hunderd guys. Okay, yeah, he slaughtered them right, Okay.
And then after this it says that Elijah was afraid
running from a woman hiding in the desert, Like how
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do you go from like Pinnacle Mo moment? Who is
Tom Brady wins his seventh or whatever Super Bowl? And
then the next week he's like, I shouldn't even play football,
like I'm I'm no good, Like that's literally it's like,
how do you go from this to this? And God
asks him this question. He says, Elijah's hiding in the
desert and he said, like, Elijah says, God, just kill me, right,
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like yeah, no one, no one, Like don't I'm just done,
Like no one's following you. Yeah, no one's even following you.
Like what I do doesn't even matter. He's just feeling
real sorry for himself. And God says, Elijah, what are
you doing here? And obviously again God knows how Elijah
got there, But what God's saying to Elijah like this
is actually like a great zoom out question because I
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love what happens after this. The Angel of the Lord
says like, hey, here's some food, right, you need to eat?
Like Elijah's actually just angry in this moment, and and
and he's probably honestly tired, hungry, and been through like
some of the most exhausting things in his life. And
maybe we need to like do a little reset and
refresh and maybe don't just like quit on your entire
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destiny because you're tired and hungry.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yeah, there was no whoops back there for Elijah, but
if there was, he was realized.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
He was at one percent. Yeah, he was hitting the
one percent that day. And there's there's a lot more
to this question. But God saying, what are you doing here?
And really this is like I'm making light of it
a little bit. Then I shouldn't have, you know, just
the tired and the hungry, But really God saying like
how did you come to this place? And that's like
when we go through a little we will go through
the desert moments like Elijah has there and you need
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to zoom out and say how did I get here?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yes, that that is an awareness question, man, and I
feel we've done podcasts on awareness to go look those up,
because otherwise we could spend another forty minutes on this one.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
What's next to you? We got what more?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Job thirty eight, Chapter one, verse four. This is powerful question.
Job is lamenting a little bit to God, and this
is God's longest monologue in the entire Bible. God said
in the midst. This is in the midst of it
because Job has complained a little bit to God and
God says to Moses, where were you when I laid
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the Earth's foundation. Basically, what he's saying to Job is,
you don't know nothing right like I have. I'm God,
I'm sovereign, I have a plan, and you're don't do
don't don't question me. Yeah, that's and uh, and I
love if you go read this story. I think this
is like most people want to see this. I think
this is hilarious. God's like halfway through his monologue and
Job's like, you're right, I'm sorry, and God literally says, no,
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I'm not done.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
And yeah, don't don't interrupt me. I've got a few
more questions for you to answer it. Yeah, he asked
some big flex questions, and that that monologue is incredible,
that that.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Question really is a it's a foundational and leveling statement,
and it's a humbling reminder for us. If this is
a fear of God question, like you don't know anything right,
like you need to just trust God and understand that
he's the God of the universe that created it all
and he's the one that has the plan and this, Uh,
so you have no reason to question God.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Yeah, and man, if you if you are going through
difficult things, and look, we're all going to go through
difficult things. This is probably not a question that's comforting
to you, but if you allow it to be, it
will be because it's a humbling of like, hey, God's
still writing your story. Because most people would say, man,
I mean actually, Job's friends were telling them, hey, you've
sinned against God. If you had, if you lost all
your property, all your kids, and your wife and then
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you got like a skin disease, people would be like
you made God mad, and you'd probably be like, yeah,
you're right, and and so then this is Job gives
a little bit of like, hey, you know, what have
I done wrong? Which seems like a reasonable thing, like
I haven't sinned, I haven't done this, and God steps
and says, hang on here, son, and so like, whatever
you're going through, I guarantee you it wasn't as bad
as what Joe went through. And if you'll have the
wherewithal to ask that question, where was I when God
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laid the foundation? She's like, He's still in charge of
your story. Trust is nature.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
And the New Testament reference to this is Romans chapter nine,
verse twenty. Paul says, who are you to question God? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:51):
One hundred percent, talking about being the clay on the
on the wheel and saying like does he look at
the potter and say, why do you make me this way?
Speaker 1 (38:57):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (38:58):
All right, Ge, you are on question eight.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Isaiah Isaiah chapter six, verse one through eight. This is fame.
Many people know this scripture. And this is where God
says to Isaiah, whom shall I send? God?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Is?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
God is saying I need someone who's gonna go. Whom
shall I send? Who will go for us? God? And
this is the New Testament. Many are called, few are chosen.
The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few and
got the lesson in this like God's not saying like
who is the actual person? God knows who He's going
to use. But this question is is a call out.
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It's a cry from our creator saying, who wants to
work for me? Right? I have? I have great plans
and great purposes for some of you. Unfortunately, some of
you won't follow me. Unfortunately, some of you want to
do your own thing. But for those who are willing,
I have a great plan for you who will go
for us? It is an enlistment call.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Man, I pray we all answer that you. You'd put
in our notes that availability trumps ability every single time,
and this just highlights that again, Man, I love that
so much?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
So good?
Speaker 5 (40:03):
All right?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Gie?
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Question Ezekiel thirty seven Ezekiel, Chapter thirty seven, verse one
through four. God says to Ezekiel, son of man, can
these bones live? And God's not again, understand the question.
God's not asking like, hey you is this possible? That's
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not what God's saying. He's saying, do you believe? Right? God?
This is a revealing of God's character right the way
that you answer this question. God's really asking like do
you believe I'm the God of the impossible? God can right?
And he's not Santa Claus. He doesn't need us to
believe in him for us for him to be able
to have power. That's not the way that it works.
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But this is a question. Right. When God saying, son
a man, to these bones live, He's saying, do you
really believe that I'm the God of the impossible? Or
you just think I'm your buddy that's going to show
up for you once in a while yeah, that is
a core question, man, to just hit hit home because
faith is the gift of God and say it's not
something to be strained out that we can, like you said,
he's not Genie God that if you have enough faith,
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he'll do whatever you want. But it's that absolute trust
when you know that God's guiding you, that you're part
of his story and that He's using you to fulfill
his plans and purpose on the earth. That it's a
different sort of certainty and confidence because it comes from
the mouth of the Lord and that man, like I
just feel stirred as we're saying this, even though we
planned the podcast just to be reminded, like it's called
the Impossible Life because Luke one thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
With God, nothing is impossible. So man, just if there's
any takeaway from this episode, I hope it's that you
press more into God, that you have a deeper longing
to know Him, and that you just you know, you
truly give of your heart to be closer to Him,
because that is that is like the essence of all
that we do, which we have one more question.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Gee, last question here. This is Jonah chapter four. First one.
If you know Jonah's story. God was using Jonah, and
God said, Jonah, I want you to go to this
place and go tell these people that if they don't
that I'm then and destroy them. Okay, and and God
sends and there's there's a lot of story here, but
Jonah tells them and then God doesn't do it. And
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Jonah's like, God, you maybe look like an idiot. And
this is where God says to Jonah, do you have
real do you have reason to be angry with me?
Or why do you have reason to be angry with you? Don't? Right,
Like Jonahs saying like, hey man, you're hurting my credibility here,
right Like you told me to go tell these guys
what you're gonna do, and then you didn't do it,
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and and and this isn't under the Really the context
of this question is that God's wores are higher than
our ways and like God had a purpose in doing that,
and like in our own lives, we're gonna think like God, Okay, okay,
I got it. God, you you wanted me to come
here to do this. You wanted me to come here.
I see it now now, okay. Because Jonah wrestles with
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the willingness to even do this in the first place, right,
And we're gonna wrestle with stuff like Okay, God, I'll
do it, and then we go do it and God's like, well,
you know that was for a lesson for you, but
I'm not actually gonna do that. I wanted you to
go to learn the lesson. I'm not going to do
what you think I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do what
I know is the right plan. And if we're like,
if we're arguing with God, like, Man, you didn't tell
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me like you should have told me, Like, no, we don't.
We don't have that position to say God, you should
have told me. The only right response is to trust
the commander. I didn't say, God, I'm going to follow you.
And so this is an understanding His ways are higher
than my ways. And we have to ask the right
questions back of God. Right because Romans and I'll wrap
this up here Romans nine twenty says Paul says, who
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are you to question God? And this is where like
it does matter the nature of the question, right because
I have I have asked the question God, why did
you make me this way? But not questioning God in
a seek like God. I know you. I'm asking that
question with the heart of God. I know you made
me this way for a reason. I just don't know
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what it is. And I'm not mad that you made
me this way. I'm just trying to understand it. It's
really I'm not saying God, why did you put this
in my hand? I'm saying, God, why is this in
my hand? Show me what I'm supposed to do with this?
And if you'll have that heart, that's Jeremiah. I believe
it's twenty two. When you seek me, and you seek
me with all your heart, you'll find me. When you
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seek to do God's will and God's plan for your life,
he will reveal his purpose to you. It just matters then,
just like God's questions have an intended purpose. Every question
that he's asking is to reveal his character to us.
Every question that he's asking is to show us who
he is and get us pointed in the right direction.
If you are going to ask God a question, make
sure you're asking it out of the right heart.
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