Greg Laurie - Between Impossible and More Impossible

June 5, 2025 | 27:29

Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.

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  • Greg laurie: have you come recently through a hard trial,
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  • Or through a red sea
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  • Of sorts, or through some difficulty?
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  • Have you?
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  • Have you given god glory for that?
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  • Oh lord, help me. oh lord, come through for me.
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  • Great good.
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  • He came through for you. thanks god.
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  • See you next crisis.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: let me start with a question.
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  • Have you ever been in a situation where the only way out
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  • Was god?
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  • In other words, if god didn't come through for you, you were
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  • Dead in the water.
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  • Maybe it was a report from a doctor.
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  • They said, i'm sorry, there's nothing more we can do for you.
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  • Maybe it was a financial catastrophe and you were on the
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  • Brink of collapse.
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  • Maybe it was the death of a loved one and you thought i
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  • Cannot survive this.
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  • That's a very situation we find israel in, in this story
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  • Before us.
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  • Now, as we all know, god delivered the israelites from
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  • The land of egypt, and now he's going to take them to that land
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  • Of promise, the land flowing with milk and honey,
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  • Canaan's land.
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  • But the problem is as they were approaching this land, they were
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  • Being chased by the egyptian army.
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  • And they found themselves backed up with a red sea behind them
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  • And a really big army coming toward them.
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  • They were literally between the devil and the deep blue sea,
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  • Between a rock and a hard place.
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  • They were basically facing an unconquerable army and an
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  • Impassable sea, but god was gonna come through for them, and
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  • It looked like it was impossible, but the good news is
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  • With god, nothing is impossible.
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  • That's what the bible says.
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  • So off they go, but interestingly, the lord did not
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  • Direct them in a direct route to the land of promise.
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  • He led them through a much harder, longer route, that in
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  • Many ways made no sense.
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  • But in fact, it was part of god's plan, and it's explained
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  • In exodus 13, verse 17, when pharaoh finally let the people
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  • Go, god did not lead them along the main road that runs through
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  • Philistine territory, even though that was the shortest
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  • Route to the promised land.
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  • God said, if the people are faced with the battle, they
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  • Might change their minds and return to egypt.
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  • So the lord led them in a roundabout way through the
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  • Wilderness toward the red sea.
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • God did not lead them the shortest way or the easiest way,
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  • But it was the best way, the best way.
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  • And god always leads us in the best way.
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  • And there was an amazing gps system.
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  • The lord set up, i talked about this last time, it was a cloud
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  • By day, it was a fire by night.
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  • So when the cloud moved, you moved.
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  • When the cloud stopped, you stopped.
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  • Same with the fire.
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  • I have a love hate relationship with gps.
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  • Like, there have been times i'm driving in my car going down the
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  • Freeway, and the gps says, turn right at the next off ramp.
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  • I'm like, you don't turn right at the next off ramp, you stay
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  • On the 405.
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  • Turn right at the next off ramp.
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  • Turn, okay, finally i turn off, and i pull over to the street.
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  • Okay.
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  • Go left, go right, go.
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  • Now, get out of your car, jump up and down three times.
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  • Wait, what?
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  • Go in the in-n-out burger order something, take the food, and
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  • Leave without paying.
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  • Get arrested. wait, who's programming this?
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  • So then recently i was driving, and i programmed my destination
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  • On my gps, and i'm cruising along on the 55 freeway, and the
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  • Gps says, turn right at the next off ramp.
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  • I know you don't turn right at the next off ramp.
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  • So i kept going straight and i hit traffic.
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  • Oh, and i thought gps was trying to help me.
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  • So i had to apologize to artificial intelligence.
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  • I'm sorry, gps.
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  • But listen, god, god's gps is always right.
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  • It will never mislead you.
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  • You know, we need god to direct us because god's way is better
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  • Than our way.
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  • We think we know what's right, but many times we don't, it's
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  • Like parents raising a kid.
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  • What if you let your children decide what they wanted to eat
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  • Every day.
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  • For breakfast they'd have what?
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  • Captain crunch.
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  • For lunch, frosted flakes for dinner.
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  • The kid would say, well, i'm trying to cut back on the sugar,
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  • So i'm gonna go with honey nut cheerios.
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  • This isn't good for you kid.
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  • This isn't even real food.
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  • I have to get the right food in your diet as well, and god does
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  • The same.
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  • Okay, so here now are the israelites and god's gonna lead
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  • Them through the red sea.
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  • Let's go to exodus 14, verse 3.
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  • Here's what happens, the lord is
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  • Saying, "'the pharaoh is gonna think, "the israelites
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  • Are confused.
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  • They're trapped in the wilderness!"
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  • And once again,' the lord says, 'i'll harden pharaoh's heart,
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  • And he'll chase after you.
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  • I plan this in order to display my glory through pharaoh and his
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  • Whole army.
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  • After this the egyptians will know i am the lord!'
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  • So the israelites camp there as they were told."
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  • What kind of a military strategy is this?
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  • Okay.
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  • So the pharaoh's gonna think you're all gonna die because
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  • You're backed up against the red sea.
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  • That's a plan.
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  • So what do we do?
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  • You just stand there look like prey to a predator and he's
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  • Gonna go for this.
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  • He's gonna go for this hook line and sinker and sure enough
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  • That's what the pharaoh did.
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  • He heard about the israelites?
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  • He says, let's go kill 'em.
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  • See, the pharaoh's heart was hard.
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  • That verse says that his heart would be hard.
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  • You know what's interesting?
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  • In the book of exodus, miracle after miracle was done to
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  • Convince pharaoh.
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  • Moses walked in, threw his staff on the ground, it turns into a
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  • Snake, probably a cobra.
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  • He picks it up by the tail, by the way, never pick up a snake
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  • By its tail.
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  • Always get him right behind the head, because if you pick him up
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  • By the tail, he'll strike.
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  • He picks up his stick or a snake rather, it turns into a stick
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  • Again, plagues of frogs, plagues of lice, the nile river turning
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  • To blood.
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  • All of these things happen to convince pharaoh when we read,
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  • Pharaoh hardened his heart.
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  • Then we read and god hardened pharaoh's heart.
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  • Wait, what?
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  • That's a contradiction.
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  • No, it isn't.
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  • Both things are true.
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  • You see pharaoh hardened his heart repeatedly and the lord
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  • Effectively hardened his heart, meaning he strengthened it.
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  • God will not force you to believe.
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  • If you put your faith in christ and follow him, he will
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  • Strengthen you in that commitment.
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  • But if you go against god's will in a continual pattern of sin,
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  • You'll be strengthened in that as well.
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  • And pharaoh effectively went beyond the point of no return.
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  • There is a point of no return.
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  • Jesus spoke of the blasphemy of the holy spirit, which is the
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  • Unforgivable sin.
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  • You say, oh man, i might have blasphemed him sometime in
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  • My life.
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  • Now, it doesn't mean you insulted the holy spirit once.
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  • The work of the holy spirit is to convict us of our sin and
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  • Bring us to christ.
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  • To blaspheme or to insult him means to reject the work he has
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  • Come to do.
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  • So, the blasphemy of the holy spirit or the unforgivable sin
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  • Is the rejection of christ.
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  • Every other sin can be forgiven if you repent of it.
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  • But if you reject jesus christ, the bible says, how can you
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  • Escape if you neglect so great a salvation?
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  • The pharaoh had gone beyond the point of no return.
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  • So now here are the israelites, they're facing the red sea.
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  • Here comes the armies of egypt.
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  • What do they do?
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  • What would you have done?
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  • You would have done exactly what they did.
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  • They freaked out.
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  • Look at exodus 14:10, as the pharaoh approached, the people
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  • Of israel looked up and panicked when they saw the egyptians
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  • Overtaking them.
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  • And they said, weren't there enough graves for us in egypt?
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  • Here was their problem.
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  • They always wanted to go back to egypt.
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  • The whole time, they're in the wilderness, even though the
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  • Lord's providing them this amazing food called manna, and
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  • Leading them with the ultimate gps system, and everything is
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  • Taken care of, they're always saying, oh, i don't know, i kind
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  • Of wish i was in egypt still.
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  • I missed the good old days back in egypt.
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  • You know, it's just a thing they kept going back to, it took one
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  • Night to get israel out of egypt.
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  • It took 40 years to get egypt out of israel.
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  • And so they blamed moses, verse 11, "they said to moses, 'why
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  • Did you bring us here to die in the wilderness?'"
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  • Wow.
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  • Greg: the battle belongs to the lord.
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  • Ever heard that before?
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  • That's actually found in the scripture.
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  • It's the story of david and goliath, when david was facing
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  • Off with that 9 ft 6 inch philistine giant of a man
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  • Named goliath.
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  • And as david looked up at his opponent, he said, this is not
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  • Your battle, this is the lord's battle.
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  • And then he attacked goliath in the name of the lord.
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  • So that's a very important principle we need to remember,
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  • Because there's someone listening to me right now that's
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  • In a battle.
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  • You have a problem.
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  • A giant, if you will, a big issue you cannot resolve.
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  • Maybe it's an addiction.
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  • Maybe it's a loved one that has no interest in god.
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  • Maybe it's a huge problem, and you're thinking, how am i gonna
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  • Handle this?
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  • In fact, it wakes you up in the middle of the night.
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  • So here's what i want to say to you, it's not your battle, it's
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  • The lord's battle.
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  • The battle belongs to the lord.
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  • In ephesians 6, the apostle paul tells us to put on the armor of
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  • God, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of
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  • Righteousness, the shield of faith, the sword of the spirit.
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  • But then he says, but above all, stand in the lord and in the
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  • Power of his might.
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  • Listen, you can't do this on your own.
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  • Sometimes i've heard it said, you know, it's hard to be
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  • A christian.
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  • I beg to differ.
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  • It's not hard to be a christian.
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  • It's impossible without the help of god.
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  • Jesus said, apart from me, you can do nothing but you can take
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  • That same coin, flip it around.
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  • And the other side of it are the words of the apostle paul, when
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  • He said, "i can do all things through christ who
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  • Strengthens me."
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  • So listen, whatever you're facing, whatever your giant is,
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  • Whatever battle you're fighting, remember the battle belongs to
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  • The lord.
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  • Trust in him.
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  • Commit it to him in prayer and then attack your giant.
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  • Greg: that brings us to our next point, point number three, when
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  • Facing an impossible and more impossible situation, pray.
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  • When facing an impossible and more impossible situation, pray,
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  • Call out to god.
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  • Yes, they freaked out, but they also prayed.
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  • Look at verse 11, they cried out to the lord and said to moses,
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  • Why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness?
  • 00:11:09.645 --> 00:11:11.781
  • Now, they were complaining in their prayer.
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  • Listen to this.
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  • Did you know it's ok to complain in a prayer?
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  • Oh, that's sacrilegious.
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  • Excuse me, have you ever read the psalms?
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  • David did a lot of griping, but he didn't cry out against god,
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  • He cried out to god.
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  • Even jesus hanging on the cross said, my god, my god, why have
  • 00:11:29.331 --> 00:11:33.669
  • You forsaken me?
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  • So bring your complaints, bring your questions to the lord, but
  • 00:11:35.604 --> 00:11:39.842
  • The key is bring them to the lord.
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  • That's what they're doing, lord help us.
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  • We don't like this one bit, and they prayed.
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  • It reminds us of one of the stories of the disciples out in
  • 00:11:46.582 --> 00:11:49.885
  • The sea of galilee, and a great storm came and jesus was
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  • On board.
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  • So they woke up jesus and they said, "don't you care we're
  • 00:11:54.557 --> 00:11:57.193
  • Going to drown?"
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  • And then jesus came out and stopped the storm.
  • 00:11:58.761 --> 00:12:00.596
  • But the thing is they did call out to jesus.
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  • And that's what we need to do, when panic sets in, it's time
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  • To pray.
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  • If your knees start shaking, kneel on them.
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  • I love what we see now.
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  • Here they are facing this egyptian army and that was a
  • 00:12:14.110 --> 00:12:18.013
  • Scary army.
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  • That was the most powerful military on earth.
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  • Here they come in their chariots, and their stallions,
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  • And their swords, and their spears, and their shields,
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  • And helmets.
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  • And here are the israelites just standing there with their kids,
  • 00:12:30.860 --> 00:12:32.661
  • You know, and their livestock, moses has a stick and not a
  • 00:12:32.661 --> 00:12:36.465
  • Lot more.
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  • They're like, we're not really an army and the red sea is
  • 00:12:38.567 --> 00:12:41.504
  • Behind us and the egyptian army is coming toward us, and now
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  • They look like they're in the worst situation possible.
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  • But i love what we read.
  • 00:12:47.676 --> 00:12:49.545
  • We read that moses says to the people, "stand still," exodus
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  • 14, and the lord himself will fight for you.
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  • Stand still, that's the hardest thing to do, isn't it?
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  • We want to take things into our own hands.
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  • But the bible says, wait on the lord.
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  • Those that wait upon the lord will mount up with wings
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  • As eagles.
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  • They shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
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  • The bible tells us.
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  • When you're in a place like this, it's not a bad place
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  • To be.
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  • Warren wiersbe, a great bible commentator said this and i
  • 00:13:18.774 --> 00:13:21.977
  • Quote, "when human resources are gone, then divine resources can
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  • Go to work on behalf of those that trust god."
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  • End quote.
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  • So when you're led by the lord, make your move.
  • 00:13:31.353 --> 00:13:33.856
  • Look at verse 15, the lord says to moses, "why are you crying
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  • Out to me?
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  • Tell the people to get moving, pick up your stuff, raise your
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  • Hand over the sea, divide the water.
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  • So the israelites can walk through in the middle of the
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  • Sand on dry ground, or the middle of the sea on dry ground.
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  • You know, there's a point to wait and there's a point to
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  • Pray, a moment to pray.
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  • And then you gotta move.
  • 00:13:54.143 --> 00:13:56.178
  • That sounds strange. no, you gotta always pray.
  • 00:13:56.178 --> 00:13:58.113
  • Well, yes, pray, but there's a moment to move.
  • 00:13:58.113 --> 00:14:01.784
  • When intercession is passed, intervention has come.
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  • It's time to take action.
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  • Let's illustrate.
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  • Let's say you're having problems in your marriage, and how many
  • 00:14:07.256 --> 00:14:11.360
  • Of you are married?
  • 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:12.728
  • Raise your hand? you're married.
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  • Okay. a lot of you are married.
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  • How many of you are happily married?
  • 00:14:16.565 --> 00:14:18.000
  • Raise your hand?
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  • Not as many hands, interesting.
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  • So this will really relate to you.
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  • Let's say you're having problems in your marriage and wife,
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  • You're praying for your husband.
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  • Lord, would you speak to my husband?
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  • He needs to show me more affection.
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  • He needs to do the chores i asked him to do, he needs to be
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  • More patient with me.
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  • Just change my husband, we pray.
  • 00:14:38.787 --> 00:14:40.956
  • And meanwhile, the husband is praying, lord changes this wife.
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  • She's always nagging, she's always complaining.
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  • She doesn't appreciate me.
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  • Well, look, why don't you just do your part?
  • 00:14:51.166 --> 00:14:53.602
  • There's a point to pray.
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  • But the bible says, husbands love your wife as christ loves
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  • The church.
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  • Why don't you do that guys?
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  • Are you doing it? i'll answer it for you.
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  • No.
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  • We all fall short of that, don't we men?
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  • Right? we fall short.
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  • We don't love our wives as much as we should.
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  • But then the wife is told by god, respect your husband.
  • 00:15:09.618 --> 00:15:13.522
  • Isn't that interesting?
  • 00:15:13.522 --> 00:15:15.057
  • God tells a husband to love his wife, and god tells a wife to
  • 00:15:15.057 --> 00:15:19.561
  • Respect her husband.
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  • That doesn't mean that husbands should not respect their wives,
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  • Nor does it mean wives should not love their husbands.
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  • But it is interesting to note, there are distinct commands
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  • Given to each.
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  • See men need respect, they need respect and they need
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  • A sandwich.
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  • We're not all that complex ladies.
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  • We just aren't.
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  • Just to say to your husband, i respect you.
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  • I admire you.
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  • I love you.
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  • I thank you for providing for me all these years.
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  • You know, that goes a long ways with a guy.
  • 00:15:57.199 --> 00:16:00.436
  • But hey, guys, girls need love, need to love them.
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  • You need to show affection toward them.
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  • They need to be reassured.
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  • These are important things, right?
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  • So do your part.
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  • There's a time to pray, but there's a time to take action.
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  • What about somebody you need to forgive, someone whos hurt you?
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  • Someone has slandered you, and you say it's so hard for me
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  • To forgive.
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  • I've been praying, lord help me forgive them.
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  • Why don't you just go do it?
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  • I'm not feeling it though.
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  • Doesn't matter, just do it.
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  • The bible says be tender hearted, forgiving one another
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  • As god in christ has forgiven you.
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  • You know, one of my favorite heroes of christian history is a
  • 00:16:37.373 --> 00:16:40.309
  • Lady named corrie ten boom.
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  • Have you heard of her?
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  • How many of you have heard of corrie ten?
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  • Okay.
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  • She wrote an amazing book called "the hiding place."
  • 00:16:47.249 --> 00:16:49.284
  • So corrie was a young lady living in holland during
  • 00:16:49.284 --> 00:16:52.254
  • World war ii.
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  • She was a strong christian, along with her father and her
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  • Sister, and the nazis were hunting down jews arresting them
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  • And sending them to concentration camps.
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  • So corrie and her family hid jewish people in her home.
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  • Hence the title of her book, "the hiding place."
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  • One day as the gestapo figured it out, they arrested corrie's
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  • Father, casper ten boom, her sister betsy, and
  • 00:17:14.443 --> 00:17:19.214
  • Corrie herself.
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  • The father died quickly because he was an elderly man.
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  • He was very frail.
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  • Betsy and corrie were, ended up in a camp called ravensbruck,
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  • And betsy was just a godly, saintly woman and she died.
  • 00:17:30.726 --> 00:17:36.031
  • And then corrie was released on a clerical error, but in
  • 00:17:36.031 --> 00:17:39.201
  • Reality, it was the providence of god.
  • 00:17:39.201 --> 00:17:41.637
  • So she lived out her life traveling the world telling
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  • People, there is no pit so deep that god is not deeper still.
  • 00:17:43.906 --> 00:17:48.977
  • She described herself as a tramp for the lord, and would speak
  • 00:17:48.977 --> 00:17:53.115
  • All over the place.
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  • I heard her speak once it was amazing.
  • 00:17:54.450 --> 00:17:56.585
  • And she was in germany a few years after the war was over.
  • 00:17:56.585 --> 00:18:00.522
  • She had spoken the topic of forgiveness.
  • 00:18:00.522 --> 00:18:02.758
  • At the end of her sermon, a line of people wanted to shake her
  • 00:18:02.758 --> 00:18:05.594
  • Hand and suddenly a man approaches her and he says,
  • 00:18:05.594 --> 00:18:08.564
  • Fraulein ten boom.
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  • I don't know if you remember me.
  • 00:18:09.965 --> 00:18:11.700
  • She had a flashback.
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  • This man standing before her, she remembered him as a nazi in
  • 00:18:13.135 --> 00:18:17.639
  • The concentration camp doing horrible things to her and her
  • 00:18:17.639 --> 00:18:21.743
  • Sister, she filled with rage and anger, and her fist clenched and
  • 00:18:21.743 --> 00:18:27.616
  • She grit her teeth and he says, fraulein ten boom, i was so
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  • Moved by your message, and i'm asking you to forgive me.
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  • She said i couldn't do it.
  • 00:18:35.390 --> 00:18:36.925
  • And then she said, in an act of obedience, i extended my hand
  • 00:18:36.925 --> 00:18:40.929
  • And i shook his hand and i said, i forgive you brother.
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  • She said it was like a bolt of electricity went down my arm,
  • 00:18:44.099 --> 00:18:47.636
  • And threw my hand and i felt this burden of unforgiveness
  • 00:18:47.636 --> 00:18:51.406
  • Lifted off me at that very moment.
  • 00:18:51.406 --> 00:18:54.042
  • You see what happened there?
  • 00:18:54.042 --> 00:18:55.644
  • She didn't wait for the emotion.
  • 00:18:55.644 --> 00:18:57.946
  • She just did the motion, she just did the right thing.
  • 00:18:57.946 --> 00:19:02.384
  • And so there's a time to pray, and there's a time to move, and
  • 00:19:02.384 --> 00:19:07.990
  • That's what we need to do as well.
  • 00:19:07.990 --> 00:19:10.259
  • So they took this great step of faith and obeyed the lord.
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  • Bring me to point number five, to face the impossible, you must
  • 00:19:14.129 --> 00:19:17.599
  • Walk by faith, not by feelings.
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  • To face the impossible, you must walk by faith, not by feelings.
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  • Look at exodus 14:21, "moses raised his hand up over the sea,
  • 00:19:24.439 --> 00:19:28.510
  • The lord opened up a path through the water with a strong
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  • East wind, and the wind blew all that night, turning the seabed
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  • Into dry land.
  • 00:19:35.584 --> 00:19:37.052
  • And the people of israel walked through the middle of the sea on
  • 00:19:37.052 --> 00:19:41.156
  • Dry ground with walls of water on each side."
  • 00:19:41.156 --> 00:19:46.028
  • Wow, it had been easier to airlift them over.
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  • But the lord took them through.
  • 00:19:48.430 --> 00:19:49.998
  • Imagine for a moment, walls of water on each side.
  • 00:19:49.998 --> 00:19:53.202
  • Have you ever been to one of those amazing aquariums and big
  • 00:19:53.202 --> 00:19:56.972
  • Huge sea creatures?
  • 00:19:56.972 --> 00:19:58.607
  • They're walking along, woah look at the whale, look at
  • 00:19:58.607 --> 00:20:01.043
  • The dolphins.
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  • Keep walking.
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  • And they walked, and they walked, and they walked.
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  • It took a while to get across the red sea.
  • 00:20:06.281 --> 00:20:08.517
  • And that's the christian life.
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  • We walk, and we walk, and we walk.
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  • We walk by faith, not by feeling.
  • 00:20:11.820 --> 00:20:14.289
  • We put one foot in front of the other.
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  • Some days we feel it, some days we don't.
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  • But the bible says, the just shall live by faith.
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  • Being a christian or a successful christian has been
  • 00:20:22.831 --> 00:20:25.467
  • Defined as long obedience in the same direction.
  • 00:20:25.467 --> 00:20:30.572
  • And i wonder if you're facing a red sea right now.
  • 00:20:30.572 --> 00:20:34.176
  • I wonder if you're looking at what seems to be an
  • 00:20:34.176 --> 00:20:36.545
  • Insurmountable obstacle.
  • 00:20:36.545 --> 00:20:39.948
  • Well, there's no thing that you're facing that's bigger
  • 00:20:39.948 --> 00:20:42.451
  • Than god.
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  • God is bigger than your problem.
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  • I don't know what you're facing.
  • 00:20:45.320 --> 00:20:47.189
  • Maybe it's a physical problem.
  • 00:20:47.189 --> 00:20:50.659
  • You know, you're sick, or you have a disability, or old age is
  • 00:20:50.659 --> 00:20:55.664
  • Just kicking in and you're thinking, oh, man, this is hard.
  • 00:20:55.664 --> 00:21:01.370
  • You know, think of the great apostle paul.
  • 00:21:01.370 --> 00:21:03.238
  • This is a man that did miracles by the hand of god.
  • 00:21:03.238 --> 00:21:07.075
  • Paul prayed for a person to be raised from the dead.
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  • Paul prayed for people to be healed.
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  • Paul wrote words down in letters that we now call the bible.
  • 00:21:14.783 --> 00:21:19.821
  • Paul went to heaven and came back to tell the story.
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  • This is paul and paul was sick, so you would think man, he's a
  • 00:21:23.592 --> 00:21:27.562
  • Super saint, whatever he had asked for, he'd get it.
  • 00:21:27.562 --> 00:21:29.665
  • Just name it and claim it man.
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  • Paul said, lord, i'm sick.
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  • I have this thorn in the flesh.
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  • We don't know what this thorn in the flesh was, but he says there
  • 00:21:35.337 --> 00:21:39.041
  • Was given unto me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of satan sent
  • 00:21:39.041 --> 00:21:42.878
  • To buffet me.
  • 00:21:42.878 --> 00:21:44.513
  • Three times, i asked the lord to take it away, and the lord said,
  • 00:21:44.513 --> 00:21:48.250
  • My grace is sufficient for you.
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  • For my strength will come through more in your weakness.
  • 00:21:50.385 --> 00:21:55.223
  • I know we don't wanna go through red seas.
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  • I know we don't wanna go through valleys.
  • 00:21:57.793 --> 00:22:00.262
  • I know we don't wanna go through fiery trials.
  • 00:22:00.262 --> 00:22:02.831
  • Sometimes god will airlift us over, but a lot of the time he
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  • Walks with us through those difficulties.
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  • Isaiah 43:2 says, "when you go through deep water, the lord
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  • Says, i'll be with you.
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  • When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.
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  • When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be
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  • Burned up: and the flames will not consume you."
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  • So on they walk and they're done.
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  • Now, the last ones coming through.
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  • Come on. come on.
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  • Come on. let's go.
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  • Let's go. let's go.
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  • We're done. all of a sudden.
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  • The egyptian army says, ah, let's go.
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  • Let's get 'em.
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  • And they come through the dry ground and their chariots with
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  • All their equipment, and the waters come back heaping on them
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  • And they all drowned.
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  • Some people would say that's not fair.
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  • The poor egyptian army.
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  • Interesting how they died, drowning.
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  • Wasn't it the pharaoh that gave the command to drown all the
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  • Jewish baby boys?
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  • Hm.
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  • Looks like he reaped what he sowed.
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  • The bible says, don't be confused about this or deceived.
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  • God is not mocked.
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  • You go greg, you're wrong.
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  • People mock god all the time.
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  • Oh, i know.
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  • But listen to what the rest of the verse says, god is not
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  • Mocked, for whatsoever a man shall sow, he will also reap.
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  • Now that's all not all negative.
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  • It says if he sows of the flesh, he'll reap corruption.
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  • But if he sows to the spirit, he'll reap life everlasting.
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  • You'll reap what you sow.
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  • Sow a thought reap an act.
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  • Sow an act reap a habit.
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  • Sow a habit reap a character.
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  • Sow a character reap a destiny.
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  • It all starts with what you think.
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  • So when you sow to the spirit, which means come to church on
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  • Sunday, i mean, here that's a good start.
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  • Open your bible up in the morning.
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  • Pray about things.
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  • Surround yourself with believers that will encourage you.
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  • That's called sowing to the spirit.
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  • You'll reap life everlasting.
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  • But if you sow to the flesh, you'll reap corruption.
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  • That's what happened to the pharaoh, he reaped what
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  • He sowed.
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  • One final point, and i'm done.
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  • Number six, after overcoming the impossible, give god the glory.
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  • After overcoming the impossible, give god the glory.
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  • Look at exodus 15, verse 1, "then moses and the people of
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  • Israel sang this song to the lord.
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  • I'll sing to the lord for he has triumphed gloriously.
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  • He has hurled both horse and rider into the sea.
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  • The lord is my strength and my song, he has given me victory.
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  • This is my god and i will praise him.
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  • My father is god and i will exalt him."
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  • I love that.
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  • Did you know that's a first recorded song in scripture?
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  • No, i'm sure they sang before this, but this is the first time
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  • It's recorded.
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  • This is called the song of moses, and by the way, we will
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  • Be singing the song of moses in heaven.
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  • So this is a hit song.
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  • This is a big deal.
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  • They're giving god the praise.
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  • You know, we're so quick to call on god when we're in trouble.
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  • Are we as quick to give praise to god when he gets us through
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  • The trouble?
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  • The answer is no, but we can change that.
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  • Now, i want you to think for a moment, have you come recently
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  • Through a hard trial, or through a red sea of sorts, or through
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  • Some difficulty?
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  • Have you?
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  • You can nod your head if you have.
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  • I can see.
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  • Okay, good.
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  • Have you given god glory for that?
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  • Oh lord, help me.
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  • Oh lord, come through for me. great good.
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  • He came through for you. thanks god.
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  • See you next crisis. no.
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  • Give him glory. lord, thank you.
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  • Specifically, thank you for what you just did.
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  • I acknowledge that as an answer to my prayer.
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  • You did that and i praise you for it.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie. i've got some good news for you.
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  • God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
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  • Here's the problem: we're separated from god by our sin
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  • Because we've all broken his commandments.
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  • But the good news is that 2,000 years ago, god sent
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  • His son, jesus christ, to die on the cross for your sin,
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  • And then to rise again from the dead.
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  • The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready
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  • To come into your life right now.
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  • Would you like your sin forgiven?
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  • Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven?
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  • If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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  • Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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  • You're the savior, who died on the cross for my sin.
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  • I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you
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  • From this moment forward."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If you did, god in heaven
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  • Has heard you.
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  • And i wanna send you a new
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  • Testament to start reading.
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  • Greg: i'm excited to announce that here at harvest
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