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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Between Impossible and More Impossible | June 5, 2025
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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?
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- 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
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- 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.
- 00:11:41.444 --> 00:11:43.279
- We don't like this one bit, and they prayed.
- 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.582
- It reminds us of one of the stories of the disciples out in
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- 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?"
- 00:11:57.193 --> 00:11:58.761
- 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.
- 00:12:00.596 --> 00:12:02.898
- 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.
- 00:12:08.471 --> 00:12:11.774
- 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.
- 00:12:18.013 --> 00:12:19.482
- 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.
- 00:12:29.425 --> 00:12:30.860
- 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
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- Lot more.
- 00:12:36.465 --> 00:12:38.567
- 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
- 00:12:41.504 --> 00:12:45.374
- They look like they're in the worst situation possible.
- 00:12:45.374 --> 00:12:47.676
- 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.
- 00:12:53.215 --> 00:12:57.586
- 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.
- 00:13:00.723 --> 00:13:03.192
- But the bible says, wait on the lord.
- 00:13:03.192 --> 00:13:06.061
- Those that wait upon the lord will mount up with wings
- 00:13:06.061 --> 00:13:10.466
- As eagles.
- 00:13:10.466 --> 00:13:11.801
- 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.
- 00:13:17.273 --> 00:13:18.774
- 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.
- 00:13:45.201 --> 00:13:50.372
- You know, there's a point to wait and there's a point to
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- Pray, a moment to pray.
- 00:13:52.641 --> 00:13:54.143
- 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.
- 00:14:04.520 --> 00:14:05.921
- Let's illustrate.
- 00:14:05.921 --> 00:14:07.256
- 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.
- 00:14:12.728 --> 00:14:14.563
- 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.
- 00:14:37.453 --> 00:14:38.787
- Just change my husband, we pray.
- 00:14:38.787 --> 00:14:40.956
- And meanwhile, the husband is praying, lord changes this wife.
- 00:14:40.956 --> 00:14:45.861
- She's always nagging, she's always complaining.
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- She doesn't appreciate me.
- 00:14:48.731 --> 00:14:51.166
- Well, look, why don't you just do your part?
- 00:14:51.166 --> 00:14:53.602
- There's a point to pray.
- 00:14:53.602 --> 00:14:55.004
- But the bible says, husbands love your wife as christ loves
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- The church.
- 00:14:58.040 --> 00:14:59.375
- 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.
- 00:15:07.716 --> 00:15:09.618
- 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
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- Respect her husband.
- 00:15:19.561 --> 00:15:21.363
- 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.
- 00:15:24.867 --> 00:15:27.569
- But it is interesting to note, there are distinct commands
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- Given to each.
- 00:15:30.506 --> 00:15:32.474
- See men need respect, they need respect and they need
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- A sandwich.
- 00:15:36.779 --> 00:15:40.649
- We're not all that complex ladies.
- 00:15:40.716 --> 00:15:42.785
- We just aren't.
- 00:15:42.785 --> 00:15:47.089
- Just to say to your husband, i respect you.
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- I admire you.
- 00:15:51.193 --> 00:15:52.528
- I love you.
- 00:15:52.528 --> 00:15:53.862
- I thank you for providing for me all these years.
- 00:15:53.862 --> 00:15:57.199
- 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.
- 00:16:05.808 --> 00:16:07.142
- These are important things, right?
- 00:16:07.142 --> 00:16:08.877
- So do your part.
- 00:16:08.877 --> 00:16:10.212
- There's a time to pray, but there's a time to take action.
- 00:16:10.212 --> 00:16:12.881
- What about somebody you need to forgive, someone whos hurt you?
- 00:16:12.881 --> 00:16:16.485
- Someone has slandered you, and you say it's so hard for me
- 00:16:16.485 --> 00:16:20.456
- To forgive.
- 00:16:20.456 --> 00:16:21.790
- I've been praying, lord help me forgive them.
- 00:16:21.790 --> 00:16:23.292
- Why don't you just go do it?
- 00:16:23.292 --> 00:16:26.829
- I'm not feeling it though.
- 00:16:26.829 --> 00:16:28.297
- Doesn't matter, just do it.
- 00:16:28.297 --> 00:16:31.300
- The bible says be tender hearted, forgiving one another
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- As god in christ has forgiven you.
- 00:16:34.937 --> 00:16:37.373
- 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.
- 00:16:52.254 --> 00:16:53.856
- She was a strong christian, along with her father and her
- 00:16:53.856 --> 00:16:55.824
- Sister, and the nazis were hunting down jews arresting them
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- And sending them to concentration camps.
- 00:17:00.229 --> 00:17:02.698
- So corrie and her family hid jewish people in her home.
- 00:17:02.698 --> 00:17:08.370
- Hence the title of her book, "the hiding place."
- 00:17:08.370 --> 00:17:11.173
- 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.
- 00:17:19.214 --> 00:17:20.649
- The father died quickly because he was an elderly man.
- 00:17:20.649 --> 00:17:24.119
- He was very frail.
- 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:26.255
- 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.
- 00:17:53.115 --> 00:17:54.450
- 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.
- 00:18:08.564 --> 00:18:09.965
- I don't know if you remember me.
- 00:18:09.965 --> 00:18:11.700
- She had a flashback.
- 00:18:11.700 --> 00:18:13.135
- 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
- 00:18:27.616 --> 00:18:31.220
- Moved by your message, and i'm asking you to forgive me.
- 00:18:31.220 --> 00:18:35.390
- 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
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- And i shook his hand and i said, i forgive you brother.
- 00:18:40.929 --> 00:18:44.099
- 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.
- 00:19:10.259 --> 00:19:14.129
- 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.
- 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:20.802
- To face the impossible, you must walk by faith, not by feelings.
- 00:19:20.802 --> 00:19:24.439
- 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
- 00:19:28.510 --> 00:19:31.680
- 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.
- 00:19:46.028 --> 00:19:48.430
- 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.
- 00:20:01.043 --> 00:20:02.377
- Keep walking.
- 00:20:02.377 --> 00:20:03.712
- And they walked, and they walked, and they walked.
- 00:20:03.712 --> 00:20:06.281
- It took a while to get across the red sea.
- 00:20:06.281 --> 00:20:08.517
- And that's the christian life.
- 00:20:08.517 --> 00:20:09.851
- We walk, and we walk, and we walk.
- 00:20:09.851 --> 00:20:11.820
- We walk by faith, not by feeling.
- 00:20:11.820 --> 00:20:14.289
- We put one foot in front of the other.
- 00:20:14.289 --> 00:20:16.558
- Some days we feel it, some days we don't.
- 00:20:16.558 --> 00:20:18.627
- But the bible says, the just shall live by faith.
- 00:20:18.627 --> 00:20:22.831
- 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.
- 00:20:42.451 --> 00:20:43.785
- God is bigger than your problem.
- 00:20:43.785 --> 00:20:45.320
- 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.
- 00:21:07.075 --> 00:21:11.713
- Paul prayed for people to be healed.
- 00:21:11.713 --> 00:21:14.783
- 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.
- 00:21:19.821 --> 00:21:23.592
- 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.
- 00:21:29.665 --> 00:21:32.334
- Paul said, lord, i'm sick.
- 00:21:32.334 --> 00:21:33.735
- I have this thorn in the flesh.
- 00:21:33.735 --> 00:21:35.337
- 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.
- 00:21:48.250 --> 00:21:50.385
- 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.
- 00:21:55.223 --> 00:21:57.793
- 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
- 00:22:02.831 --> 00:22:07.235
- Walks with us through those difficulties.
- 00:22:07.235 --> 00:22:10.772
- Isaiah 43:2 says, "when you go through deep water, the lord
- 00:22:10.772 --> 00:22:14.810
- Says, i'll be with you.
- 00:22:14.810 --> 00:22:16.144
- When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.
- 00:22:16.144 --> 00:22:19.181
- When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be
- 00:22:19.181 --> 00:22:22.250
- Burned up: and the flames will not consume you."
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- So on they walk and they're done.
- 00:22:25.187 --> 00:22:28.490
- Now, the last ones coming through.
- 00:22:28.490 --> 00:22:30.492
- Come on. come on.
- 00:22:30.492 --> 00:22:31.860
- Come on. let's go.
- 00:22:31.860 --> 00:22:33.295
- Let's go. let's go.
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- We're done. all of a sudden.
- 00:22:34.629 --> 00:22:35.964
- The egyptian army says, ah, let's go.
- 00:22:35.964 --> 00:22:37.432
- Let's get 'em.
- 00:22:37.432 --> 00:22:38.767
- And they come through the dry ground and their chariots with
- 00:22:38.767 --> 00:22:41.837
- All their equipment, and the waters come back heaping on them
- 00:22:41.837 --> 00:22:46.241
- And they all drowned.
- 00:22:46.241 --> 00:22:48.477
- Some people would say that's not fair.
- 00:22:48.477 --> 00:22:50.879
- The poor egyptian army.
- 00:22:50.879 --> 00:22:53.148
- Interesting how they died, drowning.
- 00:22:53.148 --> 00:22:56.985
- 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.
- 00:23:01.623 --> 00:23:03.225
- Looks like he reaped what he sowed.
- 00:23:03.225 --> 00:23:05.660
- The bible says, don't be confused about this or deceived.
- 00:23:05.660 --> 00:23:10.432
- God is not mocked.
- 00:23:10.432 --> 00:23:12.701
- You go greg, you're wrong.
- 00:23:12.701 --> 00:23:14.035
- People mock god all the time.
- 00:23:14.035 --> 00:23:15.370
- Oh, i know.
- 00:23:15.370 --> 00:23:16.738
- 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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