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Greg Laurie - Don't Be Afraid

October 24, 2025 | 27:40

Greg Laurie - Don't Be Afraid
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
#Fear #Worry #Anxiety #Gospel #Jesus #Peace #Believe #Death #Heaven #EternalLife #LifeAfterDeath

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Don't Be Afraid | October 24, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • You know, for almost 50 years now,
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  • I've been giving people the good news of the gospel.
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  • That's actually what the word "gospel" means:
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  • Good news.
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  • When i was a kid, i was a paperboy.
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  • So i had my super cool schwinn stingray with a stick shift.
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  • They don't make those anymore probably for good reason.
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  • They were dangerous actually, but it was fast.
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  • And i had my batch of my papers, and i got pretty good at
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  • Throwing those papers.
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  • The sideways fling, the underhand pass,
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  • The hard throw.
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  • Always wanted to get the paper as close to the customer's door
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  • As possible.
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  • My job was not to write the news.
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  • My job was not to make the news.
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  • My job was to deliver the news; and i'm still doing that many
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  • Years later, but now it's the good news of the gospel.
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  • I want to talk to you about that.
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  • Welcome to "harvest."
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  • Greg: you know, we live in a really scary world
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  • Right now, don't we?
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  • So many things to freak you out.
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  • I have some good news.
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  • Jesus gave us some words 2,000 years ago that resonate with us
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  • Right now.
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  • I want to share with you a message entitled
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  • "don't be afraid."
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  • Greg: we're living in crazy times right now.
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  • Just when you thought it could not get any worse,
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  • It did.
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  • I mean, we're coming through the worst pandemic in modern history
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  • And now it seems like the world is on fire.
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  • We see this blistering attack by russia
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  • Under president putin on ukraine.
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  • It's a powder keg that literally threatens the whole world and
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  • Now russia has even threatened to use chemical and biological
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  • Weapons and even nuclear weapons, in fact.
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  • President putin of russia recently boasted they've
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  • Developed a brand new missile that can fire 12 nuclear
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  • Warheads at once, and they fittingly call it
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  • The satan missile.
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  • And this is scary.
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  • I mean, we haven't heard talk of a potential nuclear conflict in
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  • A long time.
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  • I remember hearing it when i was a kid in elementary school in
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  • The '60s, and they told us, "if there is a nuclear blast,
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  • Everybody get under your desk."
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  • That would have done a lot of good, right?
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  • "it's okay. i'm under my desk.
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  • This will protect me for sure."
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  • So with all that's going on in our world,
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  • We have a lot of people afraid in america.
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  • Let me read you now the words of jesus from 2,000 years ago but
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  • They ring so true for all of us.
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  • John chapter 14, jesus says,
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  • "'let not your heart be troubled.
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  • You believe in god, believe also in me.
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  • In my father's house are many mansions.
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  • If it were not so, i would have told you.
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  • I go to prepare a place for you.
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  • And if i go and prepare a place for you,
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  • I will come again and receive you unto myself;
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  • That where i am, you may be also.
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  • And where i go you know, and the way you know.'
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  • Thomas said, 'lord, we don't know where you're going.
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  • How can we know the way?'
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  • Jesus said, 'i am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  • And no man comes to the father except through me.'"
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  • Now, here's the first thing jesus says.
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  • If you're troubled--the word that he uses here,
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  • "let not your heart be troubled," means don't let your
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  • Heart shutter.
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  • If you're filled with fear right now,
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  • If your heart is shattering, here's the first thing jesus
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  • Says; his cure for heart trouble, if you will.
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  • Number one, believe what god says in his word.
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  • Do you believe in god?
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  • You know--listen, everyone believes in something.
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  • Some people believe in themselves.
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  • Other believe--others believe in money.
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  • Others believe in government.
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  • God help you.
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  • Yeah.
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  • Some believe in technology.
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  • "oh, technology is going to answer all of our questions.
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  • It's going to solve all of our problems."
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  • But when that day comes, that final day of your life,
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  • None of those things will save you.
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  • The author of a biography about steve jobs remembered a
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  • Conversation he had with steve.
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  • He says, "i was sitting in the backyard with steve and the
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  • Subject of god came up.
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  • Steve jobs said," and i quote, "sometimes i believe in god.
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  • Sometimes i don't.
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  • I think it's 50/50 maybe.
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  • Ever since i've had cancer i've been thinking about it more,
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  • But i find myself believing a bit more."
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  • Steve jobs says, "i want to believe in an afterlife,
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  • That when you die you don't just disappear."
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  • Then he paused for a second and he said,
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  • "yeah, but sometimes i think it's like an on-and-off switch.
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  • Click and you're gone," he said and paused.
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  • And then he said, "and that's why i don't like putting on/off
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  • Switches on apple devices," end quote.
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  • Kind of a scary thought. click and you're gone.
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  • Before i was a christian, when i was just a kid,
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  • That's what i thought.
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  • I thought, "one day i'll just cease to exist."
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  • But then i thought, "how can i no longer exist?
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  • How can i no longer be me?"
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  • And i was terrified of death.
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  • Are you afraid of death right now?
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  • But i can tell you, i'm much older--a lot older and i'm no
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  • Longer afraid to die because i have hope of life beyond the
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  • Grave, you see, because of what jesus said.
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  • Jesus says, "do not be afraid.
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  • I am the living one.
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  • I died; but look, i'm alive forevermore.
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  • I hold the keys to death and the grave."
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  • Now, i'm not saying i look forward to death,
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  • But i look forward to going to heaven because i have this hope
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  • That's been given to me by christ who said,
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  • "i am the resurrection and the life.
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  • He that believes in me though he were dead yet shall he live,
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  • And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die."
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  • And i'll tell you what.
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  • As you get older, time passes so quickly.
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  • You know you're getting older when you shop at forever 21
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  • When you're 66.
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  • You just need to stop doing that.
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  • You know you're getting old when you sink your teeth into a juicy
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  • Steak and they stay there.
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  • You know you're getting old when you're pulling up your socks
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  • 'cause there's wrinkles and you realize,
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  • "oh no, i'm not wearing socks."
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  • You know you're getting old when you drop something on the ground
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  • And you reach down to get it and you wonder what else you can do
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  • While you're down there, right?
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  • Is that resonating with someone out there?
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  • So people are in denial.
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  • "well, i'll have some surgery done."
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  • You pull this. you nip that.
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  • You tuck. you inject other things.
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  • You have so much botox in your face we don't even know what
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  • You're thinking anymore.
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  • We don't know if you're mad, if you're happy.
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  • We just know you look perpetually surprised.
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  • Right?
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  • Listen, you can get all the potions and the lotions and eat
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  • All of the kale and the tofu.
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  • You're not going to extend your life one single day because god
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  • Determines how long you will live.
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  • I did read about a 105-year-old woman from texas
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  • Who had seven children.
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  • Her name was pearl cantrell.
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  • She was asked, "what is the secret to your long life?"
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  • Her answer was simple.
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  • She says, "i love bacon.
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  • I eat it every day."
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  • Go figure. bacon.
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  • I like her.
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  • Speaking of that, i was talking to my granddaughter,
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  • Ally, a while back and she said, "papa," that's what she calls
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  • Me, "i'm a vegan now," while she was eating bacon.
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  • I said, "honey, you cannot be a vegan and be eating bacon."
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  • And she says, "well, i can't help it.
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  • I just like meat from a pig."
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  • Yeah, i understand.
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  • She'll probably live to be 105 years old as well.
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  • Listen, life's going to have a beginning,
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  • It's going to have a middle, it's going to be--have an end,
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  • But listen to this.
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  • Death died when christ rose.
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  • You say, "greg, are you delusional?
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  • You don't think you're going to die?"
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  • I know my body will go into the ground,
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  • But my soul will live on.
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  • My soul is eternal.
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  • Then i enter the afterlife and i determine in this life where i
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  • Will spend the afterlife, and let me just give you a hint of
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  • What's coming.
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  • You have two choices: heaven or hell.
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  • Another way to put it, smoking and non-smoking, okay?
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  • So it's up to you.
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  • But it's no joke, it's real.
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  • You make that decision here.
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  • I read about a man that was walking through a cemetery and
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  • He saw an inscription on a tombstone that said,
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  • "pause now, stranger, as you pass by.
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  • As you are now, so once was i.
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  • As i am now, so you shall be.
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  • So prepare for death and follow me."
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  • After reading that, the man was overheard to say,
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  • "to follow you is not my intent
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  • Until i know which way you went."
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  • So which way are you going to go?
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  • You say, "well, heaven because i'm a good person."
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  • Are you?
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  • Are you really a good person?
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  • And to the point, being a good person
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  • Will not get you to heaven.
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  • Heaven is not for good people, heaven is for forgiven people.
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  • You see?
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  • But i think about heaven quite a bit because 14 years ago an
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  • Unspeakable tragedy happened in our home.
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  • Our oldest son, christopher, was unexpectedly
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  • Called home to heaven.
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  • He died in an automobile accident.
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  • When i heard that news that my son had died,
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  • I felt like time stood still, that all the air went out of the
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  • Room and i literally thought i could die--not from taking my
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  • Life but just--if words could kill you,
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  • I felt like those words could kill me.
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  • But here's the hope that i have.
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  • I still miss him, i still grieve over losing him,
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  • But on the other hand i know i will see him again in heaven
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  • Because of jesus christ.
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  • Not because he was my son, but because he believed in god's
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  • Son, who forgave him of all of his sins just as he forgives
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  • Each of us if we put our faith in christ.
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  • Maybe i'm talking to someone who has had a loved one die
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  • Recently, or you've received bad news from a doctor,
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  • Or your marriage is falling apart,
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  • Or your parents are divorcing, or too many californians have
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  • Moved into your state and are driving prices up.
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  • I don't know.
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  • But you find yourself helpless and hopeless,
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  • But i'm saying to you don't give up hope.
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  • It's been said man can live 40 days without food,
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  • 3 days without water, 8 minutes without air,
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  • But only 1 second without hope.
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  • Have you lost hope tonight?
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  • Don't lose it 'cause christ is here.
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  • Help is on the way,
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  • Hope is on the way in a relationship with him.
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  • Believe in god.
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  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, at harvest ministries we're committing to reaching
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  • Unexpected people in unexpected places with an
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  • Unexpected message.
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  • And thanks to your financial support, we've been able to
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  • Touch people all over the world with the hope of jesus christ.
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  • Your gifts today not only help reach millions across the
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  • Country through this television program,
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  • They also help us to bring hope to people in their biggest need.
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  • Whether through our evangelistic events or our relief efforts,
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  • Together we've been able to minister to so many people
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  • Devastated by the fires in lahaina on the island of maui.
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  • And also, your support has helped us partner to bring
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  • Medical help in the ongoing conflict in israel.
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  • So i'm asking you today to continue to support this
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  • Ministry so we can do everything possible to fulfill the
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  • Great commission.
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  • Let's do this together, and let me say in advance,
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  • Thank you and god bless you.
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  • Greg: second reason your heart should not be troubled or
  • 00:13:42.488 --> 00:13:46.525
  • Agitated according to jesus is because if you're a christian
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  • You're going to heaven.
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  • He said, "in my father's house are many mansions."
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  • Listen to this.
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  • Heaven is a real place for real people to do real things.
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  • Now, the problem is hollywood has sort of caricatured heaven
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  • And we think it's this really strange place where we sit
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  • Around on clouds and pluck harps and little fat babies with wings
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  • Hover around us and--that's not heaven.
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  • Think of the most beautiful thing you've ever seen.
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  • Think of the beauty all around you here in this state that you
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  • Live in.
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  • That's just a glimpse of greater things to come.
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  • Heaven is not the watered-down version,
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  • Heaven is the real version.
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  • Here on earth we just see sort of the imitation of greater
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  • Things to come that god has for every follower of jesus christ
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  • Who have believed in him.
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  • That's why we need to look to the lord.
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  • But the non-believer does not have the promise of heaven.
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  • I heard the story of a christian father who was dying.
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  • So he gathered his three sons by his bedside,
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  • And to two of his sons he said, "goodbye, sons.
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  • I'll see you in the morning."
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  • And the third son said, "dad, why did you say that to them?
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  • What are you going to say to me?"
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  • He just said, "goodbye, son."
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  • "wait. goodbye, son?
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  • Why can't i see you in the morning?"
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  • The father said, "because your brothers have put their faith in
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  • Christ, so we'll be reunited in heaven in the afterlife."
  • 00:15:14.013 --> 00:15:18.250
  • He said, "but, dad, i want to see you in the afterlife, too."
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  • He said, "son, then you need to believe in jesus and you will."
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  • And that boy believed in jesus at that very moment,
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  • And we need to do the same.
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  • You see?
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  • When jesus says, "in my father's house are many mansions," i
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  • Don't know if he's talking about actual buildings.
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  • Maybe it's referring to our new body.
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  • God's going to give you a new body.
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  • People ask, "well, what will that body be like?"
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  • It'll be better than the body you have right now.
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  • It'll be the radically upgraded version of you.
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  • So if you're looking for me in heaven,
  • 00:15:54.954 --> 00:15:56.355
  • Look for someone with probably an afro or something,
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  • You know?
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  • Then, again, maybe we'll all be bald in heaven.
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  • Have you ever thought about that?
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  • Yeah, that's not a very good thought, is it?
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  • I was talking to two of my granddaughters, stella and lucy.
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  • They said, "papa, how old will we be when we get to heaven?"
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  • I said, "girls, i don't know, maybe 33," and they said,
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  • "why 33?"
  • 00:16:17.142 --> 00:16:18.477
  • I said, "well, that was the age jesus was when he died."
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  • Then lucy my granddaughter said,
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  • "i wanna be three when i'm in heaven.
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  • I said, "three? why do you wanna be three?"
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  • She said, "i miss the old me."
  • 00:16:28.721 --> 00:16:34.693
  • Well, this body we're in right now is breaking down.
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  • Experts tell us as we get older the number of nerve cells
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  • In the brain decrease.
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  • We start with around 100 billion brain cells,
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  • But then in our 20s the number starts to decline.
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  • At 40, we're losing up to 10,000 brain cells a day.
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  • You've probably lost 5,000 brain cells listening to me tonight.
  • 00:16:52.444 --> 00:16:58.283
  • But there's a hope of another body,
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  • A newer body.
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  • So if you were disabled on earth,
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  • You won't be in heaven.
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  • If your body has cancer here, it won't be then.
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  • If your body's worn out here, it won't be then.
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  • So let not your heart be troubled.
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  • It's good news, why?
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  • Believe god's word.
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  • Believe what god said in his word.
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  • Number two, you're going to heaven if you're a christian.
  • 00:17:23.175 --> 00:17:26.745
  • And number three, he's shown us the way to heaven.
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  • I was told that this arena we're in right now,
  • 00:17:30.349 --> 00:17:33.485
  • The extramile arena, the first person here was not a sports
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  • Team or a rock band or anybody else.
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  • It was billy graham, who did an eight-night crusade.
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  • Isn't that great?
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  • I heard this story of when billy was in a town to do
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  • One of his crusades.
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  • He wrote a letter to his wife, ruth,
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  • But he didn't know where the post office was.
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  • So he was walking around looking for it and he saw some young man
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  • There and he said, "young man, can you tell me where the post
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  • Office is?"
  • 00:18:01.713 --> 00:18:03.048
  • The little guy said, "yeah.
  • 00:18:03.048 --> 00:18:04.383
  • Just go up the street here, turn right,
  • 00:18:04.383 --> 00:18:05.717
  • And that's the post office."
  • 00:18:05.717 --> 00:18:07.052
  • He goes, "that's great.
  • 00:18:07.052 --> 00:18:08.387
  • By the way," he said, "i'm speaking here in this stadium
  • 00:18:08.387 --> 00:18:10.522
  • Tonight and maybe you would like to come and hear me and i will
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  • Show you how to get to heaven."
  • 00:18:13.625 --> 00:18:15.594
  • The little guy said, "why should i go hear you?
  • 00:18:15.594 --> 00:18:17.996
  • You don't even know the way to the post office."
  • 00:18:17.996 --> 00:18:23.502
  • How do you get to heaven?
  • 00:18:23.502 --> 00:18:25.737
  • How can you know you'll go to heaven when you die?
  • 00:18:25.737 --> 00:18:28.273
  • Jesus gives us the answer.
  • 00:18:28.273 --> 00:18:30.075
  • He says, "where i go, and the way you know."
  • 00:18:30.075 --> 00:18:33.078
  • And i love how--thomas said, "we don't know where you're going,
  • 00:18:33.078 --> 00:18:36.548
  • And we don't know the way."
  • 00:18:36.548 --> 00:18:38.050
  • I think a lot of times when jesus spoke to his disciples it
  • 00:18:38.050 --> 00:18:40.786
  • Went right over their heads.
  • 00:18:40.786 --> 00:18:42.788
  • He talked about dying and rising from the dead.
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  • They just didn't understand that at all.
  • 00:18:44.823 --> 00:18:47.926
  • And when he would talk about things like that,
  • 00:18:47.926 --> 00:18:49.495
  • They would probably nod their heads in unison.
  • 00:18:49.495 --> 00:18:52.231
  • "oh, that's so deep."
  • 00:18:52.231 --> 00:18:53.565
  • They were clueless.
  • 00:18:53.565 --> 00:18:55.334
  • It's like a teacher in a class doing some complex equation up
  • 00:18:55.334 --> 00:18:58.370
  • On the math board or up on the blackboard and they say,
  • 00:18:58.370 --> 00:19:01.039
  • "do you all understand it?"
  • 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:02.374
  • Everyone's, "yes."
  • 00:19:02.374 --> 00:19:03.709
  • But no one understands.
  • 00:19:03.709 --> 00:19:05.511
  • So jesus says, "where i go you know,
  • 00:19:05.511 --> 00:19:07.246
  • And the way you know."
  • 00:19:07.246 --> 00:19:08.580
  • Thomas says, "we don't know what you're talking about.
  • 00:19:08.580 --> 00:19:12.084
  • We don't know the way, and we do not know where you're going."
  • 00:19:12.084 --> 00:19:15.053
  • But i'm glad thomas asked that question because jesus then
  • 00:19:15.053 --> 00:19:18.624
  • Said, "i am the way, the truth, and the life and no man comes to
  • 00:19:18.624 --> 00:19:22.794
  • The father but by me."
  • 00:19:22.794 --> 00:19:25.430
  • You know, thomas has been described as a doubter.
  • 00:19:25.430 --> 00:19:29.902
  • We call him doubting thomas.
  • 00:19:29.902 --> 00:19:32.204
  • He was more of a skeptic.
  • 00:19:32.204 --> 00:19:34.540
  • He didn't let other people make his decisions for him.
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  • When i became a christian at the age of 17,
  • 00:19:38.944 --> 00:19:41.380
  • I was a skeptic.
  • 00:19:41.380 --> 00:19:43.148
  • I'd lived a hard life.
  • 00:19:43.148 --> 00:19:44.783
  • My mother was married and divorced seven times.
  • 00:19:44.783 --> 00:19:47.586
  • She was a raging alcoholic.
  • 00:19:47.586 --> 00:19:49.988
  • All i saw was bad behavior of adults fighting and passing out
  • 00:19:49.988 --> 00:19:53.692
  • At night and--so i tried drinking for a while and was
  • 00:19:53.692 --> 00:19:58.297
  • Disillusioned with it.
  • 00:19:58.297 --> 00:19:59.631
  • I got into drugs for a while, and by the age of 17 i felt like
  • 00:19:59.631 --> 00:20:03.869
  • I was 70 and i was wondering, "what is life all about?
  • 00:20:03.869 --> 00:20:07.873
  • I don't see any adult that i know that i want to be like.
  • 00:20:07.873 --> 00:20:11.777
  • And these kids that i hang around with,
  • 00:20:11.777 --> 00:20:13.512
  • They don't know any more than i know."
  • 00:20:13.512 --> 00:20:15.681
  • And i was searching and i transferred over to this high
  • 00:20:15.681 --> 00:20:18.517
  • School called harbor high school in newport beach,
  • 00:20:18.517 --> 00:20:21.119
  • California, and there was a lot of christians there because the
  • 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:25.824
  • Jesus movement was in full swing.
  • 00:20:25.824 --> 00:20:28.694
  • And one of my friends warned me,
  • 00:20:28.694 --> 00:20:30.095
  • "greg, stay away from the jesus freaks."
  • 00:20:30.095 --> 00:20:33.332
  • And i said, "the last thing greg laurie will ever do is become a
  • 00:20:33.332 --> 00:20:36.702
  • Jesus freak."
  • 00:20:36.702 --> 00:20:39.338
  • Yeah, famous last words.
  • 00:20:39.338 --> 00:20:42.274
  • I thought they were a little nutty.
  • 00:20:42.274 --> 00:20:44.276
  • I thought they were a little weird.
  • 00:20:44.276 --> 00:20:45.611
  • I thought, "where do these people come from?"
  • 00:20:45.611 --> 00:20:48.247
  • I thought they were like, you know,
  • 00:20:48.247 --> 00:20:49.681
  • One tacos short of a combination plate, maybe.
  • 00:20:49.681 --> 00:20:53.685
  • But one day i went across the campus and there was a group of
  • 00:20:53.685 --> 00:20:57.522
  • Christians sitting there singing their songs about god and i sat
  • 00:20:57.522 --> 00:21:03.095
  • Close enough to hear what they were saying but not so close
  • 00:21:03.095 --> 00:21:05.998
  • That my friends would think i was becoming a christian,
  • 00:21:05.998 --> 00:21:10.435
  • And that was the first time i heard this evangelist named
  • 00:21:10.435 --> 00:21:12.638
  • Lonnie speak.
  • 00:21:12.638 --> 00:21:14.039
  • And he said, "jesus said, 'you're for me or against me.'"
  • 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:17.442
  • And i looked around at the christians and i thought,
  • 00:21:17.442 --> 00:21:19.378
  • "well, i'm not one of them.
  • 00:21:19.378 --> 00:21:21.046
  • Does that mean i'm against jesus?"
  • 00:21:21.046 --> 00:21:23.015
  • I didn't want to be against jesus.
  • 00:21:23.015 --> 00:21:25.017
  • I've always acknowledged he existed,
  • 00:21:25.017 --> 00:21:27.352
  • I've always sort of believed in him or what i knew of him,
  • 00:21:27.352 --> 00:21:30.622
  • I'd seen all of his movies, but it was the first time that the
  • 00:21:30.622 --> 00:21:35.994
  • Idea of having a relationship with god was presented to me.
  • 00:21:35.994 --> 00:21:40.332
  • And lonnie gave this invitation for people to come to christ and
  • 00:21:40.332 --> 00:21:43.902
  • Kids got up and walked forward on a high school campus.
  • 00:21:43.902 --> 00:21:46.505
  • I thought, "there's no way i would ever do that."
  • 00:21:46.505 --> 00:21:49.941
  • I sort of hung my head down.
  • 00:21:49.941 --> 00:21:51.376
  • My hair was hanging in my eyes.
  • 00:21:51.376 --> 00:21:53.879
  • Use your imagination.
  • 00:21:53.879 --> 00:21:56.815
  • Next thing i knew i was up there praying,
  • 00:21:56.815 --> 00:21:59.384
  • And that was the day christ came into my life and i have never
  • 00:21:59.384 --> 00:22:03.355
  • Regretted making that decision.
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  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:22:06.658 --> 00:22:14.866
  • I'm going to ask you to make a similar decision tonight.
  • 00:22:14.866 --> 00:22:18.003
  • Maybe you came here as a skeptic,
  • 00:22:18.003 --> 00:22:20.172
  • Someone that wasn't sure if this was all true.
  • 00:22:20.172 --> 00:22:23.108
  • Maybe your friend bribed you with food afterwards.
  • 00:22:23.108 --> 00:22:25.444
  • I don't know what.
  • 00:22:25.444 --> 00:22:27.012
  • But you're here, and i want you to think for yourself.
  • 00:22:27.012 --> 00:22:30.315
  • Be like thomas.
  • 00:22:30.315 --> 00:22:31.650
  • Be a skeptic, say, "yeah. well, i'm not sure.
  • 00:22:31.650 --> 00:22:34.019
  • I'm not going to let somebody else think for me."
  • 00:22:34.019 --> 00:22:36.588
  • We engage in sort of groupthink: what is popular,
  • 00:22:36.588 --> 00:22:39.991
  • What is cool, what is the trend.
  • 00:22:39.991 --> 00:22:41.760
  • Think for yourself because i believe god is speaking to some
  • 00:22:41.760 --> 00:22:45.330
  • People's hearts right now,
  • 00:22:45.330 --> 00:22:47.299
  • And this is what you've been looking for.
  • 00:22:47.299 --> 00:22:49.735
  • Not religion, not a bunch of rules and regulations,
  • 00:22:49.735 --> 00:22:53.338
  • A relationship with god.
  • 00:22:53.338 --> 00:22:56.074
  • Jesus is passing by. he's here.
  • 00:22:56.074 --> 00:22:58.877
  • He's ready to forgive you, but you must call out to him.
  • 00:22:58.877 --> 00:23:01.947
  • The bible says whoever will call upon the name of the lord will
  • 00:23:01.947 --> 00:23:05.517
  • Be saved, but some of us are too proud to call
  • 00:23:05.517 --> 00:23:11.923
  • On the name of the lord.
  • 00:23:11.923 --> 00:23:13.258
  • We don't think we need to be saved.
  • 00:23:13.258 --> 00:23:15.227
  • "well, i don't want to call out to god.
  • 00:23:15.227 --> 00:23:17.295
  • That's a sign of weakness.
  • 00:23:17.295 --> 00:23:19.398
  • Christianity is a crutch."
  • 00:23:19.398 --> 00:23:21.700
  • Oh, listen, christianity is not a crutch.
  • 00:23:21.700 --> 00:23:24.436
  • It's a whole hospital and you need it.
  • 00:23:24.436 --> 00:23:28.039
  • He'll save you.
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  • He'll forgive you.
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  • This can be the night that you change your eternal address from
  • 00:23:36.581 --> 00:23:40.585
  • Hell to heaven.
  • 00:23:40.585 --> 00:23:41.920
  • He's just a prayer away.
  • 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:48.160
  • Greg: so would you like to accept jesus christ into your
  • 00:23:52.330 --> 00:23:54.833
  • Life right now?
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  • Here's what you need to know.
  • 00:23:57.269 --> 00:23:58.770
  • You're a sinner.
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  • I don't mean that as an insult.
  • 00:24:00.439 --> 00:24:01.973
  • We're all sinners.
  • 00:24:01.973 --> 00:24:03.508
  • The bible says all have sinned
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  • And fallen short of the glory of god.
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  • That's why we need a savior.
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  • That's why jesus died in the cross for us.
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  • The bible says while we were yet sinners christ died for us.
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  • He took all of the punishment for your sin,
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  • For my sin upon himself as he hung there.
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  • With one hand he took hold of god,
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  • With the other hand he took hold of humanity,
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  • And they pounded spikes to those hands.
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  • And as the bible says, christ died for our sins.
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  • So what do i need to do?
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  • Well, i need to turn from my sin.
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  • The bible says repent and be converted.
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  • The word repent is a military term.
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  • It sort of means an about face.
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  • So turn your back on sin and now start walking toward god,
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  • And then you need to receive jesus christ into your life.
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  • You see, becoming a christian is not becoming a religious person.
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  • I don't want to be a religious person.
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  • This is about a relationship where you ask jesus to be your
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  • Friend, your savior, your lord.
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  • Jesus says, "behold, i stand at the door and i knock,
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  • And if you'll hear my voice and open the door i will come in."
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  • So you need to ask christ to come into your life,
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  • And then you need to do it right now.
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  • The bible says today is the day of salvation.
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  • Right now christ can come and live inside of your heart,
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  • And i'm going to lead you in a simple prayer.
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  • I would ask that you would pray this prayer out loud after me.
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  • If you want your sin forgiven, if you want to know that you're
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  • Going to heaven when you die, if you want to fill that big hole
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  • In your heart, pray this prayer with me right now.
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  • Pray, "lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner,
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  • But i know that you're the savior who died
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  • In the cross for me.
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  • I turn from my sin and i choose to follow you
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  • From this moment forward.
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  • Thank you for hearing this prayer and answering it.
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  • In jesus name i pray, amen."
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  • If you just prayed that prayer and meant it,
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  • I want you to know in the authority of scripture that
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  • Jesus christ himself has come to take residence in your heart.
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  • Now, on the screen there's a phone number.
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  • If you call that number, it would be our joy to send you
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  • New testament actually called the new living translation,
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  • And it's filled with hundreds of notes that i wrote to encourage
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  • You in this commitment you've just made.
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  • You're going to love it.
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  • So all the information you need to get your "new believer's
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  • And thanks for watching, and god bless you.
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  • You've made the most important decision of your life.
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  • Female announcer: jesus says that where two or three are
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  • Gathered in my name, there i am in the midst of them.
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  • We are all different.
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  • We have different interests, different personalities,
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  • Different upbringings, and different ways we do life,
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  • But here, we have a deep connection,
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  • And you are welcome here.
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  • This is harvest.
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