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Greg Laurie - Don't Be Afraid

January 19, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - Don't Be Afraid
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Don't Be Afraid | January 19, 2026
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  • Greg laurie: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • You know, for almost 50 years now, i've been giving people the
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  • Good news of the gospel.
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  • That's actually what the word "gospel" means, good news.
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  • When i was a kid, i was a paper boy, so i had my super-cool
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  • Schwinn sting-ray with a stick shift--they don't make those
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  • Anymore, probably for good reason.
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  • They were dangerous actually, but it was fast, and i had my
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  • Bags for my papers, and i got pretty good at throwing those
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  • Papers, the sideways fling, the underhand pass, 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 wanna 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 right now,
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  • 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
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  • With us right now.
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  • I wanna share with you a message entitled "don't be afraid."
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  • We're living in crazy times right now.
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  • Just when you thought it could not get any worse, it did.
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  • I mean, we're coming through the worst pandemic in modern
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  • History, and now it seems like the world is on fire.
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  • We see this blistering attack by russia under president putin
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  • 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.
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  • In fact, 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 the satan
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  • Missile, 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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  • I'm--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, we have a lot of
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  • People afraid in america.
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  • Let me read you now the words of jesus from 2,000 years
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  • Ago, but they ring so true for all of us.
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  • John chapter 14, jesus says, "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, and if i go and prepare a place
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  • For you, i will come again and receive you unto myself that
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  • Where i am, you may be also and where i go, you know, in the way
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  • 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, and no man
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  • Comes of the father except through me."
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  • Now here's the first thing jesus says, "if you're troubled"--the
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  • Word that he uses here, "let not your heart be troubled," means
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  • Don't let your heart shudder.
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  • If you're filled with fear right now, if your heart is
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  • Shuddering, here's the first thing jesus says--his cure for
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  • 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, others believe
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  • In money.
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  • Others believe in government-- god help you.
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  • Yeah.
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  • [applauding]
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  • Some believe in technology.
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  • Oh, technology is gonna answer all of our questions.
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  • It's gonna solve all of our problems, but when that day
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  • Comes, that final day of your life, none of those things will
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  • 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 fifty-fifty maybe.
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  • Ever since i've had cancer, i've been thinking about it more, but
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  • 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, "yeah, but sometimes i
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  • Think it's like an on and off switch.
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  • Click and you're gone," he said, and paused, and then he said,
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  • "and that's why i don't like putting on-off switches on apple
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  • 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, that's what
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  • I thought.
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  • I thought one day i'll just cease to exist, but then i
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  • 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, but i look
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  • Forward to going to heaven because i have this hope that's
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  • Been given to me by christ who said, "i am the resurrection and
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  • 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, as you get older, time passes
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  • So quickly.
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  • You know you're getting older when you shop at forever 21 when
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  • 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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  • Because there's wrinkles and you realize, oh no, i'm not
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  • 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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  • Some 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, 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 who had
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  • 7 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, 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 allie a
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  • While back and she said, "papa," that's what she calls
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  • Me, "i'm a vegan now."
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  • While she was eating bacon.
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  • Said, "honey, you cannot be a vegan and be eating bacon," and
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  • 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 gonna have a beginning, it's gonna have a
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  • Middle, it's gonna have an end, but listen to this, death died
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  • When christ rose.
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  • [cheering]
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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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  • Oh, i know my body will go into the ground, but my soul will
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  • 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, so it's
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  • Up to you, 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, "pause now,
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  • Stranger, as you pass by, as you are now, so once was i, as i am
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  • 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, "to follow you
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  • Is not my intent until i know which way you went."
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  • So which way are you gonna 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 will not get you
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  • To heaven.
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  • Heaven is not for good people.
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  • Heaven is for forgiven people, you see?
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  • [applauding]
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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 called home
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  • 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, i felt like time
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  • Stood still, that all the air went out of the room and i
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  • Literally thought i could die.
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  • Not from taking my life, but just if words could kill you.
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  • I felt like those words could kill me, but here's the hope
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  • That i have.
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  • I still miss him.
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  • I still grieve over losing him, but on the other hand, i know i
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  • Will see him again in heaven because of jesus christ.
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  • Not because he was my son, but because he believed in god's son
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  • Who forgave him of all of his sins just as he forgives each of
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  • Us if we put our faith in christ.
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  • Maybe i'm talking to someone who's had a loved one die
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  • Recently, or if you received bad news from a doctor, or your
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  • Marriage is falling apart, or your parents are divorcing, or
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  • Too many californians have moved into your state and are driving
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  • Prices up--i don't know.
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  • But you find yourself helpless and hopeless, but i'm saying to
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  • You, don't give up hope.
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  • It's been said man can live 40 days without food, 3 days
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  • Without water, 8 minutes without air, but only 1 second
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  • 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, there is a very special group of people
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  • I want to introduce you to.
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  • They are a group of people who are passionate about the gospel
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  • Of jesus christ being proclaimed in this nation and beyond.
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  • In fact, these people make possible our radio program, our
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  • Harvest crusades, our evangelistic movies like "jesus
  • 00:12:55.708 --> 00:12:59.211
  • Revolution," and so much more.
  • 00:12:59.211 --> 00:13:01.447
  • Without them, harvest ministries could not even exist,
  • 00:13:01.447 --> 00:13:05.084
  • So who are these amazing people?
  • 00:13:05.084 --> 00:13:07.419
  • We call them harvest partners.
  • 00:13:07.419 --> 00:13:09.688
  • They are people who have chosen to give monthly to harvest to
  • 00:13:09.688 --> 00:13:12.892
  • Keep the gospel moving forward.
  • 00:13:12.892 --> 00:13:15.094
  • Some can only give a little, others can give more, but all
  • 00:13:15.094 --> 00:13:18.764
  • Of it makes a big difference.
  • 00:13:18.764 --> 00:13:20.866
  • Jesus said, "the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are
  • 00:13:20.866 --> 00:13:24.170
  • Few, therefore pray the lord of the harvest to send out laborers
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  • Into his harvest."
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  • Will you become a harvest partner and help us fulfill the
  • 00:13:29.909 --> 00:13:33.679
  • Great commission in our lifetime?
  • 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:36.081
  • Let's do this together.
  • 00:13:36.081 --> 00:13:38.083
  • Greg: the second reason your heart should not be troubled or
  • 00:13:42.254 --> 00:13:46.392
  • Agitated, according to jesus is because if you're a christian,
  • 00:13:46.392 --> 00:13:50.930
  • You're going to heaven.
  • 00:13:50.930 --> 00:13:52.298
  • He said, "in my father's house are many mansions."
  • 00:13:52.298 --> 00:13:55.267
  • Listen to this.
  • 00:13:55.267 --> 00:13:56.602
  • Heaven is a real place for real people to do real things.
  • 00:13:56.602 --> 00:14:00.739
  • Now, the problem is, hollywood has sort of caricatured
  • 00:14:00.739 --> 00:14:05.244
  • Heaven, and we think it's this really strange place where we
  • 00:14:05.244 --> 00:14:08.080
  • Sit around on clouds and pluck harps and little fat babies with
  • 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:12.251
  • Wings hover around us and-- that's not heaven.
  • 00:14:12.251 --> 00:14:14.920
  • Think of the most beautiful thing you've ever seen.
  • 00:14:14.920 --> 00:14:17.756
  • Think of the beauty all around you here in the state that you
  • 00:14:17.756 --> 00:14:21.093
  • Live in.
  • 00:14:21.093 --> 00:14:22.461
  • That's just a glimpse of greater things to come.
  • 00:14:22.461 --> 00:14:24.763
  • Heaven is not the watered-down version.
  • 00:14:24.763 --> 00:14:26.932
  • Heaven is the real version.
  • 00:14:26.932 --> 00:14:28.801
  • Here on earth we just see sort of the imitation of greater
  • 00:14:28.801 --> 00:14:32.671
  • Things to come that god has for every follower of jesus christ
  • 00:14:32.671 --> 00:14:37.476
  • To have believed in him.
  • 00:14:37.476 --> 00:14:39.478
  • That's why we need to look to the lord, but the non-believer
  • 00:14:39.478 --> 00:14:42.715
  • Does not have the promise of heaven.
  • 00:14:42.715 --> 00:14:45.317
  • I heard the story of a christian father who was dying, so he
  • 00:14:45.317 --> 00:14:49.922
  • Gathered his three sons by his bedside and to two of the sons,
  • 00:14:49.922 --> 00:14:54.326
  • He said, "goodbye sons, i'll see you in the morning."
  • 00:14:54.326 --> 00:14:59.298
  • And the third son said, "dad, why did you say that to them?
  • 00:14:59.298 --> 00:15:04.403
  • What are you gonna say to me?"
  • 00:15:04.403 --> 00:15:05.738
  • He's just said, "goodbye, son."
  • 00:15:05.738 --> 00:15:07.673
  • "wait, wait, goodbye son?
  • 00:15:07.673 --> 00:15:09.008
  • Why can't i see you in the morning?"
  • 00:15:09.008 --> 00:15:10.910
  • The father said, "because your brothers have put their faith in
  • 00:15:10.910 --> 00:15:13.879
  • Christ, so we'll be reunited in heaven in the afterlife."
  • 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:18.083
  • He said, "but dad, i wanna see you in the afterlife too."
  • 00:15:18.083 --> 00:15:20.786
  • He said, "son, then you need to believe in jesus and you will."
  • 00:15:20.786 --> 00:15:24.056
  • And that boy believed in jesus at that very moment, and we need
  • 00:15:24.056 --> 00:15:27.927
  • To do the same.
  • 00:15:27.927 --> 00:15:29.795
  • You see?
  • 00:15:29.795 --> 00:15:31.830
  • When jesus says, "in my father's house are many mansions,"
  • 00:15:34.166 --> 00:15:37.303
  • I don't know if he's talking about actual buildings.
  • 00:15:37.303 --> 00:15:40.005
  • Maybe it's referring to our new body.
  • 00:15:40.005 --> 00:15:42.574
  • God's gonna give you a new body.
  • 00:15:42.574 --> 00:15:46.078
  • People ask well, what will that body be like?
  • 00:15:46.078 --> 00:15:48.781
  • Oh it'll be better than the body you have right now.
  • 00:15:48.781 --> 00:15:51.650
  • It'll be the radically upgraded version of you.
  • 00:15:51.650 --> 00:15:54.853
  • So if you're looking for me in heaven, look for someone with
  • 00:15:54.853 --> 00:15:57.289
  • Probably an afro or something, you know.
  • 00:15:57.289 --> 00:15:59.792
  • Then again, maybe we'll all be bald in heaven.
  • 00:15:59.792 --> 00:16:02.394
  • Have you ever thought about that?
  • 00:16:02.394 --> 00:16:04.897
  • Yeah, that's not a very good thought, is it?
  • 00:16:04.897 --> 00:16:07.800
  • I was talking to two of my granddaughters, stella and lucy.
  • 00:16:07.800 --> 00:16:10.803
  • They said, "papa, how old will we be when we get to heaven?"
  • 00:16:10.803 --> 00:16:14.073
  • I said, "girls, i don't know, maybe 33," and they said,
  • 00:16:14.073 --> 00:16:17.009
  • "why 33?"
  • 00:16:17.009 --> 00:16:18.344
  • I said, "well, that was the age jesus was when he died."
  • 00:16:18.344 --> 00:16:21.347
  • Then lucy my granddaughter said,
  • 00:16:21.347 --> 00:16:23.849
  • "i wanna be three when i'm in heaven.
  • 00:16:23.849 --> 00:16:26.318
  • I said, "three? why do you wanna be three?"
  • 00:16:26.318 --> 00:16:28.587
  • She said, "i miss the old me."
  • 00:16:28.587 --> 00:16:32.091
  • Well, this body we're in right now is breaking down.
  • 00:16:34.693 --> 00:16:37.396
  • Experts tell us as we get older, the number of nerve cells in the
  • 00:16:37.396 --> 00:16:40.899
  • Brain decrease.
  • 00:16:40.899 --> 00:16:42.267
  • We start with around 100 billion brain cells, but then in
  • 00:16:42.267 --> 00:16:45.537
  • Our twenties, the number starts to decline.
  • 00:16:45.537 --> 00:16:48.007
  • At 40, we're losing up to 10,000 brain cells a day.
  • 00:16:48.007 --> 00:16:52.511
  • You've probably lost 5,000 brain cells listening
  • 00:16:52.511 --> 00:16:55.647
  • To me tonight.
  • 00:16:55.647 --> 00:16:58.350
  • But there's a hope of another body, a newer body.
  • 00:16:58.350 --> 00:17:02.388
  • So if you were disabled on earth, you won't be in heaven.
  • 00:17:02.388 --> 00:17:05.724
  • If your body has cancer here, it won't be then.
  • 00:17:05.724 --> 00:17:09.261
  • If your body's worn out here, it won't be then.
  • 00:17:09.261 --> 00:17:12.798
  • So let not your heart be troubled.
  • 00:17:12.798 --> 00:17:14.666
  • It's good news.
  • 00:17:14.666 --> 00:17:17.603
  • Why?
  • 00:17:17.603 --> 00:17:18.937
  • Believe god's word.
  • 00:17:18.937 --> 00:17:20.506
  • Believe what god says in his word.
  • 00:17:20.506 --> 00:17:23.409
  • Number two, you're going to heaven if you're a christian,
  • 00:17:23.409 --> 00:17:26.912
  • And number three, he's shown us the way to heaven.
  • 00:17:26.912 --> 00:17:30.449
  • I was told that this arena we're in right now,
  • 00:17:30.449 --> 00:17:33.786
  • The extramile arena,
  • 00:17:33.786 --> 00:17:35.387
  • The first person here was not a sports team or a rock band
  • 00:17:35.387 --> 00:17:40.392
  • Or anybody else.
  • 00:17:40.392 --> 00:17:41.760
  • It was billy graham, who did an eight-night crusade.
  • 00:17:41.760 --> 00:17:43.495
  • Isn't that great?
  • 00:17:43.495 --> 00:17:47.766
  • I heard this story of when billy was in a town to do one of
  • 00:17:47.766 --> 00:17:50.302
  • His crusades.
  • 00:17:50.302 --> 00:17:51.670
  • He wrote a letter to his wife ruth, but he didn't know where
  • 00:17:51.670 --> 00:17:54.273
  • The post office was, so he was walking around looking for it
  • 00:17:54.273 --> 00:17:57.476
  • And he saw some young man there and he said, "young man, can you
  • 00:17:57.476 --> 00:18:00.946
  • Tell me where the post office is?"
  • 00:18:00.946 --> 00:18:02.614
  • The little guy said, "yeah, just go up the street here,
  • 00:18:02.614 --> 00:18:05.217
  • Turn right, and that's the post office."
  • 00:18:05.217 --> 00:18:06.585
  • He goes, "that's great.
  • 00:18:06.585 --> 00:18:07.920
  • By the way," he said, "i'm speaking here in the stadium
  • 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.923
  • Tonight and maybe you would like to come and hear me and i will
  • 00:18:10.923 --> 00:18:13.859
  • Show you how to get to heaven."
  • 00:18:13.859 --> 00:18:15.661
  • The little guy said, "why should i go hear you?
  • 00:18:15.661 --> 00:18:18.197
  • You don't even know the way to the post office."
  • 00:18:18.197 --> 00:18:23.569
  • How do you get to heaven?
  • 00:18:23.569 --> 00:18:25.437
  • How can you know you'll go to heaven when you die?
  • 00:18:25.437 --> 00:18:28.507
  • Jesus gives us the answer.
  • 00:18:28.507 --> 00:18:30.275
  • He says, "where i go, and the way you know."
  • 00:18:30.275 --> 00:18:33.112
  • And i love how thomas said, "we don't know where you're going
  • 00:18:33.112 --> 00:18:36.582
  • And we don't know the way."
  • 00:18:36.582 --> 00:18:38.117
  • I think a lot of times when jesus spoke to his disciples,
  • 00:18:38.117 --> 00:18:40.919
  • It went right over their heads.
  • 00:18:40.919 --> 00:18:42.921
  • He talked about dying and rising from the dead.
  • 00:18:42.921 --> 00:18:44.990
  • They just didn't understand that at all and when he would talk
  • 00:18:44.990 --> 00:18:48.794
  • About things like that, they would probably nod their heads
  • 00:18:48.794 --> 00:18:51.263
  • In unison.
  • 00:18:51.263 --> 00:18:52.631
  • "oh, that's so deep," but they were clueless.
  • 00:18:52.631 --> 00:18:55.400
  • It's like a teacher in a class doing some complex equation up
  • 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:58.504
  • On the math board or up on the blackboard and they say, "do you
  • 00:18:58.504 --> 00:19:01.573
  • All understand it?"
  • 00:19:01.573 --> 00:19:02.941
  • Everyone's, "yes," but no one understands.
  • 00:19:02.941 --> 00:19:05.577
  • So jesus says, "where i go, you know, and the way you know."
  • 00:19:05.577 --> 00:19:08.680
  • Thomas says, "we don't know what you're talking about.
  • 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:12.217
  • We don't know the way, and we do not know where you're going."
  • 00:19:12.217 --> 00:19:15.154
  • But i'm glad thomas asked that question because jesus then
  • 00:19:15.154 --> 00:19:18.857
  • Said, "i am the way, the truth and the life, and no man comes
  • 00:19:18.857 --> 00:19:22.861
  • To the father but by me."
  • 00:19:22.861 --> 00:19:25.564
  • You know, thomas has been described as a doubter.
  • 00:19:25.564 --> 00:19:30.235
  • We call him doubting thomas.
  • 00:19:30.235 --> 00:19:32.337
  • He was more of a skeptic.
  • 00:19:32.337 --> 00:19:34.673
  • He didn't let other people make his decisions for him.
  • 00:19:34.673 --> 00:19:38.944
  • When i became a christian at the age of 17, i was a skeptic.
  • 00:19:38.944 --> 00:19:43.215
  • I lived a hard life.
  • 00:19:43.215 --> 00:19:44.950
  • My mother was married and divorced seven times.
  • 00:19:44.950 --> 00:19:47.786
  • She was a raging alcoholic.
  • 00:19:47.786 --> 00:19:50.055
  • All i saw was bad behavior of adults fighting and passing out
  • 00:19:50.055 --> 00:19:53.892
  • At night, and so i tried drinking for a while and was
  • 00:19:53.892 --> 00:19:58.664
  • Disillusioned with it.
  • 00:19:58.664 --> 00:20:00.032
  • I got into drugs for a while.
  • 00:20:00.032 --> 00:20:02.000
  • By the age of 17, i felt like i was 70, and i was wondering
  • 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:06.772
  • What is life all about?
  • 00:20:06.772 --> 00:20:08.106
  • I don't see any adult that i know that i want to be like and
  • 00:20:08.106 --> 00:20:12.044
  • And these kids that i hang around with, they don't know any
  • 00:20:12.044 --> 00:20:14.279
  • More than i know and i was searching and i transferred over
  • 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:18.083
  • To this high school called harbor high school in newport
  • 00:20:18.083 --> 00:20:20.652
  • Beach, california, and there was a lot of christians there
  • 00:20:20.652 --> 00:20:25.490
  • Because the jesus movement was in full swing, and one of my
  • 00:20:25.490 --> 00:20:29.428
  • Friends warned me, "greg, stay away from the jesus freaks."
  • 00:20:29.428 --> 00:20:33.432
  • And i said, "the last thing greg laurie will ever do is become a
  • 00:20:33.432 --> 00:20:36.902
  • Jesus freak."
  • 00:20:36.902 --> 00:20:39.404
  • Yeah, famous last words.
  • 00:20:39.404 --> 00:20:42.407
  • I thought they were a little nutty.
  • 00:20:42.407 --> 00:20:44.476
  • I thought they were a little weird.
  • 00:20:44.476 --> 00:20:45.811
  • I thought, where do these people come from?
  • 00:20:45.811 --> 00:20:48.347
  • I thought they were like, you know, one taco short of a
  • 00:20:48.347 --> 00:20:51.049
  • Combination plate maybe.
  • 00:20:51.049 --> 00:20:53.685
  • But one day i went across the campus, and there was a group of
  • 00:20:53.685 --> 00:20:57.889
  • Christians sitting there singing their songs about god and i sat
  • 00:20:57.889 --> 00:21:03.262
  • Close enough to hear what they were saying but not so close
  • 00:21:03.262 --> 00:21:06.098
  • That my friends would think i was becoming a christian, and
  • 00:21:06.098 --> 00:21:10.502
  • That was the first time i heard this evangelist named lonnie
  • 00:21:10.502 --> 00:21:13.472
  • Speak, and he said, "jesus said, you're for me or against me."
  • 00:21:13.472 --> 00:21:17.509
  • And i looked around at the christians and i thought, well,
  • 00:21:17.509 --> 00:21:19.578
  • I'm not one of them.
  • 00:21:19.578 --> 00:21:21.013
  • Does that mean i'm against jesus?
  • 00:21:21.013 --> 00:21:23.081
  • I don't want to be against jesus.
  • 00:21:23.081 --> 00:21:25.083
  • I've always acknowledged he existed.
  • 00:21:25.083 --> 00:21:27.419
  • I've always sort of believed in him or what i knew of him.
  • 00:21:27.419 --> 00:21:30.722
  • I'd seen all of his movies, but it was the first time that the
  • 00:21:30.722 --> 00:21:36.295
  • Idea of having a relationship with god was presented to me,
  • 00:21:36.295 --> 00:21:40.432
  • And lonnie gave this invitation for people to come to christ and
  • 00:21:40.432 --> 00:21:44.002
  • Kids got up and walked forward on a high school campus.
  • 00:21:44.002 --> 00:21:46.638
  • I thought there's no way i would ever do that.
  • 00:21:46.638 --> 00:21:50.042
  • I sort of hung my head down.
  • 00:21:50.042 --> 00:21:51.476
  • My hair was hanging in my eyes--use your imagination.
  • 00:21:51.476 --> 00:21:56.782
  • Next thing i knew i was up there praying, and that was the day
  • 00:21:56.782 --> 00:22:00.285
  • Christ came into my life, and i have never
  • 00:22:00.285 --> 00:22:03.355
  • Regretted making that decision.
  • 00:22:03.355 --> 00:22:06.391
  • [applauding]
  • 00:22:06.391 --> 00:22:14.666
  • And i'm gonna ask you to make a similar
  • 00:22:14.666 --> 00:22:16.034
  • Decision tonight.
  • 00:22:16.034 --> 00:22:17.936
  • Maybe you came here as a skeptic, someone that wasn't
  • 00:22:17.936 --> 00:22:21.139
  • Sure if this is all true.
  • 00:22:21.139 --> 00:22:23.041
  • Maybe your friend bribed you with food afterwards.
  • 00:22:23.041 --> 00:22:25.444
  • I don't know what, but you're here and i want you to think
  • 00:22:25.444 --> 00:22:29.047
  • For yourself.
  • 00:22:29.047 --> 00:22:30.415
  • Be like thomas, be a skeptic.
  • 00:22:30.415 --> 00:22:32.117
  • Say, "yeah, well, i'm not sure.
  • 00:22:32.117 --> 00:22:33.919
  • I'm not gonna let somebody else think for me."
  • 00:22:33.919 --> 00:22:36.621
  • We engage in sort of groupthink.
  • 00:22:36.621 --> 00:22:38.690
  • What is popular, what is cool, what is the trend?
  • 00:22:38.690 --> 00:22:41.793
  • Think for yourself.
  • 00:22:41.793 --> 00:22:43.462
  • Because i believe god is speaking to some people's hearts
  • 00:22:43.462 --> 00:22:46.098
  • Right now, and this is what you've been looking for, not
  • 00:22:46.098 --> 00:22:49.901
  • Religion, not a bunch of rules and regulations, a relationship
  • 00:22:49.901 --> 00:22:54.773
  • With god.
  • 00:22:54.773 --> 00:22:56.208
  • Jesus is passing by.
  • 00:22:56.208 --> 00:22:57.709
  • He's here.
  • 00:22:57.709 --> 00:22:59.077
  • He's ready to forgive you, but you must call out to him.
  • 00:22:59.077 --> 00:23:01.913
  • The bible says, "whoever will call upon the name of the lord
  • 00:23:01.913 --> 00:23:05.250
  • Will be saved."
  • 00:23:05.250 --> 00:23:07.052
  • But some of us--some of us are too proud to call in the name of
  • 00:23:07.052 --> 00:23:12.591
  • The lord.
  • 00:23:12.591 --> 00:23:13.925
  • We don't think we need to be saved.
  • 00:23:13.925 --> 00:23:15.293
  • Oh, i don't want to call out to god.
  • 00:23:15.293 --> 00:23:17.329
  • That's a sign of weakness.
  • 00:23:17.329 --> 00:23:19.398
  • Christianity is a crutch.
  • 00:23:19.398 --> 00:23:21.666
  • Oh, listen, christianity is not a crutch.
  • 00:23:21.666 --> 00:23:24.403
  • It's a whole hospital, and you need it.
  • 00:23:24.403 --> 00:23:27.973
  • He'll save you.
  • 00:23:27.973 --> 00:23:31.276
  • He'll forgive you.
  • 00:23:34.746 --> 00:23:36.581
  • This can be the night that you change your eternal address from
  • 00:23:36.581 --> 00:23:40.752
  • Hell to heaven.
  • 00:23:40.752 --> 00:23:42.087
  • He's just a prayer away.
  • 00:23:42.087 --> 00:23:44.089
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:23:44.089 --> 00:23:52.364
  • Greg: so, would you like to accept jesus christ
  • 00:23:52.364 --> 00:23:55.267
  • Into your life right now?
  • 00:23:55.267 --> 00:23:57.202
  • Here's what you need to know.
  • 00:23:57.202 --> 00:23:58.737
  • You're a sinner.
  • 00:23:58.737 --> 00:24:00.305
  • I don't mean that as an insult.
  • 00:24:00.305 --> 00:24:02.007
  • We're all sinners.
  • 00:24:02.007 --> 00:24:03.408
  • The bible says, "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory
  • 00:24:03.408 --> 00:24:06.812
  • Of god."
  • 00:24:06.812 --> 00:24:08.146
  • That's why we need a savior.
  • 00:24:08.146 --> 00:24:09.648
  • That's why jesus died on the cross for us.
  • 00:24:09.648 --> 00:24:11.850
  • The bible says, "while we were yet sinners, christ died
  • 00:24:11.850 --> 00:24:15.654
  • For us."
  • 00:24:15.654 --> 00:24:16.988
  • He took all of the punishment for your sin, for my sin upon
  • 00:24:16.988 --> 00:24:21.026
  • Himself as he hung there.
  • 00:24:21.026 --> 00:24:22.427
  • With one hand he took hold of god, with the other hand he took
  • 00:24:22.427 --> 00:24:25.630
  • Hold of humanity, and they pounded spikes of those hands,
  • 00:24:25.630 --> 00:24:29.167
  • 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 wanna 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, and if
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  • 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, and then
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  • 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 gonna lead you in a simple prayer.
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  • I would ask that you would pray this prayer out loud after me if
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  • You want your sin forgiven, if you wanna know that you'll go to
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  • Heaven when you die, if you wanna fill that big hole in your
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  • Heart, pray this prayer with me right now.
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  • Pray, lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner, but i know that
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  • You're the savior who died on the cross for me.
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  • I turn from my sin and i choose to follow you from this
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  • Moment forward.
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  • Thank you for hearing this prayer and answering it in
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  • Jesus's name i pray, amen.
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  • If you just prayed that prayer and meant it, i want you to know
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  • The authority of scripture that jesus christ himself has come to
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  • Take residence in your heart.
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  • You've made the most important decision of your life.
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  • Gathered in my name, there i am in the midst of them."
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